Re: It's coming
I can see a time when we have most machines air gapped
Oh, good. We're running/we've run out of* IPV4 addresses anyway, so people keeping their stuff off the 'net should help.
* depending on what you read
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Facepalm time: MS Office update wipes custom Word autotext
Hillary Clinton says for crypto 'maybe the back door is the wrong door'
Monday 21st December 2015 08:44 GMT
Re: There is a way to do this... encourage bug doors
Doing this is comparatively easy, encourage complexity increasing ideas like the Stroustrup-like OOP, discourage simple solutions to trival problems. Eventually you will raise a generation of "Poetterings".
That's a definition of "eventually" of which I was not previously aware.
Microsoft steps up Windows 10 nagging
Wednesday 16th December 2015 14:29 GMT
Re: OK but is there a solution to make Windows Update work?
Doing it manually is not so bad really for a few machines. You just have to read the little peculiar descriptions first (thats the hard part).
With my dad's laptop, neither semi-automatic nor manual update methods had worked at all, since about early March. MS offers one or two tools to try and fix it, as well as other repair methods, but all of them worked as well as trying to push shit uphill. In the end it was reinstall time, after which the List of Verboten Updates and the Do Not Want registry settings were applied and the update method set to Manual, And I Mean It.
Maybe I should clone the disk, put it in a spare machine here and let it check for updates once a week or so, see what tricks MS are deploying next.
Which, to be honest, ought not be necessary.
Wednesday 16th December 2015 12:21 GMT
Re: I'm waiting until it goes to 11.
Yes, there are some nice features in Win 10 but we're going to have to wait for the next version before they get it right.
W10 will be their last consumer OS; only incremental, rolling 'improvements' from now on. And waiting for Microsoft to get it right? You'll be getting a call from Beelzebub for a bulk order of antifreeze before that.
Wednesday 16th December 2015 12:06 GMT
Re: Full Circle
cf spending countless hours on Facebook et al, supplying them with content and metadata for free.
For extremely tolerant definitions of 'free', although most people don't consider trading their personal data for 'entertainment' as a big deal anyway even if they're aware of it in the first place.
Wednesday 16th December 2015 09:55 GMT
Re: funnily enough...
And kinda holding my breath what doing so will be doing to my Ubuntu multiboot as well.
I had a couple of cases where a Windows (re-)install disabled Grub, but only that; it didn't actually b0rk it. Booting the install media for any of the Linuxes on the disk, going into Repair mode, pointing it at the boot record and telling it 'go fix' invariably solved it, with maybe a bit of manual prodding here and there. It can even be as simple as noting what the active partition is beforehand, then changing it back after WIndows has claimed it.
Vote now to name HPE's London boozer
Congress strips out privacy protections from CISA 'security' bill
Thursday 17th December 2015 09:10 GMT
Re: Mass protests will fizzle
Given the number of gun-wielding, bomb-toting terrrrist attacks they've stopped before they happened, one could expect the protest gathering to also go unnoticed in the humongous haystacks of data the TLA's have at their disposal.
Oh wait, terrrrists are just solitary needles, they won't ever find those unless they become hidden in ever bigger haystacks.
Hollywood given two months to get real about the price of piracy
Man faces 37 years for sarcastic post insulting royal dog
Who needs CCTV? Get a terrifying slowpoke hoverdrone cam
Windows XP spotted on Royal Navy's spanking new aircraft carrier
VDI comes to the Raspberry Pi
Monday 14th December 2015 20:59 GMT 
Consumables
So cheap, in fact, that Citrix wonders if military users won't mind if they're destroyed – intentionally or unintentionally.
They even considered DEC PDPs consumable, using them to determine the propagation speed of underground nuclear explosions: one down the hole to report anything reportable until it was vapourised, then the topside one switched from logging what was sent from beneath to using TDR to measure how fast the EMP 'ate' the cable. The topside one was fitted with core memory so that if they found the system afterwards, they figured they could fit the board(s?) in another system and read out the data.
The salescritter was rather disappointed that they didn't spring for a maintenance contract.
Silicon Valley's Congresswoman comes to the defense of Tor
Electrician cuts wrong wire and downs 25,000 square foot data centre
Saturday 12th December 2015 16:06 GMT
Re: Do you get paid the same money as a professional?
In cases like this I try to keep away from giving hard numbers for a probability of some failure or other happening, instead expanding on the effects of the various failures possible (and an estimated time-to-fix) and leaving the pulled-out-of-arse probabilities to the department, company or contractor(s) who are going to do the actual job.
- Nothing goes wrong, no effects, zero time-to-fix
- ...
- ...
- 10kV across power feed, all systems emit magic smoke, business continuity plans need to be taken out of filing cabinet in disused lavatory etc, and put into action.
