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But why would you back up any PCs. You should have one or more standard images and the data should be on the server side. That way, if a PC has an issue you just re-image the PC with the appropriate image and the data isn't effected. You could have a small set of pre-imaged PCs in a storeroom and use these as your rapid…

British Airways GDPR fine. Sounds a lot and it would have been a lot cheaper to actually prevent the data leak in the first place but their parent company made a profit of nearly £3Bn last year. It's not really going to hurt that much.

We specialise in Hospital environments so AI is very much seen as too risky yet. We have to follow the Hospital management requirements and they just say no overall even though the IT side of things could benefit without any risk to patients. There are some small signs of movement but they are very risk adverse.

Awww. I'm going to miss your Thwack Camp session as I'm registered for the alternate session. It was a difficult choice as I need to see both. I guess I'll have to watch it on repeat.

Yes. None of the answers are correct. Two are close but still incorrect according to the hint. I guessed at one which was closest and got it wrong. Happy Christmas (not).

I don't really know how the network guys are doing the posturing. I would ask them but, as usual, they are nowhere to be found.

I registered for London ages ago and haven't heard back as to whether I have been 'accepted'. I did e-mail them but still no reply. Has anyone else heard back yet. I need to arrange the time away with work.

Disagree. 1. Load implies work to be done (as per the dictionary) and used implies work that has already been done. 2. The other three answers matched perfectly thereby giving the impression that this answer (as it didn't match perfectly) was incorrect.

That's probably my biggest worry about the Cloud. Who else has access to your data and what will they do with it. Will you be responsible for any data leaks as YOU put your data there (thinking of GDPR).

Have a look at the hint then try again.

I, for one, welcome our robot overlords.

3rd Line Operations Engineer / SysAdmin, babysitter, councellor, Oracle at Delphi, human version of google. Take your pick.

I've just got a floor standing Dell PowerEdge which I got for free a long time ago. VMWare on it and whatever I need built inside. Spin it up when I want to do something otherwise it is off as it is quite noisy and costly to run. Mine has disks in it. Yep, that is a floppy drive

Bloody europe. Worrying about the small things whilst the world burns down around them. Leave the clocks alone and take a look at the real issues facing europe.

Digital Licence plates sounded good at first. I thought they would be a digital display and was looking forward to hacking them to display anything I wanted. Set it to display "F**K OFF" and speed past a speed camera

That's annoying. I thought I had spotted it first. Now I'm going to sulk

I had that at one client. They used their trash folder in groupwise as another message store (whoever though that was clever probably can't walk and chew gum at the same time). They ran out of disk space on the post office server so groupwise was told to delete trash. There was much wailing and gnashing of teeth as the…

Padlock doesn't mean legitimate. It's a pity we in IT have spent years telling non IT literate people that it means that the site is safe. Now the bad guys have stepped up we now have to drum it out of people. I'm constantly trying to keep my ageing parents clued up about what to look out for. Hopefully they don't lose my…

I watch videos inside my head now. No wait, that's daydreaming.

My parents think I do stuff with computers (probably play games all day) but can't really understand. They are almost 80. My sisters think I can fix PCs by magic (why would they need to tell me what the problem is) and get upset when I say I don't really do PC stuff. My friends mostly work in IT and even they don't quite…

Of course it would have helped if the question hadn't been changed and if it hadn't been ambiguous. If we don't know what they are looking for it becomes very difficult to answer and guessing isn't in most of our psyche given we work in IT.

I've had to clean up cabling in so many companies it is now just second nature. When management see what the end up with they are amazed. Each cable is labelled at both ends and all the connections are documented (sometimes in software, sometimes in Excel). Correct cable lengths are used and cable management hardware runs…

ISO27001 External audit in 8 days here. Fingers crossed.

We run more than one. Sometimes one doesn't pick up the problem that another one does which justifies having more than one.

Mueller report. Knowing the technical abilities of bureaucrats I suspect they redacted the report by drawing on the CD with an indelible marker.

I call foul and we all get a free Anker portable charger.

Sometimes it is really annoying actually knowing what you are talking about. Got it "wrong" too. (Unhappy face).

I agree with you. What I was saying was that the business either don't want to listen or don't want to spend the money. You can explain until you are blue in the face and do it in really easy to understand terms but if they don't want to listen all you can do is wait until it all goes wrong then produce the documentation…

The best way for performance to be improved would be to get the software developers (or programmers as we used to be called when I was a programmer) to do their job properly. Now everything is rushed with impossible deadlines and limited testing. That just leads to poorly performing applications. I wrote some software for…

The only problem with automating everything is that you could do yourself out of a job (or lose it to someone with a lower skillset as all the difficult stuff has been done for them). I'm all for automation and look forward to the day where I just surf the internet behind some glass that says "In case of emergency break…