Posts by Zippy's Sausage Factory 766 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Mar 2008
I find it impossible to imagine PowerShell being sexy in any way, shape or form.
Or, for that matter, usable, useful or very much used.
(And yes, I have used PowerShell quite extensively for the last few years, thanks. It's one of the worst things I've ever had the misfortune to deal with and makes Clippy look like an underrated masterpiece by comparison.)
I used to try to get them to talk me through getting them a remote connection on an OS/2 virtual machine - version 3, naturally, to keep up the pretence that I bought the computer from Escom the same day I bought my vinyl copy of Nevermind. Ah, good times...
Then I moved. I kinda miss the scammers :)
Strict liability - thank you, that's what I was looking for.
And now you mention it I wonder how many fit ups have already happened? "Ah yes, that anti-police-corruption group that featured in the paper the other day? Turned out they all had the same half dozen child porn images on their laptops. Strange coincidence that..."
So here's a thought - some ransomware puts child porn all over your laptop and will only delete it if you pay a small fortune in Bitcoin. So you take it into your local PC repair shop and they report you to the plod. Who's guilty here?
In the US, you'd say the virus writers.
In the UK, I think it's you. If I recall correctly. it's an absolute offence, meaning that the courts don't accept that there is any legitimate defence. Meaning your virus writer won't ever get caught?
Slightly worries me, that thought...
Depressing that they don't really understand that the attraction of the cloud generally is the "pay-as-you-go" methodology, and the reduction of costs and simplification of licensing.
Typical M$ though - "we're losing customers - make it more difficult for them to buy something, that will solve everything!"
Surely the reputational damage is already too great for Google to gain much headway here? Can there be any CIO that didn't use Picasa, Reader, Wave, Orkut or any one of the other zillion dead Google services that sees the words "Google cloud" and just has a slight nervous twitch and an instant thought of "how long before they shut that one down too"?
or is the fact that the government's first response to any problem appears to be "we need to block some websites" frankly a bit disturbing? First they came for the porn. Then they came for the web forums...
(And yes, I appreciate there is a very real problem here that needs addressing. I'm just saying that the proposed solution here is nothing of the sort whatsoever)
The fact that SQL now runs outside of Windows suggests to me that the Windows server market is dying and MS are trying to stay in the database game.
I could be wrong, of course, but everything I've seen the last couple of years suggests to me that MS are preparing for a scenario where they don't make operating systems any more. (Maybe the MBAs have crunched the numbers and reckon that if everyone ran Linux they'd make more money?)
Doubtful. I'd be surprised if it's not NetSuite's growth potential Oracle really wanted, to be honest. If it cannibalises existing products that's not such a bad thing from Big Red's point of view - it keeps them migrating to SalesForce or someone else and keeps the money going into Big Red's pockets and not someone else's...
Oh good. Because now I'm going to be hearing Peter Capaldi every time I read a Linus Torvalds quote. And when I finally get around* to watching his episodes of the eponymously-titled time travel soap, he's going to be Dr Who as well.
* Maybe never. We're doing a fill watch through and right now we're halfway through Jon Pertwee. Plus we'll have to double back and fill in Power of the Daleks some time soon as well...
There's a lot more people with dual citizenship in the UK now because of a potential Brexit. And I think over the next year the rest will get there - Irish mainly, but other countries. Wasn't there a rumour Farage had applied for dual German* citizenship recently?
* his wife is German, not trying to start any conspiracy theories
Because it's much easier to get hold of a cheap victim Android device and it doesn't hurt the wallet so much if you totally destroy it in the course of testing?
I suppose that means they're using one of Android's key selling points against itself, then. Hmm...
I'd like to see the US defense people's faces while reading that. I suspect they have a rather different view of the US-UK relationship on cyber security than the British government and it's along the lines of "someone attacks the USA, the UK must defend us. Someone attacks the UK... you're on your own"
(For sceptics, I'd like to point out that there is "form" for this - witness the treaty that led to the Extradition Act 2003, which means that the burden of proof for US law enforcement is substantially lower when extraditing from the UK than vice versa - US lawmakers didn't ratify the changes to US law, so they don't have to uphold their part of the bargain, but the UK does.)
The financial sector is essentially composed of traders. Traders who don't want to lose funds for the pension funds, hedge funds and other investors who depend on them for their financial futures.
So with the idea that losing their clients' money generally isn't the best strategy for staying in business, they look at the pound and look at Brexit and don't like what they see. So they sell pounds and invest in currencies that they have more confidence in as having a stable and prosperous future, like the US dollar or the Euro.
This isn't some conspiracy, it's simply risk management.
I don't want to agree with Trump but in this (isolated) case he's right.
There may be no hackers, true - it could be an insider leaking to WikiLeaks. We don't know that, WikiLeaks won't tell us (obviously).
Even if there are "hackers", are they Russian? Do we have proof of that? We didn't see much proof that North Korea "hacked" Sony as I recall...
When I opened the front tray to change the ink cartridge on one for the first time and a load of springs fell out.
I'm pretty sure that wasn't meant to happen as the printer stopped working after that. It was only two months old, as well.
(Before you ask, I did get a refund thanks, and instead bought a Canon MFC which was built like a tank and lasted five or six years with no problems whatsoever. It probably still works - my ex has it now.)
I can never remember which undead monster we're supposed to be worshipping.
Christmas is the one where we celebrate how the Easter bunny brought Frankenstein's monster back to life in order to put him on top of the bonfire on November 5th.
I think.
Most of the time I get an aggressive "turn off your adblocker" message when I don't have an adblocker installed.
So I go to a browser that does have one installed and - guess what - site works fine.
I'm of the opinion that adblocker-blockers are probably going to end up costing sites more money than they lose through ad blockers anyway. Although that would be exceptionally difficult to quantify accurately, of course...
I think "domain web server" is the ambiguity here.
As I read it, I think MS are assuming that the means you need to hack the Active Directory server to make it happen. (At that point, you already have bigger problems than password snooping).
I read it as "a web server in the same domain". Which could possibly be spoofed (and I'm sure that's easier than hacking the Active Directory server), and is probably going to go a long way towards hacking your Active Directory server.
Still, a typical Microsoft response: we're right, you're wrong, now shut up.
as a small, long-nosed, deformed pale creature, sitting all alone in a corner muttering to itself:
"No one like Powershell. Powershell so lonely. Why Powershell exist?"
Which is far more entertaining than trying to have to use it, which is like being repeatedly tested by an over officious teacher whose favourite trick is to lean as close to you as possible and every time you answer just shout "WRONG" as loudly as possible right in your ear...
Negotiations can't start until Britain triggers article 50 and may not even start until the two years are up depending how you interpret EU law.
For "non EU goods" to be sold in the UK and the EU, they need to abide by both UK and EU law. The restrictions of having a more specific UK set of laws that aren't harmonised with the EU means that there will be a higher bar to entry into this market for UK companies.
In terms of how "larger more established companies" do business, some Japanese companies have in fact been looking into this very thing. Which is why they've threatened to move their European HQs out of the UK if it leaves the EU.
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