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Where's my Delorean. Have to admit laughing myself silly when they announced they were going to make it in Belfast (I'm from N. Ireland). It never stood a chance.

I want one. Somehow I'll convince the bosses to create a helipad on the roof and my morning commute will become a lot easier.

I do understand what you are saying (and agree that provisioning and de-provisioning are two separate tasks) but the user provisioning process should be a whole lifetime exercise for the user and their accounts. I think the issue here is that the questions are being written and read by technical people but the hints are…

In my 20 years as a contractor and 10 as a permie I have yet to find anyone who really gets the need for backups. Management just see it as a cost and usually just work in the short term so don't care if the data gets lost / corrupted / stolen. I'm always fighting to get proper backups. I like to have full weekly and then…

Who would have thought it. The music industry can't be trusted. 

Quantum internet. Nowhere nearly there yet but probably will be exactly what we need when we start colonising other planets. Another example of real life following science fiction.

OK. Question now corrected and the answer is obvious if you think about it. Look at VMWare Events. Look at the filters. Count them. It is a lot easier than it seems.

We've just completed an external audit for ISO 27001 so our external security consultant is still on site. He had some very interesting comments about the biometric breach. I can't repeat them on here but he wasn't all that surprised.

Nope, just stating what seems to happen quite a lot. This is the case that came to mind. Company sues worker who fell for email scam - BBC News

Yes. The remake of Battlestar Galactica was very good. Tricia Helfer and Grace Park helped

I totally agree that communications is key. It's just that developers and operators generally don't get on and don't want to talk. I spend a lot of time trying to get people to understand that we are all on the same side and it is the users who ultimately decide if we get paid.

Unfortunately the video is required for this one. MTTI is clearly defined.

Oddly enough I (and a colleague) spent yesterday fixing our AD after a domain controller went nuts. Fortunately the remaining 5 weren't too badly affected and there were no FSMO roles on it. As I was at home nursing a hangover after Saturday's visit to watch Wasps rugby and watching British Superbikes from Silverstone and…

Calendars, dates and times may be odd but time is an artificial construct anyway. Don't forget, Time is relative - it is always slower when your relatives are visiting.

Two words with a space.

Don't make it easy. They everyone will be able to do it.

Facebook. Surely they just need to have something in their terms and conditions. Once you are dead the account gets frozen. A nominated next of kin is allowed 3 months to copy off anything they want to keep then the account gets deleted.

The Gecko must have been pretty fast on its feet to make a bazillion calls.

Indian Bank. What a poor statement. It wasn't the customers money that was stolen. Of course it wasn't. The bank had stewardship of the money. If they lost it then they are liable not the customers who should't be affected at all. Again not a surprise. Banks are in it for the money so if they can do the IT on the cheap,…

Dice for password generation. I can just imagine it. User - I didn't create a strong password because YOU didn't supply me with 5 x 20 sided dice. IT - You could just use the one die 5 times. User - Would that work ?

OK, makes sense but. In our IT department (and it is fairly common), the Infrastructure peeps (myself included) are insulated from users by the Application Support team. They are supposed to be involved with the user experience but every time there is a problem management come directly to us. I then explain that NO the…

My brain hurts. Q2 doesn't add up (or am I just reading it wrong).

I'm worried now. I've been in this game for 30 years and I don't have any of the above. I don't feel the need to check stuff over and over. If I've got it right I will get an e-mail alert in the event of a problem. I definitely don't want the latest and greatest (e.g. my phone is 6+ years old). Monitors. I have two. Only…

Already signed up. Can't wait.

Good stuff. AI isn't intelligent yet. What we currently have are systems with loads of pre-configured conditions and responses. Those come from people's real life experience and intelligence. Whatever you do, don't put them all in the one place in case they start interacting and actually become intelligent (oops. Azure,…

Certainly don't do it for the money. We have admin oxygen thieves earning more than 3rd line techies.

Good stuff but I do agree that I want to monitor my cloud stuff at least as much as my on prem (maybe even more) as I have less control of it. I want to know even further in advance that something is beginning to go wrong. Environmental monitoring is usually forgotten. Several years ago I had just started at a new client…

Oh good. Hacking DRM is OK now. I'll just cite the Feds when plod comes knocking, not that they will as they don't even bother to turn up if you catch someone nicking your bike (yep someone in the UK caught a scumbag trying to steal his motorcycle so he grabbed the scrote, pinned him down and called the police. Police said…

It's a bit more complicated than that as there may be more correct answers than the question setter thinks. I've found extra information. Now, do they just want only the answers that are in the hint or do they want ALL that apply ?

Password security has always been an issue. Make them too easy and they can be cracked with little effort. Make them to complex and users won't remember them so will write them down and store them somewhere insecure. It is a balance between the two that is the difficult bit. If someone really wants to crack a password,…