Posts by g33k3ss

BOFH: The company survived the disaster recovery test. Just. The Director's car, however...

Credit will be given

I certainly appreciate the ideas for an infinitely better disaster simulation for the next company DR test. After all, if they're going to make us come in all day on a Sunday, we really want to make sure we're doing our best job!

Let's see what the sweet, kind, new Microsoft that everyone loves is up to. Ah yes, forcing more Office home users into annual subscriptions

Ransomware

Isn't this just basically ransomware? Pay us a fee, or you won't be able to open your files...

Google says it would have a two-word answer for Feds seeking Yahoo!-style email backdoor

That wasn't the two word response I expected.

I expected something a little more along the lines of "Eff You".

Yahoo! tries!, fails! to! shoot! down! email! backdoor! claim!

Specific authority

"We don't do that. And no court would grant us the authority to do that. We have to make a specific cast. And what the court grants is specific authority for a specific period of time for a specific purpose."

Specific time = As long as we want

Specific purpose = To see if anyone is saying anything "bad"

Sidenote: I just checked the text on the icon I used, and I find it appropriate as I live in Montana.

When Pornhub meets the Internet of Fridges

I mean usually...

...the frigid chicks don't put out!

VMware's secret security plan revealed

I would like to see this

As we're currently undergoing a massive Altor failure that at one point both blocked everything and then gave up and let everything through, this is very relevant to my (or our VM admin's) interests.

Cats, dogs starve as web-connected chow chute PetNet plays dead

Huh, my son does the same thing, but I have the opposite problem. He eats everything in the house while the rest of us are sleeping, and then we're the ones that starve.

Ex-Citibank IT bloke wiped bank's core routers, will now spend 21 months in the clink

Pah!

A good BOFH would never have been caught. And he would have taken out the backup routers too. Try harder next time.

Girls outpace boys in US IT and engineering test

Re: Ahh

As a female-type person who's been relatively successful in the IT industry across the pond for the last 15 years, please stop it with this tripe. If I had heard all the nonsense about rampant societal misogyny, I certainly wouldn't be where I am today. I was told I could do whatever I wanted to do, so I did. I'm terrified that this unfactual nonsense is just discouraging more and more women from doing what they want. After all, why even try if the deck is so stacked against you.

The only misogyny I've ever experienced in my 15+ year career was from one person, yes, just one, who everyone knew was an arsehole. Personally, I love going to software conventions and training opportunities, and I dress exactly how I want to. Not to mention, it's one of the few places the guys are queuing in line for the restroom while I can just walk on in.

Please, please quit discouraging young women that really want an IT career. Those of us that are truly interested don't need any help or hand holding to achieve our success either.