HPE's private London drinking club: Name that boozer
Wednesday 9th December 2015 18:47 GMT
The Beer and Switch
Ordering a pint you will get served two packets of crisps and a complimentary beer mat. You will then need to fill in an RMA for the crisps before the desired beverage will be delivered to you (if in stock). The bill amounts to a fair chunk of the GNP of Namibia, simply because you forgot to uncheck the "Gold Product Support" option.
Netherlands votes to splash cash on encryption projects
Wednesday 9th December 2015 09:19 GMT
I bet they even let Muslins into their country!
Sure. And also bombazine, burlap, calico, canvas, cheesecloth, chiffon, chintz, corduroy, cretonne, denim, Donegal tweed, flannel, gabardine, gauze, Harris Tweed, herringbone, Irish linen, oilskin, poplin, satin, serge, silk, taffeta, tweed, twill and voile.
(the dark green Loden longcoat, thanks)
It's nearly 2016, and Windows DNS servers can be pwned remotely
Brits leave 138,000 gadgets in the pub
Work on world's largest star-gazing 'scope stopped after religious protests
Sunday 6th December 2015 13:35 GMT
Re: Move it to Alaska
Because otherwise, I wonder why they don't situate a telescope on Mount Denali in Alaska
Stargazing nights require cloudless skies with no wind. I understand those aren't really abundant over there; the astronomer I asked couldn't readily find site data, but some general mountaineering info for that region indicated it won't be well-suited as a site for an optical telescope.
Saturday 5th December 2015 18:23 GMT
Re: Move it to Atacama...
AIUI, the Southern hemisphere is already well-covered, and while adding Yet Another Very Large Telescope there wouldn't be lost, they'd rather prefer it peeking into the Northern hemisphere. With Hawaii easily the best location there: very minor light pollution and a minimum of that pesky air between the 'scope and the rest of the Universe. Other potential locations aren't either as good by far, tend to have Sahara sand scour your pristine mirrors into uselessness, or, in the case of Tibet, would invite some political ... issues.
Saturday 5th December 2015 17:30 GMT
Re: this is a bunch of watermelons who want to stop anything
And how much do both the current Republicans and the Democrats have in common, ideologically as well as in practice, with their namesakes a century and a half ago?
It's like saying the current HP is offering quality gear because Bill and Dave actually knew how to design and build solid, reliable stuff.
Japanese hack gets space probe back on track
Lenov-lol, a load of Tosh, and what the Dell? More bad holes found in PC makers' bloatware
Sunday 6th December 2015 18:55 GMT
Re: New machine?
especially when you need to know what's the right driver/utility to download.
IBM used to have a very detailed breakdown of what drivers you needed for what Thinkpad model (the NNNN-XXX designation, not just the series designation) for every model roughly from the mid-Pleistocene onwards. It did carry over to Lenovo, but the last time I looked the site had been redesigned, and simply searching for the model number didn't work like it used to. As I had the relevant drivers on a stick already I didn't bother to rummage through the Lenovo site, just trying the bunch on the stick one by one.
Sunday 6th December 2015 08:51 GMT
Re: New machine?
In 2015 someone actually thinks it is worth to mention that screen brightness and wifi working fine on their laptop.
It was actually the person I replied who suggested those things might not work after installation of another OS. But you clearly need Clippy to help you with your reading comprehension, and you're out of your depth now he's gone.
Saturday 5th December 2015 20:27 GMT
Re: New machine?
Okay, this is not a brand new machine (Thinkpad X201), but under OpenSuSE 13.2: power settings [x], screen brightness settings [x], on/off controls for wifi/bluetooth [x], volume settings [x], display output options [x] all work. Same with Mint 17.2
And on my previous machine, an X61, with OpenSuSE (I think it was 11.3 back then) everything worked right away, including the shedload of devices that XP needed to have drivers loaded for separately. Rather annoying because both wired and wireless networking were among them, but an aging PCMCIA card took care of that hurdle.
Smart telly, router, app makers have left a security hole open for – drum-roll – three years
Sunday 6th December 2015 13:06 GMT
Re: Cut the software engineer crap
The whole "software engineer" nonsense is a bit too much
Oh, there are people that really deserve the title "software engineer". The guy who's now just handing over the Voyager software to his successor is one, IMHO. Stuff that's several tens of AU away by now and still working. There's other engineering feats involved, but the software is one of them.
Sysadmin's £100,000 revenge after sudden sacking
Boffins could tune telescopes to listen to lasers on Mars
If it still works six months from now, count yourself lucky
Friday 4th December 2015 11:51 GMT
Re: Never had a problem with my own PCs
Two Antec PSUs that went wonky, first one after just under a year, the other about half a year later. And one motherboard (some ASUS socket 754 iirc) that started to dislike half its memory. Apart from that, just external influences like a lightning strike across the street killing a soundcard and modem.
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