Posts by RonWheeler

'comprised of'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Giraffedata/comprised_of

Yahoo Auctions

'Yahoo Auctions - why did they kill that?' Will be the final search I enter into Altavista in a week from now.

Can it

climb skyscrapers with a woman in hand and swat at planes?

No win

no fee.

Must be true cos I saw it on TV*

*some Welsh rapper blokes circa year 2003

Brute force attacks

are rare. So much of the IT navel-gazing fraternity are obsessed with perfecting encryption that they forget that the MD's secretary will hand over her password to somebody who will just fill out the following online form from from the National Audit Office (http)

Just in case the insult gets missed by the assburger syndrome sufferers. Security professionals are snake-oil charlatans who get paid too much to make everything run slowly.

Really?

Live nearby. Know many GCHQ staff personally. Chances of enough of them not being on long-term medical leave or sitting in planning meetings to actually pull anything useful with this off - small digit next to zero. Thank god for British bureaucracy!

Never a truer word

'Often working for a powerful bastard is much more pleasant than grafting for a good guy who is coming last.'

Once worked for a 'nice guy' who was the kickstool for every other manager in the building. Ergo he never said no to all the other managers' doomed-to-fail crappy projects. Bought hook,line and sinker into a 'positive thinking', customer service 'guru' mantra that was meant to motivate junior customer service people - everyone else was meant to pay lip-service.

I left.

Scores a big win

for all the idiots still living in 2005 who think the Ghz wars are still going on.

Bragging rights on your l33t overclocker forums, yeah!

BYOD makes no sense

The biggest issue, outside the'security' half-truth that us IT types say in a knee-jerk fashion is:

'who controls the device?'

If manager hands his laptop over to spotty teenager to surf porn and torrent sites, fills hard drive with trojan filled games, IE toolbars, fills the taskbar iwth addon utility 'apps'. The computer is going to run like a pile of brown stuff. IT department gets the flack for slow PC but will get an argument every time they want to take the crap off the machine. Whose decision is it if Steam launcher is slowing the PC down? Yahoo toolbar? iTunes?

And if you bring in Citrix (probably least bad option), what happens when user works from home but insists on using nastiest overcontended consumer ISP availalble yet won't take blame for slow connection?

This stuff needs a clear line of responsiblity, and BYOD muddies it.

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Cloud revealed

One of the clearest examples upfront of what 'The Cloud' is all about to the big boys. Ransomware. Pay up or you can't access your own stuff.

Hopefully we'll see a resurgence of PC gaming over the next few years. Steam may be a annoying and sucky, but it was never so brazenly controlling as this.

The red button

planning and implementation development committee for interactive user interface enhancement must be getting a boost to their exciting remit.

What a ridiculous device

Like using a 2CV converted into a trike, to tow a 5 wheeled horsebox that has been converted into a mobile generator.

i'm sure the 3 people in the world who need this device will be very happy.

Not surprised on the spam thing

They kept blocking all my old company's SMTP traffic as they regularly reimplemented dodgy third party IP blocklists, which included our IP address.. Cue 3 weeks of fighting Indian read-from-a-script,-don't-understand-SMTP morons trying to force me to sign 'I'm a commercial spammer who agrees only to spam 50 000 BTInternet customers a day ' documents. Clearly they'd rather approve commercial spam than understand we'd been wrongly blocked in the first place due to their own rubbish systems. And that we'd been over this 3 months before. And 3 months before that. Rinse, repeat..

Yes, we had reverse DNS and SPF set up, and nobody else blocked us.

Trouble is most of our customers were old and IT-illiterate so used BT / Yahoo.

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No chrome

Thought about this, and no Chrome equals why I wouldn't touch one. Which suddenly makes Chromebooks look like a lot of sense.

Trick question. What is the difference...

..between a semi-autonomous killer robot programmed by the military and a suicide-bomber brainwashed by radicals?

Beats esxcli

Have used esxcli and powershell. Powershell wins in a Windows environment as you can do a lot of other stuff to the freshly created virtual machine as part of the script.

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Tickbox security

who the heck does brute force attacks on SSL? Nobody. Why stuff like this is news makes me depressed about the state of IT. People and sloppy webapps are the weak points, not SSL. Doubtless security experts will earns millions in the coming months enforcing best practice analysis toolkit results.

Buy an off the shelf product

and change working practices to fit. Public sector never do that. - they are always want to customise the IT to fit their established (usually bad) working patterns. As cost is no object, there is no block to this mistake happening over and over.

Smoke and mirrors

People are beginning to realise most of the high end (read Cisco IOS console-cable) 'skills' are smoke and mirrors. .A bit of basic networking knowledge and picking a product that isn't overpriced, buggy, semi-proprietary and needlessly obscure will solve most companies' needs. Let the downvotes commence.

So basically...

they filled in all the default stuff Facebook asks you to fill in about yourself.(school / town / pic of yourself....)

!shock!

Subtitle sums it up really

'Don’t think about it, build it'

The order given from on-high to IT departments regarding BYOD.

BYOD - the choice of the thought-challenged.