Posts by steviebuk 2635 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Feb 2017
I beg of someone in the know, to write a website or book with real world scripts and then take each bit of the script and explain what it is all doing, step by step. For people like me who aren't the brightest, need hand holding especially when learning something new. The amount of sites I find with example scripts and then the person assumes you have a degree in computing so we get
"This script takes the output of the current object and pipes it into the next command that processes it into an output table."
Explain what the pipe is! Don't just say it and assume we know. I now do, but others don't.
I searched for a while the other day to find out what the fuck $_ was and then $_.name used in scripts and on sites but no one explains the little details. What is that specific bit of code doing!
I found one guide but it was explaining about a Linux command. But was exactly how I want Powershell guides. The guide had broken down every bit of the Linux command to explain what each bit did.
I then found one site that finally explained the $_ in English. Its a global variable. Like a big box with nothing in it but where you can store data. Because its global its built into powershell so you don't have to declare it (say what it is). You can add it on to a command to store the results of the command into it.
With $_.name you're taking the data that is in your big box and I believe the .name means that data is a file name.
Please make that book. I'd buy it.
Somewhat agree.
I like knowing that
10.0.0.1 is my router
10.0.0.2 is my main PC
10.0.0.3 is the spare PC
10.0.0.50 is the NAS
10.0.0.51 is the other NAS
10.0.0.23 is a fanless 24 port managed switch.
10.0.0.24 is another one
Fuck knows what they'd be if all set to IPv6 and sod remembering them.
A company implements this where the directors have decide, over IT, that the failover line will be the same provider as the main line. Ignoring the point of the fucking failover. So when BT goes down, lets hop over to the failover line......OH....that's BT as well.
Not only can you now not use your cloud 365 solution, you also can't fucking print anything.
When the 3rd party leaks their database that WILL happen.
"There are also additional costs of running what would need to be new location databases of drones, which the FAA expects will be run by private companies but doesn’t exist yet, which drones owners would have to pay for through subscriptions. The cost of all this is prohibitive, for little real benefit, they argue."
But GDPR is part of UK law now and to trade with the EU, aren't we supposed to honour it? And data collected by several companies may hold data on EU nationals, especially local councils who use GSuite. So won't those local councils be breaking the GDPR law allowing EU nationals data to leave the UK?
You pay extra for Google Suite Business package to be able to decide where your data is at rest. This function is now being taken away so surely the package should become cheaper. Also, we are no longer members of the EU but still in the transition period so surely the data HAS to stay in the EU until the 31 December.
Also, isn't the location of at rest data also part of GDPR or have I got that part wrong?
Despite all this, having your data at rest in the EU as a business was semi pointless anyway. As despite having eu relays Google still sends all business EU email through their US servers first. I wonder if thats so the CIA can take a quick snoop. Funny how Microsoft has EU based servers and is still able to keep your data going through their EU servers in transit but Google can't.
Firing Pai is what is desperately needed. But that won't happen on Trump's watch. As, and I could be wrong, I get the impression when I look at him, that he is one of those Apprentice candidates who'll do anything to kiss Trumps arse so to make a buck. Wouldn't surprise me if he's doing stuff at the FCC that, indirectly, benefits Trumps businesses that he refused to give up when becoming President.
And then you'll be known as the arsehole boss from hell and no one will ever want to work with you. Others will hide what has happened if they can. People make mistakes.
Case in point, 2 people from the same department come and tell me, independently.
Person 1
"I got this invoice. I was expecting one. I'm sorry but I clicked on it but it did nothing". Too which I reply don't worry but it would have done something just silently. User walked off not fearing IT, I watched what the malware was doing (it just downloaded a file from the internet and created a task to run later. That, in testing, never did anything). Wiped the laptop, all OK.
Person 2
"I got this invoice person 1 got but I DIDN'T click it".
Person 2 much higher up than person 1 so I trust what person 2 has said.
3 months later. Person 2 has a totally different issue with IE. I remember about the malware. The malware that created a task ONLY if you clicked the invoice file. That task was there. So all along person 2 HAD clicked the invoice but lied.
