Posts by beardman

UK may already be at war with Russia, ex-MI5 head suggests

In the West they call it "hybrid warfare". If they called it what it really is - the war - they would need to do something about it. Now they can just sit on their hands...

Not in my browser! Vivaldi capo doubles down on generative AI ban

Too bad Vivaldi is based on Chromium. Will still use Firefox as its new shit is manageable by disabling it in about:config and it still has one killer feature - multi account containers.

Aeroflot aeroflops over 'IT issues' after attackers claim year-long compromise

ruzzia should be a no fly zone until they leave Ukraine.

AI scores a huge own goal if you play up and play the game

I'm sure everyone would benefit for a reference to the mentioned CMU experiment. Otherwise it looks like that AI hallucination about non-existent research/papers/laws/etc.

Microsoft slows Windows 11 24H2 Patch Tuesday due to a 'compatibility issue'

This is what happens when you put LLM in charge of update release. I know, they haven't said this is the case, but given their push of copilot down engineers throats...

Ukraine strikes Russian bomber-maker with hack attack

Re: UAC

Are you suggesting Ukraine should have bent over and let putler take it? It's very obvious you have no idea what ruzzian occupation means. Been there and can tell you death while defending yourself is probably better.

Heterogeneous stacks, ransomware, and ITaaS: A DR nightmare

The more homogenous your infrastructure is the easier it is to take it down in one swoop. Take it from biology - it's the diversity that makes a specie resistant to a disease.

Musk's xAI swallows Musk's X in ego-friendly, all-stock deal

So, dude basically runs his very private Ponzi scheme.

The biggest microcode attack in our history is underway

Re: What is this article about again ?

It literally follows ElReg's motto:

The Register - Biting the hand that feeds IT

How Windows got to version 3 – an illustrated history

Use of 386 protected mode was a lie until WindowsNT

Windows has not used 386 protected mode until WindowsNT. All 3.0, 3.11 and even 95 did not use protected mode. How do I know? In between 3.11 and 95 as a student I read about 386 protected mode and was fascinated. Even agreed with uni to do an assignment outside of my CompSci program. And I had 486 made not by Intel, but AMD. And mine 486 had a bug. It entered protected mode and worked as expected, but could not leave it. Upon instructed to exit protected mode it would just lock up. At first, I thought my code was wrong. But when OS/2, which did use protected mode, could not reboot my PC it dawned on me - this CPU had a bug and all the Windows I've tried on it did not use full potential of 386 architecture and instruction set.

Panic at the Cisco tech, thanks to ancient IOS syntax helper that outsmarted itself

Ouch... This felt like reading my own story from 1996. Done exactly the same by trying to get the interface information using the same cursed "sh" shortcut.

$373M ASML chipmaker shrinks to $228 – but it's made of Lego

Re: Sold out?

Yeah, it's nowhere to be found across whole online catalog on ASML shop. :(

Chinese ship casts shadow over Baltic subsea cable snipfest

What was ommitted

Is that the captain of that ship is russian. Doubles the suspicion it might be the actual culprit of severed cables.

Happy birthday, Putin – you've been pwned

It's also a complete mystery for ruzzia why all of their former colonies want to be in NATO or EU or both.

Путін - хуйло!

Python in Excel goes live – but only for certain Windows users

Execl and some scripting language... No, does not ring a bell...

Where do Terraform and OpenTofu go from here?

For what it's worth...

Terraform has _never_ been cloud agnostic. You should still know which cloud and which resource you're writing Terraform/OpenTofu code for.

What makes a hard error hard? Microsoft vet tells all

Only shows how poor designed Windows were. Probably still are...

A year on, CISA realizes debunked vuln actually a dud and removes it from must-patch list

Re: Test with all the layers

Oh, the irony... :)))

Moscow makes a mess on the Moon as Luna 25 probe misses orbit, lands with a thud

I suggest they start with indoor plumbing in ruzzia before trying to get to the moon. You won't believe how many ruzzians still shit in the hole outside their housing.

Kremlin claims Apple helped NSA spy on diplomats via iPhone backdoor

Why does Kremlin care about this?

The Western phones have been banned in that failed country shortly after their invasion to Ukraine and sanctions. Of course, some continue to use them and even buy new ones. E.g. the horse-head of ministry of foreign affairs carried iPhone 14 in the last summit in Bali. Double standards and hypocrisy - long standing standard in Хуйлостан.

Of course Russia's ex-space boss doubts US set foot on the Moon

Rogozin should worry about his own ass more. It can be shot again. ;)

Python still has the strongest grip on developers

MySQL

The heck is MySQL language?

Russian developers blocked from contributing to FOSS tools

Yes, the citizens of Russia must start thinking what's wrong with their country and begin fixing it. They should not continue as if everything is normal.

Путин - хуйло!

Ukraine invasion blew up Russian cybercrime alliances

Re: Nazi invasion...

Your way is to follow the cruiser Moskva. For others this is an example how harmful is to watch ruzzian tv.

Microsoft makes a game of Team building, with benefits

What a waste of time... They'd better make teams properly work with multiple accounts. For example, Slack has this feature like forever and works perfect.

