Re: The original way to test aircraft wing loading
That's not a 707 that is a de Havilland design, oh wait ...
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This isn't Boeing to end well: Plane maker to scrap some physical cert tests, use computer simulations instead
UK Home Sec kick-starts US request to extradite ex-WikiLeaker Assange
Thursday 13th June 2019 12:07 GMT
Re: "Assange is understood to be claiming that he is a journalist"
You are wrong, they DID redact, AND they shared the data with publications such as the Guardian in the UK.
Unredacted cables were retrieved, but only because a Guardian journalist leaked access codes.
https://www.dw.com/en/wikileaks-blames-guardian-unnamed-german-for-cable-leaks/a-15359380
Assange was working newspapers across the world, that qualifies him as an investigative journalist.
I do not understand how whistleblowing can be considered a crime. I do not understand how disclosing atrocities committed by armed forces can somehow be considerd bad!
Icon: closes I could find to investigative journalist.
This Free software ain't free to make, pal, it's expensive: Mozilla to bankroll Firefox with paid-for premium extras
Wednesday 12th June 2019 06:53 GMT
Re: silence
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/no-sound-firefox-59-linux
Solution is to start pulseaudio before you start Firefox, e.g. on login, or, write a little shell script that starts pulseaudio and then starts firefox. You really do not want your browser to start other programs on your computer, do you ???
Better solution, even, uninstall pulseaudio - it is a useless piece of crap.
Wednesday 12th June 2019 06:37 GMT
Re: False sense of security
Wow, so, you individually download the encrypted files and decrypt them on YOUR computer ? Any other solution means YOU ARE HAPPY TO SEND YOUR ENCRYPTION KEYS TO A THIRD PARTY.
Now, even if you decrypt your files locally, if you use proprietary software provided by the cloud vendor, same, YOU ARE HAPPY TO SEND YOUR ENCRYPTION KEYS TO A THIRD PARTY.
Dissed Bash boshed: Apple makes fancy zsh default in forthcoming macOS 'Catalina' 10.15
Apple kills iTunes, preps pricey Mac Pro, gives iPad its own OS – plus: That $999 monitor stand
Devs slam Microsoft for injecting tech-support scam ads into their Windows Store apps
Tuesday 4th June 2019 08:23 GMT 
Are we sure it is NOT Microsoft support, this time ?
According to the developers, netizens who downloaded their apps are being interrupted by their browsers opening up new tabs displaying an alarming message that wrongly claims their PC is infected or damaged, and are directed to a scammer-owned website that offers to fix the supposedly broken machine for cash.
Microsoft: A new Windows 10 build arrives while another remains in hiding
In the living room, can Google Home hear you SCREAM? Well, that's what you'll need to do
Introducing 'freedom gas' – a bit like the 2003 deep-fried potato variety, only even worse for you
Two weeks after Microsoft warned of Windows RDP worms, a million internet-facing boxes still vulnerable
Sophos tells users to roll back Microsoft's Patch Tuesday run if they want PC to boot
Monday 27th May 2019 10:06 GMT
Re: Problem confirmed, yet, works
This means IT IS MS' fault.
FFS, you poor sods, I am really wondering, why do you accept this state of affairs, seriously, you keep giving this incompetent bunch over at Redmond billions and they cannot even write a proper patch installer; they have tried for years, now, every month, EVERY SINGLE MONTH, gazillion systems somewhere break and each time it turns out to be the patch installer.
Again, you all are giving billions to a company that cannot even write a patch installer!
Again, you all are giving billions to a company that cannot even write a patch installer!
Again, you all are giving billions to a company that cannot even write a patch installer!
Again, you all are giving billions to a company that cannot even write a patch installer!
Again, you all are giving billions to a company that cannot even write a patch installer!
Again, you all are giving billions to a company that cannot even write a patch installer!
Again, you all are giving billions to a company that cannot even write a patch installer!
