Does the school log access to websites? If so, the police could ask the It staff to check the logs.
At the school I worked in we logged all web access using a Squid Proxy Server. This would have allowed us to look up who on that day at that time had accessed both Googlemail and Apple iCloud.
Highly likely then to have the login name of the kid or staff member who did it. Unless their password was stolen too.
They may also be able to see what access point the phone was connected to. In fact, they may still see the MAC address of the phone as it wanders around the school between classes.
Now I am a user of LibreOffice and Linux but up until around 2004 I was quite happy using Microsoft Word 2.0, released in 1991. had it continued to work on newer Windows versions I would no doubt still be using it. Although, as it did not work it gave me the opportunity to find out what else was out there. That's when I discovered the world of Open Source and abandoned Windows entirely with Windows XP being the last version I used in production. My computing has been a lot less stress free since.
Discussed this with my partner, she likens L.O.L. Surprise! of the modern generation to the Kinder Eggs or football card packs that we grew up with - was cheaper to buy such crap back then though, not £50 for a random pop. Such gambling addition products seem to have been aimed at the kids for decades, we just did not notice.
Totally agree with this. I buy a game and then never spend a further penny on it unless I know exactly what I am getting for my cash - such as extra levels.
Discussed this with my partner, she likens L.O.L. Surprise! of the modern generation to the Kinder Eggs or football card packs that we grew up with - was cheaper to buy such crap back then though, not £50 for a random pop.
I work for myself offering the local area end user IT support services., both business and domestic, I am in my late 30s. I attend a site and get sat down in front of the troublesome PC. The owner explains the issue they are having and walks me through the problems on screen. This process usually ends with the end user asking "Do you know how to fix that?". I usually tell them "No", they look worried. The first few moments of my discussion with the end user is usually to explain that I have never even heard of the software product they have shown me, let alone even used it before. I explain that back when I started repairing PCs and providing user support - 13 years old at my secondary school - supporting the staff (I was presented with the key to the server room and left to maintain the Novell Netware system), the number of products installed on the PCs totalled around 4 including Microsoft DOS, Microsoft Windows 3.1, Microsoft Works. I explain that over the course of a week I was able to read the entire manuals so I knew the products inside out. I then explain that whilst talking, multiple new software products have been released which will likely have updates released before I leave their site.
There is no way to keep fully up to date. I explain that the job is now more of a research role, being able to find the answer and call upon previous experience as needed, rather than a knowing role. I tell the client to give me 20 minutes and I will likely have resolved their issue.
End user support is stressful, especially when going it alone. I used to work all hours under the sun, holiday? What's a holiday? I then started taking note when I started taking on more and more clients who when asked "What happened to your last IT provider?" would reply with phrases such as "Oh they had a breakdown", "they are no longer with us, keeled over at a keyboard, only 45", "went on holiday, decided not to return".
So, now I make sure I take dedicated holiday time off, falling inline with my partners allocation. I no longer take any business related IT equipment with me and and have found people locally who can cover me and vice versa when we are away - but they tend to take their business phone and laptop away with them too, so they are never really turning off and having a true break to recuperate.
Some clients are a little put off when I state I will not be contactable for 1 week and to instead call XYZ. I explain much like I have above and state that I can either be contactable all year round (minus my holiday breaks) for the next 30 years, or I can be contactable 24/7 for the next few years until I have my own overwork related health issues.
They tend to understand, if they don't they are free to go elsewhere.
Being of the generation who started using computers when every 'bit' mattered, I still use modern technology in the same way.
I frequently cleanup and delete stuff I do not foresee needing (after taking multiple backups to offline media of course), I always turn off mobile data when I am connected to wifi or when I will not require it, I even turn off wifi on my phones and tablets when not in use to save the battery, such as at night or when driving.
Such habits allow my devices to run for longer without a recharge when out and about plus it seems, have saved me countless well earned £££ by not becoming one of the people impacted by this software bug and others we may not know about.
Unfortunately today, most people would not even dream of turning off data when not actively using it, as they may miss a Facebook post of their mate making a cuppa.
When I attended college, 100MB (not Gigabytes, Megabytes) of storage served me perfectly well for 3 years as I had gotten used to formatting my digital photos and scans to acceptable quality and filesizes due to having grown up with 1.44MB 3.5 inch floppy disks.
