Posts by Danny 14

US sanctions on Turkey for Russia purchases could ground Brit F-35s

and they performed pretty shit vs a subsonic target on a static course. tomahawks are hardly stealthy, fast or laden with ecm.

CEO insisted his email was on server that had been offline for years

Re: That sounds like the story of a madhouse

the other classic is staying up all night to get a fix/patch/install but being denied a late start because its company policy.

That was the final time i worked out of hours on something that couldnt be prevented,the bosses soon started to ask me why there was a planned server outage during the working week and I happily brought up all the times I had requested funds for a redundant clustered set of servers so we could do rolling updates with no downtime (testing be damned, a lab setup was a pipedream of accounting).

Twenty years ago today: Windows 98 crashed live on stage with Bill Gates. Let's watch it again...

Re: My first laptop ran WIn98

incorrect. time computers were poor because of the kit. they were shit cyrix on shit boards with shit ram. Dell pentiums ran nicely on 98. gateway machines did too.

I had a small nt4 network with about 100 dell pentium 133s all with 98 (citrix login of course). they ran lotus notes and 123 just fine.

windows 98 wasnt too bad. it played with citrix faaaar better then 95 (and plus pack). The only issue was good old conventional memory. you needed close to 600k to get 98 booting without any issue. Not a problem for most 95 gamer guys (afterall we had 635k boot disks WITH genius network and mouse drivers).

NT4 matured nicely at the time and was better than NT3.5 I didnt mind 98. 2k were the hey days. I remember getting an early MCSE on server 2k and thinking it was totally revolutionary.

Google, AWS IPs blocked by Russia in Telegram crackdown

Re: Think of the poor FSB hackers...

they have a different vpn.

NHS Digital execs showed 'little regard' for patient ethics by signing data deal

Re: Nope

people need committing if they are coming to the UK for NHS dental. I dont even think its fair that prisoners are forced into NHS dental.

Re: Agree

@strum. my greek dual nationality father did in cumbria in late 2016. He also needed to at the dentist run by mydentist too. I have never been queried. He has a heavy accent and does have dark olive skin even in his 80s. I dont have the same Mediterranean cast to my appearance nor accent.

Whois is dead as Europe hands DNS overlord ICANN its arse

Re: Sick of the spam calls

just start screaming "ANTS! ANTS! OH GOD NOT THE ANTS!" before hanging up. I nearly pissed myself with laughter when a colleague did this. It didnt stop the calls but sure lightened the mood in the office.

I have a feeling their Brussels office might qualify.....

6 Rond-Point Schuman

B-1040 Brussels, Belgium

Re: so who do you report abuse to, now?

you misunderstand gdpr. If the visible registrar contact is a person then that IS personal data. Natwest have personal data on its employees. These employe3s data is needed to perform duties, it is reasonable that a registrar needs a contact in Natwest. Natwest are the data controller. They use a registrar as a data processor and will need a GDPR policy agreement with them. By the registrar posting identifiable data publically they are breaking GDPR as a data processor. Natwest will not be liable for the breach as the controlller as they have shown diligence with an agreement with the data processor.

they do have an agreement right? uh oh. if not that is in the 4% fine bracket if they have not bothered to get agreements. 2% bracket if they have at least some agreements.

Re: I think its fine to not have details public

not with GDPR in may. They will need your permission to do so, and specific permission too not a blanket catchall tick box.

Re: Bunch of petty autocrats

GDPR is hardly new. It has been brewing for 2 years now. Unfortunately some companies just cant be arsed doing anything about it.

Re: Unstable operation coming soon...

businesses are still covered with gdpr. ICANN is a data controller with data. That data might be personal data if an IT manager has his name and email address on there. Business or not, GDPR is about protecting data.

Latest F-35 flight tests finish – and US stops accepting new jets

Re: The only question is....

corbin is a madman in his own right. He fires off randomly in the complete opposite to May. When it turns out he is wrong his excuse is that he needs to promote an opposition view.

They are both bad for the country. Even a team of accountant bursars (only a team of salesman would be worse) could do a better job.

