Posts by Khaptain

Don't let the bastards get you down.

Stephen Hawking : an incredible character that spent his life working within the world of abstract ideas and concepts. His handicap never stopped his brain from evolving, his ideas and those with whom who worked helped changed/improve the contemporary world..

Well done Stephen and thanks for everything.

Sales staff accessing sensitive data

I can't imagine any other department that is more constantly accessing and requesting sensitive data than the sales teams.

After a few years, usually 3 - 5, they jump ship with up to date or almost up to date figures, stats, client details etc ...

It always amazes me how they consider themselves over and above other employees in relation to the fact that they consider it normal to constantly hold on to so much data..

Those higher up on the tree should also have a second look as to why so much information is available to second or third tier staff...

600 Servers = 1 truck and lots of muscle

How the hell does someone manage to physically move 600 servers from a "Datacentre" without being noticed or alarm bells ringing. Or was this 600 VMs on one very large server.....

Just the sheer volume of 600 servers seems impossible without having 600 thieves or a very special, very fast, very clever robot.

So they had redundant backups/powerlines/data connections but no physical security cameras/padlocks/patrol agent.. etc

Smells very fishy ( Icelandic fish of course)...

What !!!

"IBM has spent years telling the world that its Notes suite is as fine a collaboration environment as there is to be found anywhere"

I had to "suffer" Notes for several years and it would be nigh on impossible to force me to return. Outlook/Exchange have their faults but at least they are extremely usable.

Notes/Domino feels like a 1980s rebuff , it lack ergonomics, the interface is prehistoric, those tiles, how I hate those damned tiles..... It feels clunky, as if is was thrown together at the last moment...

It should be killed of before it continues to provide further embarrassment for IBM.

I would rather they reworked OS4 and put a serious contender to Windows on the market.

Dont worry

There is one job that will exist as long as people are allowed to users conmputers, The Hell Desk.

The BOFH and the PFY will always be in demand due to the fact the (l)users will never arrive at a level of intelligence/rational thought that they should have possessed before being allowed to interact with a keyboard.

Sales Pitch

Ce always understood that business was about selling more than it is about finding the correct solution

. I wonder if IBM have "cognitively solved" the standard sales pitch + diatribe + multitude of follow up calls that usually comes attached to attempting to buy anything from various service oriented companies.

12000 Dollars

Not exactly on the same level as a certain Mr Escobar.

Wheelchair Gangsta Grannies coming at you......

"it won't be adding many new features to iOS 12, apparently: that next major release will be mainly stability fixes and bug squashing"

Same Ole, same ole Apple.

It will be interesting to see their next few quarters. I get the feeling that things will see a slip in performance.

Physical Access

Physical access that requires switching of the machine, replacing the hard drive which requires "internal" physical access, then rebooting the machine all the while being unnoticed by anyone.

Something is weird here, either their are bank employees, Siemens Nixdorf employees or security guards who have the keys involved here, How the hell does the average Joe get access to the internals of the ATMs, nost of which are behind brick walls....?

Slightly sarcastic response coming up...

"Lithium-ion batteries are notorious for occasional self-immolation."

They are so notorious in fact that the last 29 mobiles devices that I possessed all self-immolated with 2 hours of purchasing and that was only the devices that I use to read ElReg.

Cmon, "notorious" is a little bit OTT...

There are currently over 1 Billion devices in use and we only very,very occasionally hear about self combusting batteries and we have little or no knowledge of the treatment that they might have suffered before hand.

There are probably far more nefarious, notorius, extraneous household fires per day than mobiles burning gonads through self inflammation ....

Should we presume that their version of Santa Claus has dreadlocks... ?

Guests beware

Imagine learning about this idea AFTER having been invited to the party.

Here in France there are quite a few cheeses that are covered in ash, I might just check the ingredient list a little closer next time.

Which version of Windows 10

I read that is a MSDN version but which one exactly, is it a developers preview or an existing version ?

It's not in 1703 or 1709 or at least not in any of the versions that I currently run.

Never heard of "Keeper" before this post... Seems strange that MS would include a 3rd part app like this.

Suitable alternatives

The first question that should be asked is "Why" the under 18s want to look at porn or other illicit content.. Answer that question first and then proceed to determine if any action should be taken...

Quite possibly the under 18s need their minds nourished with something other than what is currently on offer but do we truly have better suitable alternatives for them ? If we don't offer them something better then I can easily understand why they are doing what they are doing.. Porn and illicit content are a means of escaping the trials tribulations of contemporary society, just like drugs and alcohol, which when taken in moderation are perfectly fine, it's the over-indulgence that creates problems.

And what about the other powerful elements that are in play; subliminal advertising, junk TV, junk food, the dream of instantly becoming rich without making any effort all being pushed endlessly 24 hours a day etc,etc. Shouldn't we also consider the negative impacts that they undoubtedly bring ?

Society in general has a role to play we cant just blame the governments. It really does appear as though we are sliding down towards a very dark place...

Hidden meaning

"Financial market professionals were warned to make sure they stay on the right side of securities laws"

Should we understand from this phrase that they have already detected something unsavoury is going on behind the scenes ?

Confused

Speaking to the BBC, Watch Commander Shaun Dakin of the West Midlands Fire Service (WMFS) said: "All of the group involved were very apologetic, but this was clearly a call-out which might have prevented us from helping someone else in genuine, accidental need."

It was definitely genuine and I am quite sure it was accidental in the fact that this was not the intended outcome.. I see no reason that the Fire Brigade would consider this as anything else.. Kids climbing then falling out of trees, cooks forgetting to turn of the stove etc are all genuine and accidental. No one intentionally expects their life to be put in danger.

Even though this was a prank stunt, the need for calling the services, and consequently saving the guys life remain the same...

Silver Bullet Syndrome

Never forget that clients are comes meatbags that are never truly sure nor fully understand their own requirements which change constantly during development phases...

It's not AI that is required, you would need to be at least Deity Level to get coding done correctly without human intervention..