Posts by theN8

Re: Will Godfrey

NOW we're talking.

Re: Just remember: memory's the second thing to go.

I'd rather be a 5.25" floppy than a 3.5" hard disk every day of the week...

"Although the two mice were in different offices the desks were actually effectively back-to-back with a thin plasterboard partition between so kept interfering with each other."

We had a similar jolly in a firm I worked for 10+ years ago. Some bigwig decided that the "clutter free desk" policy meant we should give everyone wireless keyboards and mice. Sadly, the allotted budget to implement this for 130 staff - mixed in with whatever kickback this tie-wearing-jobsworth from the supplier - meant that we ended up with some junk that, instead of "pairing" like most wireless kit - had 4 channels to choose from. Well, you can just imagine the hilarity that ensued.

Luckily - we'd had the foresight to keep the old kit.

Re: I think I even have a script for that.

Isn't that how Mel Brook's "The Producers" started?!

"Sorry, but I don't see how you can say both "I need dual monitors to do my job" and then "I need a laptop". They are both just a status symbol and mutually exclusive."

Oh no!! I best not admit that I'm typing this reply on my work issued Dell Lattitude E5470 with an i5, 16gb RAM and 500GB SSD - all hooked up to my triple 24" Dell U2414 displays. All secured by Bitlocker Encryption, with a work VPN configured as standard in Windows 10 - so when I finish for the day, I can simply un-dock it and take it home. Imagine that!!

I'll get my coat, mines the one with the 2 tonne Dell power brick in the pocket...

Re: I admit that I'm not completely on top of legal definitions...

The way I see it is it's the difference between receiving a letter and not acting on it and boarding up your letterbox so the letters can't be delivered in the first place.

If you receive the letter and fail to act - you are willfully blind (and some might argue, complicit), but if you don't receive the letters then you cannot be any more than negligent in your duty to accept communications. Of course, if they could prove that you blocked up your letterbox specifically to avoid certain kinds of letters...

Re: playground thinking

You mean the magic money tree raped by MayBot to keep the DUP's peckers up and in line?

Because the video is still on youtube (other video platforms are available) even after the stream has ended - which is where the ad-generated money comes from.

Re: Boring jobs?

"What's wrong with having a human answer the phone straight away, rather than spending several minutes on 'press 1 for...' and 'enter your account number' etc"

Because humans cost more money than the technological equivalents of Dante's 3rd level of hell.

Re: What are the chances?

Obligatory l-space reference:

https://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Million-to-one_chance

"Fascinating! I'm launching right now a crow(d)funding project for a smart doormat which will be able to connect to your smartphone to warn you if the guy at your door walked into dog shit. Once I have collected €1,000,000, expect first delivery as soon as 2037."

Shut up and take my money!

Our first PC in 1996 only had an 800mb hard drive - we didn't venture into the GB's until Windows 98 made an appearance.

Re: Praise or accusations of work not done?

We call that "the stare" around here.

Re: Resilience lacking.

"...but whoever sets them should set a failover server."

The issue, in this case, is that the failover, whilst configured - was for a DNS server in the same Data Centre - so any outage of the primary likely FUBARed the secondary at the same time.

Re: more important than ever

Error 418 shall become a self-fulfilling prophecy. And stop calling me Shirley!!

Re: Well they already cut themselves off from a big portion of the "market"

But when you buy a CD/DVD/BluRay/Vinyl/Book etc - you are buying a physical item which becomes your property to do with as you wish (copyright case law long ago established that you can take a "backup" of physical media as long as you still own the original and are not distributing or reselling that copy).

But when you download a film from Netfilx - they still retain ownership of that material.

You pay for a streaming subscription - the option to download and view offline is simply an added bonus. If they had a pay-per-download model like Amazon, then that might be a different matter.

Re: Re : that advertisements will be vetted first...

"If we did that, there would be no advertisements...."

I'm ok with that!

Re: Remote wipe.....

A microwave for 2 minutes would do just fine in a pinch.

Re: Been around for some time

Yes indeed. I had the first Motorola Atrix with the "Work & Play" kit - very handy and the phone was years ahead of it's time - even sported a fingerprint scanner to lock/unlock the phone with - something the Apple fanboys would swear they were the first.