Posts by ecofeco

Helpdesk/Service Desk Recommendations

Re: Helpdesk?

That looks very nice.

And free?

Where the HELL is my ROBOT BUTLER?

Enhance life?

"They look to technology to enhance quality of life, not as yet another means to be subservient to the workplace."

Good luck with that. My experience has been that the IT's sole purpose to make things more complex and then make it even more complex.

I have no doubt this is done by the tech geeks (and I is one) for job security, but it seems as if IT has been going backward for a number of years.

Hardwired crypto certificate FAIL bricks Juniper router kit

Re: FAIL everywhere

You're right, it isn't unique to IT.

But IT now controls in some way or another, every industry.

FAIL everywhere

Is it just me or does it seem as if the entire computer industry cannot get its shit together?

Judge rules Baidu political censorship was an editorial right

You can't fix that kind of stupid

A "pro-democracy" group *cough* wants to sue another country for not having the same "rights" as the country they live in?

You really can't fix that kind of stupid.

iFixit boss: Apple has 'done everything it can to put repair guys out of business'

Re: Apple DON'T repair your iThing

Very large iDevice repair center in my town. National, in fact. And no, it's not California.

Basically, you are right. It's not really a repair center, but a refurbishment center and even then, only to a point. Screens. Batteries. Hard drives.

Apple's repair process is indeed to just "black box" everything, recommending that the customer keep their personal data on the iCloud so they can just clone the new device.

My personal experience supporting these is that they really are quite reliable and rarely do the machines themselves fail. Often it is the user who has done something to it whether software or physical harm. Notice I said rarely. It does happen, but the hardware failure rate I've seen is incredibly low compared to all other brands.

They are also the most stolen device.

Say WHAT? ATVOD claims 44k Brit primary school kids look at smut online each month

Bullcrap? This is bullcrap

"One in five teenage boys under 18 going online were clicking on porn websites from PCs"

No way is the number THAT low in that age group.

Dutch doctors replace woman's skull with 3D-printed plastic copy

We have the technology

Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to build the world's first bionic man. Steve Austin will be that man. Better than he was before. Better, stronger, faster.

FTC: Do SSL properly or we'll shove a microscope up you for decades

We talk about sophisticated hacking

We talk about sophisticated hacking and cackle at the latest boneheaded vulnerabilities, but it's really the low hanging fruit, the forgetting to lock the door of your car, kind of idiocy that is still the biggest problem.

Research bods told: Try to ID anonymised data subjects? No more CASH for you

Try?

From what I've seen, they are already able to this.

Barn door, horse, etc.

Molyneux: Working at Microsoft is 'like taking antidepressants'

Re: He makes a lot of sense

Having now worked for some of the biggest in the world, I have to agree.

Forkin' 'L! Facebook, Google and friends create WebScaleSQL from MySQL 5.6

I got it.

Don't understand the down vote, so have an upvote.

Returning a laptop to PC World ruined this bloke's credit score. Today the Supreme Court ended his 15-year nightmare

Re: HFC

"I wonder what the banks are mis-selling today, and I wonder what new products they are developing to mis-sell tomorrow?"

Everything?

Was this a trick question?

BTW, you got an upvote from me.

15 years

Ah the swift hand of justice.

Not.

Rule of thumb: judgement against you and for big company - days

- judgement FOR you against big company - a decade or more

That said, good for him!

Terminator-maker 'Cyberdyne Inc' lists on Tokyo stock exchange

...and this.

Good find. Have an upvote.

Invented Skynet?

Skynet already exists.

www.skynet.net

"SkyNet Worldwide Express is an international distribution and logistics company with presence in more than 180 countries around the world "

Improbable: YOU gave model Lily Cole £200k for her Impossible.com whimsy-site

Re: Waste of Taxpayers Money #142859345

Say what?!

More info please.

Re: It's good to be rich

It's GOOD to be the king!

Re: Is this a practical joke?

It isn't and it's not just the UK.

Patronage and connections is the order of the day and has been for decades now.

The right connections

She haz them and we don't.

Suck it peasants.

As WinXP death looms, Microsoft releases its operating system SOURCE CODE for free

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha

Goodbye security.

British trolls to face 'tougher penalties' over online abuse

Re: Toughen up?

It's not about insults, it's about the stalkers and psychos.

You did read the article, right?

Is this a trick question?

It's the job of all self-important people to make things more complicated in the name of "look at me, I'm Doing Something and therefore Important."

And it's not just politicians, but a disease that affects every aspect of the human race.

Reg tries out Google's Chromecast: Yep, we even tested smut sites

Maybe it's just me....

...but all I see is an extra layer of complication on an already overly complex system (streaming anything).

I have Hulu and YouTube and all the news website have their videos. I have no lack for video entertainment.

Help a hack: What's in your ultimate Windows XP migration toolkit?

Migwiz

Migwiz.

Met cops to collar up to £20m of IT gear a year from US giant Insight

Leave the country?

Don't you know that the UK is the 51st US state?

