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Comment They cocked up but... (Score 2) 42

O2 screwed up by making what appears to be a school-boy error. However, after they were notified of the fault, they admitted blame, fixed it quickly and told everyone what happened. It would have obviously been preferable if this leak hadn't happened in the first place, but I can't blame them for how they handled it.

Submission + - What really happened on board Flight AF447 (popularmechanics.com)

iB1 writes: On the 1st June 2009, Air France flight AF447 crashed into the sea with the loss of all 228 people on board.

Roughly two years later, the flight controllers were finally found, and the information used to piece together what happened on that fateful morning.

This is a report by Jeff Wise of the mistakes that the pilots made with transcripts taken from the flight records. It's surprisingly harrowing to read.

Comment Get help (Score 1) 424

If the systems are really that close to collapsing, then you know as well as I do that it'll happen at the worst possible moment, and you will get all of the blame for it.

Talk to your boss ASAP and highlight where the issues are and explain to him in monetary terms what will happen if the system screws up / how much time will be lost.

Push to see if you can afford to get someone else hired - even if it's a junior network engineer. You need to share the pain before it consumes you.

Comment I remember these from my primary school (Score 2) 208

I remember we had three of these on trollies in my primary school - two had colour monitors, and one had a black and white monitor. Somehow I managed to network/schmooze/brown nose my way into becoming a "computer mover" when I was in the 5th year with two of my friends. We were tasked with moving the computers first thing on a Monday morning into a new classroom, who would then have it for a week. We'd plug it in, turn it on and load up the correct disk that the teacher wanted to use. I think that's where my love of computers came from right there. They were really good computers for their time. I gather that they were expensive, which is why they didn't find their way into many homes. However, a generation of British children did indeed grow up using them.

Submission + - LoveFilm to ditch Flash for Silverlight (theregister.co.uk)

iB1 writes: The Register reports that LoveFilm has decided to ditch flash streaming for its films and switch to Microsoft Silverlight by the first week of January 2012, thus denying customers with non-Intel macs and Linux users access.

Submission + - Carphone Warehouse to close it's Best Buy shops in (bbc.co.uk)

iB1 writes: They've only been open since April last year — but Carphone Warehouse have decided to shut its 11 Best Buy stores after failing to make a profit.

Is this another example of HP, where a company only gives itself a very short timeframe to make a profit before pulling the plug?

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