Re: PuTTY's days are numbered
I see you have just volunteerd to add a few examples.
To get you jumpstarted, here are the sources:
https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/tree/master/crypto/openssh
Thanks for your time, we all really appreciate it!
Posts by Hans 1
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PuTTY in your hands: SSH client gets patched after RSA key exchange memory vuln spotted
Super Cali optimistic right-to-repair's negotious, even though Apple thought it was something quite atrocious
Biker sues Google Fiber: I broke my leg, borked my ankle in trench dug to lay ad giant's pipe
Friday 15th March 2019 14:18 GMT
Re: @Hans 1
If you are facing $10,000s in medical bills you need to go after everyone
Hm, I dunno, the article mentioned the US, not some third world country without healthcare ... or are you saying that the US is still paying more per citizen for healthcare than us Europeans and yet STILL has to foot the bill ? Morons, no ifs buts, or maybes ! I thought Barack O'Bama sorted it out for you ...
Over the past ten years I never gave the healthcare system where I live my bank details, on average, I lost, what, 15 euros a year (average, money I could have easily reclaimed had I provided the bank details) ... I knew I could provide the details should anything serious happen ... but, zero or one ordinary GP visits a year, yeah, who bloody cares - AND, mega bonus, I can take the piss out of the wealthy-posh-show-off-cheap bastards who did provide their details ...
Capita: B is for Brexit, C is for cutting costs. Stock exchange: Yay! You guys are awesome
Friday 15th March 2019 12:35 GMT 
bleeding obvious causes Crapita to bleed customers
"However, the local government market for large outsourced contracts is declining with a significant drop-off in the number and size of opportunities coming to market and existing clients choosing to end contracts early and take services back in-house," Capita said.
That is because your service, Crapita, sucks and is expensive, no, extortionate! The times are-a-changing,
Science says death metal fans delightful and intelligent people, great at dinner parties
Thursday 14th March 2019 13:32 GMT
That Swedisk music DIY kit act sound a lot like Napalm Death to my ears, but yeah, the lyrics are a bit, well, silly ... Phraell Williams, totally unbearable, ultra-repetitive, like a vinyl with a deep scratch.
Metal head, here, but not only, even like classical stuff (aka serious music) and/or alternative rock/pop/shoegaze ...and I am a psychopath, maybe it's the shoegaze or pop ? Naaa, must be Karajan, no Kempff, Kempff ...
Year 1 of GDPR: Over 200,000 cases reported, firms fined €56 meeelli... Oh, that's mostly Google
Latest Fast Ring build grazes big red button, unintentionally ejects some Windows Insiders
Thursday 14th March 2019 13:00 GMT 
No-to-pad
Could you, maybe, pretty please consider adding support for \n line endings ?
Almost 40 years late, that. Yes, I know write.exe has it, but that acts a bit silly when you try to save text files ...oh, and while you're at it, write.exe, could you make it write txt files without the double quote hackery, pretty please ?
Big and Blue: IBM boss's wage package shrinks in 2018 on her own recommendation
FBI warns of SIM-swap scams, IBM finds holes in visitor software, 13-year-old girl charged over JavaScript prank...
Iranian-backed hackers ransacked Citrix, swiped 6TB+ of emails, docs, secrets, claims cyber-biz
'Java 9, it did break some things,' Oracle bod admits to devs still clinging to version 8
It's a hard drive ahead: Seagate hits the density problem with HAMR, WD infects MAMR with shingles
Band banned, Tarka arrives on Windows 10 and Visual Studio hits RC status
Wednesday 6th March 2019 11:37 GMT
Re: Band or desktop windows is getting unusable
Either you have old hardware that is having intermittent electrical faults, or you're running some REALLY dodgy software.
BS, EliteBook 850, Windows 10 1809, fully patched, latest drivers from HP and, every now and then when I wake it from sleep, it complains about the wifi driver ->BSOD ... IT have replaced countless EliteBooks with the same problem.
Absolutely zarro problems on GNU/Linux.
Unless that is old hardware for you, I dunno ...
Monday 4th March 2019 12:59 GMT
Re: What does Microsoft actually DO these days?
you may think that you own a nice Surface laptop today but it will be gone in a few years, replaced by the next "new" thing.
