Posts by Fatman

DEATH-PROOF your old XP netbook: 5 OSes to bring it back to life

Re: "Bare metal" vs Wubi?

That caught my eye too.

I was wondering WTF!!! Why do something that stupid nonsensical, and cripple the performance of the machine having to deal with WindblowZE.

Just completely nuke that thing, and be done with it.

CIOs, IT chiefs: ARRGH! What do you MEAN, HR just bought 400 iPads and didn't tell us

Re: The wifi router in the comms cabinet

These suuuuper-geniuses signed up for a broadband package without telling IT or indeed anyone above their pay grade.

We had a marketing asshole do almost exactly the same thing, except, he used a secondary wired connection at his wall jack to give himself a public IP address on a second NIC clandestinely installed in the desktop PC.

The networking guys picked up on it, and three security guys came to his desk and dragged his ass out of the chair, and booted him out of the building. My boss and the CEO me him at the front door and told him WHY he was being fired. While we are primarily a *nix shop, he was one of the (l)users still using Windows, which bridged our LAN and his public IP address together. Dumbass!

Re: I don't want control

Still, they are at least grateful for us saving their jobs and career right? RIGHT?!!

If they were your typical assholes, NOT A CHANCE!!!!!

Re: @Don Jefe

Exactly. It's all about having a CIO/CTO with the knowledge and personality to communicate this effectively to the other C-levels and the clout and balls to carry the day.

Oh, you mean like what my CIO did last year when Finance went out and bought some fruity fondleslabs without consulting IT??? She went to the CEO and demanded (and got) over $65K from Finance's budget to cover the costs of supporting those worthless (for us) things.

For some strange reason, they seemed to have disappeared at year end.

Sysadmin job ad: 'If you don’t mind really bad work-life balance, this is for you'

Re: ..I don't need to apply..

Count me as another one who would pass on this job.

Heart attack and ulcer potential: beyond the stratosphere (more likely LEO).

Judge rules investors can sue Meg Whitman and HP over Autonomy

Re: Sweet

1) Let's be clear. HP's decision to buy Autonomy effectively took $10Bn, piled it up and burned it.

2) It's money that could not be used for more useful tasks within the company.

3) It's not money that could be used to add to the dividend to stockholders.

OK, I agree with the first statement.

I think statements 2 and 3 would better read as:

2) It's money that could not be used for more useful tasks have been put to better use within the company.

3) It's not money that could be used to add to the dividend to stockholders.

Both of these revised statements assume that one agrees with the idea that the Autonomy purchase was a bad investment in the first place.

New NSA leak reveals invasion of the management consultants

Re: Nerd Wars: Episode V

Nerd Wars: Episode VI

The Pointy Hairs endure a free fall in a lift (elevator for us USAsians) shaft.

Very short movie.

Re: "diversity, empowerment, innovation, risk-taking and agility"

That's a full house bullshit, I think.

FTFY!

Re: And now for a recital of NSA poetry

Bullshit Bingo-card

No, you must mean Bullshit Bingo-Dictionary

That damn thing is thicker that the NYC phone book!!!

We flew our man Jack Clark into Facebook's desert data tomb. This is what he saw

re: Especially when compared with MySpace's data centre

Nah!!!!!

i thought that was a picture of the hosting site for Mickeysoft's Office 365 servers.

Julie Larson-Green: Yes, MICROSOFT is going to KILL WINDOWS

Re: Name Change?

perhaps just: Windows Gone

or perhaps just: Shattered Windows

Re: @Bootman

The person who did has gone to explore other career options been placed on another career trajectory.

FTFY!!!

Re: Why Windows is doomed.

>>That "lazy code" has mostly been ripped out with most developers now writing .Net applications the API's are fairly clean and fast.

Nobody uses .Net unless they want to be locked down to proprietary Windows platforms are gluttons for punishment. Both in development, and in distribution. That's not to mention the fact that it's dog slow.

FTFY!

Re: Windows XP came on a CD, Win 7 on a DVD. I rest my case.

and Windows 8 on a BD.

Completed that for you!!!

Haitian snapper humbles photo giants AFP, Getty Images in $1.2m copyright victory

RE: I'd like the Government to make it illegal to strip the metadata from uploaded material.

You do know that photos can be watermarked, don't you??

RE: ... he just won several decades of salary. That's pretty good...

The National Media Photographers Association says the average full time professional media photographer makes $35k annual. So he just won several decades of salary.

However, you have to wait for the appeal to run out, and then pay your lawyer shyster a percentage; then it doesn't look that sizable of an award.

