Posts by Pete Sime
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WOTY: Marmageddon, Fink.
WOTD: Obama (who'd have thought a decade ago a black guy would win the presidency in a landslide. Twice.)
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Rachel Maddow examines Obama's record. She concludes that it is a strong one and wonders why he didn't campaign on it.
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OnPoint: H4x0rs and You, in reply to Islander,
how omnivourously we are interested in...us.
Quite. I was looking through the Grey River Argus on Papers Past. The outbreak of World War One merited page 5 coverage.
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Does the Maggie Barry rule of parliamentary commentary now apply to media criticism?
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I think between the Leveson Inquiry, Gina Rinehart's Fairfax shenanigans and the commercial imperative that infuses New Zealand's media, the public has a right to be suspicious of journalists in the Anglo-Saxon media culture. Outrage and sensationalism gets bums on seats and the more of that, the happier a network board is with the advertising revenue.
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OnPoint: MSD's Leaky Servers, in reply to Lucy Bailey,
I was on the PSA team at the National Library when we merged with Internal Affairs and had a number of meetings with Brendan Boyle. He struck me as a forthright and capable chief executive. The buck does stop with him on operational matters, though.
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OnPoint: MSD's Leaky Servers, in reply to David Hood,
Hey, you use Calibri too? *fistbump*
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OnPoint: MSD's Leaky Servers, in reply to Deborah,
Same thing goes for computers. Keith lost me at about, “just using the Open File dialogue in Microsoft Office, you could map any unsecured computer on the network.”
Fire up Word. Go to File->Open. There's a box with all the folders and drives you can open a file from. On your computer the dialog box would have areas like "My Documents" "Desktop" and "My Computer". There's also "My Network Places". Presumably Keith navigated through that to computers and files he should not have been able to access. This wasn't super 1337 ("leet" or elite) geekery. It was using Word in the way it was designed to be used.
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I wonder if they contracted someone to set up the terminals or did it in house.
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It doesn't exactly make a lot of business sense, either. Why alienate women if you want as many subscribers to an IPO as possible?