God only knows what that had been doing on the network for 3 months. That person should of just had a warning from higher up, not a disciplinary, just an education but because of their position all just went quiet.
Nothing ever came of the 3 month laptop infection. No longer work there but know the network is apparently still fine and no sign of the infection.
"I'm the new director. I can save you money by cutting down on your costly IT systems. They designed an air gap but this isn't required so we won't be implementing it, as it's an unneeded expense. With my suggestion that we don't implement it, we can save thousands per year. This will allow for cheaper running costs and everyone can be more 'agile' and work wherever they are in the plant".
Or Bean Counter
"IT is an unneeded expense. We could use low skilled works to replace the current IT. If we pick people that don't have the required skill sets we can pay them less. After all, we hardly ever hear from the current IT so they clearly do nothing all day. And when they do, all they suggest is "Have you turned it off and on again?"
Cocks.
You can, could have someone sneak in via boat and hide under the rig. With a powerful enough aerial they could pick up the WIFI. You could have a rogue employee who either is annoyed or in an attempt to steal secrets got a job there specifically to exploit the week network.
Having worked IT in the NHS its all the middle management and directors you need to moan about, not the doctors. All the middle management that sort out "Jobs for the boys" and "What title do you want?" And "I need to leave early so I can play golf" none in the hospitals, all based at Trust HQs, all rinsing the purse until the next government comes in and changes everything. At which point they try to move to another department and continue in their bullshit, not required but everyone is too blind to see it, over paid management role.
Message them, like I do, on Twitter and they'll sort out replacements. But yeah, their stuff isn't exactly top quality. I only started going recently, didn't know what all the fuss was about, thought they were high quality, expensive staff. But no, all cheap and OK quality but at least their instructions are as good as Lego.
They've only been innovative when Wozniak and engineers like him were there. Now they just buy other people's tech and rebadge it.
And if Jobs was alive, he'd be suing also. Why? Because he was a cunt just like the Apple of today are. Why? Because they are essentially shouting
"No you can't make the server chip! No, no, no." Jobs dies. They carry on for 10 years "No, no, no". You quit and start up your own company to make that chip you pitched to them that they rejected for 10 years. "What? We rejected you for 10 years but fucking no way are you gonna make that chip without us. Despite us not wanting it we are gonna be petty cunts because we didn't want you to quit but you did anyway, by suing you until you run out of money. You then won't be able to make your chip and we won't benefit from the chip we never wanted. But at least we'll have stopped you. We'll totally forget the history of how Apple started. Where Wozniak had to offer the Apple I to HP first as he'd been making it on their time. They said they didn't want it but fine for him to go make it on his own. We'll forget that part of history because, we're cunts"
The colourful language was required to express how much of an arse Apple are being.
And all the mates of the boss and the yes people will all be kept. The people that have fucking sense and say it how it is yet get shit done will loose the job they've been doing for years perfectly fine, to the boss' mate.
And here's me who thought, in the 90s, that IT was a secure job.
Maybe it’s due to starting to feel like I'm getting old that I dislike the self service screens in McDonalds or maybe it's because it's killing my nostalgia. We can all agree McDonalds isn't the healthiest of meals but, for me at least, it has become part of my Pop Culture of the 80s and 90s, despite eating it less than I used to (I feel dirty after I've eaten one now so rarely do). It was everywhere back then while growing up, seemed like a magical place, you could have your parties there, you could get place mats for home, Ronald McDonald was still fucking creepy. It popped up in all the movies, in Santa Clause the movie with its shameful product placement (I still don't care, I still like that bit with the homeless kid looking in longing for a McDonalds). We have the film Falling Down with its store like McDonalds with the, now, old style way of serving.
But now, we have these self service screens that are fucking unresponsive. I used them once when they were new and took ages to find stuff and the screens were, as I said, unresponsive. I would then wait for my food. What's this? There is now just a big queue of people waiting for food. The orders have all been taken but there is a big queue for the food. This can't be right.
