etc
must be HNY time or something.
renewals of ZZ9, IEEE and SubBrit etc , not sure why other than inertia.
re 2020: meh.
renewals of ZZ9, IEEE and SubBrit etc , not sure why other than inertia.
re 2020: meh.
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Hello again LJ.
Ghods, a much nicer user experience than the shit that is FartBook. Pity we all decamped over there 'stead of here.
"oh but LJ is owned by the Russians!". So zarking what, you're owned by Palantir / Cambridge Analyticia for whoever stumps up the dosh, FB is owned by the Americans, etc.
threaded responses to msgs, such luxury. Fewer bullshit flashing images and or videos, yay.
Ah, nostalgia's just not as good as it all used to be.
Ghods, a much nicer user experience than the shit that is FartBook. Pity we all decamped over there 'stead of here.
"oh but LJ is owned by the Russians!". So zarking what, you're owned by Palantir / Cambridge Analyticia for whoever stumps up the dosh, FB is owned by the Americans, etc.
threaded responses to msgs, such luxury. Fewer bullshit flashing images and or videos, yay.
Ah, nostalgia's just not as good as it all used to be.
peeling wallpaper
cracked paint, rotting timbers, decaying bits.
So that's the medical conditions covered.
Meantime, the show must go on.
So that's the medical conditions covered.
Meantime, the show must go on.
zarking Lenovo / MS
So much for a relaxed day.
attempts to create factory recover disk / media for my Lenovo ThinkPad W530 laptop are met with
"You can have only one copy of the Microsoft Window Operating system. The Product Recovery Media Creator will exit now."
WTF?
Which fuckwitted cockwombling excuse of a "human" at Lenovo decided it was a good idea to limit the number of factory recovery install media I can create?
I wanted to create another to use this time as I had reused the original USB memory stick I created for this a long time ago.
So a quick google and a furtle and a cmd prompt "echo 0 > X:\FactoryRecovery\RECOVERY.INI:Done" sorts it out and lets me create the media.
Who are these amazing knobheads who generate these ridiculous quasi-legal-and-barely-thoughout (pointlessly limiting) policies and make such stupid decisions that cause so much stress and anger? Someone hold them down and beat some clues into them!
attempts to create factory recover disk / media for my Lenovo ThinkPad W530 laptop are met with
"You can have only one copy of the Microsoft Window Operating system. The Product Recovery Media Creator will exit now."
WTF?
Which fuckwitted cockwombling excuse of a "human" at Lenovo decided it was a good idea to limit the number of factory recovery install media I can create?
I wanted to create another to use this time as I had reused the original USB memory stick I created for this a long time ago.
So a quick google and a furtle and a cmd prompt "echo 0 > X:\FactoryRecovery\RECOVERY.INI:Done" sorts it out and lets me create the media.
Who are these amazing knobheads who generate these ridiculous quasi-legal-and-barely-thoughout (pointlessly limiting) policies and make such stupid decisions that cause so much stress and anger? Someone hold them down and beat some clues into them!
end of contract #2
well, coming to end of current contract at Ericsson in Stockholm,
1st was 1year from 2013-12-01,
2nd was a renewal for 6mth from 2014-12-01,
3rd now is another renewal for 3mth from 2015-06-01.
At this rate of halving duration we'll be renewing for a day at a time soon!
Alas this shorter contract is my decision, as Ericsson are shedding lots of permies and letting contractors go, I was on the kill list (as I have a now unapproved agent supplying me to e/// due to a different e/// reorginastion) till someone spotted I was rather critical on their current urgent project so they wangled getting me in (with yet another agent in the supply chain between me and e///, 6 now, zarking ridiculous...) but at a almost unacceptable rate cut, so I said I'd do the next 3 months to see the BIOS development on the project to a good handover to production / support point, but not the requested 7 months to the year end.
Hey ho.
Wonder what the place will look like in 3 months time...
1st was 1year from 2013-12-01,
2nd was a renewal for 6mth from 2014-12-01,
3rd now is another renewal for 3mth from 2015-06-01.
At this rate of halving duration we'll be renewing for a day at a time soon!
Alas this shorter contract is my decision, as Ericsson are shedding lots of permies and letting contractors go, I was on the kill list (as I have a now unapproved agent supplying me to e/// due to a different e/// reorginastion) till someone spotted I was rather critical on their current urgent project so they wangled getting me in (with yet another agent in the supply chain between me and e///, 6 now, zarking ridiculous...) but at a almost unacceptable rate cut, so I said I'd do the next 3 months to see the BIOS development on the project to a good handover to production / support point, but not the requested 7 months to the year end.
Hey ho.
Wonder what the place will look like in 3 months time...
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Ah, the end of an era (/error :), CastleVille is closing down. Yes, it's one of those annoying FB "post things that piss your friends off" games, bit I limited that to only letting it post to friends who positively didn't mind seeing the requests, and I made a habit of deleting the CastleVille droppings from my timeline from time to time (OCD much?). I'll miss it and the occasional burst of things to do (I had done all the quests over the past 3? years it'd been there) when a new quest was launched. But most, I'll miss the saying Hello to my pet rock Skippy in the game!
( au revoir Skippy!Collapse )
Ah well, plus ca change, or whatever...
( au revoir Skippy!Collapse )
Ah well, plus ca change, or whatever...
