
Just look for the locker which glows in the dark
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"Fibre to the Premise not Premises - like it's not Fibre to the Cabinets. Or is that too paedantic?"
Not too pedantic. Just plain wrong.
When referring to a single building or even part of a building, it is still premises:
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/premises
"Premise" is something else:
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/premise
There is a great scene in the film "Hidden Figures" (the story of a team of female African-American mathematicians who served a vital role in NASA during the early years of the U.S. space program) about dealing with [REDACTED].
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEJWtAMnAlA
The answer - hold it up to the light.
The security "fix" to prevent this.... Use darker ink!
I have found that duct tape provides a very effective "field fix" for "mouthy" users.
Pull out a good forearm length, tear off, place firmly over users "orifice" and press firmly.
Works best if you have a Bruce Willis style haircut when applying makeshift "software patch" to "troublesome" user :)
"blink twice if you need help. I won't be able to help you, I'll just blink back"
Hang on! I know you!
You're my CAT!
I've told you before, do NOT go prancing about on my keyboard just because I've left the "fish tank" screen saver on. So get off my desk or there will be NO Dreamies for you when I get home.
The really hard part with security is not the technical aspects, which I'm not saying are easy. It is getting the necessary top level management buy-in, backing and enforcemet.
All too often, it is lethargy and lack of a spine at the top that is the root cause.
Like allowing WhatsApp to become a semi-official internal communication tool used in preference to all the organisation provided tools. Simply because the users set it up and like using it.
As AI worms its way into more and more areas, there will a come a point where someone higher up the food chain with think and then say out loud:
"If you are using AI to do most of your work, what the hell are we paying you for?
In fact, why should we continue paying you at all?"
I remember pretty much all of that kit. I even had a collection of Commodore PETs (with 3040 and 4040 dual floppy units).
And I do NOT avoid the stairs to save my knees, thank you very much.
I only avoid stairs if there is no supply of oxygen bottles at the top.
And I was wondering what caused that spate of flat types around Elephant & Castle......
This is an approach I use often which I think of as "tiptoeing through the minefield".
You stand far greater chance of making it out the other side with all your bits and appendages intact if you spend some time proactively trying to work out where the mines are first.
All too often the approach is "let's steam ahead and deal with any problems as we hit them".... BANG!!! Oops that's your legs gone. Not going to make good progress now are you?
That reminds me of a story my mother told me about her and one of her brothers. She had a fiery temper.
They had an argument and she throw an "offensive bladed weapon" at him (it was a hand axe - quite why she had one to hand, I've no idea) which stuck in a door frame beside him.
When he exlaimed "That could have hit me!" her reply was - and this was in her own words - "I was aiming for your head".
"I have lost count of how many times I told various people around me that software engineers are not paid to write code. They are paid to think. Writing code is trivial effort in comparison"
I still irks me how much the media just doesn't understand that "coding" is not the same as "programming" or "software development".
Coding is a sub activity of the other two. They encompase a lot more than "coding".
I've had a couple of calls like that.
Oddly they didn't get very far:
Scammer:
"Just press the Windows key and...."
Me:
"I can't see a Windows key on my keyboard"
Scammer:
"What is the make of your computer?"
Me:
"Erm... It says BBC Microcomputer"
Strangely he asked several more questions trying to identify my "PC" before the penny dropped LOL
Now a TRUE storeman would keep a hidden stock of broken, burnt out components under the counter.
Then when some clever cloggs turns up, emptying a handful of burn components on the counter and asking:
"Have you got some of these?", he would reply:
"Certainly, here you are" and pull of some identical looking burnt components from his secret "clever cloggs" stash.
;)
One of two possibilities, beyond not paying their internet provider bills....
1. They had decided to try and send all their internet traffic through a satellite launched by Virgin Orbit. Oh, wait. That failed to launch didn't it.
2. Someone put the wrong bit of Virgin into receivership and accidentally tanked Virgin Media instead of Virgin (not in) Orbit.
Hi Gene,
The "Send Corrections" link is near the top of the main Comments page on the same line and to the right of "Post you comment" and "House Rules" (on the full web version at least).
I've missed it before when wishing to point out errors.
;)
"That has to be in the running for the most-pointless-dialog-box ever award"
No no no no....
The most two most useless (recent) dialogs by Microsoft have to be during installation of Windows:
"Please wait while we work our magic..."
and:
"Leave everything to us...."
You must be effing joking!!! Leaving everything to you Microsoft ?!?!?!?!?
Most of the "switches" probably users trying to find stuff that someone in Microsoft has decided to move within Teams from where it usually is to some stupid place for the usual reasons - i.e. no damn reason at all, simply because they could.
Not because any, you know actual customers, thought the UI needed to be "fiddled about" with for the millionth time.
I take it you don't have a cat?
The hours of fun that can be had endlessly ejecting/re-inserting (if your DVD player allows you to do that via the remote) the disc tray while watching your cat try and grab or "bat" it is awesome.
Be prepared to have to replace it though if you cat is quicker than you and you end up with a "feline vandalised" machine.
Talk about "Paws of Fury" (just without Hank).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Js3xUgNICNY
Unfortunately this is all too common.
End users (both home and business) sleep walking into a security quagmire and privacy fiasco all in the name of "convience". They're becoming addicted to controlling things via apps on their phone (laziness?) which almost invariably require some sort of "cloud" service to work.
Manufacturers are equally to blame by encouraging it - realesing products which do not work, or are hard to make work, except via some (usually the manufacturer's) "cloud" service.
All business MUST have a policy for internet connected and IoT devices, as part of or in addition to their IT and security policies. It is grave mistake not to.
And a recommendation to everyone - STOP making or wanting everything under the sun to be "connected". There are even internet connected ovens FFS! It is getting ridiculous.
One of my biggest "bug bears" about Windows 11.
The change from a single place to change the default web browser in Windows 10 to God knows how many individual file extension associations you have to change in 11.
One could be forgiven for thinking that Microsoft don't want people to change the default browser from something other than Egde.