Posts by CorwinX 424 publicly visible posts • joined 28 Jan 2023
But as long as companies and their insurers keep paying out, the vermin are just going to keep attacking them.
If you can't recover in 2-3 days or less then your backup/disaster recovery plan needs some serious looking at and serious money spent on it
It'd probably take that long if you paid the ransom anyway.
Cut off their money supply and they'll go elsewhere.
A virus attack and response should assume something like a datacenre fire.
Yeah. They can't even get localisation right for American/UK English.
I shudder to think what they're mangling in other languages.
It'd be great if someone managed to sneak Kurwa (pronouned KU-v-ra) into a Polish localisation.
Idiot yanks wouldn't have a clue.
Hint - while it's used by Eastern Europeans exactly the same way as we use FCUK, it doesn't translate directly to that word.
Yeah. While we see in 3D, we don't necessarily think in 3D, or Zero-G.
We're hardwired to expect that if you let go of something it drops to the floor.. Same with "Up" and "Down" - meaningless without gravity.
I hope they put another bird up in orbit but the Moon offers a lot more potential. Amazing to me that we landed humans there decades ago and haven't ever gone back.
There's always talk of possible colonies on Mars - what chance of that if we can't yet establish one on our closest neighbour?
... one of my admin passwords was 1qazxsw2 - down and back up the two leftmost banks of keys.
Don't know how guessable that is but quick to do one handed.
That one's retired now so not revealing anything anyone could use.
I also have a standard password I use for anthing, like news sites, that require logon but don't have any security/financial risk.
The likes of eBay, Amazon etc have specific complex passwords.
One of the most fundamental aspects of the TCP/IP stack?
It's not just that they broke it - how the hell did the breakage get out in the wild?
Someone (by which I mean someone's in government agencies) should start an investigation into their testing procedures. And obvious lack thereof.
It's not enough we've got zero-days - now they're attacking their own software. Saves the bad guys the trouble I suppose.
Why people would want an Apple phone, given the predatory nature of the company.
My two phones are Oppo and Samsung.
I do occasionally compare specs with Apples.
Take a look at "GSM Arena" (been around for years) where, last time I looked, you could pick two phones and compare them, with diffences highlighted.
Also good for getting the full, low level, specs of the phone you've got.
It's essentially the IMDB of phones.
Ah, may be slight difference UK/US law.
I was under the impression that if the court was misled, eg the "factual" evidence presented was shown to be innacurate or falsified - even if initially accepted by the court - then that was grounds.
Though the other avenue in that situation could be arguing for a mistrial.
Still, that's only a technical debate - they're 1.5bn down and unlikely to get out of it however way you mix it.
I'm not a lawer but my understanding is that they either have to prove the "facts" presented in evidence were provably incorrect; or
That the relevant law was applied incorrectly by the court.
Given that everyone on the planet knows they've been using their app store as a cash cow and shafting developers - good luck with that.
I had a similar thing with a major bank I worked for.
I was tech-lead on a major overhaul of their global email system.
Saw the way the wind was blowing, after five years, and decided to take a (very generous) redundancy package.
Then the phone calls started...
Incorrect.
I went to every PC and checked if anyone was connected to it.
I checked every server (I could logon to the rest) to see if they relied on it for anything.
I *analysed* that it had a "rogue" config, was interfering with the network, and the risk of a particular unknown service going down briefly was better than half the PCs in the building not working.
You want to offer a better way of solving the problem?
Someone around here seems to have a problem with me.
Every single thing I post gets an instant downvote, within seconds.
The above post of mine is a completely accurate, factual and technical account of something that actually happened - with no opinions or embellishment whatsoever.
You can't downvote reality.
Their previous IT guy had left very suddenly.
First day (hour in fact).
Half the PCs could connect to the net, others couldn't.
Checked the network settings, set by DHCP, on working/not working.
Completely different settings. Conclusion - there's two DHCP servers on the network.
Walked into the server room, for the first time, and there's racks of gleaming HP kit and... a black mini-tower sitting on a rack shelf.
One of these things is not like the others says I (Sesame Street ref).
No-one knew what it did.
