PHP... misconfigure your webserver (or have it misconfigured for you) and there's your undercrackers on display in public. That's probably a massive oversimplification but is the reason I stayed away.
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Marmite of scripting languages PHP emits version 8.0, complete with named arguments and other goodies
Super-antique-fragile-and-it's-XP-alidocious, even though the sight of it is something quite atrocious
Of course we also need to accept (I am sure most wont and await mass downvotage) that Windows 7,8 and 10 only actually exist to prize more money out of your hands. Sure there's some back end stuff that might be a bit of hell to transplant, but Win 10 aint actually so far from XP that we've had to fork for 3 supposedly completely new products in the interim.
It's a gravy train and most of us are on it.
Fancy a steaming portion of Kentucky Fried Bork? A fingerlickin' flub that's pure poultry in motion
Atari threatens to hit fourth VCS shipping deadline, provides pictures of boxes as proof of product delivery
McAfee seeks $2bn return to stock market after Intel unpleasantness
Hootsuite melts ICE deal after staff revolt: CEO vows not to divide biz like agents divided families at the US border
First-world problems: The pumpkin spice latte is here, but the Starbucks loyalty card app has wiped my balance
Pumpkin spice latte
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LhEf6hWAIE (contains swears but none of you are in the office anyway, right?)
This is how demon.co.uk ends, not with a bang but a blunder: Randomer swipes decommissioning domain
God yeah I remember that too. Ridiculous. Talk about unnecessarily naffing off your subscribers that you just acquired at great expense and were already guaranteed to be pretty unhappy.
Mine went further in that (amongst other things) on the day of switchover my broadband went down and stayed down. Along with an email saying congratulations your broadband is up and running! They couldn't fix it, cue lots of "reset the router" "plug into the master socket" etc BS.
There was a litany of mistakes. I remember holding that there wasn't a single facet of the service they hadn't screwed up. I also posted a factually accurate, narky, but clean rant on their message boards in the hope something would happen. It did. They deleted it due to not being within their T&Cs. I was apoplectic.
Sky are a company that deliver great service while you're taking a service, it works without any effort on their behalf, and you keep paying. Any of those things go wrong they are the absolute worst.
Came here to say the same thing. Have an email system that can handle multiple domains, and register the domain with whoever for £15 a year. Whatever the issue is I can't fathom. I can only guess that the corporate branding maniacs have got their hands on it.
Also proves definitively that the big boys don't give the slightest bit of a shit about their customers, really.
We don't need maintenance this often, surely? Pull it. Oh dear, the system's down
Re: The people who wrote it said that it would take them weeks to fix, at a cost of ~£5k
Given that huge swathes of people across the world are continually gainfully employed "upgrading" companies from Windows version X to Windows version Y, which are all pretty much just the same thing with many layers of lipstick on, I'd be quite confident to say MS have perfected this gravy train as well.
Woman dies after hospital is unable to treat her during crippling ransomware infection, cops launch probe
Re: Why should hospitals be 19th century?
You definitely can create proper air-gaps though with only-secure strictly-neccesary comms between several systems that understand what both ends want and expect, and then don't blindly execute whatever's been sent across. It's very doable.
Problem is implementing that properly over x-hundred systems is expensive, time consuming and in most delivery cases pretty much impossible without buckets more time, energy and $ going to the people implementing. In hospitals in my very limited experience, the barest minimum of time, energy and $ aren't even on offer, never mind copious amounts of them.
Speed. Any business that considers IT a cost-centre only, I recommend they try to run their business on paper and pen for a month.
I've been in a few businesses, ones that can completely run on pen and paper, and ones that refuse to even put a procedure in place. But even the prepared ones work markedly slower when they're doing everything without a computer.
Your anti-phishing test emails may be too easy to spot. NIST has a training tool for that
0ops. 1,OOO-plus parking fine refunds ordered after drivers typed 'O' instead of '0'
Re: Simple Software Fix
Does work in the car park situation though, because if the random combination of 1AI1AA IA11AA both come and park in the same car park at the same time, and one of them accidentally enters their registration number wrongly, then how about just letting them off the $2 or whatever it is for the sake of everyone's sanity?
Amiga Fast File System makes minor comeback in new Linux kernel
So I believe.... and I'm not certain about both of these to don't kill me....
- Windows got memory protection in 3.0
- While Wikipedia says that they are, I'm not sure how an OS that can lock up such that the mouse pointer doesn't move is pre-emptively multitasking. Surely the system is able to steal back resources to run the code keeping that alive? I've seen that behaviour on Win (lots), Mac (a bit) and in the past couple of days - and very alarmingly - Linux. Maybe I don't quite understand what pre-emptive multitasking actually is. But again, if a 7MHz Amiga can do it, your 1000s of MHz 30-years-more-development whatever bloody well should be able to.
