Posts by IceC0ld 558 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Aug 2017
SO, without having to go all Google on it :o)
anyone know the ages of the C Suite people at all ?
fairly safe to say they are NOT kids, doubtful they even have any kids still at home, so how come the 'runway' only takes off from those below them ?
just another corp, making money to keep a very small band of nobs very rich :o(
who watches the watchers ?
when Stalin was asked this, the answer was quick, succinct and to the point - I DO
as this appears to be a technology problem, the most likely response would be a technology derived effort
NO idea how to do that, but if I WAS in command, I would be looking for ANY sort of input, ignoring stuff is most likely why we are where we are
this world will change, NOT 'empire' stands forever, but some, looking at UK here, did manage to let some of it go in a fairly 'safe' fashion, and we still manage to project around the globe using 'soft' power way above what we would appear to be able to, the US may need to go back and rediscover its past
but I, for one, do NOT see China as a #1 super power any time soon, if ever, their entire history has been internal, they are not an empire building nation, they are digging into Africa, offering 'help' and taking mineral assets, we may have US military all over the place,. but they DO add to the local economies wherever they are, their troops all spend time and money, China, in one of its sojourns into Africa, took everything, all the material to build their camps, all the cooks / food to feed the engineers, and the sum total of additions to the local economy is/ was zero
jeez, I DO tend to waffle, but I really do think we could do better, is there EVER going to be a Star Trek style future, classless / cashless, everyone working for the common GOOD :o)
oh yes, I remember it well, well, I sort of remember it :o)
I too was once the owner of a fresh out of boot camp MCSE / MCSA WAY back when, and yes, I too looked down on paper MCSE'ers as not being up to the job, so in MY defence, I took everything VERY carefully
NOT to say I didn't drop the odd bollock, but safe to say I mitigated the damage by always having someone else to dump on :o)
but seriously, the most basic of all our responsibilities was and is always the data
CIA ?
confidentiality, integrity and availability
SO as long as you follow that path, things SHOULD be good :o)
and if it ever fell over, we always have ElReg to 'confess' to :o)
SAME
user had issues loading Outlook when at home and connected to office remotely ..............
got user to bring asset to office, and remoted in, Outlook WOULD open, but took forever to fire up, 'quick' search, discovered user had a HUGE 2 GB - this WAS 2003, so Office 2003 / XP etc - DELETED ITEMS folder not just over sized, but meticulously set out for the Co, folders for each section, in there sub folders for each manager, and downwards ............
had to call their manager to explain the issue, took a while to get it through to them :o(
eventually arranged to have all folders / Emails reset back into Outlook, and archived those older than a year - I am not going to go into just how long this took, I was in Manchester area, user in Glasgow, the line between us was most certainly NOT fibre :o) but suffice to say it did complete
Outlook never actually sprinted into action, but at least it could now limp to the opening ceremony when user was remote
[Quote]behind a six-month-long cyber-espionage campaign to steal Russian military tech.[/Quote]
err, the phrase, closing the stable door seems apropos here :o)
who, in their right mind, although this IS the Norks, so right mind is relative, but WHO goes after Orc military secrets, after seeing the trouncing they are getting on ALL fronts, Land Sea and Air ffs from the Ukraine over the last 20 months or so :o)
those of a certain age, and UK based, may well recall an NHS push to get ALL medical practices attached to ONE single piece of software, so that the GP could, for ANY patient, arrange the date and time of any operation, and included the surgeon of preference - the name of this :- CHOOSE AND BOOK :o)
ANYHOW
I was involved in the install phase at various GP surgeries around the UK, and at most, I was treated to a mostly unpleasant shouting at game from all the doctors, and at the hospitals, even the bloody surgeons decided to get stuck in too
it appears that although the general outline of the app was seen as a good thing, the coders involved had missed one or two, may seven various DB's they could of / SHOULD have linked to
for example, as one surgeon was rather keen to emphasise, they have added me to this bloody operation, although my schedule shows I am ALREADY set to operate on someone ELSE, at a different hospital on that time .......
and one other pointed out that the bloody app had him set to operate on several people, when he had his holidays set to go ...............
