Posts by Danny 14

After staff revolt, Freenode management takes over hundreds of IRC channels for 'policy violations'

Re: The policy euphemism

First rule of Libera Chat is that you dont talk about Libera Chat

Internet Explorer downgraded to 'Walking Dead' status as Microsoft sets date for demise

Re: I’ll start digging the grave

gemalto bacs 2FA cards still needs IE, a travesty really.

iFixit slams Samsung's phone 'upcycling' scheme for falling short of what was promised

same here. my note3 is a copilot and car wifi. it stays in the car mostly. daily phone is an s8, it had an unlocked bootloader so thats flashed with many years to go. the battery will be an issue to replace but im sure I can do so.....

Colonial Pipeline was looking to hire cybersecurity manager before ransomware attack shut down operations

plus you get to blame everything on the last guy whilat pushing through 2FA, device screening, geolocking, closing VPNs and all the orher shady thinga that the business has relied on (but was a firewall swiss cheese hazard).

Copper load of this: Openreach outlines 77 new locations where it'll stop selling legacy phone and broadband products

but do you have broadband connected to your line? good luck if you want to move house into those areas and want timely broadband. F2P only means you may be in for a long wait for installation.

Japan to start stamping out rubber stamps and tearing up faxes as new digital agency given Sept. 1 start date

depends on your bank. Santander accept cheques at branch cash machines. you can also request an envelope and paying in slip then take to a post office and they will accept it.

When software depends on a project thanklessly maintained by a random guy in Nebraska, is open source sustainable?

Re: "Fix it"...?

true story in a previous place of work. They had an ancient BMS system that had software designed for windows 2000 and XP with a fairly specific Java JRE. This was windows 7 era circa 2014 so XP was already EOL. They managed to get a VM spooled up with XP on it, had the BMS running on a closed network. The cost of maintaining the VM host and an XP VM was quite high - the licensing for an XP VM was quite odd as MS didnt recognise XP as a valid OSE at the time, the company simply kept an old box copy of XP, licenced the host with server and "hoped this would be fine".

The plus side was that the VM could be transported to new hardware if it failed. I beleive this BMS and software is STILL GOING. I have no idea how they are licensing JAVA now that the model has changed...

Microsoft emits more fixes for Exchange Server plus patches for remote-code exec holes in HTTP stack, Visual Studio

55 bugs in Exchange this month, 55 bugs in Exchange. Take it down, patch it around, there's 68 bugs in Exchange next month.

Re: Another fine mess...

We fixed exchange by migrating all our mailboxes to office 365. I would have preferred to go elsewhere but we are an outlook company. Teams is used a lot so it was a good idea.

We still have an exchange box onsite for a relay. The ingress and egress are to 365 only at the firewall. I still need to keep it patched but there are no mailboxes on it so we dont really "immediately" care if it breaks.

Can't get that printer to work? It's not you. It's that sodding cablin.... oh beautiful job with that cabling, boss

Re: Blame the Cable

used a d9 serial cable not two weeks ago to factory reset a swtich I found in a cupboard.

Streaming mad: EC charges Apple with abuse of dominance, distorting competition in Spotify case

Re: There is a few hundred million IOS users

you are in the minority now. My grandchildren use spotify, they rarely listen to the same song twice. So whilst I will listen to albums over and over, they do not.

Appeals court nixes online blueprint sharing ban on 3D-printed 'ghost guns'

Re: Why bother with 3D printing

To be fair, you need to worry about wildlife in Aus. Just about all wildlife is geared to killing you. You are more likely for a spider to bite you on the arse in the toilet then being shot by a madman.

Re: Obviously more guns needed

Anyone stupid enough to start firing home made plastic printed firearms deserve all they get.

UK government gives Automated Lane Keeping Systems the green light for use on motorways

Re: Thought experiment

if you mounted lasers to the car (like KITT) then it could just cut the logs up and carry on.

or the M8 speed run.

