* Posts by chivo243

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Trump fires cybersecurity boss Chris Krebs for doing his job: Securing the election and telling the truth about it

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Re: Another one bites the dust

My bet is he will be offered other employment, if it hasn't already been offered.

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The longest two months

Ever endured by humans...? It will sure seem like it. It's a long way to inauguration.

Facebook's Giphy slurp remains on hold after UK competition regulator demands more info

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More purchases

When there is talk of breaking them up? Maybe there should be a moratorium on new acquisitions for companies that face the hammer?

The revolution will not be televised because my television has been radicalised

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No thank you, no IoT for me

I personally see no need for a smart TV, or a smart fridge, or a smart lightbulb etc, If you must manage a fleet of IoT devices, use the technology and know what the hell you are doing to secure them. I see a day coming where I will have to buy all of my appliances second hand just to avoid this IoT invasion we are facing.

Not on your Zoom, not on Teams, not Google Meet, not BlueJeans. WebEx, Skype and Houseparty make us itch. No, not FaceTime, not even Twitch

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We tried for the longest time to only support one platform, and had lots of push back, please install this one for a meeting with this company, they don't use our platform... We capitulated, started installing the other platform, and now we are stilling config issues with the sound on both platforms.

Can someone build something for video meets like Adium for chat?

There's your better mouse trap!

New lawsuit: Why do Android phones mysteriously exchange 260MB a month with Google via cellular data when they're not even in use?

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Vacation burner phone in the US

I had to buy a burner phone on vacation, my iPhone wouldn't recognize the US SIM card... It was AT&Ts branded android. I blew through the data plan in less than 12 hours out of the box. Turning services off stopped the slurp, but crippled it, going back in and finding the needed google play\store\service when you needed it was a PITA. For a few weeks of vacation, it was hell, and not worth the frustration. It also required a google account to set it up, that phone wreaked havoc with my google calendar, I still see some oddities from time to time.

Brit Conservative Party used 10 million people's names to derive their country of origin, ethnicity and religion according to ICO report

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Re: Call me Heinz 57

You, Sir, are half right... Is an upvote worth 5 quid for partial credit?

And one of these-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------^

Does knowing half of the answer send you down the rabbit hole? See you on the other side!

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Call me Heinz 57

I'm not from the UK, I have a Welsh first name, an English surname, with Scandinavian genes, I'm an atheist and don't live in the country where I was born... good thing they didn't use my useless data?

Apple drops macOS Big Sur on the world – and it arrives with a thud, sound of breaking glass, sirens in the distance...

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Re: But if only...

Have an upvote, but Xserves? Everything is running off of a massive cluster of MacMinis, the ones with the external power (massive) object.

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Re: But if only...

I think Apple uses Akamai?

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Done and dusted

I hit update before bed last night, today Big Sur Golden Master is installed this morning*, this is a non story... People getting their thong up their ass over something new and free should get a life. I saw one thread in the screenshots in the article, of someone trying to install Big Sur on a 2005 model? Masochist?

* I've been running the beta since it came out, I only noticed one minor issue the whole time.

Ticketmaster cops £1.25m ICO fine for 2018 Magecart breach, blames someone else and vows to appeal

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Yes, it would be a tariff on being a dickwit outfit, with compounded interest! I won't shed a tear when the company goes under, I will feel bad for those coalface workers at TM...

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Bye Bye Ticket Blaster?

I'm not sure how many tickets they sell these days, maybe they will shrivel up and cease to exist? One can hope!

BOFH: You might want to sit down for this. Oh, right, you can't. Listen carefully: THIS IS NOT AN IT PROBLEM!

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Re: Asset Record Audit

"a self important jobsworth" There is one in every group... Always!

my fellow IT Infrastructure BOFH team members are worse tempered than me... They call me the Hammer, hey someone has to do it!

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Office Chairs!

