Remember Peter Moore? The kidnapped contractor in Iraq...

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Paddy replied

29 November 2012, 12:00
It was running really, really slowly. I checked around and saw it had loads of spyware and adware running on it, so I deleted what I could, defragged the hard drive, ran Regedit to see what else was blocking it up, and removed all of the temporary files. When I'd finished it was running a lot faster and the guy took it away.

A few minutes later the guy comes back into the room, smacks me on the top of the head with a gun and tells me next time he's got a computer problem I better fix it straight away.

I've been on contracts like that
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BillHicksRIP replied

29 November 2012, 00:08
The sky's the oyster for that guy if he wanted to cash in on his story. Fascinating read.
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ctdctd replied

28 November 2012, 13:17
Originally posted by SimonMac View Post

A great read

WSMS
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SimonMac replied

28 November 2012, 13:06
A great read
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BlasterBates replied

28 November 2012, 12:57
That's a thought, daily diary of a contractor in Iraq......

That would have been interesting....
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BrilloPad replied

28 November 2012, 12:54
He didn't even get access to cuk.
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NotAllThere replied

28 November 2012, 12:48
Originally posted by VectraMan View Post

Just finished reading Part Two. Definitely worth your time. Like a true contractor he managed to keep invoicing despite his captivity, though I did literally laugh out loud when reading that some paper-pushing department of the company he worked for said he was being audited for not submitting a timesheet for two and a half years.

I can just imagine some agency drone talking about gaps in the CV...
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NotAllThere replied

28 November 2012, 12:40
In 2009 they came in with a flash drive of military files that they couldn't access. Basically they were just hidden files, so I unhid them and opened them up, and it was a PowerPoint chart of all these people who had been arrested.

Bloody idiot military intelligence. They didn't even encrypt the data. Morons.
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VectraMan replied

28 November 2012, 12:09
Just finished reading Part Two. Definitely worth your time. Like a true contractor he managed to keep invoicing despite his captivity, though I did literally laugh out loud when reading that some paper-pushing department of the company he worked for said he was being audited for not submitting a timesheet for two and a half years.
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NotAllThere replied

28 November 2012, 09:48
I'll never complain about management again...
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Uncle Albert started a topic Remember Peter Moore? The kidnapped contractor in Iraq...

28 November 2012, 09:15
Remember Peter Moore? The kidnapped contractor in Iraq...

He's spoken to The Reg about it.

Peter Moore: IT consultant and Iraq hostage ? Part One ? The Register
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