Posts by Korev 6375 publicly visible posts • joined 26 Aug 2016
If the app talked directly to the thermostat or light bulb across my wi-fi
The Ikea stuff does that. Sadly, that's about the only reason I'd recommend it. The bulbs and dimmers seem to fall off the system rather often and it's hugely annoying. Initial setup is really hit and miss too. Moreover, if you have a network with multiple VLANs then the gear doesn't work at all until you assign a single VLAN to that switch port...
> The Ambulance arrived 18 minutes later, the defibrillator, over an hour later - no-one knew the code to get into the storage box!
Isn't that something that the 999 operator is supposed to give you?
Hopefully this near miss will mean the situation is resolved before someone needs it again.
This was pretty much the gist of the course we did at work a while ago. See icon -->
There was even a JFDI section aimed at the men in the room saying to not be "hesitant" and to remove a woman's clothing including underwear before starting chest compressions. I assume that some poor women have not been resuscitated because of this or else we wouldn't have been told that :(
I mostly avoided this, but I was doing an internship in a French developmental biology lab where smoking was only banned in the rooms but not the corridors. My supervisor used to lean to see what I was up to whilst keeping her fag just outside of the door frame.
I was using Xylene and all sorts of other fun solvents - thankfully that never happened -->
Back in the Windows XP days, my company had a standard image with a tool that would checksum c:\program[sic] files, c:\windows etc to make sure that all patches had been applied and nothing had been changed.
This wasn't a bad idea in principle, but it was configured to run every four hours and in the days of single core Pentium 4s and hard discs this meant your laptop turned into a paperweight. This actually killed a number of high-profile presentations and generally made it hard to use your computer
For a while I got spam from addresses given to (later) compromised websites claiming my computer had been hacked and here's your password to prove it and they needed me to pay them money...
I don't know if the spammers bought the details somewhere or if they got them from sites like these. Either way, using a unique email address for everywhere (and a password manager) means I can easily block the compromised addresses.
What they claimed I'd been up to -->
We had something similar in a DR rehearsal once where we obviously didn't want to do it connected to the network to avoid clashes. I had few problems bringing up the Linux side of things, the guy doing the Windows side of things couldn't bring up up the Windows side of things as the was no AD available* and no way of getting it. In the end someone from a different site had to provide a backup which he restored from and could then get going, this took quite a while though.
* If there was a real emergency then we'd have AD etc available from the company's other sites as soon as we had network.
Priority for home office is given to the vulnerable - those that can't be vaccinated, E.g. autoimmune diseases, expectant mothers etc.
Many people in those groups* can now be vaccinated.
* Obviously check with your doctor if you're in one of these groups rather than take medical advice from a random Commentard....
