Re: "and in a few short years we were liberated."
The day Facebook bought WhatsApp is the day I deleted it. Best choose another example.
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Windows 11 comes bearing THAAS, Trojan Horse as a service
Exsparko-destructus! What happens when wand waving meets extremely poor wiring
In the '80s, satellite comms showed promise – soon it'll be a viable means to punt internet services at anyone anywhere
In a complete non-surprise, Mozilla hammers final nail in FTP's coffin by removing it from Firefox
UK and chums call out Chinese Ministry of State Security for Hafnium Microsoft Exchange Server attacks
Monday 19th July 2021 14:59 GMT 
Expect more of these. The Chinese Communist Party (CPP) will continue to flaunt international law as it is in their best interest to do so. These men will never leave China, unless the CPP can use them as leverage in other matters and they'll be sacrificed in the name of Mao.
The CPP is power hungry, unapologetic and oppression personified. They should not be encouraged or coddled. Every free nation on Earth needs to say "No, stop." and turn off the economic pipeline to the Chinese economy until they play fairly.
They will respect nothing else.
Impromptu game of Robot Wars sparks fire in warehouse at UK e-tailer Ocado
319 terabits – great Scott! Boffins in Japan speed along information superhighway at new world record
Malaysian Police crush crypto-mining kit to punish electricity thieves
Beijing further tightens its grip on local web giants with 'Network Security Review Measures'
Microsoft broke British and European competition laws, UK reseller tells High Court
NASA signs $1bn deal with Northrop Grumman to build studio apartment in lunar orbit with room for 3 vehicles
Linux Mint 20.2 is a bit more insistent about updating but not as annoying as Windows or Mac, team promises
Monday 12th July 2021 19:27 GMT
Re: Linux Bloatware
"It was slower than Windows on the same hardware, so I went back to XP."
I find that hard to believe. I have two identical NVMe boot drives, one with W10 and one with Mint 20.1 on a dual boot Threadripper system. I see a 11-15% faster compile times and much better video conversion times on Mint.
Strip all the unneeded crap out of W10, get rid of the telemetry and you'd have a decent OS. Until that happens, Windows isn't even a contender.
Monday 12th July 2021 19:19 GMT
Re: Good granularity.
Agreed. It's my go-to distro at home.
If there's a Zero Day or "critical" patch then tell me. Otherwise, let me address the frequency and type of notifications. I'm an adult and take responsibility for my systems. I don't need nagware and have never had an issue with patching Mint as needed.
The free community version of Veeam lets me full backup my home systems to a NAS weekly, with incremental deltas each day. They go back years.
The beauty of Mint is its easy setup. Even if backups failed completely and I had to redo everything from a new ISO, it's only an hours work to get everything running the way I want it.
Where's the boss? Ah right, thorough deep-dive audit. On the boardroom table. Gotcha
US offers Julian Assange time in Australian prison instead of American supermax if he loses London extradition fight
Black screens in Windows 11? Bork has seen it all before
IT manager who swindled Essex hospital trust out of £800k gets 5 years in prison
Richard Branson plans to trump Jeff Bezos by 9 days in billionaires' space race
International law enforcement op nukes Russian-language DoubleVPN service allegedly favoured by cybercriminals
Sir Tim Berners-Lee's World Wide Web NFT fetches $5.4m at auction while rest of us gaze upon source code for $0
Android devs prepare to hand over app-signing keys to Google from August
Thursday 1st July 2021 16:14 GMT
Re: End of privacy
It's also going to screw over people like myself who need the APK's because geo locks do not allow certain apps to run in my country.
As one example, buy an iRobot vacuum, first thing you get out of the box is instructions on how to program it with the Google Play App, which is geolocked. (Running a robot vacuum beyond the US / Canada / UK borders is a direct threat to national security or something.) They don't tell you that when you buy it and the single reference to it is buried deep in their support site. Makes your $1,000 purchase a brick unless you can grab the APK and manually install it, avoiding Google Play completely.
Exoskeleton startup wants to slap robot arms on schoolkids
Former NASA astronaut and Shuttle boss weigh in on fixing Hubble Space Telescope
Microsoft approved a Windows driver booby-trapped with rootkit malware
Bezos v Branson: Battle of the wannabe Space Barons as Virgin Galactic cleared by FAA to start flying customers
Hubble memory errors persist despite NASA booting long-idle backup payload computer
NASA's InSight lander expected to survive most of summer before choking to death on Martian dust
Bug at payments processor WorldPay swipes £2k+ per ride ticket from Brighton Pier revellers
Friday 25th June 2021 18:08 GMT
Re: I May Be Cheap...
I only keep £1,000 max in on my daily flexible friend and top it up weekly as needed for situations just like this.
