Posts by Roland6

Re: Passparm test show it's true - but so what.

>With mains on, I got 13923. WIth just battery, I got 10252.

Did you changed the power scheme to max. performance etc. for both mains and battery?

Given an increasing amount of IT is now done "in the cloud" on other peoples systems, which are often locate overseas, rather than in UK located company owned data centres.

I wonder if people are more concerned about getting UK legal black-and-white which can be used as a defence against foreign law and extradition, specifically the US "wire fraud" catchall and charge sheets full of imagined offences that disappear when the case finally gets to court - several years later...

Addition:

I see from rereading the article a big area where consent is unlikely to be forthcoming is where people are probing 'adversaries' infrastructure which could be operated by criminals or state entities. Ie. I've found something odd, so I will investigate it back to source and then determine just what exactly is that source.

i therefore expect the government to listen, given their commitment to military cyops...

Re: a perfectly understandable error

>My mother in law can't use a mouse because she hammers the buttons so hard the mouse moves an inch or more, performing an unwanted drag'n'drop instead of a click. We explained it, she still hammered the buttons and complained. So I bought her a trackball, which she loves because "it works".

How long was it before she stopped moving the trackball like a mouse?

Had to swap out my mother-in-law's ergonomic trackball as she just couldn't get to grips with moving the ball rather than the 'mouse'.

Re: How long before Apple stop this

>Especially since ...if it works for the most popular Windows apps, will help smooth the way for all of the Mac userbase to migrate to ARM...

So does this mean CodeWeavers could be receiving some rather expensive handcuffs to become a part of Apple?

Re: Some would say

Useful HTML reference:

The a target attribute

Worth bookmarking the website.

Re: Still, I'm not going to turn down a 20% increase in revenue from Apple.

I suspect part of Apple's reasoning is to ensure developers and especially hobbist/pre-startup and startup/small developers to continue to develop for the Apple ecosystem, first.

We can expect similar inducements from MS and Google in the near future.

It's very clear that only the bare minimum has been done to fix the issues with the aircraft. The end result is an aircraft which is a hodge podge design largely dating back to the 1960s, with all the frailty that implies.

From what I've read there is nothing fundamentally wrong with the airframe - dating back to the 1960's. The problems stem from Boeing decided to install engines that fundamentally were too big for the airframe. To achieve this, they did a hodgepodge design and mounted the engines further forward and higher, changing the flight characteristics and handling of the plane, to mitigate this they installed additional sensors and automation. The problems arose because these systems were poorly designed and implemented...

Thus the obvious solution is to replace the engines with smaller - but less economical - engines (ie. engines of a size the airframe was originally designed to take) and largely strip out the additional systems...

>There really will come a time when you can't leave for work because your car's stuck doing updates.

The time is already here where you can't be sure if the Tesla you intend to drive to work in, will behave the same as it did when you parked it on the drive last night; it caught James May out...

Re: What does videoconferencing provide

>I'm glad I've missed it so far, but if/when I return to my consulting business I will really be annoyed if the "new normal" is that everyone video conferences. I'll have to clean up my office so it doesn't look like such a mess behind me, worry about what I'm wearing..

Yes, ElReg has missed a sales opportunity.

Where can people buy the t-shirts and mugs which regularly appear in ElReg pictures?

Re: Trust issues

>"...endemic problems in ISP-supplied parental filtering software, which routinely block legitimate and innocuous content."

It also works the other way...

One widely used content filter, will block gambling sites.. however, a quick test of the filter wil demonstrate that yes it will block the big name sites but not the more locally focused sites. Additionally, due to the lack of granular controls in the filter, you have to disable the block if you want to access the National Lottery to submit a funding bid or to report on funding received...

Re: More clueless "password replacements"...

But in reality, they couldn't login with *just* those things; they also need the device which contains the private key.

And therein lies the problem: lose the device - a relatively common occurrence, and how do you regain access?

Re: London?

Its actually Istanbul, however since neither are in "Europe", 'London' is technically the largest "European" city. Mind you if Turkey ever joins the EU...

Re: Anybody else noticed

Interestingly, it would seem they weren't demanding that Zoom was made an example of etc., but more that the FTC didn't really know what it was doing and so specified and agreed a settlement with several obvious obmissions.

Re: Mitiations?

Surely a certificate store update app is a standard part of Android, thus all that is necessary is a certificate update release as part of a Play services update.

Okay some other method will be needed to support non-Play devices, but don't see why this is causing an issue - unless Google cut one too many corners on Android...

>It should be obvious that Huawei isn't really a member of the voting public.

You are making assumptions about how the FOI requests were made. I would expect that they were made by a named US citizen, albeit one being paid to do so by Huawei.

Re: I agree it seems like very light punishment

>It will be 3 years before his conviction is spent, he won't be able to get a job in IT in the interim period and would then need to explain to a future employer why he was out of IT for 3 years that would be a red flag for me as a recruiter.

