Posts by Locky

Brighton gig screen goes One Step Beyond with an update pop-up

Re: That’s just

It will defiantly be giving someone a Cardiac Arrest

End of era as the BBC switches off Radio 4 Long Wave service

Re: Run silent

I think this got changed after Radio 4 suffered a power cut in the early 2000's and we were one step away from a nice game of thermo-nuclear war

Microsoft accidentally kills epic Outlook email threads

Maybe MS are just suggesting that the users are holding it wrong

Commodore gets into the phone biz with Sailfish-powered retro 'Callback'

The E70 was an excellent phone, it even had Blackberry integration. Was way ahead of it's time

Microsoft: Removing some Copilots will improve Windows 11

AI Bard

"Meaningful, with craft and focus" is a synopsis of MacBeth if you have a lisp

Dell wants £10m+ from VMware if Tesco case goes against it

Re: Bad analogy

A good BOFH would always check who's lifetime the warranty is attached to

With impeccable timing, AWS debuts automated cloud incident report generator

A cynic might say

Was this what they were making the changes for that brought the house of cards tumbling?

Teens arrested in London preschool ransomware attack

But the shareholders got their money, so that's okay then

The perps were obviously at fault here, but until there's some enforced corporate responsibility nothing will improve. Companies will continue to roll the dice and hope they aren't targeted

Terminators: AI-driven robot war machines on the march

We're not going to make it, are we

People I mean

McDonald's not lovin' it when hacker exposes nuggets of rotten security

Welcome to the clown show

How did they not see this coming?

Its only a matter of time before Hamburgler gets into the RaaS racket

French cops cuff Russian pro basketball player on ransomware charges

Re: "He's useless with computers and can't even install an application"

Ah, the Harry Redknapp defence

Does he have a dog?

BOFH: Peeling back the layers of the magic banana industrial complex

And after all these arguments have died down Apple will register a patent, call a press conference and....

The iNana is born

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