Posts by pixelgeek

Tech Bro CEO lays off 900 people in Zoom call and makes himself the victim

RE: Glassdoor...

@Ciaran McHale. I see the Security Certificate for your site needs fixing. Firefox & Chrome complained at me.

Most likely Safari & IE will let me in though :D.

Tech support chap given no training or briefing before jobs, which is why he was arrested

Ooh eh?

Training!? I'll give you training!... In mah day, we used to clean it with a toothbrush and dance around on the motherboard singing hallelujah!

Why Microsoft's Windows game plan makes us WannaCry

It's more difficult for science

One of my biggest issues with the whole XP upgrade debacle is in Science and the Education sector. Instrument manafaturers have for YEARS been making multi-million (or at least in the tens or hundreds of thousands) dollar hardware that only runs software on XP or Windows 7.

Want to upgrade the software? oh, sorry you'll have to buy a new Electron Microscope (1.8 million) even though the current one is working perfectly. Don't forget to by a new materials stress testing machine so it can run on win 7 (and doesn't have all the features of the previous model). The PC? $13k for one running XP from the istrument provider otherwise the warranty is void. It's the same story for numerous companies providing scientific and medical istruments worldwide.

Just you try convincing a manager in a university/hospital/reasearch institute to replace a perfectly working instrument or PC every couple of years just to keep up with the O/S

Kiwi cable goes live, and it's nowhere near a volcano

Re: Starnge you should mention earthquakes

"we just felt a decent earthquake a few minutes ago"

A truck must've gone past your Hamilton office then :-D. GeoNet doesn't report anything in this area for the last few days and I certainly haven't felt anything.

I would also suggest the people who put together the map take a closer look at where Raglan actually is. It looks more like they just drew a line to Auckland for convenience.

Layoffs! Lawsuits! Losses! ... Yahoo! is! in! an! L! of! a! mess!

More worried about Flickr actually

I used this extensively for yeas now. Probably the best thing they do. If Flickr goes down the gurgler I will be royally pissed.

The only reason I actually have a Yahoo mail account is because one day they forced us to create one so we could continue using Flickr... grrrr

Thousands of 'directly hackable' hospital devices exposed online

Would that it were true

@ZSn There IS a subtle diference between the two. Due to that NMR tends to be used to analyse composition of materials We use one for this in the Faculty of Science where I work. We also have a small working MRI in the Physics department to demonstrate *it's* principles. see this URL http://www.physlink.com/Education/AskExperts/ae359.cfm

Sadly Instrument makers world wide sell machines coupled with a computer running XP as a sales tactic in my view to get companies to buy newer equipment. Usually about 18 months after an instrument/device is purchased it, or the O/S that connects to it goes out of date but will not be warrantied unless the company supplies it. Thus you get charges of $11,000 for a replacement computer. and thats cheap and if you want to stay on XP. I've heard of $70,000 being charged for a computer.

Upgrading to Win 7 or above can mean a whole new multi-million dollar instrument/device as well.

Mozilla-Microsoft spat latest: Firefox yanks Cortana away from Bing

Problems with Firefox

Just WHAT are you guys doing or running to make Firefox such a bad experience for you? Genuine question by the way... I've been using it for years now and it's gone through a period of being a resource hog and more prone to crashing, but in the last few years I've found it rock solid on multiple platforms in multiple conditions.

I work in Educational IT by the way so have seen all sorts of crazy s#!t thrown at it over the years.

Engaged to be worried – Verify borks married tax allowance applications

Dissapointed

Quite honestly, I'm surprised no one has mentioned Terry Gilliams movie Brazil yet. There are multiple scenes perfect for accompaniment with this article...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xNnRBksvOU (watch till the end)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGeT5cutXgU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay0TDQuq7XI

New anti Terrorism powers make the last one particularly relevant to more than just this article

Really? Have you seen what you can get out of a couple of hundred dpi?

Beware WarKitteh, the connected cat that sniffs your Wi-Fi privates

Luxury!

In my day, we had to get at 4 o'clock in't morning, half an hour before we went t' bed. Reboot t' server AND give the wireless router a kick just to restart the bugger! Then, t' boss would stabb us to death with a floppy disk IF WE WERE LUCKY!

Kiwi satellite earth station recycled – as radio telescope

For those that remember...

If you want to see more of this beauty in its younger days. Go find an early(ish) New Zealand film called The Quiet Earth (stars Bruno Lawrence). Has a bit of a tiki-tour of the North Island during the "Apocalypse" and some iffy 80's acting.

Smile for the cops! Sexy Snapchat selfies' self-destruct scrubbed by search warrants

Re: In related news,

"The internet is a public network. It's multihomed, multipath, and multitenant. You cannot presume that anything you transmit into it is not public knowledge.

Yet everyday there's someone new trying to convince you that they have the magic secret to making this most public of systems completely private. And people always buy it."

Looks like it's the rebirth of the Sneakernet to me.