MS have a history of bricking old Surfaces using Windows Update, you know, a bit like Apple with their code to slow down old devices/deplete the battery in no time.
if (device.version < current.version - 2 )
{
calculatePI(10000000000);
}
else if (device.version == current.version - 1 )
{
calculatePI(10000000);
}
else
{
//noop; already has the latest shiny
}
MS is worse, they actually corrupt firmware when your surface is considered "too old" ... thinking: since YOU were dumb enough to buy MS hardware once, chances are high you will buy again, and the new model just got an all new price tag, up there in Apple fantasy land.
* Went to an Apple store yesterday, saw the price tag of a barely usable mac book pro, with a dual core i7 (ok, I call that an i3) and a price tag which exceeds the dumb level by at least $1500, as in, even if they knocked off $1500, the thing would be priced at the max limit an idiot would be willing to pay for it. I don't know who buys them, but their customers must be totally mad. Yes, I know, macOS, but still ... the OS is not worth $1000, come on! The base model came with a 128Gb SSD, it is 2019, and a computer manufacturer dares to list a 128Gb SSD model computer with an i3 CPU and 8Gb non-replaceable RAM above $350? Non-replaceable is already a brains filter.
Linux 5.0 is out except it's really 4.21 because Linus 'ran out of fingers and toes' to count on
Wednesday 6th March 2019 10:59 GMT
Re: Windows version numbering
Windows 2000 was a good release as well - as it removed many of the limitations NT4 had compared to 95, as it supported more recent hardware - i.e. USB, laptop power management, DirectX, etc. Many kernel changes came because of that.
That made me want to upvote!
XP had the issue that it didn't support 64 bit systems - XP 64 was a half-backed solution, unlike 2003.
That made me want to downvote.
XP was Windows 2000 + USB2 patch and a resource-hungry toddler ui, for the simple minded audience Windows has always targeted.
XP64 and w2k3 64 were PITA's, driver support, anyone ???
Compare to Linux ....
WoW64 is a mess, 64-bit binaries in %windir%\system32 and 32-bit binaries in %windir%\syswow64, whoever came up with that idea should have been laughed out of the room.
ReactOS 0.4.11 makes great strides towards running Windows apps without the Windows
IBM hunkers down for no-deal Brexit, warns of disruption to supply chain, data transfers
Monday 4th March 2019 13:34 GMT
The only way to take back control is a no-deal brexit, it will mean you lose NI, but that would happen in any scenario except remain, so you're fully covered.
Hard Brexit is all nice and good, a herd of unicorns is heading straight for England, to arrive on April 1st to celebrate born again Britain! All that is needed then is the lion from London zoo and you will be able to take selfies in front of a real-life coat of arms, imagine the luck ... and BLUE passports!
USB4: Based on Thunderbolt 3. Two times the data rate, at 40Gbps. One fewer space. Zero confusing versions
Tuesday 5th March 2019 08:51 GMT 
since Intel's people are in the driving seat, sanity should prevail
Intel are naming i3's i5's or i7's, yes, yes ... I had already seen i5^H3's in laptops and recently, already commented about it, found an i7^H3.
Intel has been taken over by the marketing monks, every single one of these claims to have created a Jobsian reality distortion field when all they are waving is a $0.02 ferromagnetic wand.
When 2FA means sweet FA privacy: Facebook admits it slurps mobe numbers for more than just profile security
Huawei 'to sue US' over federal kit block – report
Long phone is loooong: Sony swipes at flagship fatigue with 21:9 tall boy
Slow Ring Windows 10 fragged by anti-cheat software in the games you're playing at work, says Insiders supremo
Wednesday 27th February 2019 10:02 GMT
Re: Why on earth would this be a problem for GDPR?
Registry key to disable Cortana (10 home)? There, not easy to opt-out of ... in violation of GDPR.
Data sent to MS, you have to toggle two switches and create two more registry keys (Home and Pro) ... not easy to opt out ... in violation of GDPR
Data kept on MS servers indefinitely, violation of GDPR
Office sends sensitive data from EU citizens in the EU to US servers, violation of GDPR
Will that do or do you want more ? Got work to do ;-)
After IBM SoftLayer fails to scrub bare-metal box firmware of any lurking spies, alarm raised over cloud server security
Wednesday 27th February 2019 09:50 GMT
Re: "Ever heard of "build from source" ?"
On hardware you don't fully control?
I am not advocating for $_CLOUD. I am merely saying $_CLOUD is folly, because you do not know what is running where, where your data is stored, if and where it is copied to ... granting customers full access is dangerous, because they can get firmware that can bork the system .... only a matter of time until that happens.....
