Posts by Duffaboy

After nine servers he worked on failed, techie imagined next career as beach vendor

eDirectory ?

I was a Netware Engineer for a brief period until Micorsoft killed it with NT server and was struggling to think what eDirectory was until a quick google came to my aid, Good old NDS that's what it is.

Hands up who wants a PC? Lenovo reports declining returns

It budgets where blown during the COVID-19 Pandemic

It departments suddenly had to overnight get their office based staff working from home, that's probably the most likely cause of the reduce spend as they have used future budgets as well.

Bank of Ireland outage sees customers queue for 'free' cash – or maybe any cash

Inflation has many causes

Supplier and retailer greed.

Short supply of goods

War in Ukraine.

We see recently that many super markets and Energy suppliers making Bumper profits, why is this ?

They ramped up prices way further than needed thus fueling inflation, this then has a trickle down affect to the lowest point i.e. us the consumer

Europe’s biggest city council faces £100M bill in Oracle ERP project disaster

I live in Birmingham

The amount our council waste on dumb projects is staggering, the Labour Council think it is their money and not it's citizens. Millions upon Millions are wasted by BCC and yet they are still voted in.

Another security calamity for Capita: An unsecured AWS bucket

Business are you thinking of Out Sourcing

Then think long and hard about giving your business who have a track record of ballsing things up, again and again and again.

Microsoft will upgrade Windows 10 21H2 users whether they like it or not

Windows 10 will be the last ever Operating System we ever write.

Erm, Windows 11 will be the last..

Erm Windows 12.......

Britain's largest private pension scheme reveals scale of Capita break-in

I have always wonder why people do business with them.

I

IT giant Bitmarck shuts down customer, internal systems after cyberattack

It staggers me

That companies still put faith in C(r)apti and trust them

Parts of UK booted offline as Virgin Media suffers massive broadband outage

I thought it was Knackered

When I couldn't get to Downdetector

You sir Win the Internet Today

Brilliant Post :) :)

Microsoft promises it's made Teams less confusing and resource hungry

I hate teams

There that feels better, got that off my chest

Backup tech felt the need – the need for speed. And pastries and Tomb Raider

Re: Most tasks can be condensed onto 1 page of A4

Most will stop reading after the 1st page

Most tasks can be condensed onto 1 page of A4

Time and time again I have experienced processes that make no sense when they should be no longer than an page of A4. 20 odd pages before you get to the point of what you actually have to do.

Atos and Nest part company two years into 18-year £1.5bn contract

The staff will be safe

The staff will probably be ok if they work in the UK, as they will be TUPED out, so all that will change is the company name everything else will be exactly the same.

JD Sports admits intruder accessed 10 million customers' data

Dear JD Sports customer, if you do not pay us 1 Million in Bitcoins

Then we shall with hold your trainer and shellsuit order you have 24hours to comply.

WAN router IP address change blamed for global Microsoft 365 outage

If it was working before then the first thing you must always ask

WHAT HAS CHANGED

Tales from four decades in the Sinclair aftermarket: Parts, upgrades and party tricks

The ZX Spectrum or Speccy

Without that machine I would not have had the successful career I have today thankyou Sir Clive.

Just 22% of techies in UK aged 50 or older, says Chartered Institute for IT

Pray tell how they got this information

Really did they survey all the HR departments of all IT companies, me thinks this is a stick your finger in the air and guess job.

Capita to see wave of UK government contracts come to an end by 2025

Re: Ahh the talented government

jeremy your back me old comrade

Funky Pigeon pauses all orders after 'security incident'

That might explain my constant account lockouts

Last week my account was locked out even after a password reset and a correct login attempt, something was amiss

Happy birthday, Windows Vista: Troubled teen hits 15

InkBall

The only thing good about Vista

Chromebook sales in recession: Market saturation blamed as shipments collapse more than 63% in Q4

I am sure some consumers have no idea what they are buying.

Your average non-tech purchaser will look at the price first and make their buying decision on that, `not realising until later that the Chrome book will not exactly do what they though it would.

Expired cert breaks Windows 11 snipping tool, emoji panel, S Mode features, other stuff

Early adopters

You are doing the testing for Microsoft, that's why I wait till the O/S is embedded in before I will install it. Windows 10 is just fine for me.

There are 875 million good reasons why the paperless office won't happen soon

Re: The continuing non-arrival of the paperless office

We will be using shells soon :)

Revealed: How to steal money from victims' contactless Apple Pay wallets

Neither Apple nor Visa responded to requests for comment

Sums it all up in that sentence alone.

