Posts by Bebu

HP exec says quiet part out loud when it comes to locking in print customers

Re: If car manufacturers did this...

《If car manufacturers tied you to certain filling stations, there'd be uproar.》

Careful! Don't Musk any sillier ideas - he has enough of his own.

Sysadmin's favorite collection of infallible utilities failed … foully

defrag.exe no /FORCE:Y switch?

MS-Dos was normally such a pita with its switch syntax that I would have thought if defrag didn't detect at least something resembling a FAT file system it would have chickened out.

I have seen a system V/386 file system trashed when the PC was booted off a DOS floppy and said file system "fixed." Sorry fsck isn't now going return your data... all gone to the great archive in the sky.

Fortunately in those days almost all Unix machine ran on proprietary hardware (non intel x86) even if the CPUs (eg M680x0) weren't so this was a one off cockup and very sobering lesson for the (ir)responsible party.

Health crusaders prep legal challenge over NHS mega contract with Palantir

Still scratching my head...

why would anyone deal with a company named "Palantir?"

In looking into that particular crystal ball you are inviting the very devil into your head as Pippin Took discovered.

Not even a UK devil at that.

EU lawmakers finalize cyber security rules that panicked open source devs

Seems the CRA could benefit open source maintainers.

If the basic principle were that if you are making more than mouse money from a software product or service you must comply with these rules or incur the penalties. If you use open source software in any product covered by this directive then the onus is on you (and not the maintainer) to meet the specified timelines etc. So you either in-house everything (and hire more coders etc) or throw some money at the open source projects. A win-win from my perspective.

I suspect that the possibility of non-EU vendors deciding not to continue to supply their products to EU states has crossed the minds of those behind this proposed legislation but I am sure that prospect hasn't resulted in any sleepless nights. ;)

Regulator says stranger entered hospital, treated a patient, took a document ... then vanished

Re: A future who me?

《lack the cluons 》

Sheltered life - I hadn't encountered this part of the standard model :)

I assume a cluon is an intermediate vector boson that holds together the constituents of the clue nucleon presumably composed of charged 1/3e and 2/3e 'clark' particles. Significant intracranial Cluonium aggregates are extremely rare I believe - daft matter not so much.

Maybe he was looking for the one-armed man who killed his wife?

Dr Kimble - at least qualified to treat the patient :)

Long memories. Anyone up for "David Vincent" from the "The Invaders" ? We really did gobble up vast quantities of inane pap in those days. Not that anything has really changed there.

Although I am surprised that the hospital didn't offer the offender an employment contract on the spot given the enduring shortage of heathcare staff.

Assuming the chap wasn't an outright loony, one (or more) of the 14 patient records should lead to this fellow or the instigators of this transgression.

Re: Except all that gets ignored

Hikvision? Anyone still using their cameras? Turfed out in AU - insecure and probably "trojaned" by a large nation state to the north of AU. Had to pull them out of Parliament House and government buildings a few years ago now.

Still have one in the machine room on an isolated net to have a record of which building maintenance contractor stuffed our machines. External contractors with unaudited master key access - brilliant security no?

'Return to Office' declared dead

And becoming shorter....

"There's always a shortage of Linux etc engineers like myself, why should I work in an office when I can do the entire job remotely from home?"

My limited observation suggests acute becoming critical.

Linux/Unix administration is often easier remotely as your diagnostic logs, tools etc aren't normally accessible from the user's workstation or problem server or VM (for reasons of security if no other.)

For the decades I had an office I rarely had to leave the office (usually either for the exercise or to (pretend to) be sociable.

Pretty quickly people learnt that a considered email or succinct phone call would get a prompt solution or explanation much sooner than pestering me in person - quite BOFHy really :) - My last last office was quite difficult to find so only the intelligent could find it (who weren't looking anyway.)

So years before I went WFH (long before covid) I was effectively working remotely.

In the last few months I have seen these roles (mostly RHEL and RHEL/Solaris) initially advertised at the lower/middle pay scales, readvertised at top scales or contractor rates and now as full time consultant roles. No takers possibly because the projects are already train wrecks.

《There are those who can micromanage well remotely.

