Posts by LewisRage

Re: Microsoft only have themselves to blame

Are you telling me you can't see how one of those literally tells you what it is doing and one does not.

Re: Isn't cloud lovely

> there is literally nothing you can do about it

I'm imagining you'd be the kind of person who'd go all "Hurr Durr typical M$ Microshaft" if it became apparent that their ongoing support of basic authentication was being exploited in some way.

Re: Why some people keep on reinventing the ill-fated Palm Foleo?

Not much use on the train though?

Re: Poor PR people

The irony in claiming above average knowledge of languages and demonstrating a below average ability to use them

Re: [we] "have taken a lot of time to do things right"

They mention in the article a domain registration that was similar to the company email domain, they also mention that Dr Fisher did lots of work with the company and was well known.

I'm assuming they put those two together for a realistic looking from address and spammed the entire company hoping that someone would bite.

Re: Tobacco smoke

whats the issue with woodburners?

Literally Terror and Hurts, it must be bad.

(Wasn't TerrorHurtz in robot wars?)

Re: Joys of sales people and Outlook 2003

I came across a similar one once, there was a quota for all mailboxes at 1gb or whatever and I found a handful of users in an office with ~5gb mailboxes... very strange, only to find that the deleted items folder wasn't included in the quota and someone had found that out that moving everything to deleted items when they got the warning got rid of the warning but meant they could keep their stuff.

Re: To be fair...

"I could do with a copy of Adobe InDesign to play with from time-to-time, but I'm not willing to pay a monthly fee when there's no guarantee that I'll have time to use it that month"

Do adobe allow you just pay ~£20 for a single months worth of access? I've always thought that, as long as there's nothing enforcing minimum year terms or whatever, that a months use of the latest pro standard software for that kind of money is actually pretty reasonable.

Re: Does not compute.

bits = b

Bytes = B

Re: no one has been able to invent new pronouns that sound natural as drop-in replacements

"I would struggle to write about Boris Johnson using non-gendered terms"

How about lying cunt... oh no that doesn't work. Massive bellend? Oh. Still not right.

Total fuckhead, works though maybe, I don't think that crosses any linguistic gender barriers

I have, and use, an email address of cunts@mildlyoffensivedomain.com. I use it for spam purposes and never really thought about it that much as I only ever CTRL+V it into websites I don't care that much about.

until...

I got an offer from an italian wine company that I thought was probably a bit spammy but I wanted the cheap wine so I signed up with the above address, bought and received the wine and everything was good.

until...

My phone rang with an odd looking international number. I answer it and am greeted with a nice sounding but very very italian lady asking in pretty broken english (vastly better than my italian mind) if I wanted more wine. Well it turns out i did so we proceed to transact until she wanted to confirm my details and started reading out my email address...

"so that coontz@mildili... mildly... cuuntz@mild"

I cut her off there and asked her to change that address to a proper one.

My only hope is that her english was limited enough that the worst of swear words wasn't one that she was familiar with and the concept contained in mildlyoffensivedomain.com wasn't one that she grasped.

Re: Failover?

Of course they've heard of failover, they've probably been told by the consultant that it's in and working but they've never bothered to test it and/or massively under specced the 2nd site. Something has gone awry, the failover happened and it's still awry, just differently awry now.

Or the guy that preceeded me at a place worked there. Had a SQL failover cluster which did work but it was all running on the same storage so when the SAN had a wobble both nodes fell over at the same time.

Re: No s##t Sherlock...

It's almost like any and every politician will throw the opposition under the bus for a few cheap points.

"They have literally zero USP over just using Chrome."

Except they don't stream every aspect of your interaction and your data back to the google mothership.

Arguably they have no USP over other browser makers (brave?), although the desktop version was highly configurable (i think?) which nerds like us like.

Either way I'm happy to tick along in Firefox land on the desktop and Brave on the mobile.

Re: many companies still leave their S3 buckets unsecured

But the alerts are probably going to a generic 'aws@domain.com' account that no-one monitors. One day someone will have a look in there ("whys that mailbox got 400000 unread emails") and find all the different services that have been warning them of their insecure configuration for the last 5 years.

Re: You sure that robot is Russian

John Woo would disagree.

In slow motion whilst jumping sideways through a plate glass window past a pair of white doves in the foreground.

Re: "You need a raving lunatic [...] foaming at the mouth"

You're thinking of bigotry, racism by definition can only be directed at a race.

Re: Survelliance state implications?

