Re: Peazip question
>peazip in my experience was horrible, would rather 7zip anyday!
For the moment I agree, 7Zip is definately better.
Posts by Khaptain
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Ten excellent FREE PC apps to brighten your Windows
Thursday 27th November 2014 10:23 GMT 
Peazip question
I installed it recently as an alternative to 7Zip but I cannot find the means of Password Encrypting the created zip files. Is it possible ?
Notepad++ a must for any Admin
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Paint.net as JDX mentioned was unfortunately not in the list.
BitTorrent client works extremly well ( dont ask).
Keepass ( Another must have)
Technology quiz reveals that nobody including quiz drafters knows anything about IT
How to run a big web music biz (Spotify): Grab more cash from fans, sink deeper into the red
Wednesday 26th November 2014 09:00 GMT
Stakeholders delight - not
>It told stakeholders: "The more time people spend with our product, the more likely they are to become paying subscribers."
That's not the kind of phrase that would encourage me to invest in Spotify, confidence does not appear to reign here...
After reading through the article and the amount of risk mentioned, it is extremely difficult to imagine anything bright about the future for Spotify.
Google turns on shiny new .google top-level domain – but WHY?
Wednesday 26th November 2014 07:20 GMT
Huge Opportunity
>The opportunities and possibilities are huge and many will be looking to Google to help draw out the future.
Well someone will have to explain them to me because for the life of me I can't imagine how any can possibly "increase" upon the existing marketing vectors.
We are already permamnantly bombarded with publicty and marketing, without drilling directly into the brain I dont see how it can be further increased just by using some domain names.
In Grenoble the Mayor is removing all of the publicity panels from the town, I hope that the idea spreads all over France.
Lenovo: We'll say HELLO MOTO to profits in 18 months
NEWSFLASH: You may already have seen Steve Jobs' willy
Sacre vache! Netflix ne parle pas le Frenchy ... zat is against ze LAW
Bank of England: What's all this then, CHAPS? Review to get a grip on IT cockup
Tuesday 25th November 2014 12:27 GMT
Secret Cobol programmer was ill
The plethora of sub-routines, sub-processes, ie : the means by which the banks can filter money of into hidden unspecified accounts, was so complex that the temp outsourced code monkey unintentionally made a minor filtering mistake and they were unable to recover the lost yachting funds for the month.
Stop the IoT revolution! We need to figure out packet sizes first
Tuesday 25th November 2014 07:04 GMT
>While the world gets excited about Internet-of-stuff
Is that the whole world or just the world of white appliances......
Whichever packet size or netwokl layer they manage to change it would be nice to think that "security" is being carefully considered at the same time..
It's enough that the NSA know that you watch YouPorn but that they will also know that you will soon be running out of cheese, milk and beer is frankly discouraging.
New Snapchat Snapcash service inspires amateur PORN STARS
Monday 24th November 2014 14:49 GMT 
Safe replys
Let me see your big knob, [sends picture of round door handle]
Let me see your tits, [sends pic of garden winged variety]
Let's do it bareback, [sends pic of horse without saddle]
I'm into bondage, [sends pic Mr James Bonds DB9]
I'm into fisting [sends pic of veterinaire artificially inseminating cow]
iPhone sales set to PLUMMET: Bleak times ahead for Apple
We have a winner! Fresh Linux Mint 17.1 – hands down the best
Monday 24th November 2014 16:28 GMT
Re: Mint, mate
>NB My hardware is not old. Quad core i7
Lol, I have XFCE running on a pair of Dell OptiPlex 755 Pentium Dual-Core E2200 2.2GHzs...and it runs great considering the specs... Ok the machines are used for dev testing and admin which are not very labour intensive...
On a Quad Core I7 we are talking whole other levels of vroom.
Monday 24th November 2014 13:37 GMT
Re: Upgrades - 2 questions
1 : Is there a major reason for wanting to upgrading so often ? By desiring to remain on the bleeding edge then the small amount of time required to "customize" is a small price to pay. If you used windows it would be the same process of re-customisation when moving between major versions.. ( Can't speak for macOS).
2 : Having to recustomize what exactly ?
New job in 2015? The Reg guide to getting out and moving on
Monday 24th November 2014 13:52 GMT
I applied to a large International company recently ( 4 weeks ago). I received a 1st call asking only three questions
1 : How quickly I was available.
2 : What salary was I expecting.
3 : Reason for leaving existing company.
Time in call 5 minutes.
That was all that was asked by the person whose task it was to "filter" out from the hundreds of CVs that they had recieved.
2nd call : Sorry but you did not pass the intial process. There was no explanation about which of the three questions filtered me out, just that there was so many canditatures that they had to filter quickly....