By the time I worked in the IT department at the same college 4 years later, students would arrive at the support department door in an endless stream on day 1 of their course, complaining that they have run out of space, having only saved 1 digital photo (why did their tutors not educate them on file size reduction? Don't get me started on the state of teaching!). Often they and their tutors demanded 100GB of storage space so they could save their photos and scans, which were to be used in Microsoft Word documents and presented on printed page at the size of a postage stamp, even though the saved file size would if laid out flat could easily be seen from space.
What I am getting at here is that having grown up in the age of 'digital rationing', I had to learn how to manage my storage space/bandwidth cost effectively and with the end product in mind.
Nowadays, people feel they don't have to bother, most probably don't even know that they can reduce the size of a photo taken by their digital camera or post process it in the GIMP or whatever to reduce the physical and file size. After all, they have a huge hard drive and cloud storage.
Learning how to manage the space/bandwidth as effectively as they would a physical filing cabinet, would go a long way to reducing the risk they are exposed to from such Google bugs.
Having played around with an Atari and Commodore 64, I first got my hands on an IBM PC compatible in 1993 when I started at secondary school. Back then I was able to read the entire manuals for the 3 pieces of software installed on them over the course of a week or so: MSDOS, Microsoft Windows 3.1 and Microsoft Works.
Now I work in IT support. If I had a printed manual for Microsoft Windows 10, I would need to obtain a new one every time an update was released as the layout of Settings and other screens changes as features are removed and added.
When repairing or servicing a clients computer, I often get asked how I keep up with all the changes. I explain to my clients that for me the industry is no longer about knowing the software inside and out (as I was able to achieve back in 1993). Instead, it has evolved into a research role - I have had to hone my research skills to locate the details for the specific piece of software I have been lumbered with fixing on that particular hour of the day. In the few hours I have been at a clients property, countless new pieces of software have been released online which I may be expected to now support.
All of my machines are Linux, as are my parents and some of my friends. Spread geographically.
The computers all have drives of at least 1TB with very little foreseeable data use. There is at least 750GB available on each computer, so I use each computer as a backup for the other computers. Why have space just sitting there idle, may as well use it for backups!
All drives are running full disk encryption and home directories are encrypted as per standard Ubuntu installation routine.
Rsync runs over SSH so the communication is encrypted between computers.
I have preshared keys setup between systems.
All computers in the backup regime have a user account with encrypted home directory for each persons set of data.
My script fires every 30 minutes (I am using Linux tool called flock to ensure that the script does not fire again and again if a backup is still taking place).
I used scripts on the following site as a basis for my system:
Agreed, if they are able to sue social media companies for providing a platform for spouting their terrorist nonsense, where will it end?
Sue HP for allowing terrorist plans to be printed on their device.
Sue Microsoft for allowing Windows to be used on a terrorists laptop.
Sue the paper manufacturer.
Sue BIC for manufacturing the pen the terrorists used to make their notes....
"Kids can squeeze the stuffed animal's paw to record a message of their own" - "user reviews are poor, citing a difficult interface"
How hard can pressing a stuffed animals paw be?!
Being richer than your customer is one thing, shoving that in their face by forcing them to purchase a business edition of Microsoft Office just to open a letter with is another.
Unless it was the US Government themselves, giving manufacturers a kick up the arse. As you say "You have Chinese IoT chipset manufacturers doing recalls and patching their code. Pressure is being put on ISPs to help filter these kinds of attacks".
It now seems no coincidence that the modern Olympics are based on the blueprint of the 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany. (https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005680)
I second this. Been using OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice for around 10 years, personally and within my business. No problems whatsoever. Saved a small fortune in licensing fees. Admittedly I had to learn where a few things were initially, but that is no different to when I used to shell out for the latest Microsoft Office.
I actually used MS Word 2.0 for many many years from the mid 1990s right through Uni and up to around 2006. If the floppy disks has not failed on me I would still be using it, all I want to do is type a letter. I don't want to shell out every few years for a new version featuring what Microsoft think I want. Luckily, I discovered OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice.
