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..
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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!
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?
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.
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!
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...
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...
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?
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. :-}
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.
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!
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…
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…
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...