Re: To be fair....
If that is the only this XP install is driving, and has no connection to the outside world, run it into the ground, and budget for a new solution.
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Super-antique-fragile-and-it's-XP-alidocious, even though the sight of it is something quite atrocious
Deloitte's 'Test your Hacker IQ' site fails itself after exposing database user name, password in config file
The car you buy in 2025 will include a terabyte of storage. Robo-taxis might need 11TB
Apple on the hook for another $503m in decade-long VirnetX patent rip-off legal marathon
Remember when the keyboard was the computer? You can now relive those heady days with the Raspberry Pi 400
You only live twice: Once to start the installation, and the other time to finish it off
Did I or did I not ask you to double-check that the socket was on? Now I've driven 15 miles, what have we found?
Friday 30th October 2020 12:42 GMT 
Re: Can't be arsed
Support center? Scripts? Never heard of them, we a shop of 4 admins supporting 1000+ no time for such frippery. We have a ticketing system, I think 7 users actually send tickets. The rest is by email, phone or as I like to call them "drive by shootings" as we are in transit to another user...
Friday 30th October 2020 09:41 GMT 
Can't be arsed
I doubt the guy even looked at the wall socket. I've been to plenty of calls where the power is the issue, only to find the questions I asked on the phone or tickets were answered affirmative, but in reality they never looked at the light on the power strip, or realized the darkness in the hallway...
Just cough into your phone, please... MIT lab thinks it can diagnose COVID-19 from the way you expectorate
Remember 2013? This coffee machine does: If I could turn back time – I'd reboot this PC
Right to repair? At least you still have the right to despair: Camera modules cannot be swapped on the iPhone 12
Another eBay exec pleads guilty after couple stalked, harassed for daring to criticize the internet tat bazaar
NSA: We've learned our lesson after foreign spies used one of our crypto backdoors – but we can't say how exactly
Trump's official campaign website vandalized by hackers who 'had enough of the President's fake news'
Brit accused of spying on 772 people via webcam CCTV software tells court he'd end his life if extradited to US
SNAFU: Clairvoyant train brings warning of what was coming down the line for 2020
Oculus owners told not only to get Facebook accounts, purchases will be wiped if they ever leave social network
Microsoft drives users to the Edge: Internet Explorer to redirect to Chromium-based browser in November
How the tables have turned: Bloke says he trained facial recognition algorithm to identify police officers
A cautionary tale of virtual floppies and all too real credentials
If you suddenly can't print to your HP Printer from your Mac, you're not alone: Code security cert snafu blamed
Saturday 24th October 2020 07:27 GMT
We found it early
We heard from users at 8:am here in NL on Friday. Took us a better part of the day to get to the bottom of it, as we were coming off of a two day power outage, low voltage and mid voltage gear had to be swapped of out facility, and were sure the printer issue was due to the power going from mains to UPS to generator, and back again when the job was done. We had a power cut years ago that borked a few JetDirect cards, so we were once bitten twice shy...
After Dutch bloke claims he hacked Trump's Twitter by guessing password, web biz says there's 'no evidence'
Finding remote working a bit of a grind? Microsoft staffers feel your pain
Ed Snowden doesn’t need to worry about being turfed out of Russia any more
Ho hum: If you're so artificially intelligent, name this song while my videos go viral
Thought the FBI were the only ones able to unlock encrypted phones? Pretty much every US cop can get the job done
ISS air leakage fixed in time for crew handover, thanks to floating teabag
State of Iowa told no, you can’t use $21m coronavirus federal aid to help fund your $52m Workday roll-out
Run Windows on a Chromebook: All the details. Not so fast, home user...
Thursday 22nd October 2020 06:23 GMT 
chrome borks
We had a proof of concept, after adding all of the cost of the needed peripherals, licensing for apps, for chromeOS itself, then tooling up to be a chrome house both on the management and usage side?? Waay more expensive than being an Apple environment, when you factor in most chromeborks are out of support in just a few years, purchase more hardware, license it. My son's school has crohn'sbooks what a pile of crap, I couldn't believe my senses when I picked one up. Landfill in a year...
With the specs listed to run windows too, you gotta be talking some big money for one unit? Plus chromeOS, plus Parallels and Windows on top of that?!
Got an irritating itch you just can't scratch? That'll be Windows wanting an update
When you tell Chrome to wipe private data about you, it spares two websites from the purge: Google.com, YouTube
Quick thinking and an explanation for everything – key CTO qualities
Monday 19th October 2020 08:24 GMT
Re: I've been fired ...
Years ago, I used to get lots of links for questionable content\jokes in email from friends or colleagues, but strangely I can't remember when I received the last one. Maybe I'm getting old? or maybe I've not forwarded or contributed and am there for not on the list anymore?
Will there be no end to govt attempts to break encryption? Hand over your data or the kiddies get it, threaten Five Eyes spies
Monday 19th October 2020 14:29 GMT 
must be an agenda item
That was set to repeat each year. Nobody knows how to turn it off. The password for the account is forgotten and encrypted! That's it, they want the back door so they can log into the agenda account and turn off the agenda item repeat for encryption backdoors event... or so they say.
Can't quite remember the name of the song stuck in your head? Hum it and our AI will take a guess, says Google
Monday 19th October 2020 10:16 GMT
Re: Hum it and our AI will take a guess, says Google
Can anyone recommend a device that detects when one of these google things are in operation nearby? I'm going to socially distance myself if I detect one!
"Muffled as in : Listening to the "hum" of a conversation in another room, listening to another conversation in a crowd which is also more of a "hum" rather than actual words etc etc etc"
You should check out an old film called the Conversation with Gene Hackman
Icon -> Tinfoil Hat
Work life balance? We've heard of it. Pandemic means 9-5 shifts are a thing of the past for many
Friday 16th October 2020 18:18 GMT
Re: Corporate Culture - Corporate Cogs
A very good, old friend(it's been years) is caught in the corporate machine. Chasing his promotions, chasing retirement benefits, always on call, getting shuffled to other cities half way across the country to avoid redundancy, pity really, he is missed. I'm reminded of Bell Boy by The Who
Friday 16th October 2020 18:07 GMT 
Knock on WFH
In the past, my users were off work by 6pm or so. Before it was very late, I was free to login for 2 minutes and restart their workstations and servers in the evenings, however since people have to work from home, and care for family, they are working split shifts, and I now see users working at 11pm, and then the missus gives WFT eye because I'm working!
Need a new computer for homeschooling? You can do worse than a sub-£30 2007 MacBook off eBay
Has Apple abandoned CUPS, the Linux's world's widely used open-source printing system? Seems so
When you're On Call, only you can hear the silence of the clicks
Friday 16th October 2020 09:19 GMT
Ah yes the joys of Pagers
In another industry back in the mid 90s, a former boss\owner of the company would visit our office a few times a week. My office was small, and my assistant had to use it too. My former boss was a walking pig pen. After two minutes in the office, he would take off his coat, empty his pockets on my desk, grab a beverage and generally disrupt the office. One day he visited, and my pager was on my desk, he routinely dropped his crap everywhere, and when gathering his crap also snagged my pager! I didn't see it happen, and I didn't miss it at the end of the day, but when I got home, I felt naked! I tried calling him at home, as few people could afford mobiles then, to let him know, no answer... Fast forward to 2am, and the cops needed someone at the office( a garbage truck backed into our building), my boss paged me, I would have loved to be there when he realized that he had my pager!
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