Posts by Fatman

Ubuntu 12.10: More to Um Bongo Linux than Amazon ads

Re: Queue the freetards....then you have no right to moan about it.

All I have to say is this:

Shut

The

Fuck

Up!!!

You can take your beloved WindblowZE operating system, and stick that bloated mess where the sun will never shine!

Re: Am I alone in thinking the unity desktop looks aweful

NO!!!!!

On both of my machines, that clusterfuck called Unity has been scraped from the hard drive.

UI for a smartphone or tablet - maybe, but for a desktop - absolutely not!!

Motorola's Germany Xbox sales ban castrated by US judges

RE: could invent some sort of faux rape case

Damn You!!!!

I ruined my keyboard!!!!! (Spitting orange juice over one after reading your comment.)

</sarcasm>

Re: As an Amurikin...

I must heartily agree.

Someone (the US courts) have gone too far.

Perhaps the German courts could demand the extradition of the judges involved in the US case; and try them for contempt.

Pair face £250k fines for spamming mobes with millions of texts

Re: Ultimately there's only two workable ways of stopping these g!ts:

Actually, you forgot one:

3) Use a large caliber firearm to forcibly insert a projectile into their brains.

World's power-grid cyber breach traced to notorious Chinese crew

Re: but people at the top need to be...

Hung by the balls from a 230kV line, close enough to the ground to draw a nasty spark on a humid day.

Satellite broadband rollout for all in US: But Europe just doesn't get it

Re: a flurry of down votes.

From my profile: In total, your posts have been upvoted 325 times and downvoted 207 times.

I could give a shit less about how many down votes I get.

Sometimes it is a case of "fuck you, if you can not take a joke".

Now, to expect a shit load of down votes.

US said to designate Assange 'enemy' of the state

Re: I'm telling you, man - it's amazing you aren't writing for the Wall Street Journal.

Actually, he would better fit in at FoxFaux News.

Re: @John 104

I am not sure exactly how to take your comment, as I suspect this lousy forum software stripped out your <sarcasm> tags.

Re: He is a traitor to the United States.

Says who???

The same government that was involved in a sloppily thrown together raid on Dotcom for the benefit to the MAFIAA?? (By the MAFIAA, I mean the stooges that represent the film and recording industriesrackets in the USA.) The same government that, since 9/11 has attempted to curtail civil liberties by the use of unconstitutional act, like the PATRIOT act in an attempt to suppress its citizens???

His "partner in crime", may be a traitor, but, since he (Assange) is not a US citizen; he can not be a traitor.

Here, understand the definition of traitor, and treason:

traitor: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/traitor?s=t

treason: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/treason?s=t

Dolt!!!

US gov on track to miss its own IPv6 deadline

Considering those choices...

If I get to choose between:

a) Government mandates switch to IPV6. Government allocates pocket change, if anything, to do it. And it never gets done....

or

b) Government is just incompetent.

I think the logical choice is b).

Purpose of RFID finally discovered: It's for pairing up socks!

I'll take the bait!

But, don't you mean 254 shades of grey?

New Zealand Prime Minister apologizes for Dotcom spying

Re: RIAA (?)

You have the wrong bunch of assholes there!

I think you mean the MPAA.

CPS grovels after leaking IDs of hundreds arrested during student riots

Re: Lessons will be learnt

I do like your thinking, but only after punishing them as I mentioned above (public flogging).

Re: Great...Will anyone be accountable? Doubt it...

One method to insure that this does not happen again is to punish the individuals responsible.

I suggest that they be stripped naked, and publicly flogged once a day for 30 days in the town square.

You need to make an example of these fools.

Vandals break into congressman's office, install Linux on PCs

Re: Unless of course the nasty crims installed Ubuntu with that evil unity interface thingy.

I am using 12.04 here, and the first thing I did post install was:

sudo apt-get install gnome-session-fallback

and say goodbye to that clusterfuck called Unity

Kiwi cops forgot Kim Dotcom's visa

Re: Baby you're a Firework

And, here, I thought you were a Katy Perry fan!!!

If you see 'URGENT tax rebate download' in an inbox, kill it with fire

Re: note to users...supposed to send spam to...a waste paper basket.

For us, not quite. Those malicious links are "harvested" and fed into out DNS blacklist.

Nice when you run your own DNS servers. Don't want people going to Failbook, blacklist it.

Re: actually printed an A4 warning ... and she STILL opened the email.

There is only one way to rectify that situation - immediate termination, and NO SEVERANCE BENEFITS.

An example of the stupid and clueless must be made often.

Re: some very stupid people out there......

