Posts by DJV

Grab a bucket and spade: Sandbox open for Insiders again with fresh Windows 10 build

Sentence

Yeah, the bloody thing deserves a damn long sentence!

Huawei or the highway: Chinese giant whacks marketing drones for tweeting from iPhone

How...

...terrible!

_{Sent from the Inquirer}

More nodding dogs green-light terrible UK.gov pr0n age verification plans

wrong hands

If your data is already in the government's hands - then that definitely counts as being in the wrong hands.

New Horizons snaps finish buffering: Ultima Thule actually two dust bunnies that got snuggly 4.5 billion years ago

Demonstrating a disappointing lack of imagination, scientists have dubbed the larger sphere (12 miles across) "Ultima" and the smaller (nine miles across) "Thule".

Could have been worse... they might have called them "Little and Large" or, arguably even worse, "Cannon and Ball".

Insiders! The good news: Windows 10 Sandbox is here for testing. Bad news: Microsoft has already broken it

Cat pic

Well, we all know what cats tend to do in boxes of sand (or anything they sense will make a reasonable substitute for litter).

And, what the cats do there is what MS subsequently tend to do all over anything they ever manage to get right at least once!

New Horizons probe reveals Ultima Thule is huge, spinning... chicken drumstick?

"20 months for the rest of the data to be transmitted back to Earth"

A bit like the 1980s then, waiting for a CBM-64 to load a game from tape*!

(* or from a 1541 disk)

Bored IT manager automates Millennium Eve checks to ditch snoozing for boozing

"the project will be abandoned long before then, without even being completed."

Ah, you mean Google's modus operandi... which can also be summed up as Alpha, Beta (immediate release to the public), Dead.

Heard the one where the boss calls in an Oracle consultant who couldn't fix the database?

"I earned my pay on that project."

More like you earned the consultant's pay! I hope his pay incorporated an idiot tax!

France next up behind Britain, Netherlands to pummel Uber with €400k fine over 2016 breach

"breaches prior to May"

Do they call those "Camerons"?

Ho ho ho! Washington DC sends Zuckerberg a sueball-shaped present

Shit... meet fan

Excellent news for popcorn makers!

Ding dong merrily on high. In Berkeley, the bots are singeing: Self-driving college cooler droid goes up in flames

Re: "added battery monitoring software"

The battery monitoring software status will be one of: flat, charging, full and combusting.

Microsoft flings untested Windows 10 updates to users! (Oh no it doesn't!)

Trill

Ah yes, Trill, so they're feeding us budgie food as well now!

Stop us if you've heard this one: Facebook apologizes for bug leaking private photos

Re: "we realized it was an opportunity to invest even more heavily in privacy"

Ah yes, spin, spin, spin.

A more accurate statement would have been: "we were annoyed we were going to have to invest some profit in privacy just to shut the GDPR investigators up".

Ofcom asks networks, ISPs: Hey, wouldn't it be nice if you let customers know the best deal once their contract's up?

Yes, but...

...that would require ISPs to act in a decent manner and not out of greed and self-interest. I suspect that, for most of the well known ones*, the latter is far too ingrained for them to do the former.

*Yeah, there are exceptions - they are few and far between unfortunately.

Astroboffins spy a rare exoplanet evaporating before their eyes

I fully expect GJ3470b to get the Weight Watchers Inspiring Achievement Award for 2019.

Britain approved £2.5m of snooping kit exports to thoroughly snuggly regime in Saudi Arabia

Blair Institute for Global Change

Shirley that should be the Blair Institute for Global Change, Rape And Pillage (initially).

It's December of 2018 and, to hell with it, just patch your stuff

Generous Adobe gives out 87 Reader and Acrobat fixes

Not for me - I haven't allowed their buggy crap near my systems for years. It's bad enough having to deal with the ones from MS.

Supernovae may explain mass extinctions of marine animals 2.6 million years ago

Re: Shouldn't have it impacted animals living on land even more?

Only those not wearing hats.

Microsoft, you shouldn't have: Festive Windows 10 Insiders build about as exciting as new socks

January's "bug bash"

Oh, are they doing that "in-house" this time around instead of letting the victims, erm, lemmings Insiders do it for them?

Boffins build blazing battery bonfire

Henry

When I saw the name "Henry" I was expecting it to mean Professor Henry Brubaker!

Google: I don't know why you say Allo, I say goodbye

Allo

Is it significant that the only mention of Allo that I have any recollection about is this article? It's launch and subsequent presence bypassed me completely.

It's December 2018, and a rogue application can still tell your Apple Mac: I'm your El Capitan now

Re: The problem is...

There are plenty of alternative bits of software that claim to be able to do it - doing a search for "iphone data to pc without itunes" brings up lots of results though I have only personally checked out SyncIOS, which seemed to work fine - www.syncios.com

Capita: We are seeking staff to join our board. Just two please

Re: Can

Nah, too overqualified!

Windows 10 security question: How do miscreants use these for post-hack persistence?

"I wonder who at Microsoft is such reference user"

I thought Steve Ballmer had left ages ago...

Ooo shiny! First Visual Studio 2019 sneak peek here in time for Chrimbo

Agreed!

And where the hell have the corner icons gone? Windows Explorer, Chrome and Thunderbird - I'm looking at you! As a web developer I sometimes have tons of windows open across my dual monitors with many half hidden behind other windows. Sometimes have to stare at something for a while before I'm 100% certain it is what I think it is!

