Posts by Gis Bun

Apple nabs smartphone top spot from Samsung, but for how long?

Re: Never is a long time

>> Samsung Galaxy S* range are priced in the same area as the iPhone.

You sure about that? Apple barely drops the price except when they want to dump stock. Samsung models tend to drop in price within a month.

Only a temporary thing. Apple released the iPhone 7 - so all the fanbois and fangurls waited in line to get it. Plus it came out before the holidays. Samsung still had decent sales even with the Note 7 mess. Samsung will be back on top when the Galaxy S8 comes out very soon.

Apple weans itself off Intel with 'more ARM chips' for future Macs

Reduce the cost to make a Mac and not pass the saving to the consumer. Perfect!

'Webroot made my PCs s*** the bed' – AV update borks biz machines hard

Wow. Some corporates use Webroot?

Apple goes global in Qualcomm license war: Patent spat hits China

Re: @Steve Davies 3

They probably have in-house lawyers. Gives them something to do. Paid whether or not they are busy with lawsuits.

Apple can do this but it doesn't mean Qualcomm will sell parts to Apple again. Qualcomm isn't forced to sell to Apple. on the other hand, it is a big purchase.

Trump lieutenants 'use private email' for govt work... but who'd make a big deal out of that?

Republicans are all hypocrites.

Oh. There is no way of knowing if the party's server is more secure than Clinton's server.

Meanwhile, according to hacker WauchulaGhost [who claimed to have hacked 500 pro-ISIS accounts], the Twitter accounts for Trump, Melania Trump and Mike Pence are more vulnerable to hackers because of a basic Twitter security setting they're not using. With a little bit of work "he" figured out that the Twitter account for Pence is a associated with a less secure Gmail account and both Trumps also use Gmail accounts.

Trump also using a non-government issued Android phone for his personal use still.

President Trump tweets from insecure Android, security boffins roll eyes

Meanwhile, according to WauchulaGhost [who claimed to have hacked 500 pro-ISIS accounts], the Twitter accounts for Trump, Melania Trump and Mike Pence are more vulnerable to hackers because of a basic Twitter security setting they're not using. With a little bit of work "he" figured out that the Twitter account for Pence is a associated with a less secure Gmail account and both Trumps also use Gmail accounts.

Re: Sean Spicer too

He's a real dumb ?ss.

Re: hang on...

Not made in the USA. More like designed. If it was made then add $150 to the price.

Trump fan Peter Thiel 'considering' CA Terminator role*

California is a Democrat state. Only reason why Arnie got in was that he's a Tinsletown celebrity [not saying he did a bad job as the Governator].

For Thiel, I wouldn't bother if [as expected] Trump makes a mess of the US.

It's now 2017, and your Windows PC can still be pwned by a Word file

Meanwhile 2 Linux OSs topped 2016 with the most CVEs reported. So is Windows that vulnerable?

Anti-smut law dubs PCs, phones 'pornographic vendor machines', demands internet filters

"...acknowledge the receipt of a written warning about the dangers of deactivating the filters..." Dangers? Like? Seeing someone showing a buttock or something? It's not like texting while driving.

Oh Britain. Worried your routers will be hacked, but won't touch the admin settings

ISPs should find a way to block out routers that have the default password enabled and block the user until they change it.

It's been quite a few years since router manufacturers forced you on first usage to change the default password. So any of these older ones are unsupported by now and probably don't even have the latest firmware.

I was happy to see my new TP-Link Archer C2600 force me to not only change my password but also the default name [from "admin"].

Seagate laying off 2,217 employees

Probably where my 4TB portable drive was made. It died horribly in October taking with it years of music, video, software, etc.

New Windows 10 privacy controls: Just a little snooping – or the max

Re: bah

"...but who protect us against Microsoft?" - The federal government. France is still trying to get them to reduce the amount of data grabbed.

Re: Rule number 0

Oh I don't think Microsoft goes after individuals as much as the people who pirate their software en masse.

"But getting rid of Windows altogether would be much nicer...." Buy yourself a Mac! Ha. Ha. Ha.

Face it. You will have those that will whine that even turning all this stuff off will still mean too much data for Microsoft.

One poster [elsewhere] claimed that Microsoft makes millions a year by selling your data - which would be illegal to do and the poster had nothing to back up the claim except his/her conspiracy theories.

A reminder that Windows 7 has telemetry features. I'm sure some didn't know that....

So instead of whining, grab some of the tools out there from Spybot and O&O and disable what you can and use a local account.

IBM boss pledges to hire 25,000 Americans in next four years

Surprised she didn't ask the government to pay for all the salaries of the new employees trained.

MacBook Pro owners complain of short batt life – so Apple kills batt life clock in macOS

Typical Apple. They think killing the percentage will make the problem go away.