BIOS "engineers" rant.
Dear Microsoft. Just fuck off and die already, there's a good company?
I hate Secure Boot, guaranteed to fuck up anything.
Also want to find the Asus BIOS engineers and bash their heads together.
I want to boot the UEFI Shell from a memory stick to do some UEFI Application development tests of code I'm writing. Stick is MBR formatted so Secure Boot should have nothing to do with it, FAT32 partition, and have done so before from my Asus Z97-K test motherboard after previously lots of angry swearing and Setup change attempts at the zarking thing, but this time it just plain refuses to let me boot UEFI Shell.
Removed the keys (PK KEK DB DBX) from SCU menu, set OS to 'other' and the Secure Boot status says "disabled".
yet try to boot the UEFI shell and a popup comes up saying "secure boot is enabled, turn it off to boot an untrusted OS".
grrrr.
Tried flashing latest BIOS, yup, that's still as buggy. tried setting admin/usr pswds as some googled forums suggest, nope, still secure boot disabled but not letting anything boot as secure boot says no.
double grrrr...
sometimes, steam is good!
We like Steam. Coupled with Humble Bundle, and buying just the $1 bunch with occasional splurges on more when a particular game leaps out. And then delay whilst finding time to get round to playing them at some point in the future. No idea when I HumbleBundled The Dream machine, but I'm rather enjoying it. Cardboard and Clay animation and a point and click adventure.
After games, its back to UK company VAT return & pay the corp tax sometime, UK personal task return, Sweden Skatteverket stuff, moving from apartment to rented flat, etc...
Cool, LJ has a "post this post to FB" thing as well.
After games, its back to UK company VAT return & pay the corp tax sometime, UK personal task return, Sweden Skatteverket stuff, moving from apartment to rented flat, etc...
Cool, LJ has a "post this post to FB" thing as well.
Polar Expedition (not quite)
For the latest contract I'm working at Ericsson in Stockholm on x86 UEFI BIOS ; my office is apparently SEKI 30 06 525A (Ericsson's naming convention (probably global) with SE=Sweden, KI=Kista, 30=building#30 (which is at 6, Färögatan, Kista, Stockholm) 06=floor6, 525A=corridor 5 (it's a weird building), office 25 [I am not a number, I am a free man! well, not quite free, but remarkably reasonable rates, all things considered].
Whilst pootling from the office tonight through the rather labyrinthine layout of SEKI 30, my mind being occupied with linux OVMF UEFI builds running under qemu & sorting out key enrollment, I somehow decided to take the spiral stairs down rather than the usual lift journey, got a bit discombobulated at what I though was floor 2 and exited from floor 3 (I think) to the right rather than to the left. And ended up in the open quad in the center of the block. With lots of dark and snow. And not where I expected to be, on the usual street side. turn around, access card lets me back in through the outside door to a short corridor, but doesn't let me through the 2nd revolving door into the building proper, beeps at me and demands my PIN code. "What zarking code!", thinks I. embarrassed panic time, look for intercom or anything, nada. Think's I'm either stuck here till someone spots me, or perhaps I could walk round the quad and bang on office windows and plead to let me in (claim insanity or something (oh and let me in please)), or build a rude snowman, or ...
After a number of random numbers stabbed into the keypad as a code (9999, 1111, 1234 etc) I remembered that yes, they did in fact ask me to add a PIN code to the photo RFID card some 7 or so weeks ago back when I had to go through the induction blaze of all the new things in one day thing. Phew, my usual code works, relief and cue the cat thing of "hope no-one saw me doing that", then onwards through the evening back to the apartment and safety. Blert.
Whilst pootling from the office tonight through the rather labyrinthine layout of SEKI 30, my mind being occupied with linux OVMF UEFI builds running under qemu & sorting out key enrollment, I somehow decided to take the spiral stairs down rather than the usual lift journey, got a bit discombobulated at what I though was floor 2 and exited from floor 3 (I think) to the right rather than to the left. And ended up in the open quad in the center of the block. With lots of dark and snow. And not where I expected to be, on the usual street side. turn around, access card lets me back in through the outside door to a short corridor, but doesn't let me through the 2nd revolving door into the building proper, beeps at me and demands my PIN code. "What zarking code!", thinks I. embarrassed panic time, look for intercom or anything, nada. Think's I'm either stuck here till someone spots me, or perhaps I could walk round the quad and bang on office windows and plead to let me in (claim insanity or something (oh and let me in please)), or build a rude snowman, or ...
After a number of random numbers stabbed into the keypad as a code (9999, 1111, 1234 etc) I remembered that yes, they did in fact ask me to add a PIN code to the photo RFID card some 7 or so weeks ago back when I had to go through the induction blaze of all the new things in one day thing. Phew, my usual code works, relief and cue the cat thing of "hope no-one saw me doing that", then onwards through the evening back to the apartment and safety. Blert.
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So I can't (yet) read the Intel Restricted Secret docs at work (Ericsson, Kista) I need for understanding a bunch of chipset BIOS stuff, 'cause I've not yet persuaded the IT dept to sort out the firewall config etc. Yet come home to the hotel apartment & can use it on my lappy through the hotels internet connection just fine, Adobe reader contacts the Intel Rights Management server & authenticates all peachy. Got to love corporate IT...