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Worked fine for me in Chrome.

Not sure Q9 can be answered today given the details in the hint. Something appears to have changed. Couldn't do it last week as I was on holiday.

It's obviously the 51st of Feb 2020. Didn't you hear that, due to the Corona Virus, life has been postponed. March is delayed.

Google. Just to throw them off a bit I randomly access websites that I have no interest in and wait for someone to e-mail me trying to sell me whatever curd they sell. I then reply telling them they are mistaken and whoever sold them my details were just taking them for a ride. I know it won't make any difference until…

I know a good strip joint in Honolulu.

Except he says two of the possible answers.

Good article. I've been badgering clients for years that perimeter defence isn't good enough. Most don't seem to get it. USB port lockdown, CD / DVD drive lockdown and a good end-point protection suite of software, centrally managed. Log file monitoring and AD monitoring for repeated failed login attempts etc. I might as…

The first thing I did when I started here was to go through every server I could find and create a spreadsheet detailing each server, what it did and who 'owned' it. It was just so that I could get up to speed with a new client's systems. The first bit took about a week gathering data from many sources. The 'what it did…

Once solar panels become cheap, user installable, efficient and discrete people will start looking at using them. This is a small but significant step.

It does sound like a great idea. If you can develop the "muscle memory" in a controlled environment it will make the soldiers reactions that much faster in a real situation. It's not all about looking at a computer screen and pressing a button. Now if we could only develop Holosuites (as in Star Trek). 

About to put in a suite of Solarwinds products at the current client. Looking forward to not having to use VMWare's vTop to looks for this stuff.

The PC of the secretary to the boss of a major client kept going haywire. Field engineers had been out several times but couldn't find anything wrong. I was called in as I was support for the engineers. I drove from London to Dundee (475 miles) and decided to sit with the secretary until the PC went wrong again. It didn't…

GM gathering data. Again, someone has thought about different ways to make money. Gather data and sell it on. Money for old rope.

A good set of questions. Pity I get looked at funny when I ask similar ones. I'm just seen as a 'stick in the mud'. Funny how when the "new" things go wrong it's never the muppet, who's brainchild it was, to blame.

Building something to win at poker isn't about teaching an AI. It's about teaching the people who build AIs. They have to start somewhere so why not start with something they can understand then move on to the more difficult stuff when they understand how how to progress.

I'm kinda hamstrung here because we only have SAM. The network support was outsourced so it is a constant battle between us and them about where the problem lies. I would also like to monitor the applications but am restricted to AppInsight for AD and SQL. Still helps though.

It's ALWAYS the network.

We are having problems with some of our nursing students sending e-mails to NHS trusts to apply for placements and jobs. It is almost impossible to contact anyone in any of the trusts IT departments to get them to look at the problem which seems to be at their end. No one seems to have any idea. I know an awful lot of…

Someone in Microsoft stealing stuff. Poetic given how long Microsoft have been stealing from the public (sorry fleecing the public).

The Zoom one did raise a few eyebrows here a while ago as we are currently rolling it out worldwide. 

Yes. It is really annoying but what can you do other than try to educate them and then, like you say, CYA. I was adding up how many organisations I have worked at in 30 years of IT (20 years as a contractor) and it came to 20. I think I have had this issue in every single one of them. I've read up on the regulations,…

PEGI alerts about in game purchases. Not going nearly far enough. It really needs a complete block on in game purchases unless prior authorisation has been made by the bill payer. Even then you could add a separate authorisation for each purchase. 

BYOD is a nightmare anywhere. I'm working at a University where 50,000 students and 5,000 staff all have their own devices and want to connect to everything. 

I agree with you. Weak passwords are only weak if the bad actor is allowed to brute force the password. If the accounbt gets locked out after three bad attempts it will take forever to break a 5 character password. The weakest link is users writing down complex passwords because they can't remember them. Having this…

I'm about to leave public sector to go back to private sector because of a lot of this. When I joined here I was promised loads of training. None materialised. I was promised management support when improving systems. If anything the reverse happened. I was pretty much ignored until everything I warned them would happen…

Oh sssso closssse (Nagini). It is the evil snake that sits in the corner sending out alerts at random. 

When have you ever seen a Linux person with social skills. The two are mutually exclusive.

If only there was a cloud based alternative. Oh wait. Solarwinds Backup.

Just had an instance this morning where one of the HR muppets logged a ticket saying the HR database server was down. Using a combination of monitoring and a very small amount of brain power I was able to prove that it wasn't. SAM monitoring showed that it was up as was the database and Appinsight for SQL showed good…

Not really a surprise that the Weather App sold off the location data it gathered. It was only a matter of time until someone realised what the data might be worth.