Posts by leexgx

Microsoft stumps loyal fans by making OneDrive handle Outlook attachments

This happened to one of my parents accounts and I couldn't understand what was wrong with it because the stupid Outlook app that runs on the mobile phone doesn't tell you anything about what's happening or space on your account it just pops up with error (not stating what the problem was)

Even when I logged into the account on the desktop browser it wasn't clear right away what happened because it says there was 9gb available

I am a computer tech but I use Google so I wasn't aware of them doing this until now, god help people who are computer illiterate

Emails should stay with emails setting attachments as onedrive is stupid move because it's limit is 5gb but email is 15tb but without attachments it should just be 15tb across everything)

Lockbit wins ransomware speed test, encrypts 25,000 files per minute

Re: Kudos to the coder

Lokbit is best case use for snapshots as it will use very little data so modified data be under 1-100gb so easy to revert

Most of the nas based ransomware hasn't gained enough access to erase the snapshots just user level to encrypt files (I believe qnap patched it to make/fixed so snapshots are harder to be deleted as non admin could delete snapshots in the past )

Openreach out and hike prices on legacy fixed-line products: Broadband plumber pulls trigger after Ofcom gives the nod

Re: We've switched to LTE

Openreach is in the process rolling out fttp so you should get it eventually (aim is 2025 for 95%, I would say closer to 2030 before completion) , especially areas that only get ADSL, openreach is planning on going compleat fibre removing all copper (probably be around 2030-35 before that happens)

but might be 1-7 years old before it happens rolling out fibre to the premises is a Significant undertaking

Buggy chkdsk in Windows update that caused boot failures and damaged file systems has been fixed

Re: When is it safe to make the jump?

Install windows 10 Pro and then use Gpedit to set updates to 20 days delay on normal updates and 150 days delay on feature updates, this prevents most issues because everyone els gets to beta test release updates before they get to you (if they are really bad they pull the update within the that 15 days so you shouldn't get a bad update)

Gpedit > admin templates > windows components > (scroll to bottom) and windows update > windows update for business users

Set "preview and feature updates" > set to 150 and semi-annual channel

Set " quality updates" the to 20 days or higher

Every pc i work on indo this

End-to-end encryption? In Android's default messaging app? Don't worry, nobody else noticed either

Re: Just another Google project

Rcs is going to replace sms so it won't shutdown and eventually it's the mobile providers that will have the servers which some of them do already

Google rcs servers are forcing mobile operators to depoy their own servers (as mobile operators don't have control of the rcs system when Google is hosting it and companies like nsa can't intercept the messages if the mobile operator doesn't have their own RCS server)

Re: There's Nothing Fundamentally Wrong With The Idea Behind RCS

Apple will have to support rcs as it's going to replace Sms in next 10 years, apple have their chance to allow iMessage to work on Android and they never made an app for it

No avg person is going to use signal because it doesn't come with the phone by default (samsung message and Google message does) and rcs is going to replace sms

WhatsApp is the exception because most people has it to send photos for free (where as its 20-70p to send a mms)

Western Digital shingled out in lawsuit for sneaking RAID-unfriendly tech into drives for RAID arrays

Re: Wrong credit.

It was reported around 2019 july 21st but it wasn't taken seriously until around 2020 April when bigger sites taken it on (Synology has posts a far back as 2019 July)

I am Surprised it taken this long for it to be recognised

Re: up to 2TB, it makes no sense to go mechanical

Hdd sentinel still requires that they drive actually logs any smart events that's (I use it on every pc it's not perfect at all)

what Google were saying they had drives that showed no signs that they were actually failing via smart they just basically failed without logging anything I smart,, but drives that did show smart of some sort they didn't last too long afterwards

Re: Silly way to drive customers away

"" They're all doing it.""

Yes on consumer line (witch isn't ideal)

but seagate and Toshiba never attempted to drop smr into nas or enterprise hdds (unless specifically marked as SMR for the Enterprise side) they normally make a very specific model that is smr (and most of them are host managed smr)

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes: UK man gets 3 years for torching 4G phone mast over 5G fears

Re: 3 years for a terrorist offence ?

