Re: Corporate Risk
Easy solution - just put it on the bottom of the hull, somewhere on or near the keel...?
Posts by Anonymous Custard
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Bloodhound Super-Sonic-Car lacks Super-Sonic-Cashflow
Take my advice: The only safe ID is a fake ID
Friday 12th October 2018 08:47 GMT 
Are you Sue?
Shirley wouldn't it be Donim, Sue ?
Anyway given the modern propensity for people to give their kids name variants that just makes them look either dyslexic, illiterate or just plain stupid (or all three - my kids have classmates such as Aymie and Joolee for examples) you do have to wonder if it's quite as obvious as it might be...
Russian rocket goes BOOM again – this time with a crew on it
Thursday 11th October 2018 12:54 GMT 
Apollo 7
Apollo 7 was so successful (despite a slightly poorly and stroppy crew)
Come on, given what happened to the previous crewed trials on Apollo (the Apollo 1 fire) you have to give them serious credit for having the balls to set foot in the thing at all. I think a little slack should be cut for them there, especially given they probably also knew NASA wouldn't put their top astronauts on such a test...
Plus is was also the first use of the Saturn 1B rocket as well of course as being the first Apollo mission to actually go into space, both just to make things even more interesting...
Astroboffins may have found the first exomoon lurking beyond the Solar System
JAXA probe's lucky MASCOT plonks down on space rock Ryugu without a hitch
Rookie almost wipes customer's entire inventory – unbeknownst to sysadmin
Why are sat-nav walking directions always so hopeless?
Attempt to clean up tech area has shocking effect on kit
Friday 28th September 2018 09:53 GMT
Re: Why is it always the cleaners?
Brings to mind a story I heard regarding a new security guard at a semiconductor fab, who thought it would be a good idea to also patrol the cleanroom. Unfortunately no-one had told him of the requirements for bunny suits etc, and so he just casually strolled in wearing his normal uniform and apparently even with a cup of coffee in hand.
Still at least this cleaner story didn't involve the usual suspect of nylon tights, or indeed other garments worn around the same region...
Blueprint of modern construction can be found in a tech cluster... of 19th century England
Thursday 27th September 2018 10:51 GMT 
A good short-break destination area
Have to say that whole area is very good for a short (or indeed not-so-short) holiday for people interested in heritage industry and that sort of thing.
Not just the whole Ironbridge area (there's a lot more than just the bridge - Enginuity plus several interesting museums all available on one ticket price), but Blist's Hill and of course now this as well.
A few years back we did a week in the area, and it was very enjoyable and fascinating (and I'm not sure we saw everything even then). Would certainly recommend it, a very good time indeed.
https://www.ironbridge.org.uk/
NASA to celebrate 55th anniversary of first Moon landing by, er, deciding how to land humans on the Moon again
Amazon Alexa outage: Voice-activated devices are down in UK and beyond
First it was hashtags – now Amber Rudd gives us Brits knowledge on national ID cards
Raspberry Pi supremo Eben Upton talks to The Reg about Pi PoE woes
A boss pinching pennies may have cost his firm many, many pounds
Monday 10th September 2018 13:15 GMT
Sam Vimes Theory of Economic Injustice
As ever, Pratchett sums up the fallacy of penny pinching and small budgets to a tee (and applies to servers, PCs and indeed most project items just as much as boots)...
A really good pair of leather boots, the sort that would last years and years, cost fifty dollars. This was beyond his pocket and the most he could hope for was an affordable pair of boots costing ten dollars, which might with luck last a year or so before he would need to resort to makeshift cardboard insoles so as to prolong the moment of shelling out another ten dollars.
Therefore over a period of ten years, he might have paid out a hundred dollars on boots, twice as much as the man who could afford fifty dollars up front ten years before. And he would still have wet feet.
https://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Sam_Vimes_Theory_of_Economic_Injustice
Monday 10th September 2018 13:06 GMT
Re: Sympathy for any employee, anywhere, since time began ...
