Posts by phuzz 6734 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Feb 2010
But usually nowhere does it say that they need to be trained competently, correctly or completely.
No, but as happened to a friend of mine last year, they will be pretty explicit that your redundancy pay (almost twelve months in his case), does depend on you training your replacements well.
So you can half-arse it, and have to scramble for a new job because you have no other money, or you can do it properly, then sit on your bum for a year before scrambling for a job...
Or there's a variety of XMPP based systems, which are slightly better suited to inter-office messaging imo.
Both IRC and XMPP have a range of server systems, and clients for pretty much every platform, and both are open standards so they're easy to extend.
What more does Slack/HipChat/etc. offer that they don't?
"As we are going through extensive testing of 18c XE, we have found some issues in the latest Release Candidate that we consider being too severe for XE to be released prior to fixing them,"
He continued:
We found that some users were able to use XE for their business, without running into any of the arbitrary limits we'd imposed. Of course, we couldn't have people being happy, so we've limited it still further, so that no-one should be able to do useful work with it, and sent a crack licensing team around toextortgently persuade our customers to buy more licenses. Everything must be licensed! Licenses for the license god!
At this point the Oracle spokes-drone started frothing at the mouth, and had to be removed from the press conference. Remaining Oracle entities explained that he had been under a lot of stress really and attempted to sell us a license to report this news.
match Nvidia's support length (10 years)
You can still get drivers from AMD for the HD2000 line, which came out in 2007 just after AMD bought ATI (and was still sold as ATI). Of course, they've not updated that driver for years, but what are you expecting? It's not like nVidia are providing fixes specifically for Geforce 8000 series cards either.
IT is generally an overhead cost rather than a profit centre.
Well, yes, IT is almost always a support role, you don't expect your janitor to be a profit centre do you? So why would you expect IT to be?
As for change in IT, that's a constant. We all read this article because we wanted a bit of a preview of the changes that a lot of us will be implementing at work in the next few years, it's part of our job.
Most kids in the UK don't have religious parents these days
That's true, but it doesn't mean that religion has no role in shaping conventional UK views on nudity. Attitudes are shaped over many years, and several generations, my parents generation were somewhat religious, and that was shaped by their parents, who were more religious (or at least felt that they had to pay lip service). Where we are now is a watering down of the original religious feelings (eg, bikinis are considered acceptable these days), but there's still some remaining influence.
(And of course there's still bishops in the House of Lords, so religion is still part of our government).
it's unmarked despite being my daily wear watch for more than a few years.
Well yes, but I've had cheap watches with plastic screens which didn't get a scratch after years of use, (and I wear my watch with the screen facing out on my wrist).
It comes down to luck a lot of the time. (or perhaps just sods-law, that my £10 watches have been fine, while it's only the expensive ones that ever seem to get scratched/dented)
More printers are becoming available with multiple extruders (ie you can use multiple different materials and colours at the same time) these days. They're more expensive (unsurprisingly), but they often come as an optional kit that can be added to an existing machine.
As for build volume, it's not a big* issue. There's not many parts that are too big for an average sized printer. The bigger* issue with large prints is the amount of material and therefore time that they take up, and it also increases the odds that something is going to fuck up before the print finishes.
In my experience with consumer-grade 3D printers, a big chunk of your time is spent calibrating and tweaking instead of just waiting for a print to finish.
* pun intended
** and this one
The most intentionally deceptive I've been is when I knew the problem was actually at my end, but I needed a few minutes for a service to restart (or something similar), so I told the user to reboot their computer, knowing that by the time it came back up that the server side would be working again.
I might also have falsely implied that it was the user's fault that things were broken in the first place...
If it's not harming US interests, then why not declassify? It's not like the UK can do much if they object.
See also; the CIA declassifying details of U2 flights over the USSR in the 1960's, which confirmed the involvement of RAF pilots, whilst the UK files on the subject are still classified (if they even still exist).
GCHQ can brute force crack the code by running through every book in their digital library
Not every book is digitised, and different printings of books can vary enough to make them effectively unique as cipher pads. I do agree though that's it's more tricky than it used to be, but if Alice and Bob are sufficiently cryptic in how they define which page/paragraph/word/letter then they could defy purely automated analysis.
