Arthur Dent: What happens if I press this button?
Ford Prefect: I wouldn't-
Arthur Dent: Oh.
Ford Prefect: What happened?
Arthur Dent: A sign lit up, saying 'Please do not press this button again.”
Posts by Mog_X
102 publicly visible posts • joined 9 Dec 2011
A character catastrophe for a joker working his last day
Thinnet cables are no match for director's morning workout
Not to dis your diskette, but there are some unexpected sector holes
Dell trials 4-day workweek, massive UK pilot of shortened week begins
Tuesday 12th April 2022 09:14 GMT
Re: There s no way to buy more time
Our company has the same restrictions for the same reason, although I think data protection also comes into play as well.
One of the teams I work with recently employed someone - all the interviews were remote and we had the new laptop shipped to a London address.
A week or so later, InfoSec flagged up that this laptop was connecting from Cyprus. The new employee admitted that they had the kit shipped out to them and they had never stepped foot in the UK, so they were immediately terminated.
US Army to build largest 3D-printed structures in the Americas
Japanese startup makes baby carrier-style sling for 'Love Robots'
UK.gov threatens to make adults give credit card details for access to Facebook or TikTok
He ain't heavy, he's my brother: Bloke gives away SpaceX ticket because he was over weight limit
Rolls-Royce consortium shopping for factory sites to build mini-nuclear reactors
'Admin error': AWS in dead company data centre planning application snafu in Oxfordshire
More than half of UK workers would consider jumping ship if a hybrid work option were withdrawn by their company
Friday 10th December 2021 09:09 GMT
I came into my work office today, solely so I can pick up a new chair (my company closed an office and are allowing us to have one in return for a charity donation)
It took nearly an hour to drive in. Now sitting at a desk which has far worse monitors than I have at home listening to a couple of 'colleagues' in the next section natter incessantly (including playing phone video clips of their kids to each other)
Now why would I want to return to this full time?
Say what you see: Four-letter fun on a late-night support call
Remember the 'guy in a jetpack' seen flying close to passenger jets? Probably just balloons, says FBI
Cisco requires COVID-19 shots for all US staff – even remote workers
Wednesday 3rd November 2021 13:32 GMT
Re: Get rid of the religious exemption.
As at least one hospital in the US has stated in a message to its staff, unless they can truthfully say that they have never taken or will never take any of the following:
Acetaminophen, albuterol, aspirin, ibuprofen, Tylenol, Pepto Bismol, Tums, Lipitor, Senokot, Motrin, Maalox, Ex-Lax, Benadryl, Sudafed, Preparation H, Claritin, Prilosec, and Zoloft
Then they can't use the 'fetal cell lines' excuse, as these have all used them during R&D.
Ofcom swears at the general public for five days during obscenity survey
Catch of the day... for Google, anyway: Transatlantic Cornwall cable hauled ashore
Thursday 16th September 2021 11:31 GMT
Re: cable effort
The house I grew up in was also a 1930s semi, with the floorboards between the junction box under the stairs to the back door running perpendicular.
My dad wanted to run power out to the garage and was trying to work out how to do it, when our cat stated nosing around the hole.
After a lightbulb moment, he tied a string to the cat's collar, took up a single extra floorboard by the back door and my mum opened a tin of tuna at the other.
Cue the cat making a quick trip under the floor, after which the cable was connected to the string and pulled through.
Cat enjoyed the tuna.
More than half of companies rethinking back-to-office plans amid variant uncertainty and vaccine mandates – survey
Wednesday 25th August 2021 11:38 GMT
Re: Office half full or office half empty?
Our company has well over 100,000 employees, with probably about 10k office based.
Frequently during lockdown people have asked if they can work abroad and that's always been (quite rightly) rejected due to tax reasons as you said, but also because of GDPR and other regulations.
We've ended the leases on two of our offices (one in London, the other in the Midlands) and have fully rejigged our ways of working, with the expectation that we would only go into an office once or twice a week at most.
Magna Carta mayhem: Protesters lay siege to Edinburgh Castle, citing obscure Latin text that has never applied in Scotland
Fancy joining the SAS's secret hacker squad in Hereford as an electronics engineer for £33k?
