Posts by chivo243

Windows 11 migration? Upgrade engine revs up, enterprises have no choice

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Windows 2000 still on the board!! Vista not so much!

After we fix that, how about we also accidentally break something important?

Re: The Rules

Never start jobs on Friday! or Monday! Never buy a car assembled on those days either!

First rule of onsite support, keep your freekin hands in your pockets, coat pockets look a little less *ahem* busy?

About a quarter million Comcast subscribers had their data stolen from debt collector

Bill collectors, used or any car sales associate, bounty hunters, cold callers, solar panel sales associates - same bolt of cloth.

If you're excited by that $1.5B Michigan nuke plant revival, bear in mind it's definitely a fixer-upper

While they're at it

Resurrect Marble Hill... LOL! It never generated even a popcorn fart!

https://abandonedonline.net/location/marble-hill-nuclear-power-plant/

Revenge for being fired is best served profitably

only 3 in 25 years

I've never paid for a computer that I use! I have bought my wife, son and mother new computers, but all of 'my' computers have come from employer's hand me downs.

John Deere accused of being full of manure with its right-to-repair promises

Re: Ahem

or smells like a john (american slang for loo)

Bank of America app glitch zeroes out people's balances

Never so Happy

But not at the time. BoA canceled my credit card because I always paid it off!! And only used it two times a year... After I hear of BoA's craptasitc performance over the last decade, I can live with out BoA

Microsoft throws in the towel on HoloLens 2

He must have forgotten to turn out the lights when he left.

And lock the door! Seems others missed the memo!

Earth's new mini-moon swings by, then ghosts us by late November

Re: "he forces of gravity will coax it back into a heliocentric trajectory"

My question is how large is a Uranium PU-36 Explosive Space Modulator anyway?

Got an idea for dealing with space waste? NASA wants to hear from you

Came to say Quark!

Not the greedy little guy from DS9 either! Then just hurl the bags of garbage at the sun! See TV can solve all our problems...

Can we get a Philip J Fry icon?

Verizon outages across US as hurricane recovery continues

The coin drops into the other shoe! This is why I can't call my tax guy... Every call I made today went through except the calls to him. I tried numerous times throughout the day. Immediate call failed messages please try later.

Brazilian court sprays Musk's X with more fines for returning after ban

Re: And that is what is going to bury him

So, from 20 to 4. A fivefold reduction. That's from today's value, not what he paid. I'd say that is a 10 fold reduction... (not Penfold!). I just noticed that Baron Greenback bears a striking resemblance to his muskiness!

Personalized pop-up was funny for about a second, until it felt like stalking

Re: Net Send

I remember when the young students found NET SEND... and they didn't know the syntax to message only one person!

Musk's Starlink rockets to 4 million subscribers

Can bots be subscribers?

See title!

BOFH: AI consultant rapidly transitioned to new role as automotive surface consultant

Re: Human-fired power station

Is that how they make Soylent Green? It's been 51 years since it came out...

every day Simon, every day...

I resist the urge to reach for my linoleum knife...

Samsung fined just $8K for exposing chip fab workers to X-ray radiation

Fines what a joke

Who levies these? Who collects? Who gets to keep the cash? Does anybody now who benefits from these monetary fines? Where does the cash actually go... Where does the smoke from smokestacks go? Where does my garbage go when it's dead?

91% of polled Amazon staff unhappy with return-to-office, 3-in-4 want to jump ship

Re: Serious question about Blind..

I was quite vocal on El Reg about one of my employers (I never named any org or person), while employed. And still use them as examples of both good practices and eyes wide shut with fingers in their ears( without naming anyone). So, it depends on how conscious you are about your actions at the time.

The Truth Will Set You Free... or not.

And this: Worse than el reg forums, and that's saying something.

Really, I only know two places to discuss tech and it's ramifications, that are somewhat civil and jovial at the same time.

As you might have guessed, I don't get out much...

Did you hear the one about the help desk chap who abused privileges to prank his mate?

Re: Security guards

Secretaries that know where the bodies are buried? You know, the ladies that have been employed since before you were born...

US proposes ban on Chinese, Russian connected car tech over security fears

Re: Great first step...

"...but seems like most of them do these days". It's been longer than these days. I have a 2011 VW and a 2012 Nissan that both connect to my phone. I was astonished to find the Nissan did, as it's a bare bones Frontier. I declined to sync my data, but accepted only to have hands free if needed. I hate all the tech in vehicles these days. Talk about distracting?! Isn't a spouse and a kid enough?

Musk dreams of launching five Starships to Mars in two years

All I can say is

It'll be great, just great. And the Martians will pay for it!

Admins using Windows Server Update Services up in arms as Microsoft deprecates feature

Re: Not a surprise

It is deprecated... next will be a needed kludge to make it work properly again.

The mystery of the rogue HP calculator: 12C or not 12C? That is the question

upvote for effort, but their printers from yesteryear are rock solid, it's the ink that sucks or gets sucked these days...

Whoa!

I contracted for CFA for many, many years. This would have been a colossal FsckUP if CFA was still giving exams in halls holding thousands of candidates. I can't imagine having to turn on all of the 12c's to check for the correct firmware before they enter the hall, and then tell the candidate that they cannot sit for the exam that they may have paid thousands out of pocket for, because HP screwed up. It gets quite emotional, that's why Securitas was on hand...

