Posts by Hans 1 3797 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Aug 2009
Get a license on Amazon, $10 ... download from MS, all good. This, is legal if you live in the EU, IANAL, but other regions seem to have different laws.
Basically, companies that have volume licenses purchase stuff which contains an OEM license for Windows/Office .... this OEM license they are legally allowed to sell if they do not use it. A bunch of companies buy these up and sell them on Amazon ...
Doesn't stop the Americans. They have already made it a law that any data stored in an Irish server falls under the jurisdiction of the American government so this GDPR is just "child's play" to them.
This just means that any business that has a foothold in EU land is not allowed to store sensitive data on USian cloud servers and that is fine, the nail in the coffin for cloud services ... and nobody has noticed, yet.
Besides, you forgot the executive order that read that ONLY US citizens were eligible to privacy protection laws, not foreigners ... you are a EU business and use Azure ? EU: Where is that 4%, please ? Thanks!
Seriously, I hate to write this, but the patch of land in the Caribbean is called "Saint Martin" in English, "Saint-Martin" in French and "Sint Maarten" in Dutch, Yes that whole Island has different names in different languages, whodathunk.
That island is divided in two, with a Dutch-speaking autonomous state* that is a member of the Kingdom of The Netherlands and French-speaking part which belongs to France.
To quote the Dutch wikipedia:
Sint Maarten (Frans: Saint-Martin, Engels: Saint Martin) is een eiland in de Caraïbische Zee (emphasis mine)
* I use terminology as on the French wikipedia page, you can try and amend the article if you so wish
Let's face it - should've tested copying in different scenarios
Totally agree, but you cannot test each and every possible case, there are too many permutations. Simple question, define "large number of files" and "large files" ... 10k files, 1Gb in size ? The commit in question addressed issues with mixed case names, where files would have the same name were you to lowercase the names. It is much easier for the users to test their systems with the software and report any issues, it is not like they purchased the code (or a license for it), I think that is "giving back" for greater good.
obligatory MS bash
Yes, that is my style and my duty, I have to live up to the "Microsoft Most Hated Professional" moniker !
Then again, the article was praising open source without context, so my comment added some context, for those in need. There are not that many closed source vendors that produce proprietary file systems to choose from and MS support really sucks when you're tech-savvy.
Report something like this involving NTFS to MS Support, you would need three MONTHS of incessant battering to get the firstline to understand what use a filesystem has and why it is not supposed to lose files or metadata ... so, yeah ...
I guess dataloss is not really cool, so they removed the commit, are now investigating what exactly caused this ala "How did that ever work?" ... heard that one too often ...
Better, even, say they claim that commit caused the issue, no need for a new release .... git clone, cherry-pick, build, done.
I forgot, I do not use Teams by choice, that lousy piece of unreliable crap was forced upon me by corporate fallacy ...
I am waiting for our IT boss to get his head out of his arse and realize that the recent MS vs FBI court case, well, Trumps bill that annihilated it, means that US clouds are not compliant with the GDPR ... I will be sure to remind him before the deadline ...
Icon: I always loved Trump, your great leader, thick as bone!
Can we all call it Office 320 from now on ?
Maybe slightly unfair, they made incredible progress this year ... YTD last year they had accumulated 14 days of downtime, iirc ... this year it is much better ...
They finally hired someone who understands certificates and renewals ... if they could get Teams to work in Firefox I would appreciate it ...
Give them enough years of stasis, and even bureaucrats can become creative.
Short answer: as a Brit, you have absolutely no say when it comes to surveillance, your opinion does not even count.
Long answer
You do not like the Stasi ? Sad, really, since you are aware of the snoopers charter, May's brainfart, right ? Well, the ECJ was telling the UK off about that, as you can read in news from years ago ... we do not have any of that scale surveillance in other EU countries. Well, we are all snooped upon from the 5 eyes installations on UK ground, thank you very much ... I guess that once you will have left we will be taking special care of the UK on those grounds ... it will get bloody, we could not before as UK was a member ... I think it would be wise to dismantle them before Brexit comes into affect. Nobody wants a 500 million neighbour pissed off at your doorstep, thought so!
Next, you are gonna pull the democracy BS, and as a Brit, you have absolutely no say on that, House of Lards, anyone ? Right ... Britain is stuck in the 18th century, politically ...
That keyboard looks like a MacBook keyboard with a cl1t nobody uses ... it is 2018 and the trackpad has buttons ... I know, users complained, but then, where is the floppy disk drive ?