I don't know any current consumer OS that doesn't have a PDF reader. Windows - Edge does it. Linux - KDE has Okular, Gnome has Evince. Mac OSX - Preview. Android has Google's pdf reader. Both Chrome and Firefox will have a stab at it on desktop OSes
Half of those you list are actual web browsers. You know, software designed originally to parse HTML?
At this point we can safely say that HTML and PDF are (roughly) about as easily accessible on any electronic device as each other. Not least because that most of the software for reading HTML will also display a PDF and vice-versa.
Mind you, basic HTML is at least somewhat human readable in a text viewer, which isn't something you can say about PDF.
Makes a change from a predictive model based on being irish/black/muslim (pick a decade)
Lets face it, if someone invented a truly fair algorithm that predicted criminals, it would start with bankers and CEOs, and after the first week of the computer suggesting that the police only arrest bankers and politicians, they'll make a quick tweak to the algorithms so that it goes back to suggesting irish/black/muslim/poor people instead, because obviously it's the people with no power who are the worst criminals in this country.
Am I the only one who remembers when a full command line linux distro fit on a 3.5 floppy?
A command line OS, that's not that impressive. The Amiga desktop OS 'Workbench' fitted on one single density floppy (with a whole 880k of space). That's a fully graphical, multitasking OS with all it's utilities etc. on one floppy. IIRC there was even some free space on the disc, so even smaller than 880K.
(I've just checked, Workbench 3.1 used 846KB, leaving 34KB free)
I thought the point of most religions in the US was to make money? After all, some of them only have onethree private jets.
Just because you've never opened a Facebook account, doesn't mean they don't know anything about you.
They probably know your contact details from slurping the contacts from one of your friends or family. They might well have a picture of you, again, helpfully tagged by one of your friends.
They might even have an idea of which websites you visit, based on tracking cookies, if you ever clicked on a link to their site that a friend sent you. They can then cross reference that with the information from the wide number of other sites that have Facebook cookies.
That's just the stuff I can think of off the top of my head. I have never signed up to Facebook, but I'm sure they know something about me.
Kids today, the question was originally "Does it run Doom?", but these days practically any processor can be cajoled into running Doom, from printers to an arcade machine running inside Doom.
I'm amazed at how many people don't seem to understand what a compiler is, or indeed what assembly language is, and the relationship between the two.
It does start to explain a few things about modern programming, that apparently so many programmers, sorry, I think they like to be called 'developers' now, seem to think that the CPU is executing the exact code they just wrote.
It's Postfix and maybe an hour of config for anyone familiar with Linux at all
You have to be more than slightly familiar with Linux to setup postfix. You need a solid grasp of how email is supposed to work for starters, and then you need to understand things like SPF and DKIM if you want anyone to actually receive your mail.
I'm glad for you that you find it easy, but running a mail server is hardly beginner level.
It's easier and cheaper to have a chip in the screen which translates between what the computer/phone wants displayed, and the actual electrical signals, than it is to have the computer output raw display output (which would have to be changed for each type of screen). This goes for input devices (like the touchscreen in this case) as well.
You're totally right, they should have written something like:
Systems should be updated to run MS17-010, a patch for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003
Oh wait, that's exactly what was written in the article.
As for Cryptoprevent, that appears to only be written to prevent cryptolocker, so no, it's doubtful it will work. It certainly won't block the SMB vuln.
if you put on a pair of Polaroid glasses the screen will appear black.
That's because LCDs rely on a pair of polarising films to work. If you tilt either the screen, or your head, 90° you'll be able to read it again.
I guess this is because they've re-purposed a phone screen, which is designed to be mainly used in portrait orientation), and have it in a landscape mode. I suspect getting a screen made with a landscape polarisation would be a pointless added cost.
N.B. Polaroid is the camera manufacturer, your sun glasses are polarised (or polarized for our US chums).
"It's just book burning by another name"
But without the burning.
Or the books.
It's more like posting flyers on the side of a noticeboard, and the person who owns the noticeboard randomly taking some of them down. Remember, if you're not paying for the product then (all together now!) you are the product.
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