Posts by Field Commander A9

shutdown on the same menu as log off

Did you know that you're supposed to click on your avatar (instead of the power icon) on the start menu when you're trying to log off or lock the screen?

"Keyboard not found. Press F1 to continue"

Because...serial console?

If I talk about firemen in general, I will consequently use masculine pronouns, for the same reason.

but what about when you talk about firewomen?

Having UPnP open on the Internet facing side

No, it not that UPnP itself that is opened on the Internet facing side. It's that some router default to have their web admin interface accessible on the Internet facing side, so they can be easily hacked.

THEN there's the problem that many routers don't properly sanitize UPnP rules which made the reflected attack possible.

Re: cut out the middleman

because multiple websites are routinely hosted on a same IP and only distinguished by domain names.

Re: 'the rest of the world will develop an ICANN-replacement that they can live with.'

Sorry to break this to you but Russia and China will be firmly backing ICANN's practice on this.

The price of iPhone X...

is not a problem with the iPhone X,

.... it's a problem with YOU.

------- unknown iFanboy.

Re: Tokens "...when a card is swiped..."

We Chinese are used to use the word "swipe" for all kinds of transaction forms, including but not limited to NFC, MST, QR code, contact chip and sonic.

Just go into the "ease of access" section in the settings app, you can find all kinds of gem.

Re: CSV stands for Character Separated Values.

No. The Chinese version of Excel 2016 explicitly commented "Comma Separated" after the .csv extension.

Re: snap/flatpak/.appimage

Really? Even my computerly-challenged wife installed Ubuntu on her machine _without my help!_

These kind of users are better of with an iPad Pro than an actual PC.

Re: That probably explains..

Because your daughter wants a even shinier new iPhone every year and needed a excuse to retire the old one.

Re: at least one Samsung which had a feature ..

That feature puzzles me. If you're looking at your phone for prolonged time without touching it, then you're either watching videos or reading ebooks, and those apps already routinely prevent screen lock.

Re: when you like what you do...

and when you hate your wife so much.

Re: More depressingly...

"Presumably that's (mostly) large companies sending out marketing garbage as hosted content or images. Surely that's no loss to you?"

Or maybe just a lazy way to workaround potential font/code page/rendering engine issues?

Re: "I have to say Excel is one thing Microsoft got right."

"...then waited an age for it to figure out what it's doing? (Even on a modern 8 core "business" laptop)?"

"business" laptops have SHIT CPUs (and even shittier cooling), no matter how many cores they've got. You need a mobile workstation (or at the very least a gaming laptop) to do proper number crunching.

Re: what part of end to end doesn't he understand

Technically possible: just make the client covertly CC everything it sends to the mothership.

What else would you expect from a country that would abandon it's allies time and time again when they're in the most dire situation?

Re: BASHware

You clearly didn't understand the threat model being discussed here