You're holding it wrong

While the linked to article posted (Yes, I did read it) had a number of interesting points, what was posted on Slashdot didn't include any reference to what the discussion was actually about.

Congratulations.

I like Scott Adam's take:

http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2010-12-28/

Information from Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_Arrangement#Dutch_Sandwich

It's quite common, and is done by a *lot* of companies

> alterior

bad spelling, ulterior. Sorry, my bad.

I think MS getting involved with Open Source is great, but....

We've seen the way that they work before, embrace and extend... This hasn't worked out that well for them before, but you have to ask if there is an alterior motive in there...

*shakes head* When you get a clue, come back and talk. Look at what happens in large data centres (1000s of racks), and have a think about why they do it.

Silver Fox have a great range of products:

http://www.silfox.com/store/labelling-solutions

The ones I use most are the ones you can feed through a laser printer:

http://www.silfox.com/store/labelling-solutions/cable-labels/wrap-around-cable-labels/laser.aspx

Now you bring in hogsheads?!!?! I was still trying to get my head around Libraries Of Congress and velocity of sheep in a vacuum....

This was originally covered by thereg in 2005:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/24/vulture_central_standards/

Updated in 2007:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/28/additional_reg_standards/

And again in 2010 it seems by the BBC:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/10/dollar_coins/

Yes, this is all UK centric, but it's amusing anyway,

actually for commodities trading, he's not far off....

404 Art.... The file size is 40.4 KB in size.

Co-incidence? I think not!

Their back..

Looks like they have got themselves sorted again.

It'll be interesting to see what you do next, I'll put money on anohter website. Maybe web journo? I think there are more than enough people out there who would give you a chance because of what you have done for the tech community.

Best of luck,

Berny Stapleton

Parent made mention of half a TB and 100Mb link, so that's what I did the math off. Also, you don't have to do a big bang approach, migrate user by user or duplicate their mailboxes then you can move them in seconds.

What if the "cloud" provider or otherwise outsourcer has better hardware / backup / change management than you do? At what point does the solution stop being "crap"?

Hang on, re-reading, what are you migrating? Servers reside in Head Offce or cloud provider, either way, same deal, where are you migrating them to? Another service?

Cached mode allows you to run a lot smaller (Down to 9.6Kb/s/user if memory serves) data lines.

ROFL loads, but can't understand your point