Posts by Korev 6375 publicly visible posts • joined 26 Aug 2016
After all, the latest tweet from the Microsoft Teams social media orifice exhorts users to make the jump from Skype for Business to the platform. The words "frying pan" and "fire" spring effortlessly to mind rather than the "seamless transition" hoped for.
I had the (dis)pleasure of attending two Skype for Business meetings today which both had significant problems too. I wasn't sure if it was SfB's normal flakiness or overload.
Had a clown laying new vinyl in corridors including the one outside the computer room. Which contained a VAX and a couple of Novell (I'm that old) servers.JUST stopped him unplugging the VAX to plug in some power tool - his hand was on the plug. I showed him a more appropriate power socket, but his extension cord wouldn't reach it.
I'm confused is the Vax the server or the vacuum cleaner?
Conversely, the "Trust us" stamp is looking quite tarnished. Heart Bleed[sic], Spectre and the very latest Intel Management Engine vulnerability are all either signs of verification failure or, even worse, problems that came out during verification but were too expensive to fix and too dangerous to admit.
I can see a doomsday scenario where one day a vulnerability is found which is unfixable and easily exploitable which would kill an entire CPU line. Almost all modern CPUs are vulnerable to some of these side channel attacks; but Intel's chips seem much worse than any other.
The CVE-2020-0069 elevation-of-privilege hole can be exploited by a rogue installed app to inject a rootkit into the firmware of device, which could be a Amazon Fire tablet or gear from Motorola, Sony, Xiaomi, and others.
Checks recentish Android phone (Moto G6 Plus): the last update was January 2020...
I realise that is better than many rival phones.
>I do think that there is not a single first-world problem that causes more global warming than that.
We have a company here called Velogourmet. It's the same people who run the bicycle couriers. I assume their carbon footprint is pretty low.
5G along with chemtrails of smart dust cause Covid-19 (apparently)....
Or not, if say, there were 2 phones and an outdoor bell that had a REN of 3. Ah, the old days!
In the street I grew up on there was a senior fireman with one of them; when he got a shout the whole street knew about it. As a boy I used to rush to the window as it was exciting to see him blast up the road in his fire car with blue lights flashing (he was nice enough to not turn the siren on until he hit the main road).
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In case people haven't seen the "thermal event" on a Sun box that used to run part of Cambridge's email setup. The system was so well architected that end users like myself didn't notice a thing.
Yeah, here in Switzerland the banks are backing a mobile app called Twint which uses some frankenhybrid of NFC & bluetooth for payments in shops etc. The problem is that it's rather unreliable when you pay so most people seem to prefer the convenience of the contactless payments instead. The largest bank here, UBS refuse to support Applepay in the hope that people will use Twint instead - we'll see who wins in the long run.
It's also a gamble that your employer will outperform the market during your entire career.
My employer mitigates that to an extent by matching shares on a 2:1 basis. I assume other employers will often do the same.
Unfortunately it is expensive and I'm going to be working for a charity soon and don't want to burden them with an occupational health request for a keyboard such as this.
Just because they're a charity doesn't mean they don't have to not provide "reasonable adjustments" for you.
