Ne'er-do-wells will most probably have a go with it hammer and tongs and try to exploit any vulnerabilities on world+dog...
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Cisco opens its network automation system to the unwashed masses
Aussie bloke wins right to sue Google over 'underworld' images
Ick - googled myself and had a shufty at the images - only two pictures was of myself - and the rest... some was pictures which I've posted yonkers ago and is now on some other servers (which made me go WTF) and the rest is of people I don't even know.
HTF did google got a screenshot of my OS/2 Warp 3 desktop? o_O (did not display when safesearch was ON, but with safesearch OFF...)
Scary.
Dixons Carphone 'fesses to mega-breach: Probes 'attempt to compromise' 5.9m payment cards
The chances of anything really new coming from storage are a million to one, but still they come
Trump's ZTE deal challenged by Senate
UK! watchdog! slaps! Yahoo! with! £250k! fine! for! 2014! data! breach!
Apple: No currency mining for you in our App Store thank you
US tech companies sucked into Russian sanctions row
Which? calls for compensation for users hit by Windows 10 woes
Had the dreaded update on my Lenovo X260 Stinkpad - and nothing seems to be amiss...
....yet.
I've resurrected an old HP 7600 desktop PC, added some extra RAM and loaded Linux Mint on it, for the kids @ home. Not going to stick with M$ anymore, next thing you know is that they hosed all existing Win7/8/8.1 installs with a funny windowsupdate thing.
Mistakes will continue to be made and Windows users can expect a lot of data loss not to mention productivity loss to be the inevitable result.
Every bloody gadget in the house is ringing. Thanks, EE
Thanks, but NO thanks.
I reserve the right to receive calls on ONLY one cellphone. And most certainly won't like it if every single gadget decide to give me a tinkle in order to let me know that person X want to talk to me.
Chances are it'll be either a cold caller, telemarketer or spammer.
One device is easy to manage - just put it on silent and ignore its frantic buzzing. A whole host of beeping and whirring devices? Not so simple...
Xiaomi the money? OK, here's a one beeeeellion dollar loss ahead of IPO
IBM to GTS: We want you to 'rotate' clients every two years
Oddly enough, when a Tesla accelerates at a barrier, someone dies: Autopilot report lands
At last: Magic Leap reveals its revolutionary techno-goggles – but wait, there's a catch
Monday: Intel touts 28-core desktop CPU. Tuesday: AMD turns Threadripper up to 32
Re: But ... I don't want more cores.
Heh, reminds me of something back in the OS/2 days - somebody soundproofed their PC - then put a resistor over the terminals of the CPU fan to keep it slow as OS/2 doesn't cook your CPU.
Was a really quiet PC.
Nowadays it is like McDonald's farm, a fan-fan here, a fan-fan there all fan-fan-fanning.
You get fans with LED's and allsorts of blinkenlights. Why?
And some components (esp RAID cards) with passive heatsinks really get hot, I prefer to have these cooled with active cooling. More noise. Plus dust is the bane of fans.
In the end it may be better to just get a bar fridge, stick everything inside with a couple of fans and have a really quiet PC (until the fridge compressor kicks in). And have a filter inside which'll filter the air continuously.
GNOMEs beat Microsoft: Git Virtual File System to get a new name
1,300 customers of Brit bank TSB defrauded due to botched IT migration
With this and the Visa shambles last week, is a cashless society really the best idea?
I have to agree - it is tempting to go 100% cashless, but then you'd stuck up the proverbial creek sans paddle should Mr Murphy decide to poke his grubby fingers in where they don't belong.
Cash still is king. Plus it feel nice to fan some large notes and pretend you're the richest in the world :)
Stern Vint Cerf blasts techies for lackluster worldwide IPv6 adoption
VPNFilter router malware is a lot worse than everyone thought
Hear that? Of course it's Indiegogo's deadline for a Vega+ whooshing by
Watchdog slams TSB boss for underplaying extent of IT meltdown
You have suffered without red-headed emoji for too long. That changes Tuesday
Four hydrogen + eight caesium clocks = one almost-proven Einstein theory
Nadella tells worried GitHub devs: Judge us by our actions
Schadenfreude for UK mobile networks over the tumult at Carphone
Re: Once the Competition Commission have allowed all the networks to be combined...
Now that will be a *really* daft move.
The market benefits from competition as it keeps everybody on their toes and prices will be kept low.
Once that happens (network combining), prices will go up, service levels will drop and the market will go to pot.
DIYers rejoice: Hitting stuff to make it work even works in space
One unavoidable trade-off in getting the drill working again is that some science had to be abandoned: “Curiosity's drill is now permanently extended,” the post said, a configuration that means it can no longer use its sieve device, the CHIMERA (Collection and Handling for In-Situ Martian Rock Analysis).
No doubt the boffins will figure out a way to resolve this problem as well.
Dual-screen laptops debut at Asus' Computex chat
Russian battery ambitions see a 10x increase in power from smaller, denser nukes
Re: And the weather is not very nice either
The lunatics are running the asylum nearly everywhere.
Come Inside
(Bert Hansel?)
I was outside a lunatic asylum one day, busy picking up stones
When along came a lunatic and said to me, "Good morning Mr. Jones,
Oh, how much a week do you get for doing that", "Thirty bob I cried"
"What, thirty bob a week, with a wife and kids to keep?
Come inside you silly bugger come inside"
"Come inside you silly bugger come inside, you ought to have a bit more sense.
Working for your living, take my tip, act a little screwy and become a lunatic.
Oh you get your meals most regular and a brand new suit besides.
What's thirty bob a week with a wife and kids to keep.
Come inside you silly bugger come inside."
Did you test that? No, I thought you tested it. Now customers have it and it doesn't work
Re: Empty...
Excellent hack.
Pity the stiffy drive's all but forgotten now... would've loved to try this trick on my PFY :)
Not to digress - colleague of mine dumped all sorts of viruses and trojans to a stiffy disk, and labelled it clearly "DO NOT USE - VIRUSES" and left it on his desk.
Of course somebody phoned in to complain that their PC's all acting up now - just because said person "borrowed" that "special" stiffy to copy some documents over...
@all windows weenies - can't take a joke, eh? (I refer to the second post which got 10 downvotes)...
Help, I'm being held prisoner in a security camera testing factory. So please read this...
AWS outage killed some cloudy servers, recovery time is uncertain
HostingUK drops offline after losing Farmer vs Fibre competition
US judge won't budge over Facebook's last-minute bid to 'derail' facial biometrics trial
Headless man found in lava’s embrace
Sysadmin's PC-scrub script gave machines a virus, not a wash
Softbank's 'Pepper' robot is a security joke
Game over: Atari cofounder Ted Dabney dies aged 81
IBM's Watson Health wing left looking poorly after 'massive' layoffs
Buggy software could lock a Jeep's cruise control
1969's Diesel Landy. :)
Agreed with the sentiment that old-fuddy-duddy technology sometimes are the best, especially if you're deep in the boondocks. Then you most certainly don't need some 5c resistor deciding that now would be a good time to carp and prevent your car from starting/unlocking/getting filled with fuel.
Old-fuddy-fuddy tech is easy to repair in the field, whilst advanced tech is not that easy to repair, most of the time you'll have XP technicians swapping out parts until the fault goes away, and that you most certainly cannot do in a rural area (or especially when you're stuck in a desolate place).
There is a time and place for both. Most of us most certainly don't need fancy things like aircon or electric windows or a heated chair which'll massage your butt at the same time.
Let the city slickers have it with their technologically advanced cars, and let us old-fuddy-duddy guys have our old-fuddy-duddy tech cars, and everybody will be happy.