Posts by ShortLegs 284 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Apr 2012
Ot the two MCSE's who, looking at a recently built pair of NT4 servers with two NICs apeice decided that the "forward IP packets" should be enabled (cant recall the exact wording of the opton, this was 1998)
Cue havoc as RIP updates were injected into an OSPF routing environment. MCSE - Must Call Someone Experienced
Seriously? Making paying a crime?
That sone step away from making it a crime to hand over your wallet to a mugger. Armed with a knife.
Or the very real low level extortion whereby pets are kidnapped and held to ransom. Should we prosecute and imprison 68yr old Mrs Smith for paying to get Tiddles back?
According to the logic displayed by posters here, blackmail and extortion has only criminals and never victims.
Just remember that until a COURT finds a company or individual guilty of negligence, or an offence, then the CISO/CITO/whomever has not committed any crime.
Anything else is lynch-mob mentality. There is a basic principle of justice called "innocent until proven guilty".
You havent read the T&Cs, have you. It gives HP pretty much unfettered access to your data, and they can share it with their partners, whom in turn can share it with theirs
It also requires the printer to be connected to the Internet
So a data breach in the making aided by a security breach in the making.
"Rear Admiral John Gower, a former Royal Navy submarine commander, told the BBC earlier this month that it would take a more sophisticated force than the Houthis, someone with submersibles capable of locating the cables to do the deed"
Do the Houthi's know they are not sophisticated enough to attack a submarine cable?
To paraphrase Arthur C Clarke "when a distinguished expert declares something is impossible, its future is immediately assured"
"My dad was in the USA with the RN in the 70s, and said the matelots were delighted to find that Americans served beer in jugs, so they got a jug each."
Medicine Hat, BATUS, mod-80s. Sat in a pub with a "pitcher" of Budweiser each. After about the third pitcher, mate gets up for a wazz.
"Cant he handle his drink" slurs our inebriated US Army host.
"you try drinking 9 pints of water without needing a piss" retorts the still sober Brit sappers....
Targeting a nation state critical infrastructure, or a "country-disabling network', [i]is[/i] considered an Act of War. Not 'verging on', but is a de-facto declaration.
The status of the group responsible? Depends.
During a declared state of hostilities, (ie war has already broken out and then a cyber attack was launched), the International Red Cross believes if it was civilian hackers that launched the attack, they would be protected as non-combatants under the Geneva Convention. Which is hard to understand as they would effectively have the same combatant status as a civilian who picked up a weapon and fire it at 'the enemy'.
Never ever ever had a problem with SCSI. Ever. Possibly because we insisted on using high quality full wired and shielded cables.
And I wonder if the fundamental reason was really "missing a connector" as cables came with connectors as standard
- 50pin SCS-2 centroncs interface on the equiomennt had two clips to lock onto the cable.
The female version had the same built onto the cable
- 68pin SCSI-3 *aka Wide-SCSI" had a spring latch built into the cable connector
-DB25 abortion used a standard screw connector
So... no clips, 10p or otherwise. So either
- someone hadnt fitted correctly
- something had been broken and nor replaced
- someone disconnected a cable..............
Many many years ago. Worked for an outsourcer
The client had been given a custom support soluttion (one SD - "T", one account manager, and agreed to a deputy SDM on each site. On the technical side, remote 1st line helpdesl, on site 2line support, and a centralised network/server team. I owned the IT, T owned Service Delivery). This was the customers preferred structure, lean and agile. It served us well as we doubled the account value within a year, taking on more and more IT services
Long story short is our boss had a heart attack, and the company replaced him with the 'standard' service management template: 5 managers, including David, a "technical director'. Although I owned IT, I was still just a "manager", or glorified techie team leader. Long story short, I quit as I had effectively been dismissed.
Now we, with our peers in the clients network team, upgraded from a flat Token Ring environment to a routed IP environment with switch 100mb ethernet on sites. Cutover was scheduled for the last weekend in Oct. That Friday, I was asked if I could assist over the weekend and be available Mon and Tuesday by "I", my client-side peer, and "G" one of my guys who was managing the work. I agree a daily rate with "I" and stress to G he needs to run this past David, who agreed. I duly attend
Thursday I get a phone call from him asking why I am not in work. and what is this invoice for £6000? When I remind David I quit, he replies "i never processed your resignation, you are still an employee". nope, I start a new role next Monday. I also have a mountain of O/T that needs paying, and almost a full years worth of hols owed. Now I had also handed over a lot of documentation to David with my resignation letter. Turns out he hadn't "nor processed it" - he had deleted it.
A month later I am still getting calls from him, demanding I turn up to work, I provide information I no longer have, etc. Eventaully, two months later, chasing up unpaid OT and hol pay (and I am still being paid by the company!) I end up on a call with a very senior manager. I ask if the issue is malice or incompence? He asks whom the manager was, and when I reply "David C" replies "The later. CBU [client] had him removed from the account".
