Posts by markrand

Give it a rest, damnit

How long is this idiotic trade war going to continue and when will the rest of the world tell the US administration to take their mercantilism ant put it where the sun doesn't shine?

Am I right

in guessing that the Bright Young Thing/student that wrote the program and eagerly took onboard all comments from the early adopters had moved on to a different position/career before Python 2 became deprecated?

fer chrissakes stop this idiot bloody trade war. It hurts everyone and helps no one.

But sir, our energy costs have been zero (since we hot wired the meter).

This has got nothing at all to do with national security or defence. It is entirely due to the trade war that the USA is conducting against China.

I (IT geek) got accused, via reply to all, of' 'unprofessional behavior' when I used 'reply to all' to an email to 2,000 employees from HR. Replied, via 'reply to all' that HR should have used BCC for the original email and included a link to the relevant RFC.

Got hauled in front of a disciplinary meeting...

I guess it was good that the correction was done by the FBI and not the CIA or Mossad. If that were the case, the data centre power supplies would have been melted.

Correct email etiquette

It should be noted that the fault lay not with those using reply-all:-, which is a reasonable response if you wish your comment to be read by all those in the to:- list.

The fault lay with the fool who sent an email to large numbers of people using to:- rather than bcc:-

I had blazing rows with our HR department over their use of to:- with the entire site mail list. Unfortunately, being HR folk, they didn't understand the rfcs.

all open and above board

I don't suppose HMG is suffering from a little bit of pressure over the 'facts' from foreign parties?

Let he who is without sin...

So why no outrage against HP Aruba and Cisco Meraki kit. Both phone home regularly to see if there are any 'cloud-based' configuration changes or updates and the latter kit stops working if you cut its Internet connection.

No such word

The word Ombudsman is not gender specific. There is no such thing as an ombudsperson/ombudswoman/ombudsthing.

TDP is a little on the high side for use in a Raspberry PI. But If Mr Upton and his team could work out how to feed it and stop it melting, I'd go for it.

So, why didn't medtronic simply fix the software so it DOES check whether it's connected via the VPN before downloading?

At my ex-employer (65,000 people, at the time) I was a network admin. I got into a number of rows due to the department's policy of exempting all MS patches from any form of change control and requiring 100% installation within 5 days.

Schadenfreude, anyone...

How do I transfer the new firmware to my ThinkJet?

Seriously, we used ThinkJets and early DeskJets and they were revolutionary. One could even print graphs and pictures after only a few months of program writing.

Sod all 'cloud computing'

I must admit that I migrated from sendmail to exim in about 2002. Why on earth would I want my email on someone else's servers?

Torchwood

The police in cardiff aren't looking for human criminals, they're looking for aliens...