Posts by Disk0

Happy Sysadmin Day!

kzrt!...

3 Olympics and one Audi...

White House to bung electric car industry $4.5bn in loans

perceived risks associated with technology

Not all power has to come from "the grid", which at this point seems more inefficient every day. But I guess it's all the rage to ignore the possibility of new developments.

Gartner's hype cycle turned upside down to assess Brexit

Right, full vertical is so much more efficient...

I guess Gartner did not dare draw the real curve...

...for fear of the Backslash

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Also, wasn't the process description already upgraded to "Brexageddon"...?

Mine's the one without any character whatsoever....

Re: Stages of grief

Not so fast, French farmers LOVE to haggle and might just beat you to the cinch...

BOFH: Free as in free beer or... Oh. 'Free Upgrade'

Re: Sorted

Do you mean to imply you do not own a BFG9000? Are you sure you are an IT professional?

Сфзшефдшые Фьфеугкы

Шт Кгыышфб зкштеук сфдшикфеуы нщг!

She wants it. She needs it. Shall I give it to her or keep doing it by myself?

It's called job security, computers that just work leave you with nothing to do and management wondering what the hell you are doing all day.

Ironically I failed miserably at establishing job security by standardising, idiot-proofing and automating everything, which was my job.

Now I do nice home renovations for people who are actually happy with my work, and generally assume they do not understand what is going on so they leave it to me. Another plus is I never get any calls about the oven drivers being out of date, thermostats not playing fullscreen or the laminate flooring not being colour accurate....

I know we'll get there soon enough, I already run into the odd drooling IoT aficionado wanting me to hook up their nest, but at least now I can fake ignorance convincingly.

I still also do IT work, but nothing that has to do with users fortunately...

Re: Reading this leaves me with one simple question...

Obviously she did not know what she wanted, what she was doing, or what she was looking for, or she would have restored just those files.

Isn't it interesting how IMPORTANT stuff is to users when they have to actually pay attention to what the EFF they're doing, even more interesting to see how they can't be arsed with the details once they hit the grind and RESTORE ALL TEH THINGS because that will probably be the best solution to retrieve the document where they changed every instance of "You're stoopid" to "You are stupid" but forgot to click the floppy icon....

Re: Bah!

To be fair it was short for Get Out

Re: Obsessive

27 copies of Hello World on 13 different types of media in 7 locations. ALWAYS use prime numbers for everything. Visual copies on microfilm stored in a saltmine, as well as the whole thing painted on the roof of the building in the form of QR codes.

Dee dabb doo da doo dabbs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1IqqlW1U4k

Re: Been there, done that...

yes

Alleged skipper of pirate site KickAss Torrents keel-hauled in Poland

Re: Here's a thought...

We can't all go around buying 100.000.000 dollar movies, there are barely enough for the people of Iceland. Or is there some unknown Hollywood crypt full of megaproductions that we don't know about? SOMEBODY LEAK SOMETHING

1 billion

that's like, 1 movie. If someone stole the Dark Knight, use the freakin' batsignal already.

Mine's the one that says "prerelease for insider review only" on the label...

What about the knowledge ... or perhaps the secrets

Blimey, are we going to have to go back to reading scientific journals or asking our friendly local students - or maybe just watch the TV to know how stuff works?

Boffins unveil 500TB/in² disk. Yeah, it's made of chlorine. -196˚C, why?

oopsie...

...I dropped my datacenter and it slipped between the cracks of the floor...

Since you love Flash so much, Adobe now has TWO versions for you

You deserve

A complimentary icon for so clearly verbalizing my sentiments on the matter.

(Let's just hope 3 nukes suffice or we may have to deploy the Bieb)

You can’t sit there, my IoT desk tells me

Have you tried

A hanging desk? The type that is attached to cables spun from the floor to the ceiling, and have the stability of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge when the nor'easter picks up 50 knots.

I'm still waiting for some intrepid upstart to conjure up a waterdesk - one that uses the capillary pressure of dihydrogen monoxide to elevate your work surface while also providing hot water for your tea and a bong funnel, with coloured lights and robot fishies inside.

