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Apple's earpods I bought a pair of bluetooth earphones about a year ago. They are water and sweat resistant, work anywhere in my house no matter where I leave my phone, have noise cancelling and are connected by a wire so they can't fall out and be lost. They also act as a hands free kit for my phone for calls and, best of…

You beat me to it. If people fail to follow the checklist then it is the people's fault and not the checklist. I'm trying to get junior people here to follow a checklist for server and comms room checks but I have watched them just tick all the boxes after leaving the room and not ticking off each item as they check it.…

Not really surprised that DHS have had a data breach. More surprised that it's just one. They are a government organ and, by definition, leaky. When has government IT been good. It's all based on the cheapest options available. Remember NASA and the moonshots. The equipment was bought from the cheapest bidder. Better was…

Tried that before I posted.

Have to admit, I couldn't see it either so I suspect the hint may have changed. Of course I could be wrong as I was off yesterday and my coffee levels have dropped dangerously low. Working on it.

The wording on the questionnaire would seem to indicate otherwise. Confirm yourself as a user by uploading a screenshot showing you logged into this product. The screenshot will not be shown to other users, and will be reviewed only by the G2 team

Yes but when the aliens come they usually take people from the woods. Cities are safer (although tend to get vapourised in the event of an invasion).

Robotic telepresence. Sounds like Bagman from Rogue Trooper. Rogue Trooper - Wikipedia

Don't forget that Microsoft's Beta testers are the general public. They release a product without much testing and then wait for the complaints to roll in. The v1.1 version always comes out soon after the v1.0 version.

Yep, this would save us time as we all share the out of hours rota and don't want to have to get out of bed to do something like this.

They want me to create a NOC using Solarwinds. Can't wait. Just need Orion Maps in HCO.

Do we ignore the spelling mistake (or incorrect wording) in today's answers.

I've run some failry beefy SQL boxes in VMWare without issue. I guess it depends on what else is running and how it is configured. That said, my new Solarwinds installation will be on two physical boxes as it will be monitoring the virtual environments we have.

Have to admit I stopped using Skype when Microsoft bought it. I suspected they would mess it up and they haven't disappointed me. The mobile phone companies kinda rendered it useless for me anyway as all my calls are now free (I never seem to get anywhere near my 'free' minutes - yes I know I have already paid for them).…

Bitcoin is a really bad idea anyway but storing your keys somewhere that is inherently insecure is even worse. You might as well leave your house keys under a brick beside your front door in case you lose your house keys.

System monitoring (me) sits within the server system engineering team. DBAs are in their own team within application support. I monitor the servers automatically and ask the DBAs what they want monitored. They don't know even though I've explained it all to them several times.. I then set up AppInsight for SQL on the…

The password in plain text is worrying. It does make me wonder what else they are doing wrong.

Sushhhh. Don't tell them. They'll only make them harder

I spent just over a year working for EDS as a contractor based in Xerox's European Headquarters near London (UK). It was interesting as they had been looking for ages for someone with my skillset and were reluctant to take me on unless I shaved off my beard. I refused and they gave in. EDS used to have a ridiculous 'No…

All things I'm looking to implement in my new job. Could be an interesting next year (or two).

Seat width is becoming an issue with the western world getting fatter. I'm no fan of having some sweaty lardarse spilling over into my space. However, I'm 6'4" with a 35" inside leg so leg room has always been an issue for me. I used to get the emergency exit seats but now they charge extra for those. It's discrimination…

sounds good in theory however - we try to secure everything then a senior manager orders me, on pain of being fired if I refuse, to grant Domain Admin access rights to a third party company who don't even have a contract with us so that they may scan all of our servers. I offered a better solution which was rejected so I…

That's the response. The first part is "Peace and long life".

Give it time. It will want equal rights soon.

Find those who shut down the winter olympics web site and use them as target practice in the Biathalon. I really don't understand these morons. Even the two Koreas behaved themselves for a few days.

Question has been changed. It used to say "TO", now it says "Between". Just FYI for those who are querying why we don't see the answer.

Ancient Roman wall. We have quite a few of those here in the UK. Unfortunately Hadrian didn't make his tall enough and the Scots just climbed over it (It's OK, I'm from Scottish decent so this isn't completely racist ).

Switching Jobs - Maybe if you have invested a lot of time and money in gaining qualifications and skills in a job type you 'might' change jobs but stay in the same type of role. Maybe if you hadn't bothered you might flit from one role to another. Not really rocket science is it ?

Did the risk intelligence scan and found one problem. Happily it was an example of a US social security number from a security article I have saved to my local drive. Loads of vulnerabilities though. Every one of them Java related (and that is updated from a central system so not my fault). I will be having a chat with the…

Lots of people running around waving their arms in the air here BUT the Head of IT security and us techies aren't. I'm guessing the IT side of it is sorted (or maybe we are just hoping Brexit happens before May 25th).