Re: "That's because we studied math at school."
only when it's over half a billion, and one ticket... one ticket only Vasliy...
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DEF CON is canceled! No, really this time – but the show will go on
Raspberry Pi Pico cracks BitLocker in under a minute
Windows 11 24H2 is coming so we can all shut up about Windows 12 for another year
BOFH: Looks like you're writing an email. Fancy telling your colleague to #$%^ off?
Friday 26th January 2024 16:50 GMT 
Re: "coloured pencil office"
A place I worked at had a designated pencil office! It was the non-IT supply shop. It had it’s own employee, a manager and an email address. It was open twice a week, 3 hours each for drop ins, and you could send your order in via email to be delivered, just not during the 6 hours a week it was open… Funnily enough, they were next door to the graphic design office. :-}
Apple has botched 3D for decades. So good luck with the Vision Pro, Tim
Wednesday 24th January 2024 17:06 GMT 
Not my generation
Seems like this idea of VR comes and goes, us boomers aren’t very likely to keep trying it… so push it to the next emerging generation that might embrace it. Put TikTok on it and you have a winner!
I no longer like to use headphones, I never liked ear buds. I tolerate glasses, I would never get contacts, and a big headset is never going on my head just for entertainment. Just call me an odd, old git. Getting odder as time goes by.
Poor communication led to complete lack of communication
Monday 22nd January 2024 22:26 GMT
Re: Email...
External listservs, internal groups, and out of office reply becomes mail bomb! A place I worked at had a Guy’s Night Out listserv, to plan outings sans SOs (of course everyone used their work address!). Most outings were breweries etc, a lot of the same guys belonged to the same internal mailgroups. Come holiday time and a poorly configured mail server, the out of office replies engaged, next stop 30,000 messages in the in boxes of every person in the GNO listserv, I had way more being in IT Support. It shouldn’t have been that bad, but some idiots thought asking wtf is going on with the mail server while replying all didn’t help matters.
My coat, as I’m done with mail servers!
Junior techie had leverage, but didn’t appreciate the gravity of the situation
Windows Server 2022 patch is breaking apps for some users
The 'nothing-happened' Y2K bug – how the IT industry worked overtime to save world's computers
Tech support done bad sure makes it hard to do tech support good
Friday 5th January 2024 16:12 GMT
SOP
This is the way it works… save some money, never look back*. The bean counter who made the proposal is long gone, the manager who approved the proposal has either moved on, or is untouchable due to his shimmy up the corporate pole. Enter IT guy who was hired after the own goal*, and has to clean up the mess, yep Standard Operating Procedure…
Ex-school IT admin binned student, staff accounts and trashed phone system
Bank boss hated IT, loved the beach, was clueless about ports and politeness
Musk tells advertisers to 'go f**k' themselves as $44B X gamble spirals into chaos
IT sent the intern to sort out the nasty VP who was too important to bother with backups
Monday 27th November 2023 14:59 GMT
Re: Square footage
Have you been watching Brazil again?!
As a fledgling helldesk jockey, I once had to assist the second assistant to a director, her desk size reflected that she was second. I think I had a bigger desk… She had the duty of transcribing handwritten minutes to digital. The paper notes that she was charged with transcribing were in large three ring binders. This day, she complained of jibberish characters filling up her documents. Sure enough, lots of jibberish filling up the document and binders everywhere, including one on the control key… I ever so gently nudged the binder off of the control key, and presto! No more jibberish. She was not very amused…
OpenCart owner turns air blue after researcher discloses serious vuln
BOFH: Groundbreaking discovery or patently obvious trolling?
Linux Deepin's big brother claims it's hit three million installs
Lawyer guilty of arrogance after ignoring tech support
Saturday 18th November 2023 00:18 GMT
Re: I thougt all these kinsds of stories were made up until a couple of weeks ago
oh, no, lawyers, doctors, teachers... I once fielded a call from some D level assistant who can't turn on the computer... I say "I know, there is a power issue in part of that wing. Facilities guys are working on it." Reply, "That can't be... the lights are on!" Me "The lights are on different groups, the wall connections don't all have power." Reply, "But we're in the same room!" I was left scratching my head... so I resisted the urge to school them, and gave them the extension of the facilities manager... never argue with a fool...
From yellow cabs to sky cabs: Air taxis take a Big Apple test flight
Apple might have to pay that €13B EU tax bill after all
Want a well-paid job in tech? You just need to become a cloud-native god
Tipsy tongues tell all: How your sloshed speech could snitch to Siri
GhostBSD makes FreeBSD a little less frightening for the Linux loyal
Musk thinks X marks the spot for Grok AI engine based on social network
FTX crypto-villain Sam Bankman-Fried convicted on all charges
CompSci academic thought tech support was useless – until he needed it
Don't fear the Thread Reaper, a Windows ghost of bugs past
Windows 11 23H2 is a Teams effort but Microsoft already spoiled the best bits
X looks back at year of so-called 'engineering excellence' under Musk
After nine servers he worked on failed, techie imagined next career as beach vendor
Sorry Pat, but it's looking like Arm PCs are inevitable
Ask a builder to fix a server and out come the vastly inappropriate power tools
BOFH: Adventures in overenthusiastic automation
13-year Google privacy settlement pays litigants the equivalent of a Big Mac meal
GNOME Foundation's new executive director sparks witch hunt
CEO Satya Nadella thinks Microsoft hung up on Windows Phone too soon
Teens take a million metaverse Ryanair flights in Roblox
Windows 11: The number you have dialed has been disconnected
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