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Posts by chivo243
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No, no, no! Disco joke hit bum note in the rehab center
How is this problem mine, techie asked, while cleaning underground computer
Techie labelled 'disgusting filth merchant' by disgusting hypocrite
Microsoft to kill off third-party printer drivers in Windows
Long-lost 1977 Star Wars X-Wing prop discovered – lock s-foils in bid position
Square blames last week's outage on DNS screw-up
Monday 11th September 2023 20:22 GMT 
Re: Offline mode?
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.
Watt's the worst thing you can do to a datacenter? Failing to RTFM, electrically
Okay, SMART ePANTS, you tell us how to create network-connected textiles
PEBCAK problem transformed young techie into grizzled cynical sysadmin
Sure, give the new kid and his MCSE power over the AS/400. What could possibly go wrong?
Monday 4th September 2023 22:46 GMT 
Oh, you know...
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!
Farewell WordPad, we hardly knew ye
We all scream for ice cream – so why are McDonald's machines always broken?
BOFH: What a beautiful tinfoil hat, Boss!
I'll see your data loss and raise you a security policy violation
Friday 1st September 2023 12:39 GMT 
My Documents redirected
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.
USENET, the OG social network, rises again like a text-only phoenix
University cuts itself off from internet after mystery security snafu
Wordpress sells 100-year domain, hosting plan for $38K
Windows screensaver left broadcast techie all at sea
Two teens were among those behind the Lapsus$ cyber-crime spree, jury finds
Thursday 24th August 2023 13:50 GMT
Re: In the dock?
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!!
Start rummaging: Atari's new 2600+ console supports vintage cartridges
Biden to bolster boondocks broadband with a billion bonus bucks (barely)
Tuesday 22nd August 2023 17:31 GMT
They're here! Before the cash!!
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.
Lesson 1: Keep your mind on the ... why aren't the servers making any noise?
Tuesday 22nd August 2023 01:57 GMT
Re: Been there done that
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...
Moscow makes a mess on the Moon as Luna 25 probe misses orbit, lands with a thud
Google 'wiretapped' tax websites with visitor traffic trackers, lawsuit claims
Saturday 19th August 2023 18:21 GMT
Re: El Reg has possibly better ways to track anyway
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)
Need a decent dining spot in Ottawa? Microsoft suggested a food bank
Brainwaves rock! Scientists decode Pink Floyd tune straight from the noggin
Cage match: Zuck finally realizes Elon is full of twit
X-rated auction sells last vestiges of pre-Musk Twitter
The price of freedom turned out to be an afternoon of tech panic
Techie's quick cure for a curious conflict caused a huge headache
Lock-in to legacy code is a thing. Being locked in by legacy code is another thing entirely
Friday 11th August 2023 14:36 GMT
Asleep on the couch
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!
There's a good chance your VPN is vulnerable to privacy-menacing TunnelCrack attack
Have you ever suspected your colleague doesn't hope this email finds you well?*
Google launches $99 a night Hotel Mountain View for hybrid workers
Two US Navy sailors charged with giving Chinese spies secret military info
Official science: People do less, make more mistakes on Friday afternoons
How to get a computer get stuck in a lift? Ask an 'illegal engineer'
Brave cuts ties with Bing to offer its own image and video search results
Thursday 3rd August 2023 19:15 GMT
Brave search, not great yet
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.
Google Street View car careens into creek after 100mph cop chase
Voyager 2 found! Deep Space Network hears it chattering in space
Arc: A radical fresh take on the web browser
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