Category Archives: Technology Fails

Elevate guest/standard #Windows 10 user to administrator from safe mode

By | April 22, 2018

There is a known issue that when you upgrade from Windows 7 Pro to Windows 10 Pro directly you may end up with your only user changed from administrator to guest. This is what happened to me on one of the family laptops. Of course you end up with a stupid useless machine on which… Read More »

Vodafone #Romania and #GDPR, or how to trick customers to circumvent #GDPR

By | April 22, 2018

Yesterday I received two weird SMS messages from Vodafone. They are basically trying to trick me in accepting a contract that is invalidating some of my rights that I will get due to the new European GDPR regulation. First message: Buna! Iti oferim cadou 5 GB trafic national,valabil 30 de zile; pentru aceasta te invitam… Read More »

#Facebook clean-up check-list for people who cannot #deletefacebook

By | April 22, 2018

Due to the fuck-up of Facebook I decided to drastically remove my contact with it. I am not from the pack that just now discovers “amazed” that on Facebook you are the product. My upbringing as an East-European kid in a communist dictatorship made me aware early in life that there is no free meal.… Read More »

Bad #mobile data #infrastructure generates Frankenstein solutions

By | January 31, 2018

This product Zifilink is so weird that I am doing free advertisement for it. This is what happens when there are lots of mobile providers in a market and all have shitty mobile data signal. I present you the “make your own mobile gigabit” with a dongle Frankenstein tree 🙂 Come on ! look at… Read More »

IT Traveller: #Failed airport #technology (Istambul)

By | January 11, 2018

I travel quite often across the world for job related purposes. Being an IT guy that does servers installations, develops and deploys enterprise software across the world I am always noticing everything that is IT related. It is always fun to see failed tech in airports I transit or in hotels where I stay. This… Read More »

#Biometric #authentication is useless and dangerous alone

By | October 14, 2017

Again and again the same myths and misunderstandings resurface from time to time. I noticed again a misplaced hype in an article shared on twitter about how biometric authentication will simplify banking. I have to share again something I learned many years ago when I was junior research student in a computer security group and… Read More »

Technology fail: When your plane has an engine problem

By | December 22, 2017

This is an old video from 2015 when I was trying to cross the Atlantic (Frankfurt – Cancun) and my flight got an engine problem after just 2 hours in the flight. What you can see in the video is the plane dumping fuel so we can land. I think there was some strange smelling… Read More »

IT Traveller: Failed airport technology

By | March 11, 2017

I travel quite often across the world for job related purposes. Being an IT guy that does servers installations, develops and deploys enterprise software across the world I am always noticing everyting that is IT related. It is always fun to see failed tech in airports I transit or in hotels where I stay. Failed… Read More »