Posts by Mr Fix.

Tech employees demand their leaders take a stand against ICE

Re: Why are there no problems with ICE...

They dont need the same amout of agents since those states work with ICE and detain illegals so they can be handed over.

Sanctuary places dont cooperate with ICE and instead release people into the streets where ICE have to chase them down in public. Gemini says the following, so get your facts straight:

Texas has significantly more ICE arrests than Minnesota, currently accounting for nearly 25% of all arrests nationwide. While Minnesota has seen a dramatic increase in enforcement recently, its totals remain a fraction of those in Texas.

Recent Arrest Figures (2025–2026)

The following data reflects current trends during the intensified immigration enforcement period:

Metric Texas Minnesota

Total ICE Arrests (2025) ~40,000 – 45,000+ ~4,600 – 10,000

National Share ~23-25% ~2.2%

'Trained monkey' from tech support saved know-it-all manager's mistake with a single keypress

deja vu.

I've had the exact same experience 20 years back working at the Helpdesk.

The CEO secretary called me telling me that I'm needed asap in the auditorium because of a technical problem.

So I went down and was greeted in the hallway, told by the secretary that its an emergency as the CEO was having a presentation "that wasnt working correctly" in front of a crowd.

Turns out that pretty much the who's who in the telecom-sector of our part of Europe was in attendance.

So I went into the meeting to be greeted with about 150 people staring at the podium and the CEO looking quite nervous.

Went up to his laptop, remember til this day it was a HP NC8000, did my ninja moves on the keyboard, big-ass projector lit up, powerpoint blasting in all its glory.

Discreetly showed the CEO the keycombo.

CEO said infront of everybody "Thats why Im running the business side and we make sure we got skilled guys like that for the tech".

Crowd applauded and I went back to cursing at some VBS macros or something.

Google Cloud shows it can break things for lots of customers – not just one at a time

Google has been in the game long enough to know about "Read-Only Fridays".

Microsoft floats bringing a text editor back to the CLI

Re: What like Powershell's tab autocomplete?

ctrl-space does this in powershell.

Failed insurrection aside, Biden is going to be president in two weeks. What does it mean for tech policy?

Re: Rent a mob

Well the Biden staff did contribute to a bail found for rioters, I'd say that's pretty much "rent-a-mob".

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/biden-staffers-bailout-fund/

Mike drop, DXC-ya later! Lawrie immediately ejects as CEO from IT outsourcing giant

Re: Unfortunately he still haunts us at Perspecta

Who the hell designed that webpage? It was slow loading on my 1gbit connection and inspecting the webpage turns it out its 31.6MB in size.

"Armed with a portfolio of more than 260 patents, and unparalleled knowledge in the areas of cyber, cloud, analytics, mobility, advanced networking, systems engineering, machine learning, and agile software development, no one has an innovation engine as powerful as ours."

Yeah, no.

Equinix is rolling in it.... money that is

From what I've heard at conferences the biggest player have built their systems in such redundant way that they dont care if things break. A customer who had seen the insides of an azure DC said he was impressed by all the red lights everywhere (Microsoft spokeswoman on stage seemed quite uncomfortable with that statement). Then once in a while they sweep in an decomission whole racks at a time when its reached a critical amount of titsup.

Wall St moneymen on IBM Q4 financials: Don't get your hopes up

IBM hah.

Currently fighting with some file restore in IBM Tivoli Storage Manager.

Looks to be based on Java.

When searching for a specific file, Java ran up memory usage to 3.5 GB without finding the file. Its a damn dir /s |find "blah"!

Now I've started a folder-restore, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Scheduler Service client currently eating about 4.7 gig of Memory.

The GUI looks like it was made in the early 90s but about says Copyright IBM 2016.

The sooner they die the better.

From Motown to lockdown: Detroit bathroom bung IT exec gets one year in the clink

The economy must be really bad in Detroit for someone to risk imprisonment for 30k USD over 7 years.