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the VESA mounting specifications? Do away with the stand, how does it work with integrated desk mounted supports?
No VESA mount available for it ... see here, good look at the rear ...
https://www.samsung.com/us/computing/monitors/gaming/49--chg90-qled-gaming-monitor-lc49hg90dmnxza/
BTW, El Reg, retical refresh rate is important, especially for gaming ... 144hz is bare minimum, these days ...
one of the tech guys there said he can't wait for IPv6 so that firewalls will be obsolete and we can throw them out... I kid you not. "There's a sucker born every minute"
Well, don't we all hope for miracles ? IT is such a broad subject that you cannot master everything, agreed, TCP/IP is pretty basic stuff, but still ... he probably heard that with IPv6 you no longer needed NAT and this guy confused NAT and firewall, certainly not his area of expertise. I have heard worse and have probably made equally lame remarks ... we all make mistakes ... as long as the guy admits he's wrong he can learn from his mistake, and that is EXACTLY how we learn best ... shame is an incredibly efficient learning-aid ;-)
@Ledswinger
True. But since the IPv6 draft standard was published in 1998, after almost two decades of work, anybody claiming legacy business critical systems as an excuse should be tied to a gate and have their arse kicked for a week.
So spot on!
I am sure people will call "Ahhh, easy, hindsight et al" to which I have the right answer ... NO, it is called foresight which is hard to come by these days ... I regularly get downvoted because I push for TLS 1.3 adoption by all and sundry asap, with preparations starting everywhere NOW ... and that is not even foresight, it should be common sense!
Don't come with corporate ^dwpolicy fallacy, enterprise IT, mission critical flying pink unicorns, or other lame excuses, if you don't seriously take care of security, insecurity will seriously take care of you.
@Kristian
Your group (a) is buying a brand, so can easily be pulled to another brand once that becomes recognisable as being a status-symbol.
No device with Microsoft Windows can ever achieve "status-symbol" brand recognition. Sony has been trying for years, Microsoft's trying now and seems to be faring pretty badly, even with their army of fanbois ... basically because Microsoft is uncool and everybody has it running on their desktops ...
HP/Lenovo/Dell would be better off creating a new brand for these models (as Microsoft does with Surface and Dell does with Alienware for the same reason in a different demographic),
Microsoft Surface is a "more money than sense" symbol, sure, but the kit is crap AND expensive PLUS has lousy support, so more like the idiot symbol ...
Alientware, status symbol brand WTF ?
1. Dell bought Alienware
2. Alienware makes gamer laptops, not ideal as a status symbol, especially business people
I think you misunderstood the whole branding and status symbol concept.
NB: I used to be a Mac OS X fanboy, back when nobody used it (first Mac in 2001) - OS 9 was crap - even had an iPhone years ago, but switched when idiots started running around with one ... stopped buying Apple laptops when the RAM/SSD soldering started. I do not think they are over-priced since they come with a usable OS that is what I consider "pretty stable" and support is good.
I feel your pain if Lenovo aren't honouring law - go to a small claims court - you will be back with your money in no time. Would work the same for Huawei.
You missed the whole point, good manufacturers have good service ... expecting you to have to go to a small claims court when something goes amiss with the kit is piss-poor service, I would even go as far as qualifying it as fraud. I am slightly excessive? Basically, it means the company is betting on punters either to not know what the law says ortoo busy to go through the hassle of a small claims court..... iow BASTARDS (ala John Cleese)
Companies like that DO NOT DESERVE ANY CASH not until they figure out how to provide adequate service.
@James O'Shea
Were the British forces in Dunkirk already by then ? How conveniently you forget the British runners ... Oh, and before you claim "At least me made it to Dunkirk before the Nazis" I am sorry to have to inform you that the Nazis let you reach Dunkirk, mostly unharmed, Führerbefehl.
I'm loving it ... and next time you take the Mickey out of the French, remember 1066, a total defeat.
Note, I am a Brit (have the Queen's passport somewhere), consider myself stateless ... for states, flags, anthems are, imho, for the simple-minded, YMMV.
What is an "assault" rifle? The definition varies quite a bit around the world. What I normally see is that any rifle that has a wood stock is a "hunting" rifle and anything with a metal or plastic stock is an "assault" rifle.