Yep my profits, no mobile signal I don't get money for jobs that I won't be getting

Vodafone is very aggressive at overlapping coverage so probably have to take down 3 masts per area just to cause a problem

Non ionising radio waves is below light (ghz range) its Thz range (light and above the visible spectrum) that can be more harmful

You should be more worried about light bulbs and the sun then a mobile mast (at best a mobile mast might heat you up if you hug it or closer then 1 meter to it in front of the cell, phones power output is very low as well)

Re: That may be true

Without a land line you can't have broadband (unless your on virgin or real fibre)

Re: why vital?

Landlines/hardware connections aren't fully immune from this crap (some FTTC/FTTP cabs have been set on fire as well)

Re: He used the wrong excuse

Yep (anti radio waves)

Re: He used the wrong excuse

The thing was if it was just matter of setting the mast on fire he probably would of been put in the loony bin, but he had plans on how to take a mast out (he put some effort into planning to set something very specific on fire)

Anyone who thinks radio waves spreads virus should be on a watch list

Re: He isn't all bad.

What's with the backwards up vote and down votes on these posts (I guess truthers don't actually like being told that they're actually wrong)

GHz is below Thz (be scared of light bulbs and emm the sun)

Median speeds for UK 5G four times faster than 4G, but still way behind US and South Korea

They wouldn't install the 5g until they have the required backhaul to cover it

The radio side is what always gets maxed out first unless there is a broken backhaul link like there is about 5 miles away from me on ee (daytime speed is 0.1-0.5mb down and 40mb upload 220-300ms ping and high jitter on this specific mast Band 3 Band 7 and carrier aggregation doesn't matter what it's on)

Re: Scientific Method?

Can't see why that matters both phones are the same, it's the network setup that matters

Vodafone (12 month £30, 1 month £32) and ee (5g business plan £33 12m) do unlimited (o2 £35 for 12m and 3uk for £20/£21/£26 24/12/1m)

The personal ee 5g plan is a rip off at £44 (all plans as well the 4g £33 unlimited plan should have 4g and 5g included as we don't live in the USA)

There is smarty as well witch runs on 3 (unsure about them)

I don't count virgin mobile not so unlimited as it has a 3.7mb/s speed cap on ip addresses that use a lot of data (like twitch and Google services) but you can bypass the speed cap

Giffgaff I don't count as well as it has 40gb high speed cap and its speeds are still rubbish any way before you even hit 40gb

New CentOS Linux distro sips updates from RHEL codebase like an ever-flowing Stream

Re: The Windows comparison

if you use window 10 pro you can control the updates some what more

20 days delay on normal updates and 150 day delay on feature os upgrade

this norm make sure you getting well tested updates (so everyone els who uses normal settings can brake there pcs first and normally ms pulls the broken update within 7-15 days so when it re released it shouldn't break your customers who set to 20 day deley )

Ofcom probes EE over 4G outage that may have stopped folk contacting emergency services

Re: weird...

it will drop to 3g if voLTE is can't connect the call (the issue is the call was connected as far as the phone was concerned it was been dropped at ee end)

due to a issue internally on EE side the call was connecting as a working so the phone would not drop to 3g, but due to some goof at ee end when ee internal network tryed to make the call, it would drop the call

under normal conditions if the phone cant make a 4g connect to mast it will drop to 3g or even 2g to make the call (even in active call it will switch between 3g and 2g to keep the call going, even wifi calling switch if phone supports it)

Re: weird...

if the call can not connect via VoLTE it should automatically drop to 3g or even 2g to make the call connect (i have had it happen a number of times where i made a call and it dropped to 2g for some reason to make the call work)

so the call was likely connecting to EE services fine but failing at ee side and resulting in it failing to drop to 3g (as it was dropping the call like the other person was not available the phone/mast side was working fine) EE should of disabled VoLTE so calls drop to 3g when they get or make a call when the 4g calling was broken (the Volte icon would of disappeared assuming your phone shows 4g calling icon typically )

Openreach needs to snap that BT umbilical cord, warns Ofcom

Re: Fibre

Yep we have fiber right now if it was not for that stupid decision (I understand why they did it because at the time there was no unbundling or virtual unbundling light we have on vdsl I am not calling it fiber)

bt actually built a factory for all the fiber and equipment (most of it any way) there wouldn't of been a single copper line at all apart from cable

Virgin cable would actually have to compleat with open reach and fix utilisation issues in certain Street areas and we would of had docsis 3.1 > 1gb speeds last year (not long after docsis 3.1 was made)

YouTube mystery ban on hacking videos has content creators puzzled

Re: YouTorrent?

