Posts by Giles C 172 posts • joined 1 Jul 2015
No matter what words you use will be offensive to someone somewhere.
Therefore we should get the sha256 value of different sizes of the register logo file, and use blocks of 8 characters to form the function names.
Stuff readability or even getting programs to work....
Mind you someone would find an objection to 4cf67y62
How long before someone objects to Cisco config which uses NO in front of virtually every command to negate the effect.
I,e. Shut, no shut
I actually found that with a company router.
Router had been setup for telnet access only, I idly searched on shodan and got a login prompt.
Quick explanation to my boss and an ACL was added to remove all access from any address not in Rfc1918 got me enough breathing space to plan an upgrade to a newer image.
As someone who has worked as a contractor I think the following would be acceptable to most.
75% of your daily rate is taxed as an employee (as long you as you are above the threshold) the remaining 25% can then be put aside to cover sick, holiday, company fees etc. The corporation tax is only charged on that 25% as that is your profit margin.
I.e. contractor earns £1000 week
Pays tax on £750
£250 goes into the company and gives you the buffer for equipment, training, holiday, sickness etc
Seems sensible as an employee you have 10% of your working year as holiday, training included, sick pay included etc.
I do the same but never have had this problem. It might be that i setup a catchall@(domain) email where anything unspecified goes into - I usually empty it once a week, sometimes 5 emails sometimes 500!
Anyone sending to anything at (domain) well it will get delivered but not read....
Buy a tv with a slideshow function built in, stick images on a usb stick and leave it to get on with it.
Most TVs can play images from a usb these days and it is a lot simpler and less prone to borkage.
When I was at Thomas Cook we just had a media player console running all the screens in the shop. Completely black box solution which if it failed was swapped out.
What about telling domestic and feral cats apart?
Conspiracy theorists just prove how factional people can get.
Take this joke for example....
Once I saw this guy on a bridge about to jump. I said, "Don't do it!" He said, "Nobody loves me." I said, "God loves you. Do you believe in God?"
He said, "Yes." I said, "Are you a Christian or a Jew?" He said, "A Christian." I said, "Me, too! Protestant or Catholic?" He said, "Protestant." I said, "Me, too! What franchise?" He said, "Baptist." I said, "Me, too! Northern Baptist or Southern Baptist?" He said, "Northern Baptist." I said, "Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist or Northern Liberal Baptist?"
He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist." I said, "Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region, or Northern Conservative Baptist Eastern Region?" He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region." I said, "Me, too!"
Northern Conservative†Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1879, or Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912?" He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912." I said, "Die, heretic!" And I pushed him over.
It is the same with most things, there is always a smaller and smaller faction ready to grab the headlines, however the most heretical (and I use this not in a religious space) are parents complaining about mobile phone towers near schools, and then sitting outside checking their phones when picking up their offspring.
Well as the article says patch Tuesday then exploit Wednesday.
I’m sure someone will be busy working out how to exploit machines which haven’t got the patches installed yet, and probably have something out to spam users with tonight...
Actually happened where I was working.
Door entry button, with the emergency stop button below.
Somebody hit the emergency button and then the same person did it again a month later.
We then had a guard fitted so you had to hit it very hard to make contact.
The properly aged cheddars (at least 18 months) are good.
But then we have
Red Leicester
Wensleydale
Cheshire - the sharper the better
Most of the other hard cheeses
I’m not a fan of blue cheeses.
But the worst cheese in the world is mild cheddar.... you may as well chew a bar of soap for all the flavour it doesn’t have.
Now I don’t drink tea or coffee personally.
But a good few years ago I went on a trip to Le Mans with some friends, there were 3 of them who drank tea, we were there for 4 days, they took a brand new bag of 1000 tea bags and brought back maybe 100 , so basically 300 tea bags each over 4 days or 75 a day, they were brewing up at least 3 or 4 times an hour all day.
How?
There are two bug numbers quoted in this article
Cve (common vulnerability and exposure) which is at 2020-12637 and covers most of the products out there
Save (Samsung vulnerability and exposure) is at 2020-16747 which if I am reading this correctly Samsung has found more security bugs in its own products than the cve has listed for all security bugs....
Wow..... unless I am reading the numbers wrong
Yes the short term shareholders will winge, but as the comment above states they are expected to suffer the good and bad times. Besides if they do this, then they aren’t going begging for handouts or issuing new shares and they should come out in a better state that a lot of companies (virgin altantic?]
The problem is with “targeted” ads is half the stuff once bought you don’t need again for years.
If I was to buy a garden rake, it will last me 20 years (provided it is reasonable quality), therefore I don’t need another one. But no, I will be stalked around the web with loads of adverts to buy more rakes, if they looked and said you have bought a rake do you want a hoe, then they might stand a chance of making a new sale but the algorithms can’t process that sort of logic...
If I bought a pack of bog roll then yes I will need another pack relatively soon.... but I would just nip out to the shop and get one now the great bog roll panic of 2020 seems to be over....
From the article
He insisted that "there is no PII (Personally Identifiable Information) data in there
In today's post on the matter, Microsoft stated: "In the Employee Experience area there is now user-level granularity in all categories to help you determine who needs upskilling”
So if the first line is correct how does the second bit work....
Also Regarding time tracking.
Most people get in power up the laptop, open outlook, teams etc and go an get a drink whilst it syncs all the changes from the previous day (5 - 10 minutes usually).
Mind you when you get in and the machine starts on windows updates for 15 minutes that is annoying but not as bad as when you are finishing for the day....
