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Database Management » Blog Archive » [SQL 2008] RTM Released But ConfigMgr/ SMS 2003 Support To Follow

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re: [Rant] Energy prices and the State of the Economy

Rob — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:51:13 GMT

Here's a link to a BBC article:

Anger over £1bn Centrica profits

news.bbc.co.uk/.../7534421.stm

Wow 1B in profit!

It's going to get very bad over the next 10 years ... by then we'll be almost on par with countries run by dictators, or communist regimes. Yes, the very ones democractic countries wants to stamp out at every opportunity. I think i'd rather live in a one state world rather than this mish mash of corporates all working together to pick our pockets empty!

re: [Rant] Energy prices and the State of the Economy

Rob — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:46:47 GMT

What an amazingly insane announcement on price increases.

In the UK we invested HEAVILY in nuclear reactors in the 70's that would make "energy" dirt cheap. What happened there? Obviously Electricity isn't Gas, but energy is energy, gas in the kitchen, gas for your boiler, both of which can be switched over to use Electricity which SHOULD be cheap due to our bedded in ultra-sophisticated (yes i'm being sarcastic here!) nuclear reactors!

You also got to ask yourself, why hasn't a SINGLE gas utility company immediately announced it's NOT aligning it's prices with these greedy buggers so that HERDS of people join up to them? Wouldn't this increase their customer base, thus increase their profits which in turn can then be used to offset their costs, making the whole thing more profitable than for those companies that hike their prices up?

Say I had a shop that sold GAS on the high street, and I put up banners and adverts saying my GAS stays the same price, wouldn't I be overwhelmed with people signing up for my GAS which is still the same mix as the GAS sold by my competitors at a 35% price increase? Isn't it about VOLUME, the more customers you have the more profit you have? Or does it become inverted and become too expensive to have more customers? Hmm I think not.

Time to retire early, reside on a remote island somewhere!

re: [Virtualisation] VMware slashes ESXi price to zero

Rob — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:23:07 GMT

Interesting time Cliff,

I wrote about this a few days back

wmug.co.uk/.../vmware-countering.aspx

re: [Rant] Why is nothing built to last these days and why has TRUE customer service died?

Rob — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:11:03 GMT

Talking of things gone, heard on the radio today, a guy saying "the days of cheap fuel are long behind us" ... I had to laugh, since when has fuel been cheap?

The point was, people can say these things with a clear mind as fuel costs *more* now than it did 6/12/18 months ago, so it's legitimate to label previous fuel prices as being "cheap", when in fact at the time it certainly wasn't considered cheap!

Back when I was knee high to a grass hopper I heard something that stuck with me for ages, around the time they were bringing nuclear power plants in the UK online, with announcements that electricity would be a neglible cost once the reactor deployments got up to speed. Yep, you guessed, Electricity prices never dropped, in fact post-build of the reactors suddenly all those people making claims of price cutting disappeared, to be replaced by people telling us we're bloody lucky and that prices will have to go up.

Got to laugh ...

re: Let's start by getting the name right...

Rob — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:08:17 GMT

people still seem to use both acronyms, SCCM and ConfigMgr. It makes surfacing info on the web a tad difficult :<

Remember we couldn't search for "SMS" without bringing up telecoms and other non-related material? "operations manager" is just as difficult to search on. I guess with "operations manager", at least the search results reside in the systems managment realm!

SCCM is not the Official acronym for Configuration Manager 2007

Richard Got NAPd — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:48:01 GMT

“SCCM” is not the official acronym for Systems Center Configuration Manager 2007. " ConfigMgr "

SCCM is not the Official Acronym for Configuration Manager 2007

Microsoft IT ConfigMgr 2007 Blog — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:47:48 GMT

“SCCM” is not the official acronym for Systems Center Configuration Manager 2007. "

SCCM is not the Official Acronym for Configuration Manager 2007

Richard Dixon's Blog — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:45:45 GMT

“SCCM” is not the official acronym for Systems Center Configuration Manager 2007. " ConfigMgr "

Database Management » Blog Archive » [Events] SQL UG, London, Monday 30th June - Michael Rys, PM, SQL Server Engine Team

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:01:57 GMT

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re: BBC iPlayer doesn't work outside the UK - more money down the drain

Cliff — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:48:33 GMT

Thanks for the reply Mark and the clarification.

So why not make an iPlayer download available for ONLY UK residents? You install the player when you are in the UK and then when you travel you watch the programs as you already have the player installed?

re: [Misc.] I’ve missed my external monitor, tea, and System Center mug…

Rob — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:35:42 GMT

Tea, aaah the fine art of ...

;-)

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ConfigMgr SP1 Download is now Live

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