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It was this way when I got here. I worked on X and found another case of "Well there's your problem." Don't shoot the piano player!
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Two missing digits? How about two missing employees in today's story of Y2K
A sprinkling of Star Wars and a dash of Jedi equals a slightly underbaked Rise Of Skywalker
BOFH: The case of the Boss's hidden USB inkjet printer
Monday 30th December 2019 10:15 GMT 
Feels like X-mas
It would seem that some new shiny surveillance gear should\would be under the tree for Simon and Stephen. These cold war antics of putting radioactive material in the printer toner, then tracing it with a geiger counter could have been done from the comfort of mission control. Besides, as much as it's a danger to the 'Boss' it is also a danger to our heroes, and that is just not acceptable, now is it!
Here's one for the New Year! Thanks!!
A user's magnetic charm makes for a special call-out for our hapless hero
Saturday 28th December 2019 18:23 GMT
My only memorable incident
Back around the turn of the century, I had the Asst. to some D-level call up and complain that when she opened a certain document Word would lose its mind and type crap. English wasn't her first language, probably 4th or 5th, and back in my greenhorn days, I was always as polite a possible. I showed up to see this "only in this document" phenomenon. Turns out this Ass. to a D had to transcribe written minutes stored in a binder. She would dutifully open the document in Word, type a few things date of meeting, minute taker (her), no problem! She would slide the binder into place, and open it right onto the control key!!! and proceed to transcribe the document, all the time producing utter crap! I moved the binder off of the key, repositioned they keyboard slightly and asked her to try again. No problem! I advised her to keep the keyboard clear, in a pleasant, calm tone, it could have happened to anyone. I was later asked about the incident, behind closed doors...
Beware the three-finger-salute, or 'How I Got The Keys To The Kingdom'
El Reg presents: Your one-step guide on where not to store electronic mail
How do you ascertain user acceptability if you keep killing off the users?
Wednesday 25th December 2019 20:19 GMT
accidental aerial food delivery!
I once tripped and launched a pizza off of the tray, it will forever be a slo-mo moment in my mind. Whooof whoooof whoooof glop! and the pizza skids across the floor!
That flingin' food thing didn't fly while grandpa was at the head of the table. I saw aunts and uncles marched off to their rooms after one volley. I believe the projectiles were peas, and no two rail cannons.
Happy Holidays Dabbsy! Take the rest of the year off!
BOFH: 'Twas the night before Christmas, and the ransomware struck
UK's Virgin Media celebrates the end of 2019 with a good, old fashioned TITSUP*
Monday 23rd December 2019 17:16 GMT 
Beeping vehicles and hi-vis-guys They didn't get our fibre!
Many years ago, they got our power line, or most of it, and we felt it for months afterwards. In the following months, we lost over 50% of our switches. After the third one in a month, someone at the vendor asked if we had seen a power cut...
The time PC Tools spared an aerospace techie the blushes
What's that? Encryption's OK now? UK politicos Brexit from Whatsapp to Signal
Sunday 22nd December 2019 12:35 GMT
which would frustrate the process of leaking a conversation to the press.
Really? Another phone with a decent camera will get around that. What about mobile screen recording? Is that a thing? Let me look...
for the fruit users Go to the Photos app and select your screen recording. Some apps may not allow you to record audio.
and for our droid users
https://www.wondershare.com/screen-recorder/free-android-screen-recording-app.html
This isn't Boeing very well... Faulty timer knackers Starliner cargo capsule on its way to International Space Station
'Supporting Internet Explorer is hell': Web developers identify top needs – new survey
Saturday 21st December 2019 10:13 GMT
Develop for IE?
The missus has never asked for a winstall to check her work. She tests on phones, tablets and her mac(s). She's found over time that fewer and fewer people use a computer to access her company's website. I don't remember the figures, but tablets and mobiles are at the top for her customer base. Yes, her company is at the opposite end of the spectrum from corporate entities that rely on M$ technology.
Five years in the clink for super-crook who scammed Google, Facebook out of $120m with fake tech invoices
Cheque out my mad metal frisbee skillz... oops. Lights out!
Das Reboot: Uni forces 38,000 students, staff to queue, show their papers for password reset following 'cyber attack'
Thursday 19th December 2019 07:19 GMT
"..a more efficient and effective way of cleaning PCs than running about with USB drives and sticking green stickers."
