Posts by Paul Woodhouse

Linux-loving lecturer 'lost' email, was actually confused by Outlook

where was BOFH then?... after being promised it in the opening bumf of this article I got excited...

The ultimate full English breakfast – have your SAY

it actually works quite well :)

the problem I have with Tea in the UK is that its cheap nasty crap swept up from the floor of the factory/farm buildings in India or China...

Go to Taiwan if you want a cup of tea, (don't bother getting a coffee over there though)

I'm gonna get a few downvotes for this one I think....

Bacon, lots of Sausage, lots of Mushrooms, Scrambled Eggs, Fried Bread, splodge of Haggis stuff, Beans (yeah, bit of cheese melted into em is a good idea) Hash Brown...

Brown Sauce.

Black Pudding is an acceptable replacement for the Haggis.

and a pot of coffee that's strong enough to wake up a Frenchman...

non of this tea or tomatoes crap...

Norway Quizwall experiment ends with more quizzing than commenting

Re: Quiz answers

You need to put a spoiler alert on that post...

Good Lord: Former UK spy boss backs crypto

hmmm... almost if we break encryption though, we know its done can have a good guess why and so does every bugger else, break the tool and it might be possible to keep quiet on exactly how it was done...

no guarantees of course and yeah, your showing its possible so someone else'll do it eventually...

Revealed: The naughty tricks used by web ads to bypass blockers

Re: Problems with Ad Blockers

Someone who actually uses IE and reads el Reg?

Microsoft's Surface Pro 2017, unhinged: Luxury fondleslab that's good...

Does it run Mint?

A sarcasm detector bot? That sounds absolutely brilliant. Definitely

what happens if you put:

"this is the bollocks" instead of just "this is bollocks"???

Re: A massive market

yeah, the size of our cars...

Another day, another British Airways systems screwup causes chaos

Re: BA think they're competing with RyanAir

I actually don't mind RyanAir, flown with them a few times, as long as you do your research first so you know for example, that you'll be landing in Charleroi instead of Brussels and plan for that they are OK. They only do short haul and a couple of hours isn't bad, sure the constant trying to sell you extra's is a bit annoying but you can easily ignore it and of course they are cheap.

Certainly wouldn't want to fly them long haul though...

Then again, there's no bloody way I'd ever fly long haul again with BA either, also a bit of a shame as BMI baby actually used to be OK for short haul back in the day.

Re: I feel sorry

You actually got good customer service from BA???

Not really sure I believe this story to be honest...

Microsoft Surface laptop: Is this your MacBook Air replacement?

will it run Mint?

UK regulator set to ban ads depicting bumbling manchildren

can't we just ban all ads?

John McAfee plans to destroy Google. Details? Ummm...

LOL, he's knuckling futts but he's not stoopid I don't think....

This could be interesting..

Jodie Who-ttaker? The Doctor is in

Brian Blessed playing Miss Marple??? Hell that sounds fucking fantastic, well be worth the price of the TV Licence...

Not sure if it'd be funnier if he did it in drag or not....

This should deffo be done...

Presto crypto: IBM releases gruntier, faster Z14 mainframe

can you play candy crush on it?

UK.gov snaps on rubber gloves, prepares for mandatory porn checks

Re: Fantastic use of Godwins law

heh, I'm looking forward to my lad being old enough to match wits with me and try and get past whatever filters/proxies/policies or the like I set up for the household network and computers. Will prob. be a learning experience for both of us.

Re: Conjours up the image ...

was gonna say... I'm expecting to find that image and similar all over social media websites later today..

When 'Saving The Internet' means 'Saving Crony Capitalism'

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The whole thing is about as spontaneous as the Theresa May Joke Book.

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I need a new keyboard

Microsoft boasted it had rebuilt Skype 'from the ground up'. Instead, it should have buried it

sounds like you need to set yourself up an openfire server...

Ex-NASA bod on Gwyneth Paltrow site's 'healing' stickers: 'Wow. What a load of BS'

Re: High level spirit

Paul John is a good Indian whisky maker

Ad 'urgently' seeks company to build national e-ID system

Re: Enrolling children

mine needed it to go half way across the world to visit his Grandma :p...

Migrating to Microsoft's cloud: What they won't tell you, what you need to know

hmm, actually is it legal in the UK to use office365 to work on documents containing confidential client details?

Re: Days?

<quote>250GB @ 100Mb/s is a smidgen under six hours. If you don't have an office internet connection at least that fast these days you're doing something very wrong.</quote>

Even if you have that and more, and you have the luxury of doing it all over a bank holiday weekend while the normal lusers aren't there to nick bandwidth, you'll have a bored IT Director or the like sitting in his office streaming porn while he's supposed to be 'keeping an eye on things'

Hyperloop One teases idea of 50-minute London-Edinburgh ride

Re: Um

Clunk-Click or your going to be sick....

UK PM May's response to London terror attack: Time to 'regulate' internet companies

Re: False flag policy

Can't see the DVLA on your list, sure they must be up there too...

