Posts by Sven Coenye

Re: How many of the previous owners knew / didn't know about the PulseSecure problems???

IIRC, Juniper was the one with the backdoor annex catflap in their firewalls in 2015, so this sounds like par for the course...

Re: Brave!

I do hope they run a test under vacuum or there might be a surprise when the driver tries to start the Verbrennungskraftmaschine on the moon...

Re: Poor kitten

The cat scratches your superhero and raises a kaiju!

Mine's the level A hazmat suit...

Re: Well that's interesting...

Someone at Fort Meade forgot to monitor the remaining disk capacity...

Re: Face ID?

In muggee's defense, Thailand and Vietnam are military dictatorships. If you get a call from someone "from the government" telling you to do something, challenging the instructions may not be the first thing on the mind.

I doubt it will even amount to that much. We may get the cup after they drank the coffee.

I figured something was up when I ran into the forced password reset when trying to get to the account maintenance pages. The reset procedure does not complete, so still no access to the account. And not a peep from the operators to date.

Re: None

Unless you are in Leftpondia where banks don't talk to each other and they insert a frame to something called "BillPay" in their website so you can, you know, pay bills without having to put pieces of paper in the mail.

(TBH, our bank did eventually get around to better integration, but at first, I did have to turn 3rd party cookies back on on SWMBO's laptop.)

WIndows Update is not any better

At my previous place of work, we had a couple of network connected Xerox DocuCentre class copiers. During installation, Windows 10 would scan the network, find the copiers, and helpfully (not...) pull in the driver from Windows Update. Only the driver dated to 2006 and it was 2016, did not support the copiers at hand, and ... triggered a BSOD as W10 was not compatible with the driver.

Re: Privacy

Toyota does. And if you do disable the surveillance, the display makes it pretty obvious that you are just a Guest in their car...

(But by that point they already have your e-mail address and cell phone number. You can't even fix the clock's time zone without that.)

Feeling adventurous?

Logitech and others use 5V 100mA rated switches at 3.3V. The corresponding lower operating current allows oxidation to build up, leading to more bounces. Eventually, things get so bad the firmware is no longer able to detect a single click.

So, if you do feel adventurous: the switches have a cover that can be removed with some fiddling (keep tabs on the "button" - it is not attached to anything.) A couple of light passes with very fine sandpaper over the contact area will remove the oxidation and the buttons will work as normal again.

And in spirit of TFA: Asus RoG mice have replaceable switches and come with a spare pair (and other assorted wear parts.)

Re: Its all well and good

it would have to be one level downstream from the ISP router as e.g. Comcast will lobotomize a customer owned router. But that then brings the entire configuration issue back as now you potentially get to deal with dueling Wifi and DHCP services. If something like this comes to be, my bet is it will be the ISP's game.You know, for a monthly fee...

Re: Steves Failure

Don't laugh, but that is pretty much the way it goes these days. The missus had just that experience at the local Toyota dealer ~ a month ago. Still no new cars on the local lot and even with 3 preferred colors, 4 weeks of searching by the dealer turned up zilch.

Re: "akin to a bank"

And then there is PayPal. Which now advertises interest bearing accounts, yet AFAIK, still does not have a banking charter.

Re: I'm going to need more popcorn

Those are excellent questions for XKCD whatif #3!

Re: Key question

It wasn't even a judge. In 1886, the court reporter added a note to a ruling saying the 14th amendment applied to corporations, even though the ruling itself didn't state that.

Re: Epic names

If that is Jeff Minter, then that statement makes perfect sense.

Re: https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/whereIsWebb.html

https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2022/02/03/photons-incoming-webb-team-begins-aligning-the-telescope/

No fancy 3D graphics but it does have step-by-step illustrations of the entire alignment procedure.

It is even more fun in a language that has no end of line marker and someone tried to save a line:

IF A EQ B THEN X Y

A never ending source of fun that is :-/

Re: working … under the name of Manuel

Near Madrid?! That's where the Generalissimo is! No way he said that...

Re: Internet Police

Dunno, but I'm sure Belgium will get run over on the way there...

In all fairness, the KDE developers don't listen either. Their fetish is the "semantic desktop". It doesn't matter how much pain that crud inflicts, they keep pushing it. The neverending disaster finally drove me to LXQt.

That will not go down well..

You want him to attack Starfleet HQ?!

That was the title of a movie but Hardy's line was "nice mess"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3qcj2MzPYc

Re: How come ...

Maybe a slot in the back you could slap a RAM pack onto?

The one with the roll of double-sided tape in the pocket, please...

Disney's

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