According to your definition an AK-47 is thus a "hunting" rifle ?
DISCLAIMER: I am not into guns, don't need them ...
Besides, Tramp wants to arm teachers, listen Duck, watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rR9IaXH1M0&feature=youtu.be&t=5m5s
Next, a depressed teacher shoots at the kids, then, NRA will say: Let's arm the school kids as well! Then, a teacher gives a numpty a C and the numpty says: "My AK-47 in my schoolbag tells me this is worth an A+!, thank you in advance!"
Substantially more Americans killed themselves in the period than have been killed in all wars - so bloody what!
Suicidal people need help, not guns! I think Politifact are spot on, the whole point is saving lives, take away guns and you save lives, fact - it works everywhere else, why would it not work in the US ?
Listen, accept that you are wrong, you can turn the facts the way you want, no assault rifles => thousands of lives saved yearly, fact, undeniable fact!
Icon: Even Paris understands that ...
Violent video games [...] blamed
What a relief, there I was thinking they would blame Kinder surprise eggs ...
Seriously, could you not at least get rid of the big and/or [semi-]automatic weapons and maybe, just maybe, you could think about blaming your education system as well? We have violent video games in Europe as well and no mass shootings ... except terrorist attacks, not quite the same as school boys ...
I know, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rR9IaXH1M0
No, it's an absolute scandal you could not run the same binaries on different releases of the same distro of Linux... because breaking changes in libraries didn't allow that.
LD_LIBRARY_PATH is your friend. Now, this works on all ELF platforms, so Linux, as well as a bunch of UNIX systems, including the BSD's, Solaris and HP-UX* on iTanic .
No such thing as DLL hell on *NIX.
HP-UX has readelf: http://www.polarhome.com/service/man/?qf=readelf&tf=2&of=HP-UX&sf=1
a gif heavy forum will shut the browser and kick me back to the Start Menu.
I call that piss-poor stability, you do not ask me and that is fine ...
Crikey, these Windows Phone fanboys are funny ....
It always amused me that the phone loads most gifs on forums quite easily and yet I seem to remember it was announced as some big thing in an iOS a few years ago
Well, if 11 years is a "few years" for you, then yeah, I never tried the first iPhone, but I doubt it had trouble with that, my iPhone 3G back in the day had no trouble at all ... besides, the first iPhone could load SVG's, can Windows Phone ? BTW, I am not a big fan of animated gif's ...
Steven Sinofsky, former president of the Windows group at Microsoft, suggested people are just imagining things.
When you choose to quote someone, you should go for a person with credentials ... Steven's opinion on Windows is probably acceptable, however, what any [former] MS guy thinks of "software stability" is totally irrelevant, in any context I can think of ... I am not saying he is wrong when he compares macOS with Windows (if I understood him correctly), I am saying Steven's opinion here simply does not count.
@Steven, thanks for stating the glaring obvious... you should probably give Linux and/or FreeBSD a try, you'll be surprised, I am sure, to experience ultimate "software stability".
To be fair I think I've made that mistake once, which is something you learn from.
Well, it should no longer happen now, because Outlook finally has this dates feature*, you know, the feature that Notes already had a few decades before Outlook, handy that, huh ?
* "Send this reply between these two dates" or something like that ...
Remember when you opened your retail CPU box, there was paperwork? You had to read it. By not returning your CPU, you accepted the EULA.
However, far more likely, you didn't buy a retail CPU, you bought the much cheaper OEM CPU, in which case, yet again, you also don't get a new CPU, as you being the OEM, you take the hit for any problems,...
They can write all they want in their EULA.
Facts: CPU was said have performance x, it seems that now it has performance y because software had to be adjusted .... they sold a car that could do 300km/h, due to a software patch, it can now only do 250 ... they can write whatever they want in their EULA, if they were aware of the issue when you bought your CPU and YOU were not told, then they need to fix it for you ... I happen to be in that case and am looking into the options at my disposal (no class actions in France), I got an i5 8600k for Xmas ... had I known, I would have gone Ryzen. Well, was NOT for me, had it been me, Ryzen all the way, I disgress ... I know Ryzen's are also affected by some vulns, NOT the worst, and this is besides the point.
