* Posts by Sporkfighter

5 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Feb 2019

Never let something so flimsy as a locked door to the computer room stand in the way of an auditor on the warpath

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Re: Wouldn't Happen Here

In the US, Durex is a brand of condoms.

A quick cup of coffee leaves production manager in fits and a cleaner in tears

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Re: You should have been sacked

I've had people unplug equipment many times.

"Sorry, I din't know that was important, and anyway, I forgot to charge my laptop, so I needed to plug it in."

Overzealous n00b takes out point-of-sale terminals across the UK on a Saturday afternoon

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Re: You should have been sacked

Any odd unlikely event has a one in a million chance of happing on any particular day...unfortunately, there are more than a million odd unlikely events.

Facebook blames 'server config change' for 14-hour outage. Someone run that through the universal liar translator

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"Is a single tweet enough when millions of people's communications are affected?"

It wasn't communication, it was only Facebook.

Only plebs use Office 2019 over Office 365, says Microsoft's weird new ad campaign

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Re: LOL

Creating documents in proprietary formats using rented software that reports your activity stored on somebody else's cloud...who owns those documents?