Re: cellphone, mobile, handy
lot more than half, 80% I would guess.
Still find Americans saying chimney funny
Posts by tony trolle
549 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Jul 2007
BOFH: Give me a lever long enough and a fool, I mean a fulcrum and ....
*Thunk* No worries, the UPS should spin up. Oh cool, it's in bypass mode
Friday 6th April 2018 06:21 GMT
Re: Disasters I have seen (or seen dodged)
At less he knew, I was at a site for a DR test and fuel ran out. Seems the two big generators had a smaller startup engine system each with its own tank. Guess which tanks was checked for fuel. The only reason the main tanks had a small amount of fuel was the delivery driver knew the difference of the tanks and the person ordering didn't.
Yes, Assange, we'll still nick you for skipping bail, rules court
Apple tells GitHub to fork off: iGiant steps outside DMCA law in quest to halt iBoot leaks
Still not on Windows 10? Fine, sighs Microsoft, here are its antivirus tools for Windows 7, 8.1
Due to Oracle being Oracle, Eclipse holds poll to rename Java EE (No, it won't be Java McJava Face)
Secret weekend office bonk came within inch of killing sysadmin
Friday 9th February 2018 14:49 GMT
Halon
As a student on work placement many many moons ago, a Halon system was being tested.
The "dry" run out tho the emergency door/hatch proved the 10 second delay in the Halcon flood was still going to be fine after some new kit was installed.
But I asked why does it smell if its a dry run.
Arr.
Was told its just the bit of gas left in the pipes venting.
But I smelt it while the 10 second alarm was going off.
Arrrrrrr.
Yes wired wrong. no delay been like that for 6 years.
Dori-no! PepsiCo boss says biz is planning to sell lady crisps
Web searching died the day they invented SEO
NASA finds satellite, realises it has lost the software and kit that talk to it
Thar she blows: Strava heat map shows folk on shipwreck packed with 1,500 tonnes of bombs
Take a former NSA head hacker, a Raspberry Pi, weird Kiwi radios and what do you get?
Biker nerfed by robo Chevy in San Francisco now lobs sueball at GM
Thursday 25th January 2018 07:04 GMT
Californians in general can't drive
On average in a 60 min freeway journey expect to see one near big miss and a couple of minor misses.
Double that for morning freeway commutes. Most drivers tend to drive as if the car or truck ends at their ears and most biker riders think their bike is as wide as their ears.
Add fact that uninsured motorists is at the minimum 10% you can see why the road to Las Vegas is busy at weekends.
BOFH: Putting the commitment into committee
Telecoms fail in UK takes down passport scanners in Australia
Tuesday 23rd May 2017 01:36 GMT
Re: We had this...
We had a car take out a green junction box, still wonder about the speed needed to jump a 10 inch curb, any way it took out 4 ADSL lines and some T1's. We were down for over a day.
Anyway we had a new fibre cable run in from the other end of the road and on our first real weekend DR test found out the backup batteries needed to be replaced, but the big and do mean big generators worked every time.
The second weekend test failed as starter motor system was run off the batteries and someone left unplugged when news ones got swapped in; the second "second" test worked after a few hours, and double checked a few more times.
The third weekend test failed as no one filled up the diesel for the donkey starter motors.
The off site DR test is another story.
Don't gripe if you hand your PC to Geek Squad and they rat you out to the Feds – judge
Uber wasn't to blame for robo-ride crash – or was it? Witness said car tried to 'beat the lights'
BOFH: The Boss, the floppy and the work 'experience'
Bloke whose drone was blasted out of sky by angry dad loses another court battle for compo
Sunday 26th March 2017 04:24 GMT
Re: Airspace, $381
its more, it went up to $446 in most areas years ago, Signs only get replaced when knocked out.
The fine is $100 really, its all the all the add-ons like "penalty assessment" and "surcharge" and the $1 hanging around, night court fee
<edit> found it
Base fine: $100
Penalty assessment: $260 (260% of base)
State criminal surcharge: $20 (20% of base)
Court security fee: $30 (flat)
conviction assessment: $35 (flat, $30/35)
Night court fee: $1 (flat)
Uber: Please don't give our London drivers English tests. You can work out the reason why
Super-cool sysadmin fixes PCs with gravity, or his fists
President Donald Trump taken on by unlikely foe: Badass park rangers
Chevy Bolt electric car came alive, reversed into my workbench, says stunned bloke
Sysadmin figures out dating agency worker lied in his profile
New MH370 handshake and wing debris analysis suggests rapid descent
Jaguar Sportbrake: The chicken tikka masala of van-sized posh cars
The Reg explores technology in a remote aboriginal community
South Korea data-wipe malware spread by patching system
Experts finger disk-wiping badness used in S Korea megahack
Sunday 24th March 2013 18:24 GMT
key info on linux killing
http://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/how-deep-discovery-protected-against-the-korean-mbr-wiper/
It uses any stored root credentials to log into remote Linux servers: for AIS, HP-UX, and Solaris servers it wipes the MBR. If it is unable to wipe the MBR, it instead deletes the folders /kernel/, /usr/, /etc/, /home/.
