Posts by DJ Smiley

Re: Ex-queen

Errr

She could abdicate.

Re: I hate them stealth trucks

The faulty sensor here, wasn't part of the car...

Indeed, @Author - there's nothing wrong with naming and shaming who to stay away from, and who you used (who were actually useful in the end)!

As long as there was no freebies thrown in, then it's all good - who should we be looking to for our training needs?

Re: Reasons to be Wear-y

The idea you're listening to music while riding infinitely scares me.

While you may be one of the safety conscious who actually have headphones which allow you to hear traffic and such, or you don't ride on roads making the point mute - but 90% of cyclists who use this kit are on the road, and really shouldn't be :/

Re: Lost ?

Also there seems to be no warning to all the people who are now using what basically amounts to 'infected' apps. As there was time when these apps source code was accessible, and could have been changed - if there's been any release or update in that time, bad times!

Re: More info required

Is your linux mint disk running Avast...?

Re: Move Windows XP to VM

Internet Of Lathes? Is that a thing now?

Indeed, this would require the backbone ISP's to cooperate, and concidering the new rules and laws they are already facing, I doubt they want someone checking about this as well.

Re: using radio waves...

It's a running joke that every year on BBC Radio 1 that they have to disable this system for the minutes silence on 11th Nov.

One year someone did forget apparently, and it kicked in (And they've discussed how every few years it's updated to be (ill)relevant music).

Re: I have enjoyed it

As someone who's had a really out there experience (not due to drugs but tiredness - I walked home thinking I was in some real life game of CS to the point at which I was imagining seeing my ammo number in one corner of my vision), I can imagine the whole 80's sitcom thing actually happening to some body.

Re: "a great experiment to analyze the adversary's moral limits"

You've never had a button, which gave you the option to do something terrible, and no one ever know have you?

That kind of power can change how people think. It's been shown again and again in psychological studies.

Re: Sounds like an executive snit

'Clearly someone is neither technologically inclined, nor particularly likely to listen to reasonable advise.'

This is talk talk of 'Whoops we lost 14 million customers details'... I think someone there doesn't really care what anyone else thinks.

Re: pah....

All meter readings are available to all suppliers.

Source -- used to work at a supplier.

Re: > and actually increases the need for the very human skills that good journalists embody...

The funniest bit to me is that the fact because the robots won't feel the need to blow stuff out of prospective, there'll be no more 'fake' news as such.

Re: Grasshopper ...

If he's read (and understood) the entire Linux Kernel then he's a better man that me (and most probably Linus who'd be happy to admit it too.

Re: xhml5

or they could just not parse html...

Re: 5 days

I thought this too, concidering my CCTV records for about 3 months at a time, 5 days is laughable.

But mine only covers my drive (which I don't really consider private anyway) and the public road where both neighbours park their cars sometimes. Both neighbours are aware and happy for the CCTV to be there (It was installed by the person who lived here prior) and it's managed to capture two break in attempts on cars which were passed onto police.

Why you'd have CCTV recording a back garden is questionable - you could have it covering the part of the garden concidered 'shared access' but by the sound of things this was directly setup to monitor the entire garden including that which is the other tenants.

Re: Cybercriminals and open source exploit code

The infectee runs a exectuable.

At my 2nd day of a job, I deleted the entire stack of the test system with a misplaced rm -rf.

I crapped myself thinking I'd be instantly fired. My boss made some 'angry' sounds, then told me it's not the biggest issue as they needed to try a fresh install of the new version anyway (as thats' how the new version would be rolled out in production rather than upgrading, which is what they normally did on the test servers.)

This also allowed them to fully test the backups, pulling the older data from the production backups, anonymising it as required and also finding some faults with various processes that were included but didn't work after the upgrade. In all the test system was down for about 4 days instead of 1, but the fixing of the systems to allow it to get the go ahead in production took a month or more. If I'd not 'slipped up' then they wouldn't of known these issues until trying to go live in production and if so, it would of been a very long night of around 6-8 hours reinstalling the older version back into production (after the 6-8 hours of installing and testing the new version).

This attitude of 'we can't afford to test it' is utter bollocks. You fire up as many vm's as required in the cloud, and you at least verify the _data_ is there, even if the functionality isn't. It's bad to find the code for the production system isnt' backed up as much as you think it is, it's unrecoverable to find out the data is gone.

These guys got lucky, if he hadn't taken that copy 6 hours before they'd be dead in the water and the company would be gone.

Re: Odd belief

We broke a handbrake cable in Iceland, it was -20C outside. After this happened they told us just to leave the cars in gear, and not put it on.

Re: How the hell does a star change its rotation?

I'm imagining it literally rolled over, it'd then appear to be rotating the other way from afar?

Re: Sounds like...

Bitcoin is auditable - it's shown in the blockchain if anyone has paid (or in this case that no one has).

Re: "but we have external input making them unpredictable"

Trust, but verify. Applies to programs and users.

Re: I wonder about the devs

I'm laughing hard, because basically we've gone from blaming the 'kids' to blaming the adults who teach them, who are mainly... us.

Re: Safety Net

That's because, despite how much the energy companies would like you to believe otherwise, they don't actually 'handle' the energy.

They simple broker how much usage they think they'll require, and make sure they put the numbers in, in good time for the production to be done.

Not quite the same with ISP's, where they are actually handling the data from point to point (and so when it falls over, it isn't actually 'still there').

Re: Errr

It's not, it's just costly to do so.

Obviously weighing up security vs ease is a hard one that we'll be battling with for a long time to come.

While not as abusive, my own thought was 'can't you script this?'

Obviously if said educational institute doesn't want to fund the educating of an employee to be able to do such things then, they can enjoy [wasting|spending] said time doing it instead.

Re: Smearing

That can make things get really confused also, so it's a tricky one to be sure.

If you for some reason have something running at 23:59:59; and you check if it's running still 1 second later (expecting the time to be 00:00:00) - what do you expect will happen?

Re: What's wrong with that, Microsoft...?

Anyone doing remote/unattended upgrades should be capable of reading the articles on how to do this manually, create a clear key and save it to the drive - along with the appropriate warnings about doing so (I'd be worried if anyone has un-monitored access to their physical servers anyway).

Doing it by default is just plain ignorant, stupid and possibliy malicious.

It's not impossible for me to have dns claim my server is updates.microsoft.com (or whatever the address is now) and tell windows I have a 'new upgrade' package for it to install. Suddenly this looks very dodgy indeed.

Re: Portability

Actually... they did make them do that...

http://www.shippingcontainersuk.com/brands/foldable_containers.php

Re: Dear Santa

Erm no it isn't.

The idea is the traffic cannot be viewed in transit, and not MitM'd unless they are placing the Man after your vpn exit point (i.e. another country.).

Of course to get around this will mean most companies will soon be hosted out of places where they can't be reached, along with moving their tax paying dollars there too.... oh, wait.

Re: Can you hold down the power button

No, That's the return key, or 'Page return key' if we're being pedantic.

The enter key is 'normally' found on a numpad. My Dell provided input device clearly has this.