Posts by Burning Man

The server's down. At 3AM. On Christmas. You're drunk. So you put a disk in the freezer

DAT tape?

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Japan on Olympic hacking mission to test utilities, trains, telcos

Re: Cyber

Obligatory XKCD https://xkcd.com/1573/

The BBC's Space: A short history of 21st Century indoor relief

Re: The issue with the Beeb..

Well said.

...the absolutely best way to kill and great idea is present it to a committee to 'manage' it

Data AWOL? Thank God for backup. You backed up, right?

Re: Tell the management

Managers cop a lot of flack, sometimes rightly so, but they only go off the information they're given.

Any IT department worth it's salt will have records of having sent spend requests off, with at least broad strokes implications if the money isn't made available.

Businesses will be very adverse to company ending risk - it's up to IT to make sure the risks are properly understood, and if you fundamentally disagree with a mid-management mook making a bad call to save a few quid, go over their head. You'll probably find the CEO has a very different point of view on the matter (and with any luck will take some time to re-educate or replace said mook).