“I came up with it all by myself.” – on theft of ideas in corporate life.
DaleSeen this twice in my 20 years in IT. This being the theft of someone else's ideas, and claiming them as their own. First time I saw it was in…
“You can be even more special” – by donating plasma & platelets.
Don't just donate blood, donate plasma instead! Plasma makes up to 13 life saving products, used to treat a range of medical conditions including hemophilia, liver and kidney disease. And…
Reason for all things
Because God is never cruel, there is a reason for all things. We must know the pain of loss; because if we never knew it, we would have no compassion…
Deleting files so they can’t be recovered.
Was asked to find a secure way to delete files off a USB stick. The way I've done it in the past is to use the Sysinternals Sdelete utility. It's…
Unmanaged PCs, with good reasons
There are 2 classes of PCs and 1 class of user where you should avoid installing Desktop Management toolsets. Production Control/SCADA equipment Prohibited by law Exempted class of users I'm…
Romans 12:8
Had scribbled on a piece of paper "Romans 12:8". I expect it was supposed to go into the "Quotes" post. "If it is encouraging others, devote yourself to giving encouragement.…
The Case Of The First Problem
… or the customer's Postscript printer prints gibberish. By now, you would think, that all printers would ship with Postscript as standard. After all, Postscript has been out in the…
Some quotes I’ve gathered
The idea is not to create a crisis and then thrash about to solve it - its to avoid the problem in the first place with the best possible planning…
If you don’t have control of your network – Wireless Security
... then it's unmanaged and open to exploit. As happened with a customer in mid-2004. The "batphone" rings and it's one of our desktop support guys. "We're detected a wireless…
Beware the Evangelists, or people with a vested interest.
CA PestPatrol is a dog of a product. And it probably still it, I've not looked. Why do I call it a dog? It's supposed to be an anti-spyware product,…