One solution to wreck privacy-hating websites: Flood them with bogus info using browser tools

Re: Yes! Someone's remembered TrackMeNot

or just block at the gateway. I use diladele as a gateway and it blocks adverts and shite REALLY well. So much so that users on my network cannot believe the amount of shite and adverts exist when they go home.

Our guest internet is a dream to use oursiders say.

Re: Mutant 59

oh if you want to get a hand on crop reports i heard a guy called Clarence Beaks can get it for you.

Re: Mutant 59

yup. thats the reason skytv or virgin can go fuck themselves and my money goes to netflix. no fucking adverts.

Huawei consumer biz pres: Are we in talks with Trump? Nope

Re: The American gadget market is hard

www.statista.com seem to think otherwise. Apple and Samsung are head to head. There are quite a few other brands in there that arent american either.

UK watchdog finally gets search warrant for Cambridge Analytica's totally not empty offices

Re: Elvis has left the building

we have a 2 year browsing history for 1400 people. The dataset is about 1.2Tb. The sql server it sits on has a measly 4 cores and 64Gb RAM allocated to the VM. The actual physical server is a pair of R610s with dual quad cores and 192Gb ram connected to an MD3220i raid10 array using quad 1gb mpio. The same sql server also has a print manager dataset with about 400Gb and WSUS database plus sophos database giving another 300Gb or so. Response time is more than adequate.

the whole shebang is 6U high if you count the UPS and switch.

Re: Why? And what's all the fuss about?

so what dear chap?

Thats just not cricket! If you want to get that sort of skullduggery done you need to grease an mp or two!

Windows Server 2019 coming next year and the price is going up

Re: Oh goodie!

2016 had a few decent improvements in it. we went from 2008r2 to 2012r2 and further 2016 as we liked the look of stretch clustering. Turns out it was really easy to do and works well in our environment.

azure is useless for us though as our internet is not up to snuff.

Facebook suspends account of Cambridge Analytica whistleblower

Re: I did not have sexual relations...

protecting is their primary concern. they cant sell the data if someone has given it away for free!

well. jim smith at [e-mail] is certainly being sold....

not sure how much info they get as jim doesnt post much.

Nest reveals the first truly connected home

Re: Jumpstart

to be fair, pouring superglue or epoxy into locks is also and easy way to bugger expensive locks.

Re: Why would anyone PAY for a video recording "service"?

swann have cheap enough cameras and dvrs. they arent bad as an off the shelf product.

Re: Re. I like the idea of a smart home but I don't want the IoT internet angle....

whilst i might do something like that for my shed as a "wonder if", ill be sticking to a 5 lever mortice key for a while.

we run a net2 paxton system at work and that thing is fairly buggy.

Re: Abandon hope...

i was more wondering what would happen if you put 240v rather than 9 into the terminals. that would certainly make the lock abandon all hope.

Whois? More like WHOWAS: Domain database on verge of collapse over EU privacy

Re: An open registry of who owns domains is important

gdpr isnt new. people have sat on this for 2 years. all icann needed to do was have an opt in and a right to erasure. thats it. its not hard.

Microsoft says 'majority' of Windows 10 use will be 'streamlined S mode'

Re: Games, anyone?

microsoft are helping us start looking at Linux as a site altetnative. we are looking at using office 365 as staff outlook fix. that leaves the door open to start getting rid of windows desktops.

Re: Win 10 Stupid Edition

windows store for business is a complete mess. there is no way in hell a school would deploy a fleet of windows S over windows 10 education.

the licensing alone would be stupid as you would still need CALS and the cheapest way to get CALS is via educational licensing. this will get you office and 365 for your students.

not sure how this can be seriously pitched.

The Ataribox lives, as a prototype, supposedly

it would have been easier to rebox a raspberry pi with custom inputs.

pc? any pseudo modern android phone can emulate games. Indeed scummvm runs really well. couple with a bluetooth keyboard, mouse and hdmi and my note 3 keeps me entertained in many premier inns (their hdmi sockets are great nowadays)

Auto manufacturers are asleep at the wheel when it comes to security

Re: Obviously...

just watch car crash tv. cars going over barriers and careering around junctions is hardly a rare occurance in russia. The chance also increases if the car is a lada.

