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• In memoriam

  Posted on September 18th, 2020 at 19:20 woody Comment on the AskWoody Lounge

  

  Other

• IBM System/370 on a… Raspberry Pi

  Posted on September 5th, 2020 at 07:26 woody Comment on the AskWoody Lounge

  

  Astounding.

  @mainframed767 on Twitter just tweeted this:

  I have been running a full IBM System/370 Mainframe on a $20 Raspberry Pi Zero for ~5 months. Thousands of lines of COBOL and HLASM running flawless. Tested an entire bank’s mainframe COBOL on it.

  

  All he’s missing is the 029 card puncher and the console typewriter.

  Other IBM 370, Raspberry Pi

• Zoom is down

  Posted on August 24th, 2020 at 08:30 woody Comment on the AskWoody Lounge

  For those of you trying to get your kids hooked into their Zoom classes this morning, I have a bit of bad news, at least in the US.

  

  From the status.zoom.us site:

  

  It’s now working here in middle Tennessee. More than two hours on the ropes.

   

  Other Zoom outage

• The TRS-80 turns 43 years old

  Posted on August 3rd, 2020 at 13:56 woody Comment on the AskWoody Lounge

  

  Released Aug 3, 1977.

  Other TRS-80

• Remember the Twitter accounts that got pwned, with a Bitcoin come-on?

  Posted on July 31st, 2020 at 13:35 woody Comment on the AskWoody Lounge

  Nation-state, right? These superhackers took over the Twitter accounts of Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Apple, Kanye West, Mike Bloomberg, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Uber, Warren Buffet, and many others.

  Looks like the mastermind is a world-renowned ace North Korean hacker… oh… wait a sec…

  Here’s what an NBC affiliate in Tampa now says:

  A Tampa teenager is in jail after being accused of hacking several high-profile Twitter accounts, according to the Hillsborough State Attorney’s Office… 30 felony charges were filed against the 17-year-old this week for “scamming people across America” regarding the Twitter hack that happened on July 15.

  Imagine what could have been.

  UPDATE: Brian Krebs has more of the story. Three people charged.

  Other Twitter hack

• Massive Twitter hack: Don’t send bitcoin in response to a Twitter request

  Posted on July 15th, 2020 at 17:23 woody Comment on the AskWoody Lounge

  This is happening right now…

  The Twitter accounts of Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Apple, Kanye West, Mike Bloomberg, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Uber and many more were compromised by persons unknown. They’re sending out tweets that look like this:

  

  

  Not sure how Twitter is going to fix it.

  P.S. You can watch the Bitcoin account get larger here. As of 3.30 pm Pacific time, it’s at 12.86030607 bitcoin, which is worth roughly $118,000.

  Other Bitcoin, Twitter

• Another revolution around the sun

  Posted on July 14th, 2020 at 07:31 woody Comment on the AskWoody Lounge

  

  AskWoody.com first appeared on July 14, 2004

  Things have, uh, changed a bit in the interim

  Other 16th birthday, AskWoody anniversary

• Unconscious bias and hiring

  Posted on July 13th, 2020 at 01:45 Jamie Comment on the AskWoody Lounge
  

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  Diversity

  Unconscious bias and hiring

  

  By Amy Babinchak

  One effect of the protests that followed the death of George Floyd is that the term “unconscious bias” is now pasted into the consciousness of most people.

  This includes your clients. Last week, a client called me out after I used the terms “whitelist” and “blacklist” in a blog post about changes to email quarantine that we were rolling out.

  My use of those terms was in no way racially motivated, yet she was right to draw my attention to it. It’s one of many cases where white is used to represent good, and black is bad. We don’t mean it in a racial sense when we use those terms, but that’s where the unconscious part of unconscious bias comes in.

  But what I really want to talk about is how bias affects hiring. I served on the CompTIA Advancing Women in Technology board for four years, and during that time, I was awakened to the bias that causes women to not apply for job openings, to be passed over for interviews, and to leave IT for some other career.

  Read the full story in AskWoody Plus Newsletter 17.27.0 (2020-07-013).

  AskWoody Plus membership, Other Unconscious Bias
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