Recently? Oh.... just installing it on paranoid schizophrenic's computers who call me ask asking for help because the "sole inventor of Linux and the Xbox" has hacked her router, computer, and any phone she buys in the store.
Also recently noticed that there's another easter-egg in chrome thanks to a lot of downtime.
The Dinosaur that appears when there's no internet connectivity is a game. Click on him and he'll run from left to right to jump over cactii (and pterodactyls) A bit of an easy game, and it gets a bit repetitive, but there you go....
Its better politically to blame "overseas hackers" than admit they screwed up.
but even that is a crappy excuse.
There's no reason at all for the rest of the internet outside of Australia to even have access to the Census website. They could have at least geo-blocked any IP address originating from outside Australia. Such a simple solution to that problem, that *not* doing it makes them look incompetent.
Now they are saying it's not been attacked from overseas.
How hard would it have been to "do a Netflix" and block IP addresses based on location anyway? - That would at least stem the amount of foreign intelligence services from trying to hack the website which contains information on Australian citizens.
I read that they tested the system to 150% capacity, where 100% capacity was estimated to be 1 million forms processed per hour.
That estimate was a gross underestimation of the numbers of sessions needed to handle an estimated 16 million households - all of whom most likely would have logged in during a 4-6 hour period in the evening. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to calculate that the system didn't have the capacity to deal with this spike in traffic.
The capacity should have been somewhere in a ball park of 5-10 million forms processed per hour, or more. Couldn't have been cheap to have load balancers maxxed out trying to maintain that many accelerated SSL sessions.... but there you go.
Essentially it's a perfect storm of a lot of things (in no particular order) that are sometimes contradictory in nature.
1) Increased man-bashing. I mean, men aren't perfect, but when the women aren't helping you up but kicking you down, it's discouraging. It certainly creates a number of misogynists. 2) Feminism has, on the whole, freed women up from relying on men for financial support. Lesbians can get work, look after themselves, and have a relationship with their girlfriend without having to marry some "yucky" man... so less marriage is necessary. 3) Due to women's independence, this has freed men up from needing to be providers. Women complain that men these days are man-children, and this is the reason. Without a traditional need to care for women, men can do pretty well at extending our so-called "childhood" without having to "grow up" and "be a real man", (as women are mostly happy to define for us, despite not being men themselves). This reduces men's respect for women. 4) Contraception works pretty well. Less shotgun weddings 5) Fear of STDs makes people use contraception. Less shotgun weddings 6) Fear of supporting children in a bad economy makes people use contraception. Less shotgun weddings 7) Fear of divorce in a bad economy with laws that heavily favour women taking lots of money off a man in divorce - heavily discourages marriage. 8) Prostitutes are cheaper than getting married, with less hassle (Paid to leave!) 9) Given that contraception has been pushed pretty heavily by society for a great number of reasons, there are less shotgun weddings, and more careful men 10) deterioration of religious abstinence, and greater acceptance of single motherhood means less weddings, and what marriages remain - more chance for divorce to be acceptable 11) Easier access to porn. Porn will never nag you, or leave you. 12) Due to many of the factors listed above - men end up having less respect for women. As a result, services like Tinder flourish where the process of falling in love is reduced to a mechanical cold-call sales strategy whose sole aim is for the implementer to sleep with as many women as possible with the minimum money spent and time "wasted" on crank callers and non-buyers - completely deleting things like emotions from the equation because they get in the way of a solid strategy to game the market. 13) More men understand the Pareto principle on the dating world: 20% of the men are having sex with 80% of the women. Hence the quaint notion of there being a man for every woman is now commonly known to be a lot of garbage, whereas before it went on with everybody believing that there was someone for everyone. Men are realizing that if they are not in that 20%, getting married is just a one-way ticket to being cheated on. So why do it? 14) The poor sexual market and legal risks of the West has pushed a lot of men out where they have found happier hunting grounds in other parts of the world - typically places where the women actually like being feminine, who like men a lot, and are easy to get along with and who really enjoy sex without the ridiculous outlaying of capital. 15) Millenials are unable to handle rejection, or being offended, or being told that they aren't special/needed/wanted,... and those who aren't having success with women are probably giving up, and not getting rejected enough to cut through all the time-wasters to get to the perfect matches. 16) Increasingly poor economy meaning that a woman's hypergamous instincts are unable to be realized due to lack of "eligible" men. (and we all know who the eligible are) 17) Men just don't know how to turn women on, and had no instruction from their father -- because he is increasingly absent in single mother households. 18) Marriage is "for life", but with our increased life expectancy... that life is now too damn long to be stuck in marriage! 19) Men have greater access to literature like "the Anatomy of Female power" and other male-centric material on gender politics, and support groups have popped up via the internet. As a result, men have discovered that marriage is not very liberating.
