Posts by Locky

Chap claims Atari 2600 'absolutely wrecked' ChatGPT at chess

Slippery Slope

Lets not start asking ChatGPT if it wants to play a game, it's only a matter of time before it gets round to global thermonuclear war

20% discount offer on Windows 365 expires around same time as Windows 10 support

A tempting deal

How about I counter with showing you the finger and installing Linux?

Datacenters near Heathrow seemingly stay up as substation fire closes airport

Re: Questions will doubtless be asked

A bigger question would be "Why has such a reliable part of infrastrucutre suddenly found itself ablaze?"

The answer, is of course, совпадение

uBlock Origin dead for many as Google purges Manifest v2 extensions

Re: uBlock Origin dead for many as Google purges Manifest v2 extensions

Woah there! In your haste to post this comment you seem to have spelt "Brave" wrong

Eurocops take down 'secure' criminal chat system known as Matrix

Unfortunate

I know all about "unfortunate naming coincidences"

https://www.theregister.com/2016/02/17/locky_ransomware/

Sweden's 'Doomsday Prep for Dummies' guide hits mailboxes today

Don't over-react because of Threads, that's just what Sheffield looks like

NHS would be hit by 'significant' costs if UK loses EU data status, warn Lords

Re: The reality of Brexit...

"Easily done. Go move to your glorious EU. If it is so good it is just over there. Many EU countries to choose from but only 1 UK. Leavers only seem to complain when some remain fanatic claims the UK sucks because of some dumb EU adequacy rule we copied."

I would love to, but my freedom of movement seems to have been curtailed

Vote now on who should take the lead in Musk: The Movie

Donald Duck?

Shirley his uncle Scrooge would be more fitting, he already has the swimming pool full of cash

Microsoft calls time on Windows Insider MVP program

MVP gripe

/rant

You know what really grinds my gears, the MVP acronym. Why would we have something with 2 interchangeable solutions that are the direct opposite of each other.

Is this the greatest thing ever, or the cut to the bone so much it wont work at all, who knows?

/end rant

Boston Dynamics teaches robo-dog to recognise speech, respond using ChatGPT

K-209

Justify your existence, you have 20 seconds to comply

Down and out: Barclays Bank takes unplanned digital detox, customers not invited

Re: Starling

+1 for Starling, all my DDs got moved without a hitch, and having multiple virtual cards for different pots of cash is great

High severity vuln in WinRAR could allow code to run when files are opened

Both the licensed users will be furious

BOFH: WELCOME TO COLOSSAL SERVER ROOM ADVENTURE!!

Continue

You look at the figure. He is carrying a roll of carpet and some quicklime

Quit

I'm sorry Dave, I cannot do that

Quirky QWERTY killed a password in Paris

I had this problem. Someone had installed the French default language onto the on-site server, making the admin password go from complex to insane

'Joan Is Awful' Black Mirror episode rebounds on Netflix

Re: Black mirror: it's either genuine over-the-top woke-ness or parody

So someone who grew up in the 70's, "occasional nun, pregnant woman, or alcoholic priest" pretty much describes my years in catholic education

BOFH: Cough up half a grand and we'll protect you from AI

I imagine it would be difficult to get a new role with "Inappropriate CPR" on your HR record

Can noise-cancelling buds beat headphones? We spent 20 hours flying to find out

Re: Aeropex works great for outside

Mine are so old they are still called Aftershokz. 8 years on and I wouldn't get on a bike without them

BOFH takes a visit to retro computing land

Environmentally Responsibility

Much easier in the old days, it just mea.....

.. is that a fax cable for a Nokia E90?

Techie sacked after jetting to tropical island on sick leave

Harsh, he followed doctors orders

But failed to get his ears syringed while he was there.

Dr said, "Get some bed rest"

He heard, "Get sun bed rest"

Easy mistake to make

BOFH: We send a user to visit Kelvin – Keeper of the Batteries

Nicknames

Autocorrect should meet an old colleague of mine, SMTP Relay. He was known to have a love of just forwarding emails.

I think they'd get on

Three seconds of audio could end up costing Fox $500,000

Re: Harmony by disharmony

Prior art klaxon - Dinosaurs Will Die by NoFx

City council cans ERP project, keeps details of replacement supplier secret

New supplier

As a current creditor of funds to Leeds CC's coffers and knowing how much they have spare at the moment for essential services, I expect the new service will be Excel, supplied by Fag Packet Designs plc

For password protection, dump LastPass for open source Bitwarden

+1 for Vaultwarden

A thread here pointed me towards it at some point and my Pi Zero hasn't looked back since.

Hourly backups to my OneDrive and dynamic DNS updates incase the ISP decides to change my IP are a few of the add-ons I've thrown in.

At some point someone will break into BitWardens service ala LastPass problems, but they are much less likely to find mine on a random ip. And if the vulnerabilities don't get patched I can export my data and import into a n other service.

John Deere signs right to repair agreement with US ag lobbyists

Add your own Paris icon here ->

Just a quick FYI for any Members of Parliament reading this;

This is not porn. I know there can be some confusion over the two for you

Server installer fails to spot STOP button – because he wasn't an archaeologist

We used to have the aircon control system next to the light switch, which had a similar effect to a stop button, but with the added fun of a delay.

