Posts by Tezfair

wow

imagine my ranking on seti if I had that many machine under my control. Ah the good old days.

Stop being shareware first

Until MS has a fully polished ̶t̶u̶r̶d̶ OS that doesn't require large updates, I, and my clients will not be upgrading on any day to day machines. The other weekend my lad installed threshold 2 and discovered his machine was almost stock. apps and other things had gone awaol. Imagine if that happens in a business. Hello IT, nothing's installed on my computer, it was there on Friday.

Don't get me wrong, i'm not a fully signed up hater, I have W10 on a laptop and there are a few things I find easier, something things I wonder 'why', and others well, classic shell sorts out.

Fact is, we have got to get used to it because MS thinks the interface of the future is tablet shaped (rounded corners are optional)

hey cortana

"rd space backslash s space backslash q space c colon"

ok, i know it wont work, but when you start controlling file operations by voice, that becomes concerning

" hey cortana, format c colon backslash s"

probably not the only ones

I know for a fact that Travis Perkins has sold my details, I made an online enquiry but put me down as Dr rather than Mr, now I get loads of postal junk. All good for the bonfire :)

Great if you can afford the 10Gb NIC. Wifi might struggle to keep up though.

Good write up but...

I disagree with the 'un-pc' remark in open all hours. The show worked at all levels and was never offensive, stutter or not.

The modern comic writers just don't have that magic style of innocent and witty comedic timing. There was always something that people could enjoy at all levels, something that people will say when Brucie leaves us (I call him Mr Saturday Night). Most modern writers try and stay on the inside of politically correct and more often than not produce something that maybe is only so so. R&R proves that good writing is timeless.

I have been getting a few dropbox invites just recently, but i'm behind smsmse and I set the content filtering to drop any email that contains any executible file whether exe, cmd scr etc. Seems to work well.

Also implimented a file scanning rule on windows servers (courtesy of spiceworks) that if we / client gets unlucky and gets infected and starts mass file modifications / decrypt.txt files start appearing, it effectively blocks that IP, or blocks the file saves (can't remember off the top of my head)

I have seen it three times, twice in businesses and once as a residential job, but his one was a bugger because it took out his backup too as his backup hdd was always left connected.

Its Q's fault.

He hacked a BMW for James Bond in 'Tomorrow never dies' and now looked what's happened.

Nice to see our Gov supporting UK businesses.

people have ideas

I remember 'inventing these' donkey years ago (in my head)...

- Method of tracking mileage when driving a private car for business use, with a method of seperating business from private mileage for tax purposes.

- Combining a CCD with a flash memory stick to enable recording of events whilst driving

- Putting Windows on a memory stick so when you plug it into a base PC, 'your' Windows then boots and runs with all your data available.

People can have ideas, but may not always follow it up.

Health lottery appears to use the same machine

Or one very much like it.

The way I look at it is....

It's just Windows 8 with service pack 2 (hence binary 10)

Down here in the SW, wind turbines are popping up almost daily and solar farms are covering all our fields in grey panels. It's ruining a lovely part of the UK, but I always thought they are inefficient when the gov has to subsidise it. No one would spend thousands to only make a profit in 10 years time.

One unwanted by-product is dirty electricity. My UPS swings from 210v to 265v in minutes as the wind / sun comes out. Printers become unresponsive and have to be regulary rebooted. Not just in our office, but across our clients offices too, and brownouts are now a regular thing.

I think Nuclear has to be considered. technology has moved on since the 70's so smaller, more efficient plants could be built and made safe.

Forget mobiles stick with software

There said it. Windows Mobiles are never going to be anything more than an afterthought. I did the unthinkable and went from WM6.5 to android and never been happier. Some people get on with windows mobiles, I hated it.

Trying to get from 3rd to 1st isn't going to happen. Apple is already there, Android works well for me across home / business so Microsoft should just go back to making decent desktop / server software and stop trying to converge everything.

slightly off topic

Fastest way (I have found) to get rid of the w10 pop up (other than scripts), taskmanager, find GWX, end task / kill process, go into the windows32 folder and rename the GWX folder.

not good

Why on earth would you want to sign into a network monitoring program with a social account?

Seems there is a lot of this going on. Just bloody lazyness to make secure accounts.

Different needs

If you are on a server farm, then great, have a gui less server. Thats your world, however I look after 18 or so servers for lots of small buinesses and there's many times I have been no where near a computer to allow remote access so I have had to talk through simple tasks for a 'competent' person whos day job is not IT. The GUI allows me to visualise in my head what that person is seeing on the screen and I can ask question on what they see to ensure we are both 'looking' at the same screen.

Another way of looking at it is, I want to check something quickly, eg, a forwarder on DNS (random example). couple of clicks im in, checked and out.

I use a little powershell. I get it's usefullness, however, could I remember every single command synax / switch for every part of the server, formed in my head with a guarantee I can reliabilly relay that to said competent person whilst driving around the roads and it works without causing some problems? No

Also, all this 'remote administration' is fine, but what if your NIC(s) fail?

I know...

Have the cryptolocker virus on a memory stick and run that. Total deniability to have the encryption key

Something else is happening here

I can't for one second, think that anyone would take servers home with them or cut cables unless those items were owned by the support company. Other than theft, it will come under the computer misuse act. No IT person regardless of how bitter they are would go this far upon dismissal.

I suspect the kit was supplied and there is a disputed bill. If the invoice states ownership remains with the IT company until the bill is paid, then (s)he would remove the equipment. Perhaps the IT person was on a contract, and at the end of the minimum period wasn't fully paid up to date, so took the personally owned / unpaid equipment to recover losses.

too old to care

My first MP3 was don't speak by no doubt. Since then I have stayed with that format because it works well across all my devices. Sure there are better format such as flac etc, but for me, any new format will be ignored.

As the digital downloads, etc, yep, brought a couple of albums in the past but are no longer accessible since the email address has long since gone (so has the ISP). Nope, for me, I will buy CDs as and when, in fact I recently realised I had a gaping hole in my collection and brought ELO greatest hits v1 &2 off ebay. Cost a tad under £2, unmarked. Now ripped to the server, wifes ipod, mobile and memory stick for the car.

Stop reinventing the wheel and look at why people try and get around your protection.

how much is it costing us tax payers?

Might be a great idea to keep them locked up for x years, but in the end it's costing us £££'s to keep him there. Far better to deport him and save on the prison bill as there is 0 chance of seeing that £1m

tariff

So, have 4G dirt cheap but only 500mb of data? I used 1.6Gb on Three last month and barely touched the internet on it, just exchange emails and general look ups.

Hardly looks like a killer deal to me

feel the pain

Now granted, I deal with 'small buiness' servers, but many a time I have been sat on the floor in front of a dead server at O'mygod O'clock wishing I was working as a checkout operative at Aldi (pay better than Tescos apparently).