Posts by Anonymous South African Coward 3211 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Jan 2010
Always a good idea to have a "brake" clause in a contract when doing upgrades, and force things to slow down, or pause for a couple of hours or days.
Because people will make mistakes when under pressure.
But beancounters don't like this as it'll make projects run over budget.
But mistakes make projects run far more over budget plus the extra costs involved should any specialized knowledge be required to fix things should it be required.
In my younger days my employer used a big-ass centrifuge to dry out acetyl salicylic acid in mass.
It had a diameter of 4m, all stainless steel, and was quite heavy.
I would not like to be near that thing should its governor decide to pack up and allow it to overspeed out of control....
and strike targets with or without pilots in its two seats.
So what will happen should some ne-er-do-well of a country manage to hijack one such plane (fully loaded) and drop a love bomb or two off over pre-selected targets in order to spark an uprising against the USA?
Think something like Tomorrow Never Dies (007)...
Or something like that. Or just hijack the plane for its technology alone, make it disappear, then copy the technology at leisure?
This is why "Superiority" by Arthur C Clarke must be a recommended read for all military thinkers and strategists.
Same here!
I have got one of those old-fashioned book maps in my SHTF kit. It may be a bit outdated, but it will give me an indication of which road goes where, and it will still work when the GPS service fails for some reason, and your smartphone's GPS borks itself.
Just take me a couple of seconds to orient myself using a map, but once oriented, away I go, leaving behind those who have put too much trust and reliance on their fancy GPS stuff.
The only advantage of a GPS is that it warns you if you're exceeding the speed limit, plus sometimes it'll inform you of where there are speed traps ahead, and/or traffic congestions, which a paper map cannot do (unless you've got a marauder's map).
Plus, a car with as little electronickery in as possible is a definite must.
Spoiler; it's style and uniqueness over reliability. Though this also explains why those working in (e.g.) the Australian Outback- where getting stranded in an unreliable vehicle could mean death- drive Toyota Land Cruisers, not Range Rovers
Agreed 100%!!! The less fancy tech is in there, the better!
Fancy tech belongs in hoity-toity city cars, not in offroad vehicles.
Because of the CCP's zero-covid policy and all that, Foxconn workers fled the factory.
See this YT video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9DXebls8Bc
Interestingly, Foxconn upped the salary quite a lot in order to entice their workers to stay, but nobody took them up on their offer.
WTF because things in China seems to be escalating towards a bad outcome. Not a good time to be in China right now.
There are three types of companies.
The first one without any disaster recovery strategies. First disaster they will most usually either become a No2 or No3 depending on the severity of the situation.
The second one with untested disaster recovery strategies. Usually flips over to a No3 with a major outage and their DR strategy is not up to scratch.
And then the third one with tested disaster recovery strategies. Recovers from most major incidents. But it takes time and money to keep the DR recovery strategies tested and up to date, but it is money well spent, and the enemy of this strategy is a miserly beancountery type or miserly bossly unit, who thinks that it is just a waste of good money and winging it will works out the best.
C) an upcoming tragic workplace accident where the boss's iWatch interfered with the facility lighting system, causing the lights to go out and the boss to suffer terrible injuries from stumbling about in the darkness (at least according to the official accident report).
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You are standing in Mission Control, home of the mighty BOFH and his sidekick, the PFY.
It is pitch black. You are most likely to be eaten by a Grue.
Grues can appear in the most unfortunate of pitch-black places anytime when you don't expect them to...
This reminded me of "School's Out" - a type-in adventure game for the 48k ZX Spectrum.
One of the objects was a guinea pig, which you have to feed beer in order for it to get drunk and stagger into a laser beam... and you'd have a hole in the wall and a fried guinea pig.
Note that some lightly classified stuff is at that site, so be careful what you download.
Nopenopenopenope, bitten once, twice shy.
A longish while ago the City of Johannesburg (hereafter referred to as CoJ) got upset that people was able to view the accounts and details of other people online just by simple URL manipulation.
A lot of people, including yours truly, did just that, out of curiosity.
The result was that the CoJ threatened legal action against all responsible, but nothing happened, and it's now more than 8 years later.
Learnt my lesson. Curiosity did kill the cat indeed. Not worth the excitement.
...was not by formatting... but the following things I did :
1. Deleting COMMAND.COM on a MS-DOS 3.30 system (easy to fix)
2. Cloning an NT4 hard drive to another, overwriting an OS/2 hard drive (which I've used for testing). Upon rebooting, OS/2 booted. Oops, cloned the wrong way around. (Anybody remember GHSTWALK.EXE from that time?)
3. Fudging up a virus removal, and messing up the HDD. Should've done a backup first. Meh.
Otherwise you could avoid trouble by just thinking what you're about to do before punching the Enter key...
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