I was avaiable within 4 weeks, the reason for leaving was valid and the salary was the going rate for the region.
No discussion about the CV or experience whatsover and this leads me to believe that some people must be is job hunting with very low salarial expectations......
'Regin': The 'New Stuxnet' spook-grade SOFTWARE WEAPON described
Androids in celluloid – which machine deserves the ULTIMATE MOVIE ROBOT title?
Europe may ask Herr Google: Would you, er, snap off your search engine? Pretty please
Saturday 22nd November 2014 06:30 GMT
I would argue that the poliltical value relates to the financial value of all those Google dollars being moved to Europe rather than in GooglesVille USA.
As a second thought, if the Euro politicians have some indirect "nudge nudge wink wink" relations with the search providers they then gain an extremely powerfull propoganda tool. As the moment Euro politicians have got no leverage over what Google displays as results and it probably drives them crazy.
Leaked screenshots show next Windows kernel to be a perfect 10
Saturday 22nd November 2014 06:20 GMT
Windows 7 is too blame
Something has happened in the OS space, everything has become "minor" regardless of the OS version.... W8 tried "major" changes and failed... W10 is going back to minor changes and yet I still don't see it as a runaway success. I don't have a Mac so I can't compare but if I have understood correctly there are no major changes there either.
If we have reached peak OS, or thereabouts, can't we simply stop all the version numbers and just have kernels where things will be garaunteed to run fro the next 20 years.... I can't imagine why we would need 128bit applications,, the 64 bit address space is "huge".....So that shouldn't be a problem. We don't really need Yet Another File System, so that should be OK.. The majority of people don't even use more than 5% of what is already available to them anyway....
Let's concentrate on security ( bye bye NSA), go back to keeoing things simpe, compatibility between platforms, anything other than the endless race to have the highest version and the maximum incompatibility.
[Please tell me that that screenshot is not using the default color scheme. I have not yet had the opportunity to actually see 10].
DoubleDirect hackers snaffle fandroid and iPhone-strokers' secrets
Friday 21st November 2014 12:58 GMT
Ping me - don't ping me.
>on devices running either iOS or Android. Mac OSX users are also potentially vulnerable but Windows and Linux users would appear to be immune because their operating systems don't accept ICMP redirection packets that carry malicious traffic
Genuine question. : What is the requirement for this subset of OSes iOS, Android and OSx, to use ICPM Redirection but where Windows and Linux don't ? Is this based on various Ping timeouts being used to determine the shortest paths ?
Also does this mean that all Windows platforms are safe from this attack or only the desktop variety..
Interesting attack vector though.
Renewable energy 'simply won't work': Top Google engineers
Friday 21st November 2014 14:57 GMT
Re: reducing energy consumption
>The big things we need for comfort
The crux of the problem lies within the above phrase. Who is willing to give up their comforts today in order that tommorrows generation can also have a minumum chance?
The consumer society pushes us towards the consommation of products, many of which we don't "need" but that are very comfortable to possess/use.. This is turn gives us a very comfortable lifestyle but has the negative adverse effect of requiring massive a mounts of energy....
We need to cut down on consommation, reduce the population, basically to stop dipping our hands in the cookie jar. BUT as long as the rich can continue to grow richer this will never stop. Be carefull about the evalutation of "rich", it is not necassarilly the top 1%. If you have a roof over your head, own a car and eat two meals a day, have a few pounds/dollars in the bank, you are already on the list of the rich.
It's 2014 and people are willing to blow $6.8m on things like Z.com
Friday 21st November 2014 21:29 GMT
Marketing Vomit
Strangely enough, from the list of all of these so-called high-market value domain names, I have never visited any of them.
The names are so generic that they become bland.
Which of the following sounds boring
www.sex.com
or
www.hardcore-jiz-sluggin-leather-bound-skanks.com
See how generic just seems fruitless and unappealing... And yet they have deemed them to be worth a small fortune.
HACKERS can DELETE SURVEILLANCE DVRS remotely – report
Two driverless cars stuffed with passengers are ABOUT TO CRASH - who should take the hit?
Friday 21st November 2014 13:07 GMT
Ask Asimov
Wikipedia - Asimov's Rules.
1.A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2.A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3.A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law
Rule 1 : The robots(cars) should never be in such a position in the first place. They should have previsional awareness such that the scenario can always be avoided, exemple : very little forward oncoming awareness = slow down in order to be in a position to avoid anything that might arrive.
Rule 2 : The human being in the car would be screaming orders to save their own skin, rather than that of the on-comer, which the robot(car) would have to follow.
Rule 3 : In our driverless car scenario, rule 3 has no real bearing, so we can rule out this ethic.
In the event of a crash the blame would probably resolve down to the last command screamed out by a human.