in short, great idea, VERY poorly planned
and if that wasn't enough, this was when MOORE'S law kicked in big time, we could not possibly install the entire UK that fast, and so both the expectations of the app developers grew, as did the capability of the PC
so we NOW had to RE VISIT surgeries to upgrade the Choose and bloody Book install, instead of increasing the number of surgeries on the go
as far as I am aware it may still be going on :o)
for ME, it was a year of reasonably fun times, a good bunch of guys, a VERY understanding Co, but the scale and scope of it all had been VASTLY under estimated :o(
sound familiar :o)
Capturing Aerial Payloads to Unleash Reliable Exploitation, or Project CAPTURE
C'mon people, here we use TITSUP for ANYTHING that can be tortuously malformed into the [ admittedly ] awkward constraints of our acronym of choice :o)
so I propose the following
T - otal
I - nterception
T - ool
S - urprises
U - pper
P - ackaged
S - py
been in IT over 20 years now, Windows all the way
BUT I decided to have a go at Linux around 15 years back, IIRC, there was a big hoo hah over UBUNTU giving away 'FREE' CD's :o)
so, one old PC, with a new, clean HDD, and away I went, and yes, it ISN'T WINDOWS, so the first thing to do is admit that, and get stuck in, took a while, but got it up and running, and got online and posted to my forum of choice back then - ANTIONLINE - but never got comfortable with it, read about MINT, and its ease of use, to install AND run, so grabbed the ISO, got my set up routine ready, and quickly had a MINT machine ready to run, around this time - 2008 ish - got into the KALI side of things, and as I already had a Linux box, I dual booted it for MINT / KALI :o)
on the Kali, to save time, I had read of, and installed a quick updater ......
so now it was just a case of once in a blue, run that, get all the new stuff added, then go to Mint, and update that
in my defence, I am STILL a Windows kid, but am also happy running Linux, but you DO need to accept the Linux has a learning curve that is different to Windows, majority of us were initiated into IT on Windows, be it W2K / XP etc, and as such, we are happy to do the things that way, just accept you are NOT the same in Linux, and LEARN it, and boom, suddenly, you can run with both :o)
all this to say, the Windows has the edge over anything else out there, because it was in ALL offices / schools / HOMES ffs, IMHO XP was the system that turned the world onto the web, and let's be fair, it was ubiquitous, and having the same OS both at home AND work had to help it spread around
but I will always be glad I took the time to feel comfortable with Linux too, even if I am NO CLI guru
anyway, what was the thread about again :o)
I am now too old to be worried about what may or may not happen should AI take off
however, I am also a parent, and my children will have to live with the aftermath of the decisions being taken, and in that, I HOPE that those involved are using a healthy dose of common sense, and keeping their feet on the ground, and heads out of the clouds :o)
so I took a look back at how other 'advances' were met and how we determined what was to be THE way ....................
profit wins, we are SO screwed :o(
for ME, the office working routine is mainly to keep the associated area vibrant too
as in, the area around my office block, not just my Co, is full of the sort of business's that help to keep you going
there is a glut of café style mini marts and takeaway options, that, during the lockdown, ALL damn nigh went to the wall :o(
as there was no other traffic to keep them going, as we came out of the pandemic, the new world arrived in full force, and NOW we have a fully viable option of NOT going to the office
SO, I can see the need to keep the DAY shift in the office, as they also help to keep a whole raft of other business's going too, but NIGHTS, why do they get called in ?
we have a night shift going, it is still required to come to the office, on a hybrid routine, but, in all honesty, why ?
there are no other people around, everywhere that caters to the day crew is closed, as is all the transport options, so you need your own transport
PRE pandemic, we all attended the office because, well, that's what we did, we had no real knowledge of the alternative
but NOW, we know, and we have tasted the freedoms that WFH give to US, if not the Co, and yes, some will have the white elephant office in a VERY high price zone, but contracts can be re written.
the future landed a couple of years back, the genie is well and truly out and about
so again, for ME, I would WFH fully, and only attend office for the odd time to replace kit, work party, no thanks, I spend way too much time with people I only know through work, I do not wish to associate outside of Co hours, I have family and friends to fill that space
where am I going with this drivel :o)
no idea, just to say WFH works for ME
there needs to be a clearing of the air, a full on paradigm shift on the way we do our jobs
will it happen, for some, certainly, but I fear we will see some Co's stick to the old ways, and they may need to be dragged kicking into the future :o)
you mention the 2014 Crimea occupation, yet fail to mention the Ukraine THEN was a totally different country to now, the leader then took off and emptied the treasury, the country was officially THE most corrupt, and they are still fighting that tag, but to compare the Russian populace in place in Crimea, with a Ukrainian population that is not fighting for its very existence is to clearly miss the point.
