Posts by A Non e-mouse 3274 publicly visible posts • joined 30 Jan 2010
Invoking "personal privacy" is complete nonsense. They're an organisation, not an individual
Maybe you're thinking of the wrong end of the call. Maybe the person at the receiving end doesn't want anyone else to know that they're in contact with medical, law enforcement, etc?
At our place we have a policy that people can either show their individual CLI or the switchboard's number on outbound calls. When people ask why can't they just withhold their CLI entirely, we ask: "What are you doing that you don't want the recipient of your call to know our organisation is calling them?"
He's happy to abandon his family to go talk kernels?
When I was in my early twenties. I was happy to work far too many hours over far too many days. Now, a tiny fraction wiser, I value my time with my family & doing my hobbies. Don't get me wrong, I do enjoy my job, I just realized there's more to life.
it's easy to find somebody doing something wrong
"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him."
(Attributed to Cardinal Richelieu but Wikiquotes says this is disputed)
I don't believe the fairly recent MegaProcessor suffers from these recent CPU issues. Maybe you could start there?
On a similar vain, I heard the head of a sports body said to an athlete as the athlete went out for their Olympic qualifying trails: "The future funding of our sport depends on you qualifying for the Olympics."
Yep, the athlete crashed & burned within seconds.
A textbook example of how not to give a motivational speech.
[The boss] said, ‘I’m not worried that you broke something, that's expected, the most important thing is how you deal with it’,
And that is how a boss should react. Shouting at people for making mistakes doesn't mean fewer mistakes are made. It just means more are covered up.
Admit the mistake and learn from it. I know it sounds like management bull****, but mistakes are fantastic learning experiences. Just don't learn by mistakes too often...
You couldn't talk to an IPX-based NetWare server using IP
In NW3 & 4 you could use a package (Can't remember its name, memory fading) that allowed you to encapsulate IPX inside IP.
NW5 had first class IP support (Although it took a long time for third party software/devices to catch up)
Why is it that sudo is used instead of su?
Several reasons. Firstly, sudo logs all its invocations. (If you use sudo -i, that log becomes less useful). Secondly, sudo can be configured to only allow a user to run a certain subset of commands. su is an all or nothing command. Finally, su requires the destination user's password (e.g. root) whereas sudo requires the current user's password (or not at all). One benefit of this, is that when an employee leaves, you don't have to change all the root passwords, you just delete their account.
Is sudo perfect? No. As your linked article mentions, the user's password becomes the keys to the kingdom rather than a separate root password.
Know the facts and make your choice.
I remember going on a school trip and the cabin crew said they had to count the number of adults & children for the captain to correctly calculate the required fuel for the trip. Some of the children were bigger than the teachers, which seemed to make the exercise slightly futile.
That method isn't exclusive to Microsoft.
I've been on far too many courses where the instructor said: "The answer in the exam is X, but in real life you'd never do that and you'd do Y instead". Unfortunately, Y was often an option in the exam and classed as incorrect.
The other classic, was the course & exam being devised on V1.0 of the product (or even a beta!), but SP5 (or whatever) of the product changed things so the course & exam no longer matched the product you were using in real life.
I still attend the occasional course, but I just don't bother with exams anymore.
The problem with Ctrl-P is that many smart-arsed web designers implement different style sheets for print and screen because they think they know better. (Our in-house templates, for example, include the URL to links when printing web pages out.)
The most reliable way I've found to print out a web page is, unfortunately, to screen shot it.
I heard a similar story about the ethernet AUI connector. (The ones with the slide-to-lock mechanism on the 15-way D connector) I was told this slide-lock mechanism was devised as heavily unionised electricians went on strike whenever they saw anyone near electrical equipment with a screwdriver.
the most common pushback we got from venture capitalists was [...] who's your market going to be?' I think the passage of time has vindicated [our] vision."
From that bare quote from the V/Cs, I'd say it's the V/Cs doing their due diligence. If the V/Cs think there's no market for your product, you have to show them that there is. V/Cs generally aren't in the business of just giving money away with no prospect of return.
BT are a cluster-fucking omnishambles
We've still got a lot of legacy BT lines at work and we're constantly getting billing issues. But despite their name ("British Telecommunications") for business customers, you can't phone up their billing department. You have to send an email and hope to $DEITY that, firstly, they read it, secondly, they understand it, and thirdly, actually resolve the issue.
Market forces and short(ish) term franchises mean there's no incentive for one incumbent to buy new stock, and then hand them over if they lose the franchise in the next round
Virgin said this multiple times: Make the franchise longer and we'd invest more money.
I believe this is one of the many issues that Southern encountered. They took over a franchise which had too few drivers as the previous company stopped training drives as they knew they weren't going to get its renewal.
Passengers excited by the prospect should keep in mind that things move slowly in the railway world
Just remember that the Class 43 (HST 125s) were just a short-term stop gap but are still in use 40 years later. Of course, the best is the Class 483 trains on the Isle of Wight line: Originally built in 1938! And the new class 230s are actually refurbished tube trains originally built in 1980.
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