* Posts by frustin

9 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Jan 2014

Scottish Environment Protection Agency refuses to pay ransomware crooks over 1.2GB of stolen data

frustin

Re: Good

yeah, i mean, a freedom of information request and we can get it for free anyway

IR35 tax reforms for UK freelancers glide through committee stage: D-Day set for 6 April 2021

frustin

I've been both, permi and contractor. I like the former for a career move and contract for stepping stone to the next good role.

"they should have been a fixed term", why? fixed term is for exactly that..a fixed term, you get all the benefits/perks of being a permi. Risk is less for fixed.

"I know there are arguments about pension, holiday and sick pay BUT this is abuse of the system", not just arguments, they're facts! here's a list you may have forgotten since you were a contractor.

https://www.contractorcalculator.co.uk/what_employee_benefits_contractors.aspx

Also how is it abuse? the idea of a contractor is to carry out work on a temporary basis, using skills specific to that contractor, no training needed, no nothing. All the risk is on the contractor, virtually no notice period, maybe not being paid at all/in full, potential of not having ANY work therefore nothing coming in.

"I have been a contractor and moved to a permanent position as I got fed up with all the admin needed to run the business,", what a cliche, what admin? some expenses and a bit of business banking? hardly a massive time consumer.

"the end result is that I am more or less in the same financial position overall when everything is taken into account but have a significantly better work/life/family balance", uh huh. you can take holiday as much as you like as a contractor, except you're not being paid in the mean time. the financial position is almost always better being a contractor unless you were on a low rate.

Spaghetti Junction! Brum hospitals on hunt for new ERP and finance supplier to untangle current systems

frustin

Re: The £6M Question

No way. You dont design a product like ERP when there's a lot of products you can buy that already have the functionality.

The Six Million Dollar Scam: London cops probe Travelex cyber-ransacking amid reports of £m ransomware demand, wide-open VPN server holes

frustin

Cant understand how the virus got on their unless the systems were not kept up to date? or the systems were so out of date they were no longer protected?

The fact that they're back to pen and paper as well. That's just incredible. Business continuity must be none existent given they've been down since new year's day.

I bet they're still trying to figure out which systems are affected and they cant turn on the machines, while connected to the network (for fear of infecting others). Which would mean they're having to do it manually, one machine at a time.

What did turbonerds do before the internet? 41 years ago, a load of BBS

frustin

Re: BBS's are on the Internet.

no one on it at the moment.

frustin

Re: mono.org

you used it? my account is 24 years old this year. there's about 15 people that use it fairly frequently still.

frustin

mono.org

mono.org still going since 1992 - not many on it now, but it was what facebook is now. But used to have a good 50 users during peak times back in the day, there could only be a maximum of that number.

Dead serious: How to haunt people after you've gone... using your smartphone

frustin

Re: What About...

yep, just like when I was ill one morning i couldnt get out of bed.

Me: i think we need to call the doctor

wife: you've probably just got the flu

me: really, i cant move nor hardly talk

wife: <tut> ok

one call to NHS direct later

NHS direct to wife: put him on the phone

Me: hi

NHS direct back to wife: call and ambulance

wife: oh shit!

me in my mind because i cant talk: yeah that's right, i'm ill!!!! hahahaha

Hubble 'scope snaps 600-LIGHT-YEAR-wide pic of star-spawning nebula

frustin

Re: Stunning photo

"...by the time they got there everyone they'd ever known back on earth would have been dead for at least 170,000 years."

plus everyone would have forgotten that you'd even gone at all. Monkeys would rule earth by then anyway.