Amazon granted patent to put parachutes inside shipping labels

hmm, I see this as being the final stage for delivery once they get their warehouses up in orbit with a huge line of cannons on the side for sending out the packages...

*shit*... think I've not had enough coffee yet today

WannaCrypt: Pwnage is a fact of life but cleanup could and should be way easier

dunno why you got a downvote for that... made me chuckle a bit...

Re: Time Machine

and windows has VSS and previous versions... wannacry turned them off and deleted the previous versions as part of its payload.

if someone develops an equivalent for the Mac it'll most likely do the same thing.

personally, I'll advocate having something with plenty of redundant storage running backuppc on each site as a quick and dirty protection. its crap for backing up databases and things like PST files but its great at backing up documents.

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Imagine, if you will, that governments stood up clouds to enable cheap (or free) backups for critical industries. It's one possible solution to the realities that made WannaCry the international IT oopsie of the week. There are many more.

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MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!

government controlled cloud/storage, what could possibly go wrong?

Sons of IoT: Bikers hack Jeeps in auto theft spree

Re: Alarms

aye, my 2003 3 series is the same...

Last week: 'OpenVPN client is secure!'
This week: 'Unpatched bug in OpenVPN server'

pfSense???

So I'm quite right in thinking that the pfSense implementation of oVPN isn't affected by this one then?

While Microsoft griped about NSA exploit stockpiles, it stockpiled patches: Friday's WinXP fix was built in February

Re: Let me get this right

can confirm they recall at least 10 years for safety critical, my 2003 3 series went back to BM for a recall last year to get the airbag replaced...

US spymasters trash Kaspersky: AV tools can't be trusted, we've stuck a probe in them

Re: The Need For Speed

another +1 for ESET from here.

As you stare at the dead British Airways website, remember the hundreds of tech staff it laid off

Good thing I'm prepared to pay more to NOT have to travel on British Airways I think... urgh... just the name makes me want to rant about how shit they are...

BT's spam blocker IDs accident claims as top nuisance call

seems even BT get things right sometimes... *shrug*

WileyFox disentangles itself from Cyanogen

Picked a good time to replace my ageing Galaxy Nexus...

Apple fans, Android world scramble to patch Broadcom's nasty drive-by Wi-Fi security hole

HAHA... I still have a Samsung Galaxy Nexus... s'been a cracking wee phone, I ain't whinging about it, suspect its not gonna receive a patch though.

Y'know CSS was to kill off HTML table layout? Well, second time's a charm: Meet CSS Grid

/me runs off for popcorn + beer and just keeps hitting refresh on this page :D...

Ever visited a land now under Islamic State rule? And you want to see America? Hand over that Facebook, Twitter, pal

Re: Yes

I didn't say it was a good plan....

Its a cunning plan to make the actually organised and competent terrorists complacent thinking that their opponents are total and utter morons, and thus relaxing their guard a little...

Cheap, flimsy, breakable and replaceable – yup, Ikea, you'll be right at home in the IoT world

Re: Lightswitches...

Certainly most Taiwanese aren't huge fans of TaiPei...

the film, Cape no 7, starts with the immortal words "Fuck TaiPai"

Judge issues search warrant for anyone who Googled a victim's name

Re: Fishing?

This was actually my first thoughts here too...

'First ever' SHA-1 hash collision calculated. All it took were five clever brains... and 6,610 years of processor time

hmm, wouldn't it be possible to have code to automatically detect the padding that must be required to actually generate the collisions after you've altered the original document? I would imagine it would be very very very rare for collisions to be possible from actual document alterations that by themselves would be meaningful, hmm, or keep an eye out for weird looking meta tags...

BS Detection 101 becomes actual University subject

hmm, to be honest, in my experience most of us English don't actually need that course, then again... Brexit...

Yanks though?, my God it should be compulsory to pass it at the age of 16. And if you fail you have to go and work in telesales...

Nokia's 3310 revival – what's NEXT? Vote now

but...but...but... Where's the Amiga 500 in that list????

Going underground: The Royal Mail's great London train squeeze

Re: Speed

hmm... working this one out... do you mean that the cyclists on average are faster and squish a few, you'll lower the average speed, or does it mean that the congestion you'll cause by squishing cyclists will reduce the average speed?

someone needs to design an experiment...

Hacker: I made 160,000 printers spew out ASCII art around the world

Re: hmmm

hmm, indeed I was thinking that... can replicate that by just scanning everything for port 9100 and then just sending some postscript to it... for the really lazy, you can just hit http:\\ipaddress|DNSname:9100 in a browser to make it print something, although all it'll be printing is the GET request and your user agent string...

Ubuntu Linux daddy Mark Shuttleworth: Carrots for Unity 8?

I actually quite like Unity and always did... just seemed to get on with it OK from the start....

hmm, quite like Mint Mate too though, couldn't stand windows 8...