Posts by Robert Carnegie 4545 publicly visible posts • joined 30 Sep 2009
Maybe it just "legally" launches the app store and gives the user the option to delete the nominated other apps.
Or, yes, maybe it uses an illegal hack of Android.
I don't know and neither do you, and probably neither of us ever will.
I'm not an expert but I suspect that some Windows updates don't get along well with other updates. Ideally they'd queue up nicely like supermarket customers during the coronavirus pandemic, but nevertheless some may trip up over each other and require a second try. There are definite issues if you do your patching by hand, that Patch 29 actually reverses Patch 11 (these numbers are not real) and it's even possible that they don't know that. In such a case, hopefully Windows Update knows to run Patch 29 before Patch 11 - or to run Patch 11 after Patch 29 even if Patch 11 was run already - and to sort the thing out. Or if not, Patch 37 ought to come along as a replacement for both of the others.
Hmm... I probably should change the password on the work machine just delivered to me, before I even hint what the password was that I set originally, what I was told the password was when I got tired of trying mine, and what I eventually was told the password ACTUALLY was. Never mind, cautionary tale.
Personally, for typing, I favour: rando mlett ersin fives
(with actual random letters, from a random provider, plus muddled by me before use)
but since password systems claim to know better than I, in practice I use (if I have to) variations:
ihave asong tosing O.
whati syour songe 0
dontm akeme angry O!
At the moment though, I’m finding it is pretty hard to remember rando mlett ersin fives after a long break, or even a short one. And to read some of the little writing in my little secret book, even though it’s my writing.
Is it fair to blame Task Manager deficiency for having to reboot the OS? The assumption seems to be that one process goes bad but the rest of the system is fine if the bad process is killed - but that may be not a good assumption, the system may really be in a sorry state needing rebooting, and the poor little processes are blamed unfairly. They may even be already gone.
Wikipedia’s article is titled “DriveSpace”. The order of events seems to have been: VertiSoft produced separate product DoubleDisk, then Microsoft bought it in to bundle or integrate as DoubleSpace, then Stac Electronics sued about patents and won, then Microsoft released DriveSpace which was the same thing as DoubleSpace but presumably less patent infringy.
Yeah, there’s a reason that UNIX / Linux scraps the command shell standard and adopts a new incompatible one instead every five years maximum. :-) (what is it again?)
sh, ksh, bash, yash, cash, credit, cledit... I imagine no one remembers them all, partly because I made up at least half of those.
If software is pre judged to be deliberately abusive then you'd want it blocked at once. I presume there are naughty people out there whose actual job is to put malware into trusted channels and who spend all day just doing that. Giving them the benefit of the doubt is over generous.
If the government allows itself to know everything about everyone, there are ways to apply the information for things like infection control. That doesn't mean that it'll get done. And what else will?
I have in mind thought experiments about how to capture and misuse data, and in the case of coronavirus tracking I can see it being used to do something about homosexuals. And organized labor as well, if everybody's phone is going to record where they go and who they meet, but to identify homosexuals, you're usually looking for about two phones of the same sex alone in an isolated place, and stationary. Or, since many phones have movement sensors, they may be jiggling around in a distinctive way. Once the government has identified the homosexuals, they can intervene themselves or else pass it to church groups to take the necessary action and inform the next of kin. The same technology also can deal with other unnatural performances, with miscegenation, and with the race problem in general. And church attendance, of course.
So let's just stick with wearing rubber masks for now. When we still have a choice.
Just Clippy would do, surely? But I voted "The Ribbon Factory".
Picking on "Bob" reminds me of comedians The Two Ronnies telling us that Cliff Richard wanted people to stop asking about his sex life - "It was no more than an isolated incident which took place more than twenty years ago."
Expect new legislation, coronavirus masks (and religious/cultural face wear) must have your name & address on with a bar code. And so must your face, like in Dennis Potter's "Cold Lazarus". Going out in someone else's will of course get you in big trouble...
It has crossed my mind that putting your name on the religious version (not address) should not really offend modesty, which is what it's supposed to be about apparently, and would meet complaints by people like Jack Straw and even actually be useful. I've seen my own surname mutilated in writing, although less often recently.
Actually though, I think the creepy black elastic ear-masks that I've been wearing would be improved by a cheery message. I thought about stitching "Hello!" across the front, but pricking little holes in it seems counter productive.