There has to be, but some educational institutes don't have the tools or techs to use the tools. Back in the early 2000s we chased NIMDA and KLEEZ with the sneaker net attack. Even after disconnecting every computer from the network(phase 1) and running to each computer to stick in a floppy to remove both offenders (phase 2) it didn't work. WE still had to do it like 3 more times.
I would hope each staffer and student who had to run the clean on their computers would get a discount on tuition or staff could ask for overtime?
Hate speech row: Fine or jail anyone who calls people boffins, geeks or eggheads, psychology nerd demands
iFixit surgeons dissect Apple's pricey Mac Pro: Industry standard sockets? Repair diagrams? Who are you and what have you done to Apple?
Canada's .ca supremo in hot water after cyber-smut stash allegedly found on his work Mac ‒ and three IT bods fired
It's 2019 so, of course, this Wells Fargo employee accused of stealing customer cash posed with wads of dosh on Instagram, Facebook
My eyes thank you, Google: Android to get dark mode scheduling in future update
VMware warning, OpenBSD gimme-root hole again, telco hit with GDPR fine, Ring camera hijackings, and more
Wham, bam, thank you scram button: Now we have to go all MacGyver on the server room
Valuable personal info leaks from Facebook – not Zuck selling it, unencrypted hard drives of staff data stolen
Admins sigh as Microsoft pushes Teams changes – let everyone play!
Friday 13th December 2019 17:10 GMT
When we were kings...
The days of iron-clad admin control over the minutiae of every application and device in use on an organisation's network are mostly over.
Quite honestly, crap devices and shoddy services on the web have become the toilet paper on our shoes. I once saw a user uploading photos to some crap site, and asked if they read the EULA or the T's&C's? Their response was what are terms and conditions? I guess it was never their data anyway.
Attention! Very important science: Tapping a can of fizzy beer does... absolutely nothing
Why is the printer spouting nonsense... and who on earth tried to wire this plug?
$13m+ Swiss Army Knife of blenders biz collapses to fury of 20,000 unfulfilled punters
Non-unicorn $700 e-scooter shop Unicorn folds with no refunds – after blowing all its cash on online ads
When is an electrical engineer not an engineer? When Arizona's state regulators decide to play word games
Oi, Queenslander who downloaded 26.8TB in June alone – we see you
Beware of bad Santas this Xmas: Piles of insecure smart toys fill retailers' shelves
The Windows Phone keeps ringing but no one's home: Microsoft finally lets platform die
Tuesday 10th December 2019 17:37 GMT
Cortana, for one, has retreated into the depths of Microsoft's productivity suite?
Just rolling out Win10(well, in January), yes, cutting it close. Each new image for testing needs to have it killed! yeah! I read there is a way to remove it via GP, but finding all the necessary files, downloads from M$ and files from Win10 itself, then upload to sysvol, create the GP, apply the GP, and don't forget to move the computer to the OU that gets the Win10 policy ;-} And never run any updates, ever, hell keep the users away from it too!
Get a grip M$, there has to be a saner way...
Remember the Dutch kid who stuck his finger in a dam to save the village? Here's the IT equivalent
Monday 9th December 2019 10:14 GMT
No response, wrong button!
Back in the junior days, I was sent to a rack to power cycle a non-responsive server. Kept pushing the button, but nothing changed. Finally my boss steams into the server room and tells me his Monitoring server has been going on and off! After finding the error in labeling, I was tasked with correcting the problem...
Oh, to be a Junior again?
Elon Musk gets thumbs up from jury for use of 'pedo guy' in cave diver defamation lawsuit
OpenBSD bugs, Microsoft's bad update, a new Nork hacking crew, and more
Sunday 8th December 2019 19:00 GMT
Re: "the reason why some companies are behind on their patching"
I like to error on the side of caution regarding any Windows related update. WSUS lets us roll out updates after the fallout... not approving any malcontents foisted by MS. Before WSUS I picked Monday at 23:55 to check, and download only WU.
As far as other shops, not knowing you have something running that was installed by a vendor can happen quite often.
BOFH: I'd like introduce you to a groovy little web log I call 'That's Boss'
Ohhh, you're so rugged! Microsoft swoons at new Lenovo box pushing Azure to the edge
You looking for an AI project? You love Lego? Look no further than this Reg reader's machine-learning Lego sorter
Whoooooa, this node is on fire! Forget Ceph, try the forgotten OpenStack storage release 'Crispy'
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