Posts by Chloe Cresswell 820 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Aug 2007
your comment was just in time for me to fix it, thanks.
But also: could be worst, could be HP or HPE people in the office. Then there will be a half hour wait while they get to a useable state ;)
(No, I haven't ben diagnosing a HP server and having to reboot a lot with their ultra fast UEFI.. why do you ask...)
Or the classics:
"The Internet is down." meaning "I accidentally took my printer off line"
"The Internet is down." meaning "I fiddled with my registry and now my computer won't boot"
"The Internet is down." meaning "I forgot my password" and
"The Internet is down." meaning "My favourite porn site isn't responding"
Draytek.co.uk didn't respond, then after a few hours gave a login box, then later moved to a baracuda "this website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. The action you just performed triggered this service. There are several actions that could result in being blocked including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data." message, before coming back to normal.
draytek.com didn't respond either, but came back up before the co.uk site.
And that link doesn't tell me which modem code it's running, hence needing the UK site.
Had this issue on Sunday with my "untrusted" network which uses an older draytek, now have an openwrt running device in place.
Was at a client yesterday with a 2862 (iirc) which I need to upgrade the firmware on, but I couldn't as the draytek websites were down, so I couldn't get the file.
We have 2 more out there we don't know if are just not being attacked or if are patched atm. But thankfully we'd already moved most sites to something more powerful.
I had a letter from EE last week because of our 2 G devices which according to them we "need to upgrade to atleast 4G".
None of our devices using 2G can't use 4G.
The reason they are on 2G is that is the only EE signal they can get.
So to paraphrase the letter "you don't need to upgrade your devices, it's just our network is shit where you are"
They put a new roundabout in on a duel carriageway near me. Digging it they found a cable.
Unmarked. BT (openreach wouldn't have that name for a year or so afterwads) were called. "No ours:"
Finally someone called NTL:Telewest/Virgin... "Yeah, thats the primary feed from the head station to that town, cut that and you kill all our services".
"poor record keeping" this was demonstrated to me when they did work on the mains feeder down the road next to my house - I live in a corner terrace. I came home to no power, and no warning.
I spoke to the guys doing the work, foreman was called over, opens his map, and it shows my power being fed though the front of the house from road X.
In reality, the feed comes in the side of the house, half way along it's original length, from road Y.
This map dated from the mid 60s. It was corrected in 2014.
7726 "spam" also resolves to 1186, depending on the layout of the keypad.
BANK is obvious? 2265 or 8865?
Anything that needs a pattern/etc only works so long as the keypad is the same on every device.
Unfortunately, we have 2 different keypads in use in the world, adding machines (used on computer keyboards) and telco (used on phones) and the numbers are in a different order.
As for using a word: I have both dyslexia and dyscalculia. To mangle Eric Morecambe: I can remember all the right numbers/letters, just not necessarily in the right order...
Was it?
". I can install it, but I can't secure it (I can't remember numbers, the apps for my banks want me to use basically a pin to secure it), and then you have to link it to your account by validating it with your chip and pin card, which doesn't work with a chip and signature account..." No, no it wasn't.
And as my bank says, it doesn't mitigate the need to remember them, you need to do that _AS WELL_ as having biometrics setup.
Well done. Now do it with out setting up the number first? Because you can't. And the app even says "we will ask you for the number to confirm it is you at times, even with fingerprint/face recognition in use"
Also, how does sliding the faceID option work to link my chip and sign account to the app?
We have this issue on a site. Parent company had a breach, everything locked down.
New m365 accounts for all staff, must use MS authenticator app (ok).
To set up a new user, we need to download the app. If they have been provided an iphone, you need an apple account to download the app.
To add the apple account, you need access to the email.
To access the email, you need the app....
It worked for all the existing users when it was setup, as they already had access to their email to jump through the hoops.
Oh, banks are great at this.
I'm dyslexic with dyscalculia. I don't use PINs, as I can't remember them (in the right order).
Barclays on their app. "We understand you can't remember PINs, but this is a 5 digit passcode, and as it's a passcode, not a PIN, you should beable to remember it".
This was from their accessibility department.
"but the *preferred method* is via the Bank App." Yeah, preferred is great... when you are one of the people who can't use the app. I get told all the time "contact us via the app" "do this via the app" I can't use it. I can install it, but I can't secure it (I can't remember numbers, the apps for my banks want me to use basically a pin to secure it), and then you have to link it to your account by validating it with your chip and pin card, which doesn't work with a chip and signature account...
I have used the HP digital support system. And after 20 mins, it gave me a telephone number and told me to ring it.
First thing on ringing the number? A message asking why don't I try the digital support options..
Well.. sometimes someone uses a forktruck... and the results speak for themselves. I'm not 100% sure what else they did to it, as it was in the box the right way up when shipped, and the wrong way up when arrived...
This replaced a 2 colour copier, as it you could use black and one other colour depending on which cartridge/dev/drum was slotted in. We had red and green options. Compared to that, this was amazing when coupled with Corel Draw! 3... And it's clip art gallery which we had the CD version in a single speed CD ROM... and manual/gallery book, which you could have used to prop up a car!
Fiery was normally the RIP unit that controlled them - we had a "little" Firey XL which was the brains of a colour copier - the copier was roughly average sized (1.5x4 metres) for the time, the Firey sat to the side and was the size of a tower server. The cable between the two was impressive, it was about 2cm in diameter.
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