Thanks for bringing that up. Didn't something similar happen with iOS a few versions back?
I will hold off updating until 10.13.4.. 5.. or whenever there appear to be no more major nasties.
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Apple gets around to patching all the other High Sierra security holes
OK Google: A stranger with stash of pirated films is spamming my Google Team Drive
Microsoft adds nothing to new Semi-Annual Windows Server preview
156K spam text-sending firm to ICO: It wasn't us, Commissioner
It was El Reg wot won it: Bing banishes bogus Brit bank banner ad
UK.gov told to tread carefully with transfer of data sets to NHS Digital
TalkTalk sees red after chucking £75m on restructuring bonfire
Now Oracle stiffs its own sales reps to pocket their overtime, allegedly
Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat, look out for must-have toys that are 'easily hacked' ♪
Tuesday 14th November 2017 14:27 GMT 
Re: Keep it traditional - keep it safe
Plenty to choose from here!
Silverlight extinguished while Angular wins fans among developers
NASA tells The Reg: For crying out loud. We're not building flying taxi software for Uber
OVH data centres go TITSUP: Power supply blunders blamed
Google Drive ate our homework! Doc block blamed on code blunder
Whois? No, Whowas: Incoming Euro privacy rules torpedo domain registration system
Japan finds long, deep tunnel on the Moon
Google adds planets and moons to Maps, but puts bits in the wrong places
Microsoft silently fixes security holes in Windows 10 – dumps Win 7, 8 out in the cold
The axeman strikes again: Microsoft has real commitment issues
Tuesday 3rd October 2017 14:06 GMT
"The real problem is that they need to identify things they can do well"
I'm still using a 1999-vintage MS Internet Keyboard Pro and will be very sorry when it finally kicks the bucket. Mind you, I'd be very hard pressed to think of anything else they actually do (or have ever done) that's anywhere near as good as that keyboard!
So. Should I upgrade to macOS High Sierra?
Tuesday 26th September 2017 19:03 GMT
Re: So it's like Windows then
Nah, I'd say it's more like Windows used to be when the arrival of Service Pack 1 fixed the "stupids" in the vanilla .0 release and didn't introduce too many new bugs.
Nowadays, with the Windows 10 update style of "take it or, oh wait... no, your only choice is to take it and if it breaks your computer, tough" bollocks, we dream of having properly tested* service packs and .1 releases.
* Well, sometimes they were fully tested...
Bill Gates says he'd do CTRL-ALT-DEL with one key if given the chance to go back through time
Thursday 21st September 2017 09:53 GMT
Reset button
A friend of mine's computer locked up one day. She reached around the back as she thought there was some sort of reset button there. She found a switch of sorts and flicked it to its other position. PC was far from happy having had its power supply switched from expecting 240 volts (UK standard) to expecting 110 volts (though still receiving the aforementioned 240). A large bang was the result. Fried the motherboard completely.
She did have a bit of a track record - it was the 3rd PC she'd lost within 12 months! I did manage to recover data from the HDD, though that was rather flakey about powering up at first.
Fancy that! Craft which float over everything on a cushion of air
Saturday 16th September 2017 11:11 GMT
The one I remember best...
...was driven by the Doctor (Jon Pertwee) in the Sea Devils (1972). Pic further down the page on this site:
Cassini probe's death dive to send data at just 27 kilobits per second
Hubble Space Telescope spies possibility of liquid water in TRAPPIST-1
Energy firm slapped with £50k fine for making 1.5 million nuisance calls
Surfacegate: Microsoft execs 'misled Nadella', claims report
Microsoft's Surface Pro 2017, unhinged: Luxury fondleslab that's good...
Programmer's < fumble jeopardizes thousands of medical reports
Chrome web dev plugin with 1m+ users hijacked, crams ads into browsers
Thursday 3rd August 2017 13:01 GMT
Ah, so that's what caused it!
I saw a JavaScript pop-up in Chrome saying that a site had "detected a virus" and then went to a page recommending something called "Advance System Care". The site displaying the original pop-up had been my own home intranet home page so I went immediately into lockdown mode running all sorts of anti-virus/malware scans. Nothing was found. I suspected a Chrome infiltration as Firefox hadn't reacted in the same manner.
Rebooting and clearing Chrome didn't repeat the popup so I suspect the reboot caused the update to 0.5.
Forgotten your Myspace password? Just a name, username, DoB will get you in – and into anyone else's, too
Eggheads identify the last animal that will survive on Earth until the Sun dies
Now here's a novel idea: Digitising Victorian-era stamp duty machines
Sleuths unearth 'Panic Mode' in Android, set off by mashing back button
Thursday 13th July 2017 19:51 GMT
@Lee D
Exactly, very well put.
And, it should be added that, absolutely NO program should pop itself to the front and take focus away from whatever the user is currently doing! Over the years I've lost count of the number of times something running in another window has popped itself to the front at the most inconvenient point, whereupon I've accidentally clicked on a button or pressed a key that has caused that program to do something I hadn't intended.
AI vans are real – but they'll make us suck at driving, warn boffins
JavaScript spec gets strung out on padding
Samsung stalls Bixby launch because it am English not so good
New work: Algorithms to give self-driving cars 'impulsive' human 'ethics'
Dead serious: How to haunt people after you've gone... using your smartphone
Murdoch's £11.7bn Sky takeover referred to competition regulator
HMS Windows XP: Britain's newest warship running Swiss Cheese OS
ICO fines 'Wolf of Wall Street' electrical survey biz for nuisance calls
Friday 23rd June 2017 13:59 GMT 
Unwanted scum calls
Another bunch of lying, pestering cunts who have no respect for people's privacy or the TPS list. The directors of these companies should be heavily fined in addition to the companies themselves.
I registered with the TPS years ago and report as many of the unwanted calls I get as I can, even the scum that withhold their numbers.
Ex-NASA bod on Gwyneth Paltrow site's 'healing' stickers: 'Wow. What a load of BS'
Darkness to fall over North America from a total solar eclipse
2 kool 4 komputing: Teens' interest in GCSE course totally bombs
Microsoft's new Surface laptop defeats teardown – with glue
BOFH: Halon is not a rad new vape flavour
Friday 16th June 2017 20:08 GMT
Re: CRTs
Back in the 1970s I was an apprentice TV engineer for Rediffusion. Once, I forget to connect up the wires to the vertical scan coils after fitting a new B/W CRT. So, upon turning the set on it took less than a couple of seconds to burn a permanent horizontal line across the brand new phosphor! Somewhat chastened, I had to remove the newly buggered CRT and fit yet another one. At least I only did it once!
Health & Safety people please look away now! One of the other engineers there told me a story of when he was an apprentice (probably back in the 60s). One day, not long after he'd started, someone announced that it was time to break up some old CRTs. Everyone grabbed a CRT and he did likewise, following them outside where they lined up facing a brick wall. All the others started swinging the tubes to chuck at the wall and, on a count of three, they all let go. Of course, they'd deliberately omitted to tell him to run like the clappers in the opposite direction as soon as he let go! When those buggers implode they do tend to shower glass everywhere! Obviously, he survived to tell the tale!
Biting the hand that feeds IT