Apple is about to start scanning iPhone users' devices for banned content, professor warns
Gung-ho tank gamer spills classified docs in effort to win online argument
Pentagon scraps $10bn JEDI winner-takes-all cloud contract
An anti-drone system that sneezes targets to death? Would that be a DARPA project? You betcha
Does the boss want those 2 hours of your free time back? A study says fighting through crowds to office each day hurts productivity
Tuesday 27th April 2021 11:06 GMT
Re: What office?
Same for my company - we had one main office and two smaller satellite sites in London, plus two large offices in a Midlands town separated by about two miles.
The satellites and one of the Midlands sites have not had their leases renewed, plus we are only expected to go into an office for the '3 Cs' (Collaboration, Coaching or Celebration) , which is likely to be one day a week at most.
Don't cross the team tasked with policing the surfing habits of California's teens
Pentagon confirms footage of three strange craft taken by the Navy are UFOs (no, that doesn't mean they're aliens)
A floppy filled with software worth thousands of francs: Techie can't take it, customs won't keep it. What to do?
Tuesday 6th April 2021 09:10 GMT
Re: A reel of tape valued at £1M
Back in the early 90s our company had successfully migrated one of the key applications from an old platform.
At the post-implementation party one of the key people was presented with a reel tape from the old system as a present. He got a bit inebriated that night and was found by Plod in a semi conscious state, still clutching the reel.
They thought that they had stumbled upon a major hacking incident and called our IT director to say as such. It took a few hours to straighten everything out and our guy didn't get in any trouble (although the story stuck with him for the rest of his days there)
Surprise: Automated driving biz finds automated driving safer than letting you get behind the wheel
OVH data centre destroyed by fire in Strasbourg – all services unavailable
Someone tried to poison a Florida city by hijacking its water treatment plant via TeamViewer, says sheriff
London calling: 5G coverage in British capital grew during second half of last year with fastest speeds on Vodafone
Games Workshop finds that in the grim darkness of the 3rd millennium, there is only ERP
Mysterious metal monolith found in 'very remote' part of Utah
Ticketmaster cops £1.25m ICO fine for 2018 Magecart breach, blames someone else and vows to appeal
Samsung to introduce automatic call blocking on Android 11-capable flagships
You're stuck inside, gaming's getting you through, and you've $1,500 to burn. Check out Nvidia's latest GPUs
Um, almost the entire Scots Wikipedia was written by someone with no idea of the language – 10,000s of articles
A bridge too far: Passengers on Sydney's new ferries would get 'their heads knocked off' on upper deck, say politicos
Snortical warfare: Wild boar launches amphibious assault against German beachgoers
EU orders Airbus A350 operators to install anti-coffee spillage covers in airliner cockpits
IBM job ad calls for 12 years’ experience with Kubernetes – which is six years old
Monday 13th July 2020 16:45 GMT
Re: HR droids...
When I was working as a student at a well-known (orange) UK supermarket in the early 80s, the manager saw me coming back into the store after lunch with a computer magazine for the VIC-20.
"Do you know about computers then? Do you want to run the System 25 on Saturdays?"
That's the point when I realised that IT was a lot less physical effort than stocking shelves.
I was screwed over by Cisco managers who enforced India's caste hierarchy on me in US HQ, claims engineer
Faxing hell: The cops say they would very much like us to stop calling them all the time
Singapore to require smartphone check-ins at all businesses and will log visitors' national identity numbers
Monday 4th May 2020 11:22 GMT
What happens if you forget to record one of the 'entry' or 'exit' events? I'm reminded of this from HHGTTG:
"A fabulously beautiful planet, Bethselamin is now so worried about the cumulative eroision by ten billion visiting tourists a year that any net imbalance between the amount you eat and the amount you excrete whilst on the planet is surgically removed from your bodyweight when you leave: so every time you go to the lavatory there it is vitally important to get a receipt."
Royal Navy nuclear submarine captain rapped for letting crew throw shoreside BBQ party
Friday 24th April 2020 14:11 GMT
At the very least, the captain would have been kept informed of the situation at home and it would have been up to him to tell the crew.
I thought they had to listen in to Radio 4 on long wave anyway - if it went off air they were allowed to nuke Russia.
In any case this is a daft reaction by the Admiralty, as they have been effectively all been members of the same household for months. It is no different than me having a BBQ in my garden with the wife & kids.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
