Posts by Dave@Home

KPMG tells staff facing the axe: Here's £100, now zip it

Asking for trouble

£100 (less once taxed) to waive rights - what bullying will be used to try and force people to sign that?

Games Workshop seeks IT leader to summon the legions in epic saga battling the forces of ERP

Re: Hmmm

Just pointing out they tend to be miserly employers, didn't realise it would upset you

Hmmm

Famously they pay buttons in a lot of their roles, leveraging fan emotion for a lot of roles.

Buyer missed one option and got 1% of the cable they needed

HP warranty pack thingy

I can't remember the correct term for them, little purple HP warranty document packs you got with PCs in the mid 90's

I do remember getting 20 PCs delivered and the following day a pallet turned up with 20 of the associated warranty packs clingwrapped to it.

Pretty sure they all came from South Queensferry

Spies, prime ministers, and balls: The BBC Domesday project @ 40

Re: Why do I suddenly feel so old?

Ditto, myself and 2 classmates wrote entries that were selected for inclusion, though our school never actually got any kit, so it wasn't until fairly recently that I was able to find the actual stuff we wrote as Primary 6 kids.

Government contractor exposed path to immigration records

Re: That's the holiday risk..

Fk did I do?

NHS Trust IT blunder overwrites 11 years of maternity records

Legal hold

Surely the audit records should have been subject to a legal hold whilst the inquiry in underway?

Nine-year-old runs up $118,000 bill on dad's corporate credit card advertising his Roblox YouTube channel

Re: personal use is fine, get back in your box

Those were not the rules at EY, though admittedly I left in 2017 so they may have been updated.

Any discrepancies between usage and claims WERE followed up.

What an utter dick

“I’m not blaming him,” said Dave. “He’s only nine, he didn’t understand fully what a company card meant, or that a large number on the screen represented real money.”

Neither did you, you gaslighting prick

BOFH: Oh no! The CMS ate 500 pages of corporate documentation

Viva Engage

The artist formerly known as Yammer - it was shite a decade ago and has only gotten worse

Virgin Media offloads email services to third-party provider

Oh, is that what it was

I thought they'd finally killed my account after I left last year.

I'll download my old stuff and wave it byebye then

Smartphone makers don't bother to comply with EU repairability requirements

Re: Choice

My car has perfectly good tyres on it, I can drive to the shops and back, Why would I want to change the tyres? They're perfectly good enough. If people do want to change the tyres on their car let them buy cars where they can and I'll be happy to buy one that doesn't. Why does the EU feel a need to reduce my choice as a consumer?

Logitech hit by sueball over tariff refunds

Re: Yeah, good luck with that

The very top 1% of American wealth owns $55 Trillion, the national debt just ticked over $40 Trillion.

Follow the money

Lego's supersized Hubble deserves a little more shine

Re: availability, etc.

I'm old if £119 is pocket money prices

Scot NHS trust probes access to medical records of 9-year-old girl after man arrested on suspicion of murder

Re: just idiots at this point

No-one in an A&E department is pissing around with a call to IT for access privilege issues during treatment.

Airbus takes flight from AWS. What happens next is critical

Re: How will this be paid for?

Do the EU buy a lot of airplanes?

Even banks and hyperscalers are now sounding the alarm about the AI bubble

Pensions

Just have a look at any middle to high growth fund, and you'll see NVIDIA, Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon

When it does go pop you'll see people's pension savings hammered

France and Germany agree to disagree, ditch joint next-gen Euro fighter

Re: Nervous pilots. - frigates

"The invention of the tank in WW1 and its potential was appreciated only by the German high command, not the British or the French. "

Not true, they really didn't put any meaningful resources into development of the A7v, only building 20, and used more then double that number in Beutepanzers. It was only towards the summer of 1918 that they started to try and develop something actually useful, but by then they were so resource constrained they went nowhere.

Zaloga's German Panzers 1914-1918 has a nice write up, as does www.landships.info

England's exam watchdog frets over smart specs turning GCSEs into Google searches

Re: Nothing new

"There isn't that much benefit in cheating. You will just place yourself in an embarrassing position as you go forward, a halfwit surrounded by people who know what they are talking about."

Dunno, never done my managers any harm

The network password was a key plot point in one of the most famous movies of all time

Re: Who hasn't?

Not paranoid at all, I've seen a POC in the last day where Edge is loading passwords in clear text, into memory and can be accessed via PS scripts.

https://x.com/i/status/2051308329880719730

Young evil genius forces hamster to run on wheel to power his gadgets

Poor hamster

That wheel is far too small for a syrian hamster, look at the arched back.

Likewise the cage is way too small - at a minimum it should be 100x50 cm https://www.smallpetexpert.com/hamster/syrian-hamster-cage-size/

To fix this Wi-Fi network, we'll need a crane

Re: Pile drivers, cameras, and microscopes don't mix

I spent my first 11 years a couple of streets away from a drop forge in Ayr.

Used to be quite soothing, the rhythm of the hammer

Task Manager's CPU meter is an obituary for the recent past, says the engineer who built it

Re: Plummer for the wins

https://www.atg.wa.gov/news/news-releases/attorney-general-s-office-sues-settles-washington-based-softwareonlinecom

The press release from the time is interesting reading

Tech support chap's boss got him out of jail so he could finish a job

Re: Woe is not me

Had a similar trip into Canada from Detroit.

