Posts by Hot Diggity

BOFH: You. Wouldn't. Put. A. Test. Machine. Into. Production. Without. Telling. Us.

Justice must move quickly in your part of the world.

BOFH: Pass the sugar, Asmodeus, and let the meeting of the Fellowship of Bastards … commence

Re: The weedy bloke

I totally agree with you regarding SharePoint. At last count I had 4 different My Documents directories located all over the place and could never find the one I wanted.

Everything now lives in C:\Diggity.

BOFH: 'What's an NFT?' the Boss asks. In this case, 'not financially thoughtful'

NFTs

So an episode of BOFH is an NFT?

BOFH: They say you either love it or you hate it. We can confirm you're going to hate it

Re: Who said anything…

I am seriously hoping that you aren't one of my overworked colleagues.

Although I will happily listen to your ideas in one of the many boring meetings that I sit through each week.

Re: ... to be continued ...

Or a indeed a situation involving Marmite, an escalator and the Tube.

With enough Marmite, who needs quicklime?

The possibilities are endless.

BOFH: You say goodbye and I say halon

Nitrogen rich environment

So the server room was filled with the proverbial?

BOFH: When the Sun rises in the West and sets in the East, only then will the UPS cease to supply uninterrupted voltage

Reminds me...

of almost every place I have ever worked.

Some manager wanting to refresh old stuff.

Newbies wanting to look keen.

Older, experienced hands knowing to volunteer for any other tasks going...

BOFH: I'm so pleased to be on the call, Boss. No, of course this isn't a recording

Dave

Turns out to be Simon's middle name.

Coincidence?

BOFH: But we think the UK tax authorities would be VERY interested in how we used COVID support packages

Auditors...

The only career with a bleaker life span than a manager of the BOFH.

BOFH: Postman BOFH's Special Delivery Service

Re: Still laughing..

I used to have 4 old Sun workstations in my home office.

My wife came in one day and looked at them stacked on my desk.

"Uh oh", I thought.

"Four workstations?" she asked. "Don't you think you should get a rack for those?"

Still very happily married...

BOFH: Gosh, IPv5? Why didn't I think of that? Say, how do you like the new windows in here? Take a look. Closer...

Re: I have a question

My guess would be Gina.

Boeing's 737 Max woes trigger BEEELLIONS in losses – and that's just for the latest quarter

Waiting for Trump to Make Boeing Great Again. D'oh, wrong initials, must be Make Airbus Great Again.

FBI boss: We went to the Moon, so why can't we have crypto backdoors? – and more this week

You don't need back doors. Just Australian Law. As Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnball said, Australian Law trumps the laws of mathematics governing encryption.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2017/07/14/malcolm-turnbull-says-laws-australia-trump-laws-mathematics/

NASA spots asteroid on crash course with Earth – with just hours to go

El Reg Units

Why is the Register changing the units again? I'd just converted everything to rhinoceroses on skateboards - https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/10/25/oz_trams_equivalent_to_30_skateboarding_rhinos/ and now you are switching to sheep. Standardise please!

Nadella tells worried GitHub devs: Judge us by our actions

Good times

Duel - one fabulous movie. Not a lot of plot, but the suspense... As good as anything else Spielberg ever did.

BOFH: But I did log in to the portal, Dave

Re: Been there!

I read this wondering the whole time if Simon was referring to Red Hat or Oracle. Guess this is widespread.

BOFH: Guys? Guys? We need blockchain... can you install blockchain?

Re: Magic Bean Technology

They are here in Australia. I'll meet you there. What are you having?

Windows 10 to force you to use Edge, even if it isn't default browser

Re: That will be an improvement

None of my colleagues are affected. One of the network admins must have taken a dislike to me :-(

Re: That will be an improvement

Thanks for that. I would except that certain internal applications *only* work with IE. Sigh.

That will be an improvement

My work PC runs Windows 10. Every time I reboot it, it switches the default browser back to IE. I've tried many suggestions to fix it, but none of them work.

I now have the Settings start on boot so that I can change the default browser back to my preferred as soon as it comes up.

Windows 7 was quite good and I didn't have any complaint with that one. Windows 10 is just horrible. Linux Mint which I use at on my personal laptop just works the way I want it to and if I could use it as the base OS on my desktop at work, I would.

BOFH: We want you to know you have our full support

I assumed that it referred to zapping the boss earlier. Agreed, so unclear. Perhaps it was a group zap.

Solaris 11.next becomes Solaris 11.4, but new features aren’t set

Re: Where's Oracle's Meltdown/Spectre press release?

It's not just calculators, Please don't forget toasters...

"Howdy doodly do. How's it going? I'm Talkie, Talkie Toaster, your chirpy breakfast companion. Talkie's the name, toasting's the game. Anyone like any toast?"

GitLab.com melts down after wrong directory deleted, backups fail

Expensive Mistakes

I'm reminded of someone who made a mistake that cost a company a large amount of money.

The person concerned was called to the CEO's office.

"I suppose that you want me to leave the company" he said shame-facedly.

"Leave? We just spent over $1 million on your education. Just don't do it again!"

Oracle finally targets Java non-payers – six years after plucking Sun

It doesn't help that Sun started adding the name Java to almost all of its products to spice up their name (remember Java Desktop System anyone?)

Getting asked to install Java on a server is always a pain as I go through the available downloads on Oracle's website wondering which of the myriad of Java software the client wants me to install. Hopefully this will put a stop to these requests.

BOFH: Follow the paper trail

Giselle and Gina sound awfully similar. Just sayin'.