* Posts by chivo243

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McDonald's ordering system suffers McFlurry of tech troubles

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My last meal at McDs

Was in a McD's in France over a year ago, all the french fry\chip containers were re-usable, all drinking cups were reusable... maybe the food was too come to think of it..

Ad agency boss owned two Ferraris but wouldn't buy a real server

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Re: Aaron?

Did he err on the side of caution?

'Chemical cat' on the loose in Japanese city

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Re: Catzilla

Damn, beat me to catzilla! +1

Me thinks that all 9 credits were erased… tbh.

Telegram eyes IPO as user numbers close in on 1 billion

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WTF?

Encryption? yeah we’ve heard of it. I heard it called

Encryption by policy in an article I read a few weeks ago. Not encryption via protocol.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2024/02/02/apple-iphone-google-pixel-and-samsung-galaxy-telegram-app-warning/amp/

I’ll stick with Signal where you can now use a handle instead of your phone number too!

Intern with superuser access 'promoted' himself to CEO

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Re: This is where technology lets you down

Ah the photocopier! And some good old fashioned cut and paste, what do you need? yeah, it’s possible. Those good old golden days… long before copiers had pin codes too!

BOFH: I get locked out, but I get in again

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Re: running out of steam?

I thought about the dream angle... no PFY, everything moving along too easily. Put this one in the maybe pile.

I wouldn't call it running out of steam, but more of a deep breath before the next push. No one had an unfortunate accident (yet), no big score was had (yet). Where is the PFY? In whose pay is he this week?

Job interview descended into sweary shouting match, candidate got the gig anyway

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Re: Assumptions

I was already thinking about the questions asked, especially with such technical clarity. Reminded me of the company who was asking real world support questions to applicants, hoping they would solve their issue for free...

I'm walking, yes, I'm walkin...

Belgian ale legend Duvel's brewery borked as ransomware halts production

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Re: Too far

This is what happens when Belgian sysadmins run out of beer, everything grinds to a halt

Belgian truck drivers should be added to this list! I once stayed at a hotel that had a bar near the 'snelweg' and at dinner time, there were loads of truck drivers, with considerable table muscle hoisting a few on break... with the state of things in Europe, I'm sure you don't want to get between a trucker and his libation.

Olympic-level server tossing contest seeks entrants – warranty voiding guaranteed

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So many ways to exploit this one... so little time

prizes for the top three tossers!

World-plus-dog booted out of Facebook, Instagram, Threads

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damn, damn, damn

Further update

All services now appears to be coming back online.

"We are recovering from an earlier outage impacting Facebook Login, and services are in the process of being restored. We apologize for any inconvenience that this may have caused," Meta said at 0907 PT.

and double damn!

Health system network turned out to be a house of cards – Cisco cards, that is

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Re: There might be a reason

Yeah, I'm the guy that tried to tell them not to do it, smarter techs have tried and failed. While being quietly ignored I might add...

Boffins caution against allowing robots to run on AI models

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Re: Robots with AI

ED-209 springs to mind immediately... and throw in replicants for good measure! Leon gave me the creeps, and of course Roy.

Security is hard because it has to be right all the time? Yeah, like everything else

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Re: The biggest flaw

I've long pondered the perfect system(s), and it pretty much demands users, from top to bottom, who know what they are doing and why they are doing it. I once had to school the HR director on the perils of using their personal accounts on company assigned gear. I also took a rap on the knuckles for doing the right thing...

Work for you? Again? After you lied about the job and stole my stuff? No thanks

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Re: "And to this day, the more he dislikes someone, the more polite he is towards them."

Bridges away! Just like a Disco Inferno! Let me help you with those matches!

-and

Some bridges won't burn, I tried, and new management paid dearly to get me to cross it.

BOFH: In the event of a conference, the ninja clause always applies

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Sounds like the House of Quark?

Americans wake to widespread AT&T cellular outages

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That was interesting

Service just came back after nearly 6 hours... south west of Chicago. My carrier uses AT&T ;-|

Moving to Windows 11 is so easy! You just need to buy a PC that supports it!

