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Posts by Danny 14
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US Army’s laser obsession continues with yet another drone-zapper deal
London's poor 5G blamed on spectrum, investment, and timing of Huawei ban
Infosec pro Troy Hunt HasBeenPwned in Mailchimp phish
Your days of driver sync via Windows Server Update Services are numbered
Re: What a dick move ...
WSUS days have been numbered for a while and lets face it, WSUS was not the ideal platform for driver installation either. Did anyone actually use WSUS for drivers? Patches yes but not drivers.
WUFB is far more reliable than WSUS ever was and you can get more data back. The downside to WUFB is the time lag on reporting.
Bank of England Oracle Cloud bill balloons – but when you print money, who's counting?
Avaya hangs up on users with fewer than 200 SaaSy contact center seats
Why did the Windows 95 setup use Windows 3.1?
Re: Why ?
I dunno, im glad I dont have to play with genius 2000 network cards and their terminators from hell. Im also glad I dont need to play IRQ roulette when you want a SCSI scanner, sound card, IDE card, serial (for the plotter) and parallel (for the zip disk). Talking through jumper swapping with people on the phone when production sent a replacement CD drive with MASTER instead of SLAVE jumper set.
or even older for those of us who are ancient. Formatting a drive needed geometry data that was printed on the winchester.
Re: A Mess
an hour? I was testing a new laptop last week. this was on a fairly low spec i3 13th gen HP laptop. I was testing it for driver compatibility. I flattened the laptop, installed base 11 (about 6 minutes from a USB stick), then let it Autopilot via intune to install office, Adobe, a few apps (about 20 minutes) - yes I DO run a script to force Intune update from the hidden OOBE shell screen, otherwise I would have had to leave it about 15 minutes to phone home on its own - i was being impatient). I was on the desktop usable in around 40 minutes (update took about 5 minutes with one restart). This would be much faster without the Autopilot segment but certainly not as automated, internet connection is fairly irrelevant as I find Autopilot to be throttled by Microsoft.
This was for one laptop of course. I have another 50 that I will be setting up (automatically as those are registered in Autopilot ready to go).
On the contrary, I installed Ubuntu on an 11gen i7 HP laptop before Christmas, this was being given away. This took around 5 minutes to install. Then another 15 minutes to manually install software (open office and browser), plus certificates, proxy configuration, network configuration etc. I admit that I have no idea how I can script this to work on 50 laptops remotely and securely.
So for 50 laptops, I needed to spend about an hour in Intune setting up my policies and software. The rest is completely automated short of adding an initial WIFI code before the certificate/WIFI policy is enacted by Intune. For Ubuntu I would need to hand feed 50 laptops, at the minimum I would need to run scripts at certain parts. But for Ubuntu I would have no idea how I could do this for a machine that is being delivered to someone's house 200 miles away.
MS might be evil but it works for us.
Backup software vendor Veeam deleted forum data after restoration SNAFU
Re: Didn't backup frequently enough?
not really. Data will now be lost either way. You lose the delta between old backup and new data, or lose the delta between the new backup and new data. Not all databases can be merged cleanly in these situations, depends how complicated your IDs are. Restore plus increment of IDs would be great in hindsight of course, but since this was a mistake rather than a need to restore I can see why this happened. Still, it shows their restores work fine, their development practices not so much.
Craig Wright admits he isn't the inventor of Bitcoin after High Court judgment in UK
Researchers call out QNAP for dragging its heels on patch development
QNAP have gotten progressively worse. They used to be reasonable boxes for backup repositories, cheap CCTV units (you got 8 free licenses which is better than most).
But over time the vulverabilities got worse, the apps started to be milked for cash. Better off building your own box with opensource options if you cannot afford proper kit.
As OP say, dont leave them open to the internet.
Hey, Reddit. Quick question. All those clicks on my ads. Were they actually real?
Ransomware negotiator weighs in on the extortion payment debate with El Reg
Re: It is better to avoid a problem than have to fix it.
A brilliant answer from someone who has a lot of tech savvy. Totally useless for the vast majority of small business users as they simply dont have that skillset nor budget to employ someone with that skillset, so they outsource to the likes of crapita and guess what happens. Also if you are familiar with working with the home office with pending visa applications, you absolutely do need to keep digital copies of birth certificates, passports etc.