I would imagine that before we get as far as you suggest we'll already be generating 'fingerprints' of people as they go past, much like already happens with mobile phone radiation.

The authorities might not know what you are thinking or your emotional state but they have incontrovertible proof that you were there and a unique ID that can track and correlate your position, and unlike your mobile phone you can't leave your brain at home or pick up a burner from cash converters.

Re: Serious answer: get a couple of crows

How on earth do you go about 'getting yourself' some crows? I'm sure where you live there's a 24/7 Crow supermarket serving all varieties or Corvus and their relations but out here in the sticks we just see them flying about...?

Re: Heats always worth adding

Back in the day I had a 386dx running at 33Mhz (I think, all a bit hazy now) and I could set it to run at 40mhz via dip switches but it got astonishingly hot, this was in the pre heatsink as standard era so it was just a flat topped chip on the board.

One day I stumbled across a ~15cm piece of machined aluminium and an idea struck me. I superglued it straight onto the top of the chip and set the dips to 40mhz.

Worked like a charm. I got my extra 5 MIPS and I didn't blow the chip up.

Re: If only

I left a company over 2 years ago, having been running the XP/2003 decommissioning project for 4 years prior to leaving.

I caught up with a couple of the guys I left behind and they are still no further forward in getting the last 2003 boxes off the network, I had of course dealt with the low hanging fruit but the last few boxes were 'core' and running proprietary application software that won't run on anything newer. The company that provided the software wanted £100K just to *asses* updating it to something newer, the cost of making it work would have been extra.

They've lost the contract to do the replacement application of course, but that's still years away and in the meantime they're collecting their monthly support fees and not having to do a bit of work for it.

Re: Water cooling

I'd have thought a bath would be a more appropriate size for large scale cooling.

Re: I thought everyone knew!

You can listen to what your google devices have picked up under your google account page (the security bit perhaps?). There's a metric fuckload of stuff that doesn't begin with 'ok google' in mine, and that was before I put a home mini in the kitchen (it was free, what am I gonna do).

It was useful once though, I was talking to a colleague and said "I'll have to google for [specific bit of information]", my phone assumed that I had triggered the voice thing and pretty promptly answered out loud with what we needed to know for us both to hear. It saved me a few keystrokes at least.

Zak : "Hey Bob, I need you to delete the GSUITE account that we set up as a test"

Bob : "No worries Zak, I was just about to leave for the weekend but I'll get it done before I go"

Google _absolutely_ want to allow you to block adverts, just not their own.

Re: Gosh, Reg!

two links each with 250 seeds on tpb, although you'd have to be either mad or secure in a VM to run any code from there.

Re: Dropping dropbox

Have you bumped up against the 3 client limit on the free tier yet? That was the killer for me, I don't keep a lot of stuff in dropbox and so the free 5GB i have is more than sufficient, but I use(d) it to sync to lots of devices.

Moved to NextCloud on a box at home pointing at a few TB's of general storage, sadly it doesn't offer quite the same features as I was using in dropbox was but as always; improvise, adapt, overcome.

Re: Or elvis.

I still have to google how to save and exit

Re: "performed worse than human drivers when trying to change lanes automatically"

I whish you would learn to spell wish.

Re: Wait Til Hollywood Gets Involved!

Whilst you are absolutely correct that great actors add more than just their image to the performance, that's still only an algorithm* away.

Alternatively you end up with 5 brilliant actors who do all the acting in every film and then the studio just maps the face and image onto them to get the final desired product.

We're already seeing de-aging used pretty successfully film and TV, it's not a huge step beyond that.

*perhaps quite a complicated one, but perhaps machine learning can be shown great films and great actors and adapt to understand what is needed to create that in a new film.

Re: Continuous Integration vs Donald Trump

1. Huawei does not have any back doors and does not want any from the crooks of the CIA, NSA etc.

AND/OR the backdoors it *does* have aren't for US allies but for it's home country. See the row about Huawei 5G kit.

Re: Changing Wallpaper can have career enhancing effects

Had the same when I was supporting random clients EDI systems in the early 2000's. We used PC Anywhere over dialup and because the systems weren't ours we had no control. I got good at making small talk about the kids/pets/holidays on various peoples desktops for the same reason.

Working in front of full screen Notepad sorted things out to a degree, but I'd still habitually hit minimise all and get caught.

Re: I wonder if you could do something really cheesey to detonate a device.

>Could a specific audio signal trigger a bomb?

Alexa, go boom boom