Power users of Microsoft OneDrive suffer massive inconvenience: Read-only files

Re: Command Prompt

OLD SKOOL

Come on Who

Switched on Windows Update,

IBM sued again by its own sales staff: IT giant accused of going back on commission payments promise

The thing with sales and commission is

The salesperson is only focused on their pockets and will sell you anything to get some extra wedge. For me that's not looking after the customer, however it's a double edged sword, no commission no sales, but if you do have commission and you have the preverbal selling sand to ....

Nuisance call-blocking firm fined £170,000 for making almost 200,000 nuisance calls

Only if they can find them

They will most likely be hiding offshore some where

Toshiba engulfed by scandal again — and the prime minister is implicated

I would never buy Tosh again

The way they treated me as a loyal customer for several years and always singing their praises to my customers, I would never ever touch their products again nor endorse them. Never have I ever wanted a company like Tosh to go under but for then "Toshiba" I look forward to that day happening vey soon

BT sues supplier for £72m over exchange gear that allegedly caused wave of ADSL outages

Re: 2006 to 2016

JAKE URABFP

2006 to 2016

Did i miss something as i only skimmed the article, did it take BT 10 years to figure out what was causing the fault ?

Uncle Sam recovers 63.7 of 75 Bitcoins Colonial Pipeline paid to ransomware crew

Mulder and Scully

Strike again

Doncaster insurance firm One Call hit by not-dead-at-all Darkside ransomware gang

This is what happens when you

1. Slash your IT spend

2. Don't pay for top quality IT professionals and instead try to pay mid 20K salary

3. Invest in the latest tech and software

Microsoft sheds some light on perplexing Outlook blank email incident: Word was to blame

Re: Nprmal.dot

They're at it again, they have switched my p and o keys around. Sorry for the typo i wrote the post in anger

Nprmal.dot

I had an issue a few years back when outlook menu items were missing it was caused by a corrupt NORMAL.DOT, for this issue in the mentioned article, i was up till 0100 trying to fix this when i did a news search on Outlook and discovered the Muppets at MS had caused the issue. Why do these morons not test their code ?

Suffice to say by morning everything was working.

China has a satellite with an arm – and America worries it could be used to snatch other spacecraft

Look after Mr Bond.

See that some harm comes to him...

Ever wondered what it's like working for Microsoft? Leaked survey shines a light on how those at the code coalface feel

Re: "better deals on offer"

Everyone knows that most of the profiles on Linkedin are full of BS and fake info.

Ex-Geeks staff lose legal bid to claw back withheld training costs from final paycheques

Re: Nice to Know that Slavery is Still Legal in the UK

And pay a decent wage, plus employ them full time

I have seen this before

Company A pay for the training of employee A but then don't pay for the employee new level of expertise they now have gained through said training. So employee A is now worth more but is not receiving the cash to reflect this so Employee A goes to Company B who have not had to pay for the training. So who's the fool here

Microsoft settles £200,000+ claims against tech support scammers who ran global ripoff from cottage in Surrey

This Morning

Had an automated phone message from a mobile phone number (probably spoofed) saying my router would fail with in 4 hours and to press 1 to be put through to technical support. Well I'm pleased to report its still working fine.

Atos handed £1.5bn to run IT for UK government-founded pension trust Nest

Re: What the actual????

There is a very long list of companies it shouldn't go to that's for sure

UK dev loses ownership claim on forensic software he said he wrote in spare time and licensed to employer

Everyone knows that

Anything you create on company time, belongs to the paymaster (your employer). Well most of us know.

CD Projekt Red 'EPICALLY pwned': Cyberpunk 2077 dev publishes ransom note after company systems encrypted

Let them publish the source code

and in doing so we can help them patch their games

150,000 lost UK police records looking more like 400,000 as Home Office continues to blame 'human error'

No Problem

We always have a backup, don't we ?

Ring glitch results in global ding dong ditch: Doorbell bling flings out random pings but they're not the real thing

Android Phones

All I can say from experience is that my Ring doorbell doesn't like android phones as there is a significant delay from pressing the bell to it registering on the app. Fanboi apple users (my daughter has an Iphone) work a treat. So thats Apple 1 Android 0.

Apple to Epic: Sue me? No, sue you, pal!

Oh, suits you

No Suits you sir, you want it don't you....

India's telecoms given ten years to pay $22bn in back taxes they've already disputed for a decade

I think that

a payment of £2 a week should cover it.

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a 56-year-old satellite burning up in the sky spotted by sharp school kids

Dam I would have gotten away with it

if it wan't for those pesky kids

ANPR maker Neology sues Newcastle City Council after failing to win 'air quality' snoopcam project bid

It's my Football

And I'm taking it so you can't play