* Posts by TheVogon

3511 publicly visible posts • joined 17 Jan 2013

What got breached this week? Ticket portals, DNA sites, and Atlanta's police cameras

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Re: hmmm

"I have a bridge for sale."

Did you buy it from Michael Corrigan?

Have to use SMB 1.0? Windows 10 April 2018 Update says NO

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"Was wondering why my NAS wasn't working. Never mind, I'll just go upgrade to the latest firmware. Oh, there isn't any and they're not planning the upgrade? For this device still in shops? Fk off."

SMB2 came out in 2006. I am amazed that anyone would buy a NAS in the last decade that didn't support it.

Dems push Ryan to vote to help save America's net neutrality measures

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Re: 86% of Americans agree with *THEM*? Since *WHEN*?

"But STOPPING people/companies from BEING ABLE to pay extra to get better bandwidth, quality, etc"

It has never stopped that. People and companies are both able to pay for bandwidth and quality (contention) under net neutrality. What net neutrality does is prevent carriers from deciding to treating traffic differently once inside their networks for commercial or arbitrary reasons. Which is massively in the interest of consumers.

PETA calls for fish friendly Swedish street signage

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Re: "vegan fish"

"Hardly surprising - cats are pure carnivores"

Mine happily eat sweetcorn, peas, crisps, milk, cheese and pretty much anything else they can steal.

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Re: PETA vs. aboriginal heritage... I'll get the popcorn...

"with the animal rights organisation suggesting that "Fish Are Friends Street" would better"

Surely "Fish are Tasty Street" ?

Stop us if you've heard this one: Adobe Flash gets emergency patch for zero-day exploit

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Re: The internet's screen door?

"And yet Windows 10 really doesn't want you to remove the Flash binaries."

The patch for this zero day is KB4287903 - you can download it now.

USA! USA! We're No.1! And we want to keep it that way – in spaaaace

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Re: Cake and eat it seems to be a thing now.

Perhaps the most interesting set of results came when the researchers asked how NASA should prioritize the suite of tasks the agency oversees. The top priority out of the list given was to monitor / research global warming and related climate change.

Stern Vint Cerf blasts techies for lackluster worldwide IPv6 adoption

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Re: "Who is Colt"

"Regardless my point stands, they are obviously a company that needs to use/know IPv6 inside/out. "

So it has a business benefit versus not using it. QED.

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Re: They should never have cried wolf

"But IPv4 devices can't talk to IPv6 devices that doesn't co-exist in the IPv4 address space"

Which is fixed by a dual stack on one or both ends.

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Re: @TheVogon

"Who is "Colt"

Probably the next largest supplier of leased lines and MPLS connections after BT. If you worked in infrastructure you would know who they were.

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Re: They should never have cried wolf

"To COexist (meaning existing together), then IPv4-only devices would need to be able to talk to IPv6-only devices."

No, IPv6 traffic can pass on the same network as IPv4 traffic, That's what coexist means.

And most IPv6 devices are dual stack so they can also work with IPv4.

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Re: Analogy Units

"this means that in practice that there are 2^53 usable IPv6 addresses."

No, it means that IPV6 can handle 2^53 routable networks.

"What it means is that in practice, an IPv6 /56 prefix is the same as an IPv4 single address with NAT"

Sure. But it's now the routable address of a network.

"2^53 usable IPv6 addresses. This is 2 million times (2^(53-32) = 2^21) more than IPv4"

No, IPv6 can handle ~ 2 million times more routable networks. IPv6 can also handle ~ 2^85 times more addresses than IPv4.

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Re: Why?

"The old boy, Vint Cerf, could come around and visit my clients to explain IPv6, but wouldn't get past the secretary"

But your secretary is fluent with IPv4 and the overheads like NAT?

TheVogon

Re: Why?

"IPv6 has no business benefit."

To you maybe. Companies like Colt built an IPv6 network a good few years ago and it's definitely given them business opportunities!

TheVogon

Re: They should never have cried wolf

"My personal issue with IPv6 is that it seeks to replace instead of co-exist "

No it doesn't. IPv6 doesn't seek anything as such. It's just a standard - that can quite happily coexist with IPv4. It's your choice if and how you implement it.

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""PS: Yes, yes, we know, The Register is still IPv4, and not on IPv6. Word from our sysadmins is that we'll migrate Soon™""

But if you are on IPV6 you can still access it on IPv4, so again little motivation to change!

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"mostly because people have figured how to do more with their existing IPv4 addresses,"

Quite. So if it's not broken there is no motivation to fix it.

"But it is very hard to implement IPv6 in an IPv4-only ISP"

And if you cared, you wouldn't chose an IP4v ISP. If you have a choice! But if stuff just works, why would the average punter care?

At last: Magic Leap reveals its revolutionary techno-goggles – but wait, there's a catch

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Re: I have a question...

