IT Werkz Sometimes

I still can’t get SP1 loaded onto Vista. I’ve read that it’s due to not having the correct drivers installed, so I’ve updated a whole load of drivers most of which were OK and a few were updated, but still SP1 refuses to install.

A couple of days later I was using the Vista PC and an authentication window popped up and said that some hardware had been changed and that Vista needed re-authenticating. It also said that if the re-authentication failed that Windows would no longer work. I assume that Vista thinks that the hardware has been changed because of the new drivers as I haven’t changed any hardware on that PC for many months. I let Vista re-authenticate itself and that was successful, but this is a bit worrying in that I wasn’t very far away from getting a non-working machine due to Vista convincing itself that the hardware had changed when it most definitely hadn’t.

I heard back from the carpet bombing agent the other day about his 3,000 emails to contractors. The City company that wanted 9 test people asked him to submit 3 resumes for each position i.e. 27. You would have thought that out of the 3,000 emails he sent out he’d get 27 decent responses. Not so. He did get a response from about 600 people but out of all that he only found 17 suitable candidates, including me thank the lord. 

The agent said that there were a heck of a lot of people with the HSMP (Highly Skilled Migration Permit) visa but that a lot of them  have what could be called ‘generic’ resumes. Apparently they find someone with a decent resume and put their name on it. A-hem. Trouble is these people are found out as when the resume is written to the agents database and subsequently re-accessed as the resume fits a search selection, a whole load are found to be exactly the same, apart from the name. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot.

Not sure if I believe this happens a lot, but it would only need to happen once and it becomes a great story.