I then sat down and watched The Founder, while eating a McDonalds (it had to be done). I winced at first thinking it was a shameless advert for McDonalds, then realised it wasn't. How much of an arsehole Ray Kroc appeared to be (not sure how accurate the film was). It was really interesting hearing how the McDonald Brothers invented the fast food kitchen. It worked well it would seem. But now we live in a digital age. If someone can make self service they will. Cuts down on cost, they make more profit, you get no benefit of cheaper products despite having to now serve yourself. One of the few benefits is not having to talk to the person on the till and them not getting the order wrong. However, watching this all happen I started to see more and more people queuing for their orders.
How is this helping I thought, how is this making service faster? It’s clearly not. They’ve changed the counters as well and the production bin. If you have a problem with your order no one is looking at you anymore. They all have their back to you, looking at the order screen and the new laid out production bin/shoot. It all looks so different, where has my childhood gone! Why is it all rushing away from me….anyway! I thought it was me being a moaning fuck, not understand the change. But no, it appears staff at McDonalds, especially in the kitchen, also hate the self service screens.
And here’s the reason why. They have said, if you want your meal quick, go to the one till that is still serviced by a human. When you get served by a human, your order gets sent to the kitchen in real time. Order a cheeseburger, it starts being made before you order the next item. However, order it from the self service screens, your order doesn’t end up at the kitchen until you’ve paid for it. This annoys the kitchen staff because they then get a big order all at once and have said a lot of the kitchens aren’t being upgraded to compensate with how many orders come in from the self service screen. Which is why you end up with a large group of people waiting for food. Order a coffee from the self service at the same time a family hit pay for their massive order. You end up having to wait for their massive order to be finished before your coffee is made, so its always quicker to go to the human till.
A long post just because.
"Journalists take responsibility for what they publish, after appropriate fact checking, review and consideration."
Not always. Yes I know its now VERY old but was listening to an old recording of The Day Today on iRadio/iSound/iwhatever they call it now, and they had one of them calling up the News of The World pretending to have a recording of an MP in a restaurant being a dick. The recording was one of them doing an impression. Without doing any fact checking the paper offered them £1k I think it was, then they haggled for £1.5k and so on. They were going to meet them and give them cash in hand.
Things may have changed over the years, but I suspect not.
subliminal advertising, although illegal, has been deemed to be ineffective apparently because that one frame of a cool, ice cold drink would need to have the effective of not only making you want to get up midway through the movie for one, but have enough of a lasting effective to carrying on making you want one, while you're stood in the queue at the cinema waiting to get your drink, wondering why you suddenly wanted a drink.
True. Some of us have already woken up. And the subscription services have lost the plot again. It was a way to combat piracy. I tried Ultraviolet once off a BluRay. Fucking awful. Having to sign up to about 3 separate services that weren't related to download a video file that could only be played on certain devices. I gave up.
But Netflix, NowTV and Amazon helped with their streaming services. They made it easy. Netflix maybe more so as their system appears easier to use, can download the movies/TV Shows to the phone and watch them while doing the loft. Even get the option to skip the intro and do 10 second rewinds or forwards.
But then more services came along. A movie disappears as the service looses the rights too it, but now appears on one the other streaming services you don't currently sub to. Amazon tries to charge for movies from the 80s like Inner Space instead of just getting a license for it. Their UI is FUCKING AWFUL. Then comes along AppleTV with their exclusive shows like The Morning Show. So you have to sub to yet another service. Then along comes Disney and The Mandalorian so yet another streaming service you have to fork out for.
FFS. And you wonder why, despite all the streaming services, people still resort to piracy.
Google Docs is as poor as Word Online. None of the online versions are better than their offline versions, and Google doesn't even have an offline version. Google Sheets is "sheets" enough (see what I did there? I'll get my coat) that most account departments won't use it. Google Drive is fucking awful for sorting files and seeing key information.
Very sustainable and not at all bad for the environment. Especially if Right To Repair is killed in the US, then it will become potentially illegal to repair your own kit.
Stories like this that make me start to hate "The Cloud" more and more. If only I could afford to retire from IT. I still enjoy it but this "cloud" movement bothers me, greatly. I'd rather just retire and enjoy RimWorld for the rest of my days than have to deal with this hipster shit.
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