At a previous company a couple of years ago, I was very pleasantly surprised when the response to reporting a noisy aircon outlet was that one of the onsite maintenance staff turned up the same day, … (View Post)

Depends what you mean by a mainframe, doesn't it? IBM will happily sell you new s/390 systems if you want them, running Linux if you like. Anyway, if you're a bank are you really going to v… (View Post)

Personally I do not put political leaflets through "no junk mail" doors -- it seems much more likely to me that the recipient will consider it junk and get pissed off at the party for a net… (View Post)

Councils can't afford to build more council housing not because of the low rents (we built loads in the 1950s and I'm pretty sure council housing rents weren't market rate back then) b… (View Post)

My reaction to that story was that the "40 billion and 60 years" estimate looked like the option you put in the list to get the person making the decision to pick the other, saner choice... (View Post)