Public utilities do preventive maintenance, after being privatized, things have to break before they are fixed. I understand that the outage meant officials couldn’t track those wearing tracking anklets. That isn’t very comforting.
]]>Speaking of… It still drop’s out often. No resolution after almost 3 weeks. I demanded a refund yesterday. *shrug*
Telstra lost the entire Aus. Mobile Network for the 2nd time in a month. they are blaming a software glitch. They must be using W10!! The first they claimed was due to a lightening strike. 🙄 1 lightening strike took out the entire network?? What is wrong with that picture!
The truth is that Telstra skimp on failsafes and redundancies across their entire network, including infrastructure. For decades, every Aussie with a landline has paid $20-$30/mth “line rental” fee that was supposed to be used for legislated infrastructure spending. Obviously, not.
Redundancy failure: Software fault triggered Telstra 4G meltdown
Telstra (and previously, Telecom Australia when partially privatized) have always been cheep bastards @ a premium price!
]]>“I’ve had enough with W10 to the point where I just bought an upgrade to my VMware Workstation Pro 12 (linux), to v14.1.2. I got a nice discount from my fave Corp. reseller (where I got my W10 LTSB keys & NAS/Network gear). AU$179. I’ll run it on CentOS & run W10 & W7. They have improved it a great deal performance wise. They gave me a 90-day guarantee that if it has any problems with what I need from Win, they’ll give me a full refund. I guess I’ll find out. 😀”
Basically, I can use CentOS for all my networking & hardware management, and W10/7 for the only things they are almost good for… Games! And a few App’s that have no real linux equivalents yet. 😉 🙄 *sigh*
]]>Windows 10 has been taking up space on my largest machine and it is time for it to go.
]]>Unfortunately, I can’t just dump W10. I sure do wish I could! 🙁
I expect it to get worse. Two new variants of Spectre have been uncovered. Intel/AMD/MS have announced more patches.
The fun continues. *shrug*
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