Posts by Gis Bun

Official: Seagate notebook drive has shingles

Re: Not a chance

Bad batch or something.

I have twin 1.5TB in my desktop. Now 26 months old. No issues

Re: SSDs in cheap laptops

Less needs according to whom? I know people who can fill up 2+ TB on a desktop with movies and music. Should be the same on a laptop and no need for an external drive.

Microsoft Office 365: You don't need 27 floppies, but there is desktop friction

Re: 2013 / 2016 / 365 for small businesses

If I'm not mistaken, the portal version gets continuously updated.

If you have a share, after installing [and depending on how old] you may need to download a few hundred MB or more to update after. Early on, there was 1.2GB to download of Office 2013 updates for just a month.

Five Eyes nations must purge terrorists from the web, says Theresa May

Easier said than done.

Oracle drops 248 – count 'em – 248 patches, to fix ... something

I was expecting at least half the issues to involve Java.

Trojan-filled Chrome extensions for Steam boil off gamers' assets

I guess Google forgot to screen this one....

Microsoft extends Internet Explorer 8 desktop lifeline to upgrade laggards

If a company or government is stuck at a certain OS or IE level, then it is incompetence at their time. This especially true with the OS part as Microsoft standardizes on 10 years support [plus a bit of extra time but not much].

So if you have software that was specifically built for Win7 and you haven't started to prepare for Win7's demise in 4+ years then you are incompetent.

Windows' authentication 'flaw' exposed in detail

You wonder what needs to be done to actually have this work. Many of these "flaws" require the person to have certain access that most don't have.

'Dear Daddy...' Max Zuckerberg’s Letter back to her Father

Max forgot that while Zuckerberg's fortunate is currently at $45 billion, assuming she won't have any siblings, she may not inherit not much more that $450 million after per parent kick the [money] bucket as her old man plans to give away almost all to charity.

BlackBerry axes BBM Meetings a year after launching it

More R&D wasted from a company that can barely afford it.

Google snoops on kids via Chromebooks, claims EFF in FTC filing

Why I always say, if you get a Chromebrick, format and install a real Linux distro.

Target settles with banks for $40m after data breach

Bad year for Target. $40 million on this. They spent $100+ million starting in 2013 in Canada to open 125 stores only to close them earlier this year - losing probably $100+ million.

Pure incompetence. I guess the board and senior management will get huge Xmas bonuses!

Kim Dotcom slams 'dirty ugly bully' Uncle Sam as extradition hearing ends

Arrogant blimp.

Should change his name to arrogant.com so he can hide himself. Maybe claim it wasn't him but this kim.com guy.

Why Microsoft yanked its latest Windows 10 update download: It hijacked privacy settings

Read elsewhere that it was pulled because Bitlocker wouldn't start up on a fresh install.

Any way to know the difference in version if looking at the install files? Dating?

Migraine in the mainframe: Unisys reports more losses

Unisys is still around. I though they went belly under years ago.

Support scammers target Mac fanbois

Registrars and hosting sites should immediately ban whomever registered or requested server space. The registrars and hosting sites should also notify others.

That said, shouldn't GoDaddy notice something was suspicious just with the domain name? It's like registering the web site Microssoft.com

Edward Snowden denies making a deal with the Russian secret service

This coming from a traitor and a liar.

All in all, it's just another hit in the stalls: Roger Waters The Wall

Waters is living in the past. He hasn't had a decent solo career and lives off his Pink Floyd music

Small wonder, little competition: Asus Chromebook Flip

People buy Chromebricks?

What Ashley Madison did and did NOT delete if you paid $19 – and why it may cost it $5m+

One wonder why you have to pay to get your account removed. Facebook doesn't do it. Neither for Hotmail or Gmail. Wouldn't be surprised if Apple charged though.

That said there are many fake accounts or where contact information which aren't valid. [And of course is valid for the dummies who were dumb enough to give real information.]

VMware refreshes its Fusion and Workstation desktop hypervisors

They're releasing versions too fast. Wasn't even 10 months ago when Workstation 11 was released.

Oh no Wikiwon't: Russians plan own version of 'distorted' Wikiland

Communism is officially back.

soon they will be like Checkov in Star Trek - rewriting history. Oh basketball was created by a Russian in St. Petersburg [not Florida] and baseball was created by a Russian in Leningrad.

Windows 10 now on 75 million devices, says Microsoft

OK. you can stick with your Windows 2000.

Re: pushing a free upgrade

I guess it depends on the people you know. 1 in 25 isn't much of a statistical sample. 1 in 2500 is different.

Apple: Samsung ripped off our phone patent! USPTO: What patent?

So then I can patent a cube [1" each side] and call it a media device. Maybe it will be a TV or a mp3 player.

Microsoft turns on Windows 10 file backup to Azure

Well, at least Azure backup is better than the hodge podge of backup software used previously. In versions going back to Windows XP and probably before, they deem to change the backup software with every new version of Windows. Quite annoying if you had to restore some data in Win7 with data backed up in Win Vista.

The Ashley Madison files – are people really this stupid?

I can see one spouse checking to see if the other spouse was cheating and vice versa.

