* Posts by Aitor 1

1564 publicly visible posts • joined 25 Jun 2009

UK infrastructure failing to meet the most basic cybersecurity standards

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Morale

the beatings will continue until morale improves

There, that is how fines will help the NHS.

The problem is.. who is guilty really?

CrashPlan crashes out of cloudy consumer backup caper

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Re: No mention of Family plan...

I suggest you go to Backblaze.... they have no linux support and you have to tweak the client to have 2 threads if you dont live in the us, but appart from that it is decent, and now it also allows you to manage other peoples backups, so quite similar to your current setup I guess.

Beware that versioning retention is worse as many have pointed out.

I use it with both my main computer and the missus and it works quite well (using means having had to recover stuff).

Oracle caves, promises to crack open Java EE as v8 crawls ever closer

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Half dead

Java is half dead, and looks like it will be a zombie soon enough.

It is sad, but it has been mismanaged for too long.

Who wants multiple virtual workstations on a GPU in a blade server?

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Re: Licensing

That is the problem, the licenses.

I just dont see the point of paying more for less.

US DoD, Brit ISP BT reverse proxies can be abused to frisk internal systems – researcher

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Proxy, etc

What he describes is essentially a MiM attack by ISPs and governments.. and also some proxies.. but I dont care much about the proxies, I care about the Gvt mandated spionage.

So, Nokia. What makes you think the world wants your phones?

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S club 7

I think i is like S Club 7. It pretended to be aimed at teens, yet it was really aimed at older children.

Same with nokia... we old ppl remember how bad it was at the end, their internal struggles, their perception that the network operator was their client etc etc.

UK.gov is hiring IT bods with skills in ... Windows Vista?!

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Re: 2003?!

I think they want to get rid of it, but can't.

Well treated, you can keep using it essentially forever, just isolate it as much as possible. BTW. most computers should be isolated anyway.

I was the administrator of an IBM 360 running CMS... in the late 90s!! That beast of a machine should have been replaced long ago... it was SO slow...

Making money is so DRAM easy for some memory-flingers

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Collusion

I am pretty sure that they would no repeat proven past actions and form a cartel to benefit from it, that would be unethical and these companies are ethics driven.

UK govt steams ahead with £5m facial recog system amid furore over innocents' mugshots

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Re: No Detail On The Accuracy Of System

Ohh it is way worse.

You, the citizen that has a passport, pays taxes etc, get in the DDBB.

A random criminal is identified as you by the system, and gets charged.

No, wait, YOU get charged, or, worse still, now the police thinks you have been detained X times.

Of course, they would not tell you, and you will wonder why cant you get a new job.. as they are checking your backgrounds and voila!! you have police records!! good luck proving this is incorrect.

She's arrived! HMS Queen Lizzie enters Portsmouth Naval Base

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Re: Genuine question

There are serious limitations in the payload if you dont have catapults.

That said, using catapults and arrestor gear does comulative stress damage to the plane.

Batteries that don't burn at the drop of a Galaxy Note 7? We're listening

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Graphene

Plenty of applications for the unobetnium as I see.

Yes, you can also make amazing lithium batteries with it, but it is still too expensive...

Atomic bonds: Gigabyte, Supermicro fire out boosted Atom CPU range

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Re: Coming soon

Let me laugh hard at the pricing.

No way I am paying that much.

UK industry mouthpiece wants 'near-universal' broadband speeds of 30Mbps by 2020

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Re: Use cases please?

The idea is that you would like 4K HDR, and being able to properly use "cloud services", and for that you need proper upload speed too, something we mostly lack in the UK.

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Ultrafast

I know it is a "comment bait", but 30 Mb is not ultrafast. Today.

I would call it "adequate for a small family that can't afford better".

Ultrafast is 1Gbps symmetrical, today.

Google and its terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week in full

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Re: You're fired

If you read his document, you will see it is a mixed bag.. many things he says are true and backed by studies. Others, are not.

He should have restricted himself to a shorter document with the points that are backed up, and the message would have been the same.

He would still have been fired... but he could at least better decend himself.

Anotjer tbing: people are no really critics of the document but of what they think the document means.

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Re: "why Blacks are such fast runners?"

But dont publish that, or you might be fired....

Your top five dreadful people the Google manifesto has pulled out of the woodwork

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asshe but

I dont agree with many of the things he says, yet he is not wrong when he claims that google is no longer hiring based on merit (I would say they hired based on geekness at some point).

