Posts by Medixstiff

"But IPSE has said the rule changes will deter contractors from working in the public sector, while organisations will be less likely to “risk” engaging contractors, damaging their ability to deliver vital projects."

If the UK is anything like Western Australia, most departments over here actively gave staff redundancies then hired them back for 10's of thousands more, to keep their full time employee numbers down.

So them being less likely to "risk" engaging contractors is absolute BS, because the alternative would be to hire them, which I just cannot see happening.

Personally if people want Windows 10, I expect a few VL Enterprise edition keys will make their way onto pirate sites eventually.

After all iirc Enterprise doesn't have a lot of the siphonware, which would make it an ideal candidate to install.

This was pointed out in another article and really get's me going, because if they also have to do new lead in's, why the hell did they not just go FTTP, considering they've said FTTN is a stepping stone to FTTP anyway? Friggin' w*nkers.

"NBN Co declined to detail the total cost of the new construction deal. The contract is understood to be worth several hundred million in the first year alone.

The work will include things like network upgrades and remediation, new lead-ins to premises, in-building cabling, and infill."

The old man told us a story about a feral cat on the farm when he was a kid.

Apparently the shearers got a bit bored and decided to cut it's nuts off with a razor blade, mainly because male cats are a lot more docile after they lose the boys.

Apparently - I am assuming after it left a bucket load of deep gouges in a few of them - it nicked off and didn't come back for a week.

My favourite story he told was about my grandmother - even mum says she had an awesome sense of humour - who was getting a bit fed up with a dog that was killing the chickens, so one day she got some sandpaper and petrol and decided to call the dog over for a belly rub.

Whilst applying said belly rub, she roughed up his nuts with the sandpaper and dropped the petrol on them.

Now picture a dog running for it's life across a field and intermittently dropping both hind legs, so his nuts scrape through the dirt, then alternating between lifting both legs and running for the horizon and then dropping them again.

Oracle is a bad word in our workplace.

We've had so many meetings with them over the years on licensing, it's probably 10 times more convoluted than M$ licensing, which says a lot.

I've never had to pull a CPU from a Server until we were told about certain gotcha's in Oracle licensing.

Now that EBS is phased out, we are so, so happy and our budget looks healthy for once.

Although I wouldn't be surprised if they try sue us for our backups that we tend to keep for 7 years for tax reasons (and because our Finance department are super an*l on keeping stuff for years)

"We are now growing faster than both Salesforce and Workday in every way," Catz boasted.

This sounds like those absolutely stupid billboards that say "Fastest growing company in such and such a BS field" which tries to insult everyone's intelligence because quite frankly, if you are starting from nothing, of course you're going to be the fastest growing compared to the incumbent you stupid muppet.

So if it’s transferred to the Police department’s bank accounts, can you request the interest you should have earned on your funds back, as compensation, once you are found to be in the right?

Otherwise I see a lawyer wanting to make a name for themselves starting a class action, knowing what the US appears to be like.

Canon are the same.

We went from owning all our MFP's outright to leasing Canon units, they weren't happy about us wanting the default logins changed from user: 5000 password: 6000 to something a little harder to use.

Then there were the URL's they wanted the devices to access and the management connectivity, so they could update their firmware whenever they want.

As it is we managed to set them all to the same email address for sending and blocked that address from sending outside the organisation.

Man I hope someone does an attack on one of the printer manufacturers equipment connections, as that's the only way these slack idiots will wake up and put decent security in their products.

We also suffer issues with marauding monkey’s causing problems in Australia

Unfortunately they run the country.

Speaking of Windoze 10.

I found one staff members PC this morning with the "Get Windows 10" notification in the tray.

He's not an Admin.

It's on a Domain with WSUS updates (which M$ says won't get Windows 10)

Yet I had to uninstall these updates:

wusa /uninstall /kb:2952664 /norestart

wusa /uninstall /kb:3035583 /norestart

wusa /uninstall /kb:3068708 /norestart

wusa /uninstall /kb:3080149 /norestart

So now I'm wondering if it's something like the annoying Windows 10 pop-ups that MSN Australia has been pushing out, somehow pushing out the updates if the user clicks on the ad. accidentally?

Snowden cites the nation's "drag net" data retention and anti-whistleblower laws in which citizen metadata is retained for two years, and those who leak national security documents may be imprisoned.

What gets me is some of the names on the list of who have access to the retained metadata:

Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre, National Measurement Institute, Greyhound Racing Victoria, Harness Racing New South Wales, Racing and Wagering Western Australia, Racing NSW and Racing Queensland

Why the F*** do these organisations need our mobile phone and internet metadata?

Personally the judge should be able to make the lawyers liable, if the company tries to sue and then knowingly files for bankruptcy if they fail and costs are awarded to Apple.

That should make the bottom feeding wastes of space think twice, if they have to foot the bill out of their own pockets.

It will certainly make any new porno's with the cowgirl position, interesting for the bloke.

I really hope the Libs. lose a decent amount of seats this election, it might be the only thing to put a rocket up their backsides.

To say they have been a limp wristed government is an understatement.

So considering FTTN was always a stepping stone to FTTP, Labor could at least say the Libs. agreed FTTP was the end goal and they plan to roll out FTTP where it was still possible and save face that way.

Then let the Libs. try fire back an answer to that one.

Sounds a bit daft on both companies parts.

So what they are saying to potential customers is we don't care for your safety, otherwise we would gladly recommend our drivers have their prints taken, to help investigate any future crimes committed against customers using our service.

With a population of 7 billion and climbing, when are the rose coloured glasses idiots going to start letting nature take it's course?

