Posts by 27escape

Ban photocopiers

They too cannot provider reverse paths to copies

Down-scaling a lossless image format, will lose information and the original cannot be rebuilt

The Readers Digest organisation is going to be in for a lot of trouble

etc etc

Ah floppy disk stories

I used to write software for pharmacies, in the old days and this all ran along with the data on 5.25 inch floppies.

When asked to send in a copy of their disks we often got photocopies of the disks or a floppy disk stapled to a covering letter, obviously right through the disk itself, just to make sure! Other disks came in glued together with paint, glue and who knows what, also the backup disks that have never been used and so blank were sent in to be used for data recovery and disks stored next to their TVs or CRT screens.

USB drives are not as much fun.

Getting my coat cos its almost knocking off time

Magnetic fields

Could contain the plasma, no need for filaments. Would be hard to get the field into a nice cylinder though

Nearest thing to a light sabre icon

Disruption

IT is becoming irrelevant as the workers increasingly rely on their own 'devices' and bring cloud services with them.

Business units specify and implement moves to cloud systems without involving IT, "who just get in the way and slow things down".

Sales gets Sales force, legal, HR, operations, finance all go to SAP, often as separate teams.

Developers code and deploy against AWS as IT cannot provide stable systems.

Legacy kit was virtualised and moved into the DC or a cloud provider years ago as IT could not

support the equipment.

End users all know their OS of choice and the applications they need to do their jobs, IT no longer

need to help out with Excel etc, the users are more expert nowadays.

IT may have to help out with HD swap outs and windows re-installs but thats getting to be the limit

of their involvement. Senior staff expense new high-end laptop purchases, IT only get

to specify laptops/desktops for low end staff, though often the finance team has the account

with a preferred supplier and just orders more of the same with hardly a thought about required use.

Phone systems are becoming virtualised and call routed to mobiles, no need for managing a phone switch and patching.

IT only need to provide network pipes/wifi, access to printers, service account creation (office365 etc).

The article really should be suggesting - Junk your IT job, before the company junks you!

:)

By the time they are ready

The year of code will be over and another opportunity missed

Great idea

Need to create a twilio script to do this!

Classic

Must have taken you ages, refrains from adding to the cow related puns

how about using letters and numbers

I know its a bit radical but that could also work

much like a password

yes yes people will use the name of their dog/cat/pet thing and they will be easy to guess but I guess some combinations will be more popular than others anyway

Linux root user

Most current linux distros request to create a normal user during boot, you do not get to set a root password, but your normal user gets sudo rights, so you can change the root password for console logins

Oh and ssh access by root is also normally disabled

Impressive

especially the binocular use of the MWA

cloudatcost

Gives you the option to purchase a VM for a one off fee, prices are reasonable; based in Canada for those not wanting to host in the US.

The various interfaces are not consistent and poor, but get the job done, customer support is about average, but for these prices - acceptable.

$35 USD gets you a basic system (1 vCPU, 1 IP, 1G RAM, 10G SSD, 500GB data) or you can rent it for $1 USD / month. Thats right just one dollar!

Super hacker, muscleman, martial artist and crackshot

American hackers are awesome!

This film was rubbish, from the flying around inside a microprocessor to show that something is being hacked to the hacker/killer character, then onto the FBI who only send 2 staff to trail said hacker around the world, to the predictable ending.

I would say it was a waste of time to watch but I happened to have some time to waste. However, I would in no way recommend it to anyone else.

Watch Kingsman instead, that's a lot of ridiculous fun.

Wind trails?

Or rocks rolling downhill trails?

So the filters are DNS only?

I just need to do a DNS lookup with a different service and I can skip past their filters?

What 10 year old could not do this?

Useless!

They don't need to pre-tick

Just change the wording

* Do you want to be on the open register which will allow companies to spam you yes/no

So the monkey owns the copyright

And if I record a movie with a camcorder or a concert with my phone, then I own the copyright?

Exactly, right this is not the case.

The copyright is with the person who created the item, or caused it to be created.

For example, the company I work for owns the copyright for the software or documents I write. I do not. They tell me what to create on their behalf.