Posts by Marc 13

Where's the deep-fake video lot when you need them?

The NK video needs a dancing sunflower to replace the plastic one back of shot.

https://youtu.be/sUZebHmsv9c

How about:

"Did you know Linux is 30?

You don't know what Linux is?

Well its hardly surprising as its been

reliably

running everything for 30 years."

Thus, the shirt deals with the two sides of Linux that seem to be important: Linux people evangelizing Linux to people who haven't heard of it and pointing out that (for the most part) it "just works" and runs pretty much anything you can think of that isn't MSFT.

Simple solutions - The UK telcos get fined, PER CALL for each spoofed call they allow though their network. It might take a few goes, but they will find a way to check who's traffic they carry if the risk is a fine.

As for the ones that originate in the UK, if you line is a "marketing" line (again, pretty easy top police if you are the telco) its a 5p per call *SETUP CHARGE*. i.e. every out bound call attempt costs the originating number 5p. Spam calling is only effective as its cost effective. Make it expensive to spam, reduce spam.

M

Quick, "Sounders" the alarm!

(OK, ok, my coat if you please)

Auto play ad crap on the home page

So el Reg has sold out to Huawei. I guess I can understand why, you have bills to pay, same as the rest of us.

But you allow a below the fold (so I have to hunt for it to shut it off), inline ad to auto play with a rock music intro... not cool!

#elRegFail

"GPT-3 forgot the specific times a patient said they were unavailable, and it instead suggested those times as appointment slots."

"it often failed to correctly add up sums when handling people's medical insurance queries"

"given a list of symptoms by a patient, yet it appeared to ignore some of them or just make some up before jumping to conclusions"

So pretty much, it can do *exactly* the same quality of job as a call centre drone or receptionist at a surgery does now!

$2300 for not getting hired... for not getting MSFT on your CV, for not getting the boost that will have down the line... cheap deflection.

£145,000 on legal fees...

145000 / £300* per hour = 480 hrs, ~96 working days on a 5 hour day (they are lawyers after all)

How did they clock up just shy of half a working year of legal effort from 36 hours and no charges? Even allowing for a couple of opinions at £2000 a pop, that's still a lot of effort (er, cost) to negotiate a £55k settlement!

M

* https://www.unbiased.co.uk/life/get-smart/how-much-does-a-solicitor-cost - London based, 8+ years litigation

I've worked in large, multinational and small even micro businesses over the last 10 years.

I am always surprised just how low the IT comprehension is within the non IT types... They can use a smart phone to download an play FB or Twitter yet cannot comprehend saving a doc to OneDrive/DropBox etc instead of the desktop ffs. They cannot click "Save as" when editing an email attached doc and wonder why their edits aren't saved.

This ISN'T in depth IT knowledge, its should be the starting point of the job interview for any job in the business.

In the case of opening crappy emails... send them two interview invites, one crap and one real... if they open the crap one, decline them!

M

"Apparently Capita is preparing to roll out the big guns and will “deploy advanced digital and customer management capabilities to drive improvements in experience across all channels”."

But they have been doing it for the last 10 years... Why'd they wait?

Know How Cloud back up is a white label version of Live Drive*

Restoration of folders from the client app (WinTel) is straight forward: Reinstall Win (assuming its a DR situation), download/install LD client app (2 mins) and sign in. Click restore, choose the folder to restore and where to put it and let it cook...

Did this last week for a mate.

The real issue is that the LD client is a bit hit and miss at putting the data IN the cloud...

...and not very vocal about the miss parts. We discovered this when my mate's data showed up with bits from Dec last year included, rather than the week before last. (It was a migration, not a DR so easy to sort). But the logs showed the LD client had been diligently running delta uploads every hour for weeks, yet there were clear sections missing!

*This I discovered when a mate had tried LD and then bought (been fobbed off with) KHC at the till... tried to register and couldn't ... the reason? His email address (used as username) was already in use o the LD client app, so the KHC branded version thought he was already registered (which I guess he was)

M

Until this kind of phuck-up costs someone their pension, the public sector and Pseudo-public sector will not care... its not their money being fined.

M

I've just run the proof of concept plugin... works pretty well, nice big words "AdChoices Identified" etc on the ads... They should write a version to highlight Fake news...

M

Errm...

vCDX resits are $900 for the re-defense, no need to pay the full £3K again. (here: https://blogs.vmware.com/education/)

And then there's the cost of the "normal" exams - who pay full price themselves? You can't get the exam validated unless you have sat one of their approved courses.... All the courses I have come across in "corporate world" include the exams anyway (in the eye watering, corporate aimed, course fee).

If you go the VMWare Academy route (which is very specifically aimed at self-funding/non corporate funded trainees), they include a discount voucher for 70% off the exams anyway...

M

Wont someone think of the children...

He's just waiting 'till his youngest child is old enough to interact with the media... He's seen Putin retain control for 17 years and counting, so he's only got to wait 9 years for Barron to take charge.

"I have a son. He's 10 years old. He has computers. He is so good with these computers, it's unbelievable."

For once, it may not be their issue... (well, their issue may be a single carrier of failure)

We had issues with Virgin yesterday - apparently an issue with a router in Poplar that ment we couldnt get to a lot of Amazon based sites.

Then today, Virtual1 /V1 had issues with a fiber break connecting them to a TalkTalk backbone - it took out our MPLS.

Its entirely possible 123 use one of both of these carriers/services.

M

erm...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/white-house-fence-jumper-made-it-far-deeper-into-building-than-previously-known/2014/09/29/02efd53e-47ea-11e4-a046-120a8a855cca_story.html?utm_term=.95bd41d6027b

That is all...

How is this still a thing?

Liquidating the company shouldn't matter... there's already a process to take the proceeds of crime from criminals.

mjcp