Let's hope it doesn't burn out its main antenna feed upon starting to receive the commands.
Posts by A Non e-mouse
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Zombie … in SPAAACE: Amateur gets chatty with 'dead' satellite
All your base are belong to us: Strava exercise app maps military sites, reveals where spies jog
Re: I've never understood
The problem with Strava is by default it shares it with the world. If you're just sharing the data with your friends*, they probably already know where you live.
* This assumes that you only friend people who really are your friends, and not just any random Tom, Dick or Harry who ask to be your friend...
Virgin Media skulks in disused public toilets
You had one job, Outlook! Security bug fix stops mail app from forwarding attachments
GitHub shrugs off drone maker DJI's crypto key DMCA takedown effort
STOP! It's dangerous to upgrade to VMware 6.5 alone. Read this
At one extreme there's being on the bleeding edge and upgrading as soon as a new version comes out. At the other, there's being on the trailing edge and upgrading in a rush because you're on old, unsupported software and hitting compatibility, reliability or security issues.
Somewhere in the middle the best: Let others find the bugs in the .0 releases, and upgrade at your leisure to keep vaguely current. 6.5 has been out for a while, so now is a good time to start looking at upgrading.
Too Naive
I think your details on the upgrades of the vCentre environment was way too naive.
Firstly, the upgrade to 5.5 to 6.0 isn't that trivial. (Mine went so horribly badly that VMWare support gave up and said delete everything and start again!)
The upgrade from 6.0 to 6.5 isn't really an upgrade but a migration. New VMs are deployed and the data copied over.
Finally, we get the horrible mess of clients that VMWare has: The fat Windows client, the Flash web interface and the newer HTML5 interface. No one interface can do everything. Nice one VMWare!
Oh, and always know which hosts your PSC & VSC are running on. Just in case you need to login to the hosts direct to restart the VMs.
IT 'heroes' saved Maersk from NotPetya with ten-day reinstallation blitz
Reliance on computers
But he also warned that in the near future, as automation creates near-total reliance on digital systems, human effort won't be able to help such crises.
That's why when J. Lyons and Son bought their first computer and saw how many people it could replace, they didn't go live with it until a spare was installed ready to take over.
That was back in the 50s...
New Sky thinking: Media giant makes dish-swerving move on Netflix territory
Central Kit
Whilst everyone is talking about the pros and cons of TV via broadband, my idle geek mind is thinking about the other end of the IP/TV pipe. How do they stream all that live TV via IP. Are they using Multicast in the core and converting to unicast near the edge? Or something else? Those millions of customers (even if they're not all watching live TV at once) soon adds up to a lot of bandwidth.
(I suppose the question is similar to other services such as Youtube Live, etc)
I thought there'd be more Instagram: ICT apprenticeships down 20% in five years
@A/C
Even the Russel group as far as CS is nothing to shout about which is demonstrated by their standings in the annual CS university student competitions where only one of them scored top 100 (UCL) and it was BEHIND the university of f*** Bombed out Aleppo. Yes, the bombed out hulk where lectures are punctuated by air raid sirens scored higher than ANY UK University.
The only UK University I saw listed in the results was UCL. I don't see any of the other 23 Russell Group Unis in the competition. (Or any of the non-Russell Group ones) Is that because UCL were the only entrants, or because all the other UK Unis failed to reach the finals?
Looking at the finalists for 2018, I see Oxford & Cambridge listed. Again, I don't know if other UK unis didn't enter or just didn't get to the finals.
It's 2018 and… wow, you're still using Firefox? All right then, patch these horrid bugs
@K.o.R Re: Dear Mozilla, there's more to life than security
How about an official MSI package?
www.frontmotion.com/firefox/ But as it's not a Mozilla/Firefox official site, you have no way of knowing if they're putting dodgy stuff into the MSIs.
Job ad for designer proves its point with MS Paint shocker
Court throws out BT's plans to reduce pension rates
Another day, another Spectre fix slowdown: What to expect if you heart ZFS
Heathrow's air traffic radio set for shiny digital upgrade from Northrop
'No evidence' UK.gov has done much to break up IT outsourcing
Re: Why outsource
For small organisations the inside knowledge of how the organisation works and where the staircase with the hidden server is can be more valuable than some twat with a shiny suit and an MBA
In my bitter experience, the clue is in the name: CONsultant, CONtractor....