Think about it. Look at the economic and political parallels. Or better yet, look at the interlocking economics and social philosophies.

'Amazon has destroyed the unicorn factory' ... How clouds are making sysadmins extinct

Re: Every time I hear employers whining that they can't find people with the skillz...

Training? That's just crazy commie talk!

Re: Rates of pay

Because it's all bullocks, innit?

What they mean is "cheap sys admins."

Re: I don't agree

Companies will STILL need people with a clue about networking - ie how in the heck does this magic 'data' get to and from the 'servers' - ie people who understand and can troubleshoot layer 2 and layer 3 problems.

You know that we know that, but often management does not. ESPECIALLY at the executive level.

Re: as one of those unicorns

Thank you. I've been saying this for years.

The cloud is not your friend.

Have an upvote.

Microsoft, Oracle finally get a room: Now they're ready to take on Amazon cloud

Take on Amazon?

In their sad and deluded corporate circle jerk dreams.

Target ignored hacker alarms as crooks took 40m credit cards – claim

Re: Bosses

Ah the eternal mystery of life: why ARE the dumbasses in charge?

Shift up, Ballmer: Microsoft expands board, makes room for activist investor

Re: Well, that's the way it works.

Exactly. The ideal business generates profit without having to give anything in return.

You have problem with Corporate Communist Capitalism©®™, comrades?

"Microsoft seem to be edging towards a 100% totally soul-less money grabbing machine."

Edging? Seriously, how old are you and where have you been for the last 35 years?

They passed "edging" literally decades ago.

NSA's TURBINE robot can pump 'malware into MILLIONS of PCs'

Re: Sigh

Ah naivete. How.... quaint.

Governments' ONLY job from day one is to protect the rich and powerful from other rich and powerful. Everything else is showbiz.

WAY out of control and has been for years.

Re: Yay, Malware even simpler than skiddies

Ha! That was done in decades ago.

IBM bets the farm on big data in annual report

Well they have to, don't they?

Have you ever seen the sheer number of emails required by them just to wipe your arse?

Women! You too can be 'cool' and 'fun' if you work in tech!

Re: Europe is facing a shortage of ICT workers

"...at current salaries..."

Exactly.

What Evil Auditor said.

"I not sure about the EU, but across the pond, I have had just as many spineless male bosses as spineless female bosses. It has made me appreciate the few good bosses I have had."

I've also had complete aresholes of both sexes as bosses.

The long war on 'DRAM price fixing' is over: Claim YOUR spoils now (It's worth a few beers)

Re: DON'T tell your friends!

Class action lawsuits no longer benefit anyone but the lawyers.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: "Free market" means free to eff you up the arse without consequence.

Big business is stealing from you everyday and there is not a damn thing you can do about it.

Score to date:

Lawyers and companies - on beeeellion dollars in profits

Screwed over customers - a pint of beer.

Don't you just love fascism?

PayPal mudslingfest TELEVISED: Icahn and Donahoe go on telly

Pot AND the kettle

Icahn set the standard.

If he gains control of PayPal, run away as fast as you can.

Newsweek knocks on door of dad-of-six, tells him he invented Bitcoin

A deabte if they have endangerd him?

Is this a joke? Of course they did!

Anyone even slightly famous will receive death threats and people who will track them down and try to hurt or kill them... for no reason what-so-ever except that they are somewhat famous.

The world is full of psychopaths.

Delhi police forget passwords to corruption portal, ignore 600 crimes

Re: Sounds similar to how my company works

You've just described every company I've ever worked at and it's even worse WITHIN the IT departments.

Way worse.

RSA booked TV's Stephen Colbert to give the final speech. This is what happened next

Re: Ah yes, Colbert. Another unfunny guy.

Obama’s commandants need a rewrite?

- The torture was under Bush

- Congress blocked closing Gitmo

- You got the secrecy part right

- Obama pulled the troops out of both countries with only a token remaining force until handover

- Crimes in the name of national security weren't invented yesterday.

Knee jerk much?

Re: Growing like Topsy

"...and their beards, secret."

I see what you did there.

Have an upvote.

Secret Service probes possible data-leak hack attack at Sears – report

Re: I am curious.

Thanks Don.

I also forgot one very important thing and you just reminded me: vendors.

Or more specifically, the PoS repair guy who is paid by the job, not the hour or salary, has to travel across town all day in his own vehicle and is NOT on the retail payroll and doesn't make squat from his weakly paycheck. (yes, I spelled that right) And paperwork out the wazzoo.

That's probably how it's done these days.

When I first looked into this as a job about 8 years ago, the going rate for on site repair was about $40 per job. No pay for going to the UPS/FedEX and shipping the bad parts back or picking up new parts. No guaranteed min number of jobs per day or week. But I signed on anyway but I really needed jobs.

I received not ONE single dispatch in 2 weeks. That was the end of that.

Fitbit fans: Want your Netflix to pause when you nod off? There's almost an app for that

Beat me to it.