Posts by leexgx

Re: Kudos to the coder

Lokbit is best case use for snapshots as it will use very little data so modified data be under 1-100gb so easy to revert

Most of the nas based ransomware hasn't gained enough access to erase the snapshots just user level to encrypt files (I believe qnap patched it to make/fixed so snapshots are harder to be deleted as non admin could delete snapshots in the past )

Re: We've switched to LTE

Openreach is in the process rolling out fttp so you should get it eventually (aim is 2025 for 95%, I would say closer to 2030 before completion) , especially areas that only get ADSL, openreach is planning on going compleat fibre removing all copper (probably be around 2030-35 before that happens)

but might be 1-7 years old before it happens rolling out fibre to the premises is a Significant undertaking

Re: When is it safe to make the jump?

Install windows 10 Pro and then use Gpedit to set updates to 20 days delay on normal updates and 150 days delay on feature updates, this prevents most issues because everyone els gets to beta test release updates before they get to you (if they are really bad they pull the update within the that 15 days so you shouldn't get a bad update)

Gpedit > admin templates > windows components > (scroll to bottom) and windows update > windows update for business users

Set "preview and feature updates" > set to 150 and semi-annual channel

Set " quality updates" the to 20 days or higher

Every pc i work on indo this

Re: Just another Google project

Rcs is going to replace sms so it won't shutdown and eventually it's the mobile providers that will have the servers which some of them do already

Google rcs servers are forcing mobile operators to depoy their own servers (as mobile operators don't have control of the rcs system when Google is hosting it and companies like nsa can't intercept the messages if the mobile operator doesn't have their own RCS server)

Re: Wrong credit.

It was reported around 2019 july 21st but it wasn't taken seriously until around 2020 April when bigger sites taken it on (Synology has posts a far back as 2019 July)

I am Surprised it taken this long for it to be recognised

Re: 3 years for a terrorist offence ?

Yep my profits, no mobile signal I don't get money for jobs that I won't be getting

Vodafone is very aggressive at overlapping coverage so probably have to take down 3 masts per area just to cause a problem

Non ionising radio waves is below light (ghz range) its Thz range (light and above the visible spectrum) that can be more harmful

You should be more worried about light bulbs and the sun then a mobile mast (at best a mobile mast might heat you up if you hug it or closer then 1 meter to it in front of the cell, phones power output is very low as well)

They wouldn't install the 5g until they have the required backhaul to cover it

The radio side is what always gets maxed out first unless there is a broken backhaul link like there is about 5 miles away from me on ee (daytime speed is 0.1-0.5mb down and 40mb upload 220-300ms ping and high jitter on this specific mast Band 3 Band 7 and carrier aggregation doesn't matter what it's on)

Re: The Windows comparison

if you use window 10 pro you can control the updates some what more

20 days delay on normal updates and 150 day delay on feature os upgrade

this norm make sure you getting well tested updates (so everyone els who uses normal settings can brake there pcs first and normally ms pulls the broken update within 7-15 days so when it re released it shouldn't break your customers who set to 20 day deley )

Re: weird...

it will drop to 3g if voLTE is can't connect the call (the issue is the call was connected as far as the phone was concerned it was been dropped at ee end)

due to a issue internally on EE side the call was connecting as a working so the phone would not drop to 3g, but due to some goof at ee end when ee internal network tryed to make the call, it would drop the call

under normal conditions if the phone cant make a 4g connect to mast it will drop to 3g or even 2g to make the call (even in active call it will switch between 3g and 2g to keep the call going, even wifi calling switch if phone supports it)

Re: Fibre

Yep we have fiber right now if it was not for that stupid decision (I understand why they did it because at the time there was no unbundling or virtual unbundling light we have on vdsl I am not calling it fiber)

bt actually built a factory for all the fiber and equipment (most of it any way) there wouldn't of been a single copper line at all apart from cable

Virgin cable would actually have to compleat with open reach and fix utilisation issues in certain Street areas and we would of had docsis 3.1 > 1gb speeds last year (not long after docsis 3.1 was made)

Re: YouTorrent?

Http://d.tube is another one (actually get paid on that one) does take about a week or 2 to get a account or you can pay to get a steemit account

Re: Snip

In the uk BT just flat out traffic shapes all traffic to about 100 kbs (I have to use a vpn/or hotspot from phone to download drivers if it's cn hosted)

Re: What's the point?

Most USA trucks do not have the side barriers on their trailers (which is mandatory in the EU) the problem is the car is probably perceiving the trailer as an actual Bridge if these trailers had the side impact barriers that should be enough for the car to actually see it the problem is he was traveling at highway speeds so even if it did see it it wouldn't have braked anyway automatic brake system would have not engage because it would have ignored it as being a static object which happens on all cars that have automatic braking when you're travelling above 20 30 mph

Re: 2 big no-no's - if it's Boeing, I am NOT going!