Http://d.tube is another one (actually get paid on that one) does take about a week or 2 to get a account or you can pay to get a steemit account

No Telegram today, protestors: Chinese boxes DDoS chat app amid Hong Kong protest

Re: Snip

In the uk BT just flat out traffic shapes all traffic to about 100 kbs (I have to use a vpn/or hotspot from phone to download drivers if it's cn hosted)

Tesla driver killed after smashing into truck had just enabled Autopilot – US crash watchdog

Re: What's the point?

Most USA trucks do not have the side barriers on their trailers (which is mandatory in the EU) the problem is the car is probably perceiving the trailer as an actual Bridge if these trailers had the side impact barriers that should be enough for the car to actually see it the problem is he was traveling at highway speeds so even if it did see it it wouldn't have braked anyway automatic brake system would have not engage because it would have ignored it as being a static object which happens on all cars that have automatic braking when you're travelling above 20 30 mph

Boeing boss denies reports 737 Max safety systems weren't active

Re: 2 big no-no's - if it's Boeing, I am NOT going!

MCAS can only reactivate if the pilot switch back on the trim power runaway trim procedure is to cut the trim powered system but on the last flight that crashed they actually switched it back on which finally resulted in the plane doing a final trim down again on the lion air crash they never remove the power to the trim system they just simply kept the button on the up trim on the sticks lion air crash they never remove the power to the trim system they just simply kept the button on the upstream on the sticks they knew they were fighting the power trim system but at no point for the 12 minutes the fault was happening they never removed the power to the trim system which is very bad

As long as there's fibre somewhere along the line, High Court judge reckons it's fine to flog it as 'fibre' broadband

Emm no

The issue is FTTC is not FTTP and they call FTTC fibre when it should be called near fibre or part fibre or just fast broadband and adsl should be called broadband and FTTP should be called fibre broadband (I know people who have "fibre" fttc broadband and they only getting 3mb vdsl lock speeds) as the areas city fibre is in phone line connections are been sold as fibre when they are not

Virgin is odd one here as they do use copper but its hybrid network and can deliver upto 500mb/30mb (soon 1gb) on there services and are not limited by line length witch FTTC is

Hey mate, are you dense? Why, yes. Yes, I am, says the NAND in Micron's new client SATA SSD

Re: 180TBW

It be plenty for normal home/office use

most people don't write more than 5-10 terabytes of written data in their lifetime, 2-3 years example

Alleged SIM swapping crypto-crooks cuffed, iOS app snooping, ad-fraud botnets, and more

Sms should not be used for 2fa

It should be an 2fa app, that requires the person unlock the phone < fingerprint or unlock pin> like Microsoft authenticator app or yahoo mail app does it when you turn it on, personally it should be enabled by default (on 2fa/yes-no apps)

and 10 backup 1 time use codes

Never sms (but Google and Ms you still have to use mobile number or other email for account recovery unless it's in hardened mode for Google)

Sms 2fa is done because its consumer friendly

While everyone coos at the promise of 5G, UK network Three asks if it can tempt you with 4G+

Re: Three's 4G significantly slower than their 3G

Your probably on 4g800 (if you can make a call and keep 4g connected your on the slow 4g800 witch priority VoLTE not data resulting in slow speeds (other 4g bands on 3 are not enabled for VoLTE calling resulting in dropping to 3g to allow call to work )

Be nice if CA is available here or not

You need to put phone into flight mode and back out and see if it puts you on 4g2100 or 4g1800 if available in your area

On iPhone you won't know if your on VoLTE 4g800 or most android phones, unless it's China ones (cubot, ulefone, Huawei or Samsung show VoLTE)

One thing that is annoying on three and ee they don't allow active data session session 4g up (so if your connection drops to 3g it will stay on 3g until your data goes idle for about 3-10 seconds) unsure if vodafone is. Same

O2 (and o2 NVMO s) on the other hand will happy switch up and down 3g and 4g when better signal is available even if data is active (twitch youtube, streaming audio etc)

Chrome 70 flips switch on Progressive Web Apps in Windows 10 – with janky results

Re: Sub Optimal UI?

seems to have broken adblock as well (had one of my customers PC running adblock a loop in turn braking websites )

about to hit the restart chrome button now see what happens to mine

Decoding the Google Titan, Titan, and Titan M – that last one is the Pixel 3's security chip

