* Posts by Hans 1

3760 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Aug 2009

Microsoft Windows edges closer to SMB security signing fully required by default

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Boffin

Re: SAMBA?

Enigma was had because they all vigorously signed Hail bastard or whatever that scumbag's name was ... that info then was used to speed up the decoding ...

British Airways, Boots, BBC payroll data stolen in MOVEit supply-chain attack

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SQL injection ...

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Angel

Cloudy systems, hack one system, gain multiple customers' data ... in this case, seems they noticed quickly ...

This typo sparked a Microsoft Azure outage

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FAIL

Re: Cloud values are shall we say rather terse

Standard JSON does not standardize comments, some parsers accept C-style comments, if you only exclusively need those parsers, then I guess it is fine. jsonlint does not support comments.

No more feature updates for Windows 10 – current version is final

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Windows

Re: Truly, certainly not

I have Windows 11, when you install, it asks for a microsoft account, I just went to the shell Alt+F10 and created a local user with admin rights and a second normal user with net.exe, then you reboot and login with that, but yeah, tedious ....

Samsung to cough up third of a billion bucks for ripping off patent

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Coat

... and sent them to some Other place with $303 million instead ...

UK monopoly watchdog gives Broadcom-VMware probe a tight timetable

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Unhappy

Broadcom is already sitting on several stacks of abandonware, this deal is very sad, it means the end of vmware R&D, expect price hikes and bad service.

Microsoft mucks with PrtScr key for first time in decades

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Angel

Re: As we suspected

Well, Linux does no longer honour config files - resolv.conf, fstab (with système d) to name just two ... FreeBSD is what 'e wants!

How fiends abuse an out-of-date Microsoft Windows driver to infect victims

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Re: MS have a lot of problems, but that ain't one of 'em.

You need to re-read the article, MS has.

#FeelsDirtyForDefendingMS

Tesla wins key court battle over Autopilot crash blame

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Windows

Re: Perception

What does that change ?

You can't fix stupid, if you try you will fail.

Belgian defence ministry admits attackers accessed its computer network by exploiting Log4j vulnerability

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Paris Hilton

The whole problem we face, me included, management sees nice and shiny, they say we want shiny, I say, ok, but I can make nice and shiny as well since we have inhouse now, why shift? they say others have done the heavy lifting and this is nice and shiny, you end up with nodejs.

You install a plugin that depends on 800 dependencies, you have to make sure, all 800 are safe, good luck.

The other problem, you have one company that can do just as well, proprietary code, 1 is better than 800, you think, but proprietary means you are at the mercy, nobody can check, what could go wrong, someone finds something, you are at the mercy of propriety code vendor, who releases updates every other month that once installed require 3 reboots and break some shit. There, go and ask proprietary code vendor to fix y for you, just ... for you, you cannot fix it, you have no source access.

Expired cert breaks Windows 11 snipping tool, emoji panel, S Mode features, other stuff

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Windows

Certified useless

This basically means these apps have a killswitch, the whole design is buggered. Why would you need a valid certificate somewhere on the internet to be able to open apps ?

CERN puts two new atom-smashers on its shopping list. One to make Higgs Bosons, then a next-gen model six times more energetic than the LHC

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Happy

Re: Ridiculous

The whole point is, reasearch is advancing and we need bigger toys if we want it to keep advancing, that has always been the case. Every time we start planning bigger more expsensive toys, people climb out of their caves, claim to have all the answers, and ridicule the projects.

LHC has proven the existence of the Higgs boson, to name but one of the many great discoveries, and we need to move on. Please get out of the way of our boffins doing their job - advancing our knowledge of nature.

Apple to keep Intel at Arm's length: macOS shifts from x86 to homegrown common CPU arch, will run iOS apps

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Facepalm

Re: Intel has a patent wall

Better tell AMD, then!

When you do not know what you are talking about etc...

Microsoft unshackles WSL2 Linux kernel from Windows 10 image for future fettling via Windows Update

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Facepalm

Downvoter: Look harder! You can update the kernel without restarting with livepatch.

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Boffin

Look again

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Junction support

Sluggish IO performance when accessing Windows files is a bit of a bummer, though ... does it support NTFS junctions ? I assume the vhdx is mounted in Windows, somewhere ...