Are you listening, Mr Trump? World's largest tech distie is now owned by the Chinese

Add Softbank who claims it will add 50,000 jobs in the US [at least not burger flippers] and Foxconn exploring to build gadgets in the US. We'll see if either follow through. Foxconn has a history of not doing what they say.

Meanwhile I wonder how many tax incentives it will cost the government.

90 per cent of the UK's NHS is STILL relying on Windows XP

How modern!

HMS Illustrious sets sail for scrapyard after last-ditch bid fails

Sell it to the Russians. Supposedly the Russian carrier they sent to bombard Syrian "rebels" is falling apart badly. Only 25 working toilets for 2000+ sailors [I would guess less toilets if the captain and senior staff have their own!]

Firmware freakout sends Epson Wi-Fi printers into reboot loop

Epson's reply will be: "This is a feature. It is done so by design."

Netflix and fill – our coffers: Canada mulls taxing vid streaming giant 5% of subs cash

Netflix Canada get maybe a quarter of the [good] content that Netflix US gets. Takes a few months before it comes to Canada.

BTW, for a politician, Melanie Joly is quite hot. :-)

Re: This could get ugly

Uh. Why? Already paying federal & provincial taxes on my monthly bill.

Re: Fucking Politicians

Does anybody buy blank CDs?

Lenovo: If you value your server, block Microsoft's November security update

Why am I not surprised with Lenovo. So far I haven't seen any announcements from HPE, Dell or others with this issue. Always seems to be Lenovo [whether the server division or laptops/desktops] where they seem to scr?w something up.

Re: Go ahead

Maybe they don't think a kernel vulnerability is critical?

Re: Go ahead

"...Lync is so bad that they replaced it with Teams...." And where is the official news release from Microsoft saying this? Ya. There isn't any. Nice dreaming.

Re: Go ahead

"....even Exchange is rare in some industries...." And where did you get that information from? Where are the facts?

Obama awards honours to Grace Hopper, Margaret Hamilton for computing contributions

I guess a few who were honored outside of the tech field were honored because they'd never be honored under a Trump administration: Bruce Springsteen, Robert Redford, Robert De Niro, and Michael Jordan - all left wing supporters.

Mozilla launches 'privacy edition' Firefox... that phones home

That's a bit like Google saying "we don't read your Email" but still do it....

Seagate plans to bring down the 16TB HAMR... soon(er)

Just think of all the porn that can store if in an array....

:-)

After Microsoft joins Linux, Google Cloud joins .NET Foundation

I know a guy [when young] where his great dane lived together with 4 cats. So sh?t happens.

Antivirus tools are a useless box-ticking exercise says Google security chap

AV may or may not be a scam. But maybe this guy should concentrate on cleaning up the Android OS before whining.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise to outsource global IT team to CSC borg

Hopefully the new company won’t have “HP” in it!

Apple drops dongle prices to make USB-C upgrade affordable

Errr. Dongle made in China and probably cost Apple nearly bupcus. Maybe it's all the R&D they are trying to recover.

Apple grounds AirPods launch with shipping delay

Dummies. Not too smart. You want this iGadget to be released at the same time as the iExpensive. Like selling a big screen TV but the remote isn't available yet.

Amazon certifies third-party refurbishers: How good and new is good as new?

If it wasn't for the year warranty, I wouldn't touch anything refurbished.

Apple's car is driving nowhere

What a waste of maybe hundreds of millions. Sounds like something Google would do.

Lenovo be Nimble, Lenovo be quick, inks deal to take on Dell EMC kit

Maybe Lenovo should fix things in their own house before they spread their useless tentacles elsewhere.

Dell/Quest Software plans layoffs and relocations – source

So they basically did a Symantec [with what became of Veritas].

Windows 10 market share fell in September

Generally an Os drops if on the way out [older MacOS, Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8.x] but for a new OS to drop, something doesn't make sense.

No way you can have say 2 million people downgrade [before they can't] at the same time of all the new W10 purchases.

Fujitsu in talks to bail from PC market, Lenovo one of the suitors

Lenovo should fix their own systems before adding more problems.

Lenovo specific vulnerabilities.

Malware used in some kit included in the install bloatware.

You can even add 26 years ago when Lenovo Canada offered 70% off laptops [should of been 30%] and then didn't honor the 70% off.

Is Apple's software getting worse or what?

Quality control at Apple died when Jobs went to the big Mac in the sky...

You heard right: Huawei's making phones in Chennai

If India gets to expensive they'll outsource to the Martians but the Martians will have to pay for the shipping.

I've seen one site uses beige keyboards from the 90s [or before] as their picture. Might as well throw some 8" floppies while at it.

Heathrow airport and stock exchange throw mystery BSODs

Win XP embedded support died in January. Many equate it with the consumer edition.

Dell overtakes HPE in server shipments as worldwide sales shrink

So HPE sold less but had more revenue? Over-priced cheaply made servers with less support?