Recent content by Lozbinator

Rosie, Excellent point about age bias. Discrimination is not legal where I am, and age is no exception. I offer the flip-side of the age-bias 'coin'. I am a young female with only a handful of experience and a bachelor's degree. This in itself is not the problem - the biggest problem is...

Hi All, I just wanted to ask anybody who has ever suffered from repetitive strain injury as a result of working in IT / with computers to share their story. Clearly this problem requires help from a medical professional, but how was the problem dealt with? Did the solution work well for you...

Excellent point skiflyer, although it was one I didn't think I needed to mention, being common sense.

Naturally systems were patched as soon as the patch was available. It is not sensible to leave security holes in systems. Particularly when your systems are managed by a large international IT consulting company (not a good look for them, really).

Interesting angle, clarkin, however I wanted to note that if there is a security hole, and people are made aware of it but there is no virus activity, people still run the risk of intrusion if they don't install a patch.... so, anybody who is security conscious or has reason to protect...

Hi pctechnician. Just out of curiosity, why not do both? What is stopping you from becoming skilled and/or certified in both. I imagine that would provide a fruitful career, as you would be versatile. Admittedly, this would require a fair bit of commitment on your part to get skilled up on...

lionelhill I think you're right, and you have a good point. These people sit in our society and our economy and daydream about how great it would be do inflict such damage, but do you think if a serious virus hit their machine they'd be impressed with it's author, happy about the result, or...

Perhaps slightly off-topic here, but would you believe that I once knew somebody who disliked what they called "globalisation" and "capitalism" and government so much that they used to often talk about "how cool it would be" to release viruses that do severe damage...

I think I can understand Kjonnnn's point. Sometimes you write a question in a forum when you have looked up books and various online references, and Google just throws back "spaghetti". You may read the "answers" in such sources, and yet still make little sense of them, or...

Hi Everybody, I have a question for you all. I am involved in a project where my role is to compile a configuration plan for a new system, which is agreed upon by all other members in our daily workshops. It is almost time for the plan to be completed and 'signed off'. My question to you is...

I think something tha tneeds to be remembered bigpaullyndefan is that the generalisation of "a lot of IT professionals" is your opinion only.... and perhaps the opinion of others, but I certainly know very few IT professionals who dont care if they have lives or not. I find it to be...

Hi All, I'm trying to create a directory in my python script, the following is a snippet of some of my code: import shutil import os import copy import os.path import os.mkdir ..... for folder in wf: mkdir("C:/CorVuReports/" + folder) ..... Testing prior to adding...

Will the system dispense some sort of lolly / chocolate to me when I'm getting drowsy? A sugar fix will help! If so then that would be a great thing! But seriously, I agree this seems like an extremely distracting use of technology. If I want to hear my voice messages, read my email etc I'll...

Curiosity has gotten the better of me rexxxy - do you mean that the women called in sick more often than the men? If so how much more often and why was this a problem? I won't flame you for what you said, I suspect you are right. I've never had to work with a significant number of other women...

tychochip, could you please provide us with a URL so we can have a look at this site? Thanks.