Hey FBI, some other figures from the tech world who should perhaps be arrested for 'enabling child porn,':
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce
John Logie Baird
Tim Berners-Lee
William Henry Gates III
Steve Jobs
Linus Torvalds
I always try to hide any progress bar/animation/verbosity if possible so that the computer can focus on the actual task at hand rather than using CPU cycles to tell me how it is doing. This works especially well for large file transfers if you move the animated file off screen.
I often reboot into a Linux live distro if I need to perform data transfers from a clients computer, they go a hell of a lot faster without the graphical user interface overhead and even using this I often don't enable verbosity so the copy procedure takes even less time.
J
Hello
"the people that pay the least always complain the most" - true in my opinion.
I fix and setup many home and business computer systems. For a while when asked "I just want to type letters, where do I get Microsoft Office", I would suggest OpenOffice.org and install that if the system owner agreed.
I always call my clients back 4 weeks later to ensure I tere are no outstanding issues with the work I carried out. I found that in most cases those people I had installed OpenOffice.org for had decided that it did not create letters how they needed it to, so had purchased and installed Microsoft Office instead.
So, I started selling OpenOffice.org instead at a cheaper cost to Microsoft Office (keeping within the GPL). I soon found that when I contacted those clients, the response when questioned about OpenOffice.org was more positive with phrases such as "oh yes it's wonderful, you saved us a good £70".
Sell it, people need to feel they have something of worth.
TTFN
From what I have seen of the Siri advertisements on television, it is not portrayed as a 'joke' or 'fun' product as other smart phone apps are - such as the games or apps to make it look like your pouring a pint. Siri is instead portrayed as a useful tool to give valid information quickly - this response from Apple simply destroys the apps credibility.
How can we possibly trust any recommendation or search results Siri now provides? How long until we open Safari on the Mac and attempt to purchase a non Apple product but instead get redirected to Apples own version?
I have had no problems keeping in contact with clients both in the office and when offsite. We run our own Postfix email server, Apache web server, iptables firewall router, Asterisk telecommunications server and all desktops are Gentoo Linux.
When in the office I just use OpenOffice.org for spreadsheets and documents and save in.doc or better still.pdf if they are bound for people out of the office. Email is all handled client side by Mozilla Thuderbird.
Need access to apps in the office when on the road? I just have iptables rules to allow connections using VNC to my internal systems. Or better still I just pipe and forward the X apps straight to be over a secure SSH connection to my Gentoo Linux laptop, or my Apple Macbook which I recently thought i'd try. When out and about all business calls are automatically forwarded from the office Asterisk system to my mobile or whatever mobile or land line I designate as my temporary office.
The Internet is build on non Microsoft technology, you don't get hindered by stepping away from it, a few home truths just need to be discovered - pipe your Microsoft Office suite across the net directly without VNC and have access to your office file systems? Yeah right! On Linux it does away with having to set up VPNs and all that gumpf for me. So convenient.
Every 15 minutes my important data is Rsynced to my colleagues house and his over to mine. We then each have a USB hard disk which Rsyncs all of the local data. Works pretty well and ensures no data is lost of we have a fire/flood etc. All secured over SSH.
"In the early months of 1811 the first threatening letters from General Ned Ludd and the Army of Redressers, were sent to employers in Nottingham. Workers, upset by wage reductions and the use of unapprenticed workmen, began to break into factories at night to destroy the new machines that the employers were using." - The Luddites, http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRluddites.htm
"I say Edward, if it wasn't for these 'paper and quill' contraptions these Luddites would not be able to organise such thugery. They should close those so called 'stationary shops' before it is too late!"
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Does the school log access to websites? If so, the police could ask the It staff to check the logs.
At the school I worked in we logged all web access using a Squid Proxy Server. This would have allowed us to look up who on that day at that time had accessed both Googlemail and Apple iCloud.
Highly likely then to have the login name of the kid or staff member who did it. Unless their password was stolen too.
They may also be able to see what access point the phone was connected to. In fact, they may still see the MAC address of the phone as it wanders around the school between classes.
Now I am a user of LibreOffice and Linux but up until around 2004 I was quite happy using Microsoft Word 2.0, released in 1991. had it continued to work on newer Windows versions I would no doubt still be using it. Although, as it did not work it gave me the opportunity to find out what else was out there. That's when I discovered the world of Open Source and abandoned Windows entirely with Windows XP being the last version I used in production. My computing has been a lot less stress free since.
