Anyone else encounter Simian?
We were forever having to monkey around with it!
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Many years ago before I ascended to the heady heights of systems administrator I had a job driving taxis in Taunton where Debenhams had their data processing facility. A daily job was for one of us to go round to their place with a van at four AM and pick upreams of fandfold paper for transport to the head office on Oxford St. Goodness knows what happened to it but I struggled to imagine the eighties equivalient of the C-suite wading through it all.
Back in the late eighties I drove a taxi in Taunton. There were a couple of 'cider' pubs near the market where the farmers would drink the profits. One was notorious as it would refuse to serve its cider to what they termed foreigners. The other gained some notoreity when another driver came on the radio to tell us that the wall spearating the lounge from the bar wasn't there any more because someone had been thrown through it.
Happy days even if said anecdote has nothing to do with the original story!
Obvious icon and I will be having my last Red Strip of this visit to the In Laws in a few hours while waiting at NMIA.
Why do Tech companies keep buying each other? I know that the founders can make a killing from it but in the wider picture it seems to killl good products off. I used to be a Solaris admin and welcomed the move Sun made to make it an open source OS just before the Oracle buyout but Larry killed that off because he really wanted Java. An alternative to Linux (yes I know BSD is there) would have been good but no.
Now Broadcom looks set to kill VMWare for all but the biggest customers. Is late stage capitilism simply borked or are tech billionaires arseholes?
When they mention how much money these whatevers have the numbers just wash over but sometimes it does hit home. I am a lowly sysadmin and will never even begin to climb to the top of any greasy poles - especially now I am late fifties. So when I hear that he is dropping $270 million on a personal theme park I change that to sterlying £212M odd and reflect that I will never see even 1/212th. What do you do with all that? I have an expensive dream with a nice boat that would cost likely £650K as my absolute dream.
Highly unoriginal but then this is an unoriginal time of year.
I remember those toys. I can't remember why the local authority I was working at couldn't just allow port ntp through the firewall but there was a "reason". It wasn't batteries that caused the outage though. Window cleaners had dislodged the network cable.
icon because it is nearly that time
I don't know Oxford well enough to suggest one though.
They could have another pub just down the road where the beer is free but you pay for the seat you sit on and have to pull your own pint (and sometime change the cask).
I would suggest Mysql but they are owned by the (L)Aslan
The thing with these mandated back the office proles/peons is the lack of choice. Some people like the office experience. Some don't. It could go the other way where a company decides to save on office rental by forcing everyone out.
This CEO (wank puffin is my choice of insult) seems to have forgotten that happy staff are more productive. Let the ones who are happy use Zoom/Teams/Slack and let the social animals have their water cooler moments.
I'd be interested if his office door is open for everyone to 'talk to senior management'.
If the banks think he is a band thing why the hell did they lend the money for him to buy it in the first place? His lack of judgement was always plain to see. There are other words to describe him but I'll stick with that for now. How long til the banks call in the loans I wonder?
You beat me to it.
Perhaps we should set up a campaign to write to MPs suggesting a salary sacrifice scheme should be enacted for ministers when a project they sponsored doesn't go to plan. It could be made retrospective so Camoron and Bozo can be penalised for the HS2 omnishambolic clusterfuck.
back in the days (a long time back) I spent some time driving taxis in Taunton. There was a unique smell associated with old unwashed man who drank rough cider and smoked Bensons or senior service. It would take half an hour with all the windows open to clear it.
I think the above are shitting bricks about all the squilliions they borrowed and may now stand to lose if companies shrink their office size.
My non scientific view is that home/hybrid work with a choice of mix/mode is the best way to manage R&R these days. After all if Elmo is all in favour of everyone being in the orifice full time it must be a bad idea.
Zoom really ought to think about what they are in business for.
This is only the latest in a series of terrible breaches of data - Crapita not securing an S3 bucket with USS pension details on it. Other actors stealing data from LPFA and such like. I am now working on the assumption that I have been comprehensivly pwned.
I don't know if it is state actors or straightforward crims (assuming there is a difference) but we need a completely new approach to security. At present, it appears that I am responsible for policing any unauthorised use of my data and there is no recourse to get compensation from the leaker - perhaps that should be the case.
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