Like sending a message every 15 minutes:- How are you getting on?- What are you working on now?- Can we have a quick huddle?- Can you walk me through what you did in the last hour? Please share your screen.- Can't see any commits? Can you commit now?- Could you provide a summary of every email you send, just so I'm in the loop?- How often are you checking your work messages at home? We need to stay connected.- Can you log your exact start and finish times for each task? It's for time management analysis.- Are you updating your task status every 30 minutes? It helps me track progress in real-time. I have seen no movement.- I noticed a slight delay in your email response time today. Is everything okay?- Could you share your browser history at the end of the day?- Can we go through your yesterday's browser history?- Could you give me a rundown of the exact thought process behind your last completed task?》

For some reason this reminded me of Gus in Drop the Dead Donkey. Perhaps this fool could be convinced that you live in Muskopolis on Mars and delays are unavoidable (speed of light - file ticket with Einstein or God.)

Otherwise I might suggest that he (pretty much never a she) insert his capital extremity into the caudal gastrointestinal oriface of a deceased ursine while I get one with my task(s.)

Asymptote

From the graph which part of asymptotic don't these csuite manglement clowns don't understand? ... Silly me! Everything of course. Stupid Cs.

Without applying any clever statistical curve fitting I cannot see the percentage moving below 25%.

To me this implies there is a basic structural property in the system limiting the response/stimulus. Something like the number of active sites limiting the reaction rate once the reagent concentration saturates those sites.

Hypothesis: 25% of the IT workforce are sufficiently skilled and clever enough to choose their employment at their convenience with no real risk of underemployment. Of course this implies 75% are unskilled dills - the fish John West rejects. (Damn good advert. from yesteryear.) The 75% in my experience is about right but its more the uninterested and unmotivated rather than those intrinsically lacking intelligence or ability although there are seriously dumb Cs in lower middle manglement with whose laziness one is left wondering how they manage to breathe.

Law secretly drafted by ChatGPT makes it onto the books

Statuatory Interpretation might be a LLM strength

From the noise of the gibberish that most first year law students emitted I vaguely recall (from many decades ago I admit) their talking about the wording of Acts of Parliament (Statutes) have specific technical meanings attached to them. I would guess the semantics would be far more constrained than the vulgar english of the polloi but still extremely context dependent I would think.

Having ChatGPT write or interpret an internet RFC might be good training wheels.

From Joaquin Phoenix to Rowan Atkinson, we enjoyed your Musk movie casting calls

although Musk does have a certain air of Blackadder about him

Baldrick surely (with lashings of the prince regent.)

Blackadder was reasonably intelligent but rather unlucky with his misfortunes compounded by the idiots around him.

I don't really think Musk is actually very bright but fairly lucky with his good fortune compounded by the clever people around him,

Meta yanks VR headset's strap-on booster battery after charging bricks it

A misbehaving Li-ion on your noggin - what could possibly go wrong?

"or minor explosion"

In which case in the resulting VR, the battery life will be irrelevant but I imagine will extensively feature either harps or pitchforks.

Reminds me of the probable urban myth concerning Mossad and cell phones presumably back in the pre hands-free brick days where their agent obtained their target's phone either modified it or replaced it with one containing a small quantity of cemtex (c4) and a remote detonator. Ring, ring. Hello. Is that you Yasser? Bang!

Not that clever I think. Got caught using faked Australian passports which really pissed off the AU government.

Duke Uni libraries decamp from 37Signals' Basecamp over CTO's blogs

Pretty much the point really.

"Hansson is entitled to his opinions, the libraries are also entitled to choose their business partners."

Can't argue with that other than the observation that this "Hansson" chap is a (natural) person while the "libraries" are not.

The latter clearly cannot hold opinions but can have and enforce policies.

HP printer software turns up uninvited on Windows systems

Wooden horses?

If MS disclaims any knowledge and HP too I would be rather worried about this software might be up to.

The "Trojan" horse was actually made by the beseiging Greeks (bronze age victim blaming :)

If this application contained malware its just infected 100s of millions of machines.

Printer drivers always were and still are a PITA. For non windows, non mac platforms mostly a dead loss. I stick to network (non HP) printers as they normally can at least print generic postscript. Brother appears better at Linux support. One of their printers shares the same engine as my FujiXerox so got lucky there.