Re: cost of..security failure is borne..the consumer; the cost of making secure is borne by the mfg.

you are more likely to have your house window bricked and the keys stolen.

my 2009 ford got a convers software update last june. Plus i wish the canbus was unencrypted so i can use standard apps to access the system....

Spotify wants to go public but can't find Ed Sheeran (to pay him)

Re: If Ed Sheeran is feeling hard up...

lawyer. template letter. get list of artists. contact artists. offer services of 10pct. template letter. get spotify to pay. keep 10pct.

really surprised a sumbag lawyer hasnt done this already.

indeed. most buskers tend to collect their own money.

Re: Sounds like a ripe moment for a Class Action

I am surprised a scumbag lawyer hasnt gone to artists, collect a sum, appear on spotifies doorstep with a list of "requests" for mechanical royalties with teh locations. Afterall, im sure if an artist ASKED for it and provided the necessary legal details (such as a scumbag but still lawyer) then they would have to pay.

Up to 25% of new builds still can't get superfast broadband – study

we dont use our 100mb line all the time but it IS used in bursts. The kids both go and turn their laptops on, windows downloads an update. I dont want my netflix turning to minecraft mode. The kids always have their phones on and the tablets are rarely turned off. Again, these might burst download rather than saturate constantly.

What we need more of is upload. Virgin are quite stingy on pushing stuff out of the house.

23,000 HTTPS certs will be axed in next 24 hours after private keys leak

Re: It affected me

changing certifcates sitewide every 3 months does not sound like fun. the paperwork would not be good (we have to check the siteseals ahavent changed etc for the web guys documentation. then we need to test with mobiles and other browsers for compatibility etc. a pain but thats testing for you)

Fender's 'smart' guitar amp has no Bluetooth pairing controls

Re: Right ....

i think aome slipknot at the local glen miller recital would do.

IT peeps, be warned: You'll soon be a museum exhibit

Re: All

university had me using a 6502 to write my name on an oscilloscope. then you designed traffic lights systems on them and switching boards for fake assembly lines. PLC design almosy.

Re: dystopia: Jeff Bezos

Ix will make fake jobs. Dont wory.

Re: Back in the day

we have an ibm ide 20mb hdd in the storeroom. it still has a standard molex connector. we have ISA tseng labs gfx cards too. The IT teacher shows the students DOS running on his twin floppy no hard drive 286 laptop (the size of a briefcase)

Re: Archive

we have a circa 1997 rewriteable CD and a burnt CD at work. it gets fired up once every 6 months or so to see if we can extract from it. It has a zip file full of data files and we are curious as to the lifespan. they both still work. The original unit was a HP 6read 2 write burner and the cds are also both HP brand.

we also have an ide 20mb 3.5" ibm branded hdd. we used to fire that up but cant be bothered any longer. im sure we can waffle together ide to usb but until we get a new apprentice we probably wont bother.

Re: I thought 20W50 only existed to pour into cars with knackered seals

with regards to squid, peek and slice works quite well. our domain has issued a domain truated cert to the squid box which happily man in the middles https. obvuously this is well written into the agreements (the actual agreements that the school will monitor all network traffic was writtennin from the first network which was nice )

so caching proxies are still useful even in https days providing your users are made aware of course.

We all hate Word docs and PDFs, but have they ever led you to being hit with 32 indictments?

word supports PDF for reading and writing. has done since 2013. Word 2013 does a reasonable job at taking apart most pdfs. especially ones saved or printed from word (ie via dopdf etc)

UK.gov: Psst. Belgium. Buy these Typhoon fighter jets from us, will you?

Re: @ wolfetone

the not fully tested to be working zircon will possibly be stopped by the not fully tested to be working f35 launched from our not fully tested to be working aircraft carriers.

BBC presenter loses appeal, must pay £420k in IR35 crackdown

Re: Rolling out to private sector is the right thing to do. @Hmmm...

as a contractor with a limited company buy or lease a company car that ONLY doe company logged miles. keep a meticulous log.

Re: Any news on whether the BBC pays their side of the bargain?

problem is, the same rules applied for those contactors being paid 20k and also running as single director companies or under umbrella companies.

not everyone doing this was a moneybags.