Again, does Windows 10 work reliably with a button-less trackpad, Windows 7 was not as good as macos, but then again, that was ages ago when I tried Windows 7 on a MacBook Pro ...
And, more importantly, can I choose no OS or Linux when I buy ? No -> No thanks!
And "No thanks" it seems ...
@Lost all faith
Thing is, they claim their emulation layer performs well ... I doubt it, seriously, and given the hardware you need on Intel/AMD kit to get a somewhat well performing OS, well, I doubt the emulation layer will cut it ... and op explicitly mentioned Adobe, like, Photoshop emulated on Arm ? Are you nuts ?
Full blown Windows is a resource hog on Intel, who in their right mind thinks one can squeeze that on ARM ? And I'm not even talking EMULATION, here, yet ...
So, we have read the articles, we all think it is just hot air, not gonna perform anywhere near what they claim, success will not happen ... just like RT.
Ohhh, and, the emulation emulates a 32-Bit CPU, which means 3Gb* RAM max per app, if they get it right.
How many more times will I have to write this out ?
* 3Gb max means 1.5Gb max for the unlucky windows luser.
In France, you have two types of roundabouts, some where any entering vehicle has right of way and others where entering vehicles need to give way. Some are a mixture of both where some entrances have right of way, others do not. The town where I took my driving test was full of roundabouts with priority to entering cars ...
Of course, right of way means there are no line markings, just, cars coming from the right have right of way to enter as they see fit ... how are automated cars going to cope with that ? Considering that since giving entering cars right of way is brain-dead, potential deadlock, most of these are now being converted to conventional roundabouts, but still ... how on earth is an automated car gonna get that right ?
Rush hour at the place de l'étoile in Paris, the automated car will wait until rush hour is over before entering the roundabout ...
icon: Paris, coz ... place de l'étoile ...
No fan of software in vehicules .... but ...
The NTSB has no powers to order a general recall of cars if its investigation uncovers a flaw in the Tesla Autopilot software.
If there is ONE, yes ONE instance where a recall is not necessary, it is when the CONNECTED car's software needs a patch ... beyond funny ...
Anything religious, like god, golden flying unicorn, Jesus, creationism, noah's ark, Adam and Eve, Eden ... stuff like that,to name but a few ... coz I find those highly offensive as well, shit, even more offensive than muthaFukker (spelled however u c fit) ... or do these not count ?
You know, double standards and stuff like that ...
PS: I always cover the ears of my 5yo as I walk out of Church on Sundays, because, well, for some retarded reason, in France, the church is always opposite the local pub ...sh1t, no, I meant, I cover her ears as people come out of the church ... drunks are harmless compared to brainwashed ...
I was thinking about using AC flag for that, but nobody knows my real name is Hans Reiser anyway ... and Paris is so fitting ...
I wonder if Windows is GPL compliant with their Linux subsystem ... if they ain't and I cannot see how they could be (see linking binaries, as they basically re-implemented Linux system calls) ... hm ... this is gonna be bloody ...
My gut feeling says the FSF is waiting for the prime time to sue ...
Shows the braindead oxygen hogs in Redmond, they could have implemented BSD system calls and had all the goodies, but no ...
Was this failure the cause or a significant contributing factor to the firemen arriving two hours late ?
DISCLAIMER: the following link will take you to a lefty site:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/27/manchester-arena-bombing-fire-service-arrived-two-hours-late-says-report
PS: Honest question!
@Naamsgenoot [the other Hans]
If I'm something services from someone, I'd like to thing that I'm getting the best things possible in return for my money. If there is a specialist subcontractor who can do something better [..]
Outsourcing is never about better, it is always about cheaper.
If you think about it, assuming you are (or somebody in your company is) good at hiring good people, how can outsourcing possibly be both cheaper and better ? Ok, granted, something highly specialized and of which you have several highly specialized outsourcing companies with a proven track record, then, maybe ... but here, we have public emergency with 30 years experience ... very few private companies can come close to that ...
@Gordon
when in the history of IT has the backup EVER restored when you really really really needed it to
You do test the backups regularly, right ?
You do have multiple backups, right ?
Kept at different locations ?
And, if your management has common sense, hard to come by, agreed, you even have DR, right ?
