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• Arecibo Observatory Tower collapse

  Posted on December 3, 2020 at 16:04 CST by Susan Bradley • Comment in the Forums

  Off topic post for the day – wow what a view of when the radio observatory collapsed.

  There was a drone inspecting the Tower 4 Cables when the collapse started so we get a close up on the cables breaking, check the second video segment. pic.twitter.com/Qw37Z5byWg

  — Scott Manley (@DJSnM) December 3, 2020

  Other Patch Lady Posts

• Today is…. uh…

  Posted on November 13, 2020 at 11:44 CST by Susan Bradley • Comment in the Forums

  I kinda agree.  Let’s stay safe out here.

  https://twitter.com/jjdives/status/1327279735412408322

  Other Patch Lady Posts

• Patch Lady – what’s a GUID

  Posted on October 9, 2020 at 21:56 CDT by Susan Bradley • Comment in the Forums

  So the other day Microsoft indicated that they will be slightly changing the release notes – better known as knowledge base or KB’s as we often call them.

  The KB ID will now be in the link and there will be a new thing in it that will look a little strange.

  It’s called a GUID or Globally Unique Identifier.  This is a unique number or value that is used to identify something.  You can actually generate your own for various things.

  It is a 128-bit integer number used to identify resources. The term GUID is generally used by developers working with Microsoft technologies, while UUID is used everywhere else.

  Bottom line if starting next week when we get the October updates you see a funky thing like “b8a2d0c6-a297-4ed2-b59b-9ccc0ad35eca” on the last part of the URL (or uniform resource locator), just be aware that this is new.

  Other Patch Lady Posts

• In memoriam

  Posted on September 18, 2020 at 19:20 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  

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• IBM System/370 on a… Raspberry Pi

  Posted on September 5, 2020 at 07:26 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  

  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 24, 2020 at 08:30 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  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 3, 2020 at 13:56 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  

  Released Aug 3, 1977.

  Other TRS-80

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

  Posted on July 31, 2020 at 13:35 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  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 15, 2020 at 17:23 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  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 14, 2020 at 07:31 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  

  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 13, 2020 at 01:45 CDT by Jamie • Comment in the Forums
  

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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 Newsletter, Other Unconscious Bias

• Is the AskWoody RSS feed working for you?

  Posted on July 12, 2020 at 14:28 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  If you don’t know what an RSS feed is, don’t worry about it, but I’m having trouble getting my RSS reader to work with AskWoody.

  Anybody else out there have a similar problem?

  Any error messages?

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