Posts by Chris King

Re: The other shoe

(ISC)² just posted this up on their home page. Doesn't sound like they're going back to pencils and OMR sheets just yet...

(ISC)² Exam Candidates Not Affected by Pearson VUE Incident

Through our standard incident process, Pearson VUE notified (ISC)² about unauthorized access to its Credential Manager System. This system is not used by candidates taking (ISC)² exams, nor is there any indication that systems related to (ISC)² exams have been affected. (ISC)² will continue to monitor this incident.

From what I remember, lots of Nildram customers jumped ship well before the Tiscali take-over of Pipex, most of the ones I knew escaped to AAISP.

Within weeks of Pipex taking over Nildram, my line's performance went down the toilet, DNS kept breaking, and the 24x7 support was mysteriously silent in the evenings and at weekends. That was my cue to leave.

A far cry from the early days, when my line went wonky one weekend. They managed to wring a verbal apology out of a manager from BT Wholesale on a Sunday afternoon, and got the problem fixed a couple of hours later.

Re: 9/10

"I've said this before - you do not want to be on a Time Lord's shit-list. Ever."

Or Captain Kirk's. Unless you're blue/green-skinned, alien and female, you're probably getting a Photon Torpedo in your Christmas stocking (unless something else kills you first).

Re: Blowed if I'm going to watch the film

Beaten to the sequel joke, but who's the protagonist ? "Ron Seal" ?

Re: What about: Windows for Whackos?

Unless it's a pint of gin/vodka/whisk(e)y - that software leaves DEEP psychological scars.

Number Four Cartridge !!!

Hey, you missed out the Gronk - Ohhhhh, my poor heartses !!!

Re: They tried a help desk for the other stuff, but...

I don't think they'll be offering any feedback on that call !

Re: I've been around here for ages

No, it's just 100 posts in a 12-month period (I got mine recently).

You need 2,000+ upvotes for Silver, so I've got a very long way to go yet.

"I must admit that the main reason I am still watching this year is because I want to see Clara's demise... I don't want to see here leave... I want to see her dead... so there's no chance of her coming back."

Well, being killed didn't stop them finding ways of bringing back Jack... or Amy... or Rory... or Ashildr... or Danny. Heck, even the Brigadier got another outing as a Cyberman last season.

Re: Bah! Now with extra unrequested humbug.

Using the "consumer" download links always gets you those "helpful" little extras from Adobe.

The versions they supply for corporates (which are downloadable if you know the right URL's) don't contain any bundled crap.

Java installers are a pain in the arse, but these registry keys used to end the madness, haven't checked recently if they still do:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

“SPONSORS”=”DISABLE”

Anyone got a registry key to disable that feature ?

Win10 has already extracted enough blood, sweat and tears out of us [1], damned if they're getting any more samples.

[1] Not to mention telemetry data if we forget to switch it all off.

Speaking of retcon...

...has anyone else noticed that the "Classic Series" website has been archived and all references to it have been removed from the main Dr Who web site ?

It probably happened a while ago, but every page on http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic now has one of those "This page has been archived and is no longer updated" banners at the top.

Re: Is there a B Ark?

The B Ark ran on autopilot and was programmed to crash, so even if you're the sort of person who head-butts asteroids in Elite Dangerous, you'll do.

(Been there, did that in the first training mission. I hit Emergency Boost and Silent Running on my HOTAS, but at least the resulting explosion took out four of the eight toxic waste canisters before I died)

Wow, rough crowd in here, giving a thumbs-down to me and the parent poster for a bit of guerilla chemistry.

What can I say to that, but BOOM! ?

Re: Sequent

Oh man, I'm obviously not drinking enough to forget... Oracle on DYNIX/ptx, what did I do to deserve that ?

Re: Change my password?

Date of birth is (or used to be) used for resetting 3DSecure passwords, so it's useful to crims for Verified by Visa and MasterCard SecureCode transactions.

If they have retained customer details from the operations they have taken over, it's not just ex-TalkTalk customers in the firing line. What about former customers of...

AOL (UK)

Tiscali

Pipex

Nildram

Tesco Broadband

Virgin Media (ADSL)

OneTel

...and possibly others I've forgotten about ?

I will be SERIOUSLY miffed if I'm caught in the crossfire of this Charlie Foxtrot - I was a Nildram customer but escaped to AAISP nearly ten years ago, and had a OneTel dialup account before that. How long have they held on to ex-customer data, I wonder ?

How about "Blame Magnet" ?

Re: Hidden costs

But don't government procurement projects just prove that government procurement projects are more expensive and wasteful than anything else ?

"Hey, that didn't work, let's try again !"

*facepalm*

Re: This is why my AppleID

Mine never had a credit card associated with it. In the rare event I might actually want to buy something, I'll just add a voucher to the account and redeem that.

Re: Maybe I'm too cynical ...

This is probably another attempt to scare The Product (i.e. YOU) into handing over more data and behaving the way they want you to behave.

It's a bit like the warnings they used to put up on links to ad-blockers - they would ask you if you were really sure you wanted to do this, because they thought the link might be "dangerous or spamy".

Re: >on Red Dwarf, the toaster was intelligent

Fourteen-pound lump hammer 1 Talkie Toaster 0.

I'd probably feel the same way, if some "smart" device kept greeting me with a "Howdy Doodly-Doo !!!

Re: Fridge on the Net

"Actual protocols and networrks were never designed for a such "intrusive" level of conections on little attended devices, and we already see the can of worms blindly using them opened in the automotive sector - or just look at SCADA."

If the SCADA boys still can't get it right after all these years, why do the IoT crowd think they're going to do any better ? Security is an afterthrought - if it is even thought about at all - and IoT devices will be so short of memory/processing power, IPv6 or dual-stack operation isn't likely to be an option.

Scratch that...

There's FOUR of 'em this time !

> The original premise of Dr Who was to teach children about history in an entertaining way.

>

> I think, as usual, that the BBC has failed to fulfil its remit.

You're about 52 years late for that particular whinge, the whole educational bit went out of the window when someone terrorised Carole Ann Ford with a sink plunger and the Daleks turned up.

Re: some pretty good products

Prism was a hardware platform (32-bit RISC) and not an operating system. Cutler developed an operating system for it called Mica, but that had nothing to do with OS/2 or NT.

Prism was canned in 1988 and they went on to build Alpha instead.

Re: thanks I needed a good laugh today!

Have an upvote on me, this is the MAIN reason I block ads.

Don't get me wrong, Invading my privacy ticks me off, but nowhere as much as having to help a friend, colleague or relative deal with malware in adverts.