Posts by Hans 1 3797 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Aug 2009
>You might as well as where's the love for the 5.25" form factor. Such drives were common in the early 90s, but had disappeared by the late 90s for similar reasons. By 2020 a 3.5" drive will be as rare as a 5.25" drive was by 1995.
Ever heard of Bluray drives? 5.25" and pretty recent ...
I think he is right ... give us 3.5 or better 5.25" full of flash, insane capacity, our computers have the slots for it ... though I guess the price would be incredibly high, too.
I think he got it all wrong ... he should have sued the shit out of her for libel, let the media work out who she was... ;-)
I hate it when people, regardless of gender or social status, abuse justice - I am pretty sure she is a GCHQ "IM" (GDR speak), like the Swedish woman in Assange's case, who was, I guess, NSA "IM".
Have I been watching too much of James Bond ?
Go look at the article about Israel, mere pro-Israeli propaganda. I agree, obvious truth is less important to Wikipedia than playing the Wiki-Nomic game.
So I have had issues as well, though I look past and edit less sensitive articles. Sensitive articles usually have a 'maintainer' whose views cannot be contradicted. However, you have a talk page on wikipedia where views can be expressed.
Other encyclopediae have this problem as well, though, and since they were/are printed or pressed you cannot even 'attempt' to edit them and you have no talk page, it's tough at the top, so worse, in a sense.
>The ones that exist are already identified and relate to filesystems and their ability to handle deprecated stuff from microsoft.
Prior art, just because MS used the BACKSLASH as a path separator when everybody else (slight exaggeration) used it as an escape character does not make a patent. Long file names existed way before MS came up with their poor mid(%filename%,0,6)&"~<n>" excuse ... just because they had not yet thought of the ^ as an escape character, or had they ... DOS experts ?
The only patentable feature of FAT is the name itself ...
Already received it, got a microSD prepared and hooked it up, 15 minute job ... much less actually, but I do not like sitting by the computer while the computer is writing the image to the sd card, so I had a glass of rose wine on the balcony.
It is way faster, still not "quite" desktop grade, downloading libreoffice as we speak, giving that a test.
Oh, and my ISP's router understands torrent, so I am torrenting raspian wheezy (tbh, I cap the speed at day time, but every little thing helps, if only we all could do that).
>http://www.amazon.co.uk/Raspberry-Pi-Official-Model-White/dp/B010180JSS/
THANKS, no really, THANKS ... now I just ordered a new Pi 2 with that case (better to have the latest pi to go with it) ... what can I tell the missus this time ... [be creative, be creative, be creaaaaaaaaative ...hm]
I know of people who get head aches when they forget to put their mobile in airplane mode before they go to bed ... not sure why, they spend all day with the bloody thing in their pocket, but hey ...
Besides, el'Reg seems to toss all frequencies together, however, this woman might be sensitive to specific frequencies.
I know a telco engineer who maintains antenna's for one of France's leading mobile telco's , the guy has kids and is now sterile, all members of his team are, too, according to what he says.
Now, the question is of course, do sterile men have a natural talent for antenna maintenance ? Are they his kids ? I never dared ask his wife ... ;-) But it certainly was weird to hear that his fertility (or lack thereof) was not an exception in his team, but the rule ...
Well, don't be too hard on the Russkies, La France, or more specifically, the DCRI attempted to have an article on wikipedia deleted, so they got the head of wikipedia France, some daft volunteer, actually, out of his cave and into custody - they forced him to "delete" an article on wikipedia ... although the poor bugger tried to explain why that was futile, he finally complied after hours of torture^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hinterrogation ... the site was restored by a Swiss, seconds later, and the poor bugger was freed. Site in question is about a radar station in France:
Station hertzienne militaire de Pierre-sur-Haute
Of course, this event caused a Streisand effect ...
Note that this is my homepage on one of my boxes... ;-)
>Combined data from the Metropolitan and City of London police forces showed that thefts of electronic devices had fallen 37 per cent from the number reported last year to the Metropolitan Police alone.
>Nationwide, there was a 34 per cent fall. This coincided with a drop in the number of thefts in total, which fell by 20 per cent in London and 24 per cent nationwide.
Maybe it is just the devices that are getting boring, same shit as last year, not worth an upgrade, so no demand, no theft ?
The downvoters are in denial, they still think they are the best developers on the planet, regardless of what you write, because they can open VisualStudio, copy-paste-edit and their shite "compiles" and when run, displays a .... clock ... that ticks away.
Yes, they have a natural talent to handle sponges and buckets, but that will not deter them, they sincerely believe they are the greatest of the greatest developers.
>Of course the new agreement does not mean that Microsoft is going to block peripherals left, right and centre in the near future, but it has left the door open to do so.
They are, my webcam ceased working since Windows Vista, for lack of drivers. Thank Linus I have Linux. The webcam in question was a cheap Chinese piece of sh!t I got as a present ...
My son in law just got himself an Alienware laptop with, among other things, an 250Gb SSD and 1Tb hdd. He plugs the piece of crap in and, to his surprise, no 1Tb hard drive. He tells me and since I was working at the time, I told him to call Dell. Two days later, I thought it was all fixed etc ... Dell sends him a USB stick, not sure what for ... I mean, either the disk is there and broken, or they forgot it ... in either case, he needs to send the laptop back ...
