Posts by Prst. V.Jeltz

Watch a RAID rebuild or go to a Christmas party? Tough choice

Re: More pertinantly

A backup is not a backup until it is tested/restored is a very solid principle to live by , but :

And between polls it must be assumed to be in a degraded state.

Really ?How far are you going to take this ? how often do you poll? Whats the first thing you do when you suspect a degraded state? poll? You must be sat at your desk all day cycling between:

"The RAIDS broke"

"Oh wait , its ok "

"The RAIDS broke"

"Oh wait , its ok "

"The RAIDS broke"

"Oh wait , its ok "

"The RAIDS broke"

"Oh wait , its ok "

This is the military – you can't just delete your history like you're 15

I heard the other day that all those spellings were matching the English when the Americans went off to form America , and we changed them in the meantime to sound more French.

Rufus and ExplorerPatcher: Tools to remove Windows 11 TPM pain and more

Re: Thanks Rufus

Does it mean that the XP machine gets upset if a usb stick bigger than 8gb is used though?

Re: I wish it was retroactive.

"I don't understand what you're getting at here."

What he was getting at is a script that switches off all the crap on an existing windows installation.

Re: Just goes to show..

Dave null:

this is EXACTLY the sort of snidey, malinformed comment that

Wow check out Dave's post history .

He's a very angry man , but obviously superior to the rest of us as we're doing it all wrong apparently .

British Army Twitter and YouTube feeds hijacked by crypto-promos

Re: I have a secure computer.

I dont know , do use the old 1541 drive with it?

could be a virus in those boot sectors just waiting for you to get a modem and a business productivity app and it'll email your files out...

Getting that syncing feeling after an Exchange restore

The word sync gives me the chills

Except the sync settings in the Palm software said 'take the most recent'.

Call me a dinosaur but I have never wanted to understand or use "sync" ing since it first started becoming foisted upon me when windows 95 started getting clever, wether it was mail , or files , or whatever.

I just stuck with , "Look I'll copy my shit from A to B myself thankyou ". I mean .. How does the machine know which pile of stuff is the "master" pile? Which leads to exactly the situation in this story - its my nightmare come true. Vindication!

I have recently been forced to embrace it , but the above is still a disaster waiting to happen in some form imho

Apple's guy in charge of stopping insider trading guilty of … insider trading

Re: It's exactly what you'd expect.

"This post has been deleted by its author"

awww!

i wanted to hear alt-left-conspiracy-nutbags rantings !

Everyone back to the office! Why? Because the decision has been made

Re: "The office"

The fact that the thing we are working away from is "the office" (not the factory ,or the site, or the field ), and the fact that the work can be done remotely, just shows that we are all secondary , support , admin / parasites really .

People taking care of the basics: food, warmth , shelter , (or actually "making" something - remember that? ) and supplying that stuff and then carting the leftovers away are the real workers. And ironically , probably getting paid the least.

ooh I've come over all commie. Seize the means of production!

And the award for ...

I think my work from home office chair would win "Most gaffer tape"

NOBODY PRINT! Selfless hero saves typing pool from carbon catastrophe

Re: Ah, the "good old days" ...

.... or you get back to find a "Start batch , are you sure ? (y/n) "

Re: aaargggh!

My god it was worse than i ever thought.

"Printing in order to scan in" is my pet hate (a far too polite phrase for my feelings on the practice) , but this takes the cake .

aaargggh!

A headline about printing and the first words are "Because that's how we've always done it"

I'm already "triggered" as the yoof call it

PowerShell pusher to log off from Microsoft: Write-Host "Bye bye, Jeffrey Snover"

Re: "Admins don't want command line interfaces"

I am totally all about the command line

I am constantly scripting in cmd , vbs (dont laugh it still works) and c#

I F*&^*g hate powershell though and use it only as a last resort and it only get subbed in to do the one thing from another script

those little egglet things or whatever ... uirggh

'Prolific' NetWalker extortionist pleads guilty to ransomware charges

I think thats a real risk . I get the impression these kind of criminals dont think its real until the FBI kick the door in .

So his former colleagues will probably see hiring a hitman from the dark net as fully justified and as much of a big deal as doing a mission in Grand Theft auto.

