Posts by TekGuruNull

BOFH: The new Boss, Aiman, is suspiciously good – for now

Re: Totally OT question

I see. I see. I get the picture.

Seriously, "garden variety" makes it very clear. I think perhaps part of my confusion was a coincidence. Bog standard and bog roll.

Totally OT question

I've seen "bog standard" used in a context of meaning "the usual." I've also seen it used in a way that clearly suggests it meaning "sh*te." Is it used in both ways or am I missing something?

Thanks,

Confused Yank

Support contract required techie to lounge around in a $5,000/night hotel room

Good for him

As we say on our (west) side of the pond, good work if you can get it.

They call me 'Growler'. I don't like you. Let's discuss your pay cut

Re: Depends on your definition of growler I guess.

We indeed do have the mini aluminum kegs. They tend to be pricey on a per pint basis. But some craft* & European brands do deliver a superior pub-like brew this way. Very inconsistent across brands. Sorry to disappoint, but the offerings do not include Watneys Red Barrell or cider-barrel-dregs skullsplitter/industrial floor cleaner.

*not water

BOFH: Adventures in overenthusiastic automation

Quicklime

I hope that particular vac unit returns in a future episode. Makes one pine for the good old days of spades, car boots...

A toast to being in the right place at the right time

Re: Did it talk?

Error code ID10T. Oh, *that* Lister. Of course! I'd forgotten all about that damned toaster.

Re: Did it talk?

Sorry to bother fellow punters. As a benighted American, I humbly request cultural translation of Talkie Toaster bit. "Lister?"

BOFH takes a visit to retro computing land

Take care indeed

Every episode without a defenestration increases the risk...

Eric Idle tells infosec world to always look on the bright side of life

Not to worry, Eric. Your blue tick isn't dead. Just resting and pining for the fjords!

Student requested access to research data. And waited. And waited. And then hacked to get root

Re: In Code We Trust

Ah, yes. The good old days before Microsoft ruined PC repair with BitLocker. Now when someone can't log in, they lose everything since absolutely no one backs up their BitLocker key. Another security triumph from Redmond. Hirens was nice, used it all the time. Sergei Strelec's WinPE seems to be king of the hill these days. I've used it, but usually BitLocker is enabled and owner/user = screwed.

Techie called out to customer ASAP, then: Do nothing

Vielen danke. Thank you for demonstrating my point for me. You don't understand American culture and I don't entirely understand yours. Therefore, you asserting that Americans have become too sensitive is like me saying that Germans are rude. Which, by the way, I don't find them to be at all.

You mirror the behavior of those whom you claim to disdain. If you are looking for a single example of corporate HR idiocy to prove your point, you will always find one. In fact you will find plenty. That is to be expected since American HR departments are primarily interested in making sure that no employee has a valid reason to sue the company in court. Different cultures, different legal systems produce different outcomes. QED.

"Americans are really getting overly sensitive"

As an American, l say that's bollocks. You are comparing nations with profoundly different cultures. The Germany reference is almost comical. Having worked for a German company, with Germans everyday, I can say that their culture is profoundly different from ours.

Furthermore, there is nothing whatsoever, "overly sensitive" about condemning someone for making blatantly racist comments and then defending those comments. In the UK, someone hurling racist abuse at others can be criminally prosecuted. In the U.S., that's not possible because of our First Amendment. It's up to the people to sanction this kind of abusive speech.

Yes, there are an ever-growing number of people is the U.S. that spend their time to looking for reasons to be offended, and always finding one. However, most of us spend much more time rolling our eyes and groaning at their outrage-of-the-day than taking their nonsense seriously. Scott Adams' racist comments are not such nonsense.

RIP Gordon Moore: Intel co-founder dies, aged 94

No LARTs or quicklime here

Thank you, Mr. Moore. I ignore the tasteless tip of shite posted thus far and wish you and your family all the best.

BOFH: The Board members are looking very ill these days

Re: Openings in forestry

My god. It took *this* long for comments to mention quicklime.

<shudders>

Techie fired for inventing an acronym – and accidentally applying it to the boss

Re: brightness adjustment needed

Ah, the good old days. Sadly the days of LARTs and quicklime are long passed. Damned forensics and CCTV everywhere. Lusers are blissfully safe from Darwinian justice these days. I mean who even remembers the last time they actually saw a defenestration in person.

<sniff>

Microsoft tells people to prepare for AI search engine that goes Bing!

Somewhere

Somewhere, there is a Microsoft employee whose LART hesitancy has lead to this...

New IT boss decided to 'audit everything you guys are doing wrong'. Which went wrong

It's people like you what cause unrest...

US chip ban left back door in Beijing-controlled Macau for months

None shall pass!

Time to study the classics: Vintage tech is the future of enterprise IT

Re: "Any enterprise worth its salt

Have you tried defenestration?

Re: "If it's old, it's obsolete; and if it's obsolete, it needs to die."

I don't want to go on the cart!

Self-driving car computers may be 'as bad' for emissions as datacenters

Re: High customer satisfaction

Agreed. I can't find a single (US market) electric vehicle to even look at. That's because they all have satnav, embedded cellular and ten more pieces of sh*t that I don't want. It's ridiculous.

Software engineer accused of stealing $300k from employer was 'inspired by Office Space'

This is what happens when you ask status on those TPS reports just one too many times...

BOFH and the office security access upgrade

Thanks and Merry Christmas, Simon. Wishing you a Defenestrating New Year!

Oracle clouds never go down, says Oracle's Larry Ellison

Or

Perhaps, stunned

You thought you bought software – all you bought was a lie

What?!?

My experience with FOSS OSs doesn't track with this rosy picture at all. Every year, around the Christmas/New Years holidays, I used to evaluate 2 or 3 popular Linux distros. In every single case, I have run into things that don't work OOTB, the ONLY documentation available about the problems are forum posts, and the fixes are mind-numbing pages of instructions on editing text config files. Um, no. [expletive], no.

BOFH and the case of the disappearing teaspoons

Ah, yes. A bit of casual violence to warm the cockles. Have we had a defenestration recently?