Posting that was naive, has plenty of bias and firing him proves a big part of what he said and is dangerous.... you should not fire someone because you dont like his political ideas.

Can the last person watching desktop video please turn out the light?

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Really?

Then you either have and adblock here or dont care about stupid ads in thereg...

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Payment

They are NOT our payment, we are.

The problem I have is they want either .005$ per view or something like 1$ per view.. I would pay .005 per view.. not the 1$ they demand.

Core-blimey! Intel's Core i9 18-core monster – the numbers

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Yes and no

We setup a company using GPUs and CPUs on general purpose servers to encode/transcode movies/series for IP-TV.

It worked as a charm, for a mere fraction of the cost.

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Re: Gamers?

Sorry, but your "facts" are obsolete.

These days you need at least 6 for the game and one (better 2) for the OS.. so eight core and six core systems are the best, in general (unless playing WoT).

Smart streetlight bods Telensa nearly double full-year revenues

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CRI

Better CRI= less lumens needed.

Plus leds have at least double the effective lumens per watt.. as LED light is highly directional, and HPS/LPS is omnidirectional, and you need a parabole to redirect it, and nobody is cleaning said parabole.

Openreach pegs full fibre overhaul anywhere between £3bn and £6bn

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Wrong incentives

The data networks are natural monopolies, as are train networks, water and swage systems, etc etc.

So it is not a good idea to make them private, unless you plan to personally benefit from the deal.

As for the companies to invest.. why would they? the more money you put into the network, the more data you will have to deal with.. and a similar amount of money.

You only compete IF the other companies are giving a better service.. and with the services being what they are in the UK, it just makes no sense.. there is almost no competition and they are all ok with that.

And also fiber to the cabinet.. bolody stupid. It is cheaper (yes, CHEAPER) to put fiber to the home.. but hey, somebody wante to reuse aluminum cables that should have been thrown away long ago.. to save pennies... and now we are all stuck with useless vdsl and assymetric connections, that are no good for using SAAS clouds.. and that is the future.

UK publishes Laws of Robotics for self-driving cars

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Re: But but but...

errr, no, the government wants to break encryption. They want to be able to access your communications when they end in places they cannot access, and also communications that start and end outside the UK (same for the the US).

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Re: Fucking with the 'robots'.

Camera, and police, that is the future.

Microsoft dumps mobility from its Vision

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Re: Come on MS, say it... Windows Mobile is a dead duck.

Failed because they have been abandoning mobile phones/pdas for the las 19 years.

Every 2 years, new "Windows CE/Mobile" paradigm, incompatible with previous devices... and well, peoples trust just gets killed.

Windows is being killed by abusive licensing in the workplace, and at home it is being replaced by cheaper tablets.. running a windows shop is SO expensive...

WannaCry-killer Marcus Hutchins denies Feds' malware claims

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Re: Proportionality? We've heard of it.

They keep voting the people who make these things happen. So they either like it or dont care.

DJI drones: 'Cyber vulnerabilities' prompt blanket US Army ban

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Pork

Barrel.

My guess is that they dont want to alianate the military companies that provide worse (as in specs) products at 100x the price, but apparently with better security.

That, or the DJI drones are really beaming data back.

Four techies flummoxed for hours by flickering 'E' on monitor

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Re: "by the size of his Micro Channel Adapter"

You had to change the IRQ from the default IRQ 7, that conflicts with the LPT1, to IRQ5.

I am sure that you are glad your problem haas a solution. ;)

Skype for Business is not Skype – realising that is half the battle

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Re: Skype for business is pretty sad

The main use I had for it was to micromanage my team, as we where all remote workers, I could see who was typing or not... and chat with them in case they are at the keyboard.

But the MSN already got that long long time ago.. as for the contacts.. well, I see it as an intracompany thing, that makes it way more secure, if limited.

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Easy

Call them using hangouts, sorted.

And you save yourselft from Lync at the same time ;)

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Screen sharing

I havent used Lync for a while, but we had plenty of problems with it and sharing desktops.. it worked "most of the time", video was always bad unless talking to a person in the same LAN segment, etc.

For chat it was good, but had a slight tendency to crash with W7.