Why instruct to do cd ~ when cd is sufficient ?

Yet another beefy BSOD spotted lurking within the walls of US patty pusher

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Happy

Cause

Well, my interpretation of the BSOD is that the computer refused to boot windows, threatened self-harm, and Windows had to comply and shut down.

Devuan Beowulf 3.0 release continues to resist the Debian fork's Grendel – systemd

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Boffin

Re: My sole (and tiny) experience of systemd

Yeah, we would use pstree for that. The program to query the processes is ps, so the name is quite easily remembered.

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Happy

Re: "It solves a problem that people have."

I unplugged a data drive and could no longer boot with systemd, it waited for the non-essential device!

That is when I switched to devuan.

I have been laughing ever since:

systemd DNS blunder

system random number generator blunder

to name just two clusterfucks of arrogance.

IBM to power down Power-powered virtual private cloud, GPU-accelerated options

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Facepalm

Marketing Types taking control?

If they do this, they will be considered unreliable, in cloud, trust is paramount, IBM cloud is dead, well done!

This reeks like some marketing scumbag pulling the strings and killing IBM in the cloud.

Linus Torvalds drops Intel and adopts 32-core AMD Ryzen Threadripper on personal PC

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Boffin

Linux will also run BSD, and a BSD kernel can run GNU.

#TFTFY

Dutch spies helped Britain's GCHQ break Argentine crypto during Falklands War

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Coat

Breaks it angle

CIA had the info, UK and USA are part of 5 eyes, yet, UK had to rely on its European friends.

Our five eyes serve our one friend exclusively.

It is unclear why something designed to pump fuel into a car needs an ad-spewing computer strapped to it, but here we are

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FAIL

Good luck finding one that fits your key!

Where were you in drought season? Interstellar comet 2I/Borisov dumped 230 million litres of water as it whizzed through Solar System

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Pint

Boffins

They make the kit that

-often exceeds its expected lifetime

-is often abused for new unforeseen uses

Not Friday, but a pint is due.

Capita inks deal with NHS to 'bring back staff': Workers get an hour of training to recruit and vet retired doctors, nurses

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These people are retired, they get their pensions, pay their taxes, including COUNCIL TAX, gov knows EXACTLY who they are, where they live, how much pension they get, why, and what they did ... please ... we do not need to pay a bunch of leeches to contact a list of people our government provide them with.

Now I understand how Thatcher and Johnson got elected, and how the Brexit referendum was won by liars, a nation of cretins, cretins, thicker than a second layer of paint. D'oh ? Anybody in ? #FFS

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Facepalm

Some retirees will have [...] moved

Do they not get their pensions, then ?

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WTF?

Capita inks deal with NHS to 'bring back staff': Workers get an hour of training to recruit and vet retired doctors, nurses

Hm, ok, so just as the NHS could spare each and every penny it has for its fight against #COVID-19 the conservatives have yet again found another way to milk it dry. The government could simply draft retired nurses and doctors back into work, no need to pay a bunch of leeches!

Boeing 787s must be turned off and on every 51 days to prevent 'misleading data' being shown to pilots

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Boffin

Re: How long does it take to reboot a 787 ?

My Devuan system reboots in 12 seconds, from desktop to desktop, no fast boot cheating.

Not that I need to reboot, ever, even when I switch kernel ... Windows needs to reboot when it wants to update notepad.exe.

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Pint

Re: If it's Boeing...

Boeing 787s must be turned off [...] to prevent 'misleading data' being shown to pilots

#TFTFER

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Re: Turning it off and on

Mine's the one in the plastic bin by the X-ray machine.

I want you to x-plane that one!

Canary-build Microsoft browser blocks Microsoft extension from inflicting Microsoft search engine

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Headmaster

Re: "I just can't take it seriously with a name like that."

Startpagina

Microsoft finds itself in odd position of sparing elderly, insecure protocols: Grants stay of execution to TLS 1.0, 1.1

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Joke

Oh wait ...

What about SSL 3.0 ?

Infosys fires employee who Facebooked 'let's hold hands and share coronavirus'

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Re: Ah, that old chestnut.

"victims of police brutality are usually charged with bruising cops' knuckles"

Yeah, we have that in France as well.