Re: One Secure Boot to bring them all

more than likely you lose the secure enclave when you root/bootloader unlock the phone (official bootloader unlock) so no hardware security (no NFC payments or hardware backed screen lock)

Once more with feeling: Windows 10 October 2018 Update inches closer to relaunch

Re: I'm just wondering

all my computers and other systems i have touched are only just getting 1803 upgrade offer now

win 10 pro (pro keys are like less then £3 ignore the site if it says it has to be a clean install of windows it will change to pro fine) set it to non targeted mode and +100 day delay on upgrade and 15 day delay on normal updates

this more or less prevents buggy normal windows updates (as MS pulls and fixes them normally within 7 days) and very tested feature build is going to be used (my systems are not going to be used for not very well tested release updates)

Bitcoin backer sues AT&T for $240m over stolen cryptocurrency

yep it should be asking for the pin that the customer had set and if its Not provided Sim swap will be prevented and they should not be able to override that (not a random underpaid store rep who going to be looking for a new job soon unless that's sweeping floors at the jail)

Re: A Fool And His Money..

AT&T for its part has promised to fight the lawsuit. "We dispute these allegations and look forward to presenting our case in court," said a representative.

well what does AT&T have to dispute they violated there own rules on there own security practices (if any thing that store employee should be fired fined and jailed for bypassing a high risk security measures )

Re: A Fool And His Money...

he should of changed from 1FA SMS to 2FA codes , i would not trust my 25m in None reverse charge money on just 1FA SMS codes

assuming what ever bad website he was using that was using SMS 2FA as 1 Factor as they should of not been able to log into the account unless they are using SMS 1FA as the password option to reset it witch is comicle

what site was he using that allowed sms to be used to purely bypass password

SMS 2FA gave us sweet FA security, says Reddit: Hackers stole database backup of user account info, posts, messages

Re: Visa

my bank is a little to trusting with that they only need Chip and pin to take out large amounts of money at the desk (even though its policy to show 2 forms of ID, they they do know who i am witch mite be why they skip it but still said chip and pin is enough at the desk)

but 2FA for SMS is just because they believe using the authenticator app for 30 second codes is to hard for Joe public

its for most part quite easy to do "SS7" (all SMS show on a web page)

or they hijack the phone accounts (sim swap so they have a sim card with there number so can get the SMS codes) typically they convenience they are you and get them to do a sim swap (seen some mobile companies Reactivate a sim card after it was reported by the owner as hijacked account stolen a lot of money from someone's account)

SMS is very insecure for someone who is targeting you

they should be using a 2FA APP or RSA keys

i wish Google would Let me not use a email or number for 1FA account recovery (they do have a locked down account mode where you have to use 2 U2F keys (one is U2F bluetooth/NFC push button, second one is backup and account recovery), even if i have 2FA enabled on my account,

if i remove the recovery options i run the risk of never been able to get into my account if its locked out for some reason, as it asks for things that i don't know (my phone it self should be the ultimate trusted source but that can be Delinked from the google account)

And that is definitively that ... for now. 5G's carrier features frozen

Yep it only be faster if your in range of multiple cells

5g will be more beneficial in dense areas where lots of people are at like train stations, sport stadiums, and large events as they will setup micro cells inside the station ( realistically at the moment only EE can do it on 4g) , but with 5g that should open up more to other providers but we are talking like 3-4 years time line here as no has a phone that supports the higher 5g bands and due to 2 year contracts and likely 5g support only on high end phones (samsung seems to be getting it first next year phone)

In London some networks just don't work at peak time because to many people in one location (even worse when train is late as every one jumps on there phones) 5g should resolve this as more people start to get 5G supported phones

TSB meltdown latest: Facepalming reaches critical mass as Brits get strangers' bank letters

Sms Should not be used for 2fa purposes

It should be code generator ( Authenticator app) or the banking app it self

UK mobile operator Three launches Superdrug Mobile MVNO

Re: Rubbish Coverage

I do use 3uk for there unlimited data for video streaming

I typically force the phone into LTE only mode as i generally have good to low 4g coverage but low in some spots enough for it to drop to 3g even thought signal is enough for 4g to work and stay on it when streaming video (I do lose calling having it on 4g only but the second phone is only for data only)

Re: Rubbish Coverage

I would not say 3uk coverage is rubbish but I would not use them as my main mobile provider (never for business) as overall coverage is not the best but good enough

