Posts by thedarkstar

Trump sends the US Navy back to the steam age

"required little more than a headwind and a flask of tea to take off."

Don't forget the rather nice moustache that the RAF chaps are fond of.

AV-8B Harrier II can also be operated from them during joint exercises with the Spanish and Italians (and formerly USMC)

I've gone from writing about SD-WAN to depending on it

Re: didn't see the WAN part there

Can't see it, if it was then Unifi would have given the author the latest and greatest gear.

Re: didn't see the WAN part there

Was the article much of an advert?

You have valid points on the technical front that this could be done using basic failover and other technologies.

But I didn't find the article ad like and pushing a particular product, merely the author saying they already had a Unifi DM so used that.

If they said they went out and bought the Unifi kit specifically for this reason because other, cheaper kit didn't support it, I would support your statement. But as they didn't, I just don't see it.

Water system controllers don't belong on the internet, says ex-NSA chief after suspected Iran attacks

Re: The Cheap Solution

"It is probably good enough to fend off the Iranians."

The Munich agreement, probably good enough to fend off the Nazis.

Probably good enough is terrible attitude to have towards cybersecurity.

Airbus keeps an A350 flying for 24 hours

Re: Boeing

747-400 is a 1989 era plane.

First flight 1988, type certification and first commercial flight 1989

Re: Military is used to In-Flight Refuelling, but...

We use Jet-A1 in the civilised world

Microsoft flips Windows Backup to on by default unless you're in the EU

As I keep seeing online with announcements that you make you go WTF so will be first to post it here.

Nobody fucking asked for this.

Moving to mainframe can be cheaper than sticking with VMware: Gartner

Re: Choosing between IBM mainframe v Broadcom VMware

Where is the BOFH when you need him to handle that consultant...

Phone users know when to hold ’em, delay upgrades amid inflation

Another iPhone 13 user here, must have been a popular year as quite a few of us on El Reg still rocking one.

Mine actually has better battery health than my partners 15 Plus which is two years younger.

Virgin Galactic reopens ticket sales with out-of-this-world price hikes

So easy to get your billionaires mixed up these days

UK wants to know if banning under-16s from social media does anything useful

Re: Fushietsu

I'm far from a Starmer fan just to be clear, but standing up to Trump and not blindly going to war with him is probably the only good example here.

On the other hand the defensive planning for that same war (lack of ships in the Med, lack of a variety of other equipment too) was a massive own goal.

Starship may chauffeur Orion to the Moon, as NASA mulls ditching SLS after Artemis V

Well based on the linked Wiki page prices, $995m per launch x 13 launches is just shy of $13bn.

That leaves close to $20bn in R&D costs for the program, which as it has already flown you could assume R&D this time around would be significantly less.

You could have the same argument about any American return to the moon regardless of what hardware its flying on so what difference would it make?

If only they could/would bring back Saturn V - more or less the same just with some more modern computers.

13 launches with 0 ending in big fireballs sounds more reliable than Starship to me.

Xen Project quietly announced five years of support for all releases

Re: Does anyone use Xen anymore?

Still running multiple instances of NetScaler (formerly Citrix ADC) here in production, for both external and internal facing applications.

We also use Citrix App and Desktop Virtualization in both on-prem and SaaS hybrid deployments.

I've never been a big fan but don't have the internal sway to move away.

BBC bumps telly tax to £180 as Netflix lurks with cheaper tiers

Or you just don't have the links because they don't exist?

Speculation with absolutely no backing by people like you sitting on forums.

The BBC is going to be putting "select" new shows targeted at a younger audience, you seem to have some warped that into all new content will be going onto Youtube and iPlayer will be closing of which there is not a single element of truth in.

Content is duplicated on multiple platforms around the globe for many reasons, not just from the BBC.

And there is a clear distinction with regards to the TV license that it specifically applies to iPlayer. For the same reason you don't need a license to watch content the BBC upload to their social media feeds (Instagram, TikTok etc)

Sadly you seem to be of the anti-establishment, four-chan type of which there is no way to have a friendly debate with because you just spout conspiracy theories and crap that has no backing or evidence. Are you a X user by any chance?