@AC
Are you confusing Microsoft with OpenBSD? https://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/12/15/openbsd_backdoor_claim/
Ok, would you please be so kind as to first read the article you linked to as well as all the resources, you will notice it was "tried" and "failed". Theo published the email for openness, I doubt he would have if there had been an unpatched issue.
Nobody, ever, can confuse OpenBSD with Microsoft, Microsoft has more zero days found in its default Windows configuration EVERY SINGLE MONTH than OpenBSD has had in the decades it's been around (2, at the time of this writing [not sure this standard sentence is needed in this particular case]).
No wonder you post AC, FUD, lies, and more FUD, RedmondBot.
Time to ban elks.
An elk is wildlife and we need elks as they clean up the forests ... you cannot ban wildlife. Typical USian flawed logic.
Here*, we have a drone pilot who by no means can claim he did not see the chopper, by no means can claim he did not hear the chopper, yet flew his drone ever closer. You should all know that piloting a chopper is not that straight forward and I invite those who blame the pilot to take a single chopper pilot's lesson ...
* Provided, of course, there was a drone and it flew near the chopper, we have not heard the version of the drone pilot, yet.
Belgie, kunt u niet ook Microsoft gewoon verklagen wegen de Windows 10 upgrade fiasco ? Alvast bedankt!
Belgique, tant que vous y êtes, ne pouvez-vous pas vous occuper de Microsoft et de la mis-à-jour forcée vers Windows 10 ? Merci par vanace!
Belgien, könnt Ihr nicht Microsoft wegen dem Windows 10 Migrationsfiasco anklagen ? Viielen Dank!
I should add that I do not like Canonical, I am of the Devuan-type ... Debian with no trace of système d hacks and I think Canonical have betrayed the spirit of the FSF, as have Suse, Cygwin and others, by cooperating with Microsoft ... you know, the GNU guyz are there to replace proprietary code, not run alongside it, they wrote the whole userland stuff and I think their spirit should be honored ... says he who uses Cygwin, I know ... nobody's perfect ... but I could not stand Windows without that glass of ice water ... then again, I am glad to see Ubuntu/Windows still segfaults when you sneeze ...
I am OK with it, I always opt-in to this type of data collection .... why ? Because I know what they are gathering, precisely, shit, I can even amend the list of things they collect, simple hack -> compile -> done. Ubuntu not the only distro doing this, I think it is opt-in with the others, so, yeah, they should make it opt-in, I think.
The Amazon search bar story was different, there they were ^dwsending selling data to Amazon ...
I wouldn't read too much into Nokia's "comeback" – but it provides grist for the mill for critics who insist Nokia should have gone Android as soon as it could. Who knows? The debate will never go away.
Why not, proof if any was needed, that Android was a solution ... back then and now. Anything that thinks WP was smarter than Symbian, Meego, Linux or Android needs brain surgery. Any of these options would have worked much better than WP ... why ? Because Nokia had the know-how to create great smartphone OS' ... they were in for a surprise when Jobs showed off the iPhone, deprecating* any communications device of the time, all with a 20 minutes or so presentation (you can argue xyz looked similar, behaved similar, whatever, iPhone slaughtered the market, undeniable fact, end of story). I think that caused panic @Nokia ... they should have stuck to one platform, do it well, basta ... instead, they went left right and center, we need something NOW, if we can, with as little work as possible to compete ... Apple had spent half a decade developing what eventually became the iPhone, you cannot catch up over a fortnight. Blackberry was also too ambitious with their BB10 and hence late to market ...
* In the minds of average punters
Apparently, she purchased the drugs from somewhere. I guess prescription drugs need a ... prescription .... now, who made one out for her and why ?
If she has a prescription, was given too many, and somebody is in need of a painkiller, I guess it is not illegal to help out, even if you charge for the favor ...
Unless the drugs were legally obtained, I doubt the forces have a legal leg to stand on.
She apparently had a great variety of drugs, I guess it was her collector's urge....
Icon: Will someone think of the grannies!
What’s truly frightening with this bug is that the Preview Pane is an attack vector, which means simply viewing an email in the Preview Pane could allow code execution.
He must have been frightened for decades ... Emails with embedded VBS, anyone ? They fixed that over 15 years ago ...
