Re: Enough
Scouse
Posts by Picky
53 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Dec 2014
Um, almost the entire Scots Wikipedia was written by someone with no idea of the language – 10,000s of articles
The safest place to save your files is somewhere nobody will ever look
Saturday 12th October 2019 07:45 GMT 
Quicker backups ...
In the days of 10/20 MB drives with 3 in drives .. I was supporting a group of 12 local newspapers. They were all shown how to "backup" the editors PC weekly to disks after sending to the central printers,
Each babkup took a box of disks a week. However the Editors charged with this onerous task started running out of blank disks and decided to improvise by a new disk compression/reduction method - they kept reinsertinhg the same didk when prompted for next one. Hey prestto the 1 .44MB dsk holdong a 20MB backup - NOT.
Tech security at Equifax was so diabolical, senators want to pass US laws making its incompetence illegal
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Boss sent overpaid IT know-nothings home – until an ON switch proved elusive
Friday 27th April 2018 10:26 GMT
Too much Power
I was sent to a big Printing exhibition in Barcelona to install software for our German distributor.
The Germans brought a load of Compaqs for me to install onto. None of them checked the power first. All the kit blew up - the Spanish electrician had wired the exhibition stand with 440V.
I always carry a testmeter when travelling!
29 MEEELLION iPhone Xs flogged... only to be end-of-life'd by summer?
There's a way to dodge Fasthosts' up-to-160% domain renewal hike but you're not gonna like it
Facebook pays, er, nope, gets £11m credit from UK taxman HMRC...
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Google may just have silently snuffed the tablet computer
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That's cold: This is how our boss told us our jobs are at risk, staffers claim
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Thursday 24th March 2016 08:11 GMT
Users can do it as well
In the 80's I installed publishing systems for about 15 local papers. Each site was given a few boxes of 720k 3.5" floppies for backing up after each edition.
Then one day I noticed that to "speed" things up the Editors were inserting disk 1, then disk 2 then disk 1, then disk 2 etc - to save using disks (needed a box for a full backup)
Google cloud wobbles as workers patch wrong routers
Tuesday 1st March 2016 13:55 GMT 
Easy to do - especially when the boss is involved
About 12 years-ago I did IT for a small University. We had a massive, new, £2M+ Cisco network installed. I emailed the project manager with some patch changes - specifically Floor 5 Box 1 etc, etc. When the whole of my post grad department fell apart discovered that he had gone to Floor 2 Box 1 to repatch.
What made it worse was that he used an Access database - and didn't have a backup/printout of the original patches he had fucked up. I left a year later.
Toaster cooks network and burns 'expert' user's credibility to a crisp
Sunday 28th February 2016 12:36 GMT 
Allways carry a multimeter
Many years ago I was flown out to Barcelona to install software at a huge Print exhibition. The hardware was supplied by our German distributers - new Compaq's
The Spanish electricians managed to wire the stand with 440V - and nobody checked - every PSU blew when powered on. The Germans were able to fly in several replacement PSU's overnight - so the show did go on.
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Ex-TalkTalker TalkTalks: Records portal had shared password. It was 4 years old
Thursday 11th February 2016 12:46 GMT
Talk Talk Talk
Several years ago one of my clients changed to TalkTalk - without telling me. It was a pub in Birmingham with a few Wifi boxes and a Smoothwall firewall. After 5 HOURS on the phone to them all they could come up with was to reset to factory defaults - which was not going to happen as it would break everything else. Yes they do like to talk Talk Talk ....
Terrible infections, bad practices, unclean kit – welcome to hospital IT
Three-years-late fit-to-work IT tool will cost taxpayers £76m
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Ahmed's clock wasn't a bomb, but it blew up the 'net and Zuckerberg, Obama want to meet him
Thursday 17th September 2015 07:47 GMT
Re: @Neil Barnes
50 years ago I took a home-made contraption into my physics class - made of old GPO relays - you had to tap a switch in time with a click - or get 60V up your arm. No problem. Later I built a rocket powered by Sodium Chlorate - which did get me into some trouble when it exploded on takeoff at the beach. Later in life I ended up as Specials Editor for ETI magazine went on to found 80 Micro in the States.
Well, what d'you know: Raising e-book prices doesn't raise sales
Wednesday 9th September 2015 09:57 GMT 
But new -GOOD- products can be priced high
Nearly 40-years ago I edited/published technical books about computers. We sold them for $29.95 - unheard off price at the time. Even Radio Shack ordered 10,000 at 50% discount.
There was nothing else on the market - so people paid the price for the quality/information. Bit like the iWatch?
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Would YOU make 400 people homeless for an extra $16m? Decision time in Silicon Valley
Duncan Campbell: GCHQ and me and a roomful of Reg readers
If you installed Windows 10 and like privacy, you checked the defaults, right? Oh dear
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Apple and Samsung are plotting to KILL OFF the SIM CARD - report
10 things you need to avoid SNAFUs in your data centre
Thursday 25th June 2015 08:09 GMT
Carry a test meter
I was flown out to a trade show in Barcelona, to install demo software for our German distributors.
The Germans brought a pile of shiny new Compaqs and a server.
The Spanish electrician turned up and connected the display stand.
Bang! 440V on all outlets - I always test the voltage with a meter ... the Germans hadn't
Biting the hand that feeds IT