Reminds me of what happened here a couple of years ago.
I'm a 20-year veteran, so have been there and done that on most things. But we have a new tool-type which is different to our existing run of the mill stuff (I work for a semiconductor manufacturing tool vendor), and I was asked to support it. Also as background I'm a certified trainer on the older tool types.
So get trotted of around the globe for a week's training on aforesaid tool. All very nice and jolly, except I got back home to an email proudly congratulating me on now being a certified trainer for that new tool type too.
Yup, after a grand total of a week's hand-on with the new tool, I was expected to (and indeed actually had to) train both colleagues and customers on them. Shall we say the first couple of courses were "interesting", but at least they sharpened up my skills at winging it and educated guesswork...
SpaceX dodges lightning while storms keep Japan earthbound
A flash of inspiration sees techie get dirty to fix hospital's woes
Post-silly season blues leave me bereft of autonomous robot limbs
Friday 7th September 2018 15:30 GMT 
Uncommon
“A further 23% would even sacrifice one of their senses,” the report continues, failing to notice the irony that this particular sampling of millennials have evidently done so already.
Common failed to make the option list, as it's already long gone...
Anyway haven't any of them seen Spider-Man 2? Did Doc Oc die for nothing?
Fast food, slow user – techie tears hair out over crashed drive-thru till
Trainer regrets giving straight answer to staffer's odd question
Grad sends warning to manager: Be nice to our kit and it'll be nice to you
Sysadmin trained his offshore replacements, sat back, watched ex-employer's world burn
Friday 27th July 2018 11:25 GMT
Re: Not in IT...
But usually nowhere does it say that they need to be trained competently, correctly or completely.
Or to be taught all the little tricks and secrets like the precise locations that the machines need to be struck for percussive maintenance to make things better rather than worse...
Boss helped sysadmin take down horrible client with swift kick to the nether regions
♫ The Core i9 clock cycles go up. Who cares where they come down?
Microsoft's 'room-scale' Ginormonitor probably not as big as a room
Official: The shape of the smartphone is changing forever
No, seriously, why are you holding your phone like that?
Friday 13th July 2018 10:54 GMT
Re: Slight variation
If they're being particularly obnoxious it's fun just to join in and make your own comments loud enough to be heard by the remote party too. And of course make them as brain-dead and sarcastic as you can.
Even the most thick-headed moron will usually get that kind of hint that they've become a freakshow. And if all else fails you can just say you thought it was an open party line that anyone could join in as you're being forced to listen to it anyway.
Google offers to leave robocallers hanging on the telephone
Wednesday 11th July 2018 10:15 GMT
Re: "If the AI detects that a machine is calling you and you don't want to speak to the machine ..."
Try the following response, in as sinister/weirdo voice as you can manage, and end it with an evil chuckle:
"Ah no, it wasn't an accident, it was quite deliberate. He was the last person to cold-call spam me but I got him back..."
Automated payment machines do NOT work the same all over the world – as I found out
Drug cops stopped techie's upgrade to question him for hours. About everything
Not OK Google: Massive outage turns smart home kit utterly dumb
Relive your misspent, 8-bit youth on the BBC's reopened Micro archive
Wednesday 27th June 2018 14:08 GMT
Ah the old "we're so much better than you as we have the web, simple apps, easy block coding and all this other fancy stuff like IOT and self driving cars" modern day view.
To which we old greybeards of course reply "we never had any of that, so we rolled up our sleeves and created all that stuff you take for granted..."
And yes, I can remember when all this were fields, now get off my land! ;-D
India tells its banks to get Windows XP off ATMs – in 2019!
Tuesday 26th June 2018 08:41 GMT
Re: Question?
Between arriving and boarding a plane at most airports you'll see at least a couple of PC's running XP (or occasionally even older Windows). Not to mention the common sight at the gate of them printing off the passenger manifest on a dot-matrix printer.
Luckily all just controlling the cattle movement of bodies onto planes rather than anything too safety critical, but still makes you wonder sometimes...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
