* Posts by chivo243

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SNAFU: Clairvoyant train brings warning of what was coming down the line for 2020

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My Money is on

Or a little present dropped into the code by a programmer... Love easter eggs!

Oculus owners told not only to get Facebook accounts, purchases will be wiped if they ever leave social network

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Step back, way back

From the social network, and anything connected to it. Run away!

Microsoft drives users to the Edge: Internet Explorer to redirect to Chromium-based browser in November

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Round 'em all up

Grab all the likely suspects and take them out back and put them out of our misery... IE, Flash, Shockwave and Java.

My coat, punk, with a .45 magnum in the pocket. I'm ready!

How the tables have turned: Bloke says he trained facial recognition algorithm to identify police officers

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Re: AI face recognition of cops

Kurt Russell is still alive... Now the character? could be...

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Re: AI face recognition of cops

I was thinking now the word is out, especially in Portland, that he would be inundated with cop photos for his database. Is Snake Plissken now living in Portland?

A cautionary tale of virtual floppies and all too real credentials

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under his usercode

Whoops! That sysadmin who gave his creds should have been shown the door.

If you suddenly can't print to your HP Printer from your Mac, you're not alone: Code security cert snafu blamed

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We found it early

We heard from users at 8:am here in NL on Friday. Took us a better part of the day to get to the bottom of it, as we were coming off of a two day power outage, low voltage and mid voltage gear had to be swapped of out facility, and were sure the printer issue was due to the power going from mains to UPS to generator, and back again when the job was done. We had a power cut years ago that borked a few JetDirect cards, so we were once bitten twice shy...

After Dutch bloke claims he hacked Trump's Twitter by guessing password, web biz says there's 'no evidence'

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Re: What would you have guessed?

I would have tried the infamous Grab her ***** or Don'taskmeabouttherussianhotelroom but these have more characters than he can count to... with his shoes on that is...

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Re: WTF?

10 is a good minimum... better than a maximum! I've seen that!

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Re: I want to believe

Oh, yeah! This ^^^ Been there, living the dream!

Finding remote working a bit of a grind? Microsoft staffers feel your pain

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I thought I would like working from home, but I've been WFH the past week and a half, and I feel out of touch when I'm away too long. Glad I go back to 50-50 next week!

Ed Snowden doesn’t need to worry about being turfed out of Russia any more

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Re: Achy Breaky Hearts

I thought China made all the laws for everybody?

Ho hum: If you're so artificially intelligent, name this song while my videos go viral

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Toyz-R-Arse

Long out of business in the brick and mortar realm, but you can still loose your data with them... https://www.toysrus.com

Thought the FBI were the only ones able to unlock encrypted phones? Pretty much every US cop can get the job done

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There ain't dick on my phone

really, no selfies for me... you want to see some IT pr0n? I've got plenty of open patch panels with their numbers showing. And one total spaghetti mess of CAT5s.

ISS air leakage fixed in time for crew handover, thanks to floating teabag

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Another leak?

I seem to remember there being a leak some months back. They've just gotten the idea on how to fix it? Is it rocket science?? No, just spaceship science, right? Now they have a procedure for the next leak!

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Re: Earl grey or english breakfast?

Thanks for the cue! I need one about now!

State of Iowa told no, you can’t use $21m coronavirus federal aid to help fund your $52m Workday roll-out

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All monies are created equal?

Does some money not spend as well as others? I get budgets, but when the gov't is backing the money they are spending, shouldn't spending on the right things be a priority?

Run Windows on a Chromebook: All the details. Not so fast, home user...

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chrome borks

We had a proof of concept, after adding all of the cost of the needed peripherals, licensing for apps, for chromeOS itself, then tooling up to be a chrome house both on the management and usage side?? Waay more expensive than being an Apple environment, when you factor in most chromeborks are out of support in just a few years, purchase more hardware, license it. My son's school has crohn'sbooks what a pile of crap, I couldn't believe my senses when I picked one up. Landfill in a year...

With the specs listed to run windows too, you gotta be talking some big money for one unit? Plus chromeOS, plus Parallels and Windows on top of that?!