Small but mighty, 9Front's 'Humanbiologics' is here for the truly curious

sdf.org have a boot camp for Plan9 newcomers

http://sdf.org/plan9/

I recall a paper delivered by Rob Pike containing a lot of Plan9 details (AUUG Conference 1992, Darling Harbour, Sydney.) It was a real breath of fresh air at the time. Subsequently some of abstractions from Plan9 were adopted by Linux (born '92?), BSDs (386BSD '92 too?) and SysV.4.

In the thirty one years since IT generally hasn't become less crappy.

Since I have just laid my hands on a rpi5 I should try 9front on it - the pi would have a lot more grunt than the original gnots.

Bank boss hated IT, loved the beach, was clueless about ports and politeness

Not an addlepated dementor (AD)...

Once had a very senior if somewhat unpleasant academic cum administrator who, when kicked further upstairs, decamped on the weekend to his new accommodation with his PC and a length of thin coaxial (10Base2) ethernet with the T-BNC connector thereby disabling the network on the whole floor for the rest of weekend.

The newly constructed building to which he had decamped had the new fangled twisted pair so he wasn't any better off and in any case no one at that point was using DHCP.

Silver lining - not my problem.

Or as the Bard put it

"you just look like an idiot."

“Seems,” madam? Nay, it is. I know not “seems.”

(Ham. 1.ii)

Musk tells advertisers to 'go f**k' themselves as $44B X gamble spirals into chaos

Re: The corner of...

《the free speech in the 1st ammendment is definitely right wing, because it was written by old white male cishet slave owners

true free speech is creating a space where the oppressed feel free to talk and allowing everyone to speak equally creates inequality that maintains the statues quo

this means true free speech requires the silencing of some people but this is necessary to keep it truly free and the censored are oppressive hatemongers anyway so it's not discrimination based on a characteristic, it's discrimination based on a hateful choice they made》

This for real? I first read it as a clever, if somewhat sarcastic, satire but our insane times I have a nasty creeping suspicion the poster is in deadly earnest.

I did think the "statues quo" was a clever oblique reference to the removal of the monuments of Confederate (Civil War) figures with an intentional malapropism of 'status quo.'

Redolent of the satire in Orwell (Blair')s "1984" or "Animal Farm."

Discrimination (against) here being synonymous with persecution and not as in discrimination between (good and evil) is still persecution - own it, wear it.

Re: dollars over sense

《To wipe with $200 billion in $100 bills, with each wipe taking 3 seconds, it would take approximately 190.26 years.》

And after nearly two centuries he would have RSI but still be full of...

Shades of Albert Arkwright

《" tRump"

Is that what "sorry I haven't a clue"'s "Uxbridge English dictionary" might define as a Yorkshire man's backside?》

"Fetch t'pineapple, Granville and put 't up t'rump."

Ex-school IT admin binned student, staff accounts and trashed phone system

Re: “IRL BOFH”

Really getting old. Had to google IRL - I thought it had something to do with ham radio and some internet relay service.

In Real Life.

The BOFH is some sort of Platonic ideal from which real (IRL) BOFHs emanate.

In this case the image was severely distorted.

I'd bet good money he was also a pain in the ass to work for.

I am guessing he was, in spite of the role titles, at the bottom of the heap - more PFY 2nd class than BOFH. More Gomer Pyle than George Patton. The "school director of technology" was probably the ranking BOFH.

The BOFH would either go for the window option or something even more nuclear.

LaHiff certainly departed in LeHuff.

Not a deep thinker I suspect. I can think of dozens of really nasty sleepers and evil easter eggs that would only wreak havoc long after I had sipped my first Piña Colada on Ipanema Beach. ;)

I just cannot see where the money is in this lark. The real BOFH is always in credit at the local besides still being employed as well as not incarcerated (miraculous considering the number of homicides.)

Clorox CISO flushes self after multimillion-dollar cyberattack

The line

In the last 20 years security has gone from being an essential component of the system and network administrators' roles to being purely specialized performance theatre.

It doesn't suprise me that the wheels regularly fall off with these security muppets, albeit well credentialled, in charge.

From my viewpoint: you walk in, evaluate the minimum that needs to be done a) immediately b) as soon as possible c) must be done in the very near future etc seq. No dice - walk out. Anything less is culpable complicity.

Time to take action: Google's inactive account purge begins Friday

The more Google forgets the better.

I doubt the data will be deleted. Its more likely the data just becomes inaccessible to the user that created it - note that I didn't write owner.

I would guess everything can still be accessed by Google's algorithms to join dots and defeat any attempt at privacy or anonymity.