I think that just about covers it. I may be missing a few points though.....
Like them or hate them, Microsoft still is the reason that many admins have jobs.
Do I personally like Windows 10? Absolutely not. Windows 10 is too "cloudlike" and all the privacy invading stuff makes it become slightly Orwellian. I only run it to play games... but for countless other people who aren't nerds out there it's the system they run their business on. It's the system their business apps run on.... and whether you like it or not, there have been entire CAREERS and personal reputations hanging on the fact that someone chose Microsoft as a business partner to get their IT done. So as a consultant, if I were to go up to some person pleading for help in this department only to say that "MS sucks", you can bet that I will almost certainly have one less friend in this cold, dark world, much less be out of work.... which if you haven't noticed.... it getting outsourced faster and faster all the time.
Now, Linux is fantastic but it also has issues. Is there a Linux solution that can completely replace Exchange and all the features of Office? I've yet to see it.... but by all means if it's available and universally supported, let me know so I can deploy it everywhere.
Honestly there is more Windows admin work these days simply because more business apps run on it than Linux, and other Linux business apps in use have mostly been hijacked by Oracle and their poor support.... simply turning people off of the platform.
And then there's the cost analysis. It's cheaper for business to let MS have their way with their credit card them than to hire some obnoxious Linux uber geek, or worse, write Oracle blank cheques to get their own poorly documented stuff running.
On the topic of leveling up (link after the jump):
“Once you hit [the] mid 20s, you will start to notice even the most common of Pokémon have an abnormally high chance to evade capture. In no scenario should a 10cp Pidgey/Ratatta/Weedle be able to avoid capture from a lvl 29 Pokémon trainer, much less avoid it 5-8 times in the same battle (no exaggeration).Considering the need to use such large numbers of Pokeballs to capture even the most trivial Pokémon, combined with the “astronomically high” XP required, Riggnaros states “From level 29-30 I went through over 1000 Pokeballs. Literally. I cannot stress how ridiculous this would be for someone playing w/o spending coins on Pokeballs (ie playing the game f2p – which is the majority).”
So I guess that the game is specifically designed to suck you in, get you hooked on it like a drug, and then start smacking you hard so you have to pay-to-play....like most smartphone "games" which let you "cheat" if you pay up really.
And you'll never catch them all. Why would they ever let you do that? To kill the goose laying the golden eggs?
Yeah, I know they have a script. You can say "I diagnosed this thing as broken, just get a replacement sent out", and they'll still be haggling with you to try rebooting it and doing tests you've already done.
There's a viable business to be had for computer guys here.
People will pay you money just so they don't have to talk to "Michael" with the very strong accent, and go through that tech support nightmare. You act as an agent - and aside from giving the personal touch, you might be able to look at the customer's exact problem in person and then go on to speak the same tech language to the offshore guy.
The outsourced tech support engineer is too busy trying to close tickets on you to issues they can't solve. Frustrated customer tries to get them reopened.
Support engineer goes back to their boss and say "Hey, my KPIs in dealing with tickets is fantastic!", and the boss pats him on the head and says "Good job! You're doing a better job than local tech support staff... and cheaper too!" Meanwhile, the customer is getting damn angry - but the boss isn't able to hear about it because tickets are getting closed, so his higher ups are happy with that.
