Posts by Dan 55 15447 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Jun 2009
IIRC MS back ported long filenames to 3.11, you had to install a patch.
They also back ported much of the Win32 API, again with another patch.
Them were the days they didn't take customers for granted, they at least had to do a little bit of work to push customers further down the treadmill.
Sorry, but Telefonica's been opposing them for years and they've got the regulator in their pocket.
At the moment the WiFi must be in public areas, not strong enough to be usable in nearby private buildings, run at less than 256Kbps. The town council must be registered as a teleco and pay taxes.
And what level of Police funding would prevent all terrorist attacks? How much more funding would have prevented this one. What wouldn't you be able to do because you'd spent all the budget on what is actually a relatively minor risk to life?
I imagine funding for 20,000 more police, which is what her cutbacks translated into in real life, would have come in useful. Also see this.
She sounds bloody stupid, but the alternative is admitting an underfunded police can't join the dots or it can but can't keep track of everyone at once and she underfunded them. It seems the attackers for both Manchester and London were reported to the police.
I hope Labour use this line of attack (defence) instead of standing there and taking it because it's too soon after the attack, when she inevitably parrots the usual vacuous insults given to her by Crosby.
First we know everything was slowing down. Maybe they decided they couldn't fix it live and wanted to force a failover.
The Times suggests a big red button was pressed in the data centre by a contractor and the power went down. That might be when BA claimed there was a power failure.
That would be the point when the failover failed. Perhaps that is why the CEO said something about there being millions of messages, although he seems to have stopped saying that now, maybe because it suggests there's something wrong with their IT.
Then I guess they tried to bring the data centre back up, and it looked like the bridge of the Enterprise, shaking about, staff falling to the floor, and smoke everywhere. That would be the power surge.
I wonder how long it was since power and switching to secondary or backup data centres were tested.
You're asking for something different. According to the quote, they wanted a message:
"British security sources last month revealed Masood sent a WhatsApp message but it could not be accessed because it was encrypted by the popular messaging service"
WhatsApp deletes messages once received by the client. The police would need to look at to the sender or the receiver's phone because WhatsApp don't keep a message history.
I don't know how WhatsApp holds contact lists or logs IP addresses/geo-location so I didn't comment on that.
WhatsApp couldn't help them not because of encryption, but because they don't even have the message any more, encrypted or otherwise.
The only thing the police had got is the ICR which says the phone connected to WhatsApp's servers. The same problem would have happened if the message were in plain text.
The closest I've got to functional programming is SQL and that has often made me fear for my sanity.
Perhaps functional programmers have travelled through a black hole and out the other side into hell and end up as some unnatural human-functional code merged construct, like in the Disney film of the same name*. They don't make them like that any more.
* The Black Hole, not that whole sentence.
While the ads are downloaded, the code to open a hidden browser window, download a web page and render it, then show it over everything else is inside the original app. Very few apps legitimately need to do things like that and the page can be set to do anything in the future.
Why are we putting our faith in what is probably a giant regex string at Google's end?
So how did IE6/ActiveX/COM stuff wedded to XP happen, by people not listening to MS?
And if people listened to MS, the next greatest thing to replace that was .Net, and the next greatest thing after that was Silverlight, and the next greatest thing UWP which now turns out to be at death's door because Windows 10 Mobile has been forked from Windows 10 desktop and therefore not universal any more as it's a fork and the hardware side is practically dead.
The problem is listening to MS. Once you've got on the treadmill you can't jump off without falling down and smacking yourself in the face.
And what's that got to do with the price of fish? You can configure Firefox 49 or above to use Windows' certificate store if you must.
Firefox seems to be rejecting a malformed certificate, the rest don't seem to be. That's a point in Firefox's favour.
I can see a flourishing local industry in VPN and SmartDNS services for the UK so expats can get at Doctor Who. *
Which will be paid for in a strong and stable currency, which may or may not be the GBP.
And will be monitored in realtime, of course.
* Unfortunately due to a data centre power failure, repeats of programs where the Doctor says, "Don't you think she looks tired?" will not be aired.
I ran the blog link through Google Translate (use Russian as source language, not auto detect, otherwise something goes wrong) and nobody's talking about a browser at all, just how Windows/NTFS works.
The earliest story I can find about this is Ars Technica's and I think this time they got it wrong. Everyone else is linking back to FAKE NEWS!
I really do hate the Twitterisation of customer care. First because I don't have a Twitter account, second because a company should attend the needs of all their customers properly, not just those who can exaggerate the most on Twitter. Can't it just burn through its money and die?
systemd-free Devuan hits stable 1.0.0 status
Job done. *
* Helpfully called something completely different by each TV manufacturer, but job done anyway **.
** You may need to enable it from the settings though as these useful things often default to off. ***
*** Unless you really don't have it and have to buy a new TV and/or DVD (well, now BluRay player ****) because one or the other or both don't have HDMI-CEC.
**** And if it's a BluRay player it'll probably need to connect to the Internet to update or something. *****
***** Oh bollocks, they get you every time.
Comcast didn't steal their identities, this is what (probably, possibly, hypothetically, allegedly) happened: now they can do anything they like with customer data they sold some of it to some two-bit marketing outfit and paid for a campaign to spam the FCC with comments against net neutrality.
In spite of the language barrier, many European countries' TV is full of wall-to-wall American TV films and NCIS shite to fill up airtime. Netflix would be held to a higher quality standard than local TV, meaning it might help them gain more subscribers and making things more difficult for European streaming services to gain a foothold.
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