Posts by nowster

IPv6 may already be irrelevant – but so is moving off IPv4, argues APNIC's chief scientist

https://www.havevirginmediaenabledipv6yet.co.uk/

Re: Hmm

Not quite. IP version number 5 was used for something that used exactly the same addressing space as IPv4 but probably could have been a protocol within IPv4 like ICMP, TCP or UDP. It was a protocol which was a precursor to VoIP or video streaming.

Re: Hence, IPv6

Phone numbers are easy? Explain that to Londoners who still think their STD code is 0207 or 0208.

Document Foundation starts charging €8.99 for 'free' LibreOffice

Re: Does that mean there's will be a version with proper accent entry?

Good luck in trying to type Welsh. Neither ŵ or ŷ are available on the standard UK keyboard settings via the "hold down a key" method in MacOS.

On most Linux, it's "Compose ^ w" and "Compose ^ y". I have CapsLk mapped as Compose, but the default is usually Shift-AltGr.

BOFH: It's Friday, it's time to RTFM

Re: Milky bars are on that guy over there.

That's the only irregular bit about Welsh orthography: there are two pronunciations of the letter Y. One's a clear "ee" sound and the other is the unclear schwa. Hence Llynclys could be pronounced one of four ways.

Microsoft patches Y2K-like bug that borked on-prem Exchange Server

Re: Don't worry

No leap second this year: https://hpiers.obspm.fr/iers/bul/bulc/bulletinc.dat

World Intellectual Property Office settles dispute with CIO it previously ousted for 'criminal misconduct'

WIPOut!

Tired: What3Words. Wired: A clone location-tracking service based on FOUR words – and they are all extremely rude

Re: Oddly..

I'm sure it means absolutely Rockall.

Thousands of taxpayers' personal details potentially exposed online through councils' debt-chasing texts

Re: Please click the link to read

With a different sort of meaning of Water Board, perhaps?

Fresh astro-underwear, anyone? Orbital shenanigans as Progress freighter has last-minute ISS docking wobble

Re: Only 3 hours?

Launching towards the east gets you a boost from the earth's rotation. The closer to the equator the better.

Remember that black hole just 1,000 light years from Earth? Scientists queue up to say it may not exist after all

"Move along now. Nothing to see here."

Animal crossing? Nah! Farmyard frolics, courtesy of Novell and pals

Re: Agricultural College

That would be Dr Samuel Gall, inventor of the gall-bladder.

"His educational career began interestingly enough in agricultural school, where he majored in animal husbandry, until they caught him at it one day."

(Intro to "In Old Mexico", An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer)

Begone, Demon Internet: Vodafone to shutter old-school pioneer ISP

Re: How is the beard, Andrew? :)

Incidentally, Zetnet did SMTP delivery over dialup too, but with dynamic rather than static IPs.

Re: And another old name is discarded...

Actually Zetnet Ltd was bought by Breathe who themselves put it into administration.

The D in SystemD stands for Dammmit... Security holes found in much-adored Linux toolkit

https://dilbert.com/strip/1995-06-24

You better watch out, you better not cry. Better not pout, I'm telling you why: SQLite vuln fixes are coming to town

There is danger also in that SQLite is the default backing store for Android apps. How many of those apps correctly use parameterized queries rather than folding untrusted external data into SQL statements?

Brits pay £490m extra for mobes they already own – Citizens Advice

HP saucing

I wonder how the mobile network companies have got round the legislation on consumer credit on what is, effectively, a hire purchase agreement.

Sysadmin sank IBM mainframe by going one VM too deep

Except when they called it "square" in their System X voice prompts.

Visa fingers 'very rare' data centre switch glitch for payment meltdown

Re: Cisco Cisco Cisco

"GNU Terry Pratchett"

A smartphone recession is coming and animated poo emojis can't stop it

Re: @ AC Manufacturers are spending more kilo & mega...

Kilo mega atto Henrys, even.

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

Re: NoScript ?

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2017/08/01/noscripts-migration-to-webextensions-apis/

It's in hand.

Look out Silicon Valley, here comes Brit bruiser Amber Rudd to lay down the (cyber) law

Is it ironic that www.amberrudd.co.uk is an HTTPS site?

Now you can 'roam like at home' within the EU, but what's the catch?

Re: Still confusing?

Have just checked a couple of the UK operators' small print. EE and O2 both count EU to EU calls whilst roamed as coming out of the minutes allowance on pay monthly contracts.

Toyota's entertaining the idea of Linux in cars

Re: The REAL benefit

Only for the GPLv2 components. They will also avoid GPLv3 software like the plague.

Tesla's splitting with sensor supplier

Re: Range Anxiety is a myth (from an owners view)

Don't forget that US gallons are smaller than UK gallons and the pound has lost a lot of value recently. £1.10/litre ≅ US$5.50/USgallon.

