Posts by ManInThe Bar

Brit boffins boast of beating barriers to building fusion power

Re: Looking like...

Hey, be fair, back in the 60s Raymond Baxter told us it would be 25 years. So we've made progress

Indra rides off with £1.96B Transport for London ticketing deal as Oyster heads for back-office overhaul

Re: Anyone calculated how much per journey this costs?

Government support for public transport costs is a subsidy for travellers from the wider population.

For the avoidance of doubt I SUPPORT such subsidies but we need to recognise that the costs, ultimately, are born by all of those paying tax (or buying goods/services from companies who pay tax)

Two men charged over series of arson attacks on 5G masts

Not true, or at least I can point to an example where this is not true

https://www.suffolknews.co.uk/sudbury/news/nothing-good-in-this-village-20-metre-phone-mast-refused-9461809/

From pr0n to playlists and paperclips, trio of breaches spills data of millions

Tom state the bleeding obvious - it's about protecting children both from exposure to porn (a very real, corrosive problem) AND to inhibit those seeking to view, pay for, even commission images of children.

Linux admin hated downtime so much he schlepped a live UPS during office move

Re: Smart, But Also Bloody Stupid

And two terminators (thick ethernet, not Arnie)

Russian spy ship theories sink after Orkney blackout traced to wind farm fault

Re: Undersea cables...

Fair play, Dad Joke of the Day is in the post

Bank of England says JLR's cyberattack contributed to UK's unexpectedly slower GDP growth

Re: Dodgy figures.

Nonsense

The business activity occured in the UK and counted as part of UK GDP. The same with any (eg) car manufacturer whether in Swindon or Tyneside or elsewhere in the UK.

Profits not reivested in the existing business might count against UK trade balances, and in this case losses that have been supported by funds from overseas will actually count towards them!

Frightful Patch Tuesday gives admins a scare with 175+ Microsoft CVEs, 3 under attack

Re: And again - GBs of non-solutions

Errm, not sure that analogy serves you well.

You don't need to get modifications to your car, anymore than you do to your monitor or keyboard.

But you DO need the road surface to be modded regularly, especially when a hole is dug in it by malicious actors (AKA the water board)

Windows 11 leads as October looms, but millions still cling to Windows 10

Foolish comment.

Consider publicly funded schools. These typically have a fixed (and small) budget for IT refreshment and need to make their equipment last as long as it can. Money taken from the wider school budget to buy new PCs can only come at the expense of money spent on children's education. It has been a great relief to these institutions that MS have offered a relatively inexpensive way of maintaining support for W10

KDE targets Windows 10 'exiles' claiming 'your computer is toast'

Re: Alarmist?

I connected a Laserwriter II to the serial port of a WfWG 3.11 machine networked off a NW 3.11 swerver using only the DIP switches and a manual written in French. It was horrifically slow, worked on French time ( 4 hours out of 8) but the print quality was great.

This remains my greatest achievement in the world of IT.

There's a slight chance Asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit Moon in 2032

"The odds of the asteroid impacting the Earth are already vanishingly small – the last best guess was just over 2 percent in December 2032"

1 n 50 is not vanishingly small.

1 in 50 is warm up Morgan Freeman and get Robert Duvall out of deep storage.

Cloud market working well ... if you're AWS and Microsoft

Re: dichotomy

"I've argued since 1998 that long term Microsoft will become a Linux desktop environment as no publicly listed company can afford the staff cost for developing basic os functionality. "

27 years is a long time to have held this view, during which period Microsoft has managed to do what you assert is impossible.

Microsoft to kill off Defender VPN this month

Re: If you were relying on Microsoft's Defender VPN

Mt first HD was a 20Mb Winchester - I was a KING of a vast domain(e).

A ghostly system works to the keying of a ghost

And I look through my tears on the green text of the host

Oh my floppies and my FDisk long ago

Windows 11 stages a comeback – still miles behind older sibling

Re: Don't panic

This

In fact I recall plenty of rubbishing of Win10 when it arrived. Ironic, isn't it, that the IT crowd has such a conservative streak.

British Museum says ex-contractor 'shut down' IT systems, wreaked havoc

Drunken numpty

I read this report in quite a different way from others

"The Met told us they were called to the institute on January 23 at approximately 2025 UTC to "reports that a man had entered the British Museum and caused damage to the museum's security and IT systems."

I don't think he has used ninja-knowledge, I think he has gotten liquored up after his last hour at work, forced his way back in, in so doing he has set off RedCare or equivalent.

The plod have arrived, probably struggled to get in at first, maybe went to see if some jewels had been liberated and finally found our hero in the server room where he had smashed up some equipment and/or disabled some systems at a basic level.

Exhibitions need to remain closed thereafter until the relevant equipment can be replaced/repowered in order that said jewels above can remain secure.

50 year old contractor - how/why had he been dismissed? Has his temperament done him down twice?

User said he did nothing that explained his dead PC – does a new motherboard count?

Re: Why is it slow?

There was a time when I regarded Norton as a more prevalent threat than the viruses it was supposed to combat.

Re: Windows 95 and all that

Or, as one of my lusers did, make their screen options white script on a white background.

One of the great strengths of being able to boot from a 3.5" floppy, demonstrated right there.