Posts by Hans 1 3797 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Aug 2009
That's why I hate languages that don't have IFDEF or something alike, to easily allow removal of code from production builds.
Feel smart, hey ? In which language were these written, do you think ?
In this case, synaptics f'd up as they left dev stuff in the enduser software. The audio driver, apparently, was another issue entirely causing the same effect, keyloggers on punters systems ....
But I maintain that there is a significant difference between watching twenty two top athletes working as two teams with talent, determination and occasionally breathtaking skill, and watching an overweight guy on a video game swearing at the screen.
I dunno about these guyz in the top 10, but my son watches youtubers to learn new tricks ... not like a football fan would 90 minutes ...
These very wealthy nobodies produce and contribute artless nothing. The are literally wankers.
The thing is, there hundreds of thousands of youtubers out there, some that do great stuff, others, the vast majority, do garbage. the best at doing garbage somehow climb the ranks ... They must have something to attract all the viewers, like a face, a voice, a style ... no I, for one, am not jealous of them ... they get away with trash, good for them ... ;-) It is not like "you HAVE to watch" ...
Gliwka detailed extensive communications with Microsoft to explain the issue
Ohhh, so I am not the only one having trouble with MS Support, then ...
Customer: "Oh, I found the private key to xxx.yyy on the xxx.yyy system I use for validation."
MS to customer: " Oh! [types privet kay into knowledge base]" Errrm, give me a minute .... [call put on hold]"
MS to Second line: What is a "private key"?
MS to Second line: "Oh, some people own islands south of County Dade, rich blokes ...."
MS to Second line: "Hmmmm, ok, so nothing serious ? Why is this guy so worked up about it ?"
MS to customer: "Thank you very much for that information, we will contact our travel agent and get back to you as soon as possible. Thanks for you interest in Microsoft products, have a nice day, good bye. [call cut off]"
Unless you have a system already in place that is not devops and that allows you to release frequently and early, test always, and have automated to hell and back, well done, you, sir (or madam) have earned the right to bash DevOps.
However, if you have not, you are like all those car manufacturers with mechanics walking miles to get nuts, bolts, screws and parts here and there in the factory laughing at Ford's assembly line.
No, you do not need paid for tools for this, you can do it yourself with FOSS.... yes, some DevOps evangelists come with their philosophy, voodoo BS and rules etc ... the thing is, the world is moving fast, your competitors are building those DEV assembly lines, streamlining development, test, and release cycles ... DevOps is a way to achieve that, you do not have to embrace the whole "philosophy" to make it work for you ... one of the central points of DevOps is: "Change is beautiful, if it makes a difference!"
Now, I mentioned dev, test, and release cycles, but you can adapt it to other areas of business .... what most C-types do not realize is that IT is not a cost center, imagine if you could streamline the period close or other financial processes ... most of the time, that will save you a lot of cash ... there are paid for solutions out there that do just that ... or imagine, SAP system copy, a bloody nightmare, get some setting wrong and you can start again ... taking the DevOps methodology, you constantly improve your processes, again, no one tells you you have to go 100% agile and have a SCRUM master, not necessarily needed, you can achieve all these goals without. It does help to start off like that, though, imho ... YMMV
Old-school vendors like BMC are much worse. For example, BMC's site is a mishmash of meaningless buzzwords, all targeted towards "your DevOps team". CA Technologies, for its part, waxes lyrical about its "DevOps solutions" and how they help to "redefine culture" around DevOps. Finally IBM lumbers toward a "Cloud Garage Method".
Thanks, made my day ... BMC are really an easy target for us ;-)
I read somewhere that a study found the average IQ of generations declining, starting with the 80's ...
I do hope the emergency services take this opportunity to teach these pranksters a lesson all while contributing to the effort ... 2 weeks voluntary work at the ER service sounds about right!
That 8 out of 10 people admin to looking at porn on the internet, and the other 2 people are liars.
I, for one, prefer the real thing, am not interested in watching others ! If 20 years ago "counts", then yeah ... I had a look, got envious which made me feel bad, that was that.
I think watching pr0nz, even thumbnails, on a work machine is a big No-No, unless, of course, it is "work-related", good luck with that. I'm testing the new version of the video-decoding library can be done with other material!
And this isnt to say that commerical UNIX or the BSDs are better, nine years is nothing compared to 25 years, like a bug in dir() that existed from 1983 to 2008.