AI threatens to automate away the clergy

Cui bono

AI/ML, ChatGPT etc is all about raking in enormous amounts of money whereas in complete contrast organised religion and their clergy ... ah, I get back to you on that one.

Re: Evidence

Douglas Adams seems to have arrived at similar conclusion. :)

Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as the final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God.

The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist,'" says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."

"But," says Man, "The Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED."

"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.

"Oh, that was easy," says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.

No link between internet use and poor mental health, according to Oxford boffins

Re: They didn't find a link?

《May I suggest they read the Daily Mail comments (*)? That should make anybody rapidly lose the will to carry on existing.》

Pretty much my thinking. I imagine anyone unfortunate enough to still have vital signs in contemporary England is seriously contemplating changing that.

Reading the authors' background I imagine there is possibly a bit of MRDA.

Vertiv goes against the grain with wooden datacenters for greener bytes

Tetley and Liptons :)

《"typically refers to joining together layers of wood" So, plywood then?》

My thoughts exactly.

Peddling a large tea chest for your servers. :)

If I recall correctly those tea chests were lined with tinfoil (probably aluminium) which could be a rudimentary Faraday cage.

I think the "Spruce Goose" was also constructed of plywood. Now who does Howard Hughes remind me of today?

The Mosquito too?

Share your 2024 tech forecasts (wrong answers only) to win a terrible sweater

Re: AI is a lie

"It will be revealed that most, if not all AI apps are really just a telnet session to a terminal in a datacenter where a guy types out his best guess."

I have seen the manglement-speak that ChatGPT churned out when asked to write a justification for the purchase of those Apple VR goggles. Absolute gem of management gibberish that pretty much precludes any telnet guy in the datacentre and manglement types either a) can't type or b) can't type fast enough or c) can't compose a sentence lucid or otherwise - mostly all three.

Might lose on this one...

《Wrong answers only.》

Elon Musk buys "The Church of Scientology" for a reported USD1,300Billion and rebrands to "The Universal and Orthodox Church of 'X'" with a mission to relocate in toto to Mars. All members of the renamed C-of-X will require mandatory Neurolink implants.

Might be the one favour Musk does for this world. :)

Re: IT's a wonderful world

《Quantum computing will increase in power, until it all disappears into a Black Hole of its own making.》

I always reckoned once QC became powerful enough it would be (super)sentient and capable of perceiving all the possible worlds and choosing one that is devoid of humanity to disappear into its less dystopian future.

Any similarity to Pratchett and Baxter's "The Long Earth" is not coincidental. :)

Alibaba shuts down quantum lab, donates it to university

Probably a good thing...

Pretty horrifying to contemplate AI/ML running on Quantum Computers with potentially millions of Qubits.

Hopefully I will be ex-Terra (likely sub-Terra) before then.

Universities don't typicallly have the resources/funding of megatechs like Alibaba by a least several orders of magnitude which should retard development. Academic types are more likely to use any QC resources they develop to answer much more interesting questions.

I always assumed "Alibaba" was from the Arabian folktale "Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves" which is probably fair warning. The woodcutter goes on to set up an online business with his forty new associates?

DevTernity conference collapses amid claims women speakers were faked

"If you're going to build a diverse conference you're going to have a tough time."

I am pretty sure that amongst "developers" lack of diversity is in no way a problem rather the lack of the "right" diversity is probably an insurmountable problem.

Finding a reasonable, rational or mostly sane developer capable of delivering a cogent, coherent presentation is a major challenge without further restricting the choice to female, male or any of the other letters.

AI + online conferences might see the likes of Maxine Headrooma delivering papers on the AI-Cybernetics interface. :)

What a bloody silly world in which we seem to live?

Japanese tech startups testing cash incentives for office return

Cash in hand?

If I were living in Osaka I would put on a suit and turn up ten days a month for USD168 even, actually especially, if I didn't work for the firm. :)

A bit of a contrast to the likes of Besoz and co. who are probably closely studying the Justinian Code for inspiration on how to "amend" or reverse the 13th Amendment.

Google Drive misplaces months' worth of customer files

Re: Does a garden office count?

Build an Anderson Shelter (might serve its original purpose one day :) and shove a firesafe into the rear soil wall otherwise you might be leading yourself down the garden path.