"MagicLeap's main competitor – Microsoft's HoloLens – offers 35 to 70 degrees."

HoloLens 3 - due in 2019 - doubles the current field of view:

https://mspoweruser.com/microsoft-found-way-double-hololens-field-view/

Microsoft partners to fling out collabo-visual Ginormonitors this year

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Re: Oh noes!

"Microsoft are making monitors!"

Microsoft had made hardware for many years. And much of it is very good.

"It probably slurps everything I do evaaaar"

But probably less than anything made by Google, Facebook, Apple, etc. etc.

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Re: Too big for me

"Google's Jamboard, which currently undercuts Microsoft's Surface Hub by quite some way."

Because its technically inferior by quite some way.

EE seeks guinea pig millennial hipsters for 5G experiments

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"Why don't those inept clowns EE ("Nothing Anywhere") concentrate on getting their basic services to work properly before "rolling out" another worthless speed increase?"

Works just fine for me pretty much anywhere. And surveys show EE is on average the fastest provider across the country. So anyone else is likely to be worse.

"EE can't get even basic service to work at the tops of hills - a fundamental flaw in digital mobile telephony - because too many conflicting cell sites are "visible" to the handset."

So a firmware issue with the handset and nothing to do with EE then.

"the UK is the second most expensive place in the world to make a phonecall!"

No it isnt. Not even close.

https://www.therichest.com/luxury/most-expensive/countries-with-the-most-expensive-average-cell-phone-bill/

Microsoft sinks another data centre with Natick 2

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Re: 4-color windows logo visible in photo

"Perhaps the plan is to move the data centers out beyond the 3-mile limit. Thus, no government can claim jurisdiction."

I presume you mean the 12 mile limit.

Oracle says migrating on-prem ERP to cloud now easier than upgrade

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Re: Might as well do it.

"Reveals cloud servers have CPU just for security"

Makes sense for running anything from Oracle.

Microsoft doubles Azure Stack's footprint, embiggens Azure VMs

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Re: “customer demand and supportability”,

"Office 365 is maintained and supported by M$FT and runs solely on Azure"

Azure is the public IAAS and PAAS service that you can buy. O365 runs on something very similar but it's not Azure.

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Re: “customer demand and supportability”,

"LOL,behave yourself cherub, do you seriously think Office 365 and the rest of the legacy deal they've bundled in runs on vapourware?"

It runs on a similar infrastructure to Azure. Buying one does not commit you in anyway to the other.

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Re: “customer demand and supportability”,

"Yes, O365 is dominating email in the cloud - but Azure is a different story.Here is the link to a Gartner report published this May year which talks about the Revenue from Azure (4 Billion run rate) vs AWS (20 Billion Run Rate)"

Those numbers are already out of date - Azure is still growing consistently at roughly twice the rate of AWS. There is little doubt in the market that Microsoft will be the eventual king of the hill.

And overall in cloud revenue, Microsoft went past AWS in run rate a year ago.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bobevans1/2018/04/27/microsoft-tops-amazon-in-q1-cloud-revenue-6-0-billion-to-5-44-billion-ibm-third-at-4-2-billion/

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"- It's ran on a modified version of Windows Server (with Linux for the networking)."

Nope. It uses Hyper-V / Windows Server for the Hypervisor networking. There is zero Linux in the OS / Hypervisor stack.

I think you are confused that some of Microsoft's core network switches uses embedded Linux.

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Re: Four 9s?

"How about vmotion with VM Cloud on AWS - migrate without even powering off the VM."

Sure, if you want to pay twice to use cloud! Zerto is a far cheaper and more cost effective way of doing that.

And any cloud can transfer VM images in and out. It's about the cloud services - If for instance you write stuff for AWS Lambda or say Dynamo DB - then good luck using that anywhere else. With Azure Stack you can run the entire cloud services on premises too.

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"40% of their VMs where Linux."

Because mostly public cloud is used for test, dev and web apps. Hardly any brick and mortar companies have put their mission critical apps into public cloud.

"They've done the right thing by reducing their reliance on Windows"

Azure runs 100% on Windows Server so they couldnt be more reliant on it!

TheVogon

Re: “customer demand and supportability”,

"the growth of Azure is solely down to the office productivity suite"

Azure is almost completely separated from Office 365 - they are entirely different products. Azure Active Directory is pretty much the sole common product to both.

And the growth in Azure is largely because its a better product than AWS in numerous ways but without the public cloud lock in.

Hence why Microsoft overtook AWS in total cloud revenue a year ago.

TheVogon

"They are always very quick to establish that Azure is not Hyper-V during any conversation about their in-house offerings."

Azure is 100% Hyper-V running under Windows Server. That's well documented public knowledge and not in any doubt whatsoever.

TheVogon

"What interests me is that they're no longer investing as much into Windows, which is now effectively in maintenance mode"

No idea what gives you that impression, but in reality Microsoft have significantly increased both the investment in and the pace of changes to Windows.

