Posts by bombastic bob

Re: 512MB ram minimum memory requirement

To be fair, it's not the first time MS have screwed up system requirements.

yeah, they did again just LAST YEAR

Re: Sounds like a fine business model

Maybe an 'open spec" for car computers is in order? You know, like PCs.

Problem is that gummints seek to REGULATE TOO MUCH (especially Cali-Fornicate-You) when it comes to engine performance and whatnot. With minimal safety standards, and NOT insane regulations on fuel utilization, having people (and car dealers) able to shop around for better 'after market' equipment that plugs right into the vehicle might be the BEST option overall... and a potential "2nd source" for stuff that's currently in short supply.

As for electric cars, it will be a VERY long time before they replace gasoline and diesel. In my opinion they are still HIGHLY overrated.

/me pointing out that car computers and other related components most likely have to be "approved" by bureaucrats before they can be put into cars. Therefore, swapping out a part with a minimal design change to use something that IS available is no longer an option. Bureaucracies are JUST too inefficient to allow for that kind of flexibility. And so a shortage on a 2 cent part stops the line...

Re: Sounds like a fine business model

The solution seems to be to NOT make things like this [exclusively] in China any more...

looks like we need more companies doing things like Rochester and T.I. do, _ESPECIALLY_ if they build fabs in UK, EU, USA, Mexico, Canada, and Japan. Big ones. Lots of robotics and automation. Without the need of a swarm of slave wage minions to get work done, building things OUTSIDE of China becomes profitable again.

Re: Not gonna happen any time soon.

When did he become the richest man?

Maybe when he moved his car company from Cali-Fornicate-You to Texas?

Re: Repeating:

Mentioning Flash Gordon made me think of Buck Roger's rocket (in those old 1930's era movie serials [as well as a possible full length feature film] with Buster Crabbe) that sounded a lot like the low droning sound of a pulse jet (not to be confused with the sound of a V1 during the WW2 blitz on London, which only posed a danger when the noise STOPPED)

(either that or it was the sound of a multi-engine airship of the same time period)

Re: She needs to have an active social media presence

Beer, sir!

Re: Influence this

This reminds me of a few years ago when I refused to have a social media account on a well known platform that I like to call 'Faece-Ban', even though articles and radio personalities and people I knew were suggesting that NOT being on this platform would hurt my future employment and business options. I figured owning my own web site was sufficient "social media" since I could pretty much post whatever I want and I didn't have to deal with trolls and Karens.

I have NO idea where this kind of "thinking" came from... must've originated with "The Influencers"

Re: "The top request for Visual Studio is a Linux version. Why?"

I find that pluma (the Mate version of gedit that uses the older (superior) interface) does what I generally need for development on Linux and FreeBSD.

I've been using gedit (then pluma) since 2005-ish. Works VERY well. And with an RPi you can use DISPLAY to make it work across a network so you can run pluma on the RPi directly but have it display on a proper WIMP display running Linux or FreeBSD (along with some ssh sessions for building and testing etc.).

But if people want the MS IDE that's fine with me. I just do not like the 2D FLATASS look. Maybe I could get Micros~1 to use something like 'TraditionalOK' for the Linux version...

Re: You can pry the ethernet cable out of my cold dead hands!

wireless can be:

a) sniffed

b) replay attacked or similar (these methods have been around for quite some time)

c) cracked to gain illegal access

d) abused to engage in illegal activity online

e) DoS'd via RF interference (maybe a nearby arc welder?)

no thanks for the ENTIRE network to be wireless. Just remote devices that might need it. Everything else gets a CABLE.

Re: You can pry the ethernet cable out of my cold dead hands!

From the article: allowing data to flow seamlessly even if there is interference or congestion on some of the bands.

even in a neighborhood of single-family dwellings, there is considerable interference from AP devices on adjacent channels, etc.. Doing the multi-band multi-channel bonding thing is ONLY going to make YOUR router fast, at the expense of EVERYONE NEAR YOU. Or what would happen when EVERYBODY does this and streams high bandwidth content at the same time... ?

I can't imagine how bad it would be in an APARTMENT BUILDING.

polkit is really only necessary if you have a GUI and something like Gnome or Mate uses it for whatever reason. Although I think systemd may need it, it may also be optional without a GUI installed.

So most (if not all) of those Linux appliances may not be affected. But RPi OS would be, if you're using it as a touch screen. So there you have it.