CISA boss: Makers of insecure software must stop enabling today's cyber villains

Re: but, but, but

Wasn't there, once upon a time, an airliner manufracturer that got off with this? I think they still sell planes...

Microsoft on a roll for terrible rebranding with Windows App

Re: Gateway

You mean WaaS. I've been predicting it for years. M$ will drop the naming\numbering system, but they will have to find a new name... They've assigned Windows.app already

One more Reason

To run shrieking into the night.

Re: It is designed to be a "unified experience,"

No monkeying around. But it's all moneymaking around!

Disney kicks Slack to the curb, looks to Microsoft Teams for a happily ever after

Re: "Shifting to Teams"

My kid started a new school this year, crappy notebook(12" maybe?) running win11 and running hot and it's Teams to the rescue? Not really, it's been a horrible experience. Some instructors have no clue how to use it, but continue to shovel shit down the tubes anyway. It will be a fun year ;-{

Iran's cyber-goons emailed stolen Trump info to Team Biden – which ignored them

I wanna be President!

So I can fool with those buttons... you know, the ones that magically make the gas prices go up and down... and the one that mystically makes the inflation go up and down. The one that makes the dollar weaker... You know, all those things that we elect a president to do!

Changed my icon from D'oh to getting my coat.

Starlink's new satellites emit 30x more radio interference than before, drowning cosmic signals

Re: Just for curious...

Earth, Elon's personal toilet and dumping ground.

I don't know what pressing Delete will do, but it seems safe enough!

Re: and apparently still working

I bet he's working in a clustered environment... wait for the failover!

I never liked the idea of Exchange having such power within AD...

Thank you, Reg Readers: On Call has turned 500!

Re: Both on call and who me are some of my favourite columns

The triple play in a week is a good week, as an ex- X-pat, I miss that column.

Homing pigeon missiles, dead trout swimming, butt breathing honored with Ig Nobel Prize

Re: Next...

Sad if it has, but there have been so many entrants of late(thanks to social media challenges for a start), it used to be a special award for that extra stupidity that people just did because the were idiots, and not trying to get famous for 15 seconds.

BOFH: The Boss is right, the applications of AI are truly staggering

Re: Robot -- my boss is here...

There’s a Dr. Smith joke in there somewhere…my boy!

Muppet broke the datacenter every day, in its own weighty way

Re: Muppet... broke... heavy way.

That gives me a warm and Fozzie feeling

Right behind you, keep moving please!

Boldly going where no portly tech has gone before

I worked at a place where a switch cabinet was placed as an afterthought by our good friends the architects in a closet that measured about 1m20 wide, and about 1m70 deep, and located in the basement. This made the side panels on the cabinet useless, leaving only the back door usable. Being 185 cm tall and about 175lbs, I was the only trustworthy person who could shimmy between the cabinet and the wall, to access the back door. Good ole cabinet 8, I always got the call if there were issues in that area I wonder how they manage now? My replacement, I’m told, fills my old chair and then some.

Coat icon because I’ve moved on, and the stickman is skinny!

Transport for London confirms 5,000 users' bank data exposed, pulls large chunks of IT infra offline

Re: and then bailed

Yes, we have Bail or bailed out (of jail), but some places are doing away with it?? Not sure why. So we have Dog the Bounty hunter, and Dale Gribble. But bail or bailing is a slang term for leaving, cutting your losses, going away fast. Think bailing out of a damages airplane... so, leaving a bad situation!

and then bailed

Did he get away? Bailing in US means to hotfoot it out of there, never to be seen again.

Windows 11 users still living in the past face forced update, like it or not

Wait, what?

There are versions of Win11 that are already out of support? And versions of Win10 are still supported? Or have I napped too long under my rock?

Avis alerts nearly 300K car renters that crooks stole their info

Re: Dodged a Bullet, this time!

Not even U-haul had cross country rentals at that time...

Dodged a Bullet, this time!

The last time I use Avis, was 7 years ago, I used a now defunct credit card, and my European DL. In July, I needed to rent a car, one way, from Colorado back east. None available at any company for one way rental except Avis, but they wanted a small fortune, and I passed. Bought a used car instead...

Won't be using Avis again...

Python script saw students booted off the mainframe for sending one insult too many

Re: Python script in the early 1980's?!

I came to ask too...

To patch this server, we need to get someone drunk

Re: Those Facility Guys!

Yes, Security too! I can't count how many times I worked late, and everybody but me was ushered out the door at 8:45. I got to leave with them when they finished rounds, and were ready to arm the alarms. They need one too! ->

Those Facility Guys!

If you're smart, when you first start a new job you will seek out these guys, and get to know them. They can make an IT'er's life hell, or be a great asset. If there are any of you facility guys reading, have one on me! Happy Friday!

White House’s new fix for cyber job gaps: Serve the nation in infosec

Re: The government desperately needs cyber security experts

Like Fight Club?

Re: The government desperately needs cyber security experts

only if you have some Clearance, Clarence... I've looked into these jobs, and I've no idea what security level they want, but it's way over my Clearance, Clarence...