Posts by Brad16800 94 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Nov 2012
Had the halon alert go off once when in a DC. As I left the room I noticed 2 guys sitting on the floor in that area with laptops and uniforms for that DC still there unconcerned about their impending death.
Gave it a few minutes then went back in to query with them (they were alive). It was a test. Well at least I know I can get out of that room in time now so successful test I suppose?
I've had the same experience. I used to change jobs every year as I wasn't happy with the environment and work culture.
I've been at my current job 6 years because my managers are reasonable, considerate and caring. Makes sense to keep a positive and safe work environment as you don't need to constantly find new staff (and train them) to replace the ones that leave.
I also think you get more out of the staff when they feel safe and more than just a number
Back early 2000's I was at a law firm (doing IT). Had a paralegal who was still at uni and her PC died. She said she had important emails for her studies and if I could recover them as she backed them up daily. Was her personal PC.
Floppy disk arrived in internal mail and my first thoughts are how many emails could you be backing up on that. Turns out she'd been backing up the Outlook shortcut diligently every day to the floppy drive.
Had a happy ending, after i explained i'd need the hard drive, was all recovered. Case of beer arrived a week later :)
To me it comes back to something like Windows and IE browser as default. I know iPhones aren't exactly 95% of all phones people have but the point was choice. If there was an option to use a different app store (even if it wasn't secure and rarely used anyway) the problem wouldn't exist.
And 30% is a bit much, actually I was wondering on that for food ordering apps. Does Apple take 30% of the 3rd party app then the 3rd party charges the restaurant that + their cut? Had me thinking on if it's even worth using as a restaurant on their margins. Anyone have insight on it?
Funny all the Australian news sites saying how bad Facebook is for not sharing their cash when it looks like they're just doing what they were told. Guess they didn't want to pay for providing a free link to the news site.
I do wonder what would stop news sites just posting links to their own site over and over as well, essentially generating their own income under this law. Madness it actually got to this point.
Oh I don't use Facebook but seriously didn't think people used it for information (thought it was mainly for cat memes), guess that explains all the crazies.
Yep, solution is to improve wages and conditions in poorer countries. Then they can't afford to have more kids, you know cause of the costs of being better off.
Really though, it's been shown over and over that as a populations lifestyle and wealth increases (and less child deaths as a result) the number of kids goes down.
I'm in the same boat on this. Never quite understood why news sites didn't want what is essentially free links to their site. Also being Facebook it's kind of word of mouth so i'd expect people would be more likely to click through to read on the news site (and generate that ad revenue).
Seems backwards to ask to be paid for a free ad to your site.
30% does seem a bit rich but it's not like it's not been the case for how long now? Seems like the little guys have to put up with it and the larger app companies are now at the point to challenge it. Can't imagine any company risking this back when the first iPhone was released.
As always it boils down to corporate greed regardless of which side of the fence you're on.
Clearer explanation thanks.
Domain was registered before my time as well so no idea why it was UK. I'd guess they didn't expect Brexit back when it was originally registered 10 years ago.
As you said registrar only shows billing address, they can submit a request on our behalf to update the domain address (as I found out on Saturday) but we couldn't access this information. Everything we could see said an Ireland address.
This caught us out on Friday (and some of my weekend). We are a global country and have .eu domain for all our EU staff (including UK staff) to access our VPN. So you can imagine the headache this caused, especially right now Fortunately most staff were on leave being new years day.
The fix we did was to update the address with our domain provider to a site in Ireland. It was a little odd as the provider already listed our address as Ireland but apparently the EU has a separate address for each domain that you can't see when you login to manage them. The only way is to log a ticket and ask them to update it for you. Of course the only affected .EU domain was the VPN one.
What concerns me is we had no visibility of the address when managing our domains and no way of knowing this had a UK address. In hindsight I would have expected the domain provider we use to run a check on all .EU domains and their address then advise customers as they're the only one that can see this.
and boo to the EU for just suspending them.
Does look like a skip and wait for the next one if you've got an S10 or better. Personally i'm on an S8 and still find it does the job.
Still 16GB ram... if the OS was able to act a bit more like a desktop with a (small) dock you could use it as a laptop replacement. Don't think we're there yet but i'd rather a 174g mobile in my pocket compared to my slightly (much more) heavier laptop. I know you're thinking Windows mobile at this point, never used it personally but that ability to move between a desktop and a mobile did seem like pretty nice and seamless experience.
Found an issue with gift cards at the company I worked for about 10 years ago that essentially let me make them with any amounts. Did the right thing and reported it as any retail staff could also do the same, wasn't even any record in the logs and very simple a non-IT staff member would have figured it out. Literally showed them a blank card then the process any cash register could use to put any amount on them, took about 20 seconds.