Re: Why it's unfair...

You could apply the same logic to almost anything that is funded by general taxation, not long before nothing is left or allowed to be funded.

"There's also some other oddities coming, like scrapping iPlayer and moving its online content to YouTube"

Found no evidence to support this so you're twisting what is actually happening.

The BBC has announced it is introducing some new shows first onto YouTube followed by iPlayer and Sounds in an attempt to reach a younger audience. At no stage has it been mentioned they'll be scrapping iPlayer in any way sense or form.

People like you just like posting off fake news.

Sadly it might well end up being a slippery slope and it'll be interrupting game play before you know it.

That was just one example in another there was a man down for injury, normally you'd be getting commentary of what is going on. Instead the window shrunk to about quarter of the size so you couldn't see it, and the audio was replaced with some crap from Virgin Atlantic if I recall correctly, along with their ad being shown.

It's just another thing to ruin the viewing experience. Before long it'll be available on ITVX without ads for those that want to pay.

Advertising is an important part of broadcasting, I get that, it's how these broadcasters (excluding BBC) fund their operations despite my hatred of them. And I'm pro-capitalism as well so I fully understand.

But broadcasting, along with capitalism, should have lines that don't get crossed and better regulation to enforce it.

Re: The BBC is defunct in the regions

Italy certainly put you back in your box over the weekend.

For the viewer yes, I fucking despise adverts.

Take the Six Nations for example that I mentioned. Yes odd mention of a podcast and follow ups on the BBC televised games.

Those cunts over at ITV have now taken to putting adverts on during the game, removing commentary and splitting the screen, example here: https://www.gbnews.com/media-library/itv-came-under-fire-for-showing-adverts-during-the-six-nations-match-between-france-and-ireland.jpg?id=63854905&width=800&quality=85

Who signed off on that deserves to be fired in my opinion.

BBC Studios already has it covered for international distribution, including running BritBox which is their Netflix-style subscription service (slightly separate to the UK version of BritBox)

I must be one of the few under 70s who doesn't mind paying the TV license.

Just this week I used TV to watch the Six Nations, radio to listen to it, my kids watched CBeebies/CBBC content live and on iPlayer, and I spent time reading the news.

£15/month for that doesn't seem much to me, and is better than it getting filled with adverts.

Of course if you don't use any of their output but want to watch live TV still, I can understand the frustration.

I can see it just coming under general taxation before this decade is out.

Microsoft actually does something useful, adds Sysmon to Windows

Re: re: Enabling it requires some work with PowerShell

I think the old add on will continue to work fine, and PowerShell is simply to enable it, its two fucking commands to run you're not writing an entire PS script from scratch.

Also comparing PS to AI is insane. Like so insane I think AI might well have written it.

British military to get legal OK to swat drones near bases

Insane they don't already have the power/rights to do so. Anything threatening national defence should be dealt with swiftly.

Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native

Re: Maybe people will start listening now?

Then why do you risk visiting El Reg if its such a potentially dangerous site?

I know many other forums exist for characters such as yourself, do us a favour and visit them instead would you. Maybe check how secure there sites are whilst you're at it?

Re: Not a Trump thing.

What about if the worms had the virus?

Re: Not a Trump thing.

And conspiracy nuts claiming ventilators kill people is an example of how the internet can go wrong.

Challenger at 40: The disaster that changed NASA

Re: It's All Down To The Romans or What Have The Romans Ever Done For Us?

BS

AWS's inevitable destiny: becoming the next Lumen

Re: "have a life wtihout KFC waiting in retirement."

Their gravy is mega though.

Hasta la vista! Microsoft finally ends extended updates for ancient Windows version

Microsoft said, "We will honour the terms"

How nice of them to continue to provide something that has already been paid for.

Presumably this was ring-fenced somehow otherwise it would have been shitcanned long ago.

Microsoft Windows Media Player stops serving up CD album info

Re: Get a Brennan

The offer the Helix, B3 and B3+ these days according to their website. Nice looking bits of kit.

Re: time for MusicBrainz

Well he is retired now so has lots of time on his hands...