No doubt about it!!!

WRT banking phishing email; if you not have an account at $BANK, then why in hell would they ($BANK) send you an email about some account problem????

I get shit from BofA and CiShiti-bank all of the time. But, I will never have an account with either one of them (why, is not germane here).

Too many suffer from Terminal Stupidity, aka "Shit For Brains Syndrome".

For Christ's sake, people, use your fucking heads!!!!

FTC settles spying charges on rent-to-own computers

Re: re: re-installing...breach of the rental contract,

No doubt, this spyware probably "phones home" on a regular basis, and if the servers do not get pinged often enough; someone gets an alert.

I wonder, what happens after the expiry of the rent to own contract, that point where you are supposed to own the machine??? Does this shit get left behind?? Is it removed??? Enquiring minds want to know?

I will say this, if I were ever stupid enough to enter into one of these agreements; I would expect that once I fulfilled the contract; what ever O/S was on the machine, would get nuked from orbit; and that the RTO company would have NO SAY about it. After all, it is supposed to be my machine at that point.

iPhone 5 Lightning cables sticking in USB ports

Re: Remember we are talking of Lemmings

Please correct your post!!!!

It should read:

Remember we are talking of iLemmings....

Perfect stooges for Samsung to ridicule (as in their recent ads).

Re: help plugging it in by touch

I just checked the USB connector for my webcam, and one side of it has the USB logo on it, which corresponds to the part of the male connector that covers the contacts. (And, thanks for pointing that out, as I never really paid any attention to that spec requirement.)

Now, whether or not Apple includes a USB spec compliant cable is something I can not speak to.

Kit made by that rotten to the core company will never find its way into my home.

Smartphones may soon listen in on you while they sleep

Re: Better yet, just refuse to buy any phone that has this feature.

Best idea I have seen yet.

Let your wallet do the talking!

New vicious UEFI bootkit vuln found for Windows 8

Re: Um, no, actually...everybody has to go cap in hand to MS.

Buy this man a case of beer!!!!

Why, you may ask?

He understands the problem, and the nefarious schemes M$ has "up its sleeve"

Allow me to highlight the relevant portions of his comment:

As I understand it the problem is basically MS hijacking the territory re secure boot, and demanding that OEMs implement UEFI by default, without any obligation to give other OS providers an automatic right to be able to have their own keys for authentication by the UEFI system, i.e. everybody has to go cap in hand to MS.

Re: Obviously this is on purpose

It is Microsoft's way of "enhancing its partners offerings"; by making sure that competing O/Ses are locked out, and that it will be difficult to install alternatives, or to upgrade the installed O/S.

It all boils down to this:

do we trust the OEMs to make it convenient for end users to

a) install their own keys for either alternative O/S installs (assuming the end user wants a "Secure Boot" experience), or

b) to allow to the end user to install keys for upgrades to the existing O/S

The reason why I mentioned "b)" is that without that capability, your desktop becomes essentially a "brick", and in order to upgrade the O/S, you may have to buy new hardware, and we all know that makes M$' hardware partners very happy. They must look at the cell phone market with envy - just look at all of those ilemmings who go out and splurge hard earned cash on the newest Jesus phone. Those greedy bastards (OEMs) want their share too!!

Inside the guts of a fiendish Internet Explorer 0-day attack

Re: Ouch!...Currently IE seems to be the target of choice

What do you expect?

Since Microsoft software dominates the world desktop PC usage, it is only to be expected to be the dominant target.

Now, for my personal view WRT using Microsoft software, I liken that to doing welding and grinding in an old, dried out wood frame building. It only takes one spark, or a bit of carelessness to send it up in flames. Linux, OTOH, is like doing thew same in a concrete block building.

In my `Mr. T` voice: "I Pity those fools" still using that Swiss cheese operating system.

Flames - the only appropriate icon.

(I had to resist the urge to refer to them as M$ - until now)

RIPE NCC handing out last European IPv4 addresses

Re: Cutting a whole country off internet because their government supposedly does naughty things...

Just imagine the howls coming from the USA if the rest oft he world decided to cut THEM off from the internet?

That would mean that I would be unable to ""enjoy"" posting comments here at 'El Reg'.

Re: ...you can get 5 consecutive addresses

Most likely because you were allocated from a designated '/29' address space.

A few years ago, i needed some static IP addresses for my then employer, and I was issued a block of 5 consecutive addresses, and realized what the ISP had done. If you recall, the "all bits zero" being the network address, and the "all bits one" being the broadcast address; a '/29' leaves you with 6 usable IP addresses. In my case, the ISP had set the first usable one as the "gateway" address; thus giving me the 5 consecutive addresses.