It turns out, he installed Windows 10, but Dell support INSISTED he go back to Windows 8.1 ... I guess Windows 10 cannot detect hard drives on its own ... anyway, Windows 8.1 could not detect the hard drive either ... Apparently, the Dell guy took over his PC, did a lot of kung fu here and there .... no disk ... I take over, the BIOS detected and tested the disk, it was OK. In "Disk Management" there was only the SSD. In device management, I could see the drive, drivers were ok ... I go to Volumes (right-click -> Properties -> Volumes), click "populate" and the drive appears with volumes, problem fixed.
Next problem, the audio jack. Plug in your headphones, the driver insists on using the speakers. Turns out you had to uninstall the driver that shipped with the piece of crap and use the standard windows drivers ... except when you want to use the speakers and not the headset ...
>"There are big changes on this front coming in the next version of Android, Marshmallow, which will make SD storage transparent . . ."
Don't be silly, read this one before ... I complained about the very same thing some years ago on here and I was promised that it was going to be fixed in ... KitKat.
@ Richard Wharram
You can download the SDK and perform some KungFu on the device, it usually works much better with noname devices. Sony are BASTAAAAAAARDS and will prevent you from using the SD card for apps, their rootkit (?) overrules the KungFu.
> Nope, the Laserjet III - the buggers just kept on working, at a reasonable operating cost and adequate quality for most b&w printing requirements.
Here we have the father of built-in obsolescence at HP, now, for your info, that has now caused their downfall, yes, AC, it is ALL YOUR FAULT!
HP is like Microsoft, they've lost the plot. They are big and will take time to die, but just like IE, when they start diving, they plummet.
Layoffs, price hikes across the board, now HP are not as desperate as MS, they are not giving away crown jewels just yet, but that will happen soon, too ... expect $0 printers, soon, betting on cartridge sales to make up for the loss (ala Office360, Windows Server 2003 upgrades, Windows 10) ... LOL
>“As we have done in the past, we post KB articles relevant to most updates which we’ll deliver with Windows as a service. Depending on the significance of the update and if it is bringing new functionality to Windows customers, we may choose to do additional promotion of new features as we deploy them.”
Most KB articles on updates do not actually tell you what the update is about. Most just contain boilerplate canned statements ... look at the GWX updates, for example. Security updates are no better, BTW.
>The higher-than-Windows security baked in by integrated design of software and hardware?
Sorry, but here you are making a fool of yourself, sorry ...as everybody knows...
>The fast easy upgrade cycle?
Does not exists at Apple ???? Are you nuts ??? I don't own, but have owned an iphone in the past, updates are regular, trivial to install - yes, they tend to slow down your phone, but you get way more updates than on, eg Android or Windows Phone ... the only competitor who beats Apple in that respect is BB10.
People cry about Apple no longer supporting phones released 3 or 4 years ago, when a number of Windows Phone 8.1 devices will not be able to upgrade to 10, and most Android vendors, like Sony (BASTAAAAAAARDS!!!!), only shipping one OS update in the same time frame my BB10 got 5.
>But as you say, at least they have a choice.
You have a choice between security + grinding halt and vulnerabilities + performance.
Now, imagine, over in Android-land, what is going on there ... I am pretty sure some 80% of Android users are vulnerable to a threat or more, even despite patches being available. I know Google are trying to tackle this, there was an article just the other day, but still ...
I say, go BB10, safe bet.
>Hey, I bet your country sells guns too, but only clandestinely and only to criminals. Everyone else is disarmed gun-free.
The only rational argument for owning guns you can bring forward here is that you like guns, it is not the best argument, but, that's it, all you've got.
All these "I need my rifle to protect my family" arguments are bullshit.
Take Australia ... you could freely buy guns there some decades ago, they had several big bloodbaths and in the aftermath of the last (which was pretty big and involved kids) they imposed strong restrictions on the sale of guns. Guess what, no bloodbath since ...
>It's now clear that Mac's much vaunted security advantages are simply down to their inconsequential market share rather than anything inherently superior about the operating system.
How many vulns like this are found in Windows EVERY MONTH ?? Sadly, more than one, as reveals the need for a monthly patch day. Now, with the gazillion pre-historic susbsystems they keep in Windows, that is hardly a surprise.
Security-wise, MAC OS X has very few of these, however, they still have not learned the lesson of patching early, a luxury, since there are so few.
Mac OS, however, has other issues. They use a gazillion OpenSource software, and they do not always keep that up-to-date ...
Back to the 90's laptops with mega wide borders, nice! Come-on, you can do better than that, seriously, they still have absolutely NO TASTE.
Even my TV 3 or 4 yo has less wide borders ... and no, it is not the touch screen needing that, otherwise your phones would be three times as big as they are today.
From http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2015/Aug/44
It is not possible to disable this functionality. If you can gain access to the BIOS, you can inject code into the Windows boot sequence using the documentation linked above. The BIOS delivered PE code is not countersigned by Microsoft.
Microsoft say: "If partners intentionally or unintentionally introduce malware or unwanted software though the WPBT, Microsoft may remove such software through the use of antimalware software. Software that is determined to be malicious may be subject to immediate removal without notice."
However, you are relying on Microsoft being aware of attacks. Since the code is executed in memory and not written to disk prior to activation, Windows Defender does not even scan the executed code.
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