(risk assessment as needed if the device is networked or not)

Re: PEBCAK

your theory breaks when you look at an IP header structure and realize that each digit of the IP address is a single byte in the header. When the binary structure format changes to accommodate a 10 bit value it is NO LONGER IPv4.

And then every bit of hardware that expects IPv4 will have to be upgraded.

might as well adopt IPv6 which has available hardware already.

Re: That old chestnut

Google or Facebook (which almost everyone keeps a live connection to all the time).

I do not think 'almost everyone' is an accurate assessment. Your perception may be grossly inaccurate.

Consider the popularity of search engines like 'Duck Duck Go' for starters. Add to that the large number of people who REFUSE to have anything to do with Faece-Ban. Or Tw[a,i]tter for that matter.

Although a typical 'droid phone may have applications that attempt to stay in contact with Google or Faece-Ban, I rarely [if ever] use those applications (which would do that) and make sure that many similar applications are ALWAYS OFF. And I do not use phones/slabs much anyway. So no TRACKING MONSTER breathing down my neck. And I am pretty sure I am NOT alone.

Re: That old chestnut

it is true that ALL IPv6 addresses are public. Without adequate built-in firewall and network stack reliability in windows workstations and servers (your 'ping of death' comment for example) universal IPv6 rollout could be THE reason why ISPs do not want to support it, translating into "not available".

I've had an IPv6 tunnel for (probably) more than a decade. I think it was 2010-ish when I set it up through a free tunnel service. Works fine.

(and I very carefully firewall the incoming IPv6 knowing the effect of publicly visible IPv6 addresses on any windows machines that might be running - all of those OPEN PORTS)

yet another tax... oh wow THAT would help (*NOT*)

nothing kils an economic activity like a NEW TAX (starts off small, and only on a few, soon gets big, and applies to YOU). After all, in SOME places they put huge taxes on tobacco to get people to stop smoking.,.

Re: Had a thought

have some more beer (it should increase your output)

Re: Had a thought

perhaps we could call it a Software Incident Response Team...

S.I.R.T. ? That acronym is not snarky enough. But it DOES use 4 letters...

Re: "like Universal Basic Income for the developer community!

the recording industry has traditionally used a small number of highly successful musicians to LITERALLY FUND A WHOLE LOT OF CRAP. This has resulted in a number of independents going around the recording industry's TOLLWAY and a few bands and artists having to CHANGE THEIR NAMES to get out of CONFISCATORY CONTRACTS.

Basically, the "Engineer formally known as XXX" should NOT have to give up ANY kind of reward for success to a bunch of incompetent or 'focused only on what HE likes' coders or "copy-pasta-master" scripters, or anyone else NOT the one who earned it.

(Apply this same kind of thinking to the jungle and it's SURVIVAL OF THE LAZIEST)

Re: Is this a CLEAR breach?

although it was not directly obvious to me from the article, my guess is that the user simply logged into the publisher's web site with a Google login, and the publisher used the appropriate scripty things to make that happen, excluding the IP address anonymization stuff that apparently has to be ADDED IN A SPECIAL WAY to comply with GDPR, but the code that was copypasta'd from Stack Overflow (ok that was snarky of me) did not include this one provision, nor properly warn that it did not comply with GDPR (so it's "not my fault" from the publisher's viewpoint). Or something like that. Heh.

Re: Max's wishful thinking

oh what a tangled 'web' they've weaved...

(one of many reasons I do not use any of that)

Re: Max's wishful thinking

Once they switched on IP anonymisation they were fine.

apparently the instructions/guidelines for implement6ing whatever the publisher implemented are not clear enough. Wouldn't that be Google's fault? "Oh crap I forgot to add that line of code" should NEVER happen. And just why WAS that 'anonymizer' (apparently) "OFF be default" ?

But of course I would prefer that Google STOP TRACKING PERSONAL INFORMATION ALTOGETHER.

(and do not forget flying pigs, and honest politicians, and snowballs in HELL, and other impossible things)

Re: "The attack took automatic security doors offline"

'Fail Secure' it seems, in this case.

And of course with a physical key override.

The hardware seems adequate. But the I.T. does NOT.

decades ago MS had a version of notepad that I think was called "multipad" which was basically an MDI notepad that was part of the windows 3 SDK as an example program. As I recall, it simply uses the built-in EDIT control with some other basic features like file save/open, clipboard, and searching.

If anything were to replace it, i suggest pluma (the editor for Mate based on gedit 2.x)