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List of what is currently wrong with the forum

Deleted User

I was wondering if most people who contribute here are fine with no current problems, so I thought a list might be useful.

I'm rather despairing at the moment of its brokenness and absence of communication from NAS about a timescale (or anything) for sorting these.

It's making me wonder whether to bother any longer.

1. I know that   has a message coming up in orange at the top saying his account may/will be deleted.

2. I keep being logged out (orange banner at the top with a seconds countdown).

Is anyone else getting anything still (or even unable to use their original account?).

Has anything been sorted?

Thanks.

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  • in reply to Deleted User

    I don't know what a cloud is in this context, the only way I can visualise it is being somewhat similar to the collective unconcious, but for computers.

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  • in reply to Deleted User
    Unknown said:
    .I like to visualise a giant underground cave

    Clouds are in the sky though Thinking

  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    Personally......whether it is correct or otherwise.....I like to visualise a giant underground cave, filled with a gazillion PC computers, all told to behave like one giant computer.  It amused me, in the early days of "the cloud", when we were asked - "why trust the security of your own briefcase, when "WE" can look after the contents of it for you?"

    My mum told me (wisely, in my opinion) NEVER to trust people who said things like that !

  • in reply to Iain

    Thanks for the explaination, I sort of understand it and sort of don't, I think it's similar to thinking about how fast the planet travels through space when we ourselves don't experience it, just absolutely mind boggling and best not thought about to much.

  • in reply to TheCatWoman
    TheCatWoman said:
    I don't know what a cloud is in this context,

    In a nutshell the big tech companies (Microsoft, Amazon, Google etc) have data centres with really powerful computers that use a technology called virtualisation that allows you to "clone" a computer (ie one that was just like a PC or server) into a big data file and move this onto the central computer where it is allowed to wake up like a ghost but carry on as it was before.

    The computer / server does not know it is virtual but as it can do everything just like before then it just works.

    There is a load of technical shennanegans that needs to go into making it all work (this was my job for a while) but it allows you to do things like addimg more memory, a faster processor, more disk space, faster network connections etc with a few clicks of the mouse.

    Things like making backups are all done by the big data providers (for a price of course) and you can have a standby version of everything ready to kick in at a moments notice in case your computer crashes or is hacked.

    For management it is good news as there is no risk of power cuts, technicians falling over a cable and bringing the computer down, hard disks failing etc but most importantly, it moves the cost of everything from capital expenditure to operational expenditure so has lots of nice tax implications.

    For techies it is much the same level of work, just a lot of new skills need to be learned and they are easy to outsource to service companies, saving on staff costs too.

  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    Basically vast data centres owned by companies like Amazon and Microsoft. They rent servers to other companies and include the basic management, repair etc for them.