Greater London wing of comms union urges BT workers to reject pay offer

Nothing is optional

Isn't "falls way short of your expectations" BT's brand tagline?

New measurement alert: Liz Truss inspires new Register standard

Re: Incorrect measurement

She also had 10 days in mourning, so is a Truss 34 days active service?

Ransomware gang threatens 1M-plus medical record leak

Alternately

Those who the most vulnerable trust their data with haven't secured it adequately..

California to try tackling drought with canal-top solar panels

Re: 13GW

Already being done

https://www.cnet.com/google-amp/news/solar-parking-lots-are-a-win-win-energy-idea-why-arent-they-the-norm/

LastPass source code, blueprints stolen by intruder

Alexia, how do I migrate from LastPass to BitWarden?

Cloudflare: Someone tried to pull the Twilio phishing tactic on us too

Re: Am I missing something ?

Indeed TOTP systems are a pretty poor second factor.

While timed 2FA codes aren't perfect, they are a step up

Slack leaked hashed passwords from its servers for years

Dónde está Paris?

Slack, a tool promoted by Marketing departments for years because "it bypasses all those pesky IT rules and just works", is insecure?

I am shocked

Your job was probably outsourced for exactly the reason you suspected

Outsourcing problems are generally in house

I've been involved in a number of outsourcing programmes and they have all fallen apart because the old in-house teams had the undocumented knowledge.

Management are sold the dream that an off shore team can do the same job as the more expensive incumbent, and they probably could. But changing an entire team all at the same time without every single process fully documented down to the smallest keypress is going to cause problems.

The depth of the knowledge gap is generally only found once the original teams have been let go and the first big change fails to make it's mark and only then does the value of constancy become apparent. The outsourcers will deliver what they promised, but what is often missed is that the terms of a contract is the maximum you will receive, not the minimum

Investment firm KKR buys Barracuda Networks

Management speak

For "a tremendous opportunity for long-term growth" read "sweat the assets"

BOFH: You drive me crazy... and I can't help myself

Re: Been there and *redacted* that

I used to work for a company that Avaya acquired. This doesn't surprise me at all.

We also had the 0208 numbers where the corresponding 0207 ones were Scotland Yard Special Branch. I had some amazing wrong number confessions

To CAPTCHA or not to CAPTCHA? Gartner analyst says OK — but don’t be robotic about it

Complex CAPTCHA

https://me.me/i/google-is-really-getting-serious-with-their-al-training-select-10656732

Ex-Geeks staff lose legal bid to claw back withheld training costs from final paycheques

I'd challenge the Director Cost

So making them pay for their mentor, I guess that's "reasonable", but the director is protecting the corportate image, not training the newbie.

I would have retorted that the Director is actually training the mentor for things he should have picked up initially

UK Test and Trace chief Dido Harding tries to convince MPs that £14m for canned mobile app was money well spent

She's no angel

Yes, it's down again: Microsoft's Office 365 takes yet another mid-week tumble, Azure also unwell

Re: Do you remember?

It almost like all IT projects are either centralisation or decentralisation, and all we do is move the "You are here" arrow between the two...

He was a skater boy. We said, 'see you later, boy' – and the VAX machine mysteriously began to work as intended

The need for speed

Reminds me of something a old BOFH told me back in PFY days.

In terms of the cost of DR, never underestimate the cost saving a speeding techie with a boot load of DLT tapes in their car.

IBM job ad calls for 12 years’ experience with Kubernetes – which is six years old

Re: And so it ever was.

The change HR did affected your job, you are effected

Things can't go on like this. You need to get fit for the sake of your health. I'm going to write you a prescription for... an e-bike

I concur. A e-bike may be a gateway to the patent taking up normal cycling but didn't because of the initial fitness barrier. Could be interesting to see how this pans out.

Of course, if half of them get nicked or end up in a canal because the owner doesn't care for them as much as they would it the asset was their own it would be particularly good value for money.

Health Sec Hancock says UK will use Apple-Google API for virus contact-tracing app after all (even though Apple were right rotters)

Re: with respect to the UK app

But they are already all millionaires....

Google productises its own not-a-VPN secure remote access tool

Zero Trust and Google

Yup, checks out

Apple creates face shield for health workers, resists the temptation to call it the 'iMask'

There's a "You're wearing it wrong" joke in here, I'm sure of it...

VMware plans to give vSphere power to automatically patch everything running in a VM

Old functionallity

Back in the good old days of vSphere3, Update Manager used to be able to apply Windows updates to VMs, until MS gave them a cease and desist.

Feels like a long time ago now, but so does February

Zoom's end-to-end encryption isn't actually end-to-end at all. Good thing the PM isn't using it for Cabinet calls. Oh, for f...

They should ditch Zoom

Houseparty is what all the cool kids are using these days

If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now: Brexit tea towel says it'll just be the gigabit broadband

Re: Since when did a hedgerow need gigabit broadband?

Pwooor, look at them tits

Private equity ponies up £2m to help launch satellites from sunny Shetland by next year

Re: Ideal

Oh course it's ideal, being the one of the most northerly points of the UK it's closer to space, and so will save on fuel.

QED

BOFH: Darn Windows 7. It's totally why we need a £1k graphics card for a business computer

Hardware drivers, BIOS handshaking, flux capacitor decoupling

That exactly the point we're at in our W10 project too