Posts by TheVogon

Re: £875 per household per year!

"Scrap the Climate Change Act. CO2 is not a pollutant"

I can only assume you are trolling. Either that or you just got out of a Delorian. No one can be that poorly informed surely?

That a) the planet is significantly warming over a timescale of decades, and b) human emissions of green house gases - primarily CO2 - is at least a significant cause has been in zero scientific doubt for about 2 decades now.

"Global temps have been static for nearly 20 years."

Erm, no. https://s.w-x.co/jma-mar2016-graph.jpg

"The climate change scam is busted."

Either your brain or your bs filter is busted.

Re: After wasting space on OUR disks for decades...

Hopefully in the future they will offer Thin Provisioning and Deduplication to address these type of issues. It's already built into Hyper-V capabilities.

Re: Hmmmm...

"which could mean – oh my gosh – exabyte racks"*

* assuming 854U racks are available by then...

Re: So much for

"There's no denying it's a more secure model, "

More secure that what? Windows Mobile is way better for security than IOS if you are looking for secure.

Re: Eh?

"Just wondering - would it have been possible for the NSA to have developed a patch at the same time they wrote the exploit"

They probably just disabled SMB V1.

"but signal degrades every time you do anything with it"

No it generally doesn't in the digital sampling rates you are referring to - a digital copy of a digital copy is identical...And you would normally be using digital processing on it.

In general imo 96KHz sampling rate is a waste of money. There is no extra audible audio information captured in 96KHz sampling - and the more common 48Khz is enough to allow a reasonably gentle filter roll off from 20KHz when going back to analogue...

However, 96KHZ usually uses a 24 bit sample size that when compared to 16 bit is advantageous as it allows a greater dynamic range...

Re: Blockchain tracebility

"Can anybody provide an answer?"

See https://news.bitcoin.com/tumbling-bitcoins-guide-rinse-cycle/

Re: "t took a few thousand deaths for the airlines to get their acts together."

Not a big deal anyway. The occupants of the cockpit can still choose to block entry even if the code is known:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/germanwings-captain-patrick-sondenheimer-tried-to-break-into-locked-cockpit-door-with-an-axe-as-10138492.html

Re: Inevitable

"So you're blaming a commercial company for not patching a 13 year old OS?"

Windows XP is nearly 16 years old now...

Re: worthy of mention

Meanwhile, those of us that apply critical patches within a sane time scale (say max 1 month) are unaffected - who would have known?!

Re: Surprises?

"No handsets just a headset attached to the computer via USB or Bluetooth for the execs."

This is the NHS. USB headsets cost less than £20. IP phones typically cost over £300...

Re: Antivirus?

Did Microsoft security essentials even run on XP?! If it did then updates likely ended a decade ago...

Re: The beauty of virtual machines

"It is if you set them up to not commit changes to the VM disk file on power off"

That's VDI you are talking about, not just a VM...

Re: We dumped our landline ...

"You get those ONLY if you have a proper landline because"

I havn't have a landline for over 10 years. I still get assorted spam calls to my mobile number ever though its on the no spam preference list that they should be checking. Using the Truecaller app reduces those to a bearable amount.

I usually tell those that do reach me that I'm an investigations officer for the ICO and would like to talk about where they got my number from - that usually gets rid of them pretty quickly...

Re: Get patching

Try HGGomes - based on Merlin but without all the restrictions on power, etc...

Re: When I first saw the headline...

I was thinking of Eric Pickles:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/eric-pickles-treated-like-emperor-4968462

Well thanks for letting all the bad guys know before it is patched...

Maybe he should get a job with Google?

Re: I have seen the future

"as even a potted plant can do it."

Depends on the plant:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fV4gsl1MdiI

Re: Not clear how this would be wormable ?

"Outlook receives an email and writes it to disk before evaluating it"

Outlook only downloads emails for it's configured mailboxes on specific email servers. A "worm" would still need to know where to send an email.... So not really wormable it seems.

"Microsoft doesn't support ScaleIO or any other external storage at this time"

Lots of hardware will be supporting Storage Spaces Direct. For instance see https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/08/fujitsus_storage_spacesbased_hyperconverged_boxes/

"My superhub(s) - all 3 of them - kept disconnecting "

There was an issue fixed where the Ethernet port on the SH3 kept regularly shutting down - a firmware update fixed it. Now we just have the Intel chipset latency issues...

Re: Don't forget Bombardier CS300...

"One thing that needs to be sorted out is the definition of "Dumping". "

In this case, maybe 'emitting crap' would be the appropriate definition?

Re: I thought KAT was dead

Not correct - see:

https://venturebeat.com/2016/12/16/kickasstorrents-is-back-thanks-to-original-kat-staff/

Re: The penalty for realtime imbecilitis

""The claim was QOS and 600+Mbps in a cheap consumer router"

No, it was that Firewall + NAT was not realistic on consumer grade hardware. I have shown that you are wrong on that.

I then added some specifics - that are also correct - in fact I under specified what the hardware can achieve. And yes that's with QoS enabled.

How effective the QoS is - is an entirely different question and is unrelated to your original claim - which didn't mention QoS...