$30 Option for consumers
From ElReg's first posting on this subject: "The ESU program for consumers will be a one-year option available for $30." https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/31/microsoft_windows_10_support/
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In 1984 SCL were making 6502 CPUs and building them into an authorised BBC Micro clone the 'SCL Unicorn'! I bought and sold one a few years ago. More details and photos at:
https://chrisacorns.computinghistory.org.uk/Computers/SCL_BBCB.html
In 1984 6502 weren't that far behind the curve I expect India couldn't keep up with the vast investments needed for chip manufacturing.
If automated i.e.
Caller: This is your credit card company Please confirm the following payment to Amazon.... or other scam. Press one to speak to an agent...
Me: Redirect call to Daisy
If a human i.e.
If automated i.e.
Caller: I'm calling from your credit card company Please confirm the following payment to Amazon.... or other scam.
Me: My wife does all our finances please hold the line and I'll get her
I then Redirect call to Daisy
I did wonder if there was something to look forward to, so looked up Putin's age, he is 72.
I am disappointed to report that according the UK's ONS a 72 year old's average life expectancy is 86 years/
"However there's a chance you might live longer. There is a 1 in 4 chance you will live to 92 years.There is a 1 in 10 chance you will live to 96 years.There is a 2.8 percent chance you will live to 100."
So no comfort there, I do wonder if he keeps away from windows and balconies...
In this and the 2021 case It shouldn't be too hard to find out who the accident claims management company was! Even if they were paid in cash surely they just need to ask those people who's details were stolen who contacted them?
I know many people will just have put the phone down or ignored the email but a significant proportion must respond otherwise it wouldn't be worth the money.
"Nowadays it is just as easy as opening a web browser, go to google, chatgpt or bard (or whatever) and asking for assistance, and most of the time you'll have the answer." I wouldn't trust ChatGPT to provide an answer that involved several steps and trying to use google search to confirm it, would probably be a self fulfilling prophecy whether correct or not. I'm reminded of: "Just because it's in a newspaper doesn't necessarily mean it is wrong!"
"(And then there's the "we are in the cloud" where they just run the same workloads on VMs in a cloud, instead of VMs in Hyper-V / VMWare on prem - again, not cheaper and mostly the same people needs)"
And adds a single point of failure that you have no control over!
"It is impossible for such a business to not have the money to pay all merchants in full without there being some sort of fraud going on... right? " Well that is how it should work but many companies don't use a separate 'Clients funds' account to their own account and even if they've not been profligate with spending they could end up with cash flow problems. It could be fraud, extremely bad management or just poor management we just don't know yet which.
I know that but it is only affecting Windows PCs and many users won't know if they are using CloudStrike's anti-malware product. If it would be correct to say this will probably only be effecting organisations that are big enough to have an IT department then stating that will reassure many people!
It's not affected our 4 Windows 10 PCs (mix of home,pro,32 & 64) it might be helpful to know which systems are failing!
If a Windows PC hasn't yet been turned on today is it safe to turn it on now?
I suspect old Windows xP, 7 & 8 might not be effected, if so that might help people with old normally unused systems.
I follow the rule that there should be three copies of current data, so 66% should be backups and then when you take into account historical copies I'd expect over 90% was unused. I'm sure many organisations have a lot of 'Unwanted' old data and many won't have a system in place to cull old data.
If the original Raspberry Pi organisation (before it split into Pi Trading and Pi Foundation) didn't make a 'profit' they couldn't have expanded and if it wasn't 'interesting' why would anyone buy their products or work for them?
Splitting into 'Pi Trading and Pi Foundation' is designed I believe to ensure the educational side can be focussed on its aims without needing to consider 'profit'
I wonder how many Apps do most people actually use. I've just looked at what I have installed.
In the last month I've used: FireFox, Chrome, Thunderbird, LibreOffice, Acrobat Reader, Word & Excel viewers
I would not expect any problem running those. Also Basic PAYE tools which I'd hope would run.
In the last year I've also used:
Garmin Connect. My new Garmin watch now uploads via my phone so no longer needed
Andica Tax Self Assesment for Partnerships. I'd expect it to run o.k. under emulation
File Zilla FTP. If it had a problem I'm sure another FTP client would be available
Datapower Reader. Gives me access to various old databases it would be a pain if it didn't run o.k. under emulation but that is the only program that might be significant
I have a few other Apps installed that I've not used in the last year.
The ones I anticipate to need again are:
Irfanview & Zoom
I think my wife only ever uses:
FireFox, Chrome, Thunderbird, LibreOffice, Acrobat Reader & Word viewer.
I think there is a bigger market than many IT professionals think.
"...juggle the numbers that are displayed ..."' I've only ever seen one of those myself and I see "no over the shoulder pattern opportunities." is good BUT without Pattern/Muscle memory many people won't be able to remember the number and will resort to writing it down and reading the paper copy before entering the number, making shoulder surfing a doddle.
I think it was Peter Cochrane ex of BT Research who talked of an inverse law of security. Something that needs little security will have a high level and something very important will have little e.g. Guest WiFi password in a small hotel being f%gUJ*"GlWbO9£4&rfH"@v and the Bank of England main vault having a four digit access code on a Post-It note stuck on the wall next to it.
Horses for courses!
"pay 1 percent of their revenue ... That would cover all Post-Open software used by the organization."
I can't see that working if I've understood it correctly. It would mean that if one small division of IBM used Post-Open software in one small project then IBM would have to 1% of global turnover.
Even it only applied to that particular division then companies would set up a division just for products that used Post-Open software.
I can't see a way round this! Have I misunderstood it or do you have a solution to this.
For comparison:
Voyager 1 i 15,134,324,455 mi, 162.81208868 AU, 22:34:04 Light hh:mm:ssi from Earth, moving AWAY from the Earth at a Velocity of 38,026.77 mph
Elon's Telsa Roadster. is: 58,606,261 miles, 0.630 AU, 5.24 light minutes) from Earth, moving TOWARD Earth at a speed of 7,719 mi/h (12,422 km/h, 3.45 km/s).
"IBM announced the TS1170 tape drive with 50 TB cartridges, which are capable of storing up to 150 TB through 3:1 compression." I suspect the 3:1 compression statement must have been heavily qualified. With many large files JPEG, MPEG etc having inherent compression I doubt a 3:1 average is possible on the files on my hard drive!
Yes after reading "At a top level, the recommendations identify actions EU member states should take, also including any necessary improvements to the security of seabed cables" I wondered what the recommendations were but don't see anything mentioned and struggle to think of any realistic physical protection that can be done. Maybe they are keeping that secret but I doubt it. Disaster planning and redundancy are I think the only options.
There are two camps: Power Cycling fixes everything AND Power Cycling is a waste of time you have to find out why it crashed.
with fuses it is:
Replacing a blown fuse will fix it AND you have to find out why the fuse went, dismissing a faulty fuse as the cause.
My philosophy is for none critical equipment: the first time it is necessary to power cycle / replace fuse make a note. If it happens again investigate.
Can anyone explain what the costs are being referred to here are: "But as ICANN's proposal for the idea noted: "Operators who choose to use private namespaces of the kind proposed in this document should understand the potential for that decision to have corresponding costs, and that those costs might well be avoided by choosing instead to use a sub-domain of their own publicly registered domain name."