Outlook, are people still using it??!! :-O
This is great, I invite everyone to test this version, we have to find and squash bugs still present and need everybody's help. This library is used in a gazillion pieces of software on all currently developed platforms, we need to help the OpenSSL guyz here ... just download, compile, run a few tests and report any issues you find - we need everybody to join in because this software is used by every single netizen.
And beer due for the OpenSSL team!
@unwarranted triumphalism
In your linked article, if you were to read it, Tesla motors is paying employees who cycle to the factory a little bonus. Nobody forces an employee to cycle to work, however, there is an incentive. This actually makes perfect economic sense if you think about the parking facilities needed were all employees to come in vehicles ... the savings thus generated are passed onto the cyclists, I guess that is fair.
I personally cycle my kids to school, mainly because I save time as I am never stuck in traffic that way and we have heavy traffic in the morning around here. My 5 yo now cycles the 2km on her own bicycle ... not sure what is criminal about cycling ... care to elaborate ? Can you ride a bike ?
Honestly, the 2001 Peugeot 106 I have, 1.1L petrol, is indestructible ... I did 200km on three spark plugs, changed the lot and it was back to normal ... I have had the car for 11 years, now, bought it second hand at the time (with a new timing belt), and have changed the timing belt once ... ok, I change oil/filters /tires regularly ... now, after eleven years, the first universal joint went south... apart from that, it just keeps going ... and you still see 205's on the roads ... The Renault I bought at the same time and which was younger, broke its fanbelt on the motorway, which displaced the timing belt less than two years after acquisition and, finally. blew its engine 5 years later ... The MG F my sister had blew its engine, after 3 attempts to change the timing belt ...my other sister had a Rover 200 and my dad was very upset when she asked him to change the spark plugs, not easy to get at, WTF ????? I have a 22 yo Z3 in the garage, still going strong, the wife managed the rip the exhaust off three times, OK, Marseille roads have deep holes and the wife, out of exasperation (her claim) just drove into the holes ... the car is "lowered" , so not a good idea ... no way I can get that into her head and I bought that one for her (so my fault, I know) ... My dad had a W123 Lang, eight seats, that thing went on for decades on end ....British cars suck, always have, I am a Brit and it saddens me ... Italian cars are the worst crap on the roads, Volvo's are driven by idiots who need military-grade armor to survive car crashes THEY cause ... BMW drivers are usually as arrogant arseholes as Audi drivers, except for BMW Z'ers ... Mercedes drivers are usually pretty civilized ... if you ask me, you don't and that is Ok ... I am an old fart, as you can guess from this comment ...
@David
No, I simply think people's sarcasm detector segfaulted on the "note" ... I was starting to get a bit miffed @el reg because they started playing all nice with Apple, so much so, Apple started responding to requests for comment ... I thought that was against the "Biting the hand that feed IT" mantra ... anyway ... the icon on that post clearly indicates that el reg are back on track ... and idiot tax, honestly, hilarious ...
you must be new here" ? I dunno, sometimes have a silver badge, I think, I don't care, I hate uniforms, decorations and things like that ... I dunno how the system works, if downvotes count toward badges ... either way, I don't care, downvote as much as you like, folks, I am happy to see El Reg back on track with the mantra ... and Idiot Tax it is ;-)
Icon: The wife's gone with the kids for the weekend, so I can have more beer than usual and comment on el'reg;-)
Checkout Mercedes W123, that beast was the most reliable car ever produced, by far and wide, the best car all over ... if you search in google for W123 and "erste Panne" (first breakdown) you get various reports, some rate it over 900 000km, others 850 000 ... basically, right up there with trucks ... so much so Mercedes-Benz mechanics were complaining, back in the day ;-)
And, FIAT's have Fehler In Allen Teilen and just like Ferraris catch fire unexpectedly. Mercedes have a reliability track record ... In the 80's, their cars even had a breakdown every 900 000km, on average. Sure, it has gotten worse since, but they are still so much more reliable than anything that comes out of Italy.
The equivalent cannot be said about iPhones, though ;-) After two years, they calculate pi all day (or something silly like that) to drain the battery and get the punter to order a new shiny ...
Of all brands, FIAT ? ROFL ...
