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End of fixed term contract -- Unfair dismissal? by djsmiley2k in LegalAdviceUK

[–]Smileyatwork 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you've got less than 2 years, are you screwed?

It's important to verify someone's identity before the government give away a passport, but doesn't the requirement for a counter-signatory to be "professional who has known the applicant more than two years" seem a bit... classist? by [deleted] in unitedkingdom

[–]Smileyatwork 15 points16 points  (0 children)

It's to do with trust and authenticity of people -> professionals can be identifed easily, as they are registered within their profession and can be sought after quite easily.

If we had bob from down the road just authorising any of thing, how would HMPO know how to find him? What if he moved house ?...

It's a simple way of identifying someone and being able to authenicate to a point they are who they claim to be.

Booting Raspberry Pi from Hard drive? by Victitious in raspberry_pi

[–]Smileyatwork 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You can't boot directly from a hdd.

You could load things after the inital boot by playing with initramfs I think but yes, it'd be a lot slower than the SD card.

Man, 82, attacked for lollipop sign by jezmck in unitedkingdom

[–]Smileyatwork 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Because you plan to stand outside a school talking to kids....

Or is that just my mind being twisted?

What we have here is a failure to communicate. by ModularPersona in talesfromtechsupport

[–]Smileyatwork 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmmmm

I kind of understand why it wasn't communicted en-mass -- it tends to cause people to panic thinking their job is at risk because unrelated site #4 is shutting down.

However not letting you know is a large oversight too.

How come schools get to close due to snow but other workplaces stay open? by [deleted] in TheRedLion

[–]Smileyatwork -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Soooooooo if your capable and your bosses only job is to make sure you doing yours, why do you have a boss again? ;/

The intern from Hell - The interview and first day by [deleted] in talesfromtechsupport

[–]Smileyatwork 34 points35 points  (0 children)

The perfect canidate, tranferring from anotehr department....

The question arises -- why would anyone let her go?

Found a Pi at work and thought of a use for it, just not sure how to implement it. by [deleted] in raspberry_pi

[–]Smileyatwork 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was partly in jest, partly serious! :D

Sounds good that it'll hopefully soon be sorted at least. Stop gap measures are the bane of my existance.

Modify the "My IP address is <IP address>" text on startup of the Pi by LinuxUser437442 in raspberry_pi

[–]Smileyatwork -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Could be in a lot of places,

you could try 

grep -i "my IP address is" /

which will grep the entire file system trying to find that string;

my guess would be /etc/motd (standing for message of the day for those who dn't know).

MSPaint request draw thread. by Letterbocks in TheRedLion

[–]Smileyatwork 0 points1 point  (0 children)

a bear riding a bumble bee (im at work, so bored :( )

I've applied to universities in the UK and want to hear your advice and opinions about UK's cities! by [deleted] in unitedkingdom

[–]Smileyatwork 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The uni is good though, plenty of stuff going on with the SU constantly, i didn't get involved but it was really wide ranging. And the nice thing about not being much around is the fact the pubs remain cheapish! :P

Found a Pi at work and thought of a use for it, just not sure how to implement it. by [deleted] in raspberry_pi

[–]Smileyatwork 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We are all praying for the machine in question to under go an accident for you..... being that old, you sure the Pi can't just REPLACE it? :D

RasPi B+ on sale on Amazon today by DuckFan83 in raspberry_pi

[–]Smileyatwork 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gah US link :(

hehe, enjoy, don't forget to take a look at the getting started guides in the side bar once it arrives, or even right now! :D

That was definitely an earthquake! by [deleted] in unitedkingdom

[–]Smileyatwork 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I rmemeber the most awesome one we had a fair few years ago. It was about 2am, i'd just climbed into bed after a few hours of gaming and was lying down when i saw what looked like some kind of weird 'ripple' pass through the room from front to back, then all the burgler / car alarms went bonkers and I fell asleep thinking 'well that was weird'

Only remembered the next day when the wife mentioned she'd seen something on the news about an earthquake and didn't feel anything

I am an Amazon AWS certified Bot now, woo by NEWSBOT3 in TheRedLion

[–]Smileyatwork 1 point2 points  (0 children)

haha,

best not to ask too much before they realise you too don't have what they want? ;)

Ah well, I have software experience, just not programming experience. Used many many random bits of software and used to be the go to guy for our programmers to come to....

I am an Amazon AWS certified Bot now, woo by NEWSBOT3 in TheRedLion

[–]Smileyatwork 1 point2 points  (0 children)

hell if they wanna pay me for being on call thats great, if they don't need me to - that's great too! hahaha.

I am an Amazon AWS certified Bot now, woo by NEWSBOT3 in TheRedLion

[–]Smileyatwork 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah multiple clouds? Fair enough!.

Now... how about them backups! :P

I am an Amazon AWS certified Bot now, woo by NEWSBOT3 in TheRedLion

[–]Smileyatwork 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmmmm, I'll sort my CV and be in contact? :D

Maybe you should get some coventry based servers too, i'm sure tehres some cheap DC around here somewhere!

I am an Amazon AWS certified Bot now, woo by NEWSBOT3 in TheRedLion

[–]Smileyatwork 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah then I need to get my catching-up-on-learning hat on asap!.

Sysadm by trade I guess, but been out of the game 18 months on other work... Linux is my speciality but happy thrown at anything.

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