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Gene Gene the dancing machine! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Gene_the_Dancing_Machine
The Gong Show...!
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I once supported* POS devices that did exactly that, when connection to the mothership was lost, it began buffering, but there was a limit as I recall. I'm so glad those days are behind me.
*Went as far as unplugging the offending USB peripheral and plugging it back in again. Rebooting the underlying Windows, or reading the error code over the phone to the helpdesk.
Back when I was an MCSA candidate(easy route) I was entrusted with a cluster of windows servers running Exchange and File services, one day the cluster had lost some luster, and my boss said move file service to the other node and we'll reboot it... I failed over (love that term! Failover) the files to the other node (I'd done it dozens of times, a no brainer really), and it didn't do much of anything except render any file services limper than a whisky dick... The phone rang, it was the finance director, I looked at my boss and said it's for you!
Long ago when only desktops roamed the earth, I worked at a place where My Documents was redirected to be the p:\ on the server.... No one was supposed to save anything locally, it was NOT backed up! Our thinking was: we're not backing up 300 desktops, when we can back up a couple of servers. Any issues on the desktop was a nuke a pave, pull your profile down from the server and move on. We had one new employee, stored all his work in a folder on his desktop. We saw this and pointed out our set up, and told him any local data was not backed up, and we're not responsible for it... You guessed it boys and girls, his pc needed a nuke and pave, and all his work was on that desktop... I was in a meeting about his disaster, long enough to confirm that I had done my part telling him NOT to save locally. I was excused and never heard another peep about it.
If a couple of 16 years olds can access BT/EE servers alongside other multinational tech companies, and help themselves to secure data, then surely someone else should be in the dock?
So much this^^^. If some skript kiddies can waltz into systems like this, somebody better call the engineers responsible on the carpet, stat!!
Where I'm at, the fiber pipe is in the ground, those huge rolls of orange pipe are everywhere... we're told fiber to the premises will arrive in about two months. A welcome competitor, the current ISP is the only game on this side of town, and they are not very good.
Good points, but usually either APC or Eaton UPS was in a rack, but since that episode, I've taken to putting the provided serial cable into the UPS serial port it came with, coil it up nicely and attach it with non sticky tape.
Yes, being dicks, making money off the differences...
Is using Reg.com* when testing new distros/browsers/VMs messing with the googley analytics?
I think using GA for some web owners, who aren't server jockeys, makes life easier, trawling through web logs can be tedious?
*(we all know the old El Reg wouldn't touch Google with a bargepole)
Back at the turn of the century, I had a colleague, he was the counselor for the school I was working at... He was working late one afternoon, and decided to pop over to his couch for a few minutes of shut eye. A few minutes turns into many hours... Security makes their rounds, and don't see the counselor on his couch, pulls his door closed and locks it. The poor guy wakes up, building is dark, door is locked and his coat is in the foyer with his keys in the pocket. Being extremely embarrassed, he didn't call anyone, but went out the second story window, along the ledge to the corner of the building, and was able to shimmy down a drain pipe. This story didn't come out immediately, but at a cocktail party many months later... Embarrassed to say the least!
I use Brave everyday, but there are issues with search, and I often use google on Firefox to find what Brave Search fails to find for me. One fly in the ointment is that I live in a town in the US with the same name as a large Canadian city, even adding the state name to the search string doesn't help, Brave shows me shops for that city in Canada.