Technology - Am I...Old?

[fisicx]

To explain Kubernetes, the first question you have to ask is 'why do you need to know?' then if you really need to know you have to ask the question 'what is containerization?'

Tupperware?

 

[Alan]

Tupperware?

Tupperware is a brand name for soft plastic food containers!

I guess if you put a Raspberry Pi in a Tupperware you are sort of creating a physical concept of a container as an analogy of a digital container.

 

[IanSuth]

my only issue with O365 etc is the fact you have to buy the lot

I remember when you could either buy MS Office, MS Office Pro or even just Word on it's own. For years most people in our office had a generic PC running Windows with just Word installed and then the free MS Excel viewer and Powerpoint viewer, they didnt need to do anything other than look at powerpoints or excel so needed no editing functionality. That saved hundreds per machine for no loss of productivity (in fact stopped pointless fiddling), even the accounts dept who needed Excel the cheapest way was to purchase Lotus Smartsuite and then the MS "competitive upgrade" MS Office licence, you didnt even need to install Smartsuite just have the licence key number, combined price of Lotus trying to sell really cheap to keep business and MS trying to win over customers was less than 50% of Office and gave you a full retail licence allowing you to switch the software to new machines etc. (we used Outlook Express at the time which had less security issues than Outlook as no VBA scripting support).

At the time the S/W was a small (c10-20% cost of the machine) machines got cheaper to the point they weren't worth mending if they stopped working and software suddenly became the majority of the price, so divorcing it from the hardware sort of makes sense.

I understand if you have a 1000 person office having decent usage tracking etc and just buying enough licences for the max number of concurrent users makes sense but for the average user what do they need to do in Office other than Word and view spreadsheets. Certain users need to create presentations or play with spreadsheet formulae etc but I bet if you could split O360 into Word 360 excel360 etc the subscriptions only needing Word would be much higher than any of the others (and yes I actually use Libre on my pcs as well)

 

[Dinky]

This reminds me of a conversation I had with a customer of ours a few months ago.

He lived in a nice big house & worked in the tech world. I had to ask him 3 times exactly what he did and still didn't fully understand. From what I can gather he made apps and collected data, I know there's more to it than that but I gave up trying to make sense of it.

bearing in mind I am part of the generation that has been brought up with computers/software & I've built a few websites with ease, this tech world is stupidity complicated.

I feel exactly the same. My first computer was Sinclair Spectrum 128K which secured my fascination with computers ever since. Very recently however I feel like I can't keep up as progress seems to have gone into hyperdrive! Web 3.0, DAO, NFT, Metaverse etc, seems every time I look at tech news there is something new to learn about and when I read up on it, I still don't quite 'get it'?!

 

[estwig]

I luv my apps and devices, always have, at 53 years old I'm fairly clued-up on it, I make a good living from using it. I won't fall into the world of being intimated by new stuff, or letting it stress me out, this stuff will do what I want it to do!

Trying to persuade my elderly mother, that she needs to pack up using the same password over and over, and enable the biometrics on her iphone..........Is like pulling teeth!!!

 

[IanSuth]

I feel exactly the same. My first computer was Sinclair Spectrum 128K which secured my fascination with computers ever since. Very recently however I feel like I can't keep up as progress seems to have gone into hyperdrive! Web 3.0, DAO, NFT, Metaverse etc, seems every time I look at tech news there is something new to learn about and when I read up on it, I still don't quite 'get it'?!

I have a 48k and a 128k Spectrum +3 sat next to me (along with numerous PC's from a 486 dx4 133 running 3.11 up to a Win 10 machine), 28 years in IT recruitment meant I can talk the talk on IT jargon but my programming skills stopped at Basic (and simple SQL) although i can fight my way around Linux inc network set ups, standard sys admin and basic security tasks

 

[Mark T Jones]

No need to feel like a fossil - the fundamental point is that the representative didn't communicate effectively.

If he/she can't explain what it does, what problem it solves, what benefit it brings etc, it is unlikely to be adopted, irrespective of how technically advanced it is.

One of the greatest things I ever discovered in my business (far later than I should have) is that my customers mostly have no interest whatsoever in the product.

Those that do I'm happy to give them real detail and tech specs. The rest, I make clear than I am able to give this detail, or point them to reliable sources of information.

Even then they start to glaze over. What they want is shiny new counters and tables, so that's what we talk about.

 

[Dinky]

I have a 48k and a 128k Spectrum +3 sat next to me (along with numerous PC's from a 486 dx4 133 running 3.11 up to a Win 10 machine), 28 years in IT recruitment meant I can talk the talk on IT jargon but my programming skills stopped at Basic (and simple SQL) although i can fight my way around Linux inc network set ups, standard sys admin and basic security tasks

Such fancy! Now now IanSuth, no one likes a show off! ?

 

[IanSuth]

Such fancy! Now now IanSuth, no one likes a show off! ?

I have Gauntlet on 3" cartridge for the +3 as well so it still has a use in showing children what we used to play and on what