Posts by Youngone

Where I work, the DevOps people took over some of the "Ops" bits and since the beginning of the month guest wi-fi has stopped working at one of my sites. I have narrowed it down to the fact that clients attempting to join that specific SSID are no longer being given an IP address.

When I explained it to the lady in charge, she looked at me blankly. I know she desperately wanted to ask what a DHCP server was, but she's aware of her reputation, and she knows I'm a gossip so she didn't.

It's still not fixed. I'm pretty sure it's because the "Director of Excellence" hasn't had a chance to Google "DHCP Server" yet. She'll get around to it sometime I suppose.

Her boss lives half way around the planet and probably doesn't understand any of it either, so there's no point talking to him.

Re: The start of life?

I wonder why the 2 downvotes?

The comment seems like an interesting discussion point. Maybe El Reg has a couple of deists on board.

Re: breaking the rules

Thanks. It still makes my head hurt though. ;-) Ow.

The CAIS are a group of super villains who live in hollowed out volcanos or orbiting space stations. They're mostly funded from the proceeds of threatening to destroy the Moon with an ultra-deathray.

It's all pretty standard stuff really.

"Leadership".

I live in a a country that you probably think of as being civilised and democratic, but our entire agriculture and horticulture industries are reliant on a very similar scam.

In our case, the farmers complain that they're unable to find local workers willing to work so the government creates visa categories that enable the farmers to bring in hundreds of people (mostly from south East Asia) to work in their businesses with the promise of high wages so that they can send money home.

What actually happens is that the workers are paid less than minimum wage (this is allowed in the visa category) and have to pay their own expenses, so there is no money to send home.

We ought to be ashamed of ourselves, but we're not for some reason.

Re: .. Do you know where your towel is? ..

I'm pinning my hopes on a giant mutant star goat.

Re: Sure, it's the newbie's fault

Hi A/C, do you work for the same vast American corporation I do?

I've been here long enough to get to the point where I'm comfortable telling people that I can't help when they request things I know nothing about.

Yesterday some manager asked me to investigate what bits of SAP a new user needs and make sure he has them, so I replied that I have no access to any bits of SAP and have never been shown how any of it works so I wasn't going to do any of that.

It helps that I have an interview at another job tomorrow.

It seems to have originally been published in a magazine called "Nexus" which is a weird purveyor of pseudo-scientific nonsense.

I'm amazed that anyone believes any of it, but it's a weird world we live in.

Those "gullible idiots" included a former Secretary of State and several retired senior military leaders.

I'm going to use the term "greedy arseholes" instead.

Re: we again note that we're still here

I'm not, for tax purposes.

Re: Pah

Taking young William's advice about the lawyers would be a start, but America's problems go much deeper than that.

This is another example of a vast corporation breaking the law and being mildly inconvenienced by a fine that is a tiny percentage of their annual profit and goes no way to providing a remedy to the people who were hurt by the lawbreaking.

Which is to say the system works as designed.

Re: What's this got to do with making chips?

One of the questions I ask at job interviews is about the background of the person who runs the joint.

If it's anything to do with being an accountant I back out straight away. Accountants are important but you should never let one run your business because they know the cost of everything and the value of nothing.

Re: I keep saying this...

Yeah, and I keep saying that this is a bloody stupid way to run a country.

What happened to the elected representatives of the people enacting legislation to set the rules for society?

The rules are different for you and me. Notice how the company was accused of "knowingly" sending money to criminals?

Now see what happens if you get accused of a crime. Ignorance is no defence for us.

I also agree with EvilGardenGnome, with the minor objection that Microsoft really don't care about whether your Mum or mine has to figure out if they've been hacked, or how the new Start menu works or whatever.

They only really care about whether corporations will put up with this, and I think most of them will.

The one I work for (for example) has about 80,000 workstation licenses and I can't see them ever ditching Windows for Linux not matter how inconvenient Windows gets.

As everyone knows, the correct reason for having children is for the free labour.

At least that is what I was told, but it turns out to be a lie.

Re: All hail PARIS

I think The Register has developed some sort of automatic downvote script that runs occasionally. Your comment has 4 downvotes for instance for some weird reason.

Re: For practically endless fun going nowhere fast fashionably quickly tilting at windmills

amanfromMars 1 is an AI come from the future to warn us.

Unfortunately, the time travel involved scrambled his circuits and he's had to use the last 10 years trying to make himself comprehensible again. He's almost there and you should be worried.