Hell might freeze over before he can collect.

Boffins baffled after Sun fails to fry satellites

RE: One word: fuck off

Sorry, but that was two!!

Revealed: How Microsoft DNS went titsup globally on Xbox One launch day

The "Cloud"

From the article:

The outage hit on Thursday, and knocked over key websites such as Xbox.com and Outlook.com off, axed connectivity to the Office 365 online software suite, and cut off multiple Azure cloud services from the outside world.

I wonder how many corporate bean counters will have to explain why their employer's staff are just sitting there twiddling their thumbs while Mickeysoft gets its shit together.

"We can save $$$ by going to Office 365!!!" was probably the rationale for jumping into that cesspool.

And so the lemmings jumped.

Why do I feel no compassion for bean counters who don't fully appreciate the stupidity of their decisions?

Someone find me a cattleprod, I have some PHB's that need educating!!!!!!

LG: You can stop hiding from your scary SPY TELLY quite soon now

Re: It's strange how their attitude changed

...I'm not sure the general (i.e. less tech-savvy) public really understand the implications...

Whet the hell do you expect of sheeple.

So damn many have only a 140 character attention span.

Re: Voted with feet

... I decided to vote with my feet.

Is the only way to teach these arrogant assholes a lesson - don't buy their shit!

LG now joins Sony on my list of companies that I will never patronize. Fuck them!

Those Xbox One first-day glitches: GREEN screens of DEATH, disc crunching

Re: Old

...replace it with something that has a GUI apparently designed in 1975. The fuckwittedness of that decision is just off the bloody scale.

As an Ubuntu user, I really despise Unity, considering it a clusterfuck.

However, once I saw the Windows 8 UI, it (the Windows 8 UI) became the definition of clusterfuck.

Mystery traffic redirection attack pulls net traffic through Belarus, Iceland

Re: Surprise!

I take it that reading comprehension is not your strong point?

Probably because this poster is still in grammar school.

Re: Surprise!

Why is it that when we see the word "exploit" or the phrase "security problems/issues", the article is always about Microsoft.

Look, I enjoy bashing the hell out of Mickeysoft, but, if you even had the smallest bit of understanding how internet traffic gets routed globally; then you would have realized that your diatribe was completely full of shit. End of story!!

Take Mickeysoft out to the woodshed and give them the 'shellacking' they truly deserve; when they screw up; but this is not one of those instances.

Go back to school!

Winamp is still a thing? NOPE: It'll be silenced forever in December

Re: BAH HUMBUG!

or Easytag ExFalso on Linux. I use that alongside Rhythmbox, no problems here.

FTFY!!!

No more Service Packs for Microsoft Office? HA! Think again, Ballmer!

Re: No new service packs??

Sounds like Ubuntu's release cycle...

I have always considered the non LTS variants as alpha and beta test versions unleashed on the general public for bug fixing and usability testing; which is why my main Ubuntu install is currently 12.04LTS.

I have a DAILY build of 14.04 sitting on an external hard drive for 'poking around'.

Re: Oops. I'm ten years behind

What's the point of "upgrading" from one "just good enough" version to another "just good enough" version?

Because it has the new and improved user interface, that's why. And, BTW, Microsoft Mickeysoft could use the money. It has to pay for Ballmer's Golden Parachute somehow!!!'

</snark>

Firefox reveals new look: rounded rectangles

Re: Tree Style Tabs

Is one addon I can not do without.

So much nicer having that left hand tab stack to pick out which "page" I want to see., also, a few other tricks minimizes the vertical height of the header, also giving you more room for the page.

The REAL JUICE behind leaked BlackBerry OS: Android apps to slip in without protection

Re: Maybe So, Look at Macintosh

My observation is that Macintosh computers became acceptable when Microsoft released Vista and the world said "meh" and looked what else was out there expressed its dissatisfaction with a collective gag reflex...

FTFY!!!

BOFH: One flew over the PFY's nest

...getting him put on the experimental Invasive Electrotherapy program as per established standard procedure.

More likely saving that for the PHB.

File-NUKING Cryptolocker PC malware MENACES 'TENS of MILLIONS' in UK

Re: Nasty.

The Trojan infects systems running Windows 8, Windows 7, Vista, and XP.

That part is so telling.

Poor, hapless WindblowZE (l)users, if they were not chained to the deck of the MS Titanic.

Dell orbits Linux a third time with revamped Sputnik notebooks

Re: I'm in

Personally, I've drifted to a preference for GNU/Linux for home use, over the last few years, although I'm still firmly with shackled to Windows at work.