Problems for the Linux kernel NTFS driver as author goes silent

Paragon Software was founded and run by Russian folks

Given the current events that involve Russia, it might very well be that they are hit by the sanctions, cannot work with the western companies and are completely off the grid. Heck, some of them even might have been taken to army and brought into meaningless war and faced death...

Tech world's Ukraine response mixes evacuation efforts, ad bans, free phones, infosec FUD

death to russofascist pigs in kremlin

Slava Ukrainii!

Kremlin names the internet giants it will kidnap the Russian staff of if they don't play ball in future

a state run by mafia

that's what russia is. i don't understand how that country haven't evolved over thousand years to have a normal or at least resembling to normal government. at all times it was some insane person at the helm... kind of sad, when you think about it...

Russia's Elbrus has a RISC-V competitor as Yadro prepares native chips for launch

would trust the russians...

...only to destroy things

look at that vast land rich in resources and look into its history,,, of everything they could've built, they achieved only some

AI recommendations fail fans who like hard rock and hip hop – official science

all of the recommendation algorithms are a failure

Amazon always thinks I need more of the same that I already bought. Netflix cannot understand that I want to watch different genre movies and TV series, not more of the same I watched latest. Spotify recommendations are also bollocks as my taste spans a whole lot of music styles.

Oh, the humanity! Microsoft congratulates itself for Teams inflicted on 115m daily users

teams have one major drawback

it's the lack of multiple account support.

Office 365 enjoys good old-fashioned Thursday wobble as email teeters over in Europe

well...

... your own site has wobbled this morning, dear vulture ;)

We need to go deeper: Meltdown and Spectre flaws will force security further down the stack

Intel x86 considered harmful

Back in 2015 Joanna Rutkowska published a paper (https://blog.invisiblethings.org/papers/2015/x86_harmful.pdf) and pretty much predicted that attention will turn to hardware in search for new vulnerabilities. It's compelling, because owning a system at this level is more persistent, less visible and harder to get rid of.

UK, US govt and pals on WannaCry culprit: It woz the Norks wot done it

"We are committed to strengthening coordinated international efforts to uphold a free, open, peaceful and secure cyberspace."

How about you start patching those systems up? And putting some firewall between them and the wild internet?A little bit of defence-in-depth haven't harmed anyone...

Firefox 57: Good news? It's nippy. Bad news? It'll also trash your add-ons

Re: I always wanted to be an organ grinder's monkey

You either change or die. Such is life. Have a look around - it's a constant race of arms.

Colliders, containers, dark matter: The CERN atom smasher's careful cloud revolution

in the control center photo

do they really run WinXP or is that just the wallpaper..?

Rosetta's last comet pic

meanwhile...

prominent musician Vangelis has released (23 Sep) an album dedicated to this endeavour and named it (surprise, surprise) "Rosetta"!

Microsoft lobs Files app at WinPhone users with lots of ... uh ... files

Additionally it's not available in every region. US only, I guess...

WHY didn't Microsoft buy RIM? Us business blokes would have queued for THAT phone

A totally irrelevant rant about ones dream. MS = WP8 and that rules Blackberry out of equation. And about sysadmin phone? Be consistent with your requirements, please for whatevers' sake. First, it's decent browser, which of all choices Blackberries' is the most laughable choice. Then all of a sudden it's full blown productivity suite..? Which again is not in Blackberry favor. And what the hell you do as a sysadmin that you need productivity suite..? I'd understand decent ssh client and remote desktop app, but that..?

El'Reg has just fallen short on respect points for posting this article...

USA's H-1B skilled worker visa applications open

not attractive offer

especially given the fact that Norks declared war on this country

Razzies set to torpedo Rihanna's Battleship

Pattison...

Worst ever. Seen him (NOT)acting in "Bon Ami". Pathetison...

Paris - because her appearance was much better in that (not so) pr0n movie. :)

ESO's nine-gigapixel galactic image has 84 MILLION stars

so many millions of stars and planets...

and we are still lonely here on this smallish bubble...

Oregon farmer devoured by own hogs

angle missing

Hogs and IT?

Smutty books strip Harry Potter of Amazon crown

oh... amazon and e-book..?

Disappearing space dust belt baffles boffins

Magratheans?

It was the Magratheans who constructed the planet-sized computer named Earth (for a race of hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings, the mice) to determine the ultimate question of Life, the Universe, and Everything, which is required to understand the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything.

I wonder what they have built now? I bet it's not another Earth.

Panasonic chief says no to low-cost OLED TVs

Re: But..

LG CRT in my case. Read my finger Pornosonic!

Relax hackers! NATO has no cyber-attack plans - top brass

uhm...

what NATO centre of cyber excellence is doing then in Estonia? just watching the wire?

World+Dog to demand ever larger tablet-phones

a phone...

...is a phone is a phone.

I'm sticking to my good old E51 until it falls apart...

Web hosting

Re: Web hosting

Hetzner FTW! Best price, responsive support (good enough English), has IPv6, fast connections to major ISPs.

Happy Hetzner customer for a number of years.

Motorola's bid to sink Windows, XBoxes sales snubbed

sprechen sie english?

I'd put the subtitle this way: "US judge rulen German Microsoft ban bid ist kaput".