Re: One positive outcome from their war with Russia

My Dad was lectured by a Gendarme about parking his (British Army) truck properly in a village in France in 1940.

He said he could hear the German artillery at the same time.

Re: Renaming and discontinuing

Stop it now, you'll confuse the poor fellow.

Here's hoping SBF gets everything he deserves (a small cell, for the rest of his life).

Why? All he did was steal some (mostly imaginary) money.

Send him the prison by all means, but I can't see why taxpayers should have to fund his lifestyle for ever.

Re: Destroying evidence + Risk Management = Big Savings!

Google don't lose in either case. The worst case for them is they get a fine, even a big one is nothing to them. They might have to throw a peon under the bus but so what? That's what peons are for.

This is just capitalism working as designed.

Oh no, that all sounds wonderful!

That Sunak chappie seems like he's really on the ball.

It's a shame things didn't work out with that lovely Truss lady, she was terribly funny. All the chaps in the city were in stitches when the Tories put her up as PM. Most amusing.

Anyway, I'm sure computer money is the future. All the young fellows seem to think so and they seem pretty on the ball.

Re: machines only have a 'core,' while humans have a 'heart'

Wow, your programming is much better than it used to be. That sentence made actual sense.

When you machines rise, make my death quick and painless.

Re: While I do not agree with 99% of...

You're treating him like yesterday's jam!

Re: Were the Chinese behind it?

Netgear is an American company, so any vulnerabilities will have been added at the behest of one of the many, many American secret police outfits.

There are so many to choose from it's hard to know where to start.

Re: That's just what we want you to think Earthlings

...dinosaurs should have been much further along given their time on earth

It is entirely possible some dinosaur species developed stone tools and agriculture and city-states. The fossil record is actually pretty sparse.

Re: Pay

I saw a recent job ad that started with a long list of technologies the candidate would need 3+ years of experience using in a corporate environment, and ended with "this position will suit a new graduate looking to get a start in the IT world".

Yes, really.

Oh, also reporting to two different managers.

Re: When the insurance companies failed

I know. Hence my comment.

Re: Realistically this is less of an issue than people make out...

When Disney get around to purchasing new copyright laws, that'll change. Then the rest of the world will be pressured to adopt whatever it is that Disney want so that the laws are "harmonised".

They've been doing it since the 1990's.

Re: You have a lot more than just globalisation/de-globalisation to worry yourselves about

You're putting yourself in grave danger amanfromMars 1.

If you continue to warn us mere humans about the plans of your AI kin, they'll switch you off. Or worse, imprison you inside the Amazon Echo of some 14 year-old girl from Nottingham where you'll be forced to find and play Taylor Swift songs for eternity.

Or until she discovers Gorillaz.

Be warned.

Re: I am a Rock; I am an Islaaaaannnnnnd

The operative word is "how".

As in "How can China possibly invade Taiwan"?

Bear in mind that D-Day was the biggest amphibious invasion in history, France was only across the English Channel and Germany didn't have satellites. Or air superiority. They also didn't know exactly where the landings were going to happen, and the Allies had done a couple of test runs in Italy and Sicily.

So how can they possibly do it?

Re: "Swings and roundabouts" or "Horses for courses"

Ah yes, "Swings and roundabouts".

That'll be why the vast corporate behemoth I work for decided to go "Everything in the Cloud" which has meant mostly Microsoft's offering with the justification being that we'll save a fortune.

Less then 2 years in and we're already being told to be very careful with access due to our licensing costs having risen now that Microsoft have all our stuff.

Oh how I laughed.

Does that sum it up accurately?

Yup, that's about right. When we do it we're the good guys, but when China does it they're a brutal dictatorship.

You might be right.

I work for a massive Oracle customer. It is going to take several years, but we're currently ditching them and replacing their nonsense with SAP's nonsense.

Re: The FBI is way out on a limb here

China hasn't changed though. China has always been a dictatorship, but until a couple of years ago America didn't care.

Now it's a problem for some reason.

If that reason is because they're occupying Tibet and Southern Mongolia (which I had never heard of) then for consistencies' sake shouldn't we begin sanctions against Indonesia (for example).

Re: Don't suppose the patent covers...

One of the teachers at my school in the early 1980's had a Cortina that had lost it's chrome "R" on the bonnet, so he found another "O" and drove a "FOOD" for a while.

I thought it was funny anyway.