Posts by diodesign

Re: Where's Dabbsy gone this weekend?

Dabbsy is published on Fridays now. Latest one here. It's in the top stories on the front page :-)

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Re: anonymous coward

"What would a web server be doing in my logs?"

Think outbound firewall logs.

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Re: That last paragraph kind of sinks the rest of the article

Ah - ok, I see what you're saying. I'll add some more context. By 2018, the US will have all the top spots. That's what's meant by China catching a break during the upgrade cycle – there's a lull as America builds its next-gen machines, and before they come up, China's picking away at the weaklings lower down the table.

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Re: Re: Who the hell uses PCI anymore?

PCIe.

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Re: Re: So which is is?

We fucked up: It's been fixed.

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Re: Lols again.

Whose side are you on, friend?

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Re: komodo dragon

"Why in the seven hells is Hyper V installed on a surface?"

Microsoft uses it everywhere now - Device Guard, etc.

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Re: 4 bits one in 16

That's basically it. Try at least 16 times, you're bound to work once. Or bit flip the most significant bits in a pointer to change its color. Just make sure you don't set off any alarms if you repeatedly crash the app.

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Re: 1980s_coder

From the Z1 specs page:

"Both SIM1 and SIM2 support 4G networks, you can choose the data service mode in the setting; one SIM will be 4G while the other SIM can only use GSM networks."

HTH.

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Re: Hope you're getting a commission from this...

Bah, we found it funny and worthy for something to finish on a Friday afternoon.

Git another martini in ya, anonymous ;-)

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Re: It's hard to take El Reg seriously

"Oracle-bashing is getting a bit tired"

We bash everything, mate. We don't have quotas on companies. "Oh man, we've said five non-nice things about Oracle, better make the next one nice." No, that's not how life works.

There's plenty of nice things about Oracle on oracle.com.

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Re: Why not ARM?

Because Apple designed the A7 from scratch using its own implementation, which stepped on the uni's toes. The chip is ARMv8 compatible (and Apple licensed the 64-bit instruction set) but that doesn't mean ARM designed the thing.

And thus, it's not ARM's problem.

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Re: FFS FaceBook?

No, it doesn't go to Facebook.

Calm down, man.

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Re: Biased much?

Thanks Rik! <3

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Re: Trust The Register to

Oddly, this wasn't at first pitched as "an end-user retail thing" for normal people. It was aimed at architects at work, CAD users, surgeons, and so on. Serious uses with serious budgets and serious prices.

The dev kit costs $3k (as the article says) but we were kinda expecting the final thing to cost in the area of $1k anyway.

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Re: as2003

Phew - OK. A procedural error rather than a devop issue. Thanks.

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Re: Brian in Seattle

What El Capitan? No. Not any more.

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Re: OH FFS!

It's to stop other publications stealing it. The details are in the story.

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Re: Sorry but how is this at all funny or appropriate?

Changed it, but only because it's a cliche. And! if! there's! one! thing! we! boffins! hate! at! The! Reg! more! than! meeellllions! of! fanbois!, it's beating a dead horse.

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Re: Stevie

Headline:

India to cripple its tech sector with proposed encryption crackdown

You didn't make it past the 7th word in that sentence? Crikey.

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Re: Infernoz

Opera, really? Fk me. Edit: My poor brain didn't click that Opera 32.0 is powered by Chrome 45. You got me!

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Re: Domesday scenario?

You people are no fun. Domesday is the archaic spelling of doomsday (the last day of the world's existence). I'm only changing it because I can't be bothered dealing with all the armchair critics.

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Re: Spousal issues?

"Maybe that's why he's so salty."

Linus is a multimillionaire - he was given shares worth $20m when Red Hat and VA Linux went public and gets paid a lot by the Linux Foundation.

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Re: John Sturdy

"Sometimes I've found ads on El Reg so visually intrusive that I've copied and pasted the whole article text into an editor and read it there"

Psssst: insert Print between the .co.uk/ and the /2015 to get a cleaner view, eg:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/Print/2015/09/15/to_read_this_page_please_turn_off_your_ad_blocker/

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Re: Always appreciative of a contrarian view

"a term I specifically associate with the treatment of rape victims"

Well, that's your headache. We don't.

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Re: Amos1

Well, yeah. Revoking one revokes the other. So it's the public-private key pairs he's pulled.

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Re: Apple employees are super human?

"Apple has to live up to higher standards?"

Apple – like Facebook, Google and Amazon - hire the best. So, yeah.

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Re: So wait a minute...

The reason the article doesn't mention jailbroken devices is because ... it's irrelevant. The device doesn't have to be jailbroken to be vulnerable.

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Re: Sandgroper

"Malicious ROMMONs are installed on machines are intercepted in transit and the ROMMONs replaced."

Sorta hit the nail on the head, huh?

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Re: 2nd round of android updates

Google told me this is the first of the regular monthly updates after the Stagefright update.

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Re: El Storage Guy

"The points made are not truly accurate. And, quite blatantly wrong, btw. Please fix."

It's Enrico's opinion. You're welcome to disagree with it.

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Re: Something Missing

Buddy, you're all wrong. We asked Microsoft if people who *hadn't* reserved the update get the Windows 10 files, and Microsoft said even those people will get the installation data.

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Re: The Feds have long been supporters of Tor

A long time ago, tedious anon coward.

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Not yet. This is US-only.

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Re: "You're welcome for the tip, I guess."

Thought about it in the office and added it before I saw your comment.

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Always assume sarcasm.

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Re: Have you used an Apple TV?

All right, grumpster. There's a new remote from Apple. It has a little touchscreen on it and a mic so you can shout at Siri. That's Apple's innovation.

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Re: Mage

Your friends must find you hilarious.

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"if I should be amazed that someone managed to find such a bug"

That's the power of fuzzers. The tools are getting really good. Probably worth a story, TBH.

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Re: settings-win.data.microsoft.com.

I've added a few extra details on this.

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Re: Re: A big rat flings itself from the s(t)inking ship

"Why can't our Reg manage something like that?"

Because it was Friday afternoon, my brain was fried, and I'd have to hunt for an image we could clear copyright on. I've added a pic of darling Noel to the story.

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