While it is true you should not blindly trust anybody, if you don't trust anything and anybody, you'll end up not trusting yourself too.
Now, one moment, logical fallacy, here, sir. I trust myself. I know I will never be 100% certain that a certain piece of hardware in my data center, manufactured to open designs, running open firmware that I compiled and flashed onto it will run exactly as intended, sure.
But compare that to closed hardware, with closed firmware, I even grant you running a partially open OS (GNU/Linux with binary blob drivers), running on a third party system somewhere, where others may have access to the underlying hardware, because multiple customers happen to use instances on one same physical system to which we are all given full access to the OS running ( in our instance ) ... folly, I tell you, folly. Ever heard of break out of sandbox vulns ?
Even closed hardware, with closed firmware in my data center cannot be trusted not to leak data. Sure, no other choice now, but the minute open hardware that is shipped with open firmware and that performs reasonably well, I will jump ship in no-time, as any sensible person would.
We should always strive for perfection.
In short:
1. $_CLOUD is utter folly
2. Closed hardware/firmware/software is folly*
3. Closed hardware/firmware with partially open OS (GNU/Linux with binary blobs) is better
4. Open hardware, running open firmware and software (free of binary blobs) in your data center is as close as you can get to perfection. You can vet, or have vetted, each and every line of code that gets compiled and run.
You can say compiler could be 0wned, sure, but that could potentially happen to any and all.
You can say manufacturer could add a backdoor with some hidden ROM firmware somewhere, but that could potentially happen to any or all as well. And you can check the chips on the board, if need be.
Why you are preferring a far less trusted system is beyond me. You can say what you want, open stuff is better than closed stuff - like Democracy, with freedom.of information act, is better than USSR.
* Cf article on this site about Dutch authorities kicking Microsoft who REPEATEDLY denied copying sensitive data to servers in the US, even when faced with the evidence. Even MS does not know what Windows and Office are doing.
* Intel ME, anyone ?
Tuesday 26th February 2019 13:39 GMT
Not only that, say, $CLOUD uses open hardware and firmware, they can trust that .... AND, unless they provide that to their clients as well and allow their clients to edit and flash firmware, the clients still cannot trust.
That is the whole point of open hardware and firmware -> at any given time, I know EXACTLY what that piece of hardware is doing.
Tuesday 26th February 2019 13:35 GMT
Re: What the difference with open firmware?
Are you going to download and disassemble it, and compare it with source?
Ever heard of "build from source" ?
Huawei ? They traded with Iran and are now a USian target. Not that I would trust their hardware, neither more nor less than any other thing non-open out there, mind ... if I cannot doctor the firmware from the source, then I cannot trust.
Tuesday 26th February 2019 09:05 GMT
Cloud providers cannot trust third party hardware unless it is open hardware with open firmware, nor can anybody else.
Cloud providers offer full access to proprietary hardware with proprietary firmware, nobody knows what the thing is doing, and their customers can break out of their garden if they can get their mits on 0wned firmware for the device.
"I only trust firmware I doctored myself."
Secret mic in Nest gear wasn't supposed to be a secret, says Google, we just forgot to tell anyone
LibreOffice 6.2 is here: Running up a Tab at the NotebookBar? You can turn it all off if you want
Monday 11th February 2019 12:49 GMT
Re: I've used LibreOffice for years.
And this is why windows is a bag o' shite
If it were JUST THAT, then Windows would be almost useful, Windows has more problems than I could concisely enumerate, given the remainder of my lifetime.
The main issue which is the mother of most of its issues, is that it is proprietary software.
Defaulting to legacy Internet Explorer just to keep that one, weird app working? Knock it off
Original WWII German message decrypts to go on display at National Museum of Computing
Tedious Service Bulletin: No prizes for guessing which UK bank's services are DOWN for business users
Tuesday 5th February 2019 13:11 GMT
Not TSB
I am leaving my bank, they used to be good. No, no TITSUP, just ... they have become un-contactable, they no longer reply to emails, they do not answer the phone, the only way is to head to the branch ... what is the bloody point.
Worse, when I opened my main account at the branch, I was offered an account at a "partner bank", they work so closely, I was told, they are one ... they did ask for 90 euros payment towards some fund that you get refunded should you leave, because it is some cooperative bank, all customers own at least a tiny share of the bank ... anyway, I have not received answers to my emails for 3 months, nor do they answer calls ... so I decide to close my accounts, obviously had to book an appointment at the branch for that as my email requesting the closures had not been read.