Sure, there might be a customer survey after the call - but typically after having enough time wasted on the call that went nowhere, nobody is in the mood to fill these out. Angry responses are explained away as the customer was being unreasonable, etc.
China smiles to you and you sit down at the negotiations:
China: "Here's our proposed deal. You'll give us everything that we want, and in return you'll get nothing and we won't even say thank you. I think you'll see that this is completely fair and equitable."
I'm pretty certain in the future, all we need to do is use a smartphone app to call one of the many roving AI driven taxis about to pick us up... or have them routinely scheduled to do so every day. Indeed, we won't need to own our own car - especially in large cities where car ownership is unecessary
Friend had a cheap HP desktop. Wanted to upgrade it to 8GB as according to the website, it was specced for that. Goes to buy compatible RAM as listed on the website. RAM doesn't work. PC won't boot. Goes to shop to try all different kinds of RAM, and none of their RAM worked. PC still won't boot.
Calls HP and asks about the RAM. Told he needs "HP" RAM and HP offers to sell it to him for over $200
Well that's great. Good to know it's a yearly thing.
Perhaps you can get hired by them again - or maybe another company like HPE, then get made redundant and take a package.... then get rehired after a year back at IBM, then get made redundant again and take a package.
Currently, my "career" seems to be collecting varied forced redundancy payouts... much like the above.... which, when all is said and done,.... is not bad at all!
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No, the end result would be an army consisting of clones of this guy who wrote his own schizophrenic OS that thinks God talks to him through it:
http://www.templeos.org/
Recently? Oh.... just installing it on paranoid schizophrenic's computers who call me ask asking for help because the "sole inventor of Linux and the Xbox" has hacked her router, computer, and any phone she buys in the store.
Also recently noticed that there's another easter-egg in chrome thanks to a lot of downtime.
The Dinosaur that appears when there's no internet connectivity is a game. Click on him and he'll run from left to right to jump over cactii (and pterodactyls)
A bit of an easy game, and it gets a bit repetitive, but there you go....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Its better politically to blame "overseas hackers" than admit they screwed up.
but even that is a crappy excuse.
There's no reason at all for the rest of the internet outside of Australia to even have access to the Census website.
They could have at least geo-blocked any IP address originating from outside Australia.
Such a simple solution to that problem, that *not* doing it makes them look incompetent.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/201...
Now they are saying it's not been attacked from overseas.
How hard would it have been to "do a Netflix" and block IP addresses based on location anyway? - That would at least stem the amount of foreign intelligence services from trying to hack the website which contains information on Australian citizens.
I read that they tested the system to 150% capacity, where 100% capacity was estimated to be 1 million forms processed per hour.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/201...
That estimate was a gross underestimation of the numbers of sessions needed to handle an estimated 16 million households - all of whom most likely would have logged in during a 4-6 hour period in the evening. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to calculate that the system didn't have the capacity to deal with this spike in traffic.
The capacity should have been somewhere in a ball park of 5-10 million forms processed per hour, or more.
Couldn't have been cheap to have load balancers maxxed out trying to maintain that many accelerated SSL sessions.... but there you go.
Essentially it's a perfect storm of a lot of things (in no particular order) that are sometimes contradictory in nature.
1) Increased man-bashing. I mean, men aren't perfect, but when the women aren't helping you up but kicking you down, it's discouraging. It certainly creates a number of misogynists.
2) Feminism has, on the whole, freed women up from relying on men for financial support. Lesbians can get work, look after themselves, and have a relationship with their girlfriend without having to marry some "yucky" man... so less marriage is necessary.
3) Due to women's independence, this has freed men up from needing to be providers. Women complain that men these days are man-children, and this is the reason. Without a traditional need to care for women, men can do pretty well at extending our so-called "childhood" without having to "grow up" and "be a real man", (as women are mostly happy to define for us, despite not being men themselves). This reduces men's respect for women.
4) Contraception works pretty well. Less shotgun weddings
5) Fear of STDs makes people use contraception. Less shotgun weddings
6) Fear of supporting children in a bad economy makes people use contraception. Less shotgun weddings
7) Fear of divorce in a bad economy with laws that heavily favour women taking lots of money off a man in divorce - heavily discourages marriage.
