“I came up with it all by myself.” – on theft of ideas in corporate life.
Seen 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…
Seen 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
… 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…
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…
... 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…
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,…