it's why the 'Nazi' epithet was used against the private military force in Mariupol, The Azov Regiment, they were the ONLY active unit in the army that had sufficient weapons and supplies, but also had some links to right wing influences, this has now been passed, as they were effectively eliminated in the steel works
the latest influx of Russian's into Crimea is all since the occupation, and they are now finding out that maybe, just maybe, Moscow wasn't telling all the truth about their acceptance into society there
should Ukraine get into effective range over Crimea, the game is up, the population will abandon ship as fast as they can, there has been some data released onto the WWW recently, both sides agree it is looking real, but all sides can see there has been editing ............. specifically the Russian KIA / WIA has been considerably downgraded, and the Ukrainian numbers inflated - why would there be a need to do this ? IF the Russian / Ukrainian numbers were correct, meddling will only disprove the new figures
also both sides are claiming it as dis information in regards to future plans / ability / readiness
the answer will unfold in the next few months, as all followers of Russian history know, General Winter is a deadly foe, but the initial release form the cold comes at a price of the thaw, making all movement hard if not impossible
the big push is coming, I truly believe Russia is fast approaching a position here they will no longer be able to pursue the war at all, Ukraine is a smaller country, but in numbers their respective armies are now coming close to parity, and that coupled with decent kit, and plenty of ordnance should be the turning point to make the world a different place, not necessarily safer, but most definitely different
[quote]Bakhmut is inconsequential, yet Ukraine keeps pouring men and materiel into defending it.[\quote]
it MAY be inconsequential, but it is their homeland, and as such ALL land will be fought for, and if they HAD just pulled back, say 10 miles, and then fought, would THAT be the correct decision ?
the reality is that wherever the Ukrainians draw a line, and fight, there will always be some back room / non fighter arguing that they needed to do X, Y .......
it may be that the losses now are so large that ANY thought of withdrawal would be seen as a betrayal of those who fell, but it also could became the straw that breaks the Russian back, even though it is a Private Military Contractor [PMC] doing the fighting, should they be exterminated, it will have a major impact on Russia's ability to progress the war at all
read somewhere that the Russian's still do have superiority in artillery, but are having the 80/20 fail, for every 100 shells fired, 80 miss their target
Ukraine may well have fewer guns, but their 80/20 ratio is of 100 fired, and 80 hit the target
know someone with intimate details of the conflict - military guy - and says the Ukrainians use artillery the way we use Uber :o)
in that the unit will put out a call, and any gun in range - NOT units - will respond, and so the target is hit, from multiple angles of the compass, none are firing more than a couple of shells, and the counter fire, is therefore unable to detect a location, let alone respond to it
anyway, stay safe all, we are SO much better off where we are, and here's to Ukraine stopping Russia DEAD
they have already destroyed the myth of the Soviet Super Soldier
to clarify 'extermination' should a military unit suffer more then 50% losses - dead / wounded - it is counted as no longer fit for combat, and withdrawn to regroup, retrain. Should the damage to the unit go to more than 80%, it is effectively gone, destroyed, and sometimes units with the bad luck to have been so badly mauled are never re instated, and a new unit will be raised in its stead
got to be honest here
I thought my favourite Copy Writer had been at work fs :o)
BUT Google maps dropped onto it as a small area within Hyderabad
sometimes, the jokes that write themselves, get missed :o)
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Cyberabad,+Madhapur,+Hyderabad,+Telangana+500081,+India/@17.4348717,78.3846248,17.25z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x3bcb91583160defb:0x5663c50ab4792895!8m2!3d17.4347526!4d78.386889!16s%2Fg%2F11g1pn3qy3
every now and then I despair for humanity, the constant craving for adulation, the ongoing battle against everything that makes us human
and then I read the comments on the BofH threads, and I KNOW that all is well
sick, twisted and perverted, but definitely well :o)
El Reg first came to my attention because of BofH, I now come here for the many articles and in depth analysis - No really - stop tittering at the back
but the comments always let me know that the days of BofH are no longer limited by the constraints of time, and that they will live on forever, driven forward by you lot of craziness, and I am here to say I love the lot of ya
xxxxx
always amazes me that any intrusion is met with the old, we got an expert company, leader in its field to check our systems ..............
always AFTER
why oh why, don't companies get their systems pen tested thoroughly BEFORE it goes active ?
or is that just me being all woke and wishy washy :o)
OK, so I TRIED to log in and play
repeat - TRIED :o)
forgot password, no biggie, I keep a mnemonic check list that DID actually hold the info
next, still no access, took me 30 mins before I recalled I use ADMIN as user ffs
SO, I am now in, and it looks SO strange now, and also, even though I did install a quick updater - back when I was l33T :o)
I can niot for the life of me figure out the commands now, so .....