Discussed this with my partner, she likens L.O.L. Surprise! of the modern generation to the Kinder Eggs or football card packs that we grew up with - was cheaper to buy such crap back then though, not £50 for a random pop. Such gambling addition products seem to have been aimed at the kids for decades, we just did not notice.
Totally agree with this. I buy a game and then never spend a further penny on it unless I know exactly what I am getting for my cash - such as extra levels. Discussed this with my partner, she likens L.O.L. Surprise! of the modern generation to the Kinder Eggs or football card packs that we grew up with - was cheaper to buy such crap back then though, not £50 for a random pop.
I work for myself offering the local area end user IT support services., both business and domestic, I am in my late 30s. I attend a site and get sat down in front of the troublesome PC. The owner explains the issue they are having and walks me through the problems on screen. This process usually ends with the end user asking "Do you know how to fix that?". I usually tell them "No", they look worried. The first few moments of my discussion with the end user is usually to explain that I have never even heard of the software product they have shown me, let alone even used it before. I explain that back when I started repairing PCs and providing user support - 13 years old at my secondary school - supporting the staff (I was presented with the key to the server room and left to maintain the Novell Netware system), the number of products installed on the PCs totalled around 4 including Microsoft DOS, Microsoft Windows 3.1, Microsoft Works. I explain that over the course of a week I was able to read the entire manuals so I knew the products inside out. I then explain that whilst talking, multiple new software products have been released which will likely have updates released before I leave their site.
There is no way to keep fully up to date. I explain that the job is now more of a research role, being able to find the answer and call upon previous experience as needed, rather than a knowing role. I tell the client to give me 20 minutes and I will likely have resolved their issue.
End user support is stressful, especially when going it alone. I used to work all hours under the sun, holiday? What's a holiday? I then started taking note when I started taking on more and more clients who when asked "What happened to your last IT provider?" would reply with phrases such as "Oh they had a breakdown", "they are no longer with us, keeled over at a keyboard, only 45", "went on holiday, decided not to return".
So, now I make sure I take dedicated holiday time off, falling inline with my partners allocation. I no longer take any business related IT equipment with me and and have found people locally who can cover me and vice versa when we are away - but they tend to take their business phone and laptop away with them too, so they are never really turning off and having a true break to recuperate.
Some clients are a little put off when I state I will not be contactable for 1 week and to instead call XYZ. I explain much like I have above and state that I can either be contactable all year round (minus my holiday breaks) for the next 30 years, or I can be contactable 24/7 for the next few years until I have my own overwork related health issues.
They tend to understand, if they don't they are free to go elsewhere.
Being of the generation who started using computers when every 'bit' mattered, I still use modern technology in the same way.
I frequently cleanup and delete stuff I do not foresee needing (after taking multiple backups to offline media of course), I always turn off mobile data when I am connected to wifi or when I will not require it, I even turn off wifi on my phones and tablets when not in use to save the battery, such as at night or when driving.
Such habits allow my devices to run for longer without a recharge when out and about plus it seems, have saved me countless well earned £££ by not becoming one of the people impacted by this software bug and others we may not know about.
Unfortunately today, most people would not even dream of turning off data when not actively using it, as they may miss a Facebook post of their mate making a cuppa.
When I attended college, 100MB (not Gigabytes, Megabytes) of storage served me perfectly well for 3 years as I had gotten used to formatting my digital photos and scans to acceptable quality and filesizes due to having grown up with 1.44MB 3.5 inch floppy disks.
By the time I worked in the IT department at the same college 4 years later, students would arrive at the support department door in an endless stream on day 1 of their course, complaining that they have run out of space, having only saved 1 digital photo (why did their tutors not educate them on file size reduction? Don't get me started on the state of teaching!). Often they and their tutors demanded 100GB of storage space so they could save their photos and scans, which were to be used in Microsoft Word documents and presented on printed page at the size of a postage stamp, even though the saved file size would if laid out flat could easily be seen from space.
What I am getting at here is that having grown up in the age of 'digital rationing', I had to learn how to manage my storage space/bandwidth cost effectively and with the end product in mind.
