Posts by Anonymous South African Coward

Microsoft = bug factory

Windows = petri dish for bug multiplication

Rise.

Of the Machines.

Buy a bunch, rebrand 'em and give 'em as gifts to your ex-clients who used to be really difficult...

Or rebrand, hand a bunch of 'em out to IT security specialists as swag at a security conference...

So if some girl (or wimminz) doesn't like you, or you pissed her off (or whatever) and she decide to cry rape in order to inconvenience you this way...

...sound good, right and proper.

NOT.

Should they think of implementing this here in South Africa, they better equip each bus with a Terminator as the taxi drivers will torch these buses...

Backup tapes...

Back yonkers one of our clients did his usual backup, and locked the tapes up in his fireproof safe (onsite). This was in the heady days of Novell 3.12...

Came back the next day, PC's was gone. Server was gone. Safe (with tapes inside) was gone. No hard copies.

Oops.

And the taxman was busy with an audit on him...

Problem...

...will be with applications.

Will we be able to use our existing apps on the new OS, or will that require a major rewrite as well? Windows phone flopped because of poor app support, any OS lives and dies with its apps.

A case for Adam and Jamie to take on!

Nah, the server went walkabouts

And another vBulletin get popped : http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/11/dota2_breach/

And so the old stalwarts all die out - to be replaced by the young and foolish...

So glad I have two vehicles sans keyfobs - you need to physically unlock the door to gain entry.

But the half-brick entry will still work here, though.

Not for me thanks, I love it here on Terra Firma...

And this is why outsourcing is not always a good idea...

It wibbles, it wobbles, & it is the Wibbly Wobbly Web

Even without good communications between the various departments and IT it is not possible for IT to chart a route ahead.

4 years ago I installed a brand-new server with 6Tb of hard drive space at $current_company. Everybody was happy.

Then all of a sudden the one department decided that it is a good idea to start dumping allsorts of data taken from various sites onto said server for safekeeping without notifying IT.

And another department also followed suit with storing databases from site "just in case", also without notifying IT.

The end result? A clogged file server. And a struggle to get manglement to upgrade it.

Had both departments informed IT what they planned to do, a, upgrade/expansion path could have been planned for and the nastiness associated with a full file server could have been avoided.

Communications is also a crucial factor without which any IT department is doomed to fail.

Only safe thing to do... nuke it from orbit.

Aw shame, now that the c*t is out of the bag... expect people to be more inquisitive and start extracting allsorts of keys etc...

Suppose they'll need to think of "Secure Boot v2.00" so the whole race will start all over again.

So glad I dodged that nasty bullet. Installed Classic Shell for a client last Sunday.

Otherwise it would've been a case of Classic Hell for me....

Is the BOFH at the head of this organization?

Outsourced techies or in-house techies?

Meh

Time for another OS... or a fork of Android...

...funny it should happen after I installed the german language... :innercent:

Any good alternatives?

Mickey Mouse need a new dominatrix to secure them thar purdy passwords!

What is not shown (or told of) is the ladies showing loads of cleavage and hints at something extra while you try to fix their craptop, then they skedaddle off once all is fixed, never to be hear of again... (until the next time something else borks...)

My day was uneventful so far... banged up some documentation, goofed off a fair while and enjoyed the day in a most relaxing manner.

Cry me a river?

How apt - and ironic.

Poor sods, may they find other work.

This sort of thing scare me - by realizing that I literally hold the future of the entire company in the palm of my hand.

Wiping out/corrupting backups, then wiping the server and skedaddling off is a sure way of crippling the company seriously...

...but because of ethics I won't. But it still scare me, and I have to fight the darkness within me every day.

"No need to be like that!" the cretin sniffs, climbing the ladder.

The PFY opens the window.

I push the ladder.

I pull the ladder.

The PFY closes the window.

XD

Beam me up Scotty, this planet repeats itself.

Why block paying users even if they're from other regions?

Heck, if my South African Rands are good enough for them, then they should allow me to watch what I want, not dictate to me that I can watch X, Y, and Z but not A, B and C whilst the rest of the world+dog can watch from A up to Z without any restrictions.

Kind of boggles the mind....

Scotty! Beam me up!

Does this set a precedence for a case against GWX?

build/obtain EMP gun

Point said EMP gun at said drone and toast it

locate the ne'er-do-well and put him on some porridge for a while

publish this story for world+dog

finish en klaar

Server installation

No doubt the BOFH (and sidekick) will install Cryptolocker hidden inside an innocent application (like notepad) so that some poor sucker will activate Crypto at some later stage when things have settled down...

And it's lunch o' clock...