Tag: patience

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Make me redundant

In my early career, the word redundancy used to strike fear into my well-being. Decades later it’s a place a comfort and represents resilience.  Backing up the backup and testing the back-up routinely is an easy habit to adopt. Sadly. For  many end users, they simply store all their precious data on a single device with unknown backup status.

Where’s my data?

A family member nearly lost over 5000 images because they critically failed to even grasp the relevance of backup or data management.

The strategy should always be protecting the data first and the end-point device second but unfortunately, we love our shiny phones way too much to think that way.

Zero gameplay or medication today

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Overfilled

With Deus Ex: Mankind Divided offered to PS4 Plus members, my library is packed with full of half-eaten titles. For the most part FallOut, 4 is my main diet with StarWars Battlefront II getting some occasional screen time.

Over the holidays I had to really steal gaming time (30-40 mins a day) and it was barely quality as I sat in the kitchen trying to rank up and complete missions. It was a great time though but now it’s back to work, work and play.

Missed the boat?
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I just want a refund

You can spend $100+ 24/7 on online games but try and get a refund.

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I just want a refund

A disgusting business model for the consumer gamer

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Bring Your Own Diversion (BYOD)

InfoSec Acronyms and hype come and go but for me, the most notable of 2017 is the absence of Bring Your Own Device.  Are people still using their own gear with company data? Yes.  Is the risk any less this year? No.

So why the sudden lack of focus on BYOD? Well, it’s been brutally replaced with acronym monsters GDPR and BREXIT where you feel like an idiot if you don’t what they mean.  Don’t worry sooner or later some know-all will share his or her expert unsolicited opinion on the subject.

What the hell is GDPR?

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is poised to change the strategies for all Information security folk (Hobbyist, Pros, Good guys and Bad).  But is this another hype like the Y2K Bug? And if so, what’s the big one for 2018-2019?

Without PR and marketing, we wouldn’t know what to be scared of and what to spend money on.  In the meantime, I’ll sit up on the moral high ground in my sniper nest for a few months and watch the panic.

Always grinding in Sniper Medic mode

40 days without exercise

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Lurking squishy tanks spawn camping for snipers

Gaming terms are always colourful and ever-changing. Watch any committed streamer on Twitch.TV and you will soon be looking up the terms or simply wondering  “what did he just say?”.

Language always brings people together and makes it very easy to spot an outsider or faker.

The level of game analysis you can see on The Division™ is truly educational.  Maths, logical thinking and creativity to doctorate levels.   Gaming PhDs (FROG – Future and Reality of Gaming) will be hosting their 11th Vienna Games Conference in Austria this week and chances are that I’ll show up just to lurk for an hour or so even if it’s all in German.

Last played 23 January 2017

There is still not much middle ground between Players and Academia.  Normal folk simply view Computer games as toys for school kids.

I’ve jumped back into Tom Clancy’s The Division™ [now patched to version 1.7] after adding some more streamers to my follow list and watching some deep game analysis.  I still haven’t finished the main story or reached the max rank but slightly more educated on what guns to go for.

My 2017 Division shopping list

PP-19 - Sub machine Gun
SASG 12 - ShotGun semi auto
G36 - Assault rifle
Scar-H - Rifle
M60 - Light machine Gun - Hungry Hog
Tom Clancy’s The Division™ – Final drive to Level 30

Weighed in at 118kg today…feeling great

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What da bleep, bleep…

It used to be pretty easy to manage your Apps from iTunes but now the giant vendor has stealthily taken that option away, which sucks for iPhone 4 or multiple device users.  Now you are forced to manage all Apps from the device itself.

Having to re-think mobile device management…Again.

The new App store looks and feels fantastic but it’s just a cold reminder that end users control nothing. 

At any point, your daily habits and behaviour can be manipulated with an Operating system update forcing you to act in a “crafted” way.  In the meantime, your walking, talking, driving, sleeping habit data is carefully harvested by your mobile device for later use.

How do you like dem Apples?