We had some time to kill before meeting up at the wife's Aunts house, so I suggested we nip over the bridge for a look. Fine going over, coming back was a bit more tricky.

TBH I probably didn't help myself by saying I was missing stamps with the right head on them.

'Uncle Larry’s biggest fan' cut by email in early morning Oracle layoff spree

Re: The US employment hellscape

Just think of all that shareholder value you left on the table, I don't know how you can sleep at night!

Enforcing piracy policy earned helpdesk worker death threats

Reminds me of poor management

Worked at a Big 4 place, Incident manager.

We had a lad on secondment into our team from a level one desk.

Didn't work out for various reasons and so at the end of the secondment he was told he wouldn't be joining permanently.

He was on Facebook that night talking in the open about how he wanted to come into the office with a knife.

Management did nothing, even when shown the posts.

Capita pension portal 'fiasco' forces Cabinet Office into damage control

Re: More of the same corporate incompetence

I seem to recall in December they said the website issues were due to too many people trying to log on to get a statement.

Dell wants £10m+ from VMware if Tesco case goes against it

In the US that's the case, pickups and large SUVs are classified as small commercial vehicles, so the regulations are less restrictive.

Linux admin hated downtime so much he schlepped a live UPS during office move

Re: Seen it before.

gets dust out of the air

EY exposes 4TB+ SQL database to open internet for who knows how long

Re: Ernst & Young

They changed the name over a decade ago

UK data regulator defends decision not to investigate MoD Afghan data breach

"Edwards told MPs the ICO decided not to investigate because it might hinder the MoD's response.

away and shite

California cops confused after trying to give ticket to self-driving car

Re: What took California so long?

Everything ok at home there mate?

Trump demands Microsoft fire its head of global affairs

Dog food

She ate it, literally ate it, for money on her livestream

UK schools give system supplier Bromcom an F for Azure uptime

Yeah that statement of theirs stinks of a poorly designed and cobbled together system with no scaling or even load balancing.

US cuffs 475 at Hyundai–LG battery plant – feds tout largest single-site raid

Re: Hmmmm, what day is Kristallnacht this year?

Inflation really is getting bad...

UK government trial of M365 Copilot finds no clear productivity boost

Re: Crapilot

bless

Crypto thief earns additional prison time for assaulting witness

Re: Puzzled

Prison guards typically wouldn't carry firearms in areas where they can be overpowered by prisoners.

Selling your digital soul to use Bluesky's DMs isn't just a bad idea, it's the law*

Already there

If You Want a Picture of the Future, Imagine a Only Being Able To Watch "Homes Under The Hammer" – for Ever

Ah, I see my sister in law has also visited your house

Pentagon snaps up ownership stake in America's only rare earths mine

Re: Defence

Everything OK at home there mate?

Yes, I wrote a very expensive bug. In my defense I was only seven years old at the time

Ah the consequences of using someone else's line

Way back at the turn of the century, I was subcontracted by the body farm I worked for, into a Really Big Setup in Edinburgh.

Boring days, doing app packaging - take a clean image, install the app, run a delta compare to see what changed on the system, take those outputs as the app package - all very basic stuff and rather boring.

One of the lads I worked with was a bit of a nerds nerd, and had a MUD setup on a server at home. Asked if anyone fancied playing on it in the evenings.

Eventually boredom at work had us wondering if we could connect from the site, turned out there was a spare ISDN hanging out the back of a system that wasn't used outside of remote support functions so we 'borrowed' it and used that to connect to the MUD.

Went well till the end of the quarter and someone noticed the bill had went mental. No proper logging, so we played dumb, but we did stop using it.

simpler times.

Deutsche Bahn train hits 405 km/h without falling to bits

Re: Our fast trains are not very fast

They also spent a lot of time redesigning the tunnel entrances and exits to mitigate shockwave booms.

Watched a youtube video with the young un this morning on Shinkansen as he was getting dressed for nursery. https://youtu.be/9qALUY6WeN8

British IT worker sentenced to seven months after trashing company network

Re: One Scenario

This is the most American post i've seen here in a while

Visiting students can't hide social media accounts from Uncle Sam anymore

Re: Making it worse

"All TSA and CBP staff encountered were pleasant and professional."

Now I know you're making it up

Re: This is going to backfire

I remember them losing their shit when Brazil implemented equal levels of security theatre at their borders.

Teens used encrypted chats to recruit for 'violence as a service' murder ring, Europol says

I love threads like this

It keeps the frothing loons in a single place, mostly

German court parks four Volkswagen execs in jail over Dieselgate scandal

Re: Legacy

VW isn't part of Stellantis

GAO finds billions in possible government savings, all without Elon's help

The can just wait it out, the Comptroller has a 15 year term and he's over 14 years in post.

US tech titans rejoice in $600B Saudi shopping spree

How are they powering and cooling these massive datacenters?

I can't imagine solar will be enough, though maybe with battery farms perhaps. Cooling seems like a real problem though.

Marks & Spencer admits cybercrooks made off with customer info

Re: as a regular customer ...

There are a lot of staff posting on reddit with stories, including inability to see rotas and booked holidays as well

Stores seem to be getting pallets of big sellers and a lot of smaller throughput items are missed off

4chan, the 'internet’s litter box,' appears to have been pillaged by rival forum

Re: sh*t

They did have some nice, non toxic boards :(