Previously, we had only ONE static IP address, and it "ate" up a '/30' block, in the same manner.

SEC bars ex-Systemax veep from director role in fraud deal

So, what!!!!

I mean, really????

Now, how about doing the same for all of those corrupt bwankers, and Wall street executives that crashed the economy.

Would it really hurt if they were no longer be able to serve as a C level executive, or as a BOD member of publicly traded companies for the rest of their lives??

But, no, not even a slap on the wrist for those bastards.

The perfect CRIME? New HTTPS web hijack attack explained

Re: Enquiring Minds Want To Know......

Loverock Davidson, Is that you?????

Analysts: Shamoon oil biz malware flingers were 'amateurs'

Re: ....radical feminists

Are the worst!!!

I knew one once, she certainly epitomized the phrase: castrating feminist bitch!!!!

Her "favorite" T-shirt displayed "I go from 0 to 100% BITCH in 1 milli-second".

Re: WTF? "maleware" writers

maleware writers????

WTF is a "maleware writer"??? Someone who creates pr0n????

Thomas-Rasset faces $220,000 file-sharing bill after losing appeal

Re: Sony paying a few hundred Billion for issuing rootkits.

I second that motion!!!

Then to follow up, complete disbanding of Sony GLOBALLY.

Serves those fuckers right!

Re: ...populace blindly follows bullshit laws for no reason

By any chance,are you referring to Germany during the 1930's????

GNOME hacker: Culture isn't holding desktop Linux back

Re: Last two paragraphs

ABSOLUTELY SPOT ON!!!!!!!

For the most part, enterprises don't give a shit about eye candy, they want stability, an easily understood UI, and the ability to move from one version to another without having to retrain the staff.

WindblowZE 8 is an example of what enterprises detest - a new UI for the sake of a new UI.

To be fair, one can toss that grenade (`a new UI for the sake of a new UI`) at Canonical for its adoption of Unity (which is, IMHO, a royal clusterfuck on a standard desktop.

Getting rid of Unity is the first thing I did after installing the beta of Ubuntu 10.10, 11.04, 11.10, 12.04 and 12.10 for testing purposes on my dev machine. I can't stand that fucking thing (Unity). I have had some of its capabilities by the use of a left side panel with launchers since 7.10.

Canonical, may I suggest that you leave Unity to everything but desktops, where, again IMHO, it is a fucking hindrance.

FCC to TV broadcasters: Ready, set ... give your spectrum up

Re: Secondly, what would they actually "give up"?

I can't speak for what you in the UK had to "give up", but, for the most part, high power analog stations no longer exist. There are some analog stations broadcasting, mostly "community" stations and others that re-broadcast high power stations on a different channel to extend that stations range, or to fill in problem areas (like behind a hill).

The issue is simply this, in the crowded metro areas, where the competition for radio spectrum is the greatest, the least amount of spectrum is available (due, in part to too many TV stations). And, the only way to get more spectrum is to get somebody to move or completely vacate a channel. Then it becomes a case of what's in it for me??

No same broadcaster is going to voluntarily give up a channel, which they currently have all to themselves to put their signal at the mercy of a competitor. It boils down to guaranteeing carriage of your signal; either by your own facilities, or by some arrangement, potentially with a competitor. What will have to worked out is how to protect a broadcaster who relinquishes their frequency from being fucked up the ass by some other station, now that the other station has the first one by the balls. Broadcasting is a highly competitive environment, and you can be sure if your competitor can fuck you up the ass, they will do it if they can get away with it.

Now, having said all that, if there can be some arrangement where stations multiplex on a single channel that is either owned by a non broadcast third party; or through some kind of joint venture where all of the stations being multiplexed are co-equals; then it may work. Otherwise, the scramble for advertiser dollars makes broadcasting a nasty business.

Then again, the FCC could entertain an idea of shutting down all stations in a given metro area, and force the cell phone companies to pay the local cable outfits the cost for supplying basic (formerly "over the air") signals to each household in the metro area. Ya, right, when pigs fly!!!!

"Give Up" your spectrum, yah, right!!!!

It would take some serious incentivizing to get the TV broadcasters to"give up" spectrum.

Secondly, what would they actually "give up"?

US TV channels are 6Mhz wide, and are found in these frequency ranges

the low VHF spectrum at

54-72 MHz (TV channels 2-4), 112/714*

76-88 MHz (TV channels 5 and 6), 92/501*

the high VHF spectrum at

174-216 MHz (TV channels 7-13), 779/2872*

and the UHF bands at

470-608 MHz (TV channels 14-36) 1899/9010*

614-698 MHz (TV channels 38-51) 1098/5515*

BTW, there "is" a channel 37, except it is reserved for radio astronomy (IIRC).