FTFY!!!

PS, you poor soul ('shackled' to WindblowZE)

PlayStation 4 a doddle to fix: Handy if it OVERHEATS, for instance

Re: Micrososft FUD machine in full swing.

@AC 09:51. I think I hear a stuck record, or is it a broken one?

No, just a tape loop repeating the same shit, over and over again.

Re: Hard to find faults with PS4, isn't it?

Actually it is quite easy, if you were one of the people affected by this arrogant company's root infected CD's of a few years back.

It is a Sony, enough said!

Their arrogance has permanently turned me off to ANYTHING they make.

Why should I patronize contribute to the exorbitant profits of such a arrogant bunch of assholes!???

Smut-spreading copyright trolls told to return cash extracted from victims

Re: Jail time would be more appropriate.

NO, it would not!!!

An appropriate sentence would be summary execution for those filthy pricks.

Oooh! My NAUGHTY SKIRT keeps riding up! Hello, INTERNET EXPLORER

Re: re: next disaster will be:

What's to be embarrassed about? She was just stroking her pussy.

YOU owe me a new monitor.

Re: Oh. My. Fucking. Gawd/ess.

Microsoft's marketing department has finally lost it completely.

I was beginning to suspect that when that dancing office worker ad campaign for the Surface ran.

GIMP flees SourceForge over dodgy ads and installer

Re: Ads? what ads.

My Firefox currently has Adblock Plus, NoScript, Ghostery, BetterPrivacy, RefControl and Collusion (Lightbeam) add-ons.

Another one who has seen the light.

If I visit the Daily Mail, for example, You sound like a smart guy ... why would you visit the Daily Mail?

For amusement purposes.

10 Types of IT managers from hell

RE: 10 bad bosses.

He is a defective component in your system – and you know how to deal with them.

For a computer, you would remove the bad part, and toss it into the trash

With a defective manager, you convince him (or her) to pull the ejector handle on their career, or if you have the connections, pull it for them.

My favorite manglement career advancement tool is a trebuchet, with me jerking the chain.

Re: Keep it simple

Another small company with very little management infected by damagement.

FTFY!

Re: Then go find other code to write, peasant.

If you happen to wander through the "Tank" (over at CW), you might hear from "Jim The Boss":

Get yore lazy assk back to wrok!

Re: 10 Types of bosses

They will dangle the promise of share options in front of you while demanding you work 20 weekends in a row, but somehow those promises will never come to fruition.

I have heard that shit before!!

Watch out, MARTIANS: 1.3 tonne INDIAN ROBOT is on its way

Re: They could teach our MOD a thing or two about project management.

The MOD, like the DoD (or should that be DuD) in the USofA, are properly managed for the benefit of the arms industry (fka - the military-industrial complex); not the benefit of the taxpayers.

Windows Azure Compute cloud goes TITSUP planet-wide

Re: Cloud hype...So what the hell are the benefits of using them?

Blame deflection for manglement; and 'cost savings' (which may, or may not appear).

Resume padding , etc.

EXECUTIVE BONUSES!!!! (for saving money)

NetApp chucks sueball at upstart rival Nimble Storage, former staffers

RE: When you can no longer innovative, then litigate.

I believe that is patented by Apple.

Moody's eyes up Sony's debt: Hmm... junk? Bam! Shares drop 11%

Re: Shame

It starts with root kitting my PC and continues from there.

Another member of the club, I see.

I wish that those arrogant executives would commit seppuku in atonement for all that they have done.

Cinnamon Desktop: Breaks with GNOME, finds beefed-up Nemo

Re: file type reassignment?

(from memory not used a win box in anger for nearly 5yrs)

A wise decision.

DON'T BREW THAT CUPPA! Your kettle could be a SPAMBOT

Re: Much better devices for slurping data

But, consider just how much data a best selling scanner/fax/printer range would be sending home.

Then Wireshark is your friend. (http://wireshark.com/)

Re: Coming Soon...

The NSA CoffeMate 2000!

Only to be replaced by the New AND Improved Patriot Pal 2001.

</snark>

HP: Yes, we plan to axe another 7,100 European staffers

RE: HP has confirmed that more than 7,000 workers in Europe are headed for the chopping block

NOW you know who is eventually going to pay for Leo's Boondoggle - HP's rank and file.

I am glad I don't own any of their stock.

Apple's Hacker Princess really needs to stay away from Idaho cops

Re: Back in the day

America. Circling the drain since 2007 September 11, 2001.