Re: Biting the hand of reasonability

Nah, just throw them into inner city london where you need eyes on stalks. If the mad BMW SUV mums arent pulling out randomly then the deliveroo death cycles are inventing new gaps and road rules. Let alone random folk stepping out without warning. The onboard computer that reads road signs should have a right laugh at some of the decision trees it has to perform.

Re: Naysayer

we hired a peugeot 3008 that was automatic. The thing tried to kill me on many occasions, it had some sort of inbuilt eco mode that seemed to reset (no matter how many times I switched off). Pull up to roundabout, engine goes off (not too bad), tap brake pedal to wake up the engine and give it some boot to set off and it crawls. FUCK FUCK GO YOU FUCKING IDIOT as it slowly picks up, I got a deserved honking at and away i went. Switched off Eco and it was good . Till it decided it wanted to eco again, set off from traffic lights at a crawl agaaaain. It also had sensors that picked up speed limits along with GPS. Except it didnt outside tebay when it suddenly decided I was on the A6 not the M6 and wouldnt let me go over 60.

Worst piece of shit I have ever driven.

Re: Naysayer

or it might have seen this as a challenge, sped up at the same time then burst into flames.

Re: Naysayer

is this where a near miss is measure in 1000's meters?

Re: Folly

There will still be some Audi tailgating the autonomous car flashing like mad, before undertaking and darting back in (before turning off). Im not sure how the autonomous cars will deal with weaving vans under and overtaking or Audi drivers. I almost feel sorry for the basic AI.

Where meetings go to die: Microsoft Teams outage lets customers skip that collaboration call they've been dreading

Re: No naked ambition for me.

We had a mandatory H&S (the irony) teams meeting on Monday afternoon. It was 3.5 hours long. I left my camera off but many had theirs on, it was very funny watching the bright eyed faces turn to complete dispair around the 2.5 hour mark. Meanwhile I could stay focussed on my other monitor without people watching my occasional trip to the kitchen (microphones on so I had to be careful).

At least with an onsite meeting this would have had pizza, biccys and more fun.

China claims it has stolen a march on 6G with colossal patent portfolio

that would certainly be a handful.

Re: 6G

and covid will make your farts smell like roses rather than infect your lungs.

Lock up your Peloton smart treadmills, watchdog warns families following one death, numerous injuries

Re: Prime Example

Im sure the treadmills run up a decent profit.

And that's yet another UK education body under attack from ransomware: Servers, email, phones yanked offline

Re: Worlds of difference...

Agree with the above. I used to work as a network admin in a secondary school. First thing I did was run an antivirus program that would operate on a whitelist principle. This was hell the first few weeks whilst a whitelist "allow" was added, but essential in a school. I also made sure that there was something other than a basic firewall, as per most schools they were short on cash so it was a pfsense, snort and pfblocker - all free and totally useable once configured correctly. 2FA was added, again fuss and shouts were heard, the senior management wanted an exception for certain staff - guess what happened next. One staff member had their password guessed and the spam flowed. After appearing briefly on a blacklist I presented the senior team with my finding that I should not have been overruled on A) their bulk mail ability and B) their 2FA. Schools have kids in them and some kids will try anything to get out of lessons, bringing malware in is certainly one of them.

locking down admin rights completely is a given, teachers are to be trusted less than children for installing software.

Scottish National Party members found among list of names signed up to rival Alba Party after website whoopsie

anything is better than those scumbags in the peoples front of Scotland.

Ministry of Defence tells contractors not to answer certain UK census questions over security fears

Re: Census data

My irish mate had a gaelic name. In the 70s he never used it on job applications or else he wouldnt get in the door. He was always known as John. He would tone down his irish accent to almost comedic levels in interviews.

Re: Bootnote

but wouldn't that be breaking clearance by informing someone that said clearance existed?

Re: UK Law

refer them to the unit press officer.

Microsoft nudges Windows 10 21H1 toward commercial customers

Re: Microsoft nudges Windows 10 21H1 toward commercial customers

"The bugs have been fixed. Honest! We used the last bug patch of a bug patch of a bug to roll all the fixes into 21H1! Please try it, please!"

