Re: Fortune 500
Which company and why was it so good?
Also, had they outsourced and/or offshored?
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Connected car in the second-hand lot? Don't buy it if you're not hack-savvy
'At least I can walk away with my dignity' – Streetmap founder after Google lawsuit loss
Watson can't cure cancer ... or all the stuff that breaks IT projects
Errors in Australia's Centrelink debt recovery system were inevitable
Next Superdome CPU chips amble into HPE
Hold the phone! Crap customer service cost telcos £2.9 BEEEELLION in 2016
Two words, Mozilla: SPEED! NOW! Quit fiddling and get serious
Wednesday 15th February 2017 15:36 GMT 
Re: Firefox unloved by mozilla
Avoiding system proxy settings and being able to specify my own is one of the reasons why I have Firefox on my Mac. Annoyingly this Mac seems to get very confused and miss out bit of the proxy file causing it to swap proxies frequently, being able to override it and use a proxy is the right continent is very useful.
University DDoS'd by its own seafood-curious malware-infected vending machines
The Mail vs Wikipedia: They're more alike than they'd ever admit
Monday 13th February 2017 13:39 GMT
Simply saying "dayley-mayell" is enough to get you on a BBC Radio 4 comedy. Probably for life.
In case you haven't seen this wonderful spearing of the panel game format
2009 IBM: Teleworking will save the WORLD! 2017 IBM: Get back to the office or else
High tides: Boffins spy on dolphins baked on poisonous piscines
Munich may dump Linux for Windows
Monday 13th February 2017 09:42 GMT
Re: Replacing Linux with Windows, based on *cost*?
Good lord. What more can a mail client do than fetch,read,archive, compose and send e-mail
Calendars, task tracking, contacts... Of course working out if having them all together is a good thing is left as an exercise for the reader.
Outlook/Exchange can also do things like surveys within emails. If you go all in for Windows/Office then there are also things like (love 'em or hate 'em) OneNote, Skype for Business, SharePoint which all interact with each other.
You do need Windows really for this though, I'm on a Mac right now and not of the above work that well compared to Windows.
Run this in April: UPDATE Azure SET SQLthreat_detection = 'generally available'
Why software engineers should ditch Silicon Valley for Austin
Friday 10th February 2017 08:33 GMT
Britain doesn't value or pay technical people very well. You don't need to move as far as Texas or Australia to get a more sensible salary; places elsewhere in Europe like Germany and Switzerland both pay much better. Many international companies and universities in Continental Europe work in English these days too.
You'd better get used to lager and not Real Ale though... ->
IBM's Marissa Mayer moment: Staff ordered to work in one of 6 main offices – or face the axe
Wednesday 8th February 2017 18:17 GMT
My current least favourite sales tactic is sending you meeting invites so they appear in your calendar and intrusively pop up on my work phone too. The selfsame company also sent a message saying "Hi $NAME, no love for $CRAPPYCOMPANY". I actually quite like their products but have no inclination to engage with them.
They should all be forced to walk the plank ->
GCHQ cyber-chief slams security outfits peddling 'medieval witchcraft'
HPE SAN causes four-day outage at Australian Tax Office
Parliamentary Trump-off? Pro-Donald petition passes 100k signatures
We don't want to alarm you, but PostScript makes your printer an attack vector
'Alexa, manage my enterprise storage'
WTF is your problem, Netgear? Another hijack hole found in its routers
National Audit Office: UK's military is buying more than it can afford
Police pull up van man engaged in dual carriageway sex act
In real life, Q is a woman! Head of MI6 calls for more female techies at SIS
Northumbria Uni fined £400K after boffin's bad math gives students a near-killer caffeine high
Cutting Hewlett-Packard Labs down to size
Square Kilometre Array precursor shrinks 5TB of data to 22MB – every second!
Thursday 19th January 2017 15:36 GMT
Re: My desktop computer has 4TB and can easily write 22mb a second
2TB/day is a new storage array every 3-6 months, PLUS the power to keep it online.
This is one of the scenarios where scale-out NASes work rather well. I'd rather hope they have some kind of data management software to control what gets saved and archived etc.
College fires IT admin, loses access to Google email, successfully sues IT admin for $250,000
Uncle Sam sues Oracle for 'screwing over Asian, black and women staff'
EE slapped with £2.7m fine by Ofcom
UK, you Cray. Boffins flex ARM in 'first-of-its-kind' bonkers HPC rig
Wednesday 18th January 2017 16:18 GMT
Fun to watch
Other institutions like CSCS (Swiss National Supercomputing Centre) run their weather codes on Nvidia GPUS; it could be rather fun to see how these architectures perform in the medium to long term.
AI and robots? Will someone think of the jobs, says HPE CEO Whitman
Ransomware brutes smacked 1 in 3 NHS trusts last year
Tuesday 17th January 2017 12:43 GMT
HR Issue
Isn't it time that the hospitals regard allowing this kind of behaviour by staff as a disciplinary and not an IT issue? If $HOSPITAL_EMPLOYEE did something like leave a bag of leaking clinical waste out in a corridor or gossip about patients' illnesses then HR would get involved; I don't see why a negligent act* on a computer should be any different.
*I'm assuming the staff member is opening dodgy attachments and not some kind of "drive by" attack
Dovecot mailserver graded 'nearly impenetrable'
UK's largest hospital trust battles Friday 13th malware outbreak
Playpen child sex abuse archive admin gets 20 years in the Big House
Lloyds Bank customers still flogging the online dead horse
Thursday 12th January 2017 17:14 GMT
Re: halifax not working
Why it takes 2 or 3 days to get money from mainland europe to England in 2017 is beyond me.
It takes that kind of time to transfer money between accounts in my Swiss bank*. I miss the inter-bank money transfer speed that I used to have in the UK. I've heard that German banks are even less slower!
* I live in Switzerland, I'm not being "creative" with my taxes.
Wi-Fi for audiophiles: Alliance preps TimeSync certification program
AWS, you crack us up. Rebrands Westminster 'Webminster'
GoDaddy revokes 9,000 SSL certificates wrongly validated by code bug
How to secure MongoDB – because it isn't by default and thousands of DBs are being hacked
Wednesday 11th January 2017 17:03 GMT 
Maybe the people who installed Mongo just needed a webscale database or even just sharded /dev/null
British Hadoop security startup expands to New York to land big investor
US Navy runs into snags with aircraft carrier's electric plane-slingshot
Like stealing data from a kid: LA school pays web scum US$28,000 ransom
Tuesday 10th January 2017 16:45 GMT
Re: Live and learn, the hard way
I'd hazard a guess that, to an external observer, the difference between malware encryption and background disk defragmentation is quite small.
With disc fragmentation, surely it's just blocks being moved around the disc. I think that zipping files and deleting the originals would be nearer.
Tuesday 10th January 2017 16:43 GMT
Re: Live and learn, the hard way
There are backup strategies that offer a defense against this kind of attack but they add significant complexity to the system.This is a school system - probably with a system administrator who is getting paid a pittance,
This is a "school" in the American sense, so actually what we rightpondians would call a university.
Tuesday 10th January 2017 09:52 GMT
From the linked PDF:
How did we pay for it?The District has a cybersecurity insurance policy to address these specific types of cyber intrusions and it
was activated during this incident.
I cannot believe that insurance exists for paying out to ransomeware; it'll do is to support the "market" for this kind of attack. I could understand some kind of insurance to payout for some advanced geeky for data recovery, but not for this.
Microsoft goes retro with Vista, Zune-style Windows Neon makeover
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