Go tell the bean-counters that you are PRODUCTION, NOT A COST CENTER, if they don't believe you, simulate an IT incident, with good tested backups of course ... and let them sweat it for, say, an hour ... ;-)
I do feel a bit surprised, as this is non-news ... nothing interesting and you take the time to write something up ... ok, maybe the Pentium Pro story, but still, I doubt many Pentium Pro users are using the latest Linux kernel in their caves, just as Linus points out.
icon: Beer4Linus time!
All humans alive today apparently have a single "Eve" ancestor for their cells' mitochondria component.
mtDNA is proof, if inbreeding is not enough, that the Eve saga in the believer's digest is a myth. There are populations in Africa with incredibly varied mtDNA ... living less than 100 miles apart. While research has tried to finger mtDNA Eve and Y chromosome Adam, two different genetic lineages are unlikely to have common ancestors who lived in the same population at the same time.simply because of the random nature of genealogy.
MS LDAP is an entirely RFC4511 standards based implementation.
Agreed, and extended, with nested group search (1.2.840.113556.1.4.1941) ... IBM's approach is better, though. Nested and dynamic groups are common on Tivoli Directory Server; IBM has provided system class attributes ibm-allMembers and ibm-allGroups ...
Does AD have dynamic groups (defined by an LDAP search) ?
Ouch!
Using Windows Server as an Active Directory server:
"Won't authenticate" - you're holding it wrong
"Wrong permissions" - you're holding it wrong
"My coffee is cold" - you're holding it wrong
This is what you get from MS support, however, when you ask simple questions like "How so, am I holding it wrong?" They reply: "One moment, I'll get third line on this case, that guy's a hacker, sure, he knows how to . source!" and then you wait three weeks ... long enough to migrate to samba ... ;-)
@Adam
True, get my upvote!
@ShelLuser
Which part of Samba from 4.0.0 onwards do you not understand ? So six years, I suppose. Note that it allows users with an LDAP tool to change certain account passwords.
As for monitoring the system:
The important attributes to watch are pwdLastSet and msDS-KeyVersionNumber
ldbsearch -H /usr/local/samba/private/sam.ldb objectclass=user pwdLastSet msDS-KeyVersionNumber
These values will change if a password is changed or reset.
As Samba does not at this time change the machine account passwords of Domain Controllers, any change to these, or to the passwords of administrators should be a concern.
The pwdLastSet can be printed using the samba.nttime2string function:
python
>>> import samba
>>> print(samba.nttime2string(131653809731794980))
Tue Mar 13 15:16:13 2018 NZDT
Only for publically shared data. Otherwise that would already be illegal in the EU.
How can we be sure that they only peruse "publicly shared" data, whatever you mean by that ? As for the illegality, sure, but who cares about laws, these days ... Windows 10 upgrade fiasco, anyone ?
Well no because Microsoft in the US dont have access to MS EU data without approval of a local data custodian. By design.
Well, they would have to change their design if they lose that case, would they not ?
And if they did ignore the GDPR, company officers would likely be imprisoned and the fines are up to 4% of global turn over PER INCIDENT!
That is exactly what I implied, especially if MS loses its case ... and I cannot see the supreme court telling USian 3 letter agencies to forget about obtaining digital data, which will be what this boils down to.
@Zanzibar
You have to understand our British readership was raised to believe Britain won WWII single-handedly, it was also the last breath of our late empire, which most Brits believe still exists, no joke!
So yeah, us Brits, all we have is glorious history ... we love history, remember each battle we won and like to tease citizens of countries we defeated centuries ago by naming the battle .... we conveniently forget any allies who helped us out at the time or battles we lost ...
Britain, the last country on the planet where newsagents still carry war-glorifying WWII-related comics for kids after 1960 ... 2018 and still the same ... so yeah ... hopeless
Please note that I do not condone atrocities committed on either sides and I think it is important to remember that carnage so it never ever happens again, it is the glorification of war that is so puke-inducing.
Let us not forget The Daily Mail's title page "Britain does not want Jews from Europe" (paraphrasing) - absolutely NOTHING glorious about that.
Donw-vote on, I could not care less!
