Posts by macjules

Re: It was and still is

Ah, but with Boris "marriage" creates a vacancy for a mistress.

Have not trusted anything using 'Norton' since they got rid of Norton Disk Doctor from Mac System 8, the one that had an animation of a concerned doctor examining your disk drive.

Re: my iphone was "too old" to order a beer in Wetherspoons.

Could order a Budweiser then: age restriction on that is about 3 months.

Re: Users

No, the special (and very rare) breed of user is one who is happy to thoroughly run through a checklist you provide before you need to venture forth to their office and will call you back to say, "found the problem and fixed it".

Re: "We have taken action with that particular employee"

I might consider employing someone with "I brought down Salesforce for 5 hours, globally" on their CV. Worst UI and UX I have ever come across in my life.

Re: All marketing people are scum.

I thought we were putting them all into Boeing Starliner spacecraft .. the ones with 99% landing success rate.

Of course the rest of us will have long perished from the lack of COVID-19 deep clean sanitisation staff.

Re: One word:

Exactly that.

"@Devops Have you done the backup?"

"Yes"

"@Devops Have you restored the backup to a new image?"

"Yes"

"@QA Did you test it?"

"Yes"

"@QA Did you actually look at the restored site, rather than accept the result of an automated test?"

"Err, no"

About 5 years ago I wasn't paying the closest attention to a DevOps trainee who asked me if it was ok to deal with a warning message from AWS regarding a failing instance. I told him to go ahead, which resulted in a terraform script not only terminating the instance instead of just shutting it down, but also releasing the elastic IP address. The good news was that the RDS database was untouched, as was the S3 CDN, so it was just a matter of rebuilding the image, reassigning an IP and updating Route 53 and then to come up with a plausible lie downtime error message. But still a rather nasty moment.

To quote Rincewind, “It’s not heights that I am afraid of. It’s the ground that kills you.”

My wife complains that she has become a Farcry 4 widow. I tell her that is nonsense: I have migrated to Farcry 5 so far.

Re: Clippy!

Indeed. An app to tell you to keep washing your hands for 20 seconds. I wonder how we ever manage to evolve from apes without an AppleWatch to guide us.

Re: Well...

I should think someone called Adam owns that privilege.

Re: Statutory inquiry

We need to hold those responsible for this appalling travesty of justice to account.

Quite. The government has no problem with an inquiry into the Prime Minister's wallpaper yet baulks at the idea of an inquiry into why software glitches let to the suicide of sub-postmasters.

Re: Bunch of wusses

Bunch of wimps. Real roundabouts can be found in places like Milton Keynes. Why have one crossroads when you can have 24 roundabouts?

Re: WTAF

Incompetent CEOs do not grow on trees you know.

Re: Low earth orbits will be unusable ...

If I was going be an ultra sneaky superpower bent upon planetary domination I might include a small nuclear warhead on my satellites, just in case a rival tried to nick one.

Personally I think we do away with christianity and worship Prince Phillip. Certainly works for some South Seas islanders.

Re: Oh dear....

"This really should be a serious disciplinary offence"

I believe that they can sub that on their expenses nowadays. There is a special checkbox marked "special discipline expense (no receipt required)"

Re: Works Both Ways

Sounds awfully like Fujitsu are involved here somewhere.

Rather suspect the Albanians running the cocaine import business have already cut out the middlemen .. probably quite literally.

Re: Brotherhood of Evil villain henchmen Local 102

Left out "treatment in the event of liquid hot magma burns".

Re: Why is the second part of:

Are not PayPal guilty as well for taking commission on monies obtained by misappropriation? Or at least should they hand back any commission taken?

Re: Oh how the woke wimper

Think it might be Priti Patel.