Nowadays, people feel they don't have to bother, most probably don't even know that they can reduce the size of a photo taken by their digital camera or post process it in the GIMP or whatever to reduce the physical and file size. After all, they have a huge hard drive and cloud storage.
Learning how to manage the space/bandwidth as effectively as they would a physical filing cabinet, would go a long way to reducing the risk they are exposed to from such Google bugs.
Having played around with an Atari and Commodore 64, I first got my hands on an IBM PC compatible in 1993 when I started at secondary school. Back then I was able to read the entire manuals for the 3 pieces of software installed on them over the course of a week or so: MSDOS, Microsoft Windows 3.1 and Microsoft Works. Now I work in IT support. If I had a printed manual for Microsoft Windows 10, I would need to obtain a new one every time an update was released as the layout of Settings and other screens changes as features are removed and added. When repairing or servicing a clients computer, I often get asked how I keep up with all the changes. I explain to my clients that for me the industry is no longer about knowing the software inside and out (as I was able to achieve back in 1993). Instead, it has evolved into a research role - I have had to hone my research skills to locate the details for the specific piece of software I have been lumbered with fixing on that particular hour of the day. In the few hours I have been at a clients property, countless new pieces of software have been released online which I may be expected to now support.
I for one, welcome out new bacterial overlords.
All of my machines are Linux, as are my parents and some of my friends. Spread geographically.
/usr/bin/flock -n /var/run/timemachine-backup-to-johns-laptop.lockfile -c "/usr/bin/time /usr/bin/rsync -azP --stats --log-file=/home/backup/rsynclog-timemachine-backup-to-johns-laptop.txt --quiet --delete --delete-excluded --include-from=/home/tom/timemachine-backup-scripts/timemachine-backup.includes --exclude-from=/home/tom/timemachine-backup-scripts/timemachine-backup.excludes --link-dest=../current $HOME tom@SOME-REMOTE-IP:/home/tom/Documents/timemachine-backup/incomplete_back-$date && ssh tom@SOME-REMOTE-IP 'mv /home/tom/Documents/timemachine-backup/incomplete_back-$date /home/tom/Documents/timemachine-backup/back-$date && rm -f /home/tom/Documents/timemachine-backup/current && ln -s /home/tom/Documents/timemachine-backup/back-$date /home/tom/Documents/timemachine-backup/current'"
The computers all have drives of at least 1TB with very little foreseeable data use. There is at least 750GB available on each computer, so I use each computer as a backup for the other computers. Why have space just sitting there idle, may as well use it for backups!
All drives are running full disk encryption and home directories are encrypted as per standard Ubuntu installation routine.
Rsync runs over SSH so the communication is encrypted between computers.
I have preshared keys setup between systems.
All computers in the backup regime have a user account with encrypted home directory for each persons set of data.
My script fires every 30 minutes (I am using Linux tool called flock to ensure that the script does not fire again and again if a backup is still taking place).
I used scripts on the following site as a basis for my system:
https://blog.interlinked.org/tutorials/rsync_time_machine.html
My script is like this to backup to each specified computer. This particular snippet backs up Toms data to Johns computer:
This is working very very well for myself, family and friends. Just making best use of what we already have available.
Agreed, if they are able to sue social media companies for providing a platform for spouting their terrorist nonsense, where will it end? Sue HP for allowing terrorist plans to be printed on their device. Sue Microsoft for allowing Windows to be used on a terrorists laptop. Sue the paper manufacturer. Sue BIC for manufacturing the pen the terrorists used to make their notes. ...
"Kids can squeeze the stuffed animal's paw to record a message of their own" - "user reviews are poor, citing a difficult interface" How hard can pressing a stuffed animals paw be?!
Being richer than your customer is one thing, shoving that in their face by forcing them to purchase a business edition of Microsoft Office just to open a letter with is another.
Unless it was the US Government themselves, giving manufacturers a kick up the arse. As you say "You have Chinese IoT chipset manufacturers doing recalls and patching their code. Pressure is being put on ISPs to help filter these kinds of attacks".
It now seems no coincidence that the modern Olympics are based on the blueprint of the 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany. (https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005680)
I second this. Been using OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice for around 10 years, personally and within my business. No problems whatsoever. Saved a small fortune in licensing fees. Admittedly I had to learn where a few things were initially, but that is no different to when I used to shell out for the latest Microsoft Office.