Sophos' putrid patch snuffs Citrix kit, kills call centre

And how long have they been putting off an upgrade to their call centre's database front end so that it uses protocols newer than SSLv3? Did they even plan one? Are they still using an ancient version of Internet Explorer with Citrix?

Backwaters in rural England getting non-BT gigabit broadband

Sheep may safely browse

"Sheep don't use modems"

– Cliff Stanford (then running Demon Internet) early 1994.

Google hops into bed with Brit red-top: Cooks up 'draw an app' coding compo for kids

F Y CN RD THS Y CN GT A GD JB N CMPTRS

Steelie Neelie accused of killing €0.01-per-megabyte roaming fee cap in Europe

It's actually cheaper on some UK networks to send an SMS from one EU country to another whilst roaming (capped EU rate, approx 10p) than it is to send the same text message from the UK to that same EU country (contract or PAYG rate, usually 20p).

IT bloke publishes comprehensive maps of CALL CENTRE menu HELL

Charlotte Green reads Les Barker's poem "Voicemail"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mi-74wHCeAs

Apple asked me for my BANK statements, says outraged reader

Have Apple UK registered this use and storage of personal information with the Information Commissioner?

Don't like your cell network? Legal unlocking ends TONIGHT in US

Re: After the contract has expired,

Actually, T-Mobile is currently giving me a £4 per month discount for having continued the contract for another 24 months and not requesting an upgrade to my handset.

Ready for ANOTHER patent war? Apple 'invents' wireless charging

Prior art would not be Tesla but Heinrich Hertz using a portable tuned loop, looking for tiny sparks in a darkened room.

Big biz 'struggling' to dump Windows XP

Re: Windows 8

...a minimum 95% of the desktop, leaving just 5% for user applications.

There, fixed that for you.

Turing's rapid Nazi Enigma code-breaking secret revealed

Re: (C) StationX

Crown Copyright on documents only lasts for 50 years.

New ATLAS particle part of 'everyday mass'

Is this the "fat bottom" meson?

Court bans man called Peter from calling himself Peter

Obvious!

It's to stop him being a rePeter offender.

Google infringes copyright by displaying and linking to news site content

Old hat

http://www.lectlaw.com/files/elw10.htm

Shetland Times versus Shetland News. 1996

Fox News outs Beatles as 'Manchester's favorite mopheads'

Wikipedia

As it's now a published "fact", it can be cited on Wikipedia.

Guy Kewney, pioneer, guru, friend - RIP

Let's hope there are no more mix-ups

And they don't bury Guy Gomer instead.

Nominet to release super-short domain names

Last memorial of the JANet coloured books

NRS be gone! Some of us will remember the back-to-front email addresses used in UK academia.

There is a tale of someone sending an email to a computer lab address of [e-mail], and finding it routed via Chile (manually forwarded by a mail system admin).

Virgin signals start of telegraph pole broadband test

Sewerly not

In many rural places there is no main sewerage system; each property has its own septic tank.

PHPers prefer Windows desktop to Linux

A blue pencil moment

"But it seems that after four years work the vast majority of PHP applications are still being *deployment* on Linux servers at the expense of Windows."

Was the proof reading step mist?

Of course, the P in LAMP can equally be Perl or Python, and it's as easy to write code vulnerable to SQL injection in all of them.

Teletext toddles off as licence taken

Subtitles

888 subtitles are inserted by the broadcasters themselves (ie. ITV, C4 or five) and are independent of Teletext Ltd. The broadcaster has one VBI line exclusively for the use of subtitles. In other words, subtitles won't be affected by this.

Tesco store bans shopping in pyjamas

Correction.

"It was Stephen Fry who quipped that the purpose of Sainsbury’s is to keep the riff-raff out of Waitrose."

Actually, that was penned by the late Alan Coren.

Brum DJ canned for cutting short Her Maj

Live?

The Queen's Speech is never live. It's always pre-recorded several days before. The BBC and ITN take it in turns to record it. This year it was ITN's turn. I haven't checked, but I would suspect that the IRN network is used to distribute it to commercial radio stations on the day.

BBC publishes Freeview HD timetable

Parts of Liverpool will be covered

Much of the Liverpool area gets its signals from the Winter Hill mast (like Manchester), not Storeton (on the Wirral).

The Beatles go digital, sort of

Copyright?

Over the coming decade, the mechanical copyright on the original Beatles 45s and 78s will expire (50 years since release). There will still be composer royalties to be paid, but there's little that EMI will be able to do to prevent a third party from recording an original Parlophone pressing, cleaning it up, and releasing it on CD.

These recent CD/USB re-releases (because of the remastering) will have a fresh new mechanical copyright date which won't expire until at least 2059.

Beeb gets grief for Humpty Dumpty rewrite

BBC Radio 7 too

CBeebies on BBC 7 would only ever play the first verse of Rolf Harris's "Two Little Boys".

German firm fails to trademark !

Victor Hugo's publisher got there first

Manufacturer: "!" ?

Court: ¬