8) Prostitutes are cheaper than getting married, with less hassle (Paid to leave!)
9) Given that contraception has been pushed pretty heavily by society for a great number of reasons, there are less shotgun weddings, and more careful men
10) deterioration of religious abstinence, and greater acceptance of single motherhood means less weddings, and what marriages remain - more chance for divorce to be acceptable
11) Easier access to porn. Porn will never nag you, or leave you.
12) Due to many of the factors listed above - men end up having less respect for women. As a result, services like Tinder flourish where the process of falling in love is reduced to a mechanical cold-call sales strategy whose sole aim is for the implementer to sleep with as many women as possible with the minimum money spent and time "wasted" on crank callers and non-buyers - completely deleting things like emotions from the equation because they get in the way of a solid strategy to game the market.
13) More men understand the Pareto principle on the dating world: 20% of the men are having sex with 80% of the women. Hence the quaint notion of there being a man for every woman is now commonly known to be a lot of garbage, whereas before it went on with everybody believing that there was someone for everyone. Men are realizing that if they are not in that 20%, getting married is just a one-way ticket to being cheated on. So why do it?
14) The poor sexual market and legal risks of the West has pushed a lot of men out where they have found happier hunting grounds in other parts of the world - typically places where the women actually like being feminine, who like men a lot, and are easy to get along with and who really enjoy sex without the ridiculous outlaying of capital.
15) Millenials are unable to handle rejection, or being offended, or being told that they aren't special/needed/wanted,... and those who aren't having success with women are probably giving up, and not getting rejected enough to cut through all the time-wasters to get to the perfect matches.
16) Increasingly poor economy meaning that a woman's hypergamous instincts are unable to be realized due to lack of "eligible" men. (and we all know who the eligible are)
17) Men just don't know how to turn women on, and had no instruction from their father -- because he is increasingly absent in single mother households.
18) Marriage is "for life", but with our increased life expectancy... that life is now too damn long to be stuck in marriage!
19) Men have greater access to literature like "the Anatomy of Female power" and other male-centric material on gender politics, and support groups have popped up via the internet. As a result, men have discovered that marriage is not very liberating.
I think that just about covers it. I may be missing a few points though.....
That's the Australian nanny-state approach.
Say goodbye to everything enjoyable and hello to the fun police
Like them or hate them, Microsoft still is the reason that many admins have jobs.
Do I personally like Windows 10? Absolutely not. Windows 10 is too "cloudlike" and all the privacy invading stuff makes it become slightly Orwellian.
I only run it to play games... but for countless other people who aren't nerds out there it's the system they run their business on. It's the system their business apps run on.... and whether you like it or not, there have been entire CAREERS and personal reputations hanging on the fact that someone chose Microsoft as a business partner to get their IT done. So as a consultant, if I were to go up to some person pleading for help in this department only to say that "MS sucks", you can bet that I will almost certainly have one less friend in this cold, dark world, much less be out of work.... which if you haven't noticed.... it getting outsourced faster and faster all the time.
Now, Linux is fantastic but it also has issues. Is there a Linux solution that can completely replace Exchange and all the features of Office?
I've yet to see it.... but by all means if it's available and universally supported, let me know so I can deploy it everywhere.
Honestly there is more Windows admin work these days simply because more business apps run on it than Linux, and other Linux business apps in use have mostly been hijacked by Oracle and their poor support.... simply turning people off of the platform.
And then there's the cost analysis. It's cheaper for business to let MS have their way with their credit card them than to hire some obnoxious Linux uber geek, or worse, write Oracle blank cheques to get their own poorly documented stuff running.
They might bring the old gameplay back, but I bet they'll ruin it by staying annoying in some other way.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
On the topic of leveling up (link after the jump):
“Once you hit [the] mid 20s, you will start to notice even the most common of Pokémon have an abnormally high chance to evade capture. In no scenario should a 10cp Pidgey/Ratatta/Weedle be able to avoid capture from a lvl 29 Pokémon trainer, much less avoid it 5-8 times in the same battle (no exaggeration).Considering the need to use such large numbers of Pokeballs to capture even the most trivial Pokémon, combined with the “astronomically high” XP required, Riggnaros states “From level 29-30 I went through over 1000 Pokeballs. Literally. I cannot stress how ridiculous this would be for someone playing w/o spending coins on Pokeballs (ie playing the game f2p – which is the majority).”