Easily hidden given he was just 23 and a "Service desk analyst":

Startup a computer support business, only needs a few friends to be clients, spend the time getting a few relevant qualifications (many online courses are currently discounted/free). Alternatively go to college and get an IT qualification.

In 3 years time there will be no career gap, just some more relevant experience...

Re: re: anyone who leaves their club has to be punished.

> It is obvious to everyone that to trade with the EU we need to respect EU rules

But not blindly obvious to BoJo et al. - hence why they needed the UK Internal Market Bill to contain clauses that would breach international treaties...

>Dear VCs: if your business can't pay an H1B wage premium then you could always invest in another startup that trains US workers in the skills your first business needs?

Re: Pretty reckless

>The second question is where do you build it.

Patagonia - okay its a region shared by Chile and Argentina, so you could include it in 'Chile'.

Antarctica - although the scientists working at the south pole might object.

If Huawei somehow finds itself able to license Google Mobile Services once again, this would easily be the most compelling Android flagship on the market:

Surely all that is needed is for Huawei to provide relevant information to the XDAdevelopers Forum,given they have already demonstrated the ability to install Google Play Services on other Huawei handsets...

I remember doing autocompression on SunOS back in the 1980's so it looks like its only taken MS 30+ years to implement something that is blindingly obvious - hence will most probably have submitted a patent application...

Re: We have taken immediate steps to mitigate this risk.

>If you can't create an application that won't choke on bad XML, then you shouldn't use XML.

From the evidence I've seen over the years, I would agree - the majority of XML developers need to be taken outside and shot!

Now what to use instead of XML..

>you open yourself up to differences between the way the filter parses it and the way the actual application parses it

That's life in the absence of conformance testing! You need to look no further than reading a DOC/ODF file in MS Office and LibreOffice and their differing levels of feature support.

The problem here isn't so much as to assure correctness, but to guard against malformed or as we have here, mischievous XML.

With B2B interfaces both the XML forms and their syntax and semantics should be well defined. So that all you are loading into the XML checker is the schema - it's basically what we did with EDIFACT and ASN.1 ie. standard defensive programming practice...

In this case it also forced both the business and software developers to actually document the XML form (which takes thought and time) rather than simply embed their assumptions in the code. A side effect of this is to introduce a basis for coding efficiency and trust.

An additional problem with the B2B space is the acceptance handshake, namely the broker will deem a form (eg. an order) has been correctly delivered on successful transfer to a third-party system which due to normal DMZ fiewalling isn't typically the end system that will be processing the XML form. So being able to flag that certain forms are incorrectly completed, prevents the broker from raising a 'success' flag (and starting an order fulfilment countdown clock) and will/should cause it to report the failure back to the originator. The issue is generating the error report at the right application level so that in this case the business user placing the order knows their order has failed. In this instance the use of a gateway was deemed appropriate as the receiving XML applications were part of the whitelabel infrastructure underpinning about 30 different websites, so the extra overhead was deemed preferrable to having a malformed XML file taking the whole show down...

Interestingly, the ruoured £99M fine, only values the individual records at £0.25...

Re: Call me a skeptic but...

From the article, it would be best to treat ThinkShield as the branding of a particular feature set, that is associated with the ThinkPad brand, and is also clearly an enhancement of the Google Android One programme.

>Also, Lenovo doesn't have a very good track record when it comes to them installing extra crap on their PC line of devices

Take away, never buy a vendor's consumer range of devices; never had this problem with business-grade IBM/Lenovo/HP/Dell systems...

Re: Rush job

Remember they engaged an expert security consultancy - who I expect would have relevant security patterns in their bag that just needed tweaking to fit the Zoom model. Given the pressure, I would have focused on getting something out and so they've gone for a barebones but usable within the given constraints, solution. I would hope that they maintain the 6 month cadence in enriching the security solution and making it more user friendly.

Re: Sharp admins!

Agree, although I assume what was unusual about the traffic was the 24x7 outbound stream.

The other aspect of this that draws attention is the contacting of the local police - did they do this before or after talking with the student.

With Cammy being based in Oz with a UK office, there has been some international police co-operation to identify the individual who was operating the Cammy hub account(s). Which brings into question whether there has been some behind the scenes gentleman's agreement as to where the guy gets charged etc.

Re: Takes a while...

>Realistically, for many organisations, they would only have the capability to do this once a year.

Realistically, many organisations just don't see the point in wasting monies on the constant new release churn. MS seemed to have a better understanding of business needs back in the W2K/XP/2K3 days, until it tried to force the W7 refresh and things haven't been the same since...

Re: Bad coverage limited to UK?

>I've not been having 4G coverage problems in Iceland

Stepped outside Reykjavik?

Mind you Iceland is relatively flat so you probably can get some form of 4G in Vatnajökull - I seem to remember getting some GSM coverage on my travels around the country in the 90's.