Posts by Kyle Matthews
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F**k. Me. That sounds like a serious amount of work. How long would it take to implement?
Thousands of hours. There's some IT guys in Wellington who are having the worst day of their life so far, and it's not looking any better ahead of them.
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In other words AIG was negotiating with the NZRU whilst it was majority owned by the Federal government and had not repaid its loans.
I'm not sure why that is a problem?
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Jack someone.
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Yes. If the admin passwords and VM information then there's a whole heap more damage that could be done for anyone with decent IT admin knowledge.
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I’m still appalled that these kiosks weren’t set up as “kiosk-style” machines, of which there are copious examples around the place, with accounts that are basically “guest” accounts (assuming they need to be in the Windows security domain for other reasons).
Yeah. Presumably they have access to the MSD network for printing, you'd struggle to think of another reason why they'd need access beyond internet access - plenty of stuff on the various web sites with forms, jobs etc.
Yea, you’d probably have to crack out the ‘Save as’ file dialogue box for that one.
Probably not from word, which wouldn't do that for pdfs yet. If they have adobe on the machines that could be possible.
Also note this screen shot of the WINZ site taken a couple of minutes ago:
Current News [...]
Don't give too much away
09 October 2012
Find out how to keep your information safe so you don't become a victim of identity theft -
Keith mentions he could “map any unsecured computer on the network”. Which seems (slightly) more than just going to File Open and navigating to network drives?
Yes. But mapping is just a way of taking a server that you access frequently on the local network (any one of the computers on that list), and making a virtual link to it. So instead of going to Network Places > ServerName >FolderName > SubFolder you can just access it like it's your local hard drive on your computer. So it's a matter of convenience for future access, not required to have access at all - anyone can navigate through the network places folder.
Also, hearing that the files were writeable (editable).
Yes. Though they're pdf files so probably not editable on the machine as that requires specialist software. Whether you can overwrite a file with a pdf that you've brought in...? I'd struggle to think how you could do that from within the microsoft office open file dialogue box.
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He was pretty good in Dunedin last night - his own stuff isn't really for me, and the lefty preaching in between annoys me for some reason, but his Guthrie set was very good, and I was quite prepared not to like that. He's a very good story teller.
My partner is possibly his biggest fan in the world, and was bouncing all day in anticipation. She was at the venue shortly after the doors opened, sat in the front row with a book to hold the best seats, and gave him a flower shortly after intermission. She couldn't convince him to kiss her in the post-gig meeting however. Good birthday present on my part.
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Interesting that he said that the ratings were not a prime concern because they're selling all the advertising that they have available, and they're making a profit in the show. Does anyone know if Close Up is in the same boat?
I would presume that if your ratings continue to get higher, you sell the same amount of advertising for more money, and can either return more money to your parent company or spend more money on improving the quality.
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See, I’m way less annoyed by the Tui stuff than by Moa’s dumb branding. The Tui ads are amiable. What Moa keeps on doing just makes me think of some tosspot from Parnell trying too hard.
Tui's advertising campaign is... well it is what it is. No doubt it works for a lot of people. It is however sadly let down by the quality of the beer. Moa produce decent beer so it's disappointing that they're undermining that by being dicks.
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Interesting business decision. The NZRU is probably looking for more money to pay their top players and secure their long term future. They probably put a lot more value in their brand in terms of ability to retain McCaw, Carter etc in NZ and in black than in the clean jersey. An eight figure sum is a lot of money to do that with.
I do wonder if they've lost value out of the Adidas sponsorship with it no longer being the only sponsor on the jersey though. Ugly as hell logo though.
