Posts by Solarflare

Re: Dunce Cap tip

Hello, Mr Clarkson!

Re: Yeah but...

Personally I find sending a nice email around asking for people's passwords to be the most effective method. People are awfully accommodating sometimes.

Re: Thats a plan...

"That does work well until your SO casually recommends you to one of their mates/colleagues ..."

Yeah...the wife recently said to a friend (her beautician, but they get on well) that she's sure I would happily help her to set up a website etc etc. Yeah, thanks love.

Re: Just like Apple

"Wouldn't touch them with a bargepole"

Probably a good thing, can't imagine that would pass the fingerprint sensor.

Re: Begs the usual question...

The usual question is a hardware-based (unfunny, partly due to how often it is rehashed) joke. So it is even less funny than usual in this context.

You come across as a massive jeb-end. This is a big win for 82 year old Ethel who uses the phone every other day to talk to 78 year old Deidrie who lives a few streets away. Neither will own or want to own a mobile and just want to be able use their phone occasionally. Stop being an entitled fool.

Re: "controlled folder access"

Although Comodo's original firewall was pretty good, nowadays I wouldn't touch them with a 40ft barge poll if they were on fire*

*no, i'm not sure why I mixed those two together either, but these things happen.

Re: Pigeon nests.

"Ah, I see you've played knifey-spoony before!"

Re: SHA1 is totally dead.

SHA1 *should* be totally dead. It really, really isn't though.

Re: Blue-green Uranus from Methane

I just made the mistake of looking at his past posts, to anyone who is thinking of doing the same: I strongly advise you to spare yourself.

Re: "Remind me later"

Stick with the horse, they know all about battery staples after all.

Re: A Ruddite doesn't have a backdoor

I think that's actually her mouth.

"Next you'll be telling me I need to patch my XP boxes."

No no no, don't worry about that. XP stands for eXtremely Protected after all!

Re: Hacking back against forged attacks

"And I spent time in the military"

Yes Bob, considering your batshit insane attitude to everything, that really doesn't surprise me in the least...

Re: To be honest

If Bob is Bombtasic Bob and he comes round to watch me in the bath and says 'micro$haft' a lot then I'd be worried I would start to feel inadequate to be honest

Re: Again?

It's like groundhog day.

Re: As much as you lot hate Nest, Google and IOT

"And my Google Overlords keep me at a pretty nice temperature all of the time!"

Re: Oligopoly

Why don't we all play monopoly....but which version?

Bojo has his faults but at least he's not Corbyn. Jesus, May's bad but Corbyn would be the ruination of us all.

You got that right buddy. Zany ideas like "lets fund our underfunded, critical services properly" and "let's treat people better" are just madness and must be stopped!

Re: Or buy an Intel NUC.

I can run most flavours of Linux off of a good sized potato (and do, I love how easy it is to repurpose a machine for Linux), why would I want to spend that much on an Intel NUC?

Re: Poetic Justice?

"Ah, don't worry Your Honour*, I've saved you some time as you have already aquitted me of this crime. Your name is on this exoneration document right here, see?"

*Yes, it wouldn't have a 'u' over the other side of the pond, but I can't bring myself to spell it wrong just for geographical effect.

"it's because you have built a strawman so large that we could sacrifice Edward Woodward in it."

Hopefully there won't be any bees beforehand.

If the instance is shut down from the server side then the user should get a nice little error message as it cannot connect. They then know something is wrong and either:

1) Work out that they had forgotten to move back to the live system, hopefully before entering any real data into the test system in the first place

2) Blame IT and say that something is broken, which when investigated will quickly lead pretty much the exact scenario minus the two weeks of live data in a test system.

I'm not exhonorating the user of any blame, I am simply pointing out that by shutting the test instance down properly when testing is not actually needed, it would have prevented this problem. Continue to downvote away if you don't like it.

Re: Take a Stand...

I run flavours of *nix as well as Windows. Each have their uses. Gaming in Linux is still almost non-existent (even hacking together something with Wine is a shot in the dark at best) and there is still a large majority of enterprise software which will only work on Windows.

Linux works for home users who either only check emails or who are die hard power users and don't care about anything that doesn't run on it.

Look up "Trolley Problem" and other scenarios where there simply is no right answer.

The Trolley Problem is easy, just pull the lever part way so that the trolley derails - therefore there are no casualties on either fork of the track.