Posts by gratou

New Zealand’s Institute of IT Professionals collapses

Yep 300 NZD pa.

French city of Lyon ditching Microsoft for open source office and collab tools

Re: US claims

No need for an EO. The existing CLOUD Act is enough.

Re: Better to lose the US market than the rest of the world ...

Throwing other babies out of their pram, considering how many people that he dislikes got attacked and fired, or worse.

Re: Hardly a surprise

.com is not country-specific. The TLD for the USA is .us . Your point about the US CLOUD Act applying to US companies anywhere in the world is still valid though.

Snake Keylogger slithers into Windows, evades detection with AutoIt-compiled payload

Re: Evades detection?

> Windows Startup folder allows scripts, executables, or shortcuts to run without required administrative privilege

This is what triggers me.

Yikes. Is Windows really still that insecure after all these years of "improving" it?

Is that the reason square brackets are added? There's no hyperlink for these strings. I don't understand how it's useful. Is that a standard procedure?

And the name RegSvcs.exe was not "neutralised" in this manner.

Who had Pat Gelsinger retires from Intel on their bingo card?

> I am pissed that Windows 10+ cannot run old code that Windows 7 could run.

Exactly. We still have the bloat but not the compatibility. Thank you MS.

Trump tariffs transform into bigger threats for Mexico, Canada than China

Re: Wow, have you shopped online recently?

If Trump had another neuron he'd look at the postage price that China still enjoys.

Windows 10 given an extra year of supported life, for $30

Re: Powerful Hardware?

It's not like these 6 generations changed much...

Microsoft lifts the price of System Center by ten percent

Companies going to the cloud lose the control of their costs and are the mercy of whatever increase the supplier fancies. Maybe that will sink in one day.

Fresh court filing accuses Oracle of creating 'maze' of options 'hidden' in 'contract'

Also: This contract nullifies all conversations and email exchanges that previously took place. Crazy

Linux Deepin 23: A polished distro from China that Western desktops could learn from

Not really. Cinnamon & co are the sensible interfaces. Windows keeps adding shit and moving things around.

Cinnamon (and Mate and xfce...) are anything but Windows: They work and they don't spend their time infuriating their users.

Who needs GitHub Copilot when you can roll your own AI code assistant at home

Re: Anonymice

It could probably be written in the passive form.

Whether suggestions are accepted or rejected.

But I agree, it's confusing as is.

Avast secretly gave DoNex ransomware decryptors to victims before crims vanished

Probably not 4th but doing very well thank you very much. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4nn7pej9jyo

After 13 years, Atlassian delivers custom domain names for Jira

Can you use jira.sucks.theregister.com ?

Windows 11 24H2 might call time on that old NAS under the stairs

Re: Voda Ultrahub

It could be as simple as adding your server to a white list, but that's too much forward thinking for MS. Better to allow for the whole security setting to be turned off and then blame the users.

Ten years ago Microsoft bought Nokia's phone unit – then killed it as a tax write-off

Re: Beancounter in charge

Intel too

Microsoft really does not want Windows 11 running on ancient PCs

Re: Alternative

MS pull this shit many times since. W8 obviously. Then W10. Each time a new GUI that users were supposed to just know how to use. Changing to a non-MS platform would have been easier than using the new MS nonsense, each time.

Plans to heat districts with datacenters may prove too hot to handle

Re: People may not want to live next to a datacenter

Or greenhouses

Tesla owners in deep freeze discover the cold, hard truth about EVs

The metals deform (expand and retract) in a not-100% elastic manner, their structure can change. Same for plastics, for example some solvents can evaporate to harden the insulating shield. Peanuts of course especially on small temperature changes but still not heat.

Meta, YouTube face criminal spying complaints in Ireland

Weird that DNT is mentioned when no consent should be enough regardless of DNT.

It's perfectly legal for cars to harvest your texts, call logs

Re: I can see two cases here

You can delete stuff on your PC, and you can secure it.

Bad eIDAS: Europe ready to intercept, spy on your encrypted HTTPS connections

Re: Never understood certs

Thank you for the clear détails.

Re: Never understood certs

Oh wow. How does that work? Surely forcepoint doesn't have the root certs for all certs? How can it replace all certs in one swoop so all https connections from a company PC are compromised?

Germany to cut Huawei from networks 'irrespective of costs'

Re: Please stop...

Non native speaker here. What's wrong with that?

AMD says transistor tech will keep Moore’s law alive for 6 to 8 years

Moore's law died when frequencies stopped increasing past 4 GHz.

Before that, you'd double your single thread processing power every 2 years.

Since then, meh.

Locked out of Horizon Europe, UK commits half a billion to post-Brexit research

Re: "the UK remains open to association" @heyrick

> the remainers interfered with the negotiations.