We went through the same hoops. Everybody needed a keyboard, mouse and monitor for WFH(users already have lappies), then they asked us about chairs! We didn't issue them, but were charged with tracking who borrowed(?) one. That worked out well... What a fiasco.

Solving a big, yellow IT problem: If it's not wearing hi-vis, I don't trust it

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Live that everyday

When is it going to blow up again... The system isn't robust...

HP: That print-free-for-life deal we promised you? Well, now it's pay-per-month to continue using your printer ink

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License to print Money

Nicely done HP, what a bunch of greedy bastards... Introductory offer my ass.

Wondering what to do over the holiday season? How about aiming a laser at commercial aircraft and then spending years of your life in prison?

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small minds, easily amused

I'm all for a "hold my beer" moment, but this kind of crap crosses the line, I think this law needs to be written in a bigger book for throwing.

UK tax dept's IT savings created 'significant risk', technical debt as it faces difficult conversation with Chancellor

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What counts

We have a young bean counter, he asks lots of good questions from an IT point of view, I think he has a good grasp of what "value" means as opposed to cost.

The day I took down the data centre- I mean, the day I saved the day. Right, boss?

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NMAP's 11 setting!

As Jamie would say, "Well, there's your problem." I've seen it in action, used by an uninformed admin. Insane about sums it up... all the network monitors went red in the space of 10 seconds, and then stopped reporting until he killed NMAP. That was a fun morning.

Shopping online for Xmas? AI chatbots know whether you want to be naughty or nice

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Re: still a ways to go

Google had a page listed, the link couldn't be found on the site. I searched for the item, it suggested a phone call. I found it else where with free delivery.

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Re: still a ways to go

Maybe I expect too much? It was a tech supply shop, I was looking for 4GB DDR3 DIMM 1333 MHz (1x4GB) I know it's a rare.

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still a ways to go

I had a simple question for the chatbot... after 20 or so seconds it recommended I make a phone call and speak to a human!

More evidence your work/life balance has gone to $%£*: Atlassian says user-interface interactions show hours tacked on to workday

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Re: Work is work, and my home life is my own

Responding outside of hours... Then you are like me, you don't mind having a peek at the stack of email that has come in since 5pm, but do not respond. I like to know what shit storm I may see at 8am...

I will respond to messages from my team after hours, but not user cries for assistance.

Biden projected to be the next US President, Microsoft joins rest of world in telling Trump: It looks like... you're fired

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Re: Putin lost

I know the sources are a bit iffy...

https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2020/11/07/us_presidential_campaign/#c_4141358

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Re: FCC

Bye, Bye ijit Pai, drove my Chevy to levy...

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Re: Yay! Party time!

I would think guarding someone in PRISON would be a cush job... I have the strange feeling there will be plenty of legal issues the Orange Nut will be facing, starting sometime in February 2021. I'm starting the popcorn now...

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Speaking of changes

Didn't I just read somewhere that Putin is considering stepping aside due to health issues? But searching on the topic I see only the NY Post, The Sun, The Examiner and their ilk are carrying the story.

I look forward to civil interactions between Gov't leaders. We can hope for intelligent discourse in the future interactions.

UK's 'minimum viable product' for Brexit transit software will not be ready until December, leaving no time for testing

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Software testing?

Pffft, if it made it to Alpha, shove it out the door, no better testers than the users!

Elon Musk's ancient April Fools' gag about 'Tesla Tequila' made real in lightning-shaped bottle

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Fools and their money

are soon partying?

Tech support scammer dialed random number and Australian Police’s cybercrime squad answered

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Do not call list for Scammers?

One would think there is a list of numbers NOT to be called? Surely there is one on pastebin? n00b...?

Super-antique-fragile-and-it's-XP-alidocious, even though the sight of it is something quite atrocious

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Re: To be fair....

If that is the only this XP install is driving, and has no connection to the outside world, run it into the ground, and budget for a new solution.