As much as we would like to believe that everything can be coded within a well written algorithm, the final decision that one makes in order to "survive" will always remain instinctive. I do not believe that "instinct" can be written as a series of rules due to the fact that we, as mere humans, do not fully understand what it is.
Useless 'computer engineer' Barbie fired in three-way fsck row
BEST EVER broadband? Oh no you DIDN'T, Sky – ad watchdog
Fake antivirus scams: It's a $120m business – and alleged ringleaders have just been frozen
Thursday 20th November 2014 06:34 GMT
Re: Now let's clean up download sites.
I'll give a huge thumbs up to Trevor for this one, it was after reading one of his posts that I discovered who/what ninite.com is.
Just last night I was helping my parents with an issue and I guided them to ninite.com because it was the only site which I could be sure that they wouldn't by conned into clicking one of those damned false "download now" buttons.
With Ninite you get what you want not what you dont.
Cries of spies as audit group finds possible 'backdoor' in Bittorrent Sync
Wednesday 19th November 2014 16:14 GMT
Re: Say it ain't so Joe
Hi Christian ,
Thanks for taking the time to reply. I can easilly understand the difficulty that an article such as this can create for a team of developers/business and the pain in the arse consequences of repairing the damage.
As I mentioned though, this article was a little bit "trolly" on behalf of El Reg, who are sharing a little bit of fear-mongering whislt riding on the back of "An unnamed research group operating under the popular Hackito conference"...
And as much as it is always required to read certain El Reg articles with a pinch of salt, articles such as this do make alarm bells ring. As a recent example, we have all seen what has happend to TruCrypt....
I truly hope that the finding are purely hypothetical but meanwhile it is becoming increasingly difficult to trust anything web facing even when encrypted. Snowden has lifted the lid on practices far beyond everyones initial thoughts, we are now absolutely convinced that the 3 letter agencies have the capacity and do actively exploit weaknesses wherever they can.
I am sure that BtSync is used for many private files, although personally I have nothing major to lose other than a few ideas, I am sure that there are others who have a lot more vested interests in not having their work "perused" by others.
I fully sympathise with your teams position and hope that you can quickly overcome this "bump"...
Tuesday 18th November 2014 08:02 GMT 
Say it ain't so Joe
Shit I switched to BT Sync after DropBox bcome a bit dubious. Please don't tell me I am going to have to go back to USB keys...
What I don't like about the article, which feels a little be trolly, is the fact that it mentions that BTSync "might" be leaking hashed, that there is a "probable" situation and as of yet everything was "unconfirmed"...
"Might", "probable" and "unconfirmed" are on about the same level of security as every piece of software every written. This actual article just "might probably" be a little bit pre-nuptial due to it's "unconfirmed" statements. I can understand that the El Reg hack might retourque that it is a heads-up but I would be inclined to disagree until something a little more substantial is included...
Big shadowy orgs should stop scooping up everyone's personal info – say Google, Facebook
Tuesday 18th November 2014 13:16 GMT
Re: Freedom Act is Slavery
@DAN 55
Switzerland : Your privacy has been Pwned, it's expensive whilst no longer capable of garaunteeing it's own continuity....... They want the benefits of Europe without being part of Europe and have no longer anything to offer in return.
Unfortunately we have reached peak Switzerland : If I have understood things lately the new havens are either Singapore, Hong Kong or even the Isle of Man. ( I could imagine living in either of the first 2 but definately not the latter.)
Tuesday 18th November 2014 07:14 GMT
Re: Freedom Act is Slavery
>Uhm, emigrate to the LEAST fascist 1st or 2nd world country?
Greece, but the economy is shot to bits.
Ukrania , sorry but that will soon be shot to bits. ( thanks to Mr P..)
Spain, nope historically it wouldn't quite fit and nowadays you have to be Catalonian in order to get a vote.
Germany, nope have to work at two jobs just to pay your rent. They can pretend that all is Ok but we knwo better.
The UK, you must be joking right....the 53rd state....
France : apparently Serge Dassault has been handing out large sums of cash for votes, sounds promising, if you use your vote correctly.
You know what, remain where you are, it's just as bad everywhere else.
'Pirate block' proposal back on Oz agenda
Tuesday 18th November 2014 06:58 GMT 
Come on Aussies
WTF is happening down under, since when did the Aussies become such a PC crowd ?
Come on Aussies , stand up to the man, let it be heard that you want your Porn, Drugs ( Silk Road), Dodgy videos like everyone else and historical episodes of Neighbours....
Unbelievable, this is the same damned country that invented Aussie Rules, ffs. Don't let Tony Abbott cow down to the Pommie way of life...
[Yes, there is a hint of sarcasm in the above rant]
Biting the hand that feeds IT
