Posts by Bigkahoona

BOFH: AI consultant rapidly transitioned to new role as automotive surface consultant

Six o'clock

6 o'clock is the back of your head, from a human perspective. But then again, these two both have impressive superpowers when it comes to bullshit and stupidity detection.

BOFH: Come on down to the dunge– erm … basement

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

"A ZX Spectrum – in its original box – with a third-party disk drive, extra RAM, plus the original monitor. In running condition."

I'll take that. It was my first computer (luxurious 48k version) and I taught myself coding Basic on its wobbly rubber keys in the middle of the night with only the eery glow of the monitor (which was actually a small repurposed B&W TV) when I was 11 years old so my mom wouldn't catch me, because of course I had to be in school the next day. That was more than 40 years ago and today I am a happy IT professional. I'll never forget that little box.

BOFH: Smells like Teams spirit

Sounds eerily familiar...

I spend half of my work hours attending Teams meetings that have nothing to do with my area of expertise, but I'm invited anyway, 'just in case we need someone from Identity and Access Management'. Well fair enough. If it wasn't for the fact that I later get asked why the tickets are piling up and not getting solved. Well, they would be, if everyone and their uncle wouldn't require me to attend their little company self-help groups.

Beanstalk loses $182m in huge flash-loan crypto heist

Re: Really?

Reality shows us otherwise. Again and again and again. But the crypto Hare Krishnas with their blockchain tambourines refuse to learn the lesson.

NASA will award contract for second lunar lander to a biz that's not SpaceX

Blue Origin...

Maybe Blue Origin should first focus on being more than a stratosphere free fall tower for bored billionaires before Bezos starts dreaming about going to the moon. Getting a craft into orbit would be a start, or even providing shuttle services to the ISS like SpaceX does.

Help, my IT team has no admin access to their own systems

Of course this is the only proper way to do it. Print-out of master PW list stored in the tape safe where such a thing still exists and if not there needs to be a dedicated safe for such critical information.

What if the head admin gets hit by a bus while carrying his laptop holding the only copy of the master PW KeePass database and both get smashed to bits?