Baby's got clack: HP pushes PC-in-a-keyboard for businesses with hot desks

Be having AI on your toaster next, so Microsoft know just how brown you do like your bread

You don't need Linux to run free and open source software

Mac App Store

"Apple has integrated its App Store deeply into macOS since 2001's Mac OS X 10.0"

Mac App Store didn't launch until 2011 on Snow Leopard 10.6.6, not back in 2001. Even iTunes Store didn't launch until 2003.

Keeping Windows and macOS alive past their sell-by date

Re: Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021 edition?

I believe Enterprise LTSC is a separate license key to even Windows 10 Enterprise Non-LTSC.

In theory this would be possible to install on an machine already running Win 10 Home by doing a clean installer and forcing it to use Enterprise LTSC version. However, you would need to ensure you had the correct license key/agreement to use it.

Re: Hope Springs Eternal…

Indeed, have a 2012 MBP on hand for emergencies and very easy to change HDD/SSD and RAM.

But this is true of not just Apple.

Don't Believe the Mac Bashing

"Most Macs will never run anything but their original copy of macOS."

This seems wrong, as there is a new macOS release every year and has been since 2011.

And most new Macs will get a minimum of 4 or 5 years worth of updates, meaning they'll be several copies in before dropping support.

Unless it was meant to imply that a "fresh/clean" install will never be done?

Faith in the internet is fading among young Brits

As one comment from a GP on a recent BBC survey said:

"Life being stressful is not an illness"

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2pvxdn9v4o

New Jolla phone and Sailfish 5 offer a break from iOS-Android monotony

Re: Needs wireless charging, too expensive

I really would love to know what he is doing with these phones to break the charging ports on them.

I've had several iPhones since the 4 (keep the booing down) and various Android phones too, mainly as work devices, and never had any charging ports fail.

In fact only device I've had recently with a charging port failure is an iPad Pro 3rd-Gen where its a known fault. Still charges using USB-A to USB-C cable, slowly, but USB-C to USB-C, nada

Can't fault Volvo to be fair, I have a 10 year old XC90 with Sensus and it still gets map updates OTA (well, need to connect it to phone hotspot) for no charge.

By contrast our other car, a 2017 Vauxhall/Opel had one year of map updates made available (we didn't pay as it was £80ish) before being abandoned by GM.

Also highly recommend Syn3 Updater (https://cyanlabs.net/applications/syn3updater/) for Ford cars with Sync 3 but pre-2020/21 as it gives them the latest software and maps too (although not as seamless as vendor OTA)

Re: Once bitten...

I'm curious, do you like, need or want to use capitals to try and get some sort of effect?

Very similar to reading a tweet from Trump, random words in capitals.

Apple blocks dev from all accounts after he tries to redeem bad gift card

Re: Well

Did he though?

The article states he bought it from "a major brick-and-mortar retailer" which tends to suggest its a large, reputable company.

If he bought it from eBay, Facebook Marketplace or some other random site online, I'd totally understand that it could be viewed as his fault.

But when you physically visit a large chain retailer, not sure what else you expect him to have done?

The CRASH Clock is ticking as satellite congestion in low Earth orbit worsens

"Earth's orbit is starting to look like an LA freeway"

From your British reader base, we prefer the term M25 motorway.

ISS hits rare full house as all eight docking ports ocupado

"A transfer to another job"

That means he's in Gulag then.

Samsung reveals its first tri-fold phone – and its desktop mode

Re: There are countless millions of fools

Not that you were looking at her rear end at all to see this.....

Yeah nothing here mentions Apple who as others have said, don't have a folding device. Well, unless a Macbook is included as that does technically fold.

These days with phone theft in the capital a bigger sign would be having it in your hand unlocked so the thieves can get at your data and personal information.

Re: So, now it's tri-fold

"Why not a sports car that tri-folds into a motorcycle ?"

I'd have a sports car that folded out into an awesome robot, aka Transformers

Seven years later, Airbus is still trying to kick its Microsoft habit

Re: 20 million cells?!

Genuinely curious what you then do with this data?

25 years of meatbags permanently in space on the ISS

Re: One step forward, two steps back!

Lockheed U-2S is still flying btw.