There's no escaping the inevitable fate of those who would cross the BOFH.....
Posts by Coastal cutie
197 publicly visible posts • joined 26 Jun 2020
BOFH: Rerouting responsibility via firewall configs
NASA to silence Voyager's social media accounts
Meta to feed Europe's public posts into AI brains again
Re: Does anyone know...
According to our security team, the answer is no. They've issued a direct order that no user is to access it under any circumstances and compliance will be monitored (I've no idea how tbh). They never wanted it on installed on work devices in the first place but got overruled by idiot senior management.
Windows 11 adds auto-recovery, kills offline setup loophole
Serious question - can you recommend a good starting point, either online or old fashioned print for someone like me who has never installed an operating system or worked outside the MS ecosystem? I've seriously had enough of MS and want to switch to some form of Linux but don't have the vaguest idea of how to start or what version of it to choose.
More Voyager instruments shut down to eke out power supplies
Re: I could only wish my work lasted that long
Wimpey were actually decent until the mid 70s - I live on a close where the majority of the houses are 1970-72 vintage Wimpey and when I bought mine, the local surveyor I used told me they virtually never found any serious faults with them, unless the house had been totally neglected by its current owner. It may be a brick box but it's a light and airy one with bedroom dimensions new builds can only dream of.
Lawyers face judge's wrath after AI cites made-up cases in fiery hoverboard lawsuit
Shove your office mandates, people still prefer working from home

Re: Around a bunch of miserable people
Much of this (apart from the suit) is currently playing out all across London in overcrowded Met Police buildings - with the addition of exploding toilets that can't cope with the increased volume due to the numbers forced back into the office for no good reason and in the face of all the evidence that shows it confers no advantage.
BOFH: Don't threaten us with a good time – ensure it
Google Cloud burst by 12-hour power outage in German region
Linux admin asked savvy scientist for IT help and the boffin blew it
91% of polled Amazon staff unhappy with return-to-office, 3-in-4 want to jump ship
Lebanon: At least nine dead, thousands hurt after Hezbollah pagers explode
Pokémon GO was an intelligence tool, claims Belarus military official
BOFH: Videoconferencing for special dummies
'A moose hit me' and other ways people damage their gizmos
Re: My worse ones….
A former colleague of mine did the same trick of putting laptop in rucksack and forgetting to do it up. In his case, he boarded a train, swung it round to sit down.... - the flying laptop shot over an elderly lady's head, narrowly missing said bonce and instead, dented the teenager standing behind her.
Britain's Ministry of Defence accused of wasting £174M on 'external advice'
Meta won't train AI on Euro posts after all, as watchdogs put their paws down
Giving Windows total recall of everything a user does is a privacy minefield
Dell to color-code staff based on how hybrid they really are in RTO push
City council audit trail is an audit fail after disastrous Oracle ERP rollout
BOFH: The new Boss, Aiman, is suspiciously good – for now
BOFH: I get locked out, but I get in again
Anthropic unlocks Claude 3, claims it's better than ChatGPT and Gemini
BOFH: In the event of a conference, the ninja clause always applies
Infosys enjoyed a boom in UK government invoices in 2023
Return-to-office mandates boost company profits? Nope
'Exemplar' digital hospitals trust hit by multiple tech-related traumas
You're never going to get anywhere when even within the same hospital, wards and clinics are allowed to follow widely diverging processes around how information is stored. My aunt was in hospital last year - it regularly took staff 10 or more minutes to find relevant information as they didn't know where to look for it - because the ward they normally worked on filed or recorded things differently across both paper and the hospital IT systems. Even the simple process of booking a porter to get her to a previously arranged outpatient clinic appointment had 5 different flavours - after she missed one because the "proper process" for her ward wasn't followed and thus the request wasn't sent to the porters, my cousin and I started taking her down to them ourselves.
BOFH: Nice air conditioning system. Would be a shame if anything happened to it
Motorola loses appeal to kill price cap on UK Airwave emergency services contract
BOFH: Just because we've had record revenues doesn't mean you get a Xmas bonus
BOFH: Monitor mount moans end in Beancounter beatdown
Down and out: Barclays Bank takes unplanned digital detox, customers not invited
I wish it was enough to get it to stop - been in my house 5 years, still returning banking mail for the previous occupant including cards (I can tell it's banking by searching the return address online) and the banks concerned (Barclays and Lloyds I'm looking at you) don't shut down the accounts, claim they can't and keep sending. I've even told them to look at the Companies House website as she's a director and so it's publicly available.
Cat accused of wiping US Veteran Affairs server info after jumping on keyboard
Techie labelled 'disgusting filth merchant' by disgusting hypocrite
I once got stuck on a train where one of my fellow passengers had that as the ring tone. Unfortunately, despite her desperate rummagings, the phone had lodged itself into a unreachable corner of her bag and whoever was ringing did not have the brains to leave a voicemail, just kept on redialling. We finally crawled into Clapham Junction where she managed to shove her way off before someone found enough room to do her a serious mischief (the train was overcrowded to Tokyo levels due to signal failures), as the entire carriage had endured over 20 minutes of this.
BOFH: What a beautiful tinfoil hat, Boss!
Sysadmins are being left out of AI implementation
£214m effort to modernize SAP ERP in UK govt systems marked Code Red
Thames Water to datacenters: Cut water use or we will
Gen Z and Millennials don't know what their colleagues are talking about half the time
Fed up with slammed servers, IT replaced iTunes backups with a cow of a file
US Air Force AI drone 'killed operator, attacked comms towers in simulation'
Re: They're takin arr jerbs
My late Uncle, who arrived in France at about D-Day +5 had a variation on that. "We didn't worry about British artillery because they hit the target. We didn't worry about French artillery because they couldn't hit anything. When the American guns started up, we ran like hell for cover."