Posts by Auror

Clingy Virgin Media won't let us leave, customers complain

I've gotten to the point that if they don't cancel my service when I told them to, I stop payment to the company and report any attempted charges by them as fraudulent, as far as I'm concerned they are. This "I don't know how our system kept billing you" stuff is utter nonsense.

Security? Working servers? Who needs those when you can have a shiny floor?

Who the hell leave an electrical box open to anyone but service staff or technicians?! It sounds like they were just waiting for a disaster to happen with that kind of half-assed security. Every place I've worked either had a physical door with a lock between you and the circuit breaker or had a physical (not fob) lock on it with only a handful of key staff who know what the switches do having access. Sounds like an accident waiting to happen, and given what I know of, a lot of academics totally in line as they hate anything that "slows down" their research like proper security.

SSD missing from SAP datacenter turns up on eBay, sparking security investigation

This is why we wipe drives, preferably a couple of times before they go off to sit in the recycling pile.

Twenty years on, command-line virus scanner ClamAV puts out version 1

Rofl works for me as it's my time zone :D

Totaled Tesla goes up in flames three weeks after crash

I guess fire fighters need to start carrying a tank of liquid nitrogen?

At last, Atlassian sees an end to its outage ... in two weeks

*#ck the cloud version of Jira

This is why I'm holding onto my Server instance of Jira as long as I can. At this point it's either selling data-center to the PHB or finding another platform. They're pushing a less capable, less available product as far as I'm concerned to try and make the execs more money.

These kinds of screw ups in the cloud is why I won't trust core services to a cloud provider without multiple layers of redundancy I control. Inevitably someone will screw up and I'll be the one paying for their "learning experience".

Want to check out Windows 11 but don't want to buy a new PC? Here's how to bypass the hardware requirements

Re: Even better....don't bother yet!

Honestly given how much of a mess Microsoft updates are unless your systems are domain joined and forcibly managed you're in for a lot of hurt one way or another. Sucks to pay for that but at the same time having some control over the user experience relieves a lot of bork even if the cost to pay the MS tax sucks. That said things often and do break....because Microsoft

AREA 51 - THE TRUTH by the CIA: Official dossier blows lid off US secrets

Believe there's also an SR-71 at the museum of flight near Seattle. Even let you sit in the cockpit and check things out. Quite a sight to see :)