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Skype mobile

The software kept getting worse...I had to cancel my premium subscription... and uninstall it, first from the mobile phone, as it was eating the battery, and then from the desktop, as it was eating ridiculous amounts of memory and CPU. I just use the web skype, and that is good for me... but I prefer hangouts these days, it works better. YMMV as plenty of ISPs throttle google and google services...

White collar crime prosecutions fall as offences rise

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Corruption

I would say that rather than lack of money it is just corruption..

The ultimate full English breakfast – have your SAY

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Lester

Let me raise a pint for Lester! He loved greased food.

Apple removes VPN apps in China as Russia's Putin puts in the boot with VPN banlaw

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Re: The future is almost here

I guess the UK government will soon follow.. not that they have something else to do..

Dark web doesn't exist, says Tor's Dingledine. And folks use network for privacy, not crime

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Block

Another good reason to block known Tor nodes, as I do with all my firewalls and servers..

Silicon Valley IT biz boss cops to lying about Cisco H-1B jobs

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Re: I think this is the business model of those companies.

disney did it and nothing happened...

.. ..-. / -.-- --- ..- / -.-. .- -. / .-. . .- -.. / - .... .. ... then a US Navy fondleslab just put you out of a job

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Re: ...or after an electromagnetic pulse event.

irrelevant as the ship engines will be dead anyway...

Another Brexit cliff edge: UK.gov warned over data flows to EU

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Banking

The main issue here is what services we provide in the uk. And the main bread winner is banking. In order to continue being a leader in banking we must comply with eu rules, or they will take it from us, as simple as that. Now, they probably dont want the repercussions of that, but they can do it and there is little we can do about it.

We just have to deal with that.

The curious case of a Tesla smash, Autopilot blamed, and the driver's next-day U-turn

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Re: Hmm

Almost for sure stupid, and he probably got a nice call from a lawyer just to keep him honest.

What did OVH learn from 24-hour outage? Water and servers do not mix

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Re: Pure water isn't so bad...

pure water will cause corrossion.

use car coolant liquid.

NAO: Customs union IT system may not be ready before Brexit

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Re: Scratching my head on 'benefits' of leaving the EU

A norway solution is better than the alternative, but way worse than our previous agreement. We had an amazing deal.

Now, we ant get the norway second class agreement for obvious political reasons...so out of eu it is...

Mappy days! Ordnance Survey offers up free map of UK greenery

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mafia

Their practices are close to mafia practices...and because of that they have a monopoly...always a bad thing.

Ask the duxe who wrote who owns scotland, for example.

Web inventor Sir Tim sizes up handcuffs for his creation – and world has 2 weeks to appeal

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Re: competition

the news induatry tanks for several reasons.

One is that people have realized tbey are beng fed not news, but regurgitated agencies news, and modified for the masters of tbe source you are reading.

Also, global competition.

Feelin' safe and snug on Linux while the Windows world burns? Stop that

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Re: OS Upgrades and Other Patches

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade

vi P45

As your system may need recovery....

Payroll glitch at DXC leaves former staff in employment limbo

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Re: Good luck finding an employer who can do a P45 right

Nope, it is the company that uses a broken system.

They should pay a lump sum at the end that includes all money, with an explanation.

That is the law in Spain, and it works okish. Not really ok because I have yet to receive the correct ammount (ussually I have received a bit too much).

This is normal in spain when you change jobs (in any way).

SBU claims Russia was behind NotPetya

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Re: The SBU eh?

I would trust them as much as Hamas. So not at all.

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Re: Just "No"

Err, there is a difference between "the truth" and "a part of the truth"

You are ommiting important parts, as the previous party being ousted in a paid for coup, it being made illegal, dirty ellections, repression, etc. Ukraine is not a democracy right now. Of course the previous administration were proxies too, but does not change my opinion.

As for the invasion of Crimea, I agree with you. The Crimea vote was as clean as the general ukraine election. This is, not at all!

As for 32.000 russian troops dead, no way, I dont know where your are geting your facts from, but just think about it... the numbers are so inflated as to seem to come from the onion or north korea... Russia coulkd not withstand that number of casualties. If they thought they could, they would have gone to full war in Ukraine and Syria, and probably elsewhere.

US Senators want Kaspersky shut out of military contracts

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Re: Russia 'won't rule out' retaliation

Errr, no, it was catastrophic to some exporters, including spanish ones that went out of business, but asmost big companies associated with the us were ok, then, no problem.