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Re: It is easy - easy marks

Just looking at as a vector... and how much traffic it creates. I know to turn off the crap at install, and block what I can at the perimeter. I don't think granny's metrics are really all that helpful, I don't see the 90+ demographic getting a whole lot of attention from M$. How much of power on, facebook, gmail, power off is helpful to M$? Other people sniffing that unneeded traffic might...

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Re: It is easy - easy marks

telemetry, say with me children, telemetry... I know we're smart enough to block it, etc. But granny isn't, nor is mom (she's smart enough, just can't be bothered) Isn't that who we should be worried about?

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So funny you mention W2000 and vm, I installed a couple of years back it in a VM in my Free Esxi lab. It was a nice, 5 minutes in total. It installed in about 40 seconds, was at the desktop at about a minute in, and poked around a bit. I seem to remember networking was wonky, 10/100 and no driver handy at the time?

Oxide reimagines private cloud as... a 2,500-pound blade server?

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Raised floor supporting 3000lbs in a small foot print? Must be sold by Oxide flooring?!

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+1, but they are offering a total solution in one box. Choose your poison?

Dave's not here, man. But this mind-blowingly huge server just, like, arrived

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Re: Jazz Cabbage

We just called it "Lunch" Care to grab some lunch? Can I stop by for lunch? You get the picture...

Microsoft might have just pulled support for very old PCs in Windows 11 24H2

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vast number of jpegs recovered... I've been there! I'm sure a buddy of mine hasn't gone through all his photos after a disaster, every jpeg from every app was recovered.

Elon Musk can't wriggle out of SEC Twitter fraud inquiry

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Re: Huh?

I don't think it was blow, but weed that got him in trouble... I did what while high??

Please install that patch – but don't you dare actually run it

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Just call it a spontaneous reboot

The cache was full, the server bluescreened and had to reboot itself, magic really! When magic = fatfinger!

BOFH: Hearken! The Shiny Button software speaks of Strategic Realignment

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Re: And there goes another - Clean up in Aisle 3

slap on the pointy ears and start talking about the needs of the many ... and a new keyboard please, some wipes for the monitor, a new office chair, and some depends, I've just pissed myself!

DEF CON is canceled! No, really this time – but the show will go on

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Re: "That's because we studied math at school."

only when it's over half a billion, and one ticket... one ticket only Vasliy...

Raspberry Pi Pico cracks BitLocker in under a minute

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yeah, physical access = game over ;-{

Windows 11 24H2 is coming so we can all shut up about Windows 12 for another year

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too bad...

12 is half of 24, about as good as it gets with M$...

BOFH: Looks like you're writing an email. Fancy telling your colleague to #$%^ off?

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Re: Not sure here

I am sure there were times that Simon was a fly on the wall at my last gig. The employee/office wellness episodes spring to mind. Maybe Simon should change his name to Sauron, all seeing eye and such…

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Re: "coloured pencil office"

A place I worked at had a designated pencil office! It was the non-IT supply shop. It had it’s own employee, a manager and an email address. It was open twice a week, 3 hours each for drop ins, and you could send your order in via email to be delivered, just not during the 6 hours a week it was open… Funnily enough, they were next door to the graphic design office. :-}

Apple has botched 3D for decades. So good luck with the Vision Pro, Tim

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Not my generation

Seems like this idea of VR comes and goes, us boomers aren’t very likely to keep trying it… so push it to the next emerging generation that might embrace it. Put TikTok on it and you have a winner!

I no longer like to use headphones, I never liked ear buds. I tolerate glasses, I would never get contacts, and a big headset is never going on my head just for entertainment. Just call me an odd, old git. Getting odder as time goes by.

Poor communication led to complete lack of communication

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Re: Email...

External listservs, internal groups, and out of office reply becomes mail bomb! A place I worked at had a Guy’s Night Out listserv, to plan outings sans SOs (of course everyone used their work address!). Most outings were breweries etc, a lot of the same guys belonged to the same internal mailgroups. Come holiday time and a poorly configured mail server, the out of office replies engaged, next stop 30,000 messages in the in boxes of every person in the GNO listserv, I had way more being in IT Support. It shouldn’t have been that bad, but some idiots thought asking wtf is going on with the mail server while replying all didn’t help matters.

