Posts by Dave White 24 posts • joined 31 Jan 2008
We run the on-prem Azure DevOps, and have experienced exactly the same thing with our installation in the past. I have enough knowledge to hazzard a guess as to what happened...
The back end is a bunch of TLS encrypted database connections, and connections to build agents running in Azure. I don't believe that Microsoft would have done the upgrade without testing the whole system. I could be wrong about that, but it doesn't seem likely.
The more likely issue is that incoming connections from customers are not capable of using TLS 1.2 with the weaker ciphers removed. They might have proxys / firewalls / AV scanners that are incomptible, or even worse; may be running really old OS versions that don't talk the more modern protocols. Yes, I'm looking at you, Windows 7.
I have twice send emails to them over the last year asking them to delete my data from their databases as per my "right to be forgotten". The first one came back with an automatic reply saying they were busy and would get back to me soon.
Fast forward a year and I still have no reply.
This article contains absolutely zero information, and a whole lot of padding. Where's the information on the exploit? There's a link to the page, but no discussion about the exploit itself. There's a rather hysterical proclamation about ASP.Net, and then the linked page shows a piece of malicious JavaScript. Reporting standards seem to have taken a dive at El Reg Towers with this one.
WTF? because WTF?
"MPEG-LA chief executive Larry Horn said the organization was looking into the formation of a patent-pool license for VP8 and WebM".
Can anybody explain to me what that sentence means? Why would one group be looking for a license for a competing group's software?
Paris, because I'm dumb where IP law is concerned.
My understanding of the extradition process is that Sweden has to give notice to Britain if it is going to further extradite him to the USA. Britain would then be forced to decline, as a conviction of espionage carries the death penalty in the US. It may not all be as bleak as we think.
I'm a Windows and Linux guy, and have long hated the Apple OS. Recently I found myself needing to buy a mac for work. The last time I touched a mac was about six years ago in a company I used to work for and having to localise software on it. I hated every minute of it.
As a freelancer I'm in the position of being able to chose my own hardware, and I opted for this model (the cheapest one they had). It was stylish enough for my liking, and not one of the cheaper white plastic macs that look like toys.
I haven't installed much on it, and I only use it for browsing, but I have to say that I love it. I believe that in a year I'll look back and wish I'd spent more and gotten a more powerful model, or a macbook pro. It works, and it works very well for what I need it for. In comparison to my other machines I find the quick boot up time of the SSD awesome, and the absolute silence of it is wonderful for some classes I take where I have brought it along.
I'm really not sure why all the nay-sayers are complaining. Yes, I'm sure it could be more powerful, but you aren't buying a powerful machine here. You are buying small. Yes I'm sure it could have more connectivity options, but you're not paying for those either. You are paying for the size of it, and sacrifices have to be made at that size. Don't like the network speed / SSD size / lack of X feature? Get a different machine.
Paris, because I feel like a tramp for buying Apple.
I've been reading the reg for many years now, and commented about three times. Once was in response to something I felt strongly enough to get off my arse and actually write out a comment.
The second was within the last week, and the last is now. What the hell is it with the increasingly irrelevant stories about crap that have nothing to do with IT? I can understand a segue into something related, and indeed encourage it. However, this has nothing at all to do with anything even remotely connected with the reason we read el reg.
Please stop with this bullshit.
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