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Mmmmmnnnnn. Meat. I was in France when a vegetarian friend ordered a salad suitable for a vegetarian in a restaurant. When it arrived there was a beefburger sitting on top. The waiter's response was "Well, there's not much meat on it". Maybe he was a Monty Python fan (Spam sketch).

I've found far too many open source products with malware / adware etc. enclosed. Lots of it from the original sites too. I wonder how much of it is because the original site looked to make a few bucks.

Must have missed it. I thought Oracle was already gone. We have a few servers running it but that is for legacy purposes only and are being phased out as we migrate stuff off them.

Not really surprised Marriott had issues. I'm surprised that other massive chains haven't either been hit or discovered they have been hit. It's such an obvious source of data and there are so many access points for the data. I bet a lot of companies are looking closely at their systems now.

Very true. We are moving about 100 people into a new building and have to transfer all their data (non IT management picked the location and ignored the very small internet connection which we can't upgrade - not our building). They have 11Tb of data which they refuse to clean up as it is "All very vital". I've checked and…

A couple of things come to mind. What a poor list of Keynote speakers. Only one had any value. The rest were just big names who I wouldn't want to listen to about IT. The IT department should always be engaged with the users. We should be asking "What do you need from us to help you do your thing ?". IT then go away, find…

Facebook being sexist now. Who would have guessed. They really aren't behaving well are they.

Oops, make that three.

More likely that large companies have dedicated IT departments with some budget for security and staff. They will also have procedures in place which involve multiple people to check things. SMBs are running IT on a shoestring and are easier to hack / scam etc. Also likely to have only one or two finance people who are…

GitHub being sued. Amurika really is messed up. This should be thrown out before it gets anywhere near a court of law but I imagine it won't and GitHub will lose. The UK isn't any better. Someone was compensated for slipping on some pigeon poo at a railway station. I'd hate to see the size of the pigeon that did something…

I'm currently in the process of evaluating what my new client needs in terms of monitoring. They have an open source solution in place which hasn't been maintained and seems to involve a huge amount of scripting knowledge to make work. It also requires an agent to be installed on every server. It might be cheap but you get…

Yes you can. Select Other and type in nothing. That's what I did.

Thanks to the current situation I’ve been furloughed so every day is a summer day, relaxing, drinking beer and letting the non furloughed peeps take the strain for a while. It is quite pleasing to see them struggle. Now they know what my life has been like.

Good luck teaching kids ethics these days. Most have been brought up with the mentality of wild animals. Here in London we are seeing 12 year olds stabbing people to death because they can.

That pic works for me every month.

You should try talking to our DBAs. I don't think they even understand the concepts of backup and restore.

It doesn't take a whole data centre to be down, just the bit that holds my stuff. Then I am down and that's all I really care about.

My brain hurts now.

I'm glad I moved away from the government / public sector as it is rapidly becoming a nightmare to manage. In the UK financial restraints and a fragmented approach have made an environment which is almost impossible to completely protect. Now I'm back in the private sector I have complete oversight of my company network…

I'd like my data to be mine but it will never happen. Too many powerful people and organisations are the ones who are abusing the data for their own personal gain. Same way we still have a petroleum based economy instead of clean energy. The greedy people are in charge.

I seem to remember it was more drinking than 10 pin bowling. As you said though, great to catch up with so many repeat offenders. Hope they put the wheelie bags in the THWACK Store.

Unfortunately IT is always evolving and we, as IT professionals, have to evolve too. I have tons of qualifications in subjects I no longer use and am constantly learning new stuff. The only thing that keeps me sane (ish) is that I understand the basic principles of fault diagnosis. The same though process apply no matter…

I see it a bit different. Previously I have put in an HCI solution for a client which was made over complicated because it was HCI (OK Dell didn't help). I'm in the middle of specing a standalone server room for a new site we are creating. 30+ users creating audio and video content but isolated from our main network. Two…

Machine Learning will be developed by the big data corporations and we all know about their ethics

@"rschroeder" Yep, the mug is great. Holds 4 espressos from the machine at work. Good start to the morning. Unfortunately I've been working from home all week as the office is on skeleton staff due to the Zombie Apocalypse and it is looking like the office will be closed after tomorrow with everyone working from home.…

But it also says you can access Default Alerts for one of the answers. Default implies it is allowed. Even if you say one of the answers isn't out of the box there are still two possibly correct answers. Yet another ambiguous question.

Absolutely intended. Very apt too.

Let me go back and fix that for you. 

Unfortunately the correct answer is NOT on page 5.

Went to a staff briefing on GDPR today given by our Data Protection Officer (I didn't know we had one). Apparently they will be publishing some guidelines in the next few weeks for us. He's only had two years to get ready. Ho Hum.