Posts by macjules 3426 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Oct 2014
Been there as well. The previous DevSecOps admin had even published the AWS pem key online for all and sundry to see. Spent a very long weekend stopping every server, setting up a properly protected security group and re-attaching a new pem key.
My tuppence worth: corporates should not just place infinite trust in one individual but should learn to supervise. Shannon's "boss" should have been online immediately and shutting down his access.
Seems that is the way that they all run these days.
1) Praise the pest and not the victim.
2) Get found out.
3) Set up a special programme with lots of money funding it because you got found out.
4) Do absolutely fuck all about the culture of sexual or other harassment In the workplace..
© IBM, Facebook, Apple, Alphabet etc etc. ad nauseam.
GCC made a printer call the SelectPress 600 which had a contact on the drum designed to make it fail after a few thousand prints. Most people worked out that after about 10 minutes of fiddling with a spring on the drum you could make it last pretty much forever - a very significant cost saving.
In 1992 I was "ordered" to get on a plane to Helsinki to sort out their brand new LaserJet IIIP* along the basis of "get out here and sort it out now!" (but in uppercase) without any option to check what was actually wrong with the printer over the phone. Took the usual spare cartridge, spare fuser, spare ream of A4 50gsm (makes it easier to shred and burn). Got there and simply switched on the printer and asked "where is the problem?" to the incredulous staff. Turns out that nobody had ever told them that you have to switch the printer on.
Overnight stay in a 5-star hotel plus business class return flight all billed to an already diminished budget of Our Very Angry Man in Helsinki.
* Best printer ever made IMHO. almost never caused errors and everything could be quickly disassembled and reassembled in minutes.
Clippy: "Hey, it looks like you have too many people in this room. Would you like me to report this to the Social Distancing Police?"
Me: "No that's my family"
Clippy: "Hey, it looks like you have too many people in this room. Would you like me to report this to the Social Distancing Police?"
Me: "No that's my family"
Clippy: "Happy to say that I have reported this to the Police. Have a Nice Day."
There is a lovely urban myth about Margaret Thatcher and The Met Office, regarding their asking for funding for a new super computer. She told them that if they could accurately predict the weather for 30 days then she would consider their request. For the next 30 days the weather forecasts were very much spot on, resulting in Mrs T saying that since they could now forecast the weather correctly then why did they need a new computer?
<loop>
1) Admit it is a complete failure.
2) Blame the sheer numbers for failure.
3) Organise a government inquiry into why and appoint Dido Harding's husband/dog/horse as chair.
4) Inquiry absolves Dido of all wrongdoing
5) Create new body for contact tracing
6) Appoint Dido as CEO
</loop>
If you are going to mention radar then you should include Sir Henry Tizard in that as well. It is also worth noting that the Frisch–Peierls memorandum came about as a result of both Frisch and Peierls being excluded from work on radar due to their German nationality. Tizard was sceptical of the likelihood of an atomic bomb being developed, reckoning the odds of success at 100,000 to 1, and gave Frisch and Peierls this project to see if they could prove him wrong.
Having been mauled for their inability to deliver Hertz's website one might have thought the USAF would have done their research.
Wait, what I am saying? it's government so of course the most expensive and least competent tender wins the contract.
Yeah, strange that "IBM is best' for how many years is that now? Could not have anything to do with how much Gartner are paid by vendors I suppose.
In the hope that somewhere out there is a Bender selling cheap solar panelling to unsuspecting alien civilisations.
The Galaxy Song song was never so true, "And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space, 'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth!"
I am sure it is an excellent game but I am soooo sick of overlong cutscenes and "ooh, look at the resolution and details of of our videos". CoD WW2, for example, was basically a sequence of extremely long angst-ridden cutscenes with miniiscule gameplay sandwiched inbetween.
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