I actually used MS Word 2.0 for many many years from the mid 1990s right through Uni and up to around 2006. If the floppy disks has not failed on me I would still be using it, all I want to do is type a letter. I don't want to shell out every few years for a new version featuring what Microsoft think I want. Luckily, I discovered OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice.
I have been using the free service available at http://www.scribblemaps.com/ for a few years. Basically provides an editable Google Maps systems.
Hey FBI, some other figures from the tech world who should perhaps be arrested for 'enabling child porn,': Joseph Nicéphore Niépce John Logie Baird Tim Berners-Lee William Henry Gates III Steve Jobs Linus Torvalds
Your probably right about it not being CPU related, but for large tasks verbosity definitely slows the procedure down.
I always try to hide any progress bar/animation/verbosity if possible so that the computer can focus on the actual task at hand rather than using CPU cycles to tell me how it is doing. This works especially well for large file transfers if you move the animated file off screen. I often reboot into a Linux live distro if I need to perform data transfers from a clients computer, they go a hell of a lot faster without the graphical user interface overhead and even using this I often don't enable verbosity so the copy procedure takes even less time. J
Hello "the people that pay the least always complain the most" - true in my opinion. I fix and setup many home and business computer systems. For a while when asked "I just want to type letters, where do I get Microsoft Office", I would suggest OpenOffice.org and install that if the system owner agreed. I always call my clients back 4 weeks later to ensure I tere are no outstanding issues with the work I carried out. I found that in most cases those people I had installed OpenOffice.org for had decided that it did not create letters how they needed it to, so had purchased and installed Microsoft Office instead. So, I started selling OpenOffice.org instead at a cheaper cost to Microsoft Office (keeping within the GPL). I soon found that when I contacted those clients, the response when questioned about OpenOffice.org was more positive with phrases such as "oh yes it's wonderful, you saved us a good £70". Sell it, people need to feel they have something of worth. TTFN
From what I have seen of the Siri advertisements on television, it is not portrayed as a 'joke' or 'fun' product as other smart phone apps are - such as the games or apps to make it look like your pouring a pint. Siri is instead portrayed as a useful tool to give valid information quickly - this response from Apple simply destroys the apps credibility. How can we possibly trust any recommendation or search results Siri now provides? How long until we open Safari on the Mac and attempt to purchase a non Apple product but instead get redirected to Apples own version?
I have had no problems keeping in contact with clients both in the office and when offsite. We run our own Postfix email server, Apache web server, iptables firewall router, Asterisk telecommunications server and all desktops are Gentoo Linux. When in the office I just use OpenOffice.org for spreadsheets and documents and save in .doc or better still .pdf if they are bound for people out of the office. Email is all handled client side by Mozilla Thuderbird.
Need access to apps in the office when on the road? I just have iptables rules to allow connections using VNC to my internal systems. Or better still I just pipe and forward the X apps straight to be over a secure SSH connection to my Gentoo Linux laptop, or my Apple Macbook which I recently thought i'd try. When out and about all business calls are automatically forwarded from the office Asterisk system to my mobile or whatever mobile or land line I designate as my temporary office.
The Internet is build on non Microsoft technology, you don't get hindered by stepping away from it, a few home truths just need to be discovered - pipe your Microsoft Office suite across the net directly without VNC and have access to your office file systems? Yeah right! On Linux it does away with having to set up VPNs and all that gumpf for me. So convenient.
Every 15 minutes my important data is Rsynced to my colleagues house and his over to mine. We then each have a USB hard disk which Rsyncs all of the local data. Works pretty well and ensures no data is lost of we have a fire/flood etc. All secured over SSH.
"In the early months of 1811 the first threatening letters from General Ned Ludd and the Army of Redressers, were sent to employers in Nottingham. Workers, upset by wage reductions and the use of unapprenticed workmen, began to break into factories at night to destroy the new machines that the employers were using." - The Luddites, http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRluddites.htm "I say Edward, if it wasn't for these 'paper and quill' contraptions these Luddites would not be able to organise such thugery. They should close those so called 'stationary shops' before it is too late!"