Missile systems software dev leaker has sentence almost doubled after UK.gov says 4½ years was too soft

Re: "The sentence for refusing to hand over his password was increased to 2½ years"

obstruction of justice. 5 years in an iso cube.

Re: "The sentence for refusing to hand over his password was increased to 2½ years"

just because you arent paranoid doesnt mean they arent out to get you.

Partial beer print horror as Microsoft's printer bug fix, er, doesn't

Re: Update: 19.03.2021 Latest Patch, on Patch, on Patch: KB5001649 Fails to install.

my WSUS patch didnt say that it deprecated the previous ones. As a result my clients are downloading 1.5gb of patches per machine, the broken 8002, the partial fix and then this fix.

great.

Re: Printing

funnily enough, I run an old canon printer at home, it has no windows 10 drivers either. I run it via a HP jetdirect USB to 10/100 box, the box takes HP universal drivers and then it connects to the canon just fine.

Re: Move Fast and Break Things,

the first patch broke Microsoft print to PDF though.

Re: "right-clicking the same JPG and choosing 'Print...' fails"

paint.net failed when it prints as that uses the windows print subsystem. That wasnt context menu.

Windows 10 Insider build fixes the fix it sent out to fix the fix that broke printing? Afraid not, but here's a new Notepad icon

Re: Those deckchairs won't rearrange themselves

Ar least notepad has reliably worked for years.

Re: Paperless

That really helps printing photos for the wall. We worked around it by printing to Microsoft pdf first, then printing the pdf.

Apple accused of unfairly banishing Watch keyboard app for the visually impaired from its software souk

Re: They've really put their finger on why big tech needs to be de-verticalised

Or transparency on why it was blocked.

Burgers, birds, and Blue Screens of Death: Remember the joys of commuting?

Re: It's a sad day, but perhaps it's time to move on.

I remember my monthly commute to bracknell for mandatory staff week at HQ. Since i lived in the lakes this was a pain in the arse, however they did provide rail fare. So I used to take the sleeper train from carlisle. I arrived much happier.

Smart doorbells on business premises make your property more attractive to burglars, warns researcher

Re: It's not cool or trendy, but it'll make a real difference

Crowbars are for headcrabs, you need a shotgun or axe for a zombie.

Re: It's not cool or trendy, but it'll make a real difference

Burglars want to raid our shed or garage then go for it. I hope they have had a tetanus shot, dont mind wasps and spiders. I wouldnt disturb the asbestos either.

Another Windows 10 patch that breaks printers ups ante to full-on Blue Screen of Death

Re: It’s worse than that

Kyocera v4 is what im using. We were using the v3.

V4 dont support accounting though.

Re: This is rather roundabout

So does mine. I liked those printers as the drum and toner were separate thus cheaper to replace.

Re: It’s worse than that

Kyocera v4 xps driver works. As does MS PCL6. All our other kycera druvers barfed BSOD when used.

Microsoft's GitHub under fire after disappearing proof-of-concept exploit for critical Microsoft Exchange vuln

Re: "Jang's PoC code pertains to a recently disclosed vulnerability that's being actively exploited"

Indeed. It was a zero day patch, not a patch based on PoC. The hack was already active and in use.

Any admins that havent patched by now shouldnt be running their own email server. Just have a look at all the 404s in your logs for the exploit pages, thise are probably now being looked for by the script kiddies.

No sign of Exchange-related ransomware hitting UK orgs, claims NCSC as it urges admins to scan for compromises

Problem is, people are patching but not checking for existing webshells or markers in logs.

We can't avoid it any longer. Here's a story about the NFT mania... aka someone bought a JPEG for $69m in Ether

Re: It just goes to show ...

Im more pissed off I didnt thi k of some crackpot scheme like this to make millions.

Talk about a Blue Monday: OVH outlines recovery plan as French data centres smoulder

Re: Disaster recover?

indeed, asynchronous replication for the poor people and synchronous for the bigger players was the selling point.

Re: Shipping containers?

metal containers with holes in them? We call those "braziers".