Posts by martino

Your shoe, chewing gum, or ciggies are now your extra password

I don't have an object that I keep on my person at all times, but I do have a pattern of lines on my fingertips, that seem to be pretty unique. If I took a picture of those and used that as my "trinket", would that work?

BOFH: That's right. Turn it off. Turn it on

A long long time ago...

I was working on the helldesk. We had a user constantly complaining about the performance of her (admittedly rubbish) laptop. Said laptop was plugged into a CRT monitor. As part of an office wide upgrade, one weekend we swapped her monitor for a 14" flat screen.

Cue an effusive email thanking us for upgrading her laptop - performance was "so much better". In fact we never had a complaint about the laptop again.

Face down in a Shoreditch gutter: Attack of the kickstarting hipster

At last I can stop running up stairs

Every time I go up the stairs, I hear lasers being fired at me from behind - I've been living in fear for some months now. The psychotropic drugs have helped a bit, but they have some pretty strong side effects,

Thanks Dabbsy, a few weeks weaning myself off the meds and I'll be good as new. Though possibly not as fit...

Alien: cos they're the ones with the most advanced laser guns

Snakes on a backplane: Server-room cabling horrors

"Unfortunately, software-defined storage does not act as a comb for untangling knots."

In my cabling days, we used to call disentangling the Cat5 spaghetti before pulling into the rack "combing the old lady's hair"