Posts by kain preacher

NASA to fire 1Gbps laser 'Wi-Fi' ... into spaaaaace

Yes since they both are electromagnet(spectrum) radiation. Wi Fi use the non visible light waves

Re: Shooting data at Hawaii?

they are using ALOHAnet.

Re: To Netflix...

So you don't xerox a copy ?

Strike that: 17,000 AT&T workers down tools in California, Nevada

Re: Worse than you know...

Actually SBC bought ATT in reverse buy out. SBC always had a shitty management attitude. When the SBC management took over thats when ATT went to shit. You could tell which use to be SBC and who was ATT prior by the attitude.

Ubuntu splats TITSUP bug spread in update

Re: Auto Update?

Why? As Linux become more main stream you will get noobs that do not know better.

Microsoft cloud TITSUP: Skype, Outlook, Xbox, OneDrive, Hotmail down

Re: Nah

But, but I thought the cloud was bullet proof. That's what Peo0ple like amazon and MS keep on telling me.

User jams up PC. Literally. No, we don't know which flavour

Re: Good design my a***

That's what happens when you let a sadist design computer cases.

Re: You missed out

Some of those cases were so sharp you did not even know you were cut. Seriously you could not make case sharper even if you tried. You could use the sides to cut up an elephant.

Microsoft kills Windows Vista on April 11: No security patches, no hot fixes, no support, nada

Re: Laplink

Laplink still exist. It's mostly about the soft ware. Now you have a choice of using cross over cable or specialty USB cable.

UK.gov gears up for IR35 private sector crackdown – say industry folk

Ahem maybe I think this way because I'm a yank. But is this about taxes or forcing the small independent contractor out in favor of the big boys ?

Do you use .home and .mail on your network? ICANN mulls .corp, .mail, .home dot-word domains

.home is used by routers. Not all but enough that it will screw with ISP.

Thousands of NHS staff details nicked amid IT contractor server hack

NHS loses data. now were have I heard this before ?

UK Home Office warns tech staff not to tweet negative Donald Trump posts

Yes because people love being told what they can do in there personal life bye the government. Call me crazy but this just might have the opposite effect.

Fraud detection system with 93% failure rate gets IT companies sued

Re: Wow Michigan's state government is out of control

Wrong. The City has a state appointed manger. He made the decision. So it was the state.

Re: ...get five times their losses...

In cases like these , if the state loses they have to pay the lawyer fees. In fact lawyers line up for these cases if the think they are winnable. They rack up more billable hours and fees then they would on contingency cases. End result the lawyer gets more money then contingency cases and the client keeps all of the money won.

Family of technician slain by factory robot sues everyone involved

Re: Can only

State law exempts them. Read the article.

America's Marine Corp steamy selfies scandal, a Senate probe – and El Reg to the rescue

Re: Can they still walk upright?

I was so hoping she had tattooed their testicles and penis .

I was thinking, there lots of things that could be used as weapons in a tattoo shop. Also this is the US. She could just shot them and called it a day.

It's worse. One of the female marines had a tattoo shop. These idiots dropped by and harassed her over the phone and at her shop.

Oh my God, 911 is down. Quick, call… aaargh!

Re: Why is the FCC involved ?

I think that's the point. It's not funny but with this admin it just might happen.

Tesla 'API crashes' after update, angry rich bods complain

Re: Ah, to have the problems of the 1%

In 2012, Ferrari recalled certain 2011 and 2012 cars because the engine can seize suddenly and possibly cause a crash.he F136 engines have crankshafts that were machined incorrectly.

Um thats basic engine tech

Re: "reignited the Wi-Fi router" ?

Must be a netgear router.

Video intercom firm Doorbird wants $80 for device password resets

And at thatpoint thieves will figure that out and armed with the default password rob you blind. It's like having an ATM with hard wired technician password that gets plastered on the net.

Help wanted: Uber boss Travis seeks babysitter for him and his execs

Re: COO?

Nope they need a Motto like do no evil.

Linus Torvalds lashes devs who 'screw all the rules and processes' and send him 'crap'

you I did not stop to think about systemd . Some day it might work or it might a me a more screwed up version of the windows reg.

It was a low cost broadcom. Back then broadcom was having weird issue. You might have to broadcom chips that look identical but the issue was they had different drivers. There were also different version of the drivers depending on the version of the chip.

I wound up going to a electronic scrap yard and score a dual intel nic that was also a TCP accelerator.

WiFI seems to be hit or miss. I've seen intel wifi do weird things even under windows that required and update that was buried deep in the web site. But it's not limited to just wi fi. I had a gigabyte mother board with an on board NIC that hated Ubuntu. It would disconnect and reconnect to the network every 30 seconds. Worked fine on windows 7 and PCBSD. The real problem is these OEM folks that write drivers that are just good enough for windows and all other OS be screwed. Hell the drivers are flaky on windows and you want other OS support. I'm looking at you hapauge . Your USB products are shit.

Re: I for one would welcome --

You have to admit you must have a massive ego to submit that kind of code to Linus. Lets say massive ego + masochist. I'm surprised there was only one cuss word. That is tame rant for a boss let alone Linus.

