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One of the great things to come out of the lock down has been that many are becoming accomplished at using the excellent and easy to use video conferencing platform Zoom. It is so nice being able to have conversations with groups of friends who you can’t meet face to face at the moment.
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Why is zoom better than skype, discord, whatsapp video calls, etc?
https://twitter.com/thomasknox/status/1250503386014920704
Could get my entire shopping list yesterday apart from flour and yeast. On the other hand the World Foods aisle had loads of "Gram Flour" (Chickpea Flour) which I've never used but bought it as closest substitute available and see whether that works or not.
Surprised they had so much of that available given the total lack of flour, surprised more people hadn't thought to pick it up as a substitute (or I wasted £1 on a product I have no idea how to use but for £1 seemed worth getting).
I'm back to normal life
Skype has been thoroughly trounced, that's certain though.
Skype's quality is a joke, an artefact of their peer to peer origins that they have never been able to shake.
What's app quality is also patchy.
Zoom is just really, really consistent.
Teams in intended for conferenced, i.e. multiple people to communicate, like Zoom
Different tools
85 extra non-hospital heart attack deaths a day in London. Spookily similar to reports from NYC linked to here earlier this week.
Teams = iphone
You treat it like a secure interview room. Open a room. Lock the door. Set up a waiting room. When the person you want to see enters the waiting room, you let them in and lock the door behind them.
Simple.
People are doing the equivalent of posting their address on Facebook and advertising a Party. Then being surprised uninvited guests show up.
Word = Android
Excel = iPhone
What you think is secure is to me (someone who deals with IT security and data leakage as part of my job) a place I would do everything I can to avoid (although if a client wants to use zoom they are lost cause anyway).
Not only is Zoom's strong end-to-end encryption not actually end-to-end, its encryption isn't even that strong
www.theregister.co.uk/AMP/2020/04/03/dont_use_zoom_if_privacy/
Skype for business was previously called Lync and was ok but never that great (it could however do conference calls if managed well).
Teams can do both 1 to 1 calls and larger conference calls - it uses different technology (azure video) for the conference functionality.
But rebuilding some sort of economic activity in the meantime is essential.
Of course there's a lot of overlap and feature creep with these sort of products until they inevitably become something like a Lotus Notes, and then a new more focused product comes along and steals their lunch.
Wordpro - Eriksson
Teams = Cloudwater DIPA
In truth, looking at it from outside it's very hard to appreciate how much or how little excess slack there is in the system (because, even though intensive care beds aren't full to capacity there are an awful lot more of them than there were pre-crisis, and manning them all is very labour intensive and must be taking up the time and energy of a lot of staff re-deployed from other areas.) However, one wouldn't be surprised to hear that NHS staff fortunate enough not to have been transferred to coronavirus duties may be less than rushed off their feet at the moment.
In particular, if there are any GPs or practice nurses amongst the PB commentariat it would be fascinating to know if they are more or less busy than usual.
He then had to buy a big plastic barrel to keep it in.
He'll need a lot of pineapples too, I imagine.
SARs of course eventually died out anyway even without the vaccine
If the clients want to use it on their kit ("thats their problem" was the phrase used) or we use it on our personal devices then ok but not on our company hardware.
I haven't noticed whether or not the Tesco Extra where I normally do my big shop has any flour, since I've not needed to look for it recently, but if they don't then flour and paracetamol - which I know is still in short supply and has been moved behind the pharmacy counter - must be the very last empty shelves left in the store. Last time I was in there they were still a wee bit light on chopped tomatoes and baked beans, but pasta, bog roll and virtually everything else was pretty much back to normal.
https://twitter.com/hendopolis/status/1250535760027095047?s=20
Go on someone, get him over the line.....
The fundamental difference for the Business product is that I think Teams is entirely cloud based whilst with SfB you could as a business operate it as your own in house instance. The flaw for Teams is that you are at the mercy of Microsoft's server and bandwidth management, you get what you get with no control over server load or bandwidth allocation.
There are a ton of corporate Unified Comms options out there for businesses whether in premise or hosted and there are pure video bridge services that are end device agnostic. The options for businesses are legion
https://twitter.com/raleighpolice/status/1250111779574894594
We get ours from Abel and Cole.
It’s not enabled within Teams by default though, a global administrator will need to flick a switch
I’m unable to restrain myself from boasting about this.
They haven't banned smoking. Even though it kills about 78,000 people a year.
https://www.nhs.uk/common-health-questions/lifestyle/what-are-the-health-risks-of-smoking/
Going back about three weeks, anybody whose diet consisted entirely of cheese, yoghurt, chocolate biscuits and wine was doing very nicely thank you. It's just the whole of the rest of the population that was snatching and hoarding bags of penne and fusilli on sight.