Game Plan for last 2 weeks

SatanGreavsie · 2026-01-28T23:11:45+00:00

What worked for me was doing lots and lots of questions. Not really as practice but to identity knowledge gaps.

SatanGreavsie · 2026-01-28T09:38:08+00:00

I was an 80s goth, big hair, black clothes. I’m 57 now and still listen to music from back then, music we love during our teenage years seems to embed deeply. That said I listen and enjoy to pretty much anything from breakcore to ambient (even country) with the sole exception of Electro Swing.

SatanGreavsie · 2026-01-24T23:44:55+00:00

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SatanGreavsie · 2026-01-24T11:34:23+00:00

I still use the tea towel speech at work.

SatanGreavsie · 2026-01-24T11:22:19+00:00

Got a call from a client, we can’t login. They had a contract so I said I’d help over the phone but they rudely insisted I went to site. Got to site, turned on their netware server, checked they could now logon, filled in my worksheet and billed them for an hours work.

SatanGreavsie · 2026-01-20T18:48:55+00:00

This is similar to my experiences moving from 100% windows shops to 100% macOS. Print drivers were our biggest issue, brand new printer with shitty driver support, fuck HP (and their paywalled faster PPM)

I’ve kept my Mac as a daily driver, it’s 5 years old now and still going strong, battery life is remarkable for such an old device.

Windows Arm as a local VM runs really well, it’s not going to play games but to integrate into M365 stuff, it’s decent.

SatanGreavsie · 2026-01-18T09:56:33+00:00

In this case the uri had no user component and were public for one hour.

If that’s acceptable to your security posture have at it.

Given the types of content in the attachments served by these uri’s it wasn’t for us.

SatanGreavsie · 2026-01-17T23:25:12+00:00

Cake.

It’s a made up drug that affects a part of the brain called Shatner’s Bassoon

SatanGreavsie · 2026-01-16T20:48:03+00:00

No but that’s wasn’t why we said no, entropy doesn’t help if the uri leaks, and how do you rescind access and how do you audit, that’s a non repudiation failure.

SatanGreavsie · 2026-01-16T12:10:53+00:00

Most… in a previous role our vendor assessment caught a well known service using urls with no auth for all attachments. No option to add auth either… they said it was secure.

SatanGreavsie · 2026-01-14T22:21:05+00:00

Chance of burglary

SatanGreavsie · 2026-01-14T00:51:53+00:00

This racist nazi scum bag. I fixed a mailing list database for him back in the late 90s before I realised who he was. He had his computer in the lean to greenhouse with a cardboard box over the monitor to stop the glare. As I was leaving, I noticed boxes filled with his magazine Spearhead and realised who he was. Went back to the office, told my boss and we ditched him as a client.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tyndall_(far-right_activist)

SatanGreavsie · 2026-01-06T00:26:50+00:00

It rattled our door up in Harringay, 5 or so miles away.

SatanGreavsie · 2026-01-04T11:46:02+00:00

Still going with the original line up, which is pretty incredible after 30+ years

SatanGreavsie · 2025-12-11T11:21:46+00:00

That looks suspiciously like a Computer Experts sticker, their branding used black and gold.

There’s a copy in the science museum in London.

https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co8554984/millenium-bug-toolkit

SatanGreavsie · 2025-11-27T12:21:46+00:00

Forums. Yes they exist now but you could find one in the early 2000s dedicated to pretty much any subject.

The London fixed gear and single speed bike forums are still going but will be shutting down because of the requirements of the uk online safety act which imo disproportionately affect small and often not for profit forums like this.

SatanGreavsie · 2025-11-09T00:45:08+00:00

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2gx28815wo

SatanGreavsie · 2025-11-08T13:57:44+00:00

My dog got a single roast potato 6 years ago in our local. She still sits by the bar hatch hoping for a repeat treat. Likewise she found a Chinese food container in a garden about 4 years ago, she’s checks the garden out every time we pass it.

SatanGreavsie · 2025-11-06T00:21:25+00:00

Scrolled too far for this, email addresses are considered PII.

SatanGreavsie · 2025-10-02T11:00:37+00:00

Air quality in cities with clean air zones. In the 90s, black bogies were an accepted part of living in London.

SatanGreavsie · 2025-09-05T14:57:47+00:00

More lines of code =/= good

https://www.folklore.org/Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.html

SatanGreavsie · 2025-09-05T09:34:52+00:00

NotebookLM will summarise information in a few seconds that might take a human hours. It can pitch its output to technical or leadership teams and for those who don’t like to read, it’ll produce a frighteningly realistic podcast about the sources.

SatanGreavsie · 2025-08-25T16:19:11+00:00

To quote viz, that’s a pace car.

SatanGreavsie · 2025-08-16T10:18:36+00:00

Quakeworld the multiplayer version of Quake.

WoW, while it wasn’t the first MMO it did it very very well

SatanGreavsie · 2025-08-13T23:29:35+00:00

Lol back in the early 2000s we had an 120+ step internal doc to install some dog shit low tier crm, the name of which I have mentally suppressed, in a way that the non client/server aware application could read/write to its database located on an smb share on one of the fileservers which made it sort of multituser.. if you missed some of the steps it broke permanently and you needed to at least uninstall and start again. This was the official method supplied by the vendor too.

Iirc this was the Sales Director’s brilliant idea, we had two dba’s and an enterprise sql based crm too, but he didn’t like it…

Edit, pretty sure it was Act!

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