He who uses a variable without making sure IT IS SET deserves all he gets ... yes, I learned that lesson as well ... but on rm -rf YOU BLOODY MAKE SURE THE VAR IS SET ... yes, even drunk, on a Saturday early morning with a picked up babe in my bed I make bloody sure that var is set ... rm -rf without due diligence is like driving without a seat belt ... I feel naked ... I cannot drive for more than 5 yards without seat belt ... I cannot hit enter without making 100% sure everything is ok ... well, tbh, it has bitten me so many times ... so yeah, that could hapen to me also, on the test server, though ;-)
@AC
Well, you have to read the EMEA data, everyone has seen growth in revenue, except HPE, flat revenue, they sold less, for more because they passed on price hikes to their customers ... even if revenue had been positive, it would have had to been very high ... world-wide, single digit increase in revenue, with price hikes, the others saw double digit growth, world-wide ... that tells me they are currently on the top of the wave, from now on, it will go downhill ... increases in costs will not save them next year and their delusions will start showing ... They were #1 Q4 2016 world-wide revenue per quarter, now #2, overtaken by Dell in Q4 ... unless they invert the trend, they will become #2 ... and since they recently dumped quite a lot of staff, THAT is not reflected in the numbers, yet .... expect lower quality of service and customers going elsewhere ... shareholders are OK, they will get hefty dividends, but that only works so long ...
Looks like a mammoth is finally on its knees ... I guess the layoffs are showing ... too late, you can hire as much as you like, the good staff you dumped have found elsewhere ... you'll probably get the lousy nobody else wants, now ...
Treat your proles like garbage and you will only ever be able to hire garbage!
I assume by SfB you mean "ShiteForBusiness"?
We switched to Teams after the shiite experience we had with Skype ... for an all new level of user satisfaction (not!).....
So, Teams ... in the history of Teams development/QA, has anyone, ever, tried to copy a subset of a message to the clipboard and reported the issues encountered ? Thought not ... no, I will not report that, coz that would help slurp.
Teams sometimes disables video on my box inviting me to "update my graphics drivers", needless to say, I have the latest ... a reboot fixes it, but then I lose state ... simply nuking Teams does not work.
Another issue that plagues teams is it freezes, well, not really, the ui still works, somewhat ... but you get no new notifications ... worse, you do not even get emails of missed messages, well, not until you have bounced Teams, which of course does NOT mean you click Quit from the context-menu, no, that is not enough, in this case .... although that appears to work, you still have a Teams process in task manager that needs to be taken behind the shed ....
The fat app is so useless and unreliable that I also like to have a Teams open in a browser window, so I do not lose out on important messages ... however, it does not like Firefox, so I ended up installing Slurp Jr, aka Chrome ... Thanks, MS ....
I could go on for ever ... got work to do ...
John Cleese style" BAAAAAASTAAAAARDS!"
Like IoT the cost of a security failure is borne by the consumer; the cost of making secure is borne by the manufacturer.
Would you buy the same model car if your previous vehicle had been stolen ? Thought not ... and insurance offsets the price somewhat, though you eventually pay that ... if enough cars get stolen, premiums will be on the rise ...
As I have written before, already ...
They ship outdated software, with script-toddler-level design flaws, and provide updates for max 24 months .. and that is if you are lucky to get them... the automotive industry is incapable to keep pace with technology, so why are they so obsessed. Cars are used on average for 10 years, imagine unpatched cars, can we sue manufacturers for not providing patches ? The worst joke is the price of these addons ...
Listen, our smartphones & tablets are fine for the car, we do not want your untested, obsolete at delivery, unpatched script-toddler code that has more vulns than a sex toy, thanks! Please provide us with an amp with standard connectors, no, WE DO NOT EVEN WANT bluetooth ...
The draft also has a handy checklist of the challenges in automating the update process: for example, making sure failed updates are reversible but successful ones are not.
Hm, can it read the user's mind ? How else could it detect that the update succeeded ? You update the firmware and all of a sudden your automatic transmission plays funny when you enable both Wifi and Bluetooth with the aircon at lowest with fans at half speed or some other silly combination ... listen, our smartphones / tablets are fine for the car, we do not want your untested, obsolete at delivery, script-toddler code that has more vulns than a sex toy, thanks!
The nouveau driver is crap with DP, it would most probably display at 1200x800 or something stupid and stretch the shit out of it ... you need a 4.9 kernel or higher, have to download the edid from the display and add a kernel parameter for it to work ... the nvidia driver should just work, though .... not sure about the AMD drivers ... I only have nvidia cards here ... I hate nvidia as much as Linus (if I run Linux it's for open source, not to be inconvenienced by a mighty download with a nice fat binary blob I dunno what it's doing), but AMD cards are excessively expensive and there are no real alternatives to those two ... to be fair, I hate broadcom as well, for the exact same reasons ....
So, I gave in and use the nvidia driver on the box with the DP-connected screen ... I would love to help fix nouveau ....
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