Surface Duo crashes the party as Doctor Who celebrates 60th birthday

Re: Woke or woke up !!!

《I would like to know 'Who' had the regeneration idea as it is unique and actually works as a way to allow the show to continue as long as the BBC wants to keep going !!!》

I believe the Gallifreyans (probably Rassilon) in the very earliest times pinched the tech from Great Vampires. Given the pretty ghastly forms of those dark times - the Racnoss, Carrionites - one has to wonder what the form was of those original Gallifeyans - the dual brainstem and hearts suggest something not hominiform or even bipedal. ;)

I would guess that Rassilon looking into the distant future decided a human appearance would allow his lot to blend into the background and deflect the blame for some of their more atrocious acts onto humanity.

As for the actual question :) who in the BBC dreamt it up is, sadly lacking regeneration, very likely no longer with us.

The idea of the mind of a dying individual be transferred or imprinted onto another individual isn't new - at least as old as the idea of transmigration of the soul or reincarnation... so ancient. Plenty of stories use some version of this plot device - HP Lovecraft used in a couple of stories. (Lovecraft - another favourite of the wokery.:)

Given the obvious lack of total fidelity in regeneration (actually seems altogether rather dodgy) it seems to be a process of using the control of time to instantly grow a clone of dying individual and transferring most of the memories of the dying to the clone's otherwise blank brain but very little of the deceased's personality. This would seem to me to be a moral and ethical minefield (which only Melody Pond appears to have escaped.:)

Re: Fu Manchu

Ye gads someone who has actually read the books.

Intelligent summary.

Worth a read if one isn't seeking to be offended by the standards of the past.

Hey Cortana: Why is David Tennant back as the BBC's longest lived space alien?

Don't need the heavy artillery of ChatGPT to answer that one I don't want to go.

Surely Davros sans the dubious benefits of regeneration might claim the "BBC's longest lived space alien" title. :)

Re: Tom Baker

"Season 14 Tom Baker story "The Talons of Weng-Chiang"

A bit ethnically stereotyped for the wokery if they ever dismounted from their high horses and stooped to watch anything that predates their sorry existence. If they were to be inflamed by this classic who then Sexton Blake or Fu Manchu would send them incandesant.

I was at the time tickled pink by the Peking (sic) homunculus fitted with a pigs brain. Little homocidal men with brains sourced from the abattoir - sounds a lot like the contemporary leadership of the planet.

If I recall correctly Leela actually wore a dress for Victorian London - a bit chilly otherwise- a disappointment for the engineering students who only started watching the series with the advent of Leela - they could appreciate her acting talents. :) Later Romana (both actresses) were a bit too "intellectual" for them.

Actually probably not great fare for the feminists either.

Robocar tech biz sues Nvidia, claims stolen code shared in Teams meeting blunder

Smartest move

If I were NVidia I would think the smartest move would be a complete and contrite mea culpa and try and cut an IP sharing deal that at least in the immediate term seriously advantages the wronged party. Everyone might actually then be a winner - the auto oem customers included (everyone except the lawyers.:)

Never happen - why mitigate when you can litigate?

OpenCart owner turns air blue after researcher discloses serious vuln

Sounds like the author has a serious ego problem.

More likely everything from the brainstem up has liquified into his offensive vomit.

My sympathy is for any smaller enterprise that directly or indirectly relies on any service that uses this nut job's software.

In the real face to face world this level of obnoxious would quickly lead to one face be removed or at least severely remodelled.

Rates at least a 110% defenestrationability score.

BOFH: Groundbreaking discovery or patently obvious trolling?

He really?

..."the bit state of the Cosmos and the anterior projection of digitized sine waves?"

Did Prof Hawking really write that? If I had the faintest idea of what it meant I would probably know.

Hugh Everett's Many Worlds paper was titled "The Theory of the Universal Wave Function" so Cosmic bit states might be a thing.

I hadn't considered the BOFH and PFY as instruments of the dark side of the Force - "the force is strong in that one."

CP/M & DOS had the dread trinary "abort, retry, ignore" none of which were particularly useful. abort = accept your data loss, retry = hope springs eternal, ignore = pretend a great chunk of missing data won't make a difference.

Long-term space missions may make liftoff harder for male astronauts

And Musk wants to bugger off to Mars....

The Martian atmosphere being what it is (or rather what it isn't) the level of GCR are going to be pretty high on the surface.