TheVogon

Re: Four 9s?

"When I first entered IT in the mid-90s, the server vendors were making noise about reaching five 9s."

Only on mainframes or with very expensive system like Tandem. Fours 9s for a single instance server is outstanding reliability and equate to less than an hour of downtime a year.

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Re: Four 9s?

"Microsoft promotes Azure Stack as a fine way for service providers to offer cloud to their customers"

It's also a fine way to be able to bring your VMs back on premises if public cloud is not adequate. Good luck doing that on other public clouds.

Nadella tells worried GitHub devs: Judge us by our actions

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Re: "Judge us by our actions"

"XP is over 13 years old. How long is MS suppose to support an OS?"

It's over 17 years old.

TheVogon

"judge us by the actions we have taken in the recent past, our actions today and in the future."

But we don't care what the sentence is as we will be concentrating on monetising Github via corporate customers. Here, watch some adverts while you retire to consider your verdict....

Microsoft commits: We're buying GitHub for $7.5 beeeeeeellion

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Re: Hmm...

"I can imagine Sherlock Holmes deducing that you work for a third-rate company that has trouble attracting anyone who knows about IT."

Try again - Large and rapidly growing financial with mission critical IT.

Oh and lots of jobs are only listed on linked in these days too. Less competition for those of us that do use Linked in then.

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Re: Hmm...

"I use colleagues."

And of course you would only use colleagues that you know will give you a good reference - So that's next to useless to check out if you will be a good hire.

TheVogon

Re: Hmm...

"but I feel like old fashioned references will still work - what makes a profile on linked-in more trustworthy?"

Because it's a small world in the city, and someone I know or someone they know will be connected to any candidate of note and I can give them a yell and ask about the candidate...

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Re: How can it possibly be worth that much?

"Does it sling ads at people?"

Probably it will - not hard to just use an ad blocker.

"Charge money for businesses to keep their code there?"

Of course if they want private repositories and any level of support. Just like now.

I'm sure they will (subject to GDPR optin of course) try to sell you stuff such as developer tools and related services too.

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Re: Hmm...

"Linkedln after MS: Deleted my account, never went back. No big loss."

Except job offers of course. If someone didn't have a Linked in profile we could verify them from we wouldn't usually consider making an offer.

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Re: Shite

At least it wasn't Google.

Clock blocker: Woman sues bosses over fingerprint clock-in tech

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Re: Fingerprints, versus an effective "hash" code of the print created on-board

"It is reasonable to infer from the allegations in the complaint that Kronos obtained Dixon's biometric data without her knowledge or consent,"

Uhm, did they send special agents to secretly scan her finger prints when she was at home asleep then? Or is she rather dim witted?

Un-bee-lievable: Two million Swedish bugs stolen in huge sting

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Re: Used to be a day in the strife on the Balkans 10 years ago.

"Here in the USA, beekeepers are a fairly close-knit community. Anybody suddenly "acquiring" 10+ populated & producing hives would be a rather remarkable occurrence."

It's also a rather large country and there must be plenty of buying and selling of hives that would potentially explain such an occurrence, and there must also be lots of remote locations where such could be delivered without even being noticed let alone raising any suspicions.

TheVogon

Re: You asked for miracles

No money, no honey?

https://youtu.be/eulSdeHxmLw

TSB meltdown latest: Facepalming reaches critical mass as Brits get strangers' bank letters

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Re: Hi kids

" But the limpwrists at the ICO have already said that they're going to go softly softly on enforcement this year, preferring education and improvement."

I think you will find that blatant incompetence with widespread impact will still result in a large fine. The softly softly is for stuff that's new under GDPR and that might not have been clearly understood or implemented in time.

Whois? Whowas. So what's next for ICANN and its vast database of domain-name owners?

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"We make the best packets. Nobody else can make packets like us...."

At least that's what we hope, but 11% of us couldn't even find our own country on an atlas to check!

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/11/1126_021120_TVGeoRoperSurvey.html

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"Surprised that Trump hasn't put tariffs on incoming internet traffic, what with it clashing with US internet traffic . Or is that the FCC's new task?"

The FCC already said that's OK - by removing the net neutrality protections.

Chief EU negotiator tells UK to let souped-up data adequacy dream die

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Re: Gordian knot needs scissors

"If he U-turns now nobody will trust him."

No one trusts him anyway.

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Re: Well, duh

"I suggest taking the duckmobile tour along the old docks in Dublin. "tiny satellite office" my arse. 7 floors+ glass blocks standing in lines with a sole graffity covered old garage left in between - Bono's old recording studio which he is refusing to sell. And this is just one district, there 4-5 more spread around the city growing at the same rate all pre-sold to major banks. Most have taken full buildings too."

Mostly unrelated to Brexit though. It's always been a cheap offshoring location and it has the advantage of being English speaking. A few banks are considering relocating a few staff. Nothing much of note.