Either I'm an IT $DEITY, or all the consultants I've come across have been charlatans who only exist to write reports to placate senior management and know naff all about real-world IT. They only know what they read in vendor sales brochures. (Which, as those of us who work at the coal face of IT know, are works of fiction)
(There may be skillful, honest & hardworking contractors & consultants - I just haven't come across any yet)
Why outsource
If you're a small(er) body (public or private sector) I can see the appeal for outsourcing: You don't need to invest in a (lot) of IT staff to cover a whole host of technologies.
But for the larger bodies, why outsource? It's going to cost an arm and a leg in lawyers fees to negotiate & manage a contract. Surely that could be better spent within the body concerned?
Oh - I know why: It's so government mandarins can get cushy jobs once they've awarded the contract.
Why did top Home Office civil servant lobby Ofcom for obscure kit ban?
GSM Gateway Usage
GSM gateways are devices that were used to let people make cheap overseas phone calls, back when calls abroad cost tens of pennies per minute to make.
Not quite: GSM Gateways were widely used when it cost 15ppm (& upwards) to call a UK mobile from a landline, but 4ppm to call mobile to mobile.
Many companies used them as a way to save a lot of money on UK mobile calls. The operators disliked gateways as they claimed the gateways hogged cell capacity preventing normal mobiles from making & receiving calls.
ITU aims to to keep the radio on with new satellite regulation fees
Audio tweaked just 0.1% to fool speech recognition engines
Least realistic New Year’s resolution ever: Fix Facebook in 365 days
Re: Facebook is a reflection of society...
Here's a thing - why do you have to wait two weeks for the damn thing to be removed?
To be fair to FB (I feel guilty for writing that), as they replicate your data across various servers - some which don't keep their discs spun up all the time, it may take a while to go across all the servers and find & delete all your data. They may even actually over-write your old data to prevent recovery.
Of course, they could just be hoping you decide to cancel your deletion and remain connected to the collective
Microsoft offloads networking to FPGA-powered NICs
Woo-yay, Meltdown CPU fixes are here. Now, Spectre flaws will haunt tech industry for years
Speculative execution is a good idea: It's a way to keep the CPU busy with (hopefully) useful work whilst it waits for RAM to catch up. The issue is the way it's implemented.
Switching off speculative execution (if it's possible) will kill CPU performance. Some of the reports say that current CPUs can execute several hundred instructions whilst waiting for a single memory access request to main memory. That's a lot of lost CPU performance if you switch off speculative execution.
Meltdown, Spectre: The password theft bugs at the heart of Intel CPUs
Intel CEO
And just before Christmas, who sold most of their stock in Intel? Intel's CEO.
www.fool.com/investing/2017/12/19/intels-ceo-just-sold-a-lot-of-stock.aspx
We translated Intel's crap attempt to spin its way out of CPU security bug PR nightmare
Re: Mixed signals on CPU's
It goes a long way back. If the CPU has:
* a Memory Management Unit
* a memory cache
* a branch predictor
* Supervisor & User modes
It's highly likely to be affected. (and the last one might not even be required)
All of those features have been in CPUs for many, many years.
UK security chief: How 'bout a tax for tech firms that are 'uncooperative' on terror content?
Tax Laws
..especially given that various governments are already embroiled in battles to get the businesses to pay what they still owe.
If the companies are breaking tax laws, then they should haul them before the courts. The problem is that the companies are not breaking any laws. They just happen to be using laws not in the manner intended when the laws were written.
If governments want these businesses to pay more tax, they have to change the tax rules.
UK.gov needs help getting folk to splurge on full fibre and 5G
HMS Queen Elizabeth has sprung a leak and everyone's all a-tizzy
Though defence commentators are, rather predictably, shouting about this being a non-story – and to a point it is an expected defect – it is very much a matter of public concern
Bollocks. It's a new ship, of new design, and there are some snags and the make will fix them. As the El Reg article says, isn't this the point of things like sea trials? TBH - I'd be very suspicious if there weren't any snags.
And why did El Reg spend most of the article being all calm, and then throw in that provocative statement. I expected better of El Reg.
Seagate's lightbulb moment: Make read-write heads operate independently
Liberating SSH from Logjam leftovers
Facebook confesses: Facebook is bad for you
My other half was encouraged to sign up to FB by the kids after they’d left home a few years ago. She doesn’t spend much time on it, but the amount of videos, ads & dross she has to scroll past. And then the anxiety of “Do I acceppt X’s friend request?”
I don’t want a FB (orTwitter) account myself, but companies (especially small ones) are moving to only have FB or Twitter contact methods. *sigh*