(See Ross Ulbricht as example)

The perfect crime – undone by the perfect email backups

Context!

you didnt really elaborate on what "Dealer" means in this case

If you didn't store valuable data, ransomware would become impotent

Let your customers hold their own data, and ask them for (limited) permission to use it

who is this article aimed at exactly?

Plot to defeat crypto meltdown: Solend votes to seize, liquidate whale account

Re: Grrr!

"Whale" is a term used by dubious investment consultants to describe a customer that's got a lot of money then sense.

Its also a term used by phishing type scammers when they stop trawling and concentrate all their efforts on hooking one big target.

its telling that this platform is using the term and about to "liquidate" their biggest customer

Airbus flies new passenger airplane aimed at 'long, thin' routes

Re: Must do better ...

The first ten hours you'll be queuing at security at MAN

Concerns that £360m data platform for NHS England is being set up to fail

Re: Purpose = profit

wow! why dont we do that in reverse and create a full blown health boom!

Re: Data grab

semantics!

They have some freedom to manage themselves but Doctors are free at point of service because the govt pays their salaries, Hence they are part of the NHS.

Dentists however , different story i wouldn't mind getting to the bottom of .

Most seem to be able to decline so called "NHS Patients" that dont make them as much money and be fully private.

Google engineer suspended for violating confidentiality policies over 'sentient' AI

not sentient? not AI

All these things the marketing people call AI now are obviously not , id they arnt sentient.

Whatever you do, don't show initiative if you value your job

Re: jumping out of plane with no parachute

Like jumping out of the plane with no parachute, hoping you'll eventually find one holding up, here in the air, while descending !

I seem to remember Ford Prefect jumping out of his office window with a similar plan at one point.

It worked for him.

Re: "So was James truly the guilty party?"

yes , it was like the wild west at the time .

I worked in a school at the time

the era of "European Computer Driving License"

and the amount of software that insisted on this was staggering .

People are writing this software , and selling it to customers where its an absolute cert the people using wont have admin rights

So was James truly the guilty party?

Hell to the yeah!

The guys a timebomb!

I didn't see at any point in the story the promised "using your initiative"

I just saw a guy pulling a proprietary system he knew nothing about to bits.

I bet the next weekend he'd have tried to improve the machines on the line by pulling bits off he deemed unnecessary

Meteoroid hits main mirror on James Webb Space Telescope

Red Dwarf

I'm put in mind of

"Holly once forced the boys from the Dwarf to evacuate Red Dwarf in the shuttles when she spotted five Black Holes on the scannerscope. After piloting the ship past them, she realised that they were merely five specks of grit on the scannerscope. ("Marooned", Series III)"

Alibaba sued for selling a 3D printer that overheated, caught fire, and killed a man

Humiliation: 1.4x multiplier

In an ideal world that would be more of a reason NOT to use the word if it didnt happen.

but lawyers .....

UK police to spend tens of millions on legacy comms network kit

I didnt really follow that

so whats wrong with what they're using at present?

Taiwan bans exports of chips faster than 25MHz to Russia, Belarus

Re: Sans The Snark

and are we the civilised western nations not recognising these heroes who are weakening Russia's war effort by giving them work visas?

Brute force and whiskey: The solution to all life's problems

Screw that I'm not doing it

heading to a nearby village and finding a retired farmer willing to take some chances

I'm having real trouble envisioning this.

Guy in white coat pops into country pub and says:

"Hi Everyone , I'm from the rocket site down the road , we need a volunteer to stand next to the rocket and unplug a cable when we blast off .

We asked around in the office but no one is stupid / mad enough to do it , so .... here I am "

Logitech's MX Mechanical keyboard, Master 3S mouse

Re: Handy, then, that Logitech appears to have all bases covered?

Why would a mouse need software?

even one festooned in accidentally pressable sticks and buttons?

surely that should be industry standard by now negating the need for added unreliable drivers and crap with it?

like , for instance , a USB mass storage device

Keeping your head as an entire database goes pear-shaped

I've always wondered why thats the case. I can sort of see it with SQL injection,

but all those cases of "We overloaded 'the buffer' and so this code ran on the remote machine .... "

it did? wow! how lucky for you !

amazing to think that cause would lead to that effect .

Being a careful chap, he also took a copy of the directory of the application from the Programs Folder. Just to make sure he had a copy of the data.

When i first read that I assumed he knew for damned sure the file(s) he was backing up was the file(s) holding the data.

