Posts by david 12

Re: "pilot test of a mail service"

Certainly. And historically those groupware alternatives have been so crap that only the kind of people who comment on articles at The Register would be willing to use them. The interesting thing will be if CERN have identified, or will develop, groupware alternatives that don't torture the end users and don't make the IT staff feel superior. So generically applicable that when you post at The Register, it's not even worth mentioning.

Re: Dump Fee

As I understand it, toilet use is included in one of the base fees. The dump fee is for additional (industrial) waste.

Offline files work with all software. But encrypted files work only with software that is designed to handle encrypted files. And authenticated files only work with software that is designed to work with authentication. And (closest match) "copy protected" files only work with software that is designed to work with authenticated encrypted copy protected files, and if you copy the contents of the file into an unauthenticated unencrypted location, then the file's not copy-protected anymore. Which is what is happening here: MS Windows won't copy a copy-protected authenticated encrypted file into the local (unencrypted) cache: That is it won't copy them offline. That is what the complaint is about.

The system is not (at present) completely locked at every level. You can still, in some circumstances, use some other software to tell Windows to make a local (unencrypted) copy of your file in your local (unencrypted) offline-files cache. There are restrictions you can enforce to stop that, but most noticeably if you copy the text into an email message, all bets are off.

Google, of course, is working on the same stuff, and moving to a system where email messages are content-free, and do not break end-to-end document copy protection. Their system replaces email messages with links to content "in the cloud", and they are trying to move all their enterprise customers onto the new system this month.

Re: Backup - ever heard of it?

>anyone who's been forced to use SourceSafe will know <

Anyone who used VCS will know that SourceSafe was an improvement.

Re: Two thoughts

That's not a porn cache Boss! That's just my AI training data! (Anyway, now it's on the servers, you can look at it too.)

Re: Security concerns?

It's not just the political prisoners and the labor camps. China actually has a different political system than that seen in Russia, India, South Africa, Zimbabwe, the EU, Britain or the USA. I know this seems unbelievable to people who've never been outside their own country, but stay with me: the Chinese government is committed to having only one kind of authority in their country. Art, Religion, Business, Ethnicity: it doesn't matter how apolitical and harmless an organisation or community is, it is a central theory of the present Chinese government that no independent strand of moral, political or social influence should exist.

It's not just about control, or who is at the top and who is at the bottom, or who benefits, or if Government runs Business, or Business runs Government. Only one thread.

Does that mean that Exchange is a .NET application? Or does it mean that (like AD cmdlets) Eschange cmdlets are just wrappers for .COM interfaces on Exchange?

The whole point of the bridging course is to bring you up to "standard" for entry to post-graduate studies. If it hasn't done that, he's been ripped off.

I've got no sympathy for scammy universities that charge real money for useless qualifications.

Re: Why not save the planet at the same time?

?? generally considered to be essential ??

This must be some new, improved, not backwards compatible meaning of "backwards compatible". Many sites are not available in HTTP: many of the sites that are available in HTTP are not available without javascript: many of the sites that require javascript are only available with recent versions.

The simple fact is that the new WWW is not backward compatible. You may characterize this as "dropping support for Microsoft's older" and FF's older, and Opera's older, and Safari's older browsers: and you'd be correct: it's not backwards compatible.

And here, half-baked commentards to feel superior about it.

Re: What the hell

Fines and repayments don't normally go to the people employed in the prosecutors office. Unless, as you seem to suggest, that is different in the UK?

Unless you have specifically modified your "server" to never update security tokens and timestamps, trivial restoration of a virtual machine from a backup copy will just break everything.

Re: This is why companies outsource/offshore I guess

What? Were did you get the idea that Boeing isn't to blame? Or that the box manufacturer isn't to blame? Or that third party development shifts blame?

Identifying the source and the nature of failure is an important part of systematic aircraft safety. Expect to see more revelations about each link in the chain of failure. Identifying elements of failure isn't about shifting blame: it's about identifying proximate and root causes.

Re: Title is, let's be honest, a lie

And, if 'Upload speeds ... have become "increasingly important" to UK', then the UK is the only country where that is so. In the rest of the world, upload speeds have become decreasingly important, as on-premise web servers and mail servers have disappeared, and usage patterns have shifted from business to "watching Netflix" and other streaming video providers.

Re: MS SOP: Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.