Few things that was tame for him. You must have a set of balls and be the ultimate narcissist to send code to Linus that does not even build.If you are stupid enough to try and ship code that does not build you should be perma banned from touching anything thing. Sounds like these people did not do a single test or had some ultra weird setup requiring vague modules,api to build right.

Watt the f... Dim smart meters caught simply making up readings

The reason why the bills are so high is do to fraud. The dumb meters measures your daily total usage. These new smart meter takes a snap shot of the highest peak usage in 15 minutes increments. It works like this between 1:00pm-1:15pm you use 30 watts of power. Now the company says you used 30 watts for that hour. Now lets say for the next 23 hours you use one watt. You would expect to pay 23+30 watts. You will be wrong thats were that 15 minute snap shot comes in. They assume you used 30 watts per hour for 24 hours. So instead of paying for the 53 watts you actually use , you pay 24x30 or 720 watts.

Any think that creates a surge starts the snap shot process over again. It's looking for the highest snap shot to bill you for.

This is being done in Oklahoma. any other industry would be done in for fraud. Hell even the bankers did not screw you like this.

Solarwinds sends customers each others' complete client lists

I'm sure the cloud works for some people. it just seems when it goes bad it's huge cock up. Lets see we saw gitlab explode. AWS Fell over so bad that not even Amazon could access their own dash board. Now emailing customers info to others.

America halts fast processing of H-1B skilled worker visas

Because republicans run on smaller government. Starve the beast theory.

Re: why was this called 'discrimination'

Disagree with Obama did not make you racist. Asking for his birth certificate was. Calling his birth certificate fake also made you a racist. Oh an I for one would love to seethe H-1b visa revamped.

The minimum $200,000. If you truly need a specialist that is in short supply you should have no problem paying that price. Also shorten they stay to six months.

UK's Virgin Media subscribers suffer fresh email blocking misery

But then HPE or capita would just higher them.

ATT does this if the MX records are not set right our not set at all. Currently I can not revive email from sprint for this reason

Passport and binary tree code, please: CompSci quizzes at US border just business as usual

I was thinking about using COBOL or writing for the intel 4004 chip. OF course not being able to evaluate it they might label a terrorist compiler.

Intel's dying Atom chips strike again: Netgear recalls four ReadyNAS, Wi-Fi management lines

You know AMD does make Athlons that match the Atom TWD

Will this cause the atom line to be branded a failure ?

User rats out IT team for playing games at work, gets them all fired

"If you quit or are fired for cause, then you are ineligible for unemployment benefits"

Depends on the state. In California, hostile work environment, work place violence, sexual harassment, and taking care of a sick relative are all valid reasons to quit and collect unemployment.

81's 99 in 17: Still a lotta love for the TI‑99/4A – TI's forgotten classic

Re: While we're on the subject of TI...

In the US people buy TI calculators be cause they are on the approved listed for SAT and ACT. They also flood schools with cheap TI calcs

US military drone goes AWOL, ends up crashing into tree 623 miles away

Re: ICBM, Vx, now this?

oops.

oops.

Jesse Jackson to Apple CEO Cook: Hire black

Re: Kook Jesse Jackson

"When people of color start creating communities that encourage success, and higher education, and science THEN we'll see some of those trees bearing fruit. "

Are you aware that blacks make up 2.3% Santa Clara county and make up 2.0 of the PhDs in Santa Clara county? I saw plenty of black and latino people when I went to NASA AMES. Yeah that does not quite work in Silicon Valley which is mostly Santa Clara valley.

AWS's S3 outage was so bad Amazon couldn't get into its own dashboard to warn the world

Hopefully a wake up call for connected device makers, don't make your tools reliant on the internet!

Wake up call ha. more like they hit the snooze button. The wake up call should of been when video game makes made single player mode require an always on intent connection and made the game save to the cloud. I believe gears of wars players ran into issues were the servers crashed for days and you could not play.

One of the congress critters actually bought clue and the DMCA was update for games that require an always on internet for single player mode.

As of October 2015, always-online games with single player modes that now have had dead servers for six months and longer are now exempt from DMCA prohibitions on circumventing copyright protection

HSBC Business internet banking goes TITSUP*

Re: They did that already

I meant this as a joke .

The solution is to cut more IT and send the rest off shore to make up for the loses. IF these banks were people the would be forced to go to the hospital for suicidal thoughts and forced to take meds that

Alcatel wants to be Android, but different – and another crack at the Windows market

I saw it to late to correct the typos. Every once in awhile my typos come out more funnier then the original post. Like when cray released a knew supper computer and I said will it bun crisis.

I have a Samsung galaxy and and so far it mostly does what I need. After 12 months I'm still getting up dates. Has removable batter and sd card. Only draw back is now they are pushing preview of apps I might want to install. If they got rid of that and allowed me to remove the bloat ware it would be perfect.

D-Link resolves enterprise switch hacker risk

Re: D-Link enterprise switch authentication bypass flaw

Testing? That's for chumps. Real men are able to working around flaws and exploding routers. real mean can put the magic smoke back in.

Actually real professionals would never bu suck crap and will destroy it on sight.

Re: D-Link, Enterprise?

like matter and anti mater