My coat, as I’m done with mail servers!

Junior techie had leverage, but didn’t appreciate the gravity of the situation

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Re: Responsibility

Yeah, the minion was not the sharpest pencil in the box. I even knew that the heavy shit goes on the bottom when I started in IT. I've bagged groceries a few times!?? To be fair, I was clearly beyond minion age when I started in IT :-)

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2 + 1... gotta have a supervisor doing nothing!

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Re: More than enough blame to go around

I never worked alone with big power related gizmos. I wanted a second set of prints on that damn thing!

Windows Server 2022 patch is breaking apps for some users

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Browsing from a server?

Not on my watch... no way!

The 'nothing-happened' Y2K bug – how the IT industry worked overtime to save world's computers

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Still paying dividends

The place I worked during Y2K decided that the Christmas break of two weeks wasn't long enough incase things did go pear shaped. They opted for 3 weeks, it's still a thing... Now everybody gets the week between x-mas and New year off, paid!

Tech support done bad sure makes it hard to do tech support good

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SOP

This is the way it works… save some money, never look back*. The bean counter who made the proposal is long gone, the manager who approved the proposal has either moved on, or is untouchable due to his shimmy up the corporate pole. Enter IT guy who was hired after the own goal*, and has to clean up the mess, yep Standard Operating Procedure…

Ex-school IT admin binned student, staff accounts and trashed phone system

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Loopy

Just fiddle with a few cables here and there, a couple of loops, hard to prove who moved a couple of cables… it’s an imperfect world, sir, screws fall out all the time…

-John Bender

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Re: Dontcha love the US court system?

We used to call it a horn blowing incident…

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Re: NerdRageQuit

Yes, yes we do…. I’ll have to ask a former colleague if anyone has questioned the existence of a certain account….should be good for a few laughs.

Bank boss hated IT, loved the beach, was clueless about ports and politeness

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Isn’t this just daily SOP in IT

I’ve lost track of how many times the alligator mouth overran the parakeet ass…

Musk tells advertisers to 'go f**k' themselves as $44B X gamble spirals into chaos

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Re: Way To Undersell El Reg

I think HomeDepot might be looking for someone like her.

IT sent the intern to sort out the nasty VP who was too important to bother with backups

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Re: Square footage

Have you been watching Brazil again?!

As a fledgling helldesk jockey, I once had to assist the second assistant to a director, her desk size reflected that she was second. I think I had a bigger desk… She had the duty of transcribing handwritten minutes to digital. The paper notes that she was charged with transcribing were in large three ring binders. This day, she complained of jibberish characters filling up her documents. Sure enough, lots of jibberish filling up the document and binders everywhere, including one on the control key… I ever so gently nudged the binder off of the control key, and presto! No more jibberish. She was not very amused…

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Re: Which keyboard?

Back in the day, I had one of M$ finest ergonomic keyboards with the hands splayed outward, and some portions of the keyboard raised higher. It also was height adjustable in the rear… where the escape key lives…

OpenCart owner turns air blue after researcher discloses serious vuln

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Re: So... if I read this right...

Besides the funny play on words, I thought I had heard that name before, but some research shows that Wayne Kerr is a mashing of the Chicago Bulls announcers from the Michael Jordan era, Wayne Larrivee and Johnny “Red” Kerr…

The joys of age and the mind….

BOFH: Groundbreaking discovery or patently obvious trolling?

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Trampoline hour!

I know some one at the EPO, they will be pissing themselves….

Linux Deepin's big brother claims it's hit three million installs

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https://thejetsons.fandom.com/wiki/Uniblab_(character) Possibly where HB got the idea for uniblab?

Lawyer guilty of arrogance after ignoring tech support

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Re: I thougt all these kinsds of stories were made up until a couple of weeks ago

oh, no, lawyers, doctors, teachers... I once fielded a call from some D level assistant who can't turn on the computer... I say "I know, there is a power issue in part of that wing. Facilities guys are working on it." Reply, "That can't be... the lights are on!" Me "The lights are on different groups, the wall connections don't all have power." Reply, "But we're in the same room!" I was left scratching my head... so I resisted the urge to school them, and gave them the extension of the facilities manager... never argue with a fool...