Got an irritating itch you just can't scratch? That'll be Windows wanting an update

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Re: Whataboutism of the Day™

It's called Whoofa... Whoofa a train came?

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Windows and Updates

Why is it that some computers will NEVER update, no matter what you do to make it happen, and others update when the wind blows?

When you tell Chrome to wipe private data about you, it spares two websites from the purge: Google.com, YouTube

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chrome for work

Unfortunately, we use g-stuff at work, against my recommendations. I use chrome only for the Admin Console.

Quick thinking and an explanation for everything – key CTO qualities

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Re: I've been fired ...

He should have started out, "This is on your network right now!" I won't name any names, if you hire me now I can make the problem go away!" Shifty gaze to the best dressed C and D levels... I'll just fill in this salary amount if you don't mind...

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Re: I've been fired ...

Years ago, I used to get lots of links for questionable content\jokes in email from friends or colleagues, but strangely I can't remember when I received the last one. Maybe I'm getting old? or maybe I've not forwarded or contributed and am there for not on the list anymore?

Will there be no end to govt attempts to break encryption? Hand over your data or the kiddies get it, threaten Five Eyes spies

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must be an agenda item

That was set to repeat each year. Nobody knows how to turn it off. The password for the account is forgotten and encrypted! That's it, they want the back door so they can log into the agenda account and turn off the agenda item repeat for encryption backdoors event... or so they say.

Can't quite remember the name of the song stuck in your head? Hum it and our AI will take a guess, says Google

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Re: Hum it and our AI will take a guess, says Google

Can anyone recommend a device that detects when one of these google things are in operation nearby? I'm going to socially distance myself if I detect one!

"Muffled as in : Listening to the "hum" of a conversation in another room, listening to another conversation in a crowd which is also more of a "hum" rather than actual words etc etc etc"

You should check out an old film called the Conversation with Gene Hackman

Icon -> Tinfoil Hat

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Shazaam!

Not just a popular 1970s super hero show either! Although you must use actual music...

Work life balance? We've heard of it. Pandemic means 9-5 shifts are a thing of the past for many

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Re: Corporate Culture - Corporate Cogs

A very good, old friend(it's been years) is caught in the corporate machine. Chasing his promotions, chasing retirement benefits, always on call, getting shuffled to other cities half way across the country to avoid redundancy, pity really, he is missed. I'm reminded of Bell Boy by The Who

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Knock on WFH

In the past, my users were off work by 6pm or so. Before it was very late, I was free to login for 2 minutes and restart their workstations and servers in the evenings, however since people have to work from home, and care for family, they are working split shifts, and I now see users working at 11pm, and then the missus gives WFT eye because I'm working!

Need a new computer for homeschooling? You can do worse than a sub-£30 2007 MacBook off eBay

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NIce collection!

You need a Clamshell in the mix. I have one in Lime Green. I installed Deepin on white a pre-polycarbonate, wasn't the greatest experience.

Has Apple abandoned CUPS, the Linux's world's widely used open-source printing system? Seems so

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Re: Yes

Yep, when Apple changed from OS X to macOS the writing was on the wall. I have been saying for ages that Apple wants the same apps on the iThingys as on iMacs etc. I was called all kinds of names for that one... Seems that the move to Apple Silicon will make that a reality.

When you're On Call, only you can hear the silence of the clicks

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Ah yes the joys of Pagers

In another industry back in the mid 90s, a former boss\owner of the company would visit our office a few times a week. My office was small, and my assistant had to use it too. My former boss was a walking pig pen. After two minutes in the office, he would take off his coat, empty his pockets on my desk, grab a beverage and generally disrupt the office. One day he visited, and my pager was on my desk, he routinely dropped his crap everywhere, and when gathering his crap also snagged my pager! I didn't see it happen, and I didn't miss it at the end of the day, but when I got home, I felt naked! I tried calling him at home, as few people could afford mobiles then, to let him know, no answer... Fast forward to 2am, and the cops needed someone at the office( a garbage truck backed into our building), my boss paged me, I would have loved to be there when he realized that he had my pager!