BOFH: My HELPDESK HELL - lies, phones lines and statistics
Saturday 16th March 2013 18:05 GMT 
we had five levels of "logged calls" back in the 90's
had call loggers take the call and type it in and give it a level of "hurt".
Very good on first level SLA's
Saved so much time for the "techs"; think 30% of calls cound be fixed faster than the time it took for the call being logged and even better if the call loggers were slow and we could get them to call back to clear.
The rest were harder
When I left that company we had a manager just to deal with SLA complainers
Two most used replies covered about a 1/3 of complainers
" We started fixing problem within 20 mins of calling logged" aka total fuck ups take longer to fix
" Your end had connection problems for us to dial in" aka you removed/diconnected/unpluged the phone line
Linksys vuln: Cisco responds
Steve Jobs' Apple yacht freed after family settles the bill
Hackers warn: We'll hit US banks... again
Search engines we have known ... before Google crushed them
'Build us a Death Star, President Obama' demand thousands
House passes, Obama disses 55,000 visas for educated immigrants
Sunday 2nd December 2012 06:29 GMT
He needed to get a "advance parole"
to travel outside the U.S.A. that's takes 2 to 3 months to work tho the system.
If you leave without an advance parole, the USCIS will consider the application "abandoned."
If you can get back in you must file a new application and supporting documents and start again.
Sunday 2nd December 2012 06:20 GMT
Re: Of course migrant workers don't take away american jobs in the long run.
Nicho
you're wrong "The reason these visas exist is because business is unwilling to pay what an American worker demands for that job so they sponsor a visa for someone willing to work for less in exchange for US citizenship."
All vistas have the "going rate for the job" to para-phrase, condition; so migrant workers are not paid less but sometimes more. BTW Vista's are a pathway to citizenship not a right.
Hexing MAC address reveals Wifi passwords
Saturday 24th November 2012 04:20 GMT
Re: Verzion routers same
Just looked in junk box . These are Actiontecs with the default WEP key made from the last 10 characters from the Wan MAC and seem to remember WEP sends the Wan MAC in the packet headers. Must be another Verzion router that changes the last character.......
BTW a lot of RoadRunner modems (thats Time Warner) are open as default.
Friday 23rd November 2012 06:19 GMT
Verzion routers same
The westel DSL router 704wgb was the same: just change the last char for password.
15 tries max. lol.
And why not change the password.
Verzion loved to reset the box so you gave up changing it and the SSID
Twice in one day was the worst.
Twice in one week normal.
I have two in the junk box
BOFH: The Great Patch Mismatch
Saturday 24th November 2012 04:05 GMT
Halon or halonite
The first place I worked at had a Halon 2402 system and at the far end of the room opposite the door was had a emergency exit trap door thing. Was told normally the red lights would flash and the fire alarm sounders would sound then 5 seconds later whoost . But they had just found out were was no 5 second delay after they had the system checked out by another vendor who serviced the rest of the building's fire systems.
Nice.
Was also told if it ever did trigger the replacement gas would be different as "this stuff decomposes when it gets hot and likely kill you".
Funny they had a smokers area 50 feet from the main building in the back next to the on-site archive tape store.....
WAR HERO PIGEON carrying SECRET WWII CODE found in chimney
BOFH: Tenacious B and the Printer of Destiny
Nobody knows what to call Microsoft's ex-Metro UI
Thursday 1st November 2012 02:06 GMT 
IFKAM or
Panes
Placement active node entry system.
As we all know windows have to have panes......
It's raining and my windows are crying
You're out somewhere and I sit here dying
Only your mem'ries remain
Even windows have pains cause they cry when it rains
MARTY ROBBINS - WINDOWS HAVE PAINS LYRICS
Hackers leak 120,000 student records in raid on world's top unis
Microsoft takes on tablets with keyboard-equipped Surface
Windows 8: We kick the tyres on Redmond's new tablet wheels
Saturday 2nd June 2012 23:02 GMT
Re: Windows 8
Once it was just version 4's software being shit now its every other one..
The techies are going to VM this abortion and run something else.
I still get support emails from around the world for Win2K, Win98se,& XP, with the current Win7 calls also. Vista calls dropped like a stone after Win7 (no calls after 4 months). New software running on Win 8 ? well my buddy is developing his new version of control software running on a android phone/tablet and a custom USB dongle/interface. So Microsoft have 'sort of' got the idea but for the wrong device.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
