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What !!!! Microsoft software with a security bug. You can't be serious

Quantum Computing. It wasn't that long ago we only had systems with 1 or 2 Qbits. It won't be long before we get a lot more than 20. Patience people.

Finding it is the challenge and you have failed Patients is a virtue but for Hospitals they are quite important.

Agreed. VM snapshots really don't work that way. They really should be deleted or merged within a few days at most. In the UK we are required to keep data generated for non-adult's for 99 years. The person will be long dead before we can delete the data we can't even access any more.

There are many different solutions but be careful. The place I'm now at installed and set up Nagios because it was free. It was then left to rot for several years until I turned up. I'm in the process of fixing it so that I can replace it with something else. Due to the issues it has caused and the cost in time it looks…

WHOIS proved very useful at a previous client. One of our suppliers contacted us because there was a small discrepancy in an order for 9 laptops. We hadn't ordered them so I asked them to send me the purchase order. It all looked correct except for the delivery address and the e-mail domain which was very slightly…

Great link at the bottom. I'm always looking up this stuff. Now I have it all in one place.

Fortunately I live in London. Public transport, although overcrowded and expensive, still gets you there faster that a car driven by someone who totally relies on sat-nav.

Ah yes, the Marks & Spencers 'Love Sausage'. Either someone was having a laugh or someone has no idea. Don't try googling it though.

Amazon poaching Microsoft staff. Nothing new there. Amazon need experienced staff. Not many staff available with the skills locally except for all those just down the road at Microsoft. Amazon have loads of money. Offer big salaries and naturally the staff will move. Give it a couple of years and they will start moving the…

Done

Are you sure you don't work here. It all sounds very very familiar. We have management who tell us techies how to actually do our job without actually understanding what they are talking about. I keep telling them to tell me what they want to achieve and I will come up with some solutions for them to choose between. I will…

Agree with the age discrimination bit. As a 50+ I have found it very difficult to get a new job. After a few months applying for many hundreds and not even getting a sniff I finally got a response, filled in their application form and got an interview. 45 min technical exam and an hour long interview by a 4 person panel.…

Not sure I even made it through the first round. Ho hum.

Same issue here. Seems to have closed earlier than it should meaning I missed it too. Only one this month.

Six by Nine

I've got over 30 domain controllers spread all over the world and the replication links are crazy. I inherited it and am slowly sorting it out not helped by finding two tombstoned ones when I got here. It is all working now and I used Appinsight for AD to help. I've been using it for over six months so know it pretty well.…

My friends really are my friends. These are the people I go to the pub with, go to rugby with, ride my motorcycle with. There's probably about 10 and they aren't all from the same group. Then there are acquaintances. These are people I know from the pub, rugby or motorcycling but they aren't friends. I just know them. Then…

So Marriott has admitted keeping PII data insecurely. I wonder how big the fine will be (of if there will even be one). Also, where does the fine money actually go.

Totally agree with the flu shots. I get one free every year through work. I commute every day on the London Underground. It's packed and you have no idea what anyone else has. Anything to help offset my risk has to be good.

Done.

Signs spying on you. I've long thought this. I the sign can sense how fast you are going and can read your number plate (and possibly take a picture of your face then it could also automatically send you the fine or track your whereabouts. I know this happens in the UK as I used to look after systems that processed bus…

That's a very small lobster. 

We are all winners ........ Because we use Solarwinds

Now THATs a bad joke. Take a bow.

Max fine is 4% of global revenue or 20M Euro. However that is a last resort and they will try other measures first. It's supposedly not about making money but about securing data. Time will tell.

I call foul too. WPM is clearly listed as being included NOT excluded.

Likely. I think it would also depend on your state of mind at the time you are told something is 'likely'. If you are in a positive frame of mind you would be more likely to believe it will happen. If in a negative frame of mine you would be more likely to believe it won't happen. (and yes, I did use the word likely…

Interesting to see Microsoft taking the "If you can't beat them, join them" approach. Google still taking over the world. Makes sense though. Edge was even worse than IE and that was really bad.

Someone check for pods in zennifer's cellar.