Not the case. A lot of OSes were of that nature at the time and... lets take an example of the "winning" one... new iterations came out over and over adding the stuff needed as the underlying computing power came along.
The Amiga failed due to Commodore being a very shit dysfunctional company, and the companies that tried to take on the mantle of Amiga being even more shit and dysfunctional. That's all very well documented.
100%. And having just read https://www.theregister.com/2020/09/04/on_call/ and some of the comments, I am very glad circumstances drove me to getting one, and having to persist with it long into the reign of the PC. It's a genuinely very slick OS, was a pleasure to use, and while of course now dated, delivers some lessons OS creators have somehow still not learned. I still boggle when certain (thankfully rare) situations cause Windows' or a Mac's fundamental underlying OS processes to grind to a halt while something is busy.
Someone please have mercy on this poorly Ubuntu parking machine that has been force-fed maudlin autotuned tripe
Re: Huh?
Totally. and especially in Asda. Check out myself on an ignorant machine that undoubtedly will need a harassed and overburdened member of staff come over to sort out at some point? All while having RECORDING IN PROGRESS flashed in front of your face? Don't mind if I never come in your shitty store ever again.
Email seems lost in the post? You might be a Tsohost customer
I like others moved to TSOhost some time ago when they were good. Since their service has dropped off a cliff, to the point that when I have something go wrong (latest was a domain renewal that I got billed for, AND a confirmation, but the domain was not actually renewed in the backend) I get a sarky response to my support tickets that *I* must have done something wrong. Crap. And now another lengthy migration is needed.
Hungry? Please enjoy this delicious NaN, courtesy of British Gas and Sainsbury's
Utilitarian, long-bodied Nokia 5.3 has budget basic specs - but it does cost £150
I thought it was a great idea until seeing a good many people screw up at the barriers on the underground. Hang on that didn't work... double-click, or was it triple-click? ah no the wallet app has disappeared, hang on a sec... sorry about this...
And while waving your £700 phone around. No ta.
Never knowingly under-digitally transformed: Retailer John Lewis outsources tech function to Wipro
Firefox 78: Protections dashboard, new developer features... and the end of the line for older macOS versions
It’s happened again: AT&T sued for allegedly transferring victim's number to thieves in $1.9m cryptocoin heist
Paging technology providers: £3m is on the table to replace archaic NHS comms network
There's no accounting for TITSUP*: Beancounters bemoan Sage cloudy sync software outage
Wow, Microsoft's Windows 10 always runs Edge on startup? What could cause that? So strange, tut-tuts Microsoft
Don't like Mondays? Neither does Microsoft 364's Outlook Exchange Online service
TsoHost swings axe at 'legacy' DIY website builder MrSite, giving customers a month to find alternative arrangements
Barmy ban on businesses, Brits based in Blighty bearing or buying .eu domains is back: Cut-off date is Jan 1, 2021
UK.gov dangles £100m for service slingers for back office 'transformation' that'll kill off bespoke systems
This, 100%. Everything in this arena is bespoke, unless you have everyone half manually processing the data with shared files and Excel. And even then you'll probably end up with a load of bespoke macros.
No, the trick is to get a well-shepherded in-house team who create, intimately know and love the system they give birth to. But ain't nobody got the kahunas for that.
While waiting for the Linux train, Bork pays a visit to Geordieland with Windows 10
eBay users spot the online auction house port-scanning their PCs. Um... is that OK?
Podcast Addict banned from Google Play Store because heaven forbid app somehow references COVID-19
Facebook-for-suits puts on a fresh jacket. 'Classic' Yammer is so 2018. Behold, a public preview of 'New' Yammer
It is unclear why something designed to pump fuel into a car needs an ad-spewing computer strapped to it, but here we are
Serial killer spotted on the night train from Newcastle
I remember... maybe late 90s perhaps, they installed new displays - nothing like these - in the underground stations on Merseyrail. They showed testing and then something like "look at the front of the train" for many months, perhaps years. I'm pretty sure they never displayed any actual information and at some point were replaced with the more conventional ones you see these days.
Xiaomi emits phone browser updates after almighty row over web activity harvested even in incognito mode
Which peice of shit software developer...
...is sitting there thinking it's fine to add telemetry to private browsing mode*, and doing it? C'mon who are you?
* NVM the more arguable stuff. I think we can all defintely agree that private browsing signals that the user doesn't want any telemetry sending anywhere right?
ICANN finally halts $1.1bn sale of .org registry, says it's 'the right thing to do' after months of controversy
WOW
"The billion-dollar deal set off alarm bells from the very beginning: no one in the domain name industry had ever heard of Ethos Capital, and it only had two named employees. It quickly emerged it had been secretly created by a former CEO of ICANN, and he had registered the company one day after ICANN made clear it was going to lift price caps on the 10 million .org domains, instantly making the registry worth tens of millions more."
WOW.. wowowowowow. I have no more words. Just wow.