Posts by gh1978

Police ignored the laws of datacenter climate control

Critters and chips

Went to a place of learning once that we used to run. It was tiny and the chaps that had set what passed as the IT up had left and it looked like it had just been setup with the contents of someone's junk cupboard.

Anyhow I digress. Got there was shown where the servers were (partitioned off section of a room with full window at the front, during what passed as a british summer.

"Mind the locusts" I was told. Yeah they kept some locusts in glass tanks in there as it was nice and warm for them.

I then somehow became responsible for the site, so not long after portable Aircon thing and window blind installed.

The swift in-person response is part of the service (and nothing to do with the thing I broke while trying to help you)

Ah the joys

Whilst it's mainly aimed at the academic world, until a few months ago, we'd been using Impero for our remote desktop support solution for about 300 devices on one site.

It worked very well.

Though both engineers on site have at least once managed to restart every PC onsite by not reading what's on the screen (went to reboot one device, it said you haven't got any devices selected, do you want to select all'.

Queue the phone ringing off the hook (our network wasn't too bad, but it really wasn't geared to 300 users all trying to login at the same time in the days when roaming profiles were in favour).

Whistleblowers: Inflexible prison software says inmates due for release should be kept locked up behind bars

Very dodgy ground using an IT system to dictate release dates anyway as it's not a straightforward process.

In England and Wales whilst the national database (Nomis) does do calcs, these have to be manually checked at various points in the offenders sentence. Prior to that the previous system didn't do date calculation at all.

London Underground cleaners to refuse fingerprint clock-on

I don't really see the problem. We've been using biometrics since the 1994 at our place, and using them to 'clock in' since 2000.

The systems aren't linked to anything and the system doesn't actually store anything that can show an image of your fingerprint.

ID cards, clocking cards etc are easy to forget/lose, fingers are generally always with you !

The employees contract will no doubt state that they have to record their attendance using whatever method is decreed by the employer. If they don't clock in/out then they have no proof of hours worked, so no pay.