Again, you all are giving billions to a company that cannot even write a patch installer!
Maker of US border's license-plate scanning tech ransacked by hacker, blueprints and files dumped online
Saturday 25th May 2019 11:40 GMT
The maker of vehicle license plate readers used extensively by the US government and cities to identify and track citizens and immigrants has been hacked.
exfiltrated from Perceptics' corporate network as proof.
And there many other types of files: .htm, .html, .txt, .doc, .asp, .tdb, .mdb, .json, .rtf, .xls, and .tif among others. Many of the image files, we're guessing, are license plate captures.
Hm, you're guessing or you actually checked the files ? If they DO have license plate numbers of citizens on their servers, how can that be acceptable ? They should be on servers owned by the US government and cities that use those cameras ... how can sensitive data like this be stored on some 3rdparty corporate network ? Cannot be true and if it is, hell should break lose, this is NOT acceptable!
Headsup for those managing Windows 10 boxen: Microsoft has tweaked patching rules
We listened to more than 3 hours of US Congress testimony on facial recognition so you didn't have to go through it
Microsoft gently leads workhorse Windows Server 1903 for a pad around the paddock
Thursday 23rd May 2019 13:53 GMT 
Why is El Reg almost three months late with announing the release of Windows Server 1903 or has Microsoft postponed release by almost three months and stuck to the same name, again ? MS, you know, there are these things one makes in life called ... mistakes ... if you do not learn from them, then you are a bunch morons, no ifs, buts, or maybes and you tend to repeat them.
So I see two solutions, here (I always see solutions):
1. You aim to release a Windows version in December, so that it is ready in March and you can keep your fancy names, likewise for October, tell all Microsofties you plan to release in July.
2. You aim to release a Windows version in March, so that it is ready in June and you call it Windows yy06, at least then you do not look like total cunts every 6 months ... Oh wait, you do already, you distribute Windows.
PS: Why am I helping them ?
DRAM, that's cold: Overclockers squeeze out extra Micron DDR4 performance with liquid nitrogen system
Monday 20th May 2019 14:13 GMT
Re: Not very cold
Mark Russinovich ? I love sysinternals, don't get me wrong, one of those glasses of ice-water in hell, but ... How he can try to hide Windows' piss-poor memory management with the sentence "unused RAM is wasted RAM" with a straight face is beyond me ...
NB: I totally agree, until you need that RAM, though ...
Monday 20th May 2019 14:09 GMT 
However, if you really want to go all out on liquid nitrogen, EVGA Gaming has a Roboclocker that might do the job. ®
Where is the cryorefrigerator, there ? If I want that at home, I want a cryorefrigerator, I do not want to go buy and recycle liquid cylinders every day ... amateurs! I was thinking of the K170040A - 40W@170K, should do it.
Exclusive: Windows for Workgroups terror the Tartan Bandit confesses all to The Register
Monday 20th May 2019 13:24 GMT
Re: Changing Wallpaper can have career enhancing effects
Only half the fun if you do not invert both the image and the screen. Even if they manage to work out what is wrong, it is quite hard to undo the "move mouse left moves pointer right and up/down switched" ... unless you knew the Ctrl+Alt+↑ keyboard combi on Windows ... hours of fun!
Monday 20th May 2019 13:18 GMT
Re: I changed the start up & shut down sounds.
I changed that to the Norton screen which read: "You computer is infected. Please perform a full scan." My colleague spent several hours trying to figure out what was wrong, I asked him several times "if he needed any help". Pride ... I eventually manned up and he had a go at my system ... changing the labels on buttons in taskmgr.exe.
All good office fun ;-)
CIA traitor spy thrown in the clink for selling secrets to China. Stack Overflow, TeamViewer admit: We were hacked...