At the meeting, I say I want to close all my accounts, hand over my payment cards etc, request the monies to be put into another account, she asks which account, I say "in the email I sent you in December, maybe ?" She searches for quite a few minutes, finds the email and goes on mumbling why she had not complied.
I ask for the 90 euros back ... to which the clerk said: "Well, you can either give it to [redacted] (as in, do not ask for a refund) or you will have to contact [redacted] for that and I do not have their address, you can look it up on the internet."
For years, absolutely no problems at all, now, this ... well, at least their migration last year went well, even though all the account history vanished, my identifiers changed, and I could access my account without the card reader (bad) ... anyway ... another bank will be another load of crap ... if only I could live without these suckers, all they ever do is cost you for sod all service ...
PS: I transferred most of my funds to another bank last year because they offered better options, which may explain the shit above.
Windows Defender update: So secure, it wouldn't let Secure-Boot Windows PCs, er, boot
Tuesday 5th February 2019 12:10 GMT
Re: What are the symptoms
No, I have not calmed down, yet ... on to my beloved Porsche Boxter, a wonderful car, really!
The other day, the battery went, it was starting to show signs of use ... and in this cold weather, it gave up ... Ok, I get a new one ... try to open the bonnet and ... I need power for that, bloody idiots!!! Guess what's the only thing under the bonnet ? You guessed it ... the battery, well, and coolant ... I guess in case your battery runs flat and you need coolant ...
Yes, well, there is a way to plug the new battery to connectors near the door to open the bonnet, but ... you need to hold two wires on 4 different poles and action the open bonnet button at the same bloody time, so you need jump leads to attach the cables to the poles on the battery, but crikey ... crikey ... these piss-poor design decisions do make you boil over ...
There, feel much better now ... thanks for reading ... ;-)
Tuesday 5th February 2019 10:59 GMT
Re: What are the symptoms
Been there and all over Windows hell and back
Unfortunately, Startup Settings only appears as an option in Advanced Startup Options if you access it from within Windows. In other words, Windows 10/8 needs to be working properly before you can boot into Safe Mode, which you only really need to use if Windows isn't working properly.
Yes, it is brain dead, no there is no excuse, no I do not think it is malice, and, last but not least, I asked my cleaning lady this morning if this was a good idea, and she replied "No, of course not, who are those numpties". I could have asked a surgeon, banker, police man, or car mechanic, I doubt there is more than one single person on this planet who thinks this is a good idea, however, somehow, MS managed to hire just him/her.
What you can try, is, during boot up, force it to go off ... like, remove battery (if laptop), plugged into mains (as usual) during startup, unplug it, it should go off pretty quick, plug it back in then start it, and you will get the startup options.
Otherwise, on a different Windows box, got to System & Security > Security & Maintenance > Recovery and create a recovery usb disk.
Start it with Command Prompt and execute the correct bcdedit command as shown below based on which Safe Mode option you'd like to start:
Safe Mode:
bcdedit /set {default} safeboot minimal
Safe Mode with Networking:
bcdedit /set {default} safeboot network
Safe Mode with Command Prompt:
bcdedit /set {default} safeboot minimal bcdedit /set {default} safebootalternateshell yes
once you are in, you can undo these commands in the Startup Settings
Source: https://www.lifewire.com/how-to-force-windows-to-restart-in-safe-mode-2625163
Tuesday 5th February 2019 10:41 GMT
Re: At least you can get your machine back maybe -- sometimes with updates you are not so lucky
Bloody hell, we have an Alienware here and the thing went nuts yesterday, you have like 7 seconds after bootup to disable the discreet graphics card or the system will display a message about a graphics card issue then freeze.I uninstalled the driver, download from nvidia, enabled the GPU again, then the bloody thing froze again ... will try from alieware website, however, dirver is much older ...
I hope they have not wasted the graphics firmware or I will have to get Linux on it to fix and I have better things to do ... that and the nvidia firmware is encrypted, which makes the whole thing a pain as you rely on nvidia to do the right thing (have they ever ?) and provide the tools,anyway, we'll see ...
This is for both, NVidia and Microsoft:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_36yNWw_07g&t=10s
Biting the hand that feeds IT