MCAS can only reactivate if the pilot switch back on the trim power runaway trim procedure is to cut the trim powered system but on the last flight that crashed they actually switched it back on which finally resulted in the plane doing a final trim down again on the lion air crash they never remove the power to the trim system they just simply kept the button on the up trim on the sticks lion air crash they never remove the power to the trim system they just simply kept the button on the upstream on the sticks they knew they were fighting the power trim system but at no point for the 12 minutes the fault was happening they never removed the power to the trim system which is very bad

Emm no

The issue is FTTC is not FTTP and they call FTTC fibre when it should be called near fibre or part fibre or just fast broadband and adsl should be called broadband and FTTP should be called fibre broadband (I know people who have "fibre" fttc broadband and they only getting 3mb vdsl lock speeds) as the areas city fibre is in phone line connections are been sold as fibre when they are not

Virgin is odd one here as they do use copper but its hybrid network and can deliver upto 500mb/30mb (soon 1gb) on there services and are not limited by line length witch FTTC is

Re: 180TBW

It be plenty for normal home/office use

most people don't write more than 5-10 terabytes of written data in their lifetime, 2-3 years example

Re: Three's 4G significantly slower than their 3G

Your probably on 4g800 (if you can make a call and keep 4g connected your on the slow 4g800 witch priority VoLTE not data resulting in slow speeds (other 4g bands on 3 are not enabled for VoLTE calling resulting in dropping to 3g to allow call to work )

Be nice if CA is available here or not

You need to put phone into flight mode and back out and see if it puts you on 4g2100 or 4g1800 if available in your area

On iPhone you won't know if your on VoLTE 4g800 or most android phones, unless it's China ones (cubot, ulefone, Huawei or Samsung show VoLTE)

One thing that is annoying on three and ee they don't allow active data session session 4g up (so if your connection drops to 3g it will stay on 3g until your data goes idle for about 3-10 seconds) unsure if vodafone is. Same

O2 (and o2 NVMO s) on the other hand will happy switch up and down 3g and 4g when better signal is available even if data is active (twitch youtube, streaming audio etc)

Re: Sub Optimal UI?

seems to have broken adblock as well (had one of my customers PC running adblock a loop in turn braking websites )

about to hit the restart chrome button now see what happens to mine

Re: One Secure Boot to bring them all

more than likely you lose the secure enclave when you root/bootloader unlock the phone (official bootloader unlock) so no hardware security (no NFC payments or hardware backed screen lock)

Re: I'm just wondering

all my computers and other systems i have touched are only just getting 1803 upgrade offer now

win 10 pro (pro keys are like less then £3 ignore the site if it says it has to be a clean install of windows it will change to pro fine) set it to non targeted mode and +100 day delay on upgrade and 15 day delay on normal updates

this more or less prevents buggy normal windows updates (as MS pulls and fixes them normally within 7 days) and very tested feature build is going to be used (my systems are not going to be used for not very well tested release updates)

yep it should be asking for the pin that the customer had set and if its Not provided Sim swap will be prevented and they should not be able to override that (not a random underpaid store rep who going to be looking for a new job soon unless that's sweeping floors at the jail)

Re: Visa

my bank is a little to trusting with that they only need Chip and pin to take out large amounts of money at the desk (even though its policy to show 2 forms of ID, they they do know who i am witch mite be why they skip it but still said chip and pin is enough at the desk)

but 2FA for SMS is just because they believe using the authenticator app for 30 second codes is to hard for Joe public

Yep it only be faster if your in range of multiple cells

5g will be more beneficial in dense areas where lots of people are at like train stations, sport stadiums, and large events as they will setup micro cells inside the station ( realistically at the moment only EE can do it on 4g) , but with 5g that should open up more to other providers but we are talking like 3-4 years time line here as no has a phone that supports the higher 5g bands and due to 2 year contracts and likely 5g support only on high end phones (samsung seems to be getting it first next year phone)

In London some networks just don't work at peak time because to many people in one location (even worse when train is late as every one jumps on there phones) 5g should resolve this as more people start to get 5G supported phones

Sms Should not be used for 2fa purposes

It should be code generator ( Authenticator app) or the banking app it self

Re: Rubbish Coverage

I do use 3uk for there unlimited data for video streaming

I typically force the phone into LTE only mode as i generally have good to low 4g coverage but low in some spots enough for it to drop to 3g even thought signal is enough for 4g to work and stay on it when streaming video (I do lose calling having it on 4g only but the second phone is only for data only)

comments about drivers and stuff been made badly does not make sense

a device that has been working on Vista, 7 and windows 8 has generally always worked, with windows 10 a Program or driver can break after a feature upgrade when it was working perfectly fine before

why is MS changing the rules every single feature upgrade comes available, at this point MS is going to be forcing developers to go back to the old days where all support files are baked into program directory again (but this does not help old unsupported but perfectly working hardware from been broken by MS)

i have stopped some cyclists as i could not see past them (1 billion candle light on there bike) flashing is totally illegal as well

one time i was going up the hill and i thought it was another car but it was 1 light coming down the hill + once i got past them there was 5-6 other bikers behind them that i could not see even though they had normal bike lights until i had past the first biker

any bike light that uses a HID LEDs (like the ones that have external battery pack) it should be Flat beam or a fined for having it on the bike (some of them doesn't even matter if its pointed at the ground) most of them have 2-3 power level settings

its gotten to the point now where i going to call the police next time it happens as a lot of them are doing it on purpose i was trying to tell a old person and she was refusing to point it at the ground (its bad enough that some cars have illegal HID headlights or point up at the sky)

Re: Crazy, Good luck

think your confusing speed with signal (phone will prefer the faster technology and wont know if its congested or not)

sound like your area on 4G is little overloaded or signal is below 2 bars (2-3 bars on android devices can mean less than 10-20% signal) only iphone shows true signal levels (they fixed there signal bars in the days of iphone 4S as at&t was blaming iphone for poor signal so apple updating there signal bars to show a correct representation of the signal for each bar)

https://images.anandtech.com/reviews/gadgets/apple/iPhone4/part2/signalbarmapping.jpg

https://www.anandtech.com/show/3821/iphone-4-redux-analyzing-apples-ios-41-signal-fix

to this date android devices still don't correctly show signal levels, 2 or lower bars can mean practically no signal on android (unless you change it to dBm numbers) whereas iphone will show 1 dot

Re: SMS vs random new system

main issue with SMS is very easy to redirect them (SS7 hijacking) 2FA codes should not be using SMS