Copilot can't stop emitting violent, sexual images, says Microsoft whistleblower
250 million-plus reserved IPv4 addresses could be released – but the internet isn’t built to use them
Rise of deepfake threats means biometric security measures won't be enough
Travel app Kayak offers Boeing 737 Max 9 filter after that door plug drama
Re: Have they never heard of flanges
these are not just static plugs, they have full guide tracks, pins but are secured by bolts. They are mostly doors but without the ability to open, no mechanisms etc. The design of the door framing cannot be changed as this is the approved airframe.
The worry is if the natural vibration loosened the bolts allowing the door plug to "open"
Australia imposes cyber sanctions on Russian it says ransomwared health insurer
ValueLicensing tries to smack down Microsoft defenses in license reselling spat
Re: Its a great model
we have found the exact opposite. autopilot and intune for deployment, sure the gpo to intune policy was a little backward in respect to powerhell (sic) scripts but we are more flexible now. 2FA is much better with the online services now, we still have veeam backup and restore. Onedrive and sharepoint work seamlessly with our ipads and interactive screens too. Cost is about the same but flexibility and admin is easier.
New cars bought in the UK must be zero emission by 2035 – it's the law
Re: Think of the Grid!
oh they most certainly do. Parcel companies use them. We know thia because the 4 public charging points in our village have 4 vans almoat permanently plugged in. Because there are very few cottages that have parking outside the house, most of our village park in two little car parks. EV simply wouldnt work unless there was a massive charging station (larger than a motorway services) put in. These would be public points so would not be cheap at all.
Re: Think of the Grid!
i used to work at the national grid (as was) in Penwortham back in the 90s. The demand vs max load vs availability was quite close most of the time. Infrastructure has not changed even if generation sites have.
there is a reason power stations are all over the place. The grid would not be able to handle the demand even if availability matched.
New York Times sues OpenAI, Microsoft over 'millions of articles' used to train ChatGPT
‘I needed antihistamine tablets every time I opened the computers’
Re: These stories are crazy
quite often units are independent franchises. these tend to have little physical storage so it is quite common to have a small comms cabinet with vpn/firewall, network and server under the POS.
In a company we worked at, one guy left a leaving present of a full crab in his base unit.
we had a call that gis base unit wasnt working. The smell when we opened the base unit was indescribable.Cue a job for the apprentice.
Superuser mostly helped IT, until a BSOD saw him invent a farcical fix
China bans export of rare earth processing kit
Re: Oops!
rare earth extraction amd processing is very dirty business. lots of nasty chemicals and by products. that is the main reason other countries dont do it. There are plenty of viable reserves bit not the will to play with the stuff.
As for uranium, Australia has a lot of the stuff. More than anyone else in fact so the US wont have any issues procuring it.
Russian problems will come years down the line when the chinese come knocking for their loan repayments.
HP TV ads claim its printers are 'made to be less hated'
Re: Missed the target
wasnt always this way. we have a 4000n that is awesome. Still has parts, cheap to run, simple drivers and just works Its over 20 years old and still on its original laser and internals. The exit plastics warped in the sun and the 10Mb network card isnt original either (again, sun damage)
Fujitsu-backed FDK claims nickel zinc batteries ready for use in UPSes
Tesla, Musk likely aware of Autopilot deficiencies behind Florida fatality, says judge
There's no Huawei Chinese chipmakers can fill Nvidia's shoes... anytime soon
Chinese CPUs to feature in servers made by sanctioned Russian company
From vacuum tubes to qubits – is quantum computing destined to repeat history?
If anyone finds an $80M F-35 stealth fighter, please call the Pentagon
Re: I could have understood not mentioning it if it was a Starfighter
my old man was an RAF loadmaster and armorer, he had a few postings but got on with pilots who flew lightnings. Those were notorious for being cramped, very fast and thirsty, the pilots on intercept were often flying back on fumes and none of them wanted to ever eject due to the cramped cockpit shape. The pilots loved to fly them though and even with one engine failure they were still fast. They were known as flying coffins more for the lack of space.
BT confirms it's switching off 3G in UK from Jan next year
Douglas Adams was right: Telephone sanitizers are terrible human beings
Under CISA pressure collab, Microsoft makes cloud security logs available for free
Re: "a step in the right direction"
dont get me started on how shitbag azure logging is. even a lowly 2 node on prem cluster is a cost burden if you go with the default recommended windows admin center azure logging. The only other free option I knew of was WUFB logging (but not email alert).
id rather powershell the shit out it to a syalog server just to spite them.