Overall coverage if you take 2g into account seems to be vodafone and then o2 and ee after that (I find O2 has best housed area coverage for 3g as they place pole masts near housed areas)

Wanted that Windows 10 update but have an Intel SSD? Computer says no

comments about drivers and stuff been made badly does not make sense

a device that has been working on Vista, 7 and windows 8 has generally always worked, with windows 10 a Program or driver can break after a feature upgrade when it was working perfectly fine before

why is MS changing the rules every single feature upgrade comes available, at this point MS is going to be forcing developers to go back to the old days where all support files are baked into program directory again (but this does not help old unsupported but perfectly working hardware from been broken by MS)

if this install brakes on my system i going to be using LTSB after

currently using windows 10 pro with it set to Semi-Annual (Not Targeted witch is CBB) 15 update delay + 120 days wait after its feature upgrade is available for CBB (Semi-Annual (Not Targeted)

15 day delay is due to MS in the past releasing updates that break stuff

its quite annoying even basic things like sound cards don't work after a feature upgrade (some older sound blaster cards no longer work , max windows 10 version 1705 in 1803 stuff just braking )

just don't understand why they have to tweak with the driver and software model that breaks stuff that has been working for over 6 months to 10 years fine (yes braking windows 10 compatible devices and software that has only just recently come out and MS blames the device or program maker for not following MS guidelines when MS keep on changing it between versions)

i had to install Win10 LTSB on a one system because each new feature upgrade was causing new problems

Shining lasers at planes in the UK could now get you up to 5 years in jail

i have stopped some cyclists as i could not see past them (1 billion candle light on there bike) flashing is totally illegal as well

one time i was going up the hill and i thought it was another car but it was 1 light coming down the hill + once i got past them there was 5-6 other bikers behind them that i could not see even though they had normal bike lights until i had past the first biker

any bike light that uses a HID LEDs (like the ones that have external battery pack) it should be Flat beam or a fined for having it on the bike (some of them doesn't even matter if its pointed at the ground) most of them have 2-3 power level settings

its gotten to the point now where i going to call the police next time it happens as a lot of them are doing it on purpose i was trying to tell a old person and she was refusing to point it at the ground (its bad enough that some cars have illegal HID headlights or point up at the sky)

Look how modern we are! UK network Three to kill off 3G-only phones

Re: Crazy, Good luck

think your confusing speed with signal (phone will prefer the faster technology and wont know if its congested or not)

sound like your area on 4G is little overloaded or signal is below 2 bars (2-3 bars on android devices can mean less than 10-20% signal) only iphone shows true signal levels (they fixed there signal bars in the days of iphone 4S as at&t was blaming iphone for poor signal so apple updating there signal bars to show a correct representation of the signal for each bar)

https://images.anandtech.com/reviews/gadgets/apple/iPhone4/part2/signalbarmapping.jpg

https://www.anandtech.com/show/3821/iphone-4-redux-analyzing-apples-ios-41-signal-fix

to this date android devices still don't correctly show signal levels, 2 or lower bars can mean practically no signal on android (unless you change it to dBm numbers) whereas iphone will show 1 dot

Re: Forward thinking?

it still is an issue in the UK the google pixel phone for 4G calling (VoLTE) for example only works on EE as the 4G IMS profile is backed into the rom for EE but Three and, o2 vodafone dont have 4G calling resulting in unreliable connecting of calls as the phone has to drop to 3G before it can ring,, witch sometimes fails to happen, on 3 its worse as 3 does not support missed call notification text so you be unaware your missing calls unless you use hullomail app which works like apple visual voicemail (you get a missed call notification if they hang up or voicemail which can be played directly in the app), most Virtual mobile providers don't support missed call text (for sure EE vodafone and O2 do)

on top of that it also seems 3UK does Fake ringing before it's actually connected the call (had one day where all 3UK calls was not working outbound but when i rang it on my EE phone it was doing the ringing tone but the 3 phone was not ringing)

Project Lightning, you say? Virgin Media's fibre rollout is pretty glacial

be nice if they would replace my coxa for FTTN (as its still coxa just the fiber to the node is actually in the house not 2 streets away)

Heir to SMS finally excites carriers, by making Google grovel

Re: SMS vs random new system

main issue with SMS is very easy to redirect them (SS7 hijacking) 2FA codes should not be using SMS