And wonder what else has leaked from Cupertino's highly secretive idiot-tax operations.
Apple could not be reached for immediate comment. ®
Cupertino's highly secretive idiot-tax operations.
Apple could not be reached for immediate comment.
So, some poor El'Reg scribe calls Apple's operations idiot-tax and wonders why Cupertino fails to respond in time ...
Note, I think idiot-tax is both quite suitable and funny in this context, but to expect them to get back to you ? Hmmmm ... you could have at least tried to bury that in the article somewhere! Sad, just as you managed to break the ice, last few papers I read here about Apple they had actually gotten back with a comment ... now you are all back to square 1 ...
Keep Biting the hand that feeds IT!
[...] the remaining $5.3m will be split between seven organizations, agreed to by the lawyers and Google.
Three of the seven are law schools that the attorneys' attended - Harvard University, Stanford University and the Chicago-Kent College of Law – and the remaining four are among Google's favorite institutions who do work that benefit the tech giant and which the company already supplies millions to - AARP, Carnegie Mellon University, the MacArthur Foundation, and the World Privacy Forum.
Is that not the very definition of embezzlement ?
If I were US supreme court, I would go after the lawyers from both sides ... how come they can negotiate where the funds go ? This looking more and more like the richer are getting greedier by the year ...
@Venerable AC
FFS, you do not get it.
How many models have Netgear patched ? How many are still vulnerable and are not going to be patched because, well, routers reach EOL after 2 or so years ? Make it open source, and I can grab the diff, apply it, build and deploy ... if I want to become a hero, I create a github repo with ready-to-use firmware for everyone else who's been left out in the cold by reckless corporate scum who don't care about their customer base ... Netgear, D-Link, you name it ... once the box has reached EOL, you better get a new shiny ...
What stuns me is the ?genie=1 ... what a bunch of arrogant 1d1ots ...
Wednesday: Intel shows off new server chips
With or without meltdown/spectre vulnerability ? Since they have to re-design their very basic CPU layouts I doubt their CPU's have been fixed so soon ... my builds takes 2.5 times as long as before the MS-supplied Spectre/Meltdown fixes, so I am just saying ....YMMV, mine sucks golf balls through garden hoses ... as my German mates say: "Einfach Griff ranschweißen und wegschmeißen!"
Whilst Kubernetes is very cool and there are indeed a load of companies getting interested in it, there's a bit of a looming problem that'll start hitting enterprises using it in the not too distant future... Support Lifecycle.
Go ahead, fork, a business-centric fork with 10 year support cycles ... shit, no, THAT was my idea!
If you have a customer on a 10 years support cycle it usually means they have outdated kit left right and center or MS software, and the business as such will vanish sooner rather than later ...after the n'th 0wnage ... some people never lean ... experts would be really grateful if you would kindly leave the industry, I heard they were looking for window cleaners and surface experts* .... in Hull!
* do note the lower case letters, there, NOT a typo ;-)
There certainly is a lot of hype over Kubernetes, not sure it has won, yet, though. I see job offers left right and center looking for Kubernetes experts ... highly paid etc ...
If you want a Kubernetes expert, ok, but I want to work from home, with a FreeBSD or Linux desktop, Mac or Windows don't cut it, a salary in 6 figures, and I might consider your job offer ;-), my mailbox is full right now ... expect a response time from 2 to 3 weeks ...
The NHS has 1.7m employees. Do you really think that an organisation of that size would be manageable without breaking it down into a large number of smaller operating units?
WTF, they split it up because their mates on the boards of other companies don't want one big customer with negotiating power, 230+ is much better ... everybody wins except the tax payer, NHS employees and patients, but who cares about them.... there are many more big businesses that have that many staff. All this is just Thatcherite lies to milk the taxpayers, patients, employees to make the richer richer ...
I know, you might think another commy guardian-reading comment@rd, but if I compare care in Germany, France, and the UK ... I would rather not be treated in the UK ... and I think the staff are equally qualified in all those countries, maybe even more in the NHS ... Thank Feynman the late Admiral's family is there to donate that life-saving piece of equipment, NHS is in a state where it relies on donations ... and the NHS probably has the most motivated staff of any healthcare system in the world ...
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