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The thread is about companies that are dead to you. The idea that Microsoft should be included because people don’t like the OS is for me silly because a) the OS is a tiny piece of what they do - particularly for the domestic market and b) if the OS is causing woes in a corporate environment then it is the sys admins that are at fault not Microsoft.

If you know what endpoint (intune), modern authentication (app registrations), CA, Entra, Purview, Sentinel etc are it would make sense. Physical infrastructure is even slowing becoming obsolete. Pretty soon a couple of switches and a router is all that most sites will need. You don’t need phones or servers, maybe just a few printers. Run whatever OS you want, on whatever device, from wherever you like and it can all be centrally managed including app deployment, SSO to the applications you want with remediation of software failures or security issues. Its pretty powerful stuff.

I also work in IT and what people run as an OS is becoming less and less important to us, nor is the device they are using whether it’s an iPad or a PC. Microsoft are supplying the glue to hold all of this together and make it secure. CA, modern auth, Ark, sentinel, intune(endpoint), office 365, team’s voice etc etc etc Btw a properly implemented auto pilot deployment with a sys admin that knows how to use endpoint will solve all the problems you have listed.

Microsoft has moved a long, long way from a PC operating system. I can’t explain just how much an E5 license brings to an organisation. Microsoft has been phenomenal in reading the direction of travel in technology.

Just to complicate matters I prefer Birchwood Casey Tru Oil Used mainly for gunstocks but find the finish nicer than Tung or Danish. From the smell I would say it contains Tung but isn’t as thick to apply.

No more stupid than grown men having alter ego’s and daft costumes (Kiss) covering themselves in flour and dressing like steam punk cowboys (Nephilim) getting all pretentious about mime (Bowie) pretending to be gangsters still when they attend business meetings and have property portfolios and live in the most affluent parts of LA rather than carrying guns in Compton (too many to mention). Why not?

leave in silence - depeche mode

https://www.c247.live/intro

No expert in this but I have heard of workplace management software called C247. Think it’s some SaaS based offering used by a bunch of different companies/sectors for vetting and management of employees?

It’s fairly tricky to predict the future but I suspect that there is some truth in this. I think the big impact will be on people like session musicians or guys that rely on royalties or commissions from media companies etc. Rather than paying for a bass player to stitch together the new pop sensations songs or songwriter to make the new TV series or console/computer games sound track, just use AI. I guess that there is some argument that Rap and sampling has already cut out the middle man and as you have outlined maybe AI will take this one step further. My own experience with AI so far is it’s a useful short cut but the old programming phrase of garbage in, garbage out does apply. If the person using it doesn’t have knowledge and ability then they will produce unreliable data and garbage output. Ultimately will this garbage output overtake the reliable and useful stored output and become self defeating? I guess time will tell.

And 30 years later the majority of staff still can’t use the computer and phone their company issued to them properly After over 20 years in IT I haven’t seen much evidence that the average employee is putting up much of a fight to stop the robots taking over. Edit: I can’t find it now but there was an AI created short film “starring” Will Smith and The Rock . One year later it was recreated and the leap forward was astonishing. I’m not sure whether to be impressed or disturbed by the massive leap forward in such a short timeframe.

real wild child - iggy pop

the walk - the cure

one step beyond - madness

Tool remain one of my favourite bands. For me Justin Chancellor could be playing one note and hitting the strings with a wet fish as long as as he was still creating that sound and driving that juggernaut forward.

Staying off topic on Basschat? No chance. Never happens.

Sadly apart from a DDOS attack every major IT outage or incident in my career has involved email and a click happy user giving away financial data, credit card details, passwords etc despite constant training and the fact that 2 minutes of thought would have prevented an obvious spoof/phish.

I suggest that you google DHCP and IP leases. At best you put a sticking plaster on the situation for a short period. At worst you may have lost a bunch of customers. Unless you are dealing with a seriously clueless scammer that lives in a single occupancy dwelling, pays for a dedicated fixed public IP and has never heard about VPN you are not likely to achieve much by IP blocking a suspect scammer. For persistent offenders (usually mass distribution of spam or malware) companies do take action but it’s a game of cat and mouse. Not sure what is wrong with WFH? My current company has over 40 sites, a datacenter and various cloud based tenancies. My previous company had contracts all over the world. I would frequently find myself in the early hours connecting to resources in New York, London or Budapest. My home office was as adequate as anywhere else (though I do wish that they would let me do the work from somewhere warm and cheap.

You would need a little technical knowledge around public vs private IPs, NAT and a bunch of other technobabble to understand why this is not as simple as it sounds.

I started a reply along these lines but binned it as I guessed at the fairly predictable outcome.

Having worked in technology for a while now email is becoming ever more problematic for businesses. Spam, spoofing, phishing and layers of protection used by ISPs and businesses themselves to counteract the menace, such as Mimecast and numerous MS 365 protections makes delivery of email problematic and a bit of a headache for businesses. The issue may well be down to whatever technology they employ to protect themselves having settings that need to be relaxed to prevent mail getting trapped. This is a fine balance as opening the net too widely can cause chaos if the wrong mail gets through the system. Basically email is no longer a guaranteed way of getting in touch with a business. it’s also a method of communication that doesn’t engage with the younger generation, so I am not surprised that it’s not a priority and social media is preferred. Sandberg appears to be a company that makes high quality instruments and have a high regard and good reputation for customer satisfaction so maybe worth persevering with unless you are on a tight schedule?

My attitude is that blaming heavy metal or computer games for the ills of society via dodgy news channels is a little disingenuous. So I thought it was a parody of this and a little amusing hence the glib comment. Think we will let this one lie now and get back to reggae.

If I have offended you sorry. Im not a fan of Rupert Murdoch, News Corp or Fox news. I find their output to be a little distasteful. Others are free to form their own opinions.