Posts by IHateWearingATie

Re: Time to rename it and make it just part of the Entra brand

You're mistaken. Marketers are droids. Licensers are devils or demons.

I think L2 is 4 times further away than we've ever managed to send humans from earth and bring them back alive. Volunteers for a one way trip to fix something anyone?

Because no one ever gets fired for choosing Oracle.

Until, of course, the bill from the licencing compliance people comes in.

I've built up a small list of companies I never want to do business with again over the course of my career. Oracle are at the top of that list.

Re: On the other hand...the corollary

US courts tend to take a very wide view of what is in their territorial jurisdiction. The best assumption you can make is that if you have a map with the USA marked on it in your house, or know what the capital of the USA is, their courts will assume they own your ass.

Re: Netware? Less than 20 years ago? Where was he working - Jurassic Park?

Hah! I can well imagine that was the case. Lucky is the techie who hasn't worked at an org that isn't so much behind the curve as using a telescope to see the curve accelerating away from them.

In 2001 at a certain public sector organisation I was still coding updates for a user interface running on Windows 3.11. I bet they thought of Netware still as newfangled technology.

Re: Temporary hacks aren't.

"[0] Just to cut the usual pack of idiots putting words into my mouth off at the socks, no, I didn't write the whole stack. That's why I said "part of". It was only about 120 lines of C in total."

Dammit, I was looking forward to that bun fight.

Spoilsport.

I seem to remember a mate's Dad had been working on one of the satellites in that famous Ariane failure for 10 years. Think its one of the few times he cried in public!

Re: This seems like a real legal loophole

I seem to remember from my dim and distant contract law lectures that the original case law on this is from the late 1800s and relates to a price being wrong on a watch in the shop window.

Invitation to treat, offer, acceptance I think are the three stages. Prices on a website are generally held in the T&Cs to be an invitation to treat.

So, closed while the delivery continued, at which point you can choose to wait a bit for the delivery to complete and it opens again or try elsewhere if you have enough fuel. As opposed to broken charge points that aren't likely to be mended that day (or even that week).

Re: "Either that, or they fib and say "of course I have, I'm not stupid"."

Jail for an axe in the face, definitely.

A 'tickle' with an electric cattle prod..... well that's a bit more understandable

Re: Not on-call, but...

You *admitted* that it was your code? Fool!

It's always the code that they guy who just left wrote. Unless he left as he's been promoted above you. Then it's clearly a Microsoft OS bug.

Re: I haven't seen a good game of Reply-to-All Tennis in years

I was working at a giant global company when that happened (2013 I think). The number of idiots doing a reply-all (to all 150,000 employees) saying "Please remove me from this list" or "Please don't reply all" was amazing.

It started at around 5pm UK time and took till 8.30pm before IT pulled the plug on the mail list.

I have duct tape (or gaffer tape) over a switch under my desk for the very same reason. That only got applied after the third unexpected power off incident, as I overestimated my ability to not kick my feet around under my desk when I read some stupid email that's arrived!

Re: Inside joke?

I've never worked out who thought that calling a firm of solicitors "Wright Hassel" was a good idea. I know its the names of the founding partners, but really?

(They're based in Leamington Spa should you want to look them up)

Hen screwed up Wikipedia so Maw Broon gave him a clip round the ear.

Used to get the Sunday Post every week as a kid, loved those cartoons

Re: "...banishes native Windows support ..."

If you don't use it, then you shouldn't care. However, quite a lot of businesses (including the one I work for) have moved to buying Apple laptops for their workforce on the basis that you could also run x86 Windows apps when needed.

Without that, there are two choices. Stop buying Apple laptops that can't run x86 Windows apps easily, or move the apps to Mac. Stopping buying Apple laptops is a much cheaper option and in some cases legacy x86 Windows apps won't be able to be practically ported.

Re: Why didn't they use s 49 RIPA?

My guess is because section 7 is looser than the limits placed under 49 (3) of RIPA:

A disclosure requirement in respect of any protected information is necessary on grounds falling within this subsection if it is necessary—

(a)in the interests of national security;

(b)for the purpose of preventing or detecting crime; or

(c)in the interests of the economic well-being of the United Kingdom.

versus (from schedule 7):

An examining officer who questions a person under paragraph 2 may, for the purpose of determining whether he falls within section 40(1)(b)—

(a)search the person;

(b)search anything which he has with him, or which belongs to him, and which is on a ship or aircraft;

(c)search anything which he has with him, or which belongs to him, and which the examining officer reasonably believes has been, or is about to be, on a ship or aircraft;

Re: Shame on you, Kieren

This looked to me like an insider deal to asset strip the registry, nothing more.

Nothing about the ownership, this was about a former CEO of ICANN looking like he was unfairly making a quick buck (actually a lot more than that!).

Re: Re Cycle Wheels

"Rule #5 motherfuckers" is heard often in our office full of MAMILs