NO ONE commented that the money dispenser defect was a HARDWARE problem...
Not "Sam", not The Register, and none of the readers?
A very mature, responsible attitude, which obviously I did not expect! :-)
Boeing 737 MAX forgetting how to fly also was a hardware problem, and not very funny, I admit.
"All of us, or at least all those of my generation, heard in our youth an anecdote about George Stephenson, the discoverer of the Locomotive Steam-Engine. It was said that some miserable rustic raised the objection that it would be very awkward if a cow strayed on the railway line, whereupon the inventor replied, 'It would be very awkward for the cow.'" (G. K. Chesterton)
America's noble "Iron Horse", in one's imagination, goes about sporting a sort of shovel at the front called a "Cow Catcher" or bewilderingly "pilot". It is more of a Cow Thrower anyway. Catching is, as you cay, the cow's difficulty, not the train's.
Is this a UK retailer whose customers can generally get their groceries in at the same time? What with $RETAILER stand alone shops being closed entirely during coronavirus. They also do business inside $GROCER stores. A retailer/grocer operational synergy.
The one that I'm thinking of has annoyed me a bit because goods also must be paid for online before you go to $GROCER and queue up. Not "collect, pay". Or paid for online while you queue up, things being as they are. The thing is, I've used most of my credit card limit... and I don't wnat to do online purchasing without it.
I assumed the limitation was a deliberate decision, but you have me wondering.
What I don't know is where to get short extension leads like that... but I last bought some when Maplin shops closed down, and I know that Maplin was last seen as a reborn online business so......?
In general, you also can use a USB hub made with a short cord as an extender, but it doesn't always suit.
I approve the method to avoid wear and tear when devices are frequently plugged and unplugged, for instance USB "thumb drives" as discussed. Ideally, I think, you'd have one port adapter belonging to the thumb drive, and another one belonging to the PC, i.e. drive -> pigtail -> pigtail -> PC. As it is, even with careful use, I have thumb drives that need to be wiggled in a port - usually on an extension lead - to find a connectlion. The two-pigtails idea is that the ports on your expensive devices themselves are seldom or never plugged and unplugged.
I expect that if there is control over the wi fi features, then that would include forcing the router to use one particular radio frequency (numbered channel), but I don't know if you can do that on the client end as well - so that Device A will just not see Network B, which is the one that you don't want it to use anyway.
Or if the repeater is expected to give good service, then you could physically block radio signals from the router on a different floor. For instance, standing the router on the lid of a metal biscuit tin ought to stop it from transmitting downwards. Or you could put the client end in the tin, with the open end facing in the direction that you want it to be allowed to see.
Well, it may come as a USB module?
I struggled with the article, does "Wi Fi 6" on the hub improve performance if some or all of the client devices are built to a previous standard?
Of course, asking the question reveals that we have legacy devices at home. Like everybody else.
Google handed me this: https://ostif.org/the-ostif-and-quarkslab-audit-of-openssl-is-complete/
If I'm reading this right, they're saying that as of January 2019, OpenSSL 1.1.1 passed their "audit". Roll on version 1.1.1a.
The new bug appears in versions 1.1.1d, e, and f, I think you said.
Presumably, 1.1.1a, b, and c had limitations, as well.
It is what it is. (If it is.)
BBC World Service has been broadcasting "13 Minutes to the Moon", but an outside view of the climax is offered in their 10 (9?) minute "Witness History" documentaries, where they interview people who witnessed history.
In the case of: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cszmjp
"Simon Watts talks to David Schoumacher, former Space Correspondent for America’s CBS news, and to former CBS producer Mark Kramer."
(ROT13 code https://rot13.com )
CUBGB: Gur perj bs Ncbyyb Guvegrra nsgre gurve erfphr (Trggl Vzntrf)
Masks reduce transmission. Reduced transmission produces "herd immunity", by weakening the infection and the number of people infected by one existing patient - who is the one who has to wear the mask. If each patient can't infect as many as one other person on average then the next generation of patients is fewer, and fewer, until it dies out. Well, strictly, "herd immunity" refers to achieving that by actual immunity of a sufficient proportion of the population, but we don't have a guarantee of anyone getting lasting immunity from this virus.