After Trump, Congress, Supreme Court Justice hit out at tech giants' legal immunity, now FCC boss wants to stick his oar in, too

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There is a law, and it's suave! I think the RICO act should be spoken about for good measure. I think there are plenty of Chapters this lot is violating, 11, 15 and 47 jump out at me...

https://law.justia.com/codes/us/2010/title18/parti/

Elizabeth Holmes' plan to avoid her Theranos fraud trial worked out about as well as her useless blood-testing machines

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Re: Hold on lads!

They were all LOST in her deep blue eyes...

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Re: This Case is Only Remarkable because

That guy is a dick, no ifs, ands or buts... Seriously jacking drug prices like he did?

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Re: One narcissist runs a fake company

World Wildlife Federation? Or that Wrestling thing?

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Re: One narcissist runs a fake company

I was just wondering about the similarities between the great orange one and this nut job. Should the orange nut job be reelected, I fear he will pardon this bird of a feather.

We bought a knockoff Lego launchpad kit from China for our Saturn V rocket so you don't have to

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Say it with me

Crackle, note loctite, loctite is used for bolts and nuts that need to stay put. Crackle is the Crazy Glue. I thought it was President Business?

Don't forget to brush your teeth, WFH staff told as Dropbox drops the office, declares itself 'virtual first'

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Re: I blame The Register

I was just thinking while working from today that I visited El Reg few times than when at the office. I definately get more done on the tech side of my job when working from home, I sifted through 3500 Windows updates in a new WSUS today, last time I deployed one it took me a week because of interruptions at the office - phone calls, colleagues, users and vendors. It's so hard to refocus!

It's 2020 and a rogue ICMPv6 network packet can pwn your Microsoft Windows machine

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Re: IP6 is the second thing I turn off

I always turn off IPv6 in my home lab. So many issues just faded away. The biggest one was simply joining a client to the domain, with IPv6 it was a no go.

Facebook doesn't know its onions: Seeds ad banned after machine-learning algo found vegetable pic 'overtly sexual'

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Please o' Please!

When linking to Farcebook, please let us know it's a Fecesbook link, how rude!

Hackers hack Hackney: Local government cries 'cyberattack' while UK infosec officials rush to figure out what happened

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Nice advice

you may have trouble accessing the site... don't enter payment details... just pull the freaking network cable! People are safe, and log files are intact...

UK govt advert encouraging re-skilling for cyber jobs implodes spectacularly

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Horse, meet cart ahead of you!

nothing like being paid in advance for your troubles! Seems like someone got paid before they produced anything, and didn't care what the outcome looked like?

Indonesia’s black-market phone prevention plan bricks a whole bunch of handsets

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Re: "seemingly because it lacks the capacity to do so"

How to get one? government money pit project!

Yahoo! Groups! to! shut! down! completely! on! December! 15!... Tens! mourn!

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Will be missed

I belong to a Yahoo group like Craig's list for my area. So long, I will miss it. I've gotten some great deals, and sold a lot of stuff that would be in a landfill...

Excel is for amateurs. To properly screw things up, those same amateurs need a copy of Access

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Re: Access

Access is removed, so is Publisher and Outlook from the default installation of office. If anybody asks, it's not part of our package!

Boeing Starliner commander Christopher Ferguson bows out of first crewed mission due to family commitments

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Doing the right thing

You can crash a space ship any day, your daughter only gets married every so often...

From the Department of WCGW: An app-controlled polycarbonate lock with no manual override/physical key

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Re: Dabbsy's back

It's back too!

BOFH: Rome, I have been thy soldier 40 years... give me a staff of honour for mine age

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Just today

I read a mention of BOFH in another thread, and was also wondering if we would ever see a BOFH or a Something from Dabsy again, damn if they don't pop up today!

I'll have to keep a closer eye on the facilities guys from now on!

IT Marie Kondo asks: Does this noisy PC spark joy? Alas, no. So under the desk it goes

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potter along with more passive cooling.

Some how I thought this would have ended with a pair of wire snips, snip snip! But then again, this is Walt, not Stephen.

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Re: Location location location

For one school year, I had the closet in the teaching lab... 1.5m sq.