Posts by chivo243

IT boss left root session open for bring-your-kid-to-work day

Re: Children at work

I worked at a school, there were always children at work... some were lil' bastards.

New Boeing finally gets going, 15 years after debut

Re: Your Boeing to die

Air travel in general just sucks, I'll never get on another plane unless it's a dire emergency...

Meet the 'internet radical' who helped Microsoft get email and AT&T get online

Long ago, 20 years ago or more

I stopped supporting Exchange, or better my org at the time, dropped it like a hot potatoe, and that was the end of my Exchange(brief as it was) administration. Brand new shiny AD running on 2003 servers, and exchange added, it was not the mail server the org needed, I was elated and confounded a the same time.

LinkedIn realizes its users have been bathing in AI slop, offers a shower

Re: too little, too late

I walked away due to this AI crap, it's totally ruined the job hunt. Yep! two things that begin with A have shut me out of the IT job market, AI and Ageism... It's sad with over 25 years of experience, I rarely get an interview.

Kill it with fire!! NOW!

User crippled a network while trying to learn Nmap

NMAP!

I remember my manager had that bright idea, sure scan the network, phones start ringing...

Datacenter MacGyver saved the biggest football match of the year

Re: ahh

The one's that don't go unpunished? Or is that punished?

Hackers shoveled snow for company, were rewarded with network admin access

Re: Interesting

At a previous gig, I gave up on password changes, too much push back from the department that made sure we were paid. HR also groused, but if finance hadn't groused, HR would have been changing their passwords.

Tech support chap hauled out to help SWAT team saw his life flash before his eyes

Re: "working for a county sheriff's office"

I think it's a carry over from armed services duty? Kind of fits the description of the Major.

Re: "working for a county sheriff's office"

Poor Ines, what a dipstick.

Russian oligarch's financial network crashed thanks to a crank and a cleaner

Re: Why would you blame the cleaners?

Or they unplug something to plug in the hoover...

Techie expensed a bag of oranges and then juiced up a stupid security incident

it may be sooner, declining health and such?

Microsoft tests the 15-character limit of Windows Server admins' patience

Really

Renaming a DC? Throw some more fuel on the fire!

Feds unwittingly leak pilots' pre-crash conversation

Re: "the last words"

Here take your beer back!

BOFH: Vibe-coded solutions arrive for problems nobody has

Re: Best. Summary. Ever.

I've had all of those in my lifetime... I've been obscure, had hallucinations, and we all have a touch of mental illness, or we wouldn't in tech...

Dutch cops’ shame game works wonders as most wanted scammers now turned in

Re: This is how it should be

Handhaving! I remember they were just being deployed when I was moving away from NL. You hit the play mobile police right on the head! Barney Fife handing out parking tickets for littering!

Re: This is how it should be

I lived in NL for 20 years, I never had a bad experience with the police there. The motorcycle cop was very helpful when my car was sideswiped. They left a friendly note and said I could file a report and the officer left his email addy, but when I looked out at my car there was nothing wrong. I emailed him(mijn beste nederlands) saying I think he was mistaken, I could see my car out my front window and there no visible damage. He wrote back saying the mirror is damaged, but he was able to put it back on!

That was several years ago, I wonder how far he's risen in the ranks?

FCC walks back router update ban before it bricked America's network security

Re: Head of policy says...

It looked damn good on paper!

Lab worker built a fake PC to nuke his lunch

Re: What am I missing?

I worked on a construction site, my first office was in a long term temp building with electric baseboard heat. One guy used to bring his burritos double wrapped in foil and plunk them on the baseboard unit heater behind his desk. Around 11 am the smell was making me hungry... I know one middle manager* squacked about it, but instead of getting it stopped, more people became aware of and used the practice. One guy built a little cardboard box that fit around the heater, kind of a little hot box for his meals.

*never liked the guy, he never liked me.

macOS 27 threatens to bury Time Capsule, FOSS brings a shovel

Still on 15.7.x and I am backing up to my Synology via smb as normal, last backup was today. I do have AFP service enabled on the NAS as I have a couple of old G5s kicking about, but no TimeMachine configured on them, just to connect to data shares.

BOFH: Nothing says 'business continuity' like a dry wooden broom

We were never here!

I was so tight with my ex colleagues, that we didn't need to say it, one look between us, and We were never here!

We've only gone and done it: Changed what you're used to

Re: Wait, what?

I've noticed, and commented on it numerous times, I guess we all go the way of Dabbsy...

Try this...

All the articles in the top row get photos. Right now, column 1, row 1 has a photo, column 2 row 2 has a photo, column 3 row 1 has a photo, and lastly column 4 row 3 has a photo, totally throwing off any aesthetic value.

Not sure how it will work with an article with a looong headline.

Re: Absolute shit

I might just fuck off.

I might be in line with you!

Wait, what?

Nothing lines up any longer, it's hard to read. I've endured the "other"* changes, but this is really hard on the eyes. I thought perhaps my adblocker was interfering.

*Where's Paris?!

Custom PC worked in the lab, failed on site – and so did the angry client

Re: TheReg OnCall

But the site is starting to lose its charm...

What is needed is a link to BOFH like OnCall and WhoMe? at the top. That's pretty much what I read now days anyway. Because AC is right ~ the site is starting to lose its charm... not so much hand biting these days.

