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Microsoft and community release scripts to help mitigate Defender mess
Twitter starts auction to flip the bird, furniture, pizza ovens, gadgets galore
Basecamp details 'obscene' $3.2 million bill that caused it to quit the cloud
Sysadmin infected bank with 'alien virus' that sucked CPUs dry
Apple just cut Tim Cook's pay by 40%. How ever will he get by on that $50m?
Sunday 15th January 2023 18:29 GMT 
Re: $49 million
That's only his salary... what about options, benefits (health, dental and others), retirement. Chuck in all the free stuff like transportation, I doubt Tim's picking up the limo fare, or the plane tix, private or not... I'm sure that on the iphone cost to consumer pie chart graph, there's a slice that covers stuff like transportation and such.
Canadian owes bosses for 'time theft' after work-tracking app sinks tribunal bid
Saturday 14th January 2023 18:46 GMT 
Nice software for niche workers?
This time tracking your work nonsense was proposed at a place I worked at by my newly hired boss at the time. After implementation, productivity took a nose dive. When staff evaluations came around, this was a talking point on everyone's evaluation. Once it was all pieced together, it turned out that the lost productivity on our jobs was put into entering in what we did, instead of moving on the next fire...
Version 5 of the Endless OS enters testing
Saturday 14th January 2023 11:30 GMT
Scrape off the Win11 UI, and you'll find all the familiar control panels buried underneath. I was astonished that after three clicks in different "new" settings and control panels to find the old friendly stuff we remember, like advanced settings to change your page file, and tell Windows to adjust for best performance etc. If I had to use Win11 as a daily driver, my productivity would be horrible.
What's next? Changing the order of the alphabet? And calling it progress?
Third-party Twitter apps stopped dead with no explanation from El Musko
BOFH: It's 4ft tall, heavyset, has optional fax. No they didn't take the toner!
Native Americans urge Apache Software Foundation to ditch name
Haiku beta 4: BeOS rebuild / almost ready for release / A thing of beauty
First Patch Tuesday of the year explodes with in-the-wild exploit fix
Larry Ellison mea culpa as traffic cop stops Big Red boss on own island
Second-hand and refurbished phone market takes flight amid inflation hike
Mixing an invisible laser and a fire alarm made for a disastrous demo
This is the end, Windows 7 and 8 friends: Microsoft drops support this week
US schools sue Meta, Google and friends over 'youth mental health crisis'
John Deere signs right to repair agreement with US ag lobbyists
Here's how to remotely take over a Ferrari...account, that is
CES Worst in Show slams gummi gouging, money-wasting mugs, and other dubious kit
Cleaner ignored 'do not use tap' sign, destroyed phone systems ... and the entire building
Friday 6th January 2023 08:20 GMT
Water and IT
Usually not a good combo! Gotta love the architects that scribble IT in as an after thought. At one place, the data cabinet was in the basement directly under the drainage system for the roof of the building, which was flaaaat! Bring on a once in 50 years rainstorm! Yay! Someone call the insurance company!! I couldn't wipe the "I told you so" look from my face for weeks...
Raincoat just because!
Corporations start testing Windows 11 in bigger numbers. Good luck
Thursday 5th January 2023 19:16 GMT 
We need
The George Carlin OS, it gives you a place for your stuff, just a place for your icons, your stuff? You want tabs, we got it, vertical, no problem, even horizontal tabs baby! Sidebars got your interest, we got'em! Widgets for all my friends at the bar! Got lots of stuff? We got multiple virtual desktops with lots of places for your stuff...
More pre-Musk Twitter 1.0 execs leave the building
Up to 18,000 Amazon workers in firing line as it chops cost
Japan lacks the expertise for renewed nuclear power after Fukushima
FTX boss Sam Bankman-Fried pleads not guilty on eight charges
Thursday 5th January 2023 07:36 GMT
Re: As a wise man once said....
Never trust a chubby vegan?
Long ago in another life, I worked in food service, as the GM, I found it was cheaper and easier for me to drive one hour each way to pick up a speciality product once a month on my schedule than have it delivered. At this distribution one refrigerator door there was a sticker that read:
"Never trust a skinny cook"
Elon Musk's cost-cutting campaign at Twitter extended to not paying rent, claims landlord
An IT emergency during a festive visit to the in-laws? So sorry, everyone, I need to step out for a while
Friday 30th December 2022 09:08 GMT 
Some bosses!
I had one boss that was great. Sure I got called for a few things, but he knew when to chuck in the towel, and when to keep the upper manglement off our backs when we had to recover from a case of intense idiocy... Funny, it's only been a year since I worked for him, some days it seem like 20 years ago, and some days it was only yesterday.
Southwest Airlines blames IT breakdown for stranding holiday travelers
The era of cloud colonialism has begun
University students recruit AI to write essays for them. Now what?
Meet the merry pranksters who keep the workplace interesting, if not productive
Monday 26th December 2022 14:39 GMT 
Mouse Balls! prank or hyjinx?
During the summer vacation at one place, the second floor would be opened from one end to the other for various workers, cleaners, painters etc. Every door was opened, and you could see out of the office 150m down the hall. At lunch one day, I grabbed a hand full of old style mouse balls, and headed to the end of the hall and started 'bowling' the mouse balls the length of the building. I might have rolled 3 out of 10 end to end. I got some strange looks from a colleague in an office I thought was empty.
BOFH and the office security access upgrade
Tesla driver blames full-self-driving software for eight-car Thanksgiving Day pile up
Don't lock the datacenter door, said the boss. The builders need access and what could possibly go wrong?
Friday 23rd December 2022 08:44 GMT 
Datacenter door?
I worked at a place that when summer vacation rolled around, every door was open, every office everything... Painters needed access, cleaners needed access, engineers from outside companies needed access... In over 20 years, we lost a bit of gear due to that policy. Half a dozen laptops or so, a couple of iMacs and a projector. There was also one non-IT item, but it escapes me at the moment, I guess they chalked it up to the cost of doing business?
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