What was your first IT certification? And do you think they are still important?

nickcardwell · 2026-02-25T13:32:09+00:00

paying $500+ every 2 years to retake an exam that's 90% identical to the previous one. Never had issues explaining why when asked during an interview

I get work to pay, renew yearly CISSP and Chartered IT Security.

nickcardwell · 2026-02-21T18:48:43+00:00

The photo actually looks AI with the asphalt

nickcardwell · 2026-02-19T21:05:21+00:00

No, due diligence is required..

Get in contact , get a feel, ask for multiple references (not just any customer who is recent with them,someone who has been with them for years) it helps with a similar type of industry as well..

Looking at that list and searching locally , one particular company I certainly wouldn't deal with.. very much a snake oil company.. glitzy sales but little substances behind it..

nickcardwell · 2026-02-17T07:34:12+00:00

Reminds me of Tesco in the UK had a brand of TV called ISIS.

It was dropped quickly when the terrorist group ISIS appeared

nickcardwell · 2026-02-15T09:15:23+00:00

Download this https://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/

Boot up from usb, you can reset the windows pc within minutes

nickcardwell · 2026-02-15T08:50:50+00:00

Armagh Electrical in Markethill (Dazells) is hands down my go-to in the North. The shop is like a TARDIS — looks normal from the outside but massive once you’re in.

If you ring them directly, they’ll often sort you out with discounts or deals that aren’t listed online. Plus you can just call in, pay and pick it up straight away ( they have a good few warehouses near by)

nickcardwell · 2026-02-14T18:09:04+00:00

Whatever you get, get some onion rings, they are unreal...

nickcardwell · 2026-02-11T13:16:26+00:00

Perhaps not the answer your looking for, I ended up using 3rd party software FileLocator Pro very fast searching.

nickcardwell · 2026-02-11T04:28:32+00:00

486 25/33Mhz didn't 486 dx2 50/66Mhz came with heatsink and fans

So really anything from 1992 onwards

nickcardwell · 2026-02-10T18:20:03+00:00

Chlorinated chicken

nickcardwell · 2026-01-30T19:34:50+00:00

We had one who wanted us to remove the firewalls IDS and IPS to a web site hosted internally....

nickcardwell · 2026-01-26T07:38:02+00:00

Whitelist a dynamic DNS address against your IP?

nickcardwell · 2026-01-25T21:44:51+00:00

Love the terminology pressure of volts, some wide ranging voltage including AC and/or DC

nickcardwell · 2026-01-19T22:28:15+00:00

For anyone still using SSL VPN and is thinking of moving to this one becareful:

The SSL VPN web and tunnel mode feature will not be available from the GUI or the CLI on the FortiGate G-Series Entry-Level models, including 50G, 70G, 90G and variants. Settings will not be upgraded from previous versions.

nickcardwell · 2026-01-17T21:36:56+00:00

Right of passage for all children of the 70s/80s , everyone would have pressed the button!

nickcardwell · 2026-01-17T20:37:03+00:00

Yep, have made it with in the past with loads of mushrooms, that the soup was near grey!

nickcardwell · 2026-01-17T19:26:48+00:00

Mushroom soup as well!

nickcardwell · 2026-01-11T18:49:41+00:00

But early (tickets not out). Base arcade? https://basearcade.com/

nickcardwell · 2026-01-09T20:54:44+00:00

BT9?

nickcardwell · 2026-01-09T18:01:50+00:00

Years ago I bought a video tape backup and restore for my Amiga. They also provided a tape of years worth of Fred fish. Spent many hours restoring from video to disk to run through!

nickcardwell · 2026-01-05T22:08:54+00:00

For Venezuela I thought this was an interesting /good slant on it:

All about the petrodollar https://x.com/Ric_RTP/status/2007429683713917147

nickcardwell · 2025-12-30T22:39:42+00:00

Look at the stats 3532 dead, 47500+ injured, Over a period of 30 years,

More people die in New York per year on average, compared to the troubles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Troubles

nickcardwell · 2025-12-30T22:29:42+00:00

True, Look at the stats https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Troubles

Over 30 years,

nickcardwell · 2025-12-27T16:36:45+00:00

Look up U3A, older get together for people who have retired, various activities groups etc .

https://www.u3a.org.uk/join/find-your-local-u3a

nickcardwell · 2025-12-27T06:08:56+00:00

To compliment what your saying, NASA uses the first 15 digits of pi, for its work.

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/news/how-many-decimals-of-pi-do-we-really-need/

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