Adulterers antsy as 'entire' Ashley Madison databases leak online

I can see one spouse checking to see if the other spouse was cheating and vice versa.

already reports that some addresses used are false.

Kaspersky Lab denies tricking AV rivals into nuking harmless files

You know something is wrong when they "attacked" two crappy anti-virus/malware developers [Microsoft and Avast] as well as a semi-crappy one [AVG].

Microsoft pushes us closer to the Edge: Test new web browser now in free Windows 10 VMs

Re: Stepped back

So you can tell the difference if Chrome opens up in 0.05 seconds and Edge in 0.1 seconds? Boy. You're good.

You CAN'T jail online pirates for 10 years, legal eagles tell UK govt

You have to wonder if given the max of 10 years for a cybercrime should be lengthier than rape, manslaughter [UK equivalent] or other more serious convictions.

Windows 10 Start menu replacements shifting like hot cakes

Don't like the tiles? Remove them....

We put Windows 10 on a small fondleslab: STILL not ready, 3 days to go

Wasting our time on this useless article with a build 2 weeks old.

Windows 10 in head-on crash with Nvidia drivers as world watches launch

There is a tool released by Microsoft that allows you to pick and choose updates not to install. kb3073930

BONK! BONK! Windows 10 whack-a-mole – Microsoft still fixing bugs

So this article is based on a two week old build? Give us a break. Sensationalism at its worse.

Chrome trumps all comers in reported vulnerabilities

Everyone knows Google decided to sacrifice security in favor of "speed". That's all they tout Chrome for. Meanwhile I think v38 fixed 150 vulnerabilities plus another 130 non-security fixes. That's just one update.

Ashley Madison invites red-faced cheats to bolt stable door for free

On a funny note, a Canadian network calculated that one in five adults living in the Ottawa region {Canada's capital city] are on the site. Expect many politicians!

US dominates net-security patents, China, Canada and Oz on the advance

Re: And how many...

You can't patent something that has been already patented.

probably can't patent something that is already out there either.

That said, there are some patents which are around but will never be used and others that have the oddest patenting [at least maybe until there are in conjunction with another patent].

Awoogah: Get ready to patch 'severe' bug in OpenSSL this Thursday

Yes. Another severe non-Windows security issue. As if we didn't have enough of these SSL issues this past year or so.

Why are there so many Windows Server 2003 stragglers?

Many government or organizations require a currently supported OS. These include SOX and PCIDSS.

Part of the blame can be out on management of a company. They know the life of the OS is generally 10 years. By year 7 [or before] they should be planning a migration and by the time year 10 begins they should be on the way finishing the migration.

Zionists stole my SHOE, claims Muslim campaigner

Can you say crackpot.

It's FREE WINDOWS 10 time: 29 July is D-Day, yells Microsoft

Microsoft has not said when OEMs [Dell, HP, etc.] will get the RTM. I am guessing maybe even before July 29th. OEMs would want new systems to have it in store at or just before the end of August in time for the school season.

Silicon Valley, episode 8: Larping, mogging and losing its way

Re: Thank you ElReg!

So you are hiring a bunch of high school drop-outs? :-)

Microsoft discontinues Media Center with Windows 10

Although not just for TV, I found it very slow to load even on my 4th generation Core i7 running on a SSD.

Windows and OS X are malware, claims Richard Stallman

And exactly who is this id10t again? Looks like he belongs in the 60s.

And very unbiased...... Not.

No wristjob, please, we're Apple fans: Just 10% would buy the Apple Watch

I know 3 fanbois. Not one is buying this.

Only 11% of teens [presumably with an iPhone already] intend on buying a watch - this is probably Apple's biggest purchasing group.

Windows 10 bombshell: Microsoft to KILL OFF Patch Tuesday

Truly a misleading title for the article.

Patch Tuesday will still continue but more like Security Tuesday.

Except for 0-day crtitical updates, Microsoft will continue to release them probably on the second Tuesday of the month. I can't see a security update released for IE on May 27th but the enterprises won't see it until June 9th.

Or they could release all updates as available but enterpriseswill continue to follow some type of Patch Tuesday cycle because they've been doing this for years.

Microsoft originally released updates as available but Enterprises didn't like the issue of rebooting 10 times a month. Hence, Patch tuesday was born. Except for out of the ordinary updates, one day per month for updates.

Personally, like Win 7, I will leave it to notify me but not install.

Ransomware scum find the sweet spot to coin it without copping it

Those with portable drives who do on the fly backups get scr?wed as well since the backup will also be hit.

Re: This one-off payment to decrypt data...

One time but once you get your data back, backup your data and wipe your hard disk clean. They can try again.

ONE BEELLION Windows 10 devices?! OH REALLY

Errrr. these research companies generally over estimate things. They said that netbooks would sell in 2013. By January 1, 2013, no netbooks were in production.

Although 1 billion sounds a bit high, I guess 750,000 would be more likely. Those with Win 8.x and Win 7 would upgrade in the first year for free. Others would come by dumping [finally] their XP and Vista systems]. Minimal amount from Surface and Win Phones. Big business would start in the second or this year.