While I agree with your statement, you are comparing a bug in a function that potentially skipped a file entry in a directory when you were reading the contents of a directory with this privilege escalation bug ?
News flash! All software that has 100's of lines of code has bugs.
This is according to a post today on the Chromium blog that laid out the July release of Chrome 68 for Windows as the target for new rules that will block all third-party apps from injecting scripts into browser sessions.
I cannot wait for them to do it ... no, I do not use Chrome, but having third parties littering Chome's JavaScript is, of course, F'd up, how could they allow that in the first place. AV or not AV ... of course, I think extensions are treated differently ...
*You can claim if, at any time between June 1, 2011 and February 15, 2012 you: had an Apple ID, lawfully owned an iPhone, used Safari to get online, kept the default browser security settings and did not opt out of tracking and collation via Google's ad preference manager. Oh, and you also have to have been resident in England or Wales on May 31, 2017.
any time between June 1, 2011 and February 15, 2012 and Oh, and you also have to have been resident in England or Wales on May 31, 2017.
Oh, come on, you probably missed the "And your 3rd cousin-on-your-mother's side's left-hand neighbour's best mate's toilet paper must have ran out between 2 and 3 PM on June the 12th 1998." ? Seriously, your data has been snatched by Google illegally between those two dates in England/Wales (as above, apple id and visited any google^H^H^H^H^H^Halphabet-owned site), does not matter where you are now, yesterday or last week, if you used an iPhone as said in England Wales between those two dates you were wronged whilst in England or Wales, you should be eligible ... like, your car got stolen on Jan 13th and found again on Jan 27th, damaged, however, since you were not lawful resident of England or Wales on 28th June you cannot get compensation ... WTF ?
English legal system ... alacarte!
Thanks for all the silly excuses you regt@rds came up with for running outdated, obsolete, AND vulnerable tech. I've got news for you, NONE of them count.
It is as simple as this: Your software still requires TLS 1.0 support ? Then you have these two options:
1. I will update asap.
2. I will make all versions that cannot be updated obsolete.
It is as simple as that. You should already be planning implementing TLS 1.3!!!
But they have zero right to enforce any rules about it at all in a private network they don't own.
If you use a TLD privately that is available on the global internet, you get all you deserve, it is as simple as that. It is not YOURS to use.
On the other hand, I think this change is silly and should be reverted.
You have to try several times for the vuln to trigger, once is not enough. This means that this flaw can remain undetected, as it was, for months ...
Glad to see Apple hasted with the patch.
This is just a silly code blunder
Next time I am in the head office, I will bring my laptop to IT, it runs WinDos 10, I will have a service running as System which will upgrade my account to domain and enterprise admin the second they log on ... let's see what they have to say about that ... I wonder, how long will it take for them to realize the feat ?
I also wonder what will happen to me once they find out ... fun days ;-)
Big Christmas bonus for the person who found the photograph to accompany this article :-)
Indeed, have an upvote. (I was 100th)
As for the blunder, this is Windows-like security.
Cupertino, stop hiring devs from Redmond, they know jack-shit about coding, have never heard of tests, let alone unit tests .... crikey, this vuln is EPIC.
How Apple get away with this, I dunno !
Ford Pinto> Major PR disaster. Ford is still in business.
The "Ford Pinto" was no less vulnerable to rear impacts causing the fuel tank to explode than other cars in its category ... this was a planted PR attack on Ford ... after the incident and recalls, Ford Pintos were the least vulnerable to rear impacts causing the fuel tank to explode its category, but the damage was already done,
Note, I hate Ford ...
You all thought that PARIS was just an attempt to get some PR with a world record attempt.
You all thought that PARIS was just an attempt to get some PR with a world record SUCCESS.
BTW, when are we going to get moving, we need to reclaim the record ... we will not let a bunch of Yank cadets [I mean USian cousins, in my case, literally] keep it ... come on, lets do it!
Icon: Paris, because we need to reclaim PARIS! Come on, we need to a least try, in Lester Haines' name!
PLEASE DON'T UPVOTE, IF YOU AGREE DOWNVOTE, PLEASE!
If you disagree, I don't know, reply ;-)
Throwing a car into the mix is just asking for trouble.
You have never been to Holland, with the sales guy (presumably) holding a mobile between shoulder and ear taking notes on a notepad ... all while doing 120 km/h (75 m/h) on the highway then, have you ? Besides, Pokemon Go stops working when you move too fast ... I think 20km/h (12 m/h) is enough to disable the game...
... you also agree that guns don't kill people, people kill people.
