Posts by Reue 78 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Jan 2011
The good folks over at MSE claim to have a 99% success rate in court against private parking charges. As these charges are almost always thrown out will the DVLA begin handing over all of those requests to the ICO so these cowboy ex-clampers start getting hit by real fines (unlike their fake invoices)?
Not comparable to playing on a console at home but a whole new untapped potential.
Use an empty hall, court, field.. basically anything which is a rough uniform size/shape and empty inside. Stand in the middle, activate a camera on your headset and do a 360. The camera detects the walls/fences around the perimeter and adjusts the game map to have hard barriers along those edges. Play the game without fear of bumping into anything, just stop when you reach the 20ft high wall at the edge of the map.
Could also be used for education, imagine taking a history class to the school field and having it generate into a complete roman town which they can walk around and interact with.
Ah. one day..
we haven't made any real effort to repackage all of our applications and change distribution methods. How could any large organisation be expected to put in the time/effort to do so when Microsoft continually change their 'best practice' approach.
First it was App-V, with a dedicated streaming server and terminal services
Then it was back to desktops but with App-v packages deployed through sccm and roaming profiles
Then Appx and the horribly unreliable UEV
Now they want us to 'store' all of our applications or deploy via Intune to desktops as if they were mobile phones.
No thanks.
Use Applocker. I've just set it up in our environment.
It helps if you set up event log forwarding first and run the applocker policy in Audit mode for a couple of weeks so you can monitor what would be blocked and then add them to the whitelist. I did it this way and received only a couple of calls for false positives once the policy was switched over to enforce.
My company put in it's "social media policy" that all employees must hand over upon request their usernames and passwords to all social media accounts. I'm told 99.8% of the company signed upon the dotted line except for 2 who refused. Those 2 would have been my brother and I. A quick chat with legal and pointing out the relevant data protection aspects and we had personalised policy documents which excluded this specific clause. Legal even agreed the terms should have never been included in the first place and would be removing it for all future starts.
Just because some drone in HR copies and pastes something into a contract does not make it legal or enforceable.
Source: I was the desktop tech lead consultant during another police force's Windows XP migration
Multiple reasons for the long delay:
Internally the police use alot of bespoke software, either written specifically for them by a 3rd party or their own in-house devs who have long since retired, left or been made redundant. Try finding a download link to Windows 8/10 drivers for a taser. for instance.
All of their builds need to be signed off at the highest security level, ditto for any changes then made. It's a process of producing a build, getting it signed off, getting it tested, having a change requested, making the change, getting the whole build signed off again etc etc.
I don't know about MET however in my force they were also trying to implement hot desking at the same time, so we also had to engineer and deploy full data/environment/application roaming at the same time as the operating system upgrade.
And finally; why not go straight to Windows 10? Because the contracts for the XP migration were all signed years ago before 10 was avaliable. It's taking this long just to get on to 8.1.
My new manager said "I have one rule; dont play games, you may as well get out a board of monopoly and sit there playing it at your desk".
A good rule imo. I shall admit to browsing El Reg during office hours but it came in handy yesterday when everyone was scratching their heads why a load of our 3rd party sites had gone down only for Reg to report on GoDaddy DNS dying.
I work for a large online search provider and we have several sections of fake data on our listings so that we can track and prove where out data has been scraped. It's been going on for years, similar to how an un-released movie script will have slight variations so if one copy does get leaked they can know exactly whos copy it was.
THIS.
I work desktop admin for a very large firm and its amazing the amount of crap which just seems to magically appear on our sales peoples laptops. This isnt games or cat videos, its various macro-stuffed excel documents or plug-in loaded intranet sites which have been pushed out via email and are now mission critical and requiring urgent IT support despite the first we know about it being when a helpdesk guy wanders over and asks wtf this new 'app' is.
Currently sat beside a Surface Pro having spent almost 2 days now trying to get some form of corporate image on it with MDT. Absolute pain in the ass as it has no ethernet port and only 1 usb. Forget trying to build it from a standalone USB, requires FAT32 so no >4gb WIMs. Having to boot from a boot wim loaded with usb ethernet converter drivers going through a USB hub. The hidden partitions add further complications.
Apparently the latest fireware supports PXE boot.. but of course you'll need the official ethernet adaptor for that.
The maths never adds up. The 'winning' team on these tasks usually make a few hundred quid for 2 days work (researching/making then selling). Split this between the 6 on the team and they are earning below minimum wage each.
Honestly, they'd be better off if they all went and worked at Mcdonalds for those 2 days and then pooled their earnings.
Also agree with the earlier poster about Sugar's split personality. One week its all about listen to the focus groups, the next it should be totally disregarded etc etc.
I wasnt sure if it was real or not at first, but it is, along the style of 'coppers' on channel 4 i think a few months ago.
And on an interesting note.. just glanced over and my phone which has just this second lit up with a text message about the compensation im owed from my accident i didnt have. what a coincidence :)
Started my current (and first) job in IT without any qualifications or real experience. Hiring manager said they would put me on training courses and pay for the exams etc.
2 years later and I had 2x MCITP and an MCTS with training towards other areas as well. My employer has just signed an enterprise agreement with CBT Nuggets giving all It staff access to their entire library as well.
Now if only they'd give me the pay grade rise to go with the new qualification levels :)
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