My invoice was paid. My OT was paid. My pay-in-lieu was paid. And i kept the two months pay I received after I left. They did invite me back to join Professional Services... yep-no.
This was 1998. I wont name the companies as whilst the outsourcer has gone, the client still exists. One of the best clients I have ever worked with.
At the bottom of the article was a survey wrt whether we will be integrating AI into our organisation. I answered 'no'
But I have just thought a use for it - automated responses to sales emails.
Though, in light of the Canada Air court case we would to REALLY screw down the responses before the AI agreed to purchase whatever snake-oil the vendor was selling
"I seem to remember Amiga being at least inspired by UNIX. It certainly wasn't POSIX or anything, but commands, libraries, and startup scripts, and configs were all just directories in the root of the filesystem."
AmigaDOS was based on TRIPOS, no relation to Unix at all. It had a command line interface, but this was not a shell. That said, within a couple of years there were numerous *nix shell-like shells for the Amiga, Bourne Shell, csh, ksh, all can be found on the early Fred Fish disks.
C= released a SVR4 Unix for the A3000 - or the A3000UX to give it it's marketing name. I never used it.
"I always thought that BOFH was satirical meanderings based on post pub-lunch dreaming but this is starting to sound a little too close to higher managements 'good ideas' we are starting to hear teasers about."
Erm, after nigh-on 30years of reading BOFH (ah how I miss the printed version on a Friday afternoon at BAT).... it almost always been a satirical comment regarding the current manglement big shiny.
"So true. I've worked for three decades in a range of private sector operations, and I'm now a civil servant. The levels of efficiency/incompetence I encounter in the civil service are similar to those in large corporations. The public sector does of course have an albatross round its neck, in the form of an executive branch (politicians, that is)"
As do private companies. They are called "vice presidents"
Its been wrong for about a decade and a half, or does no one remember this little gem from the last Labour administration, that wanted to put 'thought crime' on the statute books:
https://www.theregister.com/2009/03/18/thought_crime/
Only 14 years ago....
"I had a capital budget and an expense budget badk in 1984. I needed to by 200 PCs for the teams. I"
in 1984? Holy heck, how much was your budget! A PC and hard disk back then ran to (consults PCW Aug 1985, oldest mag I still have) and a n Olivetti M24 c/w 640KB and 10mb HD was £2500
The Kaypro 286 reviewed in that issue came in tt £4100: 286"8MHz, 512Kb RAM, twin 1.2Mb floppies, monitor. Sans monitor and sinlge floppy - £2675,,,,
the mind boggles
"Stop right there. Beancounters don't save anything. They count. That's their job, and that's their limit."
Of course they dint save anything - they would be called beansavers if they saved beans
They are cousins to Army storemen, who after all store equipment marked 'stores' ans say no when you need it - because if you were meant to have it, then it would be marked 'issues', and they would be referred to as "issuemen"
That depends on your definition of "good", and I rather suspect that yours and the OPs differ.. and the answer is "yes" :-)
Nzbplanet if you want nzb files.
Newshosting "browser" if you need a client for bianries
Forte Agent for a reader
Oh how I miss Ameol and CIX
So no one picked up on the final comments
The seemingly contradictory "...but Todd did tell us that BAE would keep delivering Falcon while Trinity development continued."
Nor
"Trinity is designed... as an extension to Falcon," Todd said."
Which implies it requires Falcon if it is an extension. So maybe just a shift to a different IP routing protocol, or an IP4 to IP6 upgrade.
Lovely
Reminds me of the claims assessors that were [very] occasionally sent out to BAOR. God only knows why, when the box of crystal glass was worth less than the cost of flying two assessors over, return taxis to/from airport, to/from claimant, hotel accommodation and restaurant dining. Ok, so it would probably have been the ninehundred and eleventieth time a box of cut crystal glasses had been dropped, a complete coincidence that everyone used the same department store and thus explaining why everyone, regardless of unit/location had the same set. And wholly immaterial that the box looked more travelled than the Falklands Task Force on its return.
Im sure the assessors knew exactly what went on and used it as an excuse for a jolly every 6 months.
Though the funniest claim was a neighbour whose bike had been stolen... and she couldnt describe it all, whilst her husband gave a wholly convincing description of his "bike"
"We don't do "plead guilty or else" or any other form of plea bargaining system on this side of the pond"
Oh yes we do. If you plead Guilty at the earliest opportunity you get an automatic deduction of sentence. If you leave it to the last minute, you receive some credit. If you plead Not Guilty, and are subsequently found guilty, you can receive a stiffer tarrif.
Ad for the "investigation" being fair... one word, Malkinson. If you dont understand, google it. Lets also say Guildford 6, Birmingham Six, Guildford Four, Maguire Seven
Because what happens when idle, shiftless "civvies" dont turn up on time? Or at all. Or fail to call ahead, thus allowing the duty manager to plan around and arrange cover.
Its a soft skill one learns every very early, very very quickly, in the military. Amongst a number of other soft skills, such as attention to detail, and working until the job is done.
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