UK big five carriers bin wired broadband download quotas for as long as we're all stuck indoors

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Devil

They dished quotas years ago, this is all PR.

What happens when the maintainer of a JS library downloaded 26m times a week goes to prison for killing someone with a motorbike? Core-js just found out

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Coat

Re: This is a common issue with open source and consulting firms

You have this with proprietary software as well, even from reputable companies, e.g. Microsoft or Apple, puff, they decide to abandon this platform, piece of software, or whatever. They put it in money-grabbing maintenance mode and there you are ... the main differences ?

With proprietary software you paid through your nose for the pleasure.

With open source you can always fork it.

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Re: Shirley!

Exactly! Choice is good. Survival of the fittest in software is good.

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The same can be said about Powershell modules, though.

The other day I updated Powershell and one of the modules no longer worked so i looked closer and found it was related to another module I am dead sure I never installed or saw getting installed that is used by one of the dependencies of the module I installed,

Microsoft tries getting touchy-feely once again with its Windows Insiders

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Thumb Up

Has anybody seen a compatible bargepole?

Microsoft Teams gets off to a wobbly start as the world and its cat starts working from home

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Joke

Teams

People start using it and discover it is unreliable.

Thought you were done after Tuesday's 115-fix day? Not yet: Microsoft emits SMBv3 worm-cure crisis patch

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Paris Hilton

I uninstalled the driver, restarted twice, and it works, now ... I was planning to re-install the driver ... hm ...

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I installed the update and, after a restart, the trackpad no longer works on my laptop, it does "gestures" instead of moving the pointer. This is the second time I write this comment as swiping down ⭸ caused it to launch Chrome Help, then Chrome deleted the comment and no longer accepted keyboard input. Doing the same in Firefox, as in, swiping down ⭸ causes a caret browsing warning, claiming I hit F7.

Hm, I was using the computer quite happily until it asked me to "update and restart", which was mere minutes ago .... how can an SMB patch f*up input devices ?

You can't hold black horse down: Brit bank Lloyds goes full multi-cloud, signs up with Google as well as Microsoft

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WTF?

Lloyds want to share your data with all and sundry!

I heard it straight from the black horse's mouth

We checked in with the new Windows 10X build, and let's just say getting this ready for late 2020 will be a challenge

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Joke

When's the last time Windows was ready ?

February 17, 2000

The Reg produces exhibit A1: A UK court IT system running Windows XP

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Cluebat for the 9 downvoters

conservatism /kənˈsəːvətɪz(ə)m/

noun

1. commitment to traditional values and ideas with opposition to change or innovation.

"proponents of theological conservatism"

2. the holding of political views that favour free enterprise, private ownership, and socially conservative ideas.

"a party that espoused conservatism"

NB: I love the second, slightly circular, definition, suits them well.

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Paris Hilton

Re: Upgrading an OS isn't a magical solution

I'm sure someone, somewhere, around 15 years ago said hey, maybe we shouldn't be locking ourselves in with this architecture, and got ignored or shouted down

Yes, that was me, back then, IE, activex, flash video crap was the new dead end, whatever you did, whatever you wrote did not matter, there was always a Vicky Pollard saying "because corporate policy" or Carol Beer saying "Computer says no" :

https://youtu.be/AJQ3TM-p2QI?t=48

Later, when in Windows Vista IE changed versions, they could not use it and had to remain on XP ... because corporate policy ... had they ONLY listened ... but guess what ? They are still not listening. Ohh, we desperately need SSL 3.0 support because, well ... corporate policy and you know, it works ... we are enterprise so we just cannot do it corporate policy ... what, other companies have enterprise systems using TLS 3.0 ? Well, we have only just received funding to TLS 1.0, yes we know it is deprecated, but "corporate policy", rollout planned for 2025.

No, MickeySoft, we are a customer of yours, so you cannot turn off TLS 1.0, how dare you, we have not even rolled it out, yet!

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Joke

Conservatives

What did you expect ?

'Optional' is the new 'Full' in Windows 10: Microsoft mucks about with diagnostic slurpage levels for Fast Ring Insiders

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Thumb Up

No icon needed.

Now that's what I call a sticky situation: Repairability fiends open up Galaxy S20 Ultra 5G, find the remains of Shergar

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Joke

Sam sung Sticky Fingers