Security?
I'm under the impression that renaming root /admin is a security feature.
Posts by ahjgta
10 publicly visible posts • joined 20 Mar 2017
Lost in translation and adrift in cloud storage
Crunch time: It's all fun and video games until you're being pressured into working for free
Powerful forces, bodily fluids – it's all in a day's work
Saturday 13th October 2018 01:30 GMT
Jinns and 2 strokes
We had data coming from sales depots across Pakistan to our head office in Lahore using 1.44 Floppies couriered in once a month. Some of them would be corrupted and one of my theories was that it was the magnetism from the motorbikes used to get the floppies to the courier office.
This was disputed by one the people there. He insisted that a local jinn had something to do with it. (all replaced by modems eventually resulting in more interesting stories as the staff lost the expense paid trip to the courier office)
Google remembers it has an air-fares API, takes the usual action
Three words: Synthetic gene circuit. Self-assembling bacteria build pressure sensor
Want to keep in contact with friends and family without having to sell your personal data?
Blame Canada? $5.7m IBM IT deal balloons to $185m thanks to 'an open bag of money'
Thursday 21st September 2017 23:32 GMT
Re: Could have been worse.
The banks / lenders get involved if they can't pay mortgages etc. Government employees living month to month? tsk tsk.
CRA (Revenue Agency) gets involved as somebody has to play catch up to their taxes. If the catch-up is shoved into the next year then there's a danger of getting shoved into the next tax bracket.
I read about people getting worried because after getting overpaid, they will eventually have to pay it back. I would have to put it in a time locked safety box to avoid spending it.
Of course if they keep delaying it, it might get backlogged into oblivion and they decide to start over on a new slate. I suggest they call it: Financial restructuring and intitialisation for increased efficiency, employee participation exercises, global warming to counter fake news as well as preparation for image reconstruction.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