Whenever I use it at the shops I put my fingers in my ears before they swipe it through. The attendant always pauses to ask why I'm doing that and I reply it's in case the wife has been shopping.
Russia spoofed AIS data to fake British warship's course days before Crimea guns showdown
Hubble Space Telescope may now depend on a computer that hasn't booted since 2009
Stop. Look... Install Linux? The Reg solves Microsoft's latest Windows teaser
Thursday 24th June 2021 12:35 GMT
Time For a Real Upgrade
My wild guess is I'll be converting everything over to Linux in the next few months. It's only a matter of time until they introduce a monthly "access" fee for Win 11 and they can kiss my posterior for that.
I'll keep my Win 10 box for Steam / VR games that are unsupported on my distro, but that's it.
Nutanix is finally happy to mention its name and ‘profit’ in the same sentence
Wednesday 23rd June 2021 12:48 GMT 
We have four stacks of Nutanix gear in our Europe offices. We're in the process of replacing them with generic Dell hosts and NAS storage.
When it works it's fine, but for two major issues:
a) Updating firmware usually results in bricked hardware and Fed-ex'd replacement parts to get it back up. I've had to replace six SATADOMs that failed during firmware updates. Was under support and no cost to us, but major inconvenience and left us without any backup host resources when down for days. A second host failure at that time would have been disastrous.
b) Their "CVM" is a VM that runs on each host to manage everything in addition to ESXi. This consumes 25% of each hosts RAM and is a royal pain in the keister as a resource drain. It limits your options in a small office environment.
Their tech support is excellent and their guys know what they are doing when things go wrong. However, the stuff that went wrong was caused by their updates. The additional overhead to run Nutanix is better used for our VM's on native ESXi.
Dozens of Iranian media websites devoured by the Great Satan, apparently
Now that China has all but banned cryptocurrencies, GPU prices are falling like Bitcoin
Do you want to become a vulture? Now's your chance to join The Register's news desk
Tuesday 22nd June 2021 13:57 GMT
Nope...
There's no way my body could take the rock star lifestyle of working as a Reg hack. The Foie Gras & champagne breakfasts, the dozen Tequila slammer lunches plus dinners with whiskey, port and cigars at private clubs after midnight. Not to mention the women (and quite a few men) calling at all hours pleading, nay begging, for a taste of the high life. Even James Bond would see it as an excessive lifestyle.
Imagine pushing a pair of exhausted supermodels off you at 5:30 am to force yourself to write 2,500 coherent words every single day. That's simply not cricket.
TITAN crypto-token does the opposite of zero to $60: Value plummets in hours
Chrome 'Conformance' for JavaScript frameworks says: If you don't follow our rules, your project won't build
Space Force turtle expert uncovers $1.2m Cape Canaveral cocaine haul
Gov.UK taskforce publishes post-Brexit wish-list: 'TIGRR' pounces on GDPR, metric measures
Thursday 17th June 2021 18:26 GMT
And here we go.
Post Brexit "Security" concerns overriding personal privacy. GDPR does a bloody good job keeping social media and corporations in check.
Now that the EU is out of the picture, let's rewrite the rules to screw over whatever remnants of privacy rights you have. We the UK government want to know everything about you, but want to keep everything we do secret until 75 years after they die.
Microsoft loves Linux so much that packages.microsoft.com has fallen and can't get up
Facebook, academics think they've cracked spotting deepfakes by spotting how they're generated
Biden to Putin: Get your ransomware gangs under control and don’t you dare cyber-attack our infrastructure
NATO summit communiqué compares repeat cyberattacks to armed attacks – and stops short of saying 'one-in, all-in' rule will always apply
Tuesday 15th June 2021 19:20 GMT
NATO Has One Job
If China keeps playing silly bugger, let the NATO boffins take down the Great Firewall of China and keep it down. Let their citizens see the world that the Chinese Communists want to deny them.
Block Communist Chinese goods, avoid Communist Chinese services and support democracy movements with multi-frequency satellite uplinks and the toughest VPN security available. Free the South China Sea / Tibet, support the persecuted minorities, block their propaganda and disinformation.
Show them the power of the truth and how effective it is as fighting oppression and lies.
There was a crooked man who bought a crooked M1 iMac, and we presume they lived together in a little crooked house
Tuesday 15th June 2021 16:32 GMT
"As iFixit learned in its recent teardown, Apple has opted to mount the M1 iMac with seven Torx screws. Conceivably, this issue could be remedied by unscrewing and reattaching the stand."
Yes, but you are not allowed to work on your own gear. You have to let an official Apple repair facility do it and get a 350 Pound bill for your convenience.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
