Posts by tezboyes 143 publicly visible posts • joined 1 Mar 2022
Still trying to even get our paid canteen back, despite working on an industrial estate with 10 microwaves between about 800 people (if everyone had to be in all the time) 600 seats and 400 parking spaces.
There is.a Greggs 10 minutes walk up a hill ...
Common sense, logic, care for staff, yeah clearly none of those apply to "leaders" - see The Psychopath Test.
Similarly, testing a script to update a lookup table. But I ran it in the wrong window - Prod rather than Dev. The script didn't work.
But I noticed it immediately, told my manager who notified users immediately that there was an issue. It only took 30 mins to fix.
And whilst it was a clear demerit I didn't get hauled over the coals as I didn't faff about or make up stories.
Plus as a lesson learned, we set the default telnet window borders to be red on prod systems going forward.
Yes a browser function, but a website issue ...
With a potential for any of those data items to be asked for, stored and disseminated without you knowing.That latter being the real problem.
There was some hoohah about it recently, but also a few years ago - which is when I first noticed, turned auto off and installed one of the password (and other credential) managers that does require human input.
Sadly no opportunity to both Up and Down vote !
Banksy is clever, but his work at best is meant to be street art. We visited Bristol a few years ago, and completely by chance noticed one high up on a wall, it was a lovely little surprise - then move on.
Hence his absolute piss-take of the establishment art world and collectors with that picture that got shredded when purchased.
The what happens when is no longer hypothetical...
One of the first NFT games "F1 Delta" shut down with a days notice last month.
The company behind it are apparently going to offer compensation in the form of similar NFTs in another game. And that's a best case scenario, they could easily have just shut down totally.
As for resale value, well good luck with trying to sell any of that on!
Three months to get proper login credentials, yeah that sounds about right.
Sadly for my staff that is not the alternative skill progression that I allow ...
We're currently workshopping an improved process, yeah seriously, it's been going on for over 6 months.
I did get dangerously close to uttering a BOFHism in one session - and I'm on the lUser side of it!
LOL - to be fair there was more than one.
Clayton - of Turnpike, who was almost unfailingly polite, even when essentially calling a FW a FW.
Ashton- who was less so, he'd just call you a FW straight out, otherwise though it was entirely dependent on the quality of the question.
Both of whom, amongst others, were hugely helpful when I pulled the demon.tech.modems FAQ together. Which would never have happened if Cliff hadn't taken that gamble to set Demon up and let us all in.
Damn I can't remember my IP!
But I do recall, getting home in a Friday from a week away at work. First thint, order a pizza, then I could dialup to start the download of a week of Usenet (and Altnet for the pedants :) and putting the washing in whilst waiting.
The pizza would arrive about the time that News was sorted, so I'd eat that whilst reading everything but demon.local. Head out to the Mayfair, then get into d.l when I got back.
Tell kids these days that ;)
Short answer Capitalism.
Longer answer, insane patent law that makes it easier for large monopolies to dominate than for small innovators to make a change.
So patenting anything and sueing others for using it is a profitable move, for the company and for the lawyers.
Especially when those evaluating said patents won't be able to check everything.
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