Exactly, and that's why we need severe gun laws ...Imho, the people who buy guns need to be locked up, never mind big or small ... but I understand that that is just me ... anybody should be allowed to scare off intruders with military-grade assault rifles, it is in the second modification to the bill of rights.
Seriously, not doing away with over-the-counter assault or automatic rifles is severely brain-dead ... you know, the sort of kit that easily allows you to kill hundreds of people in no time .... who's house gets "invaded" by hundreds of burglars at once ? Besides, are you a responsible gun owner, like, the type that keeps his guns out of reach of children, locked up in a safe ?
For more insightful arguments :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rR9IaXH1M0
man breaks automated tests at 00:30
This is what happens when you let young developers write Linux code - no clue how to do memory management and garbage collection.
1. Samba is not Linux, it is userland stuff that runs atop Linux and various other OS'
2. Pure C is better, harder to get right, but better.
Now, if you want to understand what is going on in Linux development, eat this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyenmLqJQjs
Go, watch, and think!
Icon => pints for Greg, Andrew, and Linus!
KVM has been blessed with great performance improvements, lately ... besides, when it comes to supported guest OS', HyperV is a nightmare. Besides, support, how should I put it ... hm, MS support sucks. Their HyperV partners do not really cut it. Anytime you come and try to have a problem understood, you have to start teaching basics computing concepts to an utter n00b, because, well, when you have a problem that is not referenced on Google it certainly is not on the support bloke's checklist. Second line knows a subset of the checklists by heart ... and third line is reserved for enterprise customers ... imho.
Oh, I never managed to get anybody knowledgeable on their end ... and i have tried ...
That these people need a wage to put food on the table, pay the mortgage etc.
We all choose where we work, nobody comes along with a M16 shouting "Sign THAT", they don't threaten your family if you don't obey.
Uber are scum and anybody still working there "deserves" what is to come. There are plenty of much better places to work for and it does not look like there is a shortage of job positions of various types.
I do feel sorry for the non-employees, though, who work their balls off 24/7 for peanuts driving people around and being ripped off by scum, however, pretty sure there is a market for a competitor ... Uber has really blackened its name ...
And then there is the greedy domain registrar who did not even do the most basic of address checking before registering the domain
So, first sue MS, they have money, then go after registrar .... because, this has to stop! These guyz have to take responsibility ... and have to be sure they can re-claim from their clients. Easy solution.
... and Windows manages to use more than 1Gb idle after a week of heavy load ... in fact, it was using 8Gb and as much was used in the page file, even after closing every single little gui app ... no, I only had a single non-MS service running, which was probably using 128Mb of RAM ....
Address Space Layout Randomisation (ASLR) mechanism, designed to severely hamper hackers' attempts to exploit security bugs.
The OS owns itself all by its own, no need to make it any worse ...
DISCLAIMER: Linux and OS X user here, and OS X gave me the "bad habit" of rebooting every 6 months ... Linux never had a problem with that ...
PS: The frequent notepad.exe patches that force a reboot or two are bad enough already ....
Though I don't see why that should need the ability to access all physical RAM, all Ethernet traffic, etc.
How else do you want the NSA to be able to intercept all network traffic from a box ? They need access to RAM to get the encryption keys to decrypt the Ethernet traffic ... d'oh!
It doesn't make sense to you because you hate the innovation that apple does.
No, that is not the point. What do you do when your biometrics are compromised ? Finger or face surgery ? Is it allowed to alter your finger prints (is it even possible, no surgeon, here)?
What about compromised password ? Ahhh, easy, just change.
As for unlocking phone, grab the guyz finger, as seen on Qatar Airways or point at face of the victim, held by two accomplices ... BIOMETRICS, on a portable device, IS BRAIN DEAD, no ifs, buts or maybes - yes, as simple as that - doesn't matter who comes up with the "innovation", it is braindead. Android has finger auth as well, it is JUST AS BRAINDEAD.
The glass you used for dinner, chicken wings for dinner, some candle wax, and she could have done so while you were in the shower ....
Lesson, don't mess with other ladies ... they have a sixth sense and, sooner or later, you will make a mistake or some one night stand will fall in love with you .... been there, seen that happen ...
Upvoted, do provide a link, though ... like, this one:
https://mspoweruser.com/microsoft-germany-moves-into-a-new-headquarters/
Icon, because we needed a smoking gun, now we have one ;-)
https://itsfoss.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/killed-tux.jpg
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