Posts by Evil Auditor

Wow, I'm deeply impressed by their ingeniuty! Why didn't we think of that?!

_{Maybe because it's fscking stupid?}

I knew it! Every supposed member of my team in our online 'Teams' meeting is a bot.

And so are you!

Re: Sourcing everything from the UK

German guy: "why are you Brits so obsessed with The War?!" _{(read in German accent)} - "because we won it."

Jokes aside, there's plenty reason to complain about nowadays Germany or rather its politics. But WW2 is none of it.

Re: I like 7Zip.

...hypocrisy. There's no shortage of that.

Neither is there shortage of whataboutism.

Re: Bouncy space junk?

As we all know, a million-to-one chance succeeds nine times out of ten. How does that translate to epsilon-to-zero chances?

Re: Why

If my seat is comfortable...

Then I'm in business class or whatever offers a flat bed on long-haul flights. Unfortunately, I'm one of the lesser people and therefore usually jam myself in economy. And hate being in this uncomfortable seat, unsuccessfully trying to sleep and getting grumpier by the minute.

...and we thought that the millennium bug had been a problem.

Re: "If we find evidence of policy violations, we will take action"

Hey, don't complain! As long as it is 'of' and not 'to'.

Agree.

Heck! I myself probably talk and behave less intelligent than LaMDA.

Re: Digital transmission?

...there's lots of reasons vinyl can sound different to CDs.

And it's not just the data carrier, you also have different signal paths with their own limitations. I well recall my frustration in the 90s over the sound difference between what came directly out of the sampler to the amp vs. digitally recorded and then played back from CD through the same amp. Much of the rich, low bass sound was lost when played from CD while everything above was still well reproduced. I don't know where the high-pass filter was inadvertently applied - neither the ADC and the CD players should have been the limiting factor. But the sound certainly was much different.

Re: Causes

Only if the foetus survives. Welcome to our land of the hypocritical bigots.

Re: Monetize it

That could mean a second hand market, where your post-loved units are cheaper come at a huge price premium.

Here, fixed that for youthe Japanese market.

Re: Miracle workers

The value of the content of that book, or rather its next page, that is what you should charge for turning a page. £1000 was actually rather cheap for what Dan did. The question is, what was it worth the client to get admin access? Probably much more than a meagre £1000.

Re: Sounds like an IP Conflict

you always need to double and triple-check the window you're issuing commands to

Indeed, you must. And even so I still managed once to fuck up. Somehow, it might have been a lazy Friday afternoon, I still mistook the machine's name after checking twice or trice. After the supposedly shut down machine kept responding ("huh, how did the command not get through?!"), a pair of sweaty palms and a restart everything was back to normal withouth anyone else noticing. But it taught me that I cannot be trusted with such machinery.

Re: Windows stopped being good....

NT 4.0 - tolerable? I assume you never tried to write a device driver for NT 4.0.

Re: Absolutely ourageous

@AC, shut the fsck up! You're ruining my career with such gross defamationtruth!

On a less serious note, a lot of the auditor's job is expectation management: a client expects that we thouroughly "x-ray" their whole IT infrastructure, down to the last bit. What we actually do is, drinking tea, lots of it, and if we do actual auditing, focus striktly on financially relevant systems and controls. Which is, more often than not, rather disappointing for both the auditee and the auditor. And within this very limited realm, the auditor's question you pointed out might be perfectly valid and sufficient.

Btw, any chance that we've met in the past?

Re: Do I want one in my own back yard?

Same here: specifically, where my neighbour's house is would be the perfect place!

Re: thank you

Guardian? I'm sure you mean Grauniad.

Anyway, I'm a reguarl reader of them as -imho- it's one of few only who mostly do a decent job of rather independent journalism.

Re: VMS got it right

...and about 29,000 years from now, someone will have discovered an ancient calculation machine and will have figured out how it worked. And they will see that its clock stops in the year 31,086. And some of them will start a cult that believes the end is near for an ancient civilisation allowed their calender to run until then...

Re: CFOs are IT arch-enemies

That may or may not be the case. Either way, how is this relevant to Nvidia's CFO?

Re: Not again..

This seriously annoys me

And rightly so.

As moronic as this "argument" is, the barrister's job is to get a favourable outcome for their client. And if they think it might help, they draw the autism card.

Re: Tried Avira...

I used to use Avira when it was still quite good*. Then it became an unusable mess and I kicked it out.

_{* does that statement make me an AV hibster?}

Re: I would like to say No.

No CRT/phat cap on the terminal either - dual cassette drive and thermal printer only. Both times simply touching the mains but conductivity (footwear, floor) certainly was different.

Re: Divert

Same thing happened here recently among some client service staff of the national postal service. While working from home they phoned external numbers, presumably their own private phone, to avoid getting any calls, allegedly to avoid work.

Re: Politics, not Good

Jebus fsck! Are you off your medication?!

My unfortunate experience with military grade batteries was slightly different: between one and two out of ten actually worked. And no, those were not rechargeable batteries either. Luckily, we had "borrowed" serveral packs, amounting to something between 100 and 150 batteries, for our private (private as in personal, non-military) excursion into the dark. And be brought all of them back, in pretty much the same state, i.e. kaput, as when we took them. No harm done.