Good thoughts. I don't have that need, but it looks like a reason to lay off punctuation as well. I do that if I can - sometimes it's forced - just because an adequately cryptic password (I hope) of almost purely random letters, in fives, is easier to type (some systems forbid repeated letters as well).
Or in theory it is; actually I find myself struggling to remember - for each meaningless "word" - what belongs to the first system password, the second system password, the third system password, or the first system password which expired yesterday and had to be changed.
I was using something like Mxyzp26 for one of our systems until we had penetration testers and they cracked it somehow. Meeting with management ensued.
As for punctuation, I strongly suspect that at least two of our former or current customer facing systems have had a feature of us setting the password containing, say, $ but when the user types $ in the password it doesn't work. So I adopted reset policies of (1) alpha numeric randoms only, and (2) I set the password and then personally test that the system accepts it from me to log in. After that we make the user change it anyway.
This sounds like the episode of "The Glums" comedy mini-soap included in BBC Radio's "Take It From Here" show in the 1950s, called "A Saga of Sixpence". It seems to be on YouTube audio and about ten minutes long.
Ron Glum (Dick Bentley) is an idiot; one evening his long term fiance (very young June Whitfield) wonders why every now and again he is hitting himself on the head with a hammer.
It turns out that he went to buy takeout food and had to deal with his food, the vinegar condiment bottle, and a sixpenny coin as change, and has he only has two hands... in defence he says "It is easy to be wise after the event."
The amateur physics is sound, though!
I doubt you can get "a modern smartphone" under £100 at all, never mind a "no sneaky spying" one.
Actually I'm pretty happy using my iPhone, but I usually have mobile data service, wi fi, and Bluetooth turned off. Bluetooth is at least intermittently hackable, and I thought I could rig wi-fi to connect only to my home network until I walked into somewhere that has BT "Wi Fi Extra" which also connects without user interaction. It is probably reasonably safe, but I don't want to have to decide whether to trust it, now and in future.
The main catch is that the bus season ticket app, which may well be tracking me, now and again expires my ticket because I'm not connected, so I have to log in and refresh the information. This has happened five minutes after checking that the ticket is there, so it's a case for checking twice before the bus comes, e.g. check in the lift leaving work, and check again at the bus stop.
If I follow, you're describing two things:
An automatic out-of-office message should not be sent to a recipient a second time if they e-mail twice.
Sending "I am out of the office" to everyone in the organisation - not as a response, you just want to tell everybody - is only appropriate if you really are as important as you think you are, and is a way to find that out.
Some of my in-office correspondents have receipt set on, which at my end appears as a request whether to send the receipt or not. I do pause to decide, but usually send. Especially if it's The Boss.
After it happened, it's obvious-ish that "out of office" messages shouldn't request a read receipt even when you have that set on by default. But that requires the e-mail server to treat those messages as an exception to the "request receipt" setting. And you may not notice that until after it happened.
There used to be more options like that, but to be honest I haven't looked for the "Advanced" options for a while. I interpret it as that normally, giving the user what may be what they want but isn't exactly what they asked for, is a better guess.
I wonder if hexadecimal ASCII codes are interpreted such as %20 for space, the only one I remember at the moment, if you want to see "Covid 19" not "Covid-19". But "COVID-19" is the "correct" form anyway.
Anyway shouldn't you go to your-krb.com and search there for your choice of whatever a krb is? Poor old Google has to deal with users who want the latest news from "My 7 Favourite Kerb Stones of the week" and particularly like to see Kerb 5, "Best Foreign Kerb Stone" - whatever "foreign" means anyway given that the web site owner is in New Zealand...
The Register is quoting poorly. "This is the recommended approach" refers to leaving your web site running and just either modifying or removing the "shopping basket" part, or marking all of your goods as "out of stock pending the miracle that President Trump promised, that he goes away" or something like that. It does not refer to changing your web site to 503 or 200 or 911 on every page.
But then next month's new WHO web site about hos to cure coronavirus wouldn't be indexed at all.
Also: the whole world isn't closed down. China is starting up again, which admittedly isn't Google's best business relationship, but... Also, the president of Brazil insists that the Amazon is open for business, if you want to buy rare wood, endangered animal species, and lost tribes who claim to have been made suddenly homeless - someone must be logging this activity. :-)
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