Microsoft sends partners hundreds of unwanted OPI: Other People's Invoices
You're on a Huawei to Hell, China tells US: We'll fight import tariffs, trade war to bitter end
Saturday 18th May 2019 19:53 GMT
Re: Fart
But if the end result is that it stimulates some home-grown manufacturing
You are aware that there are other countries in Asia that have low wages, an eager workforce ? If anything, production might switch to other Asian countries, not sure that human rights track record is any better, though ...
Samba 4.8 to squish scaling bug that Tridge himself coded in 2009
Want a good Android smartphone without the $1,000+ price tag? Then buy Google's Pixel 3a
Thursday 16th May 2019 14:51 GMT
Re: Cloud Storage
I am thinking of a Commodore 65-compatible, modular smartphone ... modular smartphone ? the 4G chip is independent of the device and unpluggable, when 5G PCIe devices reach the market, you can just swap em and wham, you have a 5G smartphone, not quite sure about the RAM, but internal storage ought to be the same and .... nothing stopping you from installing a linux distro, if you prefer. The hardware is free and open, except maybe for the 4G chip, maybe.
Where's the joke icon ? No joke:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuNB4ocZDXA
It's 2019 and a WhatsApp call can hack a phone: Zero-day exploit infects mobes with spyware
Want rootkit-level access without the hassle? Enter, LightNeuron for Exchange Server
Can I get a RHEL yeah? Version 8 arrives at last as IBM given go-ahead to wolf down Red Hat
The Year Of Linux On The Desktop – at last! Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 brings the Linux kernel into Windows
Tuesday 7th May 2019 13:42 GMT
Re: I looked at the MS link provided
You have to congratulate Micorsoft for WIndows Update, that thing is really bad, it is severely over-engineered, eats resources like hell ... compared to Linux update mechanisms it is just brain-dead, like the rest of the OS.
At least it looks like we are getting a half decent terminal ....
Tuesday 7th May 2019 13:07 GMT
@elReg
[contains a kernel] within a so-called utility virtual machine and Now you can run Linux software truly natively
Am I the only one to spot a paradox ?
[using a VM] should in theory bring about a jump in file I/O performance, improve software compatibility, and allow Docker to run natively.
One moment, was the whole bloody point of WSL not to implement the system calls and avoid a vm for improved performance ?
Try and pull another one next time ....
Bootnote: RE: Terminal, bloody sure there is a MS VP reading my comments on 'ere so I will henceforth refrain from giving MS ideas ...
'Software delivered to Boeing' now blamed for 737 Max warning fiasco
Tuesday 7th May 2019 12:51 GMT
Re: does this affect more aircraft than the ill fated 737 max?
Typically, it is a sefety feature, but too many dials kill safety and since the other models do not have a silly tendency to raise the nose, the AOA gauge is optional. Agreed, it should never really have been optional for new 737Max as that bird desperately tries to stall itself when you and MCAS are not looking ...
Mystery Git ransomware appears to blank commits, demands Bitcoin to rescue code
Tuesday 7th May 2019 10:03 GMT
Re: Attacker attempts to incovenicence Distributed Version Control System users
I have read the article:
The netizen added that the ransom note they received referenced gitsbackup[dot]com, and demanded about $560 in crypto-currency to un-fsck the repo.
They have apparently attacked [FL]OSS repos as well.
As for publishing the code, I guess the attackers are a bit thick, who do you think would trust them ? They could just as well come back every month and demand payment.... do not reward scum or you will attract more ...
https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/209448/gitlab-account-hacked-and-repo-wiped
See first update.
Sunday 5th May 2019 07:45 GMT
Attacker attempts to incovenicence Distributed Version Control System users
Ok, I understand that few here know how git works ....
anybody who clones a git repo has all the commits ever pushed to the repo at the time he last cloned, fetched, pulled. These braindead are like, hey, lets delete something on the git server, and then ask for money, hehehehe ... where every single dev on the project has all the data, almost ... the guy who fetch/pull'd last and the guy who pushed the last commit have all the data, combined.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