Which ones would that be exactly? The Tories were always in power on a pro-Brexit agenda, and BoJo signed the deal he negotiated and advertised as the greatest thing to ever happen the UK.

> The UK expressed no interest in a hard border only to keep deliveries to NI free flowing.

Exactly, the UK wants out of the Union but no borders. News flash: There can only be no borders if you're inside. The current deal was the only one possible considering the Good Friday agreement, and the UK themselves inflicted the Irish sea border.

Microsoft warns: Windows 11 update breaks provisioning

"safeguard your upgrade experience"

A new low here?

Looking forward to more providers who should supply service XXX and who safeguard my XXX experience by not providing XXX.

Jerks.

You thought you bought software – all you bought was a lie

Re: switch to an OS OS

Computers actually go backwards. At least Windows does. Disappearing scroll bars, hidden menus. XP or W7 were the best and they still had many defects. Win10 and 11 are rubbish.

Unhappy about excluding nation-state attacks from cyberinsurance? Get ready to pay

Re: The problem lies with the cyber world, not Lloyds

Good luck finding someone ready to guarantee software quality. With their own money. It won't happen.

Dev's code manages to topple Microsoft's mighty SharePoint

It's often an IT decision made to save IT $$$

Cloudflare explains how it managed to break the internet

Re: I'm curious

You missed the useful bit. It's not the 200 dollars. It's that there's not a *lot* of point in setting up multi-CDN if your authoritatives are tied to one of the providers that you're trying to mitigate against

Salesforce staff back an end to its relationship with NRA

Re: "How do we protect our 2nd amendment & our kids at the same time? "

Lol commie. The ultimate C word. Using it aure shows a complete understanding of the world.

Dear Europe, here again are the reasons why scanning devices for unlawful files is not going to fly

No you're not.. You're trying to see if they have known material.

Amazon puts 'creepy' AI cameras in UK delivery vans

Re: "the drivers need to be strongly incentivised to stop being antisocial bastards"

> and it will be changed

Wow it must be so nice to live in your lala land.

Taiwan, China square off over chip tech espionage laws

Re: Move Taiwan - If Possible

I know. Let's buy Greenland! /s

Why the Linux desktop is the best desktop

Re: Linux "Desktop"

I'm baffled by this comment. Just the way windows installs printers makes Linux a champion of simplicity and convenience. Has your never needed to print?

New Windows 11 build boasts inbox updates and UI tweaks

Oh wow tabs. MS are so innovative and so not 20 years late.

Muppets

RAID expansion comes to OpenZFS at last

It reminds me of Microsoft's threats against Linux for unspecified violations and their use of SCO to harass percieved competitors.

Use Zoom on a Mac? You might want to check your microphone usage

Re: Most of their Engineering still is

It's not metadata despite what the NSA says. It's data. Just like the contents is data, so is the time, duration, origin, destination, etc. All data.

Don't help spread the lie.

First they came for Notepad. Now they're coming for Task Manager

Re: Ms just does not know when to stop fiddling

While some settings fill up the whole screen and just have 5 lines of text

Alibaba splits itself into Chinese and overseas ops

Ali Express doesn't care about its the buyers. Its customers are the vendors. Maybe they'll change one day

In the meantime not really interested as i moved on.

Computers cost money. We only make them more expensive by trying to manage them ourselves

Re: Two unmentioned benefits

> data sovereignty issues (data can be limited to specific cloud data centers).

Unsure what you include in sovereignty but unless you use a small local operator your data is subject to the CLOUD act regardless of its location.

UK science suffers as lawmakers continue to dither over Brexit negotiations

Re: British institutions are left high and dry while science marches on without them

Yes but the scientists and their families are sovereign.

Or Franz Kafka

'Father of the Xbox' Seamus Blackley issues Twitter apology to AMD over last-minute switch to Intel CPUs

Re: I wonder....

It would have made a difference to AMD's coffers, and who knows where they'd be now with more RnD money then.

The old New: Windows veteran explains that menu item

Re: Always an important consideration

Funny how you say no telemetry for Enterprise but it isn't in the Home list of features. So sneaky. Just like MS thrn.

The M in M1 is for moans: How do you turn a new MacBook Pro into a desktop workhorse?

Don't make excuses. One single port available when charging is ludicrous.

So tired of the "premium" products getting fewer and fewer features. Likes phones ditching the earphone port after having ditched removable battery and more. On the plus side the Samsung galaxy A line is cheaper than the S line while being perfectly sufficient and featuring the beloved 3.5mm socket.

Apple is happy to diss the desktop – it knows who's got the most to lose

Re: "Legacy of single user on a disconnected PC"

>NT's better designed,

You meant the NT that could freeze for a second when you inserted a CD? Good one. Or do you mean its more recent W10 offspring that can still be crashed by Excel? Shite the whole lot. And I'm no fan boy. The competing offerings are far from perfect.