If you own a Seagate Backup Plus Hub you know what I’m talking about. That continuous and annoying clicking clunking sound while idle. This is really annoying. If you have the drive running on a nice solid desk shell the sound becomes amplified enough to keep you awake at night from two rooms away. There have been many a post on this subject. Seagate appears to be hiring Keller MBAs who cut costs without any … That Annoying Seagate ClunkingRead more
Thank You Sir May I Have Another
Tales that just make you want to scream and other humiliating kicks to the crotch.
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You Are the Security Breach
If you are using XML, JSON, or the other trendy free text data transmission formats loved by script kiddies, you are the security breach. It’s possible your company doesn’t know it yet, but they will. Seriously people, I’ve seen XML doing this: <ssn>123-45-6789</ssn> How about JSON doing this? { “firstName”: “John”, “lastName”: “Smith”, “ssn”: “123-45-6789”, Laugh all you want, script kiddies code systems up like this all the time. They never went to school for … You Are the Security BreachRead more
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This Labor Day We Can Thank United Steelworkers
Congress has been too busy taking bribes to do anything about the H-1B loop hole or the mass replacement of U.S. IT workers with much lower paid H-1B visa workers. Worse yet how this oppression helps turn otherwise good people into people with terrorist sympathies. They work each day making $60K or less right beside people who are making $160K or more doing the same job. The visa workers who are salaried also end up … This Labor Day We Can Thank United SteelworkersRead more
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Submission Rules
This is an updated version of a post I made on Interesting Authors blog also called Submission Rules. There is a limit to how geeky I can get when writing posts there as most come to read some interesting prose and a few tips from the trenches when it comes to writing. Featured image by succo from Pixabay ==== Makes you go hmmm… A while back an email with a link to this arrived. Yes, the … Submission RulesRead more
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Qt 6 – Remove Console from JavaScript and QML
I originally sent this to the qt-interest mailing list but haven’t seen it bubble out to the world so re-posting here and, hopefully many other places. === This is becoming a growing issue in the industry. The Console object needs to be removed from Qt. The project I walked onto I had to spend a week digging it out because it violates the coding standards but that story was pushed deep into the backlog and … Qt 6 – Remove Console from JavaScript and QMLRead more