Posts by Soruk 556 publicly visible posts • joined 30 Aug 2007
My 72-year-old mum has finally migrated from Windows 7, to CentOS 8 with a desktop skinned like her other daily driver, an Acorn RiscPC. She's getting the hang of it pretty quickly, and made easier that she has always used Firefox, Thunderbird and LibreOffice even under Windows so migrating that lot was a doddle.
MVNO operator giffgaff has recently rolled out a 2nd-factor protection against SIM swap fraud. They send a code as an SMS to the existing SIM and as an email to the registered email address, so you have to have one or the other to be able to carry out a SIM swap.
I recently tested this when I lent my mother-in-law a SIM to use while waiting airside at Heathrow before returning to China, with the instruction to bin the SIM on arrival. After she arrived, I performed such a swap to a spare SIM I had, using the code that arrived by email.
Of course, this requires that your email password and your giffgaff account passwords are secure!
Hear hear.
Former EDS/HP bod here. They completely killed my enjoyment of writing software so much that I changed direction, and only 6 years later am I starting to dip my toes back into it, under my own terms.
They also had a damn good go at destroying my self confidence, that after leaving when my wife found a role being advertised I felt I didn't stand a chance but she pretty much forced me to apply. I got the job and couldn't really be happier.
If you're in DXC, just RUN. If not, keep far, far away.
Two of my three WD Red 3TB discs I bought in Dec 2013 have died, thankfully not at the same time as they're part of a RAID5. One of those replacements died in the warranty period, which was replaced by WD. Thanks to Linux SW RAID allowing me to put the old disc on USB and still assemble the RAID, I was able to migrate to data to a new disc without degrading my array, only pulling data from the other discs when the copy hit bad sectors.
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