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Yet another one that got a red X when the question doesn't match the answer.

I have lots of experience diving in Scapa Flow, have my own dry suit etc. Put them near the German WW1 wrecks and I could make a holiday of it.

Not a lot of savings at Whole Foods for me. I'd have to fly to the USA first.

Wow, I won the popcorn maker. Perfect timing as England is about to go into Covid lockdown again. I guess i will pass the time stuck at home, watching movies and eating popcorn. Time for elastic waisted trousers. Thanks to everyone involved with keeping Thwack going during these difficult times. Great job folks.

Got a ticket come in for a Tesla that wouldn't start. "It's basically computers isn't it". Yep but they need electricity to work. Have you tried plugging it in for a while. Believe it or not that one got through the help desk and was passed to 3rd line support.

Many companies and organisations in Europe aren't taking GDPR all that seriously. They are just hoping that they don't get caught. No one wants to spend the money securing the data and / or cleansing it of PII if they don't have to.

That's a relief. I thought my eyesight had finally gone.

Yep, another one where the answer could be any of them.

Anyone who applies a patch or upgrade asap should not be working in IT. Vendors often rush out software and don't fully test. Quite often they can't test every environment. I read the docs. and watch the internet for any horror stories. Once I am happy I will plan the upgrade / update. If it is a fix for an issue we have I…

This is only my 4th monthly mission and, as yet, I haven't been able to enter any of the bonus missions.

Agreed, good stuff in there.

I got to stage 3, didn't like it so went back to two Seriously though, Millenials. Stage 2 forever.

Tech companies collecting vast amounts of data. Yes they are. Do they get tax breaks etc. for passing that data on to government. Probably. They don't do it for free.

Most fake reviews are fairly obvious. I read through most of the reviews and find the middle ground. I then look elsewhere for reviews of the product and make an informed decision. One 5* review doesn't make me think the product is great.

Even better for me. The points for Q20 took me over the 100,000 points mark.

It took me a while to find the answer because I didn't believe what I first found. Silly me.

LA Fitness. Why are you surprised that they make it so hard to leave. That's been he norm for years. Agree with too much stuff being added to other projects such as digital transformation. We have a GDPR project that has been delayed for over a year because they bolted a Windows 10 rollout onto it and they didn't get…

You should never stop learning and should always try to be the best you can be. Every day you should be better than you were yesterday (learn something new no matter how small) and therefore will always be the GOAT version of yourself. 

These issues usually arise from staff numbers being cut to the bone, pressure from management to deliver systems yesterday without full testing and staff having no training or time (or senior staff being made redundant, junior staff being asked to do senior roles and new cheaper staff being employed). The IT staff then get…

Alerts go to the relvent people / teams mailboxes. Up to them how they deal with them. We also have a large telly on the wall with rotating dashboards showing the current issues, key systems status, network map showing critical infrastructure status etc. Was going to integrate with ServiceNow but the client hasn't the…

I've got the same issue. Can't do live training because we run SAM as a managed service through a 3rd party. That means no customer portal access and no training (and no Thwack points). Daft really as I still configure and manage SAM and can make decisions as to whether we use other Solarwinds products or go to a different…

Tickets, passport and money. Anything else you can buy with the money.

Unusual use of the word JOY

Yep, thought it looked familiar and yes, there I am in the middle(ish). 

We patch servers every month unless there is a major vuln. where we patch as soon as it is tested. Workstations and laptops are patched daily. Anti virus and malware is patched daily for users and hourly for servers. We also monitor for unusual activity both internally and via an external NOC. We also run Nessus scans…

Blue light from LEDs. If only there was some sort of long term testing program available that could see if there was any truth to this. I imagine the fact that millions and millions of people use LED screes every day with no apparent issue might just prove something.

Yeah because burbon has been around for how long (best guess is 1783). Bushmills is the oldest licensed distillery in the world (1608) and still winning awards. 

Yes, I remember being able to borrow a sawn off shotgun for some clay pigeon shooting at the weekend (because the banks were closed). OK, I stole that from an episode of "Only fools and horses" but it was funny.

Many years ago I turned up at a client who had taken the two provider approach. I knew that they had made sure each pipe came in from a different direction so no shared infrastructure such as wires, poles etc. They were on ADSL and the internet connection was down. After several calls I discovered that the providers hadn't…

1979 - The Boomtown Rats - I don't like Mondays. The silicone chip inside her head gets switched to overload. Premonition of things to come ?