Right. Windows used to have a sub-system for unix. Then that subsystem was made binary-compatible with linux. Then that subsystem was replaced with... linux running in a virtual machine. Thus giving MS more control? A tighter embrace? Giving linux more features?

Re: Clarity needed here

<and refuses to run at all>

Which is enforced by software, which is protected by DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act), breach of which is criminal.

Re: computer room fight to the death...

>was only one set of the oxygen masks < The oxygen mask if for the person who rescues those who didn't make it. Which is why it is normally -outside- the protected area. God knows what the were thinking when they put it --inside-- the room.

Re: Why? Just Why?....

Because a binary-compatible Windows clone will accept drivers and libraries built for Windows.

Re: Only 30 years too late ...

>It certainly made the IBM PC look like junk<

On the other hand, contemporary reviews note that the IBM PC keyboard redefined the category.

People who actually used computers might be forgiven for thinking that was itself significant.

>did you miss the whole open source part? <

Fun note: git hub "Issues" lists includes the issue that the released java bytecode doesn't match the released source :)

"Low voltage and low current"

They probably switched to LED brake lights: the low voltage isn't enough to reliably make the contact.

Re: One day...

>Because all the cool kids did it back in the day probably. Thanks Lotus.<

Lotus? vi comes from 1976, and ed was even earlier than that.

Line editors like ed where scriptable in any system that allowed scripting, and one of the reasons was because line editors like ed were one of the first tools written for a new os, because that's what you used to write subsequent programs. The first three tools of unix were assembler, editor, and shell. vi was part of the very first BSD release.

And when you started advanced scripting with your editor, of course you could have a system that didn't allow you to interact with the file system of with the gui, but wtf would be the use of that?

Re: so confusing

Way behind us jake. The four TLD's defined by 2606 are

.test

.example

.invalid and

.localhost

... which all have defined domains making them unsuitable for .local domains

Re: Stupid gimmick from the start

Around here, the electricity COMPANIES needed to replace their End-Of-Life meters. and when they said that, they wanted to add a small flashing light that could be read by a meter-reading device, so that the person didn't have to squint at the dials to get a reading. The GOVERNMENT told them, that if they were going to invest all that capital (and charge people for it), they all needed to go the whole hog and include modern remote-reading capability. Then the WELFARE lobby submitted that if they were going to get remote reading, and charge people for the capital, they need to provide a way for USERS to read the meter and see what they were getting charged for.

Sucks to be a user, because my billing area has never implemented the Bluetooth/WiFi/whatever end-user interface. It's in the meter. We all paid for it. But they've decided that the technology they installed in our region isn't secure/encrypted/authorised enough to actually let end users use it. I can't see how much I'm using except by going outside and watching the numbers. Instead, I can go to a website and see how much I used yesterday.

Re: In defence of the guacamole-eaters...

>I've done front end coding in my time and tbh it was considered part of the job<

So have I, and so it was. And when it still looked unbalanced and confusing, I'd get approval to take it next door to the design firm, and in 15 minutes they'd have something that was better than something I'd spend all day on.

I had the LWB MKII from 1969, and the factory manual was very good (they told the parent company that we were a 'dealer' to get us a copy). And I can't remember the other publisher of the good m/c and Toyota manuals I had. For stuff that I owned, all I can say about the Haynes manuals is that they made the competition look good.

Re: New year?

OK, let me rephrase that for you: "We didn't see your email request because Taiwan was shut down at the time."

Sorry, which dictionary are you using? Is this a new and different meaning? Are customs and excise going to start raiding second hand shops that sell used Prado, Louis Vuitton, Gucci and Hermes? Or is it a traditional meaning I've never heard of, and the police already confiscate second hand fashion goods?

Or perhaps part of the story wasn't fully explained.

Re: "Prevaricating" means "lying"

I see that usage is going up again after a long decline. Perhaps the UK meaning reported here (but not in my London published old, small dictionaries) is newly popular?

Re: Problem ?

>Has anyone come across a fax machine that implements any type of security <

Yes. They're sold to hospitals, doctors and other people who need Encrypted / HPIIA compliant / TLS fax machines.

Not much in the UK only because hospitals were told not to use them.

Itanium /was/ a RISC-ish architecture like the universities were advocating. Reduced Instruction Set? Check. Compile-time optimisation? Check. In-order execution? Check. Parallelization? Check.