Posts by Mr Humbug 228 publicly visible posts • joined 28 Jul 2010
> If it wwas right at the end where could quite well have been SMB since the net start command would have already been done.
If my, admittedly hazy, recollection is correct, the net start command woud load the NetBEUI stack and the client software but you didn't get to share stuff (like the root of the C: drive) until Windows for Workgroups had started.
THey got that figure from the number of convictions divided by the number of warrants: 1,240 / (1,551 + 1,617) = 39%
Of course there's no evidence that 39% of warrants resulted in a conviction, only that the number of convictions is 39% of the number of warrants, which doesn't mean much.
If you read the judgement you'll see that Capita was not unaware of the law and in fact offered him Shared Parental Leave. But on statutory shared parental pay.
The problem was that female employees who came over from Telefonica (under TUPE) could take 14 weeks' maternity leave on full pay. Male employees from Telefonica could take two weeks' paternity leave on full pay. In this case the medical advice given to the employee and his wife was that the wife should return to work (after the two weeks' compulsory maternity leave). The employee asked to take the 12 weeks' leave on full pay to care for the baby, which would have been no problem if he were female.
Capita argued that the entire 14 weeks' paid leave was to do with recovering from childbirth and so, as he had not given birth, the employee was not entitled to it. The tribunal found Capita's refusal to be direct discrimination because only the first two weeks (compulsory maternity leave) is directly to do with the birth. The remaining 12 weeks' leave was to care for the new baby, which could equally be done by either parent.
Capita then appears to have very poorly handled his grievance, caused him a lot of stress for which the doctor signed him off sick, and then tried to manage him out of the business when he returned to work.
Why is there a suggestion that banks should be forced to _support_ screen scraping. Isn't screen scraping what we do if there is no API to get the data? And surely nobody actually supports screen scraping - would you even know that the https request that purports to come from Chrome running on Android is actually from Chrome or is from another app?
The number of large organisations that mess up their SPF configuration in some way means that even when the record ends in '-all' you can't block all SPF failures (well, you can but you get unhappy users complaining about undelivered e-mail. Apparently it's my fault that our server rejected messages because it followed the instruction in the sending domain's SPF record).
Case yesterday: I tried to register on the Local Authority's epayment service so I could pay for school dinners without sending a cheque into school. When you register, the thrid-party service provider sends an e-mail containing a confirmation link (fair enough). You can go no further until you have confirmed your e-mail address (again,, I don't have a problem with this). But the e-mail is sent from the third-party provider's server and the Local Authority's SPF record says reject anything that doesn't come from the three e-mail servers the council operates. And there is no option to get the confirmation re-sent, so by the time you work out where the cock-up is you can't complete the process.
I have experienced the same problem with a utility supply company.
>El Reg has asked Microsoft for comment on the matter
>but has yet to hear back from Redmond at the time of publication.
Erm... isn't the whole thing explained under the 'Known Issues' section in the KB article about the patch?
https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/kb/3163622
Just maker sure that Authenticated Users has Read permission on the GPO (which it does by default)
DevOps just means the IT general practitioner. The jack of all trades who gets the whole thing working and finds where it's broken. I think I've been doing DevOps for 25 years.
PS. I think the article missed out the word 'holistic'. I'm sure holistic should be very important for DevOps
> This also highlights an interesting question, previously it was the ability to
> receive TV that meant you had to have a license (TV and aerial) so does this
> mean if you have a computer and the internet you may have to pay it?
I'm pretty sure you only need a licence to operate the TV receiver, not to own one. Of course the TV Licensing people's presumption is that if you own a TV then you will use it, but in court it is up to them to prove that you did and that your assertion that it's only connected to the DVD player is false.
Perhaps this is the real reason for collecting all those 'connection records' that the IP Bill will require. It's to enforce the iPlayer TV licence.
The issue with Flash on sites for homework was raised at a meeting for parents of my daughter's Year 6 class last November when one parent pointed out that they "only had an iPad". The teacher's response was that on Monday lunch times the school computer room was made available for the exclusive use of Year 6 children who couldn't do their homework at home. That seemed to satisfy the parent who asked.
I'm sure they will also consider, when deciding what to do with SMS, that the protocol doesn't have a way to ensure timely delivery of a message. Nor does it ensure the message is actually delivered. And text messages are more likely to be delayed or dropped when the mobile network is busy (perhaps because lots of people are using it during an emergency).
The security around direct debits is not to do with the information you need to supply but to do with t the organisations that are allowed to set them up.
Yes, I can use your bank number and sort code to set up a direct debit but I can't make myself the beneficiary of that transaction so I would have to use it to get something from another organisation that I either needed (electricity or broadband service for example) or that I could sell on.
In the former case when you dispute the DD transaction your bank will (according to the DD guarantee - I've never tested it) give you the money back then tell the supplier that the DD was fraudulent and the supplier will go after you for the money it loses - it will have a supply address for the service.
I can't think of any examples of something you could buy using a DD that would have a re-sale value and wouldn't have a known supply address.
The article says that "70,000 farmers registered online last year" but "just 1,300 farmers have so far registered" this year.
From those statements I would expect that neither a lack of rural broadband nor a lack of technology skills is the problem in this case. Perhaps the new system is just not trusted and not easy to use?
That's not to try and belittle the problems with rural broadband - it's just that I don't think it's likely to be the main cause of failure here.
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