Re: Possibly
IIRC the Royal Marines also have this as part of their roles. I suspect the RM dropping round for a cuppa wouldn't take much longer than the SBS.
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Shipping is so insecure we could have driven off in an oil rig, says Pen Test Partners
And they said IoT was trash: Sheffield 'smart' bins to start screaming when they haven't been emptied for a fortnight
Private equity ponies up £2m to help launch satellites from sunny Shetland by next year
Instagram influencer fools followers into thinking Ikea photoshoot was Bali holiday
Vodafone: Yes, we slurp data on customers' network setups, but we do it for their own good
Wednesday 19th February 2020 11:35 GMT 
>And this is why you never use the ISP supplied router.
Me too, the only problem is that I deployed Ubiquiti gear Ubiquiti gear...
Fire Brigades Union warns of wonky IT causing dangerous delays in 999 control rooms
Wednesday 19th February 2020 11:25 GMT 
Darryl Keen, chief fire officer at Hertfordshire Fire Services, said: “The system includes a collaboration arrangement with three other Services in Lincolnshire, Norfolk and Humberside which means that calls for any of the services can be effectively handled in all four Services during exceptionally busy periods such as storms – this effectively provides four times the capacity for Hertfordshire than in our previous arrangements.”
It'd only be four times the capacity if the other fire brigades' callcentres have zero calls...
C'mon SPARCky, it's just an admin utility update. What could possibly go wrong?
Monday 17th February 2020 09:18 GMT 
Favours
The piggy bank of favours was cracked open: Scott and the engineer had a pretty good working relationship stemming from Scott's willingness to overlook an occasional miss of the contracted call-out times
Reminds me of the time one of our lab Macs needed to have its OS upgraded by a field engineer so they could install the latest instrument software; the hard disc in the Mac then chose a seriously bad time to die! The scientists were furious but luckily I was around to point out that it was very bad luck on the Field Engineer's part and it could have easily been me. I managed to find a new spare compatible disc from our spares cupboard and saved the poor guy's bacon.
I really should have got a few of these from him... -->
Monday 17th February 2020 09:13 GMT
Re: Just following instructions....
At the time of the story, being able to "spin up a cloud instance" was decades away. I guess back then each Dev would have had multiple physical machines to work on.
I agree that the current vogue for a Dev spinning up a VM somewhere and then assuming a "clean build" and/or making big changes to libraries config etc. is a serious PITA!
Xerox hopes wining and dining HP shareholders will convince them of takeover
Samsung gives China wide berth over coronavirus woes, uses sea and air freight to ship smartphone bits to Vietnamese factories
Everything OK down there in the Oracle trench? Good. Big Red has a cloud-based data science platform for you
Monday 17th February 2020 09:25 GMT 
I remember when Oracle made a big fuss about implementing the BLAST bioinformatics tools into Oracle 10G; it was then dropped quietly in 11G. I hope these tools are supported for longer!
Call us immediately if your child uses Kali Linux, squawks West Mids Police
You'll never select all and mark as read again after this tale of peril... Oh, who are we kidding? Of course you will
Cache me if you can: HDD PC sales collapse in Europe as shoppers say yes siree to SSD
Deutsche Bank calls in AWS, Microsoft and Google to tout for cloud biz: Come in to tender, deal value unknown
Wednesday 12th February 2020 13:17 GMT 
Deutsche Bank, according to Reuters – which initially revealed the talks with the three cloud vendors – is struggling with a sprawling, outdated tech infrastructure, not helped by the buys of Morgan Grenfell and Bankers' Trust in 1990 and 1999 respectively.
Wow, the bank has still has systems from mergers that were 20-30 years ago! I assume they've been updated a bit in that time but that does seem incredible.
Parks and recreation escalate efforts to take back control of field terrorised by thug geese
Astroboffins agog after spotting the first repeating fast radio burst that pings every 16 days from another galaxy
Ever had a script you just can't scratch? Excel on the web now has just the thing
Voyager 2 gets back to sciencing while 'unstoppable' Iran promises world more 'Great Iranian Satellites'
BOFH: Darn Windows 7. It's totally why we need a £1k graphics card for a business computer
Fed-up air safety bods ban A350 pilots from enjoying cockpit coffees
Wake me up before you go Go: Devs say they'll learn Google-backed lang next. Plus: Perl pays best, Java still in demand
Thursday 6th February 2020 13:23 GMT
Re: There are C++ devs and there are people who claim to be able to program in C++.
It's the Dunning-Kruger effect
Facebook mulls tagging pics with 'radioactive' markers to trace the origin of photos used to build image-recog AI
EU tells UK: Cut the BS, sign here, and you can have access to Galileo sat's secure service
Bada Bing, bada bork: Windows 10 is not happy, and Microsoft's search engine has something to do with it
Outlook more like 'look out!' as Microsoft email decides everything is spam today
Things I learned from Y2K (pt 87): How to swap a mainframe for Microsoft Access
Very little helps: Tesco flashes ancient Windows desktop on Scan-As-You-Shop device
Microsoft Teams starts February with a good, old-fashioned TITSUP*
At last, the fix no one asked for: Portable home directories merged into systemd
Monday 3rd February 2020 14:47 GMT 
One use case is where a user has a PC running Linux in both their home and office, and is able to carry their home directory with them on a portable storage device.
This is banned in all but the smallest organisation these days. At my work your career would be "very short" if you got caught doing it....
Ah, night shift in the 1970s. Ciggies, hipflasks, ADVENT... and fault-prone disk drives the size of washing machines
Brits may still be struck by Lightning, but EU lawmakers vote for bloc-wide common charging rules
Saturday 1st February 2020 13:05 GMT
Re: Hopefully the UK will follow this
>I think the British Standards Institute should be called upon to come up with something for the UK.
What about El Reg's esteemed Standards Bureau?
So you locked your backups away for years, huh? Allow me to introduce my colleagues, Brute, Force and Ignorance
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