Anyone else with Déjà vu?

I feel like I read this tale already, recycled article? Or was it gleaned from the comments on another article?

Hope your holiday was horrid: You botched the last thing you did before leaving

Re: "That Box Full Of Old Tech You Should Probably Have Thrown Out But Kept Just In Case"

When Apple brings back Firewire, I'm set!

User found the perfect formula to make Excel misbehave

Re: Maths

50 minutes is not half an hour!

Microsoft updates the Windows Update Experience: You can hit pause now

Re: I'll just leave this here:

The last point is good: https://www.makeuseof.com/best-windows-registry-tricks-worth-trying/

Stop automatic Windows updates

Update on your terms, not Microsoft’s

I don't mind mucking about in the registry.

Shortly?

shortly after they are released? I usually waited 8 days. Plenty of time to see if others report issues, and test before deployment. I remember denying quite a few updates in WSUS thanks to El Reg reporting issues.

PowerPoint punishment sent users into an infinite loop after lunch

I was so happy AD was released. Group Policy to the rescue!

BOFH: Arrr, I smell piracy ... and it's comin' from a machine with executive privileges

Re: Chilli Enema

Followed by a Johnny Cash favorite!

Ring of Fire!

Windows takes a crash dump after one McDonald's order too many

Well, if you only eat sliders after a night out sure, but anything does that at that time. Onion bhaji comes to mind there says the PFY... It's been decades since I stopped at a White Castle, I wish I could say the same for Golden Arches, I think it's only been 5 or 6 years since I've paid the clown.

IT manager approved downtime over lunch, but made a meal of it

Label both ends of all the cables, power cables to mains and to UPS, patch cables, patch panels are labeled(better be!), label the servers on the back, leave some slack, you're good. I never want to hunt down where some random cable goes during an outage again!

I have to restrain myself!

He prudently wanted to clean that up even though it would again require powering down the computer.

Must put my OCD to good use, to fight for order and cleanliness!!

My superhero costume used to be in one of these pockets? Thomas Dolby's house keeper was here?

World's smallest violin spotted at Amazon HQ as exec pay packets deflate

Sandwiches and Bicycles

Sounds like my time in NL!

BOFH: If the meatbags can't agree on aircon, AI will decide for them

Re: The only real solution is...

I worked at a place that had a permanent temporary building, after one extremely warm summer, each room had an airco unit installed, you could turn the airco on or off, but not fiddle with the thermostat, that was behind a small faraday cage. Glad it wasn't IT's job to manage that, if an adjustment needed to be made, you had to call the facilities guys, Central Services at your service! Tuttle was here!

DARPA looking for battery that could power a laptop for months

Must be powered by the Firm

Radioactive!

Apple's chips are the core of a new landscape, but its biggest win is Windows

Informing Mom!

I just broke the news to mom today, that when her win10 lappy dies, it's this new MacBook. It's cheaper than the PC laptop I bought her in 2016. She's worried about learning macOS, like she knows anything about windows, except which icon is associated with Chrome, and Quicken, which has a mac version now. I know she'll find some things difficult at first, but so was win10 when I started supporting it. Onward...

Windows asks a networking question on a Stratford billboard

Overkill

Yeah, windows to run a billboard? What a waste. 15 years ago I worked with a small linux distro that was running up to 7 boards, with different content for each if desired. You had to be in Mensa to program it though...

The company's biggest security hole lived in the breakroom

Re: Exactly why!

Our search was a few years back, even then, didn't need no smart tv and didn't want no smart tv...

It was a samsung.

Exactly why!

We searched high and low for a TV that didn't connect to the network, no LAN, no WiFi. Only standard connections, HDMI, VGA etc..

Contractor quaffed his way through Y2K compliance while the client scowled

Y2K yeah!

I worked at a school at that time, due to a few nervous Nellies, the school was closed an extra week, just in case everything went pear shaped, which we all know didn't. The benefit was that the extra week off was thoroughly enjoyed by everyone, and Christmas break would be 3 weeks instead of 2 as long as I worked there. And, the building was closed between X-mas and New Years, paid of course!

Y2K Yeah!

Artemis II astronaut: 'I have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working'

Re: Daisy daisy...

+1 and one of those for you sir! -->

AL an SAL will Join you!

Microsoft publishes a workaround for Samsung's C:\ drive woes

Re: Oh, did we skip a step?

Give me the registry any day... I remember a batch file using cacls I think it's called, and Oops! My boss had made a small typo. I learned from that mistake, now this is one of my tried and true sayings "can I get a second set of eyes on this!"

'Are you freaking crazy?' Bot harasses woman, gets led away by cops

Re: A good swift kick

+1 ->

I like to avoid a lot more than X so, I hover the cursor over the link, I see the destination in the lower left corner of my browser.

Danger Will Robinson!

Blustering Blackbeard's PC was all at sea, sysadmin got him shipshape in seconds

Re: 1.5 seconds without leaving my desk

I've told that story here a few times. My document is possessed! The old secretary transcribing hand written meeting minutes with the corner of a binder on the ctrl key. Move the binder!

John Belushi as Samurai Baker, Ah you truly are master baker!

Very Jolly if you ask me!