Result, nothing changed. Decided to move on a few months later. Sometimes they don't want to know I guess. Still my morals were untarnished.
I'm in IT at a hospital and I can tell you while we have sorted out our extra licensing as needed back in March last yea the last thing we need right now (working 13 hour days 6 days a week) is to do a software audit. All remote access licenses like Zoom and Citrix require licenses to be there or they won't let you use them. If anything 20-40% of our on site devices are off right now and no need to buy more hardware along with the licenses.
I think if anything our bill would be less now during a covid audit than last time.
It's pointless. People will just do the things that give them the best score, at the expense of the other jobs.
Back on helldesk, years ago we had to do at least 20 tickets a day. I'd pick the oldest one as per the rules where as a colleague picked all the 5 minute jobs and took the afternoon off. Just doesn't work and definitely doesn't show actual productivity. Oh and that guy ended up being the SD manager....
I had a kind of positive experience on fraud in that my bank froze my card when I used it for a few purchases at a shopping center about an hour away from where I live for a few $100-200 purchases, wasn't a place i'd been to before (was in Australia and an AU bank). Was declined in a store and had an SMS a few minutes later. Called them up (checked their support number on their website) and confirmed who I was and unlocked. Oh and it was on the weekend, got straight through, phone menu did list fraud or issues with my card sort of messages.
I don't know if it was a good or bad thing, I mean it took 10 minutes of my day but I feel like it was appropriate. This was going back a few years.
These days I can freeze my card with an app on my phone and approve purchases with MFA, so much easier. Realtime payment info as well. Seems like the big historically major banks are dragging their feet on some of this.
Do we need to also release the "slave" devices and give them the same rights as their masters as well?
Actually had a thought, what about if we just reversed the terminology. Give the slave names to the previous masters and the masters can have a turn being under their oppressive grip!
Also does this mean old hardware will need to be updated? I've got a SAS card that's 20 or so years old with master and slave. How far back are we going on renaming?
Maybe we shouldn't get paid directly and all income goes to the government. They can then give us an allowance from that based on what they think we should have.
Utterly stupid idea from a bank. If people's spending is changing, well the people that used to get that money need to change with it. Don't get me wrong I feel for retail staff, it's just not going back the way it was so those affected need to move with it. The ones that embrace it first will end up doing the best.
On a side note I do like being able to go to the kitchen (at home) and make a nice lunch each day. Prefer that to the sandwich I'd used to buy when I was in the office. Had a taste of a better life, why would we change that and why would taxing people the amount equal to their usual lunch spend make sense, they still eat lunch just bought from a supermarket and made based on our preference. Seems like a double dipping idea. If this had any validity I'd expect lunch every work day, delivered for my tax contribution.
I technically don't actually have a desk at work. I work out of the lunch room. Not much of an issue right now as working from home but yea.
I guess if you consider the lunch room my office I do have the biggest office in the company though....
Just to add once I worked in an IT office that had windows. Actual light entering windows! They needed a place to put the call center staff so we were moved form the room in the middle of the floor to one on the side that had just been freed up by a departing manager. Sure 4 of us had to chare that room but was still roomy enough. We might not get the best deal but in that case we were at least one above the call center staff.
It does seem like a slippery slope though. I'm not a social media user anymore but I just wonder why it's only Google and Facebook. What about if I'd post a link to a news article on a forum or blog or reddit?
I might be wrong but seems to me like links to news articles from people they know would actually encourage people to click on them which would then load the lovely ads we see when reading said article. Isn't this essentially free publicity?
That was my take away from this article as well. First time i've seen it happen.
30% does seem like extortion but the tricky thing I find with all this (play store as well) is they did basically make it the cost of using/selling things on their store. Most retail sales wholesale price is 50-70% of the retail price, if you remember what a retail store was.
As already stated by others Android doesn't lock you in so yea it's leaning on monopoly in that case. I just feel a bit 50/50 on it all even more tricky with the whole digital/physical purchase distinction.
Initially we were actually asked by upper management if we could just "turn IT off" during the shutdown when in fact the amount of staff support related work has gone up significantly, supporting a smaller number of staff but dealing with the difficulties of home office setups. We've had to reduce maintenance a little to handle that but security has been kept untouched.
Fortunately (and i'd guess we're in the lucky minority) our company has since turned around and said they are increasing IT spending so that we will be in a better position coming out of this. Not that we're all popping the champagne as it's going in to projects but it is keeping us busy (and employed)
So by that logic you can ship drugsanonymously and if they are intercepted the receiver isn't liable as they don't own them til they arrive?
I'm wondering, if you buy something and it never arrives would the company that sent the item have to send another (if they still own it until it arrives) as most companies give you the option for delivery insurance which says to me the customer owns the item when it's delivered as they're the ones paying the insurance...
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