Personally I prefer a desk that doesn't stand, since I have no "top" or "plasma" to stand on any such contraption - it's lotus all the way, 15 incher snugly resting on my knees, drink to the left of me, ashtray to the right, here I am, stuck in front of the TV.*)

*) special thanks to The Woz for making userfriendly computing happen, Stealers Wheel for figuring out the circus and The Honorable Monsignor Aldasaur Dubs Esq. for providing well-received ammo.

Fear and Brexit in Tech City: Digital 'elite' are having a nervous breakdown

Re: The current plan does not matter

In my lifetime there was a referendum about the European Community membership of the UK in 1975 and the vote by 67% was to stay In. So no history repeating this time.

My plan to heal this BROKEN, BREXITED BRITAIN

such diverse cultures

If nothing else, we all drive on the same side of the road, which does add to a feeling of familiarity wherever we go.

Medicos could be world's best security bypassers, study finds

The Medico God complex.

That is all. It can never be fixed, every hospital just needs a Samaritan style surveillance machine to keep track of who's inside and what they are doing. Invasive, yes, but so is surgery.

Mine's the one without the beeper.

Osborne on Leave limbo: Travel and trade stay unchanged

Re: Wishful thinking

Is probably at the root of the situation but yeah. EU, much like any club, is members only, fees are due, rules need to be followed.

The UK has decided it wants to cut ties with the EU, and cancel the membership, so the benefits that came with the membership also will be cancelled.

Just like when you cancel your Internet subscription you will not be able to shop on Amazon.

Or like the Rotary won't appreciate me barging in there with a dozen drunk hooligan friends to plunder the bufffet.

Re: kicking more holes

1. if it is possible to kick a hole in your magnificent ship of state you might want to consider its structural integrity.

2. After basically steering said ship of state straight into an iceberg, any additional holes created by frightened passengers trying to get out, will add little to the speed at which it was going down already.

Re: Growing Sense of bereavement..

How about draft all the "Leave" voters, have them roll up their sleeves and earn back that two trillion before august. Just keep a stiff upper lip and get it done chaps!

I'll put the kettle on. Teas will be seventy pounds, with cream 110.

Time to re-file your patents and trademarks, Britain

Re: 'EU' -> 'UK' -> 'K'

How about "Fomer United Kingdom" analogues to the FYROM: "Former Yugoslavian Republic Of Macedonia"

Sliced your submarine cable? Fill in this paperwork

Re: Pedantic

Potentially about to be cut, I don't see any cutting action whatsoever in the photo. One can only hope.

Tech firms reel from Leave's Brexit win

Re: "where this leaves us in Britain"

Take ball, go home, complain that you're no longer part of the game, wonder why nobody else gives a toss.

Disco, Pogs, and the Microsoft Surface 3

Re: Let me Google that new term "surface", was it?

"a bug in the Windows key that does not always work"

As opposed to the bug always working, like an ant on trucker pills, and likewise ocnstantly interfering with whatever it is you are trying to do.

Dev boss: What will Microsoft do with Windows 10 Mobile? Surprise – it's for work!

Keep trying

they might just sell enough to run a beta

I want to learn about gamification but all I see is same-ification

Re: Repetitious

And here I am pressing these same old keys to write same old words in a somewhat different order in hopes of staving off existential dread for another couple of moments instead of submitting to the illusion that playing chess will increase my intellectual powers as long as I keep defeating the next Boss...

Mew Sick Television is old hat, we use the Internet to watch cats throwing up now...

It's still the echo chamber of the music industry and likewise seems to be run by grumpy old gits who only care about the next tuppence in booster fees or whatever their bakshish is called. I can't recall them ever contributing to anything in the way of development in music except to promote sales of predestined material. And as long as I can remember the old gits refer to yoof as "the MTV generation" as if it's somehow what inspired us all to become the mediocre nuisances they project us to be.