I used it between two buildings because they only put one duct in when the built the second site, only problem was the fixed link failed and it was running on the laser. Nobody had noticed and we got a day of freezing fog, when refracted the beam so it couldn’t reach the other side.
We had to go over to the site and when we got there you couldn’t see either building from the road (60 feet from the kerb).
I recently put a point to point radio in for another site and these days it is a lot more reliable and just as fast
According to this rule which covers everything bought in the uk. (I am not legally trained or own one of these)
Within six months of purchase, it’s up to the retailer to prove that you caused the problem with the goods: if they can’t, they’ll have to repair or replace the goods or give you a refund if that’s not possible.
After this initial six-month period, you will have to prove that any faults are not down to misuse of the product or general wear and tear. This might require you to obtain an expert report, opinion or evidence of similar problems across the product range. Factors such as the price, the specification/model of the goods, the length of time you’ve had the goods and the length of time which they should last will all be considerations.
If all else fails, you have six years from when you bought the faulty goods to take a claim to the small claims court and reclaim the cost of repair of the product.
Now if the manufacturer bricks the appliance...... then they have created faulty goods.
Well I would guess that if you can power the planes by electric motors, then if someone comes up with some really efficient solar panels you could be on the way to a free fuel situation.
Thinking about it if the panels are good enough then as long as you are flying in daytime almost zero cost. Flying at night might be a bit trickier....?
Well, I had just started at a company 22 years ago, and there was a big ups in the corner. It had an emergency bypass button on the front. For some reason best known to the manufacturer the button sat 1mm proud of the surrounding panel, and was built with a hair trigger.
I had been there for a week and was doing some work in the server room and my knee caught this button powering down the computer room.
The solution was to stick a backup tape box over the switch with sellotape so it could be removed if needed buy not if kneeded....
I was still working there until 18 months ago....
As someone who is very colour-blind and also knowing how bad the colour calibration is on different monitors I can’t see why they need to be able to address so many colours.
Mind you there is probably some designer out there who wants to move one colour register by a tenth of a percent to make it true to their ideal, although you would have thought using Pantone colours would be best as they can be the same no matter what you want to present to (screen, print etc)
A friends dog is biased against black dogs (he is a white Staffordshire terrier), other dogs no issue, black dogs doesn’t like.
They reckon is because is it harder to read the intent of a black dog as opposed to a lighter colour fur, presumably this is down to when you see the teeth you can’t tell if it is yawning, having its tongue hang out or getting ready to fight, and you can’t see the eyes against the fur....
So perhaps the data set was trained using dogs.....
Just watched the video on the esa website showing the crafts route, that is a phenomenal amount of calculations to get that calculated.
Some people can’t even find there way to work without a satnav (I did hear a story years ago that someone had a car with a satnav, it went in for a service and they were given a loan car without the satnav, they then got lost on the way to the place they had worked for a couple of years...)
Truly amazing.
Given what I have seen on the roads
I think there are some drivers that would fail to notice if there car was sat on by an elephant.
The best one was a car that created its own smokescreen the back was completely covered in soot, or the one where two wheels were flat.
So most people are completely unaware of what there car is doing.
That type of manager is a seagull manager, having one of those would make me start looking for a new job immediately.
My preferred manager type asks me to do something, let’s me get on and if there are any issues I let them know.
If all he’ll breaks loose they deal with the managers and let me fix the problems.
Not as bad as the ransom operators but I just got this email in my junk folder - somehow it is staying there.....
We are all affected by the growing COVID-19 pandemic. It's an unprecedented health challenge and we know people and organizations everywhere want to help. The World Health Organization is leading and coordinating the global effort, supporting countries to prevent, detect, and respond to the pandemic.
The greatest need right now is to help ensure all countries are prepared, especially those with the weakest health systems. Donations support WHO’s work to track and understand the spread of the virus; to ensure patients get the care they need and frontline workers get essential supplies and information; and to accelerate efforts to develop vaccines, tests, and treatments.
Now you can help us by donating any amount you want with the help of BITCOIN NETWORK
DONATE NOW with Bitcoin payment
World Health Organization bitcoin address (BTC Wallet) for donations is: (no I am not publishing the code)
Your contribution will matter!
© 2020 WHO
World Health Organization
Having seen some print jobs from a training department 100+ page double sided documents 30 odd copies. It is obvious cloud printing will bring your internet link to such a slow rate that you won’t be able to watch cat videos!
Seriously what are these people on, just print to the devices up address and save on the infrastructure
I joined a company in 97 IBM AS400 token ring bridges CAUs and LAMs all over the site using type 1 cabling.
I remember upgrading the network to token ring switches (IBM8272) to improve performance and then we moved over to Ethernet about 2005. Btw an old 3550 series switch can be brought down if you have a cat 5 to type 1 token ring wired cable connected. If it is wired for Ethernet then it will be fine but wired for token ring it shorts out the Tx and Rx lines.
I looked at a smart thermostat, and went instead for a radio linked thermostat so it can be with me in whichever room is best, and a plain old mechanical on/off clock on the boiler.
Simple reliable and the only problem is if you get a power failure, or turn it off for some reason you have to remember to reset the clock.
I am looking at a bathroom refit and they will now sell you an app controlled shower. Please explain to this network security engineer, why I need to set the temperature on my shower using a phone! I am going for a thermostatic mixer bar, cheaper and more reliable, and a lot easier to install.
Nothing smart in my house... unless you mean the cat who is trying to outwit me and winning.
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