So I guess that the game is specifically designed to suck you in, get you hooked on it like a drug, and then start smacking you hard so you have to pay-to-play. ...like most smartphone "games" which let you "cheat" if you pay up really.
And you'll never catch them all. Why would they ever let you do that? To kill the goose laying the golden eggs?
http://www.androidauthority.co...
So we can expect a sequel, I guess?
"The wolf of the wolf of Wall Street"
If that's also made with corrupt money, Hollywood can then keep the franchise going ad infinitum/nauseum whichever comes first!
When anything gets popular, all the hacks come out to ride on it's bandwagon of attention.
This must be some law of the internet, surely.
Anyway, suck it religious leaders. For once, something has got better hypnosis powers than you have - and by that I mean Psyduck.
What, he didn't catch it? He'll never get that perfect Pokedex now.
You mean... like Pokemon but with real animals?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Yeah, I know they have a script. You can say "I diagnosed this thing as broken, just get a replacement sent out", and they'll still be haggling with you to try rebooting it and doing tests you've already done.
Again, it's danger-pay to deal with this.
There's a viable business to be had for computer guys here.
People will pay you money just so they don't have to talk to "Michael" with the very strong accent, and go through that tech support nightmare.
You act as an agent - and aside from giving the personal touch, you might be able to look at the customer's exact problem in person and then go on to speak the same tech language to the offshore guy.
The outsourced tech support engineer is too busy trying to close tickets on you to issues they can't solve.
Frustrated customer tries to get them reopened.
Support engineer goes back to their boss and say "Hey, my KPIs in dealing with tickets is fantastic!", and the boss pats him on the head and says "Good job! You're doing a better job than local tech support staff... and cheaper too!"
Meanwhile, the customer is getting damn angry - but the boss isn't able to hear about it because tickets are getting closed, so his higher ups are happy with that.
Sure, there might be a customer survey after the call - but typically after having enough time wasted on the call that went nowhere, nobody is in the mood to fill these out. Angry responses are explained away as the customer was being unreasonable, etc.
When it comes to preserving our digital history, I think it's better to ask forgiveness than permission.
If we followed copyright law to the letter, nothing would get preserved.
China smiles to you and you sit down at the negotiations:
China: "Here's our proposed deal. You'll give us everything that we want, and in return you'll get nothing and we won't even say thank you. I think you'll see that this is completely fair and equitable."
I'm pretty certain in the future, all we need to do is use a smartphone app to call one of the many roving AI driven taxis about to pick us up... or have them routinely scheduled to do so every day. Indeed, we won't need to own our own car - especially in large cities where car ownership is unecessary
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." Thomas Watson, president of IBM 1943
Amazon, Azure, iCloud, and a few others
Does anyone care to guess the million dollar sum HP spent on their HPE logo?
Reminder: The HPE logo is a green rectangle.
Recent issue:
Friend had a cheap HP desktop. Wanted to upgrade it to 8GB as according to the website, it was specced for that.
Goes to buy compatible RAM as listed on the website.
RAM doesn't work. PC won't boot.
Goes to shop to try all different kinds of RAM, and none of their RAM worked. PC still won't boot.
Calls HP and asks about the RAM.
Told he needs "HP" RAM and HP offers to sell it to him for over $200
Just curious as to who is using git as version control for not only documentation, but configuration management - such as with puppet and the like
Well that's great. Good to know it's a yearly thing.
Perhaps you can get hired by them again - or maybe another company like HPE, then get made redundant and take a package.... then get rehired after a year back at IBM, then get made redundant again and take a package.
Currently, my "career" seems to be collecting varied forced redundancy payouts... much like the above.... which, when all is said and done,.... is not bad at all!