*Note:

1) Both totals include allocations for border area Canadian and Mexican stations.

2) The first value is full power DTV licenses ONLY (service "DT")

3) The second value includes both digital and analog, full power, translator and low power stations ("all" services).

For those who want to do their own fact checking:

http://www.fcc.gov/encyclopedia/tv-query-broadcast-station-search

Edgy penguins test-fly Ubuntu's Quantal Quetzal

Re: Hmm, when you've done that, can you tell Microsoft too, please?

NO, don't

I could care less if M$ wandered down the path to UI hell with their WindblowZE 8/Metro abomination.

Re: am I a luddite ?

No, your are not alone. I do work on a desktop, not a fucking fondleslab.

Ever since that clustefuck (Unity) arrived, I have ripped it out of each one of my Ubuntu installs.

For support reasons, I have a machine that individual installs of 9.10, 10.04, 10.10, 11.04, 11.10, 12.04 and a test bed of 12.10.

In each one of them, where Unity was installed, I ripped it out. First thing after the install was:

sudo apt-get install gnome-session-fallback

and goodbye to Unity.

Another hint, get rid of those dammed overlay scrollbars!!!!! What a pain in the ass!

Raspberry Pi production back in Blighty

RE: but why does it have to be Sony?

To which I might add:

includes undocumented root kit at no extra cost

Sorry, but I couldn't resist. I HATE that company for the damage one of those fucking root kits did.

Dawn probe slips Vesta's grip, heads for icy dwarf planet

Re: OOooh, that's cheating isn't it?

I up voted you for this comment:

Naughty editor. No beer for you tonight :)

CIOs' most likely job move is a sideways shift

Re: ...that CEOs have insufficient knowledge of what IT does.

Case in point:

the assholes at RBS

Need I say more?

Huawei denies spying, calls for global security standards

Really???

....the company issued a public statement claiming that it has never participated in cyber espionage or any other illegal act, and that it would never do so.

To quote Dr. Gregory House, M.D. Everybody LIES!!!!!!!

.... the company asserts that the negative attention it has received is unfair and that espionage would be against its business interests: For our survival, we have never damaged any nation or had the intent to steal any national intelligence, enterprise secrets or breach personal privacy and we will never support or tolerate such activities, nor will we support any entity from any country who may wish us to undertake an activity that would be deemed illegal in any country.

Said while a PLA representative was (off camera) pointing a rifle at the "mouthpiece's" head. Why should anyone believe them?

Insecure SCADA kit has hidden factory account, password

Re: Service button -- you should have patented that :-)

I already have!!!

Now to start IP infringement lawsuits (like Apple).

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Voyager's 35th birthday gift: One-way INTERSTELLAR ticket

Re: The DTR must be a marvel.

I would suggest that the "tape" isn't your garden variety mylar or polyethylene backed crap found at your local 'nickel an dime' store.For this purpose, I bet it is some kind of metal based tape. Perhaps not unlike what was used in early airplane "black boxes" (as a data recorder, not the cockpit voice recorder). What is interesting is the transport mechanism. As you stated, stop, start, fast forward and rewind, all mechanical operations. And it must work flawlessly.

Another trans-Pac fibre mooted

Re: If you want to make it happen...become a haven for people to stash their money

Would you be suggesting a Pacific Ocean version of the Cayman Islands perhaps???

If that happens, i would bet that Romneymoney could find some change to "park there".

Internet Explorer needs fresh dev infusion for a full recovery

Re: Why developers hate IE?...half the browser window is taken up by toolbars

Oh, you mean like this:

http://www.woosk.com/2008/08/friends-dont-let-friends-use-ie.html

RE: was that advert full of crap?

Advert??

What fucking advert???

I don't see no fucking advert!!!

Oh, that's right, I use Firefox with Ad Blocker Plus and No Script. Two of the best reasons to abandon Internet Explorder on WindblowZE.

Re: Adobe Flash installs chrome and add-ins

Quote: I bet a good number of people get googlized by this.

Only if you suffer from Microsoft Click Monkey Syndrome. That is the inability to READ, and carefully notice what actions you are attempting to perform. I have no doubt that you didn't pay any attention to the "pre-checked" boxes in the download section. That is most likely HOW that additional shit got downloaded.

It can't be said enough: Some people are too fucking stupid to use a computer.

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