Posts by phuzz

Re: sort of on topic...

There's also many stories of pilots training on such simulators, and being surprised by 'giant' spiders on the runway.

You know how every bit of Microsoft documentation about setting up AD has always said to use a specific domain which is not your web address?

Well whoever set up the AD at my last job never read it. Nope, they'd set it up as companyname.co.uk, which was already causing problems when I started there, let alone during my job :(

Re: Oops!

How many times per day do you run backups on your systems?

At my last job I was creating a new snapshot every hour during business hours on the file server, keeping (I think) the last 12 hourly snapshots. (And then daily/weekly/monthly rotations, backing up to tape etc.). That was for normal user files (spreadsheets and the like) and worked well, and give me very quick restores for the "oops I just overwrote a file I need in five minutes" type requests.

Re: Glue?

Or added too much and it's squeezed out somewhere it shouldn't be

Re: GDPR breach here we come

Unless the URL/names of your tabs contain data covered by GDPR , this isn't really an issue.

And I'm not sure that using Google Chrome would be much better in any case.

Re: No real surprise

And if you find a better deal from another company, chances are your current provider will match it

Why does Firefox need to rethink it's UI, when it's already basically the same as Chrome?

Both have tabs along the top, under that you have Back, Forward, and Reload, then an address bar (that's also a search bar). Then the icons for whatever addons you have installed.

There some differences when you go into the menus, but that's 99% of most people's interactions with their browser.

Re: "speach"

Bristolian?

Re: 2038?

We'll find out before 2038, when (eg) a poorly programmed system in 2028 tries to schedule an event in ten years time and runs out of bits.

Re: You don't have a clue

The number of refuels required depends on the efficiency of the Raptor engines, not how much thrust they produce. I'm sure the efficiency has been increasing, but probably not linearly in-line with the thrust produced. And it doesn't just depend on the engines. If the design of Starship has to change to add (eg) one kilo of extra self-destruct equipment, that's a kilo of fuel they won't be able to carry (on every single trip). Currently the design of Starship is very much in flux, let alone the currently non-existent lunar variant.

It's just too early to say how many refuelling trips will be necessary right now.

Re: A scandal of epic proportions

el Reg have been following the story for over a decade now, which is how I first heard about it.

Re: Hot air

I don't want to defend the shower of bastards, but police budgets have only faired slightly better than other public services in the last decade

Re: Too late ..... much too late !!!!

I suspect they meant it unthinkingly as 'those damn kids', but now that most millennials are in their late 30's/early 40's, chances are that it's managers around that age who are in charge of pushing new 'features' at Microsoft, so it might not be that far off.

I think if he'd donated as much to republicans, and they were in power, he probably wouldn't have been prosecuted for any of the charges.

Although I suppose once they realised he was broke and they weren't going to get any more donations off of him, they might have gone ahead. Not with the campaign 'contributions' charge of course, that might make people look at who he made 'contributions' to.

(Most US 'lobbying' would be considered straight up bribery under UK laws. To me the whole system seems rife with corruption on all sides)

Re: disposable vapes

I feel like OP missed out the word lit cigarette butts, which would make a better analogy.

And while it is possible to reuse the batteries, that's not much practical use if the majority of them are thrown in with general rubbish (or just chucked on the street). At least specific 'electronics' collections might hopefully make it easier to find reusable components without digging through a mound of mixed rubbish, and also reduce the fire risk somewhat.

Re: Customers are the security liability

In the 90's it wouldn't have been much harder than, download the attachment and double-click.

Re: PC-Board Dust Blankets

Important tip: take the PC outside before you try to remove the dust. And make sure you're up-wind.

Re: Our data keeps going missing - we want a hostage

Especially because he should've checked the test system and would've seen nothing was being purged.

From TFA; the purge job was copied from the test environment. So presumably it was working as intended in test.

I, of course, have never copied anything from my test environment into prod. Erm, except for that one time when I ended up changing a name to "test" across everything. Oops, at least it was a quick fix.

Re: Wow!

In their defence, it's the sort of lesson that they only get to learn once, and the curriculum is somewhat terminal.

Perhaps 'Duke' ran it with /NOPROMPT?

Windows dropped 16 bit support with their 64 bit OSs, but you could still install a 32 bit version up to Win 10 which would still allow compatibility.

Re: Every single time

Name doesn't ring a bell, but it's been a while. I worked on the production line, and they kept us separate from the office workers ;)

Re: No budget, however...

At some point, probably next year (they're aiming for 'early 2024' ), there's a privately funded Dragon mission which aims to reach a 700km orbit, and perform an EVA. After that I guess we'll be able to see how suitable it is.

Better than HP. In their gen8 (or maybe 9) servers, the disk caddies had a large red light on them, which if you looked closely had a big exclamation mark on it. This light indicates "Do Not Remove", however, if you don't know this, and are sent to swap the failed disk in a server with a mirror of two drives, you might well assume that the big red light is on the failed drive.

I think in the end I only caused about half an hour of downtime, but I still blame HP.

Re: "It will also not apply to the Crown"

That's hardly a new phenomenon, since there have been governments, there have been laws which don't apply to those governments.

That's practically the definition of what a government is!

Re: Tat

To be fair to OP, they're complaining that recent Logitech products have got worse.

Not something us owners of older Logitech gear would notice (I think my G5 is getting close to twenty years old)

Re: ZFS here we go again

And your choice of totally safe file system is?

Backups. Ideally multiple backups on different media/filesystems/OSs.

Oh, and check your restores work too.

Re: Is this Kerr a Reg commentard?

I can think of a few commentators with a similar writing style, but my guess is that if he had an account there's no way he could stop himself from posting here.

Re: So just to clarify...

could this be used, for example, a Chromebook with the same chips, or say Mac if it used the same readers

The issue here is that while Windows does require that devices should follow their SDCP specification, apparently there's no checks that a manufacturer actually is following the spec. (The Microsoft Surface using absolutely no encryption at all must have been particularly embarrassing for the Windows Hello team who sponsored the research). With the information from this research, Microsoft could crackdown on shoddy manufacturer's implementations, but if they're strict then that would result in fingerprint recognition being disabled for many people, just because the manufacturer couldn't/didn't fix their flaws.

I don't know enough about Chromebooks to say about them, but I'm pretty sure that as Apple control all of the hardware and software they use, they should be more secure. You'd hope so at least.