Deloitte's 'Test your Hacker IQ' site fails itself after exposing database user name, password in config file

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Do as we say...

yes, the age old saying - not as we do!

The car you buy in 2025 will include a terabyte of storage. Robo-taxis might need 11TB

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Johnny Cab Storage ™

Each Johnny Cab will have a portion of your data, it can never be lost. With thousands of Johnny Cabs ™ your data is always accessible!

Apple on the hook for another $503m in decade-long VirnetX patent rip-off legal marathon

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no honor among thieves?

Sue you buddy, no sue you back double buddy! Should have become a lawyer... What? Apple is suing again? Whooppee! Talk about job insurance.

Remember when the keyboard was the computer? You can now relive those heady days with the Raspberry Pi 400

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No pics?

No pix of it connected to a display and working? Pix or it doesn't get ordered...

You only live twice: Once to start the installation, and the other time to finish it off

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Re: car key or Dutch House Key!

My old door lock used to have this pointy sharp key with lots of jagged corners, I was given the raised eyebrow a few times at the TSA counter... I could only shrug and say, that's a house key!

Did I or did I not ask you to double-check that the socket was on? Now I've driven 15 miles, what have we found?

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Re: Can't be arsed

We need support from HR and Administration for this to be mandatory, and they are the worst offenders, pick up the phone, fire off a pointed email... Believe me, I've tried to push this through, I'd have better luck pushing the sea around...

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Re: Can't be arsed

Actually, it's in ignorance on the users part most of the time. Ignorance can be corrected with a little instruction. On other hand some users won't be bothered with listening to instruction to help them help us.

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Re: Can't be arsed

Support center? Scripts? Never heard of them, we a shop of 4 admins supporting 1000+ no time for such frippery. We have a ticketing system, I think 7 users actually send tickets. The rest is by email, phone or as I like to call them "drive by shootings" as we are in transit to another user...

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Can't be arsed

I doubt the guy even looked at the wall socket. I've been to plenty of calls where the power is the issue, only to find the questions I asked on the phone or tickets were answered affirmative, but in reality they never looked at the light on the power strip, or realized the darkness in the hallway...

Just cough into your phone, please... MIT lab thinks it can diagnose COVID-19 from the way you expectorate

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Medication

My meds specifically mention stuffy and or runny nose, and dry cough as side effects, I have both now and then. Does this study\app take these conditions into consideration?

Remember 2013? This coffee machine does: If I could turn back time – I'd reboot this PC

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we have two of these monstrosities

I have to believe they have more processing power than the Apollo moon shots combined. I think 4k videos could run on our displays. Maybe even run Crysis!

Getting my coat, heading out for a cuppa tea...

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Re: Put the vending machine out of its misery.

go big or stay home, "Brandine! Where's the Bazook!!" Cletus.

Icon for effect, not because I'm angry!

Right to repair? At least you still have the right to despair: Camera modules cannot be swapped on the iPhone 12

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no problem

I know plenty of apple repair dudes, they wouldn't think twice about helping out...

Another eBay exec pleads guilty after couple stalked, harassed for daring to criticize the internet tat bazaar

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Re: Corporate derangement syndrome

I only have one upvote, wish I had 10 more for this comment.

It's just a job folks. Get some damn perspective on life.

Well said!

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Re: Tactics

"Corporations writing their own rules..." Corporations? How about individual departments within an organization? Some department directors act like dictators instead of directors.

NSA: We've learned our lesson after foreign spies used one of our crypto backdoors – but we can't say how exactly

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I told you so!

It was just a matter of time. Surprised it took so long, or surprised they are admitting it.

Trump's official campaign website vandalized by hackers who 'had enough of the President's fake news'

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Fake news

It was done by his administration, they need the bitcoin for his campaign.

Brit accused of spying on 772 people via webcam CCTV software tells court he'd end his life if extradited to US

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Re: Team America: World Police

Too bad Justice can decide where the crime took place? You can be virtually anywhere. Law talking guys would have a field day.