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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…

Hopefully that isn't the answer.

Surely the world's largest energy source is the Sun. We just need to find better ways to tap it.

You don't need to watch the video. Just read the question, read the info. in the hint and rule out three of the answers leaving the only logical one. This was one of the easier questions.

I use a great many tools to get the job done. I use the correct tool for the job and make sure the job gets done correctly. I'm certainly not going to try to make an unsuitable tool do the job. I'm also quite happy to do this as it gives me a greater skillset just in case I suddenly find myself having to find another job.…

Day 7 does seem odd as there are different retention periods for different 'financial' records.

Given how they expect me to be in work every day in spite of the Coronavirus issues. Dulce et decorum est pro comitatu mori (It is sweet and fitting to die for the company).

29th is a bit off too. The list of database sources doesn't mention two of the options but apparently that isn't the correct answer. ?

Further proof if necessary that marketing people don't live in the real world. There's no way I would allow someone else free access to my house. I don't let people I know well have access. Who vets the delivery driver, who protects the system. I know how insecure AWS is. Why would I trust them to not let my data into the…

Is blockchain going to be another Dotcom bubble. 

Quadriga's wallets empty. What a surprise. Has he done a Reginald Perrin. The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin - Wikipedia Leaves his clothes on a beach and fakes his own suicide.