Posts by oldcoder

Re: Another lost opportunity

It is pointless due to the fact that Microsoft does that with every Windows update. More spying, and you can't tell what is being stolen.

Re: Nothing new here...

Happens all the time during parasailing.... Totally unpowered flight. Also happens during skydiving.

Re: Chromebooks

Could be a LOT worse.

MS could have given them Surface laptops... then charge for making them actually work... for a few weeks until they are taken over again... or broken by a patch.

Chromebooks actually work with little to no maintenance.

"important data that can't be replace" .... certainly won't be the customers data (Danger failures?).

I'm still waiting for the virus that replaces Windows with a linux distribution...

Re: Ethernet fan out

Actually they were.

The purpose is to fit the wavelength. You put it elsewhere and your signal strength drops... and you can't connect to other systems on the same cable.

The marks were two meters apart - and the end of the cable had a ballast resistor to kill reflections that would wipe out the signal.

Putting things in the wrong place just isolated the computer.

Re: Mmmmmmm, horse meat.

That didn't work for Google... Even though Sun released it.

Oracle still sued.

So use it at your own risk - Oracle will eventually take your money, or force you to give it to lawyers.

Re: Tape?

Don't knock the vacuum tubes...

Make them at the micro scale and they work just fine in a helium environment... or vacuume.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/devices/introducing-the-vacuum-transistor-a-device-made-of-nothing

Still can't find the command you want and have to search for it first... manually entering the command on a "point and click interface"?

Re: Nope

I think Carnival now owns whatever is left. Likely nothing by now.

Re: Its not just the creationists

you left out earthquakes (or whatever destroyed the walls of Jericho) --- and that "pillar of salt" thing. And whatever happened to Sodom and Gomorrah...

Re: Let me guess...

Don't forget the source of all those "reports" will be Microsoft...

Re: Go ahead

You mean "hire dozens of Windows professionals over" two or three "Linux AND Windows professionals".

One Linux professional can handle many more systems than one Windows professional. The ratios reported are around 50 linux servers to 1 Windows server... But it does vary. Facebook is reported to use 1 engineer for some 1,000,000 users... or 1 engineer per 130 servers (I believe that was for the same engineer).

But the number varies a lot depending on the environment. For a while I was the Kerberos maintenance (and support) for about 15,000 users scattered across the world using several dozen different computer centers, so I tended to get the admins calling about any problems. If I added up all the servers supported that would be several thousand (between 30 and 100 per center, depending on the center).

Anywhere security was mandatory ... left windows out. You can't secure that.

Re: Whole-disk encryption is silly anyway

Wasn't that the purpose of Microsoft signed binaries? The "modified" binaries shouldn't work...

I guess this is just another Microsoft screwup.

The standard substandard Microsoft insecure security...

Re: Be careful what you wish for...

They have more than that.

It is just that most of them fear expressing them... :-)

Re: "[..] has no way to learn how well it has been protected from attackers.”

There wouldn't be a problem if people were not forced int using NAT.

Nearly all the IoT things already use non-routing IP numbers as specified by their DHCP controlled network.

Unfortunately, those same networks are also bypassing the inherent security by applying NAT to them "for convenience" just because the ISP refuses to migrate to IPv6, and stop using NAT.

Better to have a hot air balloon... The jetpack won't hold you up long enough, and it is rather hard to refuel.

The BIG question is:

Since this is a mandatory module, doesn't that imply that the SAME facility is on all the other VMs running on Azure?

IF it does, then that implies the other VMs are ALSO vulnerable to the same/similar attack - each custom to the OS being hosted...

And THAT should scare the pants off Microsoft management.

Re: Drawbridge?

From what I've seen so far, bash is more flexible and easier to use.

That assumes that both pilots are functional... and that is not always the case in emergencies.

Sherlock would likely help dispose of the body. He can't stand deliberate stupidity either.

Re: Cart before the horse

Well... You could put Linux on it and get all the apps that run on Linux and Android...

Re: If Only Google Could Get A Handle On Their Own Security Problems

There is still a big difference. Under 2% of the Android phones have a problem... where 30+% of the Windows desktops have a problem, even WITH anti-virus protection.

A rather large difference.

Re: Grow up China

Are you ready for China to call in the national debt?

Around 1.2 trillion dollars worth?

and if the US defaults on it - the US will be unable to buy anything - oil, iron, shoes, cloths, cars,...

Re: Which server should he have used

Since when have Microsoft servers for anything been secure?

The Windows admins tend not to know much about the fundamentals, much less anything about security.