TL/DR I tried and failed
will try again, it did remind me of days when IT was still an adventure, but it may be for when I actually retire - 65 soon, VERY soon :o( - will leave me plenty of time to play around and find out :o)
but the laptop too, it WAS a beast back then, now, it is barely able to fire up :o) so possibly a new laptop will be on the cards as well ..............
stay safe all
had it dual booted on a laptop with MINT / Cinnamon for a long while now, but sadly, haven't so much as looked at it in years :o(
may actually log in, and update - both :o) - just for old times sake, and to try and recall when I too, was sort of cool LOL
serious side - it really was the best out there for all the tools it contained ready loaded, you 'just' needed to learn them and use them, I USED to be able to get around a network at a fairly deep level, tody, I barely scratch the surface, my job is no longer anything like techy, and I DO miss that bit, so again, lets fire the beasty up, and update and go play :o)
and long may Kali live on, here's to the next 10 / 17 - 18 years :o)
Good luck to them, the musky one tends to act like he alone has any input on any ideas, the only way to have some form of security is in numbers
you only need to look at Twitter - 8000+ employees, now at 2300 ish ? and yes, they are having a go back at him about it, but a union would allow for a far better attack vector
1MB of RAM
brought back some memories that has :o)
In Laws PC - W95 - was running slow .................
took it home, and opened it to give it a quick once over
it had 4x 1MB sticks of RAM in there
now, back then, I was new into IT and so I was already collecting, just in case :o) any old bits from the PC's I was fixing for friends and neighbours
found 4x 4MB sticks, and slotted them in, good old clean and tidy up, of the case, and dust bunnies
use of CrapCleaner back when it WAS called Crap Cleaner :o)
took it back, and they said it FLEW :o)
life WAS so much simpler then - sort of
but back to topic :o)
I may be one of the few that likes Excel, was even tasked with training some users in BASIC usage of the beast, and at my level of ability and responsibility, it was fine
put all my music collection into there, because I can :o)
only the military can 'bend the rules' dependant on bad weather, and then it is usually only used in times of combat
the rules have been carefully put together to give the best outcome for the given circumstances, and, as stated below, mistakes in air rules are measured in lives :o(
Google couldn’t kill Gmail, but Gmail could kill Google you say ..............
heads out to the shops, buys a LOT of popcorn, awaits the day that Google bites one BIG time :o)
nothing against Google personally ............... who TF am I kidding LOL, they were supposedly using the surgeons mantra [ DO NO HARM ] but as they increased in both size and intrusiveness, it has become painfully obvious that they consider themselves far above the madding crowd, and well apart from 'consequences'
so yea, I will be sat here, with me pile of popcorn, awaiting the day the world finally gets to take that first step backwards in the tech world
yes, tech has allowed us to do many amazing things, but the cost has become that no one is invisible any more, and it is just a handful of Co's effectively running our lives, on OR offline
and I, for one was never happy with that scenario
colour me surprised, a major Corp, possibly the biggest with a consumer facing side, trying to rip off the TIPS their people get ffs, you couldn't make this up, if thus was a film scene, NO ONE would believe it
the sooner they are forced to pay PROPORTIONAL fines the better, not a million, as that is just loose change to them, less than the cost of 'doing business'
rip them for BILLIONS in fines, see if they get it then
scummy Co, think they are bigger than the law, bigger than anything
[quote]In the Metaverse, you won't be able to move your eyeball without that being logged and then analysed with AI. [/quote]
in that case, the AI better get ready for an overload of quality and not so good pron
and when I DO find it, my eyes ain't moving LOL
it MAY be out of date / fashion etc
BUT at least there was a way to confirm someone's 'right' to be there, so if they took away your cert, you couldn't work
and it must have worked, as it is still hanging around
CEH was one of THOSE certs I wanted to get SO bad 20 years back, but my days of study fell into disrepute, and I was gradually ground down to what I am today, one that wished he had kept the proverbial to the grindstone, and also one who cannot wait to retire
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