* Posts by HappyDog

17 publicly visible posts • joined 30 Dec 2022

CrowdStrike meets Murphy's Law: Anything that can go wrong will

HappyDog

Re: Canary Deployment

"They did not explain if their canary targets will be random, opt-in, or strategic."

Probably the "Free" tier.... with ads :(

Millions of smart meters will brick it when 2G and 3G turns off

HappyDog
FAIL

What a waste of money and opportunity. If they had joined forces with, for example, a smart thermostat manufacturer, they could have provided a package that would have actually saved customers money. We had a new gas boiler all efficient and "eco friendly", whatever "that's" worth for a gas boiler, with a truly woeful UI. All manual time settings and tiny display. Made the thing unusable except for the boost button which turned the heating for the boiler on to full max for minimum 1 hour. When the room would be like a sauna. Then the house would cool down over the next hour and the boost button would be pushed again. Rinse and repeat. We got a smart thermostat and from, an average of 4 boosts, i.e 4 hours and half the time freezing between boosts we currently average 1.25 hours with the smart thermostat and are never cold or too hot. The smart thermostat controls the boiler turning it on for a small duration, usually about 5 mins to keep the room temperature at my presets, before turning it off again. Everything can be controlled easily from an app. If the government had rolled smart thermostats out instead of dumb smart meters, we would probably be close to their original net zero targets and people would be using and paying for a lot less fuel be that gas, electricity or renewables

Middleweight champ MX Linux 23 delivers knockout punch

HappyDog
Unhappy

Re: this shoggoth of a startup daemon

Indeed. "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM". The (Big Blue) wheel keeps turning.....

Voyager 2 found! Deep Space Network hears it chattering in space

HappyDog
Pint

Re: Reset?

I felt I had to double check your calculations before I up voted you. But then I re read your first PS, and gave you the vote anyway! Have a beer

Cheapest, oldest, slowest part fixed very modern Mac

HappyDog
Coat

Stop banging that same old drum!

Mind you, I heard he had a problem drumming up support? Beats me why, must have been cymballic...

An unexpectedly fresh blast from the past, Freespire 9.5 has landed

HappyDog
Facepalm

* All she actually needed was an update to Firefox

And you completely changed her usual desktop environment as well? I'm sure she was delighted!

Millions of mobile phones come pre-infected with malware, say researchers

HappyDog

Pot, kettle?

"The objective of the malware is to steal info or make money from information collected or delivered."

Is this not Google/Facebook/Twitter, Alphabet/Meta/Musk, (apologies for repeating myself there) USPs?

No wonder they're upset!

Microsoft disarms push notification bombers with number matching in Authenticator

HappyDog
WTF?

Am I streaming?

Is this new?

Is this not what Netflix and all the other streaming services do already?

Just asking for a friend...

Uptime guarantees don't apply when you turn a machine off, then on again, to 'fix' it

HappyDog

Recovery Commodore 64 style

"every machine is going to need some kind of period of time for recovery (excepting maybe a Commodore 64, which you can measure in microseconds)"

That'll be a recovery to a blinking cursor and empty RAM, sounds more like a reset to me?

Edinburgh Uni finds extra £8M for vendors after troubled ERP go-live

HappyDog

Changes in requirements

"The institution has confirmed implementation partner Inoapps and software company Oracle will see the price of their contract rise from £25.4 million ($31.1 million) to £33.5 million ($41.12 million), owing to changes in requirements and additional work orders by the customer."

Oh. You want employees paid on time *and* every month? Might be a bit of scope creep going on there. Charge 'em double!!

AWS wants to cook its datacenter chips with vegetable oil

HappyDog
Pint

Frying tonight

Indeed https://youtu.be/kHnifVTSFEo

My favourite Carry On film. Scared the bejaysus out of me as a 9 year old. Still got a bit of the old adrenaline rush watching the clip.

Have a beer. Calm the nerves

Service desk tech saved consultancy Capita from VPN meltdown, got a smack for it

HappyDog

Re: The old truth

I would guess that they were locked in to WinXP to enable their access to non-work related 'executive exclusive ' websites. You know? The ones those new fancy Windows 7 laptops blocked? As I said, just guessing...

If we plan to live on the Moon, it's going to need a time zone

HappyDog

Daylight saving?

My biggest beef is that every year (twice!) we go through Daylight Saving. One hour forward, one hour back. Here in Ireland, we go back an hour in October and forward an hour in March. Why March? If we go back one hour one month after the autumn (fall for our American cousins) equinox, why do we have to wait until one week after the Spring equinox before we get that hour back? By my reckoning we could have put the clocks forward last Sunda. Meaning we could be having daylight until 7pm and beyond from now on

HappyDog

Re: Just set the entire moon to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC +0) ...

You eat lunch at (or around!) midnight?

A tip for content filter evaluators: erase the list of sites you tested, don't share them on 100 PCs

HappyDog

Re: bedroom... err...

To parrot-phrase "What did the Romans every do for one?"

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/feb/20/its-not-a-darning-tool-its-a-very-naughty-toy-roman-dildo-found

Find My Kids app is basically AirTags for your offspring

HappyDog

Re: I did not do latin in school.

"while you go on with the more important things in your life, namely your next Twitter post."...

"... about how too much screen time is bad for children"

F(inished)TFY.

University students recruit AI to write essays for them. Now what?

HappyDog

"We need to feed ChatGPT with Laudanum"

One way to introduce true randomness...?