Posts by ldm

Integrations

You neglected to mention the myriad devices that had embedded Skype clients (TVs, for example), and things like the physical Skype phone, all rendered obsolete now.

Pretty good actually

I have been after a new device for a good while, as my ageing Note 4 is now chomping through batteries at a frightening rate (new battery, phone turns off after nine hours, from a full charge, even if left mostly idle), destroying microSD cards, and still running Android 6. No device exists that ticks all my boxes (regardless of price), but this is the closest I've found. I've had it for a couple of weeks now, and the antenna placement (on the top and bottom, as opposed to the sides) makes a noticeable difference for me - in places where the voice signal would drop out, it now functions adequately (no longer lose the call), if not perfectly. There are some minor annoyances though, such as no notification LED, and no removable battery - though teardowns of the device show that it's not completely terrible to take apart, it's not something I need to worry about for a while as I had 40% battery left at the end of a day with medium to high usage.

Infuriatingly, my biggest problem with it is I can't get an answer to "what LTE bands does it support" - the Nokia "full specs" don't mention it, Nokia on Twitter are ignoring the question, as is the author of an Arstechnica article that lists the bands (I asked for a source for that information, none was forthcoming). Are the bands region limited depending where you buy it? Who knows! This is mostly of interest for when I'm in the US - I'm trying to determine if I'm better off buying a portable hotspot, or if the phone will natively work on the carriers I can roam with.

OEM has to enable it though

e.g. the Nokia 8 is in the process of getting Android 8, it's being rolled out OTA but not currently (as of right now) available to unlocked/carrier-free devices in the UK. Those who do have it report that Treble is not enabled.

Hope springs eternal - I didn't realise until after getting the device that OEMs had to explicitly enable support for it, and Treble was one of the main reasons I got this specific phone. Perhaps they'll turn it on later - right now I'm on 7.1.1 which is at least still a supported OS.

Let's start with the basics

How about allowing customers to actually buy a SIP service, which has been advertised on their site for well over a year, still no estimated date for being able to pay for it, or even to sign up to test it (and no, you can't simply port an 01534 number to a UK provider). Or not having a 100GB cap on the gigabit fiber service - which was eventually doubled from the initial 50GB cap; that's combined upload and download per MONTH. If you saturated that pipe you could burn through your MONTHLY limit in 7.5 MINUTES.

(I have just checked, and now the limit is 300GB - so you could go for 45 minutes!). IPv6 would be nice, too.

I have long since switched to Sure for broadband.

It's an interesting idea to turn the island into a testbed for LoRa based Things, a smart move even - so long as existing services aren't impacted. I haven't got anything that speaks LoRa but perhaps I should acquire some gear.

How about Portal on a SNES?

This is just crazy impressive, TASbot from AGDQ 2017.

Legend of Zelda ... at least to start with. But then Mario 64 makes an appearance. And then suddenly we're running Portal on a SNES! They explain how they accomplished this madness and it's just ... wow.

If you want to watch these you need to do it soon cause those VODs won't be around forever!

Island hopping

Depending how you define "country" (they have ccTLDs and are self-governing for the most part, so that counts as far as I'm concerned) Jersey to Guernsey or vice-versa is also a very short ride - maybe 10 minutes in the air on a good day.

Your runway lighting has failed

It is pitch black. Your computers are likely to be eaten by a GRU.

My god, it's full of star's... leaked nude selfies.

Quick way to check for infection

On an Ubuntu or Debian system, this'll grep your compressed logs (in the default location, and assuming a sane logformat) for any request containing "humans.txt" that doesn't also return a 404:

zgrep "humans.txt" /var/log/apache2/* | grep -v " 404 "

Not exactly bullet proof, but I didn't see any mention in the analysis of the malware altering logs to cover its tracks.

Couple of extras

SIW from gtopala.com - very handy, does a whole bunch of stuff I don't care about, but for me the really nice aspect is the hardware list - it's basically lspci for Windows

It's not free, but it is very very useful: Super Flexible File Synch from superflexible.com provides an easy to use rsync interface for Windows.

Fantastic bit of kit

Anybody doing support in the field needs one of these. Unfortuantely I only discovered them in January this year, after leaving my previous network support role which I'd been in for five years. This would have made my life SO much easier! It's still helpful for what I'm doing now though, and has saved me hours of time already.

If you do any kind of support that involves going to customer sites, get one of these and pre-load it with the Ultimate Boot CD, and an array of OS ISOs.

As mentioned in the previous comments, you can select a different ISO by pressing the jogdial button in again and then scrolling, though doing this whilst booted from it is not recommended.

You can also have subdirectories within the _iso dir, which are easy enough to navigate through, each containing 32 or 64 ISOs (can't quite remember).