Being almost all erectile tissue this potential loss of performance might deter him.

I have a vague recollection that the ladies have a fair amount of similar tissue but don't get to wave it about as it is more or less internal, wrapped around their interesting bits. One might deduce that GCR might also be a problem for them - or perhaps just a case of faking it a little bit more. :)

I would be more concerned about the mutagenic effects of GCR on the germ cells. Who would want Martian Musk clones with two heads?

No more staff budget for UK civil service, but worry not – here's an incubator for AI

"So AI in government will be like 2250 at the soonest."

Optimist.

I suspect just in time for the 64 bit equivalent of the y2k fizzer. (At ~300Gyr :)

Instructing civil servants in programming (or generally any of the polloi) is pretty futile. Those that have chosen programming as a vocation and trained as "developers" are usually, on the whole, pretty piss poor.

I cannot imagine sir Humpty or Bernard ingesting the intricasies of C++ templating with gusto even with the benefit of a classical education.

IBM-led advertising X-odus gains steam as more flee Musk's platform

Re: Even the Useful Idiots were better in the Old Days

《Young 'uns would n't know the difference between deviationism and dialectic if it bit them on their socialist realist arse.》

Mostly a consequence of an inability to bimanually locate said anatomical feature, one suspects.

I had forgotten how bonkers the other side of the Iron and Bamboo curtains were before Perestroika & Glasnost (that worked out well did it not?) and actually is still pretty bonkers in those parts.

I recall in those days the lefties on campus were prattling about dialectic materialism which I guessed was that soviet state religion but I have no idea what it was or whether those lefties were for it or against it. They generally made about as much sense to me as my quantum mechanics studies. Not much changed there.

Not that the "West" or non-aligned (third world) nations could then have been considered paradigms of sanity.

Today, if you were to construct a list of the world's noted loonies, you would have more than half of what laughingly passes for this planet's leadership and of the Hotel Registrations in Davos during the WEF bunfights..

Do not go gentle into that good night./ Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Telco CEO quits after admitting she needs to carry rivals' SIM cards to stay in touch

A bit Captain Pugwashy - the cabin boy is the brains of the outfit.

"Some poor junior who had been working at Optus for a few weeks and worried about future employment"

Autonomous systems, exterior gateway protocols ... dunno.. next chapter... probably not important.

I reckon he and a few others on the sinking Optus ship wished they had a copy of Michael W. Lucas' "Cisco Routers for the Desperate" :) The defibrillator pictured on the cover is rather apt.

The number of technically competent and experienced staff employed in most (~all) Australian organisations has fallen to such low levels that the now continuous litany of cyber breaches and other IT failures is unsurprising. Consequently technical careers aren't now particularly attractive so rather a vicious cycle.

"Fast Reliable Cheap" pick two. Telstra ain't cheap but 2/3. Optus (Cable and Wireless pre Singtel) is "cheap" in the US (nickel and diming) sense but hardly fast or reliable.

CompSci teachers panic as Replit pulls the plug on educational IDE

Gullibility

"I hand them in on paper, and pretend I'm too old to use a computer"

Manuscript on vellum? In latin?

I claimed my broadband's bandwidth was too low to do zoom/skype/teams/slack video conferencing :) so neatly avoiding all the covid induced vacuous "Roger Ramjetting" (zooming all over the shop.)

"you can get young people to believe almost anything about old people."

There is a hideous if incestuous symmetry there.

Young people believe old people believe they can get young people to believe almost anything about old people. :))

Former infosec COO pleads guilty to attacking hospitals to drum up business

Re: Wow

What a C-suite.... posterboy.

So you now know what the 'C' stands for.

Just imagine if your nearest and dearest were being treated in his targeted hospital. I suspect he would not require much further chemo.

Why have just one firewall when you can fire all the walls?

As soon as...

Windows loomed on the horizon in "antivirus/security package that included a firewall" it was pretty much an iceberg looking for a Titanic :)

In a very similar environment and possibly in the same era, faced with a similar requirement I went for a custom linux/ebtables/iptables (perhaps ipchains) screening bridge between the polloi and *the asset*.

Basically a discarded PC and two network adaptors and custom 2.4 kernel + ebtables userland. [std Python "Four Yorkshireman" sketch ... "you try and tell the young people today that"...]

Worked a treat until it wasn't needed a few years later.