sugar magnolia wrote: ↑Wed Aug 11, 2021 6:23 pm
And don't these people know how to dress?
Yeah.. their professionalism is quite a display. At least their dress matches their product.
I have had discussions in the past with folks at my day job (fundraising analytics) about how different areas dress for conferences. The planned giving folks usually business suit attire, though jackets may come off temporarily while sitting through a presentation. Somebody mentioned that this may be due to the fact that planned giving areas tend to have more folks who have law degrees or came from the banking/trust officer world. The general fundraising professional conference has a mix of business suit to more business casual, though at least a jacket (with or without a tie). Us folk who go to the conference for advancement services/fundraising operations, we're very business casual. Presenters may put on a jacket, though usually without a tie.
At organ conferences, it is rather business casual, with organ shoes if playing, but we are too busy wanting to look at peoples organs and finding the wine to spend too much time on how we dress. Our normal job dress consists of vestments so who pays attention to the other stuff (well except for those goofy liturgists/musicians who wear a shirt whose color matches the season's liturgical color, which I never do).
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On an entirely different note, are the hard drives in question actually from the machines or yet another scam to make people think they were. I know Mesa had issues with the BIOS passwords being exposed but had not heard official confirmation that they pulled hard drives (or HDD) as well? IF they did, how would they display it in some standard file manager software? I would assume that they are not necessarily standard windows format but proprietary, probably based on some Linux or Unix standard.
Edit: ETA.. I found something that mentions that at least some of Dominion Systems equipment do use a MS SQL server though the hard drives are encrypted and SQL Server also encryps. They run on a hardened Windows software.
Note, this is from the AG office that had recommended denying certification to the particular system in question. It is very specific to a single system.
https://www.sos.texas.gov/elections/for ... ringer.pdf