Posts by Robert Carnegie

Well, no power companies have phoned me today to offer to switch from my current power company, so that's something. But it's only 9:25am.

Re: Spot-on analysis

Perhaps a question to answer to prove you understood it? But then a lot of arguments would have no comments at all, I suspect.

But then, I don't understand writings elsewhere about American football, whose writers seem to believe sincerely that they are communicating.

Re: It Open Source so no worries

You thought you typed "one bloke in his shed", I expect.

But are there sole female software maintainers? I suppose that amongst stereotypes is that women are more social. And the point of the article is that most of us don't think about who makes software, until something like this happens.

Re: Those comments from Roscosmos are the biggest load of ... The title is too long.

If I follow, it's vacuum on the inside. They are letting air in now.

I wondered if someone at Ground Controlski misunderstood "log out" for "pull out" which it tried to do, are they similar in Russian at all?

Re: This is getting a bit Meta

You probably can already run a browser inside itself...? (I'm not sure, but it'd the sort of thing that happens.)

So if I've got this straight, an AWS virtual "desktop PC" is already a thing, and the news is that you can connect to it with a Web browser... not, that a Web browser /in/ the AWS "desktop" has just arrived.

Either way, presumably it still enforces, if a corporate customer so wishes, the sort of internet policy that prevents you from communicating with or recognising any customer whose family name happens to be Titcombe.

Re: 'All this for .... nothing really

The thing is, well one thing is, you know you've got mumps or measles.

Re: Debian 11, also known as Bullseye

Nemo?

Dory?

Updated

"Vote my post down,

Make your emoji frown,

As we dance on the Masochism Kanban."

Re: Once Upon A Time........

Sorry, but your last paragraph is an immoral. And I think, what TV Tropes calls a "Hard Truth Aesop".

Does a UPS, or two, save you from brownout? I suppose so... at first. I thought another possible issue would be, wall power isn't conditioned, UPS output is conditioned, but a set up that notionally connects wall power on one PSU with UPS conditioned power on the other PSU makes trouble. And if the power actually is off, then it could come back on with wall power at opposite phase to the UPS's phase...?

Presumed innocent...

A man should not be judged by the colour of his bidet.

Re: "All three mitigations, however, clear local data on the device"

I think they're saying that the real fix is to log in as guest and then upgrade from the wonky upgrade - when possible. I hope that means that you can now log in as the user and access your local stuff that is still there?

Re: swatting

So it's not "Strengths Weaknesses And Teabreaks" then (or whatever?)

Re: The call

Another version of the story, probably on another occasion, describes urinary incontinence from kitty.

We've been instructed to shut down desktop PCs at the end of the day. We've also been instructed to leave them on. So I shut down by rebooting, and leave. (That's before COVID-19 and us all working from home.)

While as far as I can see, software updates requiring reboot were and are issued at 11 a.m., although the reboot delay is set to 2 hours.

Re: Grievances

It seems, if I read this right and if it's accurate, that he somehow managed to hack the company's Youtube account and change the credentials to his - specifically to his e-mail account at the company. There might be social engineering by him in this, or giving him admin access to e-mail.

Learn to read road signs backwards, or have software spot and flip and translate them, or just have a "sign reading display" just above the driving display.

The blue appointment letter from NHS Scotland comes with a user name and possibly an initial password, well mine did, so you would be pre set up that far. I set myself a decently cryptic password but it may matter less for this function - I wouldn't like someone to steal my vaccinations though.

That's hard to imagine and, now, hard not to.

I may be imagining the wrong thing anyway, but for god's sake don't clarify it.

Re: Get s bag of D20s and Scrabble set

Ist das kein Märchen?

Maybe it was their new system to deliver e-mail. Robot boat mailman.

Re: Okay, now I get cryptocurrency

Does cryptocurrency really "make global climate change worse" so much? Given that without it we'd be securely encrypting financial transactions anyway and the current libertarian move is to encrypt all web site access? Including news articles from The Register.

Some people have found cheeky crypto miners stealing electricity, but crypto and global warming is something I think we started hearing about in the last year, and it smells like a smear campaign against cryptocurrency.

Re: Lucas

Maybe HR was extremely slow at fixing things.

Maybe it was put off till his annual review. Then he had pluses and one big minus.

Maybe HR couldn't proceed while some of their people were still e-mailing work home too...

Re: Boring Bankers... Not

I've used a meeting room table... when suffering from sinus inflammation, at work. The method is to lie face up - just you - with your head over the edge of the table and tilted back, for several minutes, so that your face plumbing that God constructed the wrong way up can drain properly. Then thank the chairman and treasurer, and leave.

Perhaps there's concession tickets for disadvantaged people. Also, when you come down to it, a tour of a disused tram stop is not a thing that you actually need.

Re: Ah. Well, ahem...!

I once tried to set an account password on SCO UNIX of "moscow". I was young and reckless. I was not however in the pay of Russia, but for a short while I thought they thought I was.

"Must not repeat a letter" is the password rule that annoys me most. Equal with "We do not tell you the rules before you try to set a password".

But your plan is probably covered by the first 500 attempts of any hacker.

Call me paranoid - when I need a new password, I spend about five minutes rolling dice.

Re: The future is coming

I'd say canary for the sacrificial devices whose function is to indicate that jamming has occurred.

In the "Rivers of London" book series, police constable Peter Grant wrestles with the practice and consequences of magic, Harry Potter with a lot fewer jokes. One consequence is that magic reduces active microelectronics to sand. Apart from ritually sacrificing pocket calculators to appease "spoiler", Peter proceeds to buying a lamentable number of cellphones, running particular software, and leaving them around so that when one of them stops working, he knows that some magic happened in that place.

I don't know details of the case but I assume that he attacked the candidate's web site using a substantial botnet, or an exploit which consumes the web server's resources disproportionately to the cost of generating the exploit, or both. There also will have been steps taken to conceal the identity of the attacker. Apparently this failed, and probably the sophisticated parts of the attack can be rented, cycbercrime as a service, but there is more to it than just running "ping" over and over again.

Re: Prior usage

None of this really explains what Yggdrasil was doing in 1975. I think being bothered by a squirrel is one mythological answer.

Re: In a stockyard...

It's not endemic yet, it's pandemic, but what was meant is "epidemic", disease running amuck in your country.

I think it goes:

Outbreak: uh oh.

Epidemic: It's spreading everywhere in one country.

Pandemic: It's spreading everywhere in the world basically,

Endemic: it's spread. At that point, it may be geographically limited. Or it may still be everywhere.

At any point it ought to be stopped, but someone in authority has to get off their backside and bother people.

To answer your question, each state is declared by the World Health Organisation, and only when it has been the case obviously for some time.

https://www.physio-pedia.com/Endemics,_Epidemics_and_Pandemics

covers the levels. I think I also saw a chart at WHO, or it may have been Wikipedia. This page also has a claimed WHO chart of steps towards a pandemic, but this may be specifically for a new influenza, going from birds / pigs / mink / kangaroos to person-to-person.

Re: Complex CAPTCHA

I haven't looked, but evidently it's a joke that you didn't get. In the "Terminator" film series, robots exterminate humanity, John Connor leads the resistance, and an Arnold Schwarzenegger robot is sent back in time to kill Sarah Connor, who is his mother, before John is born. Then next time, Arnold Schwarzenegger is a goodie robot fighting the baddie robots.

So, do not help the robots to find Sarah Connor.

Re: Thank you

They're having network problems...