* Posts by chivo243

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Windows spotted flashing its unmentionables in a Chicago clothier

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tumbled through the turbulence

Ah, yes, not so much tumbling after that first initial bump, but free falling, once you've leveled out, the view of Lake Michigan is nice, provided you're on the correct side of the plane!

Escape Key, it's the closest to a barfbag...

Absolutely everyone loves video conferencing these days. Some perhaps a bit too much

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Re: Paris...

No, my luggage was conveniently lost before being re-routed to CDG. This was many, many years ago, and I'm still haunted by my experience there. I get a weird feeling just driving by the place...

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Re: During my time in front line IT support I've seen things

I have a huge collection of mind bleaches... some flavored like Gin, Single Malt Scotch, Vodka.

My best advice: "You might want to close that other tab before going to the meeting..."

Rethinking VPN: Tailscale startup packages Wireguard with network security

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aren't all IP numbers known?? So, IF, I was on the Wireguard network, with a client, I could pick IP addresses randomly and find a connected PC?

It's late, I must be missing something...

Boeing 787s must be turned off and on every 51 days to prevent 'misleading data' being shown to pilots

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Re: Windows Server 2000

Neither saw even close to 51 days of uptime... the "press ctl alt del twice" joke made sure of that!

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Re: Windows Server 2000

Bad habit passed down from NT4? We had a print server, Zeus, that needed a kick to get the print spooler working, can't verify the days in between. Nobody can print? Time to reboot Zeus...

How many days of carefree wiping do you have left before life starts to look genuinely apocalyptic? Let's find out

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No mention of Elaine?

Can't... spare.... a... square...

https://youtu.be/Ssoyy7FrSXs?t=40

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Re: think out of the box?

Yes! It's only what, 3 or 4 squares?

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think out of the box?

Each time you use "the facilities" at work, take an extra portion of paper for home in your pocket. Your home reserves will suffer less.

Zoom's end-to-end encryption isn't actually end-to-end at all. Good thing the PM isn't using it for Cabinet calls. Oh, for f...

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F A C E P A L M

This one ranks up there! The knock yourself unconscious kind! As an IT guy I totally get why... It's hard to tell someone above you they are wrong and a) keep your job b) be taken seriously.

I wonder how many other collaboration apps should be called hoover?

Cloudflare is over the moon because its pro-privacy 1.1.1.1 DNS service got a clean bill of health from everyone's favorite auditor – KPMG

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Re: Why?

IMTech?

My coat with a breached contract in the pocket...

Pandemic impact: Two-thirds of polled Reg readers say it's business as usual in the IT dept, one in ten panicking

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Just about everybody is working

remotely, that is... I see about 8 people actually working in the building, me included.

Hunting for IT staff? Lost your job during the pandemic? Sysadmin vacancies – and a free job ads offer – inside

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can't travel

can't help out. Soz...

Lost in translation and adrift in cloud storage

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Apparently, "beheerder" means "administrator".

After many years in NL, this one brought a chuckle... ja hoor!

Drones intone 'you must stay home,' eliciting moans from those in the zone: Flying gizmos corral Brits amid coronavirus lockdown

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Stormy Weather?

Can these buggers fly during the climate change induced(?) harsh weather? Pray for rain and high winds?

My foil hat must be in one of these pockets.

Infosys fires employee who Facebooked 'let's hold hands and share coronavirus'

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Once again, Social Networks and Work don't mix!

Just don't do it! Don't join social networks. Don't post crap if you must have one. I saw this kind of issue coming long before FB was a rage, now a mainstream part of a lot of people's lives. Join a more profession driven platform, if you must.

A appreciate the freedoms El Reg forums provide us all.

The one internet rule I've tried to live by is: Would you like grandma to see this?? Another reason I like El Reg forums, she will know the words, and have no idea what we're talking about!

icon for gran!

Yeah, that Zoom app you're trusting with work chatter? It lives with 'vampires feeding on the blood of human data'

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Re: Hmm

We've been resisting users request for Zoom, as we use GAfE and Google Meet. I forwarded this article to our Data Protection Officer and App Integration Specialist plus my team and I got a fast response from one member of the team with Zoom's response:

"We sincerely apologize for this oversight, and remain firmly committed to the protection of our users' data," Zoom said in its statement.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/03/27/zoom-ios-update-removes-feature-that-sent-user-data-to-facebook

So, one hole plugged in iOS, how many others are they still exploiting?

Exchange some currency you want to? Guess the BIOS setup keyboard combination first you must, young Padawan

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Assumptions

about the ass... the assess face could have been squarely planted on the keyboard too, nose pointing to the delete key perhaps, or F10? or F11 or F1?

Microsoft staff giggle beneath the weight of a 52,000-person Reply-All email storm

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Exchange is featureless?

Our old mailserver from 6 years ago would prevent this... Keep using Exchange, it's good for a laugh!

Announcing the official Reg-approved measure of social distancing: The Osman

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Re: On the other hand

Or a focal length?

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Love it!

Can't wait to use an Osman unit!

That awful moment when what you thought was a number 1 turned out to be a number 2

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PD?

I guess professional development wasn't a thing back then...

2020 MacBook Air teardown shows in graphic detail how butterfly keyboards were snipped for scissor switch

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smarter?

I rarely use the built in keyboard, unless forced to use it. I like older Apple bluetooth aluminum keyboards, they have the right travel, and response to input.

What happens when the maintainer of a JS library downloaded 26m times a week goes to prison for killing someone with a motorbike? Core-js just found out

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New meaning UTB

He's only under the bus "for 18 months" !! I'll be back!

closest icon to terminator

Where's our software, Langowski? Windows Insider Program gets new leader

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My proposal

Since the team is split, some working remotely, I proposed we hold the morning Meets meeting in our Dude robes!

