Posts by oldstevo

New boss took charge of project code and sent two billion unwanted emails

Re: The only thing I find odd about this story

Indeed.

A PM that

a) acknowledged he had screwed up,

b) learnt from the experience

c) became a team player

where did they find such a unicorn and did they have him bronzed????

Google Groups ditches links to Usenet, the OG social network

Re: alt.sysadmin.recovery

we never mention the chicken!!

Although it's been a good 2 decades since I was regularly in the monastery

BOFH: A security issue, you say? Activate code tangerine

Re: Wonderful episode once again!

I dated a customs official back in the day and her response to these type of statements was that they "officially we have no sense of humour, please go with the gentlemen with the rubber gloves" who will see to you!

Now we're building computers from lab-grown brain cells

Re: Someone else's brain

You're not implying that management have a brain are you?

Because all the evidence would dispute that!

Latest Windows 11 build shares desktop real estate with, er, Spotify

As long as it's removable!

If the widget can be disabled and/or removed I don't care. If not I will get "most angry"!

For password protection, dump LastPass for open source Bitwarden

I do the exact same thing. Have been using PasswordSafe on my phone, on my Windows box and on Linux as well, for more years than I can remember

An IT emergency during a festive visit to the in-laws? So sorry, everyone, I need to step out for a while

Re: Didn't Happen of the Tear Award

That's when you need this script:

"I can fix the problem, or I can answer the phone and tell you what

I'm doing about the problem, except that while I'm on the phone,

I'm not doing anything about the problem. Choose one."

and as others commented, it's your boss' job to keep senior management busy while you actually fix the problem

How to get Linux onto a non-approved laptop

Re: "keep it just in case"

"My version of "keep it just in case" is to take out the original drive with windows on it and stash it in a bag with a label."

This!

So much this!.

If I "need" windows it's there. If (as usual) I don't, what's one more HDD taking up space in the case of them on the shelf?

Your app deleted all my files. And my wallpaper too!

Re: Did you get to use the ShockyStick(TM)?

Seriously, what is the world coming too, when no one remembers the LART??

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/LART

Start or Please Stop? Power users mourn features lost in Windows 11 'simplification'

Loss of Live Tiles in Windows 11

That's no loss, that's a gain, IMHO!

Radioactive hybrid terror pigs have made themselves a home in Fukushima's exclusion zone

Re: I have nothing to add...

If "radioactive hybrid terror pigs" is not a punk band, it totally should be