Posts by A Non e-mouse

Re: Apple wins then loses

My Apple airport hasn’t had a firmware update in a while. I wish it did have - maybe Apple would fix the IPv6 support in it.

Re: The future...

Er, this is the appeal...

Re: Oh how the might have fallen...

Forget professional trolling, Atari and Amiga owners have been trolling each other since before "trolling" was a thing.

Bit late to the party you lot were. Us Speccy/Amstrad/Comodore 64 kids were well versed in trolling - I can assure you! (Those rich BBC kids never got involved)

Re: State Secret.

The story is that Churchill et al wanted to keep secret the fact that we broke Enigma, et al, as we knew the Russian's had collected a load of the machines from the Nazis at the end of the war for their own use.

Re: SCADA systems running windows

I had to (briefly) work with a Linux based system that was so old it only worked on servers you could buy on eBay.

Re: "The US president claims he’s a negotiator"...

I have yet to see him perform in any way like a Statesman or true politician

But isn't that his main claim? That's he's not like the usual career politicians and is a breath of fresh air?

There was a BBC News article on how Sweden is pushing very hard to go cashless. Many shops their now only accept card payments.

I'm not a massive fan of the "+=" and "=+" shortcuts. Far too easy to confuse them (or, like the article, just miss the plus sign out entirely!)

Even if you have very long variable names, the autocomplete in modern IDEs should make this a trivial thing to do.

Re: Tortuga bound

Whilst there’s no crew to take hostage, there’s a big ship to loot (i.e. cargo!) with no-one getting in your way.

Re: VoIP... SMH

The worldwide telephone system was built in the days when a gentleman's word could be relied upon. i.e. Everyone trusted everyone else. (i.e. you never needed to validate incoming numbers). But those heady days are long gone. It's so easy now to spoof calling numbers that they are practically worthless.

Add VoIP to the mix, and phone numbers can no longer be trusted to tell you anything. e.g. At work, we have a SIP connection with a major UK telco. The phone number that is presented to the emergency services is from a city 50 miles away. (And no, we can't change that!)

Re: Out of sync

Those cheers are unlikely if England are playing.

I heard a story of a school child in Wales being asked who they'd support in the World Cup as Wales didn't qualify. "Whoever England are playing" was the answer.

Re: He has records? Lucky chap!

I had a job working in a doctors surgery. It was surprising how often they failed to find patients records. Some were literally found down the back of the filing cabinet.

Re: 400 Reinstatement notices...

I suspect Pickeys would feel offended being compared to VM's civil works contractors.

Re: Spotify to pull hateful songs and artists

And the Sex Pistols, and...

Re: Not necessarily lazy or stupid

They did with an embedded HTML server in ESXi.

@Archtech Re: I'm impressed

Good (technical) product documentation is rare, nowadays. It takes a certain type of person to write it, and they need time to write it.

However, companies nowadays see this effort as overhead and ripe for cutting. (I've even used a product where the supplier said they refused to write any documentation!)

Re: Untrusted Code?

All of these problems with Spectre and Meltdown go away if you're confident that the code you're running is not out to attack your system.

And how do you do that reliably? For example, code signing just proves that someone wrote the code, not that the code is safe. Nor can you use static analysis to prove code is safe.

Re: um details?

Throughout the article, there are all the details of the fabricated alleged crime. Plus, as others have pointed out, there is also a link to El Reg's previous article on the subject.

I'm not sure why you're having such a rant. Did the story author radically change the article after your post to include all the missing background details?

Re: tape to cloud?

Ask librarians & archivists about this. It's something they worry about all the time. Just look at the BBC Domesday project. After just a short period of time they were unable to read the discs.

Re: Watch the Channel 5 documentary

I was going to mention that too. One of the points I remembered about that program, was one of the pilots saying that after they did some market research they found that customers didn't actually know how much their ticket cost and so they could increase it and improve their finances.