I wonder how much blackmail material he now has?

Most new tablets and phones being sold in shops are at KitKat level, Google can't do anything for cheaper units, which will be the main culprits.

Samsung hasn't given a damn in the past considering they promised my Galaxy Tab 10.1 and S3 would be updated and that's never occurred.

Hence why I'm not buying Samsung anymore, too many broken promises from them. I'm telling all my family and friends etc. the same thing. Don;t even get me started on their Samsung account nagware messages.

I'm just waiting for the LG G5 to become more readily available and for any early bugs to be ironed out, so give it another month or two and I should have a new G5.

"Human-controlled cars will one day be driven only on special tracks"

Good as long as the idiots doing 15K's less than the limit are in auto cars, I'm fine with that, not all of us are idiot drivers that don't care about anyone else on the road but ourselves.

Plus make sure there's some twisty bits on the tracks please, for some fun.

BTW where the hell are the flying cars were were promised in the 70's?

Listen, why don't the EU build their own phone OS and see how well they do. I'm sure half the time they only do this for a few extra hundred million to fix their budget woes.

I had two similar things happen, I used to release the quarantined emails on our IronPort's.

One morning an email was stuck for our State Sales Manager, we used to check why the message was quarantined as usually it was just the profanity filter, boy did I get a surprise when the embedded image of his wife came up, for a woman in her late 40's she was seriously hot.

I spoke to him quietly about it and mentioned it was best not to send personal emails using his work email, I could do this because I had a very good rapport with HR, CEO, CIO and CFO and they knew I don't muck around.

The next one was a few months later when one of the junior sales ladies sent an email to the same Manager detailing what they did the night before.

That one got deleted, however I sent a company wide email to all staff advising them as per policy, that whilst we did allow some personal use, we had been receiving emails lately that were not acceptable and as we do check quarantined emails to find out why they get stuck and as people tend to blurt everything out in the first lines of the email, that we really didn't need to know some of the things that we had found lately.

Suffice to say, I had no problems after that.

So will they have someone walk around making sure it's just phones being used and not camera's filming the movie?

I'm sure the movie studios and distributors won't be happy with a cinema chain that "promotes" - after all if it's not in the studios best interests, you are obviously helping piracy - movie piracy?

Why doesn't he wait until he gets the Terminator rights back?

Then he can right the wrongs that happened after T2.

For once they made a semi right decision considering what has been learnt about the quality of the Optus HFC network

Well I'm getting FTTB NBN on Wednesday, so you can bet I'll be hitting speedtest at different times up until then and after then, especially considering some of the stories recently about 100Mbps connections starting at 98 in the morning and dropping down to 10 by around 2-3PM.

We went Lenovo Tiny PC (M92p & M93p) when we replaced the old HP DC7x00 fleet, as they are basically a notebook guts in a small chassis and no matter how much dust is on our desks, I've never seen an ounce of dust inside one of these things in the 3 years we have had them.

Best thing I've read about the whole argument was a discussion with a previous counter terrorism official that obviously has his head screwed on properly:

CLARKE: Apple helps law enforcement organizations in the United States and Apple helps law enforcement organizations overseas when they have a duly authorized request for material that Apple has. Apple doesn't have this material. If it were in the Cloud, if the FBI and the San Bernardino County hadn't made a mistake on the way they treated this phone, this information would be in the iCloud and Apple would allow access to that because Apple has that information.

GREENE: What do you know about the debate within the Obama administration? It's been reported that there really is a fierce debate over how to handle this.

CLARKE: Well, I don't think it's a fierce debate. I think the Justice Department and the FBI are on their own here. You know, the secretary of defense has said how important encryption is when asked about this case. The National Security Agency director and three past National Security Agency directors, a former CIA director, a former Homeland Security secretary have all said that they're much more sympathetic with Apple in this case. You really have to understand that the FBI director is exaggerating the need for this and is trying to build it up as an emotional case, organizing the families of the victims and all of that. And it's Jim Comey and the attorney general is letting him get away with it.

GREENE: So if you were still inside the government right now as a counterterrorism official, could you have seen yourself being more sympathetic with the FBI in doing everything for you that it can to crack this case?

CLARKE: No, David. If I were in the job now, I would have simply told the FBI to call Fort Meade, the headquarters of the National Security Agency, and NSA would have solved this problem for them. They're not as interested in solving the problem as they are in getting a legal precedent.

GREENE: Wow, that sounds like quite a charge. You're suggesting they could have just gone to the NSA to crack this iPhone but they're presenting this case because they want to set a precedent to be able to do it in the future?

CLARKE: Every expert I know believes that NSA could crack this phone. They want the precedent that the government can compel a computer device manufacturer to allow the government in.

It definitely affected us in Wait Awhile, we confirmed pretty quickly it was mainly incoming calls from mobiles affecting TIPT.

There were some hell funny Tweets from customers, hopefully Matthew Hutchison could get back to his midget pr0n.

Nice to see M$ taking the Apple approach and releasing a Beta product for it's victims, I mean customers to sort out for them.

But what about powering the nodes.

Not once have I seen an estimate on the power costs for all those nice FTTN nodes they are installing, that will add to the eventual cost of the FTTN solution.

Power which would not be needed with FTTP.

Why the hell didn't he skip town after making the first $10 million?

No he had to be greedy and got caught, that's what gets me with some of these crims, I don't know if it's ego, stupidity or a bit of both but I wouldn't stay around sticking it to people for an extra $10 million, I'd rather cover my tracks and get the hell out of there.