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I couldn't have put it better. Excellent post.

Uber losing money. I wonder how they will turn it around. They already pay the drivers very little so where is the money going.

physician, heal thyself

That's my understanding too. Supposedly it will still look like Edge but will have a Chrome engine.

Spent a couple of weeks in Japan. Most hotel rooms were smaller than cars and a lot more expensive. Gives me an idea for saving money next time I go. Rugby World Cup anyone ?

If only Tech skills were appreciated here. We have completely non technical project managers making technical decisions even when us techies say that doing whatever they are deciding would be the stupidest thing ever and explaining why. Then again we have some techies that are really stretching the definition of techie.

I won a Hoverpen Interstellar at London SWUG 2023. Really cool thing but just a desk toy. Who uses a pen any more (apart from old folk like me).

Sorry to point out that "A little bit of digging" on the 2nd last question ensured that people got the answer wrong. It's the inconsistency that I have a problem with.

Agree. It reminded me of a situation I got involved in many years ago. A client was upgrading their server hardware but wanted to retain the disks and data by just moving them across to the new hardware (from the same vendor). They were using a reseller to do the work but wanted me on site overnight just in case there were…

I'm all for AI. It would be nice to have some intelligence around here for a change, artificial or not.

Shadow IT. Always a problem because users don't understand why services from the IT department cost so much. They forget that support, maintenance, backups / restores, upgrades and all the stuff like networking and internet also cost money. I'm always having people complain about lack of disk space on the network (sic).…

I'd rather take a shotgun and go postal.

AI isn't always the answer when a user has a problem. Somethimes the user just needs a bit of human contact and reassurance. Somethimes they don't even know what the problem is. Then again sometimes the person on the helpdesk could be replaced with an actual desk and be just as effective.

There must be more to this as I find it hard to believe a judge didn't question how the police 'knew' that the napkin they retrieved from a trash bin was the one he threw away and how they 'knew' it wasn't contaminated by someone else's DNA. Surely any decent lawyer would have questioned this. Obviously if he is guilty…

Too many people in the past have been involved in setting up monitoring at the customer sites. There's no consistency and most of it has been done either badly or wrong. Alerts are incorrect or missing and dashboards aren't maintained. This isn't a Solarwinds issue. It's a management issue. They need to just allow one…

Just a bit premature. I got the e-mail early too.

Informed consent. Unfortunately users are probably in the worst position to provide informed consent. Most haven't a clue what they would be agreeing to as IT is far too complex for the vast majority of people to comprehend. I include most IT staff (and myself) in that generalisation.. Who reads licence agreements and T &…

Yes. Gauge your audience then sell the benefits NOT the features.

The cloud is not the panacea that management thinks it is. There are a whole host of issues they don't even consider. There are legal implications of hosting data outside of certain geographical areas as well as massive security implications. Can you imagine a cloud provider going the extra mile when the brown sticky stuff…

Yes but who wants to drink water. Uugh. Might as well just kill me now.

Of course TIME is an artificial construct. The Illusion of Time: What's Real? | Space

Not surprised at what major companies are doing with our personal data. It's just a pity they get it so badly wrong. I'm constantly being targeted by adverts for products I have no interest in. Might be because I have seeded the internet with false information about my interests and likes. No point in making it easy for…

Flow / no flow Not my pro(b) I'm SysAdmin I've got SAM and IPAM

Nice apples but I do like a nice pear (pair). Oh er missus.

Just like to add - Thanks for everything you peeps do. It is free after all and you do remedy any issues very quickly. Just waiting for SWUG points and the rucksack is mine when it comes back into stock :-)

We never get time to do more than the basic automation. Even then we have to scrounge the time to do it from somewhere else. The time saved never seems to materialise as something else will always crop up to fill the gap.

Booked to work from home both days. Boss also agreed to pay overtime for the two hours each day that are outside normal working hours.

Oh dear. Today's question (7th) could really do with some punctuation or a re-write. It is now ambiguous and, depending on how you read it, could make either answer possible. Is it asking which files have only been shared externally or is it asking if the software can only check to see if files have been shared externally…

Excellent. I've long held the view that, when interviewing, there is no point in asking tricky technical questions to gauge someone's knowledge. I know that if I don't know something I just Google it. I'd expect someone else to do the same. I'd much rather find out how someone thinks through a problem to come up with a…

It is just a bunch of DR plans. It's just that some of them have nothing to do with IT itself. You are still planning what to do in the event of a disaster. It is just that the IT department is where everyone turns to when sh1t happens no matter what that sh1t is. IT people tend to be more logical (usually) and capable of…