After watching Braindead I realised: it's all just an elaborate plot to get us to buy Cars singles and become host to alien Formicidea.

zero synergy

is that like the new Men At Work

Holy Crap! Bloke finishes hand-built CPU project!

But

will it run Crysis...

And all I ever built is a lightswitch. Thanks for making us all feel like tinkering knobheads.

Pressure mounts against Rule 41 – the FBI's power to hack Tor, VPN users on sight

SMH

Shaking My Head sounds about right. Props to Wyden and Paul for addressing this flagrant attempt at appropriating everyone's online space.

BOFH: Follow the paper trail

the presenter needs to sign for completion...granted it should be trivial to forge their signature since it would probably look like the remains of a praying mantis...

Re: A working system? That's an optional add-on.

They always seemed to have a knack for stating exactly what a thing would be doing, without ever making the mistake of clarifying what is needed for it to work. "This $500 software allows you to rotoscope video onto morphing 3d objects" I almost bought it until I realized, the software is a plug-in for a behemoth of a system that requires it's own powerstation and a crew of specialists to operate, and actually consists of 5 separate systems, each bespoke, and each requiring a stack of software that requires hand-configuring by certified (read: 250 an hour) engineers to work - all of it so expensive one could buy a tropical island instead, just use that as the movieset and still retire comfortably. My big takeaway from the presentation was that if you don't already have all of their stuff, you are a laughable amateur, so look at the amazing shampoo commercial we made using this.

'I am not a lizard' Zuckerberg proclaims in public Q&A

sociopath

that is all

Let's play: 'IT values or hipster folk band?'

Interpretative Dance

is what we are asked to do with these mantras. Assume Praying Mantis and say NI.

UCLA shooter: I killed my prof over code theft

Lethal Potato

I'd see that movie.

Would YOU start a fire? TRAPPED in a new-build server farm

Sorry but...

...in this situation, power cables would stay out until I get out. You were locking in a death trap, with no way out, there is no amount of hazard pay that can justify that imo.

Bank in the UK? Plans afoot to make YOU liable for bank fraud

Banks have been charging us for the privilege of being defrauded by them

so it's only natural we also get the blame for any and all fraud. If we'd all just stop using banks, they could finally stop complaining.

Sick of storage vendors? Me too. Let's build the darn stuff ourselves

Don't speak to me...

....or my SAN ever again.

I do apologize, mine's the one with the "Internet Humour For Dummies" book in the left pocket...

Cloudy desktops are as mature as cloudy servers … from 2008!

Re: During the meanwhile ...

Seeing the average computer user produces mostly text, I think your ZX would get most of them through the day with no problem.

(And these 200ish text characters written on a machine that would qualify as a rather hefty supercomputer in the 80s that could probably process a small library in one go)

Rampant robot tries to rip my clothes off

Vee

Are ze rowboats

30 years on, Chernobyl wildlife still feeling effects of nuke plant catastrophe

...Now tell me again

...how nuclear is the safe option. Only one incident of this kind, but when we're stuck with the consequences basically forever, one is too many. But wait. There's more, like Fukushima...Yeah definitely safe.

Adobe scrambles to untangle itself from QuickTime after Apple throws it over a cliff

Re:Apple fan?

since when do Apple fans give a rat's ass about anything happening on the Windows platform? I sure as hell don't care if the beige beancounter boxes with the horridly dysfuntional operating system that is somehow supposedly on par with the media capabilities of the Mac except when it can't use Apple software, is able to play video, or just spreadsheets. Windows users have been tirelessly harping on about how Quicktime sucks, how teh WiMP is much better and Miultimedia was invented by IBM. If they want to watch video they can buy a TV, or use their UggsBox. Decades of pissing on Apple and Quicktime finally paid off, and they are on their own now.

Let them go and figure out how great their platform is without. I'll just sit here and grin at their fruitless efforts.*

As for Adobe, they stopped trying so long ago, they deserve whatever they get.

*) - 

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Big telco proxies go full crazy over cable box plan

For competitive corporations

they sure are scared of competition.