Made an executive decision to power it off (I didn't have a logon for it), put a message out on the tannoy for everyone to reboot then went round the office doing IPConfig /Refresh on PCs not working.
Turned out it was an old Domain Controller/Fileserver from a company they'd merged with and the departed muppet had just plugged it into the network without checking it's config!
https://www.hirensbootcd.org
Haven't used it for many years but I think it should be able to get to an update rollback place if Micro$haft break something critical yet again.
At a minimum it should allow you to do an update-over - where you overwrite the OS with an earlier version but leaving data intact.
... is there *are* no Americans to fill these jobs.
And that the standard of training in other countries, especially the likes of India, is so high that the average yank wouldn't have a chance of qualifying in doctoring or STEM there.
The sad thing is that this muppet doesn't get that America was built by immigrants and is all the better for it.
Where does he think his pizza, which he famously eats with a knife and fork (see The Daily Show), came from.
Stop doctors and nurses coming into the country and see how the hospitals fare.
Stop IT professionals coming and see what happens to the tech industry.
The likes of Australia/NZ do have an immigration policy that sometimes says you need a certain amount of money in the bank and achieve a certain number of points.
Unless have skills that are *highly* sought after.
But you or the company dont have to pay it to the government - just show you have the means to support yourself.
I know this because I considered moving there about 20yrs ago.
Fun fact - when I filled out a test application that mimicked the official one...
The job of Librarian scored higher than IT Professional. No joke!
One of my boxes - air-gapped - still runs Win7.
It's a dual-monitor flight simulator rig with FSX.
Modified with FTX high-res photo-realistic scenery.
And the full set of Saitek Flightpro manual controls and panels connected through a USB hub
Very doubtful that the drivers for that kit would run on 10 or 11 without some serious spadework or at all.
The Windows install is a custom build that has nothing not needed.
If it ain't broke don't try to fix it.
That applies to companies as well.
Indeed...
Courtesy of Micro$haft and Apple's marketing machinery most people outside of IT have never heard of Linux.
And of course Apple OS is a flavour of Unix - a word that would equally cause glazed eyes.
It all comes down to money of course... Linus and the rest of the Linux community v M and A - knife to a gunfight situation.
I agree - Linux distros should default to installing as dual-boot, with Windows still installed and with access to the Windows Users folder.
If you find you prefer Linux then ditch the Windows install/partition later.
I've always partitioned the drive of any new PC/laptop I acquire - C: has *only* the OS of whatever nature. D: is where all my data is stored and backed up from, regardless of the OS.
And "C:" can of course have multiple OS's on it.
Phishing sttacks are so dangerous because once a user, inside the firewall, opens a doc or clicks a link then you, or at least they, are screwed.
Something I used to advocate for - never got implemented in my time but not that hard to do...
Every time a PC is boots up it reverts to the company-standard custom build and ditches any and all previous changes.
Users are educated that any doc not saved to a fileserver is going to be toast.
Fairly easy with VMs but still doable with physical kit.
Got a message saying they'd monitored traffic and logins from my PC and it seemed like I hadn't been doing any work.
Pointed out they were looking at my laptop's IP address or ID - not my actual home PC or server.
And that some stuff I did with my User logon and other things I did with my Domain Admin logon.
Silence ensued!
... aways a possibility ;-)
There's been stories of entire *buildings* being relocated intact - let alone what amounts to a large plane.
Just tow the thing - make it a publicity tour. Pretty sure there would be some crowds on the highway.
If it could land from orbit it should be able to trundle down a road.
Or am I being stupid?
That will come with a kit to check your heart-rate, blood pressure, take a blood sample, assess your skin tone, your breathing/lung capacity, see how you move, check your tongue and throat?
These fools have no clue how medical diagnosis works.
I only have first-instance paramedic training (long ago) and even I can see the idiocy of this.
... and banks in the City some years ago.
And the chances of them moving to The Cloud is zero.
The main datacentre of one has tank traps at the runup to the gate (not joking) and airlocks and metal detectors to get inside the building.
And they're going to trust billions in financial info to a US company run, now, by a predatory accountantcy firm?
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