How the mighty have fallen: Anglian Water knocks Google off perch as UK's best workplace

Oh pipe down all of you!

(nt)

Why is my Windows 10 preview build ticking? Microsoft reminds users that previews have timebombs

Fluent design?

You sure they're not reading from a book entitled "Flatulent Design"?

Quality

The day the Windows team actually focuses on quality I'll be outside with a large net catching elevated avian bacon!

Gartner to wearables biz: Through failure comes success!

I'm hoping...

...that Gartner predict that I will never become rich...

...which should increase my chances phenomenally.

OneDrive is broken: Microsoft's cloudy storage drops from the sky for EU users

Amazing, my kettle and wristwatch are still working as well. Thank you, Microsoft!

</sarcasm>

Question: How fast is the Windows 10 October 2018 Update rolling out? Answer: Not very

Yeah but...

...have they fixed the network drive mapping problems yet? Or is that "minor" annoyance still only scheduled to be clobbered next year?

3ve Offline: Countless Windows PCs using 1.7m IP addresses hacked to 'view' up to 12 billion adverts a day

Re: "3ve" (pronounced "Eve".)"

I pronounce it "Throatwobbler Mangrove" like any normal sane person.

Yours

Raymond Luxury Yacht.

Doctors join wombats in sh!tting bricks to help parents relax about kids chowing down on Lego

@jake re: 555

Youch! You must have been having the time(r) of your life!

Microsoft suffers the Tuesday shakes as Exchange Online continues to be wobbly for UK users

Re: Two things that are far far away

I'd put money on the Mars lander being being more resilient!

We all fall together. Azure MFA takes a tumble for the second week running

MFA

I suspect some people are beginning to think that MFA should actually stand for Microsoft Fuck All - because that's all its SLA is worth!

Roll up, roll up, HPE's composable infra charabanc is coming

Cloud

"“I think a lot of customers were hopeful, two or three years ago, that public cloud would simplify things but in fact it’s made everything more complicated"

Colour me surprised (not!)

Microsoft reveals terrible trio of bugs that knocked out Azure, Office 362.5 multi-factor auth logins for 14 hours

Re: Scaleable?

Only the outages are scalable!

Capita seeks new networking chief: Up for it?

Hey...

...who wants to drink from the poisoned chalice? Any takers?

Domain name 'admin' role eyed up as latest victim of Whois system's GDPRmeggdon

"unelected Eurocrats"

Oh, you mean MEPs. The ones who are ELECTED every few years by the PUBLIC. Idiot!

Great Scott! Is nothing sacred? US movie-goers vote Back To The Future as most-wanted reboot

Re: Letting people vote...

Ah, I see what you did there and fully commend you.

Openreach names 81 lucky locations to be plugged into its super-zippy Gfast pipe

Re: Darkest rural Spain.

Do you do Airbnb?

Office 365 Exchange enjoys a less than manic Monday. Users? Not so much

"The rest is rubbish"

SNAFU

Barnet Council reckons Capita's dropped the ball on outsourced services

Crapita

"some aspects of our service to Barnet Council have not met the standard we and our client expect"

Well, given it's Crapita, I would have expected a total clusterfuck and I'm sure they wouldn't have disappointed me!

Oh, I wish it could be Black Friday every day-aayyy, when the wallets start jingling but it's still a week till we're paiii-iid

"But were they Black"

Give em a week or two...

Well that's just spliffing: UK Amazon merchants peddling Mary Jane

"So at some point in the past there was a time when the British public were all entirely law abiding? When was this golden age exactly? Perhaps back when we were all living in caves?"

Sigh... some bastard stole the cave I was living in...

Microsoft: You looking at me funny? Oh, you just want to sign in

TPM mandatory to run Win10?

No, it isn't. My PC can* run W10 but doesn't have TPM. I think you are getting confused with the MS requirement for NEW devices to have TPM as stated here:

"As of July 28, 2016, all new device models, lines or series must implement and be in compliance with the International Standard ISO/IEC 11889:2015 or the Trusted Computing Group TPM 2.0 Library and a component which implements the TPM 2.0 must be present and enabled by default from this effective date."

The above is taken from: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/minimum/minimum-hardware-requirements-overview

Older devices can run W10 (if they must) even if they don't have TPM.

*It doesn't actually have W10 on it at the moment - I am not that stupid! However, I do have an SSD in my desk drawer that has W10 installed (upgraded for free about 2 years ago from a clone of my W7 install) for when W7 goes end of life. Once every so often I put that SSD into my PC just so it can update itself to the latest horror-filled TITSUP version. Then I put it back in the drawer and carry on using W7.

Fantastic!

I can't wait to start using this!

Hold on, you mean I have to use MS Edge? And a Microsoft account? And W10 AWOL 1809?

Bye...

When selling security awareness training by email, probably a good shout not to hit 'reply all'

Nasties?

Shirley, you mean "features" in MS parlance. At least with Office 363.5 there's a good chance your non-BCC, Reply All email will fail to go out because Office 362.4 happens to have just had one of its regular TITSUP sessions.

Merry Christmas, you filthy directors: ICO granted powers to fine bosses for spam calls

Yay!

See title!

Germany pushes router security rules, OpenWRT and CCC push back

"I wouldn't recommend Mikrotik kit to Joe Average"

Agree, especially considering this:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/thousands-of-mikrotik-routers-are-snooping-on-user-traffic/