Posts by Berny Stapleton

Cash register maker used same password – 166816 – non-stop since 1990

This isn't exactly new (I know since 1990)...

But, this isn't the first time it's been published either:

http://www.hackerfactor.com/papers/cc-pos-20.pdf

The content business wants Netflix out of Australia

Re: Cordell Jigsaw Zapruder

Zapruder's Other Films was a production company of Andrew Denton, he sold out to Cordell Jigsaw another production company, hence, Cordell Jigsaw Zapruder.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/media/andrew-denton-sells-out-of-cordell-jigsaw-zapruder-and-quits-television/story-fna045gd-1226669746859

Lookup Zapruder for relevance too.

They've finally solved it: Schrödinger's cat is both ALIVE AND DEAD

It's turtles, all the way down.

It's official: EU chiefs WILL probe Apple's Irish tax deal

The EC believes that two special agreements were made, one in 1991 and another in 2007 apparently.

http://businessandleadership.com/business/item/47784-apple-given-special-tax/

Let's see what happens, they haven't targeted Google, Microsoft or Oracle yet, so maybe there is something to this....

EE plonks 4G in UK Prime Minister's backyard

"tales his BlackBerry" should be "takes his BlackBerry" ???

Amazon, Hollywood, Samsung: PLEASE get excited about 4K telly

What's 4K?

There was an interesting article on 4K and UHD on AVS Forum in August last year that's an interesting point on why we haven't got 4K yet:

http://www.avsforum.com/a/the-not-so-subtle-distinction-between-uhd-and-4k

This situation (as far as I'm aware) hasn't resolved itself yet.

At last: EU slashes mobile roaming fees

RE: LBO

I'm all for it, while the latency around Europe isn't that bad, backhaul is.

I get a lot faster data in my own country than while roaming, but on the roaming network with a local SIM, it flies.

So, yes please to LBO. It means that my latency will be lower and I don't have to be routed over the carrier's backhaul. Ultimately, I think they will do this by default for all roaming users, why transit all that traffic if you don't have to?

US Army engineer wins Air Assault wings after repairing hi-tech leg twice

Re: New US kit

@The First Dave

As an Aussie, an L1A1 always had a different meaning for me. Put L1A1 into Google image search....

Microsoft begins automatic Windows 7 SP1 rollout

Microsoft now doing a Citrix and releasing rollup packs

Take a look here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2775511

No SP2, but this is a good start.

BOFH: I'll get my bonus even if it kills, well, someone

Ahh....

Good to see he's on form.

New UK 'leccy meters remotely run via Voda 2G

Using 2G? That's going to lock up the frequency space....

Didn't I read here a little while ago about the carriers wanting to use the 2G frequency space for 3G like what Australia did?

What's going to happen then?

Australia, give up your fixed broadband!

Re: This article is surely pure sarcasm, right?

"yet most of you are miserly niggards who would rather buy a 60 GB per month plan on fixed networks than spend a couple of thousand running Torrents to a mobile"

Yes, yes it is.

This would be an Australian response to the oppositions statements about how the NBN isn't required and that it can be delivered on wireless.

Gear4 UnityRemote

Logitech Harmony remotes

I don't want to put myself into the Fanboi category here, but they really do make a good product. The Harmony One is ~£175 and their device support is second to none. With a reasonably complex hi-fi setup, I was suprised when I could get it all working in 15 mins. I thought I had missed something. If your going to look at the UnityRemote, don't forget to look at the Logitechs as well. You could well end up dissapointed you didn't.

3 starts killing off 2G coverage

They have turned off 2G roaming from Ireland as well..

So if you hit London from Ireland and expect to be able to roam to a 2G carrier, this is off. You have to use 3G.

BT's 21st Century network, er... isn't

IPv6

Don't get me wrong, I am not defending BT here, but given the scale of the network bandwidth requirements that they are thinking about, I just don't think this would be a possibility.

I am of the suspicion that nobody will actually do IPv6 and IPv6 to IPv4 gatewaying in hardware on the edge. I know Cisco will do IPv6 forwarding in hardware, With the amount of data that they are expecting to deal with, trying to do this in software I just can't see happening.

What I would like to see would be that BT puts the pressure on Cisco to enable IPv6 in hardware and start making the boxes to interconnect to the 21CN on IPv6.

BOFH: Beancounter bashing

@Leeds

That's like asking "What's wrong with Slough?" isn't it?