Crack police squad seeks help to flush out Australian toilet paper thieves

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Old outdoors saying

take it like a man, wipe it with your hand...

Analyst calls it: This is the 'biggest fall ever in the history of the worldwide smartphone market'

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Apple cart upset?

First Apple limits the amount of phones one can buy at a time, then flops back? Someone forgot to count the phones in Tim's garage?

TeamViewer is going to turn around and ignore what you're doing with its freebie licence to help new remote workers

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Is it a dry cough? are you tired?

Tech won't save you from lockdown disaster: How to manage family and free time while working from home

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3x the Load!

The missus was already working from home 4 days a week, now the boy is home from school, I'm working from home until this blows over. I wonder who will be the last one standing?

All roads lead to Bork in Kansas as Windows puts on a show for motorists

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No Wayward son, or Dust in the Wind bad pun?

Whud ya have to pick on Glen Campbell for? I mean, c'mon, Kansas!!

Captain Caveman rides to the rescue, solves a prickly PowerPoint problem with a magical solution

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the other clippy

I once used a paper clip to remove a stuck floppy. I was Mr. Wizard for a day...

HPE celebrated diversity on International Women's Day not with pictures of its own staff but stock images of models

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Marketing booboo

Totally a thing, Joe Marketeer forgot to update something somewhere...

Pervasive digital surveillance of citizens deployed in COVID-19 fight, with rules that send genie back to bottle

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heard at the water cooler

The governments weren't getting enough traction out of "National Security"... Now they need even more powers under "Health and Safety". I saw a headline regarding the sweeping powers governments can assume during a medical\health emergency. I didn't read the story, couldn't find my foil hat. Is this how the end begins?

It's Baaaaaack (or is it?): Microsoft Teams suffers a Tuesday totter

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Up and Down across the board

But the Store being shot down?? Is it that bandwidth thirsty? Or did they need the rack for Teams??

Two years late, but upgrade wave finally washes a billion folk onto Windows 10 as its Android phone waits in the wings

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Over a Billion served?

That number is inflated. I did it. You don't want to know how many Win10VMs I've installed and blown up. New feature in a new update/upgrade, borked something that was working, New VMs for all my friends at the bar... It's faster to deploy from template than rollback snapshots

Browser minnow Brave nips at Google with GDPR complaint

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Re: Google: Do No Evil

you forgot the lowest form of life... law talkin' peeps. I doubt they understand either, but just use the buzz words like teenagers trying to fit in...

Google reveals the wheels almost literally fell off one of its cloudy server racks

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I used to wonder

What is the weight of your data? I guess we know it's HEAVY!

Tinfoil hat brigade switches brand allegiance to bog paper

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"No thanks I'm fine Mum."

Isn't this how Wreckit Ralph: Ralph breaks the internet starts? Oh, wait, he says I'm doing my homework...

Borklays soz for the ailing ATMs but won't say if fix involved a Microsoft invoice

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Re: What makes you think it's Windows 7 ?

XP in Classic Mode?

Not exactly the kind of housekeeping you want when it means the hotel's server uptime is scrubbed clean

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Win2000

What a warm and fuzzy place after NT4.0. I miss my old Win2000 Workstation, I don't think it ever crashed.

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Re: The cleaner did it.

We now have signs above certain outlets that say "Do NOT Use under penalty of severe beating" Well, maybe not too severe... for the first offense.

Fresh virus misery for Illinois: Public health agency taken down by... web ransomware. Great timing, scumbags

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Re: iLLinois

as a native Ill annoyedisan I commend your wordsmithery... I'll leave these..

Smellinois

Killinois

Hellinois

Feel free to add yours!

Firefox 74 slams Facebook in solitary confinement: Browser add-on stops social network stalking users across the web

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No FB for me, ever

But I am still concerned about how they track me anyway. This is great!

Corporate VPN huffing and puffing while everyone works from home over COVID-19? You're not alone, admins

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Not just VPN accounts

We've also been tasked with providing computers(w\ vpn software configured) for users who do not have approved systems at home. Just a little work for some of my colleagues!

The Reg produces exhibit A1: A UK court IT system running Windows XP

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Windows

a specialist team constantly checking for threats

sign me up! Nods head, yep, it's infected...

NSO Group fires back at Facebook: You lied to the court, claims spyware slinger, and we've got the proof

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mud wrestling

or worse? Or is this a case of "let the buyer beware"? Facebook must understand that anybody doing business with Facebook needs to be held at an arms length? No honor among thieves? Isn't that Business 101 at Harvard?

Australian privacy watchdog sues Facebook for *checks notes* up to £266bn

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Great idea

I'll wait to see how it's put into practice...

More than a billion hopelessly vulnerable Android gizmos in the wild that no longer receive security updates – research

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Dipped...

my toe in the Droid pond one time! I bought a burner phone, as any phone shop I visited couldn't get a sim card to work in my iPhone 5. To this day I have funky issues with google calendar three years on. I will avoid the Droid at all costs... kinda like the dominoes noid!

Morrisons puts non-essential tech changes on ice as panic-stricken shoppers strip stores

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Re: Couting my blessings

and put it back through your eye socket the next day... fun times, ZZTop morning - need cheap sunglasses.

What's inside a tech freelancer's backpack? That's right, EVERYTHING

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Re: unpacking order...

I'm sure there was some military application to Duck Tape

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DUKW

(colloquially known as Duck)

My coat, made only of a shiny metallic looking tape...