* Posts by ecofeco

8156 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Jul 2010

Black Monday: Office 365 down and out in Europe

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Re: Outlook:

With winds from the north at 15 to 20.

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Re: The Cloud

Yes. Yes it is.

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Re: Because Office 365 is *too popular*

Notes?! Dear god please NO!

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Re: Any surprise?

Here here!

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Cloud!

You haz it!

Austinites outraged as Google Fiber tears up Texas capital

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Utility right of ways

Many property owners forget there are often utility right of ways on their property and workers have the right to build as they see fit.

Solution to tech bros' disgust of SF homeless people launched

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Is it real? That we even have to ask shows what kind of world we live in.

See, I'm not sure it's fake either,

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Ah that's sweet

Compassionate assholes aren't they?

Higher US Fed interest rates will hit startups over the head

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If so then yes, that works for me.

Failed school intranet project spent AU$1.4m on launch party before crashing and burning

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Re: Choosing Oracle..

Beat me to it. Up voted.

Ransomware scum infect Tinseltown hospital, demand $3.6m

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Raspberries all around

The randonware assholes and the hospital both deserve it.

Brit spies can legally hack PCs and phones, say Brit spies' overseers

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Doubleplus good!

Minmax!

Coding is more important than Shakespeare, says VC living in self-contained universe

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Re: Literature

Indeed Mark 85. Indeed and there are many just like him in all walks of life.

Free science journal library gains notoriety, lands injunctions

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Re: Free libraries

At the height of mankind's knowledge it seems the PTB are desperately trying to bring back the Dark Ages.

Or the 19th century st least.

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Re: Simple solution

Simple and elegant. Make it so!

Send tortuous stand-up ‘nine-thirty’ meetings back to the dark ages

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Re: The best meetings are

Brilliant! I've actually seen this technique!

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Re: Mondays work better..

Dear god!

'Adobe Creative Cloud update ate my backup!'

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FFS

This shit is getting old. Time to sue. Or prosecute.

Computer Science grads still finding it hard to get a job

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Skills and Experience gap

It's both.

Skills in that it's one thing to master the theory and example projects and quite another to work on business projects and the incredibly messy and undocumented environment that is the everyday norm. Learning how to not lose your temper is one of the biggest skills to learn, solving problems without documentation the other and that only comes from...

Experience with those messy and high pressure environments where not only are things not documented and never will be, but the vendor just released an update in the middle of your project that just borked everything you were doing and the Director or VP doesn't care so get on the phone to the vendor and sort it out yesterday, because the vendor doesn't have documentation on it either. And never will.

After a while, you come to remember the things that aren't documented, like making sure you log out of a virtual desktop and not switch off or this will "hang" your account.

They do not teach these things at uni.

Amazon launches Lumberyard beta, a free gaming engine, but there is a catch

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Meh. Seems fair enough

Seems fair enough. I mean hell, you get an incredible piece of authoring software for free (I'm looking at you Adobe) and it seems you could still make a stand alone game, which I know is not in fashion right now, but hey, why not?

Labels to artists: You'll get a penny, so go away

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Ya think?

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Cake

Eat it! EAT IT!

- Love, Marie

Trane thermostat is a hot spot for viruses on home networks

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Re: Sooooweeeeet!!!

Bravo!

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Re: wait wut?

Because this is not a site for the average punter.

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Re: When is the IoT industry going to get smart on security?

Exactly.

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Is this a trick question?

Hate to say... oh fuck it. Told ya so.

Did a hacker really pwn the FBI, US Homeland Security and the DoJ?

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Small beer

Compared to the huge hack last year of the US gov, this doesn't seem very significant.

Oracle issues emergency patch for Java on Windows

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Re: Overly wordy?

Precisely.

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oh ffs

Really? Dammit. Really?

AdBlock Plus, websites draft peace deal so ads can bypass blockade

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But Crony Capitalism is all we have in the real world.

Remember Netbooks? Windows 10 makes them good again!

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Re: CloudReady & BunsenLabs : Net Books Resurrected

Because developers!

Are Indians too stupid to be trusted with free Internet?

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Re: It's not free Internet.

So like the old AOL, then?

Yeah, that sucked and sucked hard.

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Uh, what?

This article defined the issue to make it clear as mud.

Much opining and with facts lean and lost in the mud. I still don't know who the players are and the GOP are NEVER for anything that benefits the average person so that part made no sense at all.

If you're reading this on your phone, pray you're in Singapore

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Yeah, no. It's all about screwing the customer and nothing else.

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At least the USA has...

At least the USA has high speed trains!

Oh wait.

Well at least they have the best public education system!

Oh wait.

Well then they have the best medical care in the world!

Oh wait.

Highways?

Nope?

Safety laws?

Nope?

Well by god they have the best nukes!

See? Knew there was something!

SCO slapped in latest round of eternal 'Who owns UNIX?' lawsuit

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What?

This is still a thing? WTF? I thought this was settled years ago?

The fracking oil price drop whacked Panasas – who's next in energy IT?

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Re: Who's next?

"Until end of this year"

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Who's next?

All of them are at risk. Oil prices are predicted to stay soft at least until of this year, at best.

Pentagon can't check F-35 maintenance thanks to insecure database

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That costs extra.

Google ninjas go public with security holes in Malwarebytes antivirus

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Short answer?

Suits.

Safe Harbor ripped and replaced with Privacy Shield in last-minute US-Europe deal

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Re: Fifteen years worth of illegally collected data.

Funny thing that: you can damn near bet most of it can't even be read anymore due to degradation.

Have you SEEN the state of government IT?! Many, many examples right here on El Reg.

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Re: There may still be some individual sticking points

Some of us do, but civil rights are in short supply here, these days. 'Cause DRUGS AND TERRA AND PAEDOS, ON MY!

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Seconded.

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Re: Short Version

"Sounds like a Monty Python sketch."

I too used to think Monty Python was comedy. As I got older, I saw it was just excerpts from real life.

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"What's a US explicit promise worth? Very little, I suspect."

Allow me to put your suspicions to rest.

It's worth not a goddamn fucking thing, actually.

Google calls out Comodo's Chromodo Chrome-knockoff as insecure crapware

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Comodo has been crap for years

Comodo screwed the pooch years ago. It's now total spamware shit.

Which is too bad because in its day, it was really good.

Uni of Manchester IT director resigns after chopping 68 people

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When you know the right people

...then nothing succeeds like failure!

Will he work for HP next?

Hackers mirror 250GB of NASA files on the web

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Too clever by half

So they hack data that... They could have free for asking.

Impressive.

US government's $6bn super firewall doesn't even monitor web traffic

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It would, but none of them are on the approved pork/insider/lobbyist/defense contractor list.

Cloud growth? Take a number, Microsoft. Two engines have stalled

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Re: This is a no brainer

Unfortunately AC, you are right. Still doesn't change the crippled usability of the new systems nor the very real complaints and degradation of productivity.