Seems not . you' think he'd know by the size if nothing else.

This writer well remembers an occasion several decades ago where a DBA was so convinced that a running database meant database files would be locked that a swift DEL *.* could be used to remove redundant files. There were no backups then either.

Man , that guy had some balls!

BOFH: Where do you think you are going with that toner cartridge?

Now thats the way to get the elusive paperless office dream into reality!

New York City rips out last city-owned public payphones

Re: Redundancy?

Why do you need landline payphones for redundancy?

Dont you have landline phones in residences in NY?

To carry the broadband at least?

Amazon puts 'creepy' AI cameras in UK delivery vans

just a stop gap

Fleshbag drivers are on the way out anyway.

This is probly training for the AI drivers

Beware the fury of a database developer torn from tables and SQL

Re: Just a quick question.

If your product is not already available in a language, why did you let the marketing cockwomble survive long enough to complete the sale?

Spot on.

Its not just the language, there could be any number of things required in Italy not factored in to the code.

Siesta breaks , mafia payoffs , anything .

Your data's auctioned off up to 987 times a day, NGO reports

Re: Clicked my 1st advert link in a long time

The same ad now appears on

yeah but ... so what? If it wasnt a Tshirt it'd be some other crap even less relevant.

what have you lost?

adverts for other junk?

We can bend the laws of physics for your super-yacht, but we can't break them

well you've clearly got the measure of him1

Although if you read the article really carefully you'll see the true meaning :

There was a lengthy silence, thankfully not punctuated with a "Don't you know who I am?" from the owner.

Sadly I was busy that year, so they took someone else I knew who was the party host. It was freezing, rained all day off the Kyle of Lochalsh and they’d ran out of gas for the stove that morning at breakfast.

You can easily simulate sailing in Scotland - stand under a cold shower with your clothes on, ripping up ten pound notes.

Your software doesn't work when my PC is in 'O' mode

Octane boost ?

Re: Oh power related calls

more than once i've had:

"Come quick! very important! , the Top Brass are all in the conference room and suddenly its just 'crashed' "

The Top Brass are not great at checking wether the plughole they are plugging their shiny expensive battery powered toys into is switched on.

Re: Academics can be stupid too

I had virtually the same thing , also at a college

the best way this professor could describe "System boot fail: Error booting from disk in drive A"

was "I cant get my email"

This news did reach me via some sort of helpdesk , so i'm blaming them even more than the victim user.

so it's vaguely understandable

no. no its really not . I worked desktop support for far longer than average ,longer than anyone should , in a variety of environments , and I've been reading anecdotes like this since the internet was accessed with Netscape.

I've seen it all.

This is by far the stupidest support call I ever heard of. I'm having trouble believing it , as another poster noted.

Its either a prank, or made up entirely or ... well the alternative doesn't bear thinking about

Autonomous Mayflower to attempt Atlantic crossing, again

Re: Fair winds

The phrase "They did that in Superman 3" is usually reserved for the' money transaction rounding off' scam when its brought up .

They also did this oil tanker thang too!

I wonder what else from that movie will come true?

runaway traffic signals?

overly generous ATM machines?

The leaning tower of pizza being straightened?

The rogue underground AI supercomputer?

Re: Not the ultimate goal ?

The only reason for automating a ship is to make cargo ships that don't need personnel on board

I'm sure there are some itinerate South American farmers who have already mastered this. They just keep quiet about it.

In IT, no good deed ever goes unpunished

Re: Management sometimes has very weird ideas

under the impression this could be repeated during subsequent budgetary cycles.

Suit mentality.

"we downsized the workforce by 50% and saved on wage bills with little lack of productivity"

"wow , so if we sack the other 50% ? "

Google bans third-party call-recording apps from Play Store

Re: This call may be recorded for training purposes...

Whats the definition of "share" ?

putting it out on the torrent sites?

selling it to other companies ?

internal staff listening to it " for training"

surely if even one person replays the recoding , even in a dark room , its been shared?

(hmm , maybe excluding the original participants)

Now i think about it I'm not happy my conversation is being shared because the answers to all my security questions are on it!! :(

ZX Spectrum, the 8-bit home computer that turned Europe on to PCs, is 40

Re: On this side

i didnt know the STEM acronym was that old!

I thought it was invented a few years ago by politcians and dragged out annually to promote girls careers in the area