“compromised” is compromised
article opening reads:
…“Volt Typhoon crew comprised "multiple" critical infrastructure orgs' IT networks”…
shurely verb should be:
“Volt Typhoon crew compromised "multiple" critical infrastructure orgs' IT networks
Posts by adrianrf
19 publicly visible posts • joined 22 May 2010
US says China's Volt Typhoon is readying destructive cyberattacks
Tech widens the educational divide. And I should know – I'm a teacher in a pandemic
Space junk damages International Space Station's robot arm
Rubbish software security patches responsible for a quarter of zero-days last year
Microsoft Surface: Designed to win, priced to fail
RIM share price nosedives following stinky numbers
Google unleashes (another) Facebook knock-off
Apple tightens screws on hardware hackers
Friday 21st January 2011 09:52 GMT
hah! Apple used Torx fasteners over a decade earlier
"I've had a set of T6-15 bits since at least 1995"
sigh.
just another Johnny-come-lately to Macintosh…
my 1986-vintage Mac Plus used Torx screws to secure the case halves; and I strongly suspect so did the original 128K and 512K Mac cases going back to 1984.
(I myself got my first Torx driver in about '92, so I could crack the case of my Plus to install a rip-roaring 40MHz Total Systems Gemini 68030 accelerator card, with its gob-smacking 4MB of 60ns RAM.)
OOo's put the willies up Microsoft
Saturday 16th October 2010 08:27 GMT
full-justification? seriously?
are you one of those duffers who still types two space chars after a period, too?
fully justified text is for the clueless, only; it markedly and obviously diminishes legibility.
<a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mac-Not-Typewriter-Robin-Williams/dp/0201782634">Here's a book</a> you might benefit from reading.
(despite the title, the typographical content thereof isn't platform-specific; the Mac was simply the first platform to deliver routine, consistent access to sophisticated typesetting concepts previously the sole domain of graphic design and print production professionals.)
Fear as motivator: why Intel acquired McAfee
Friday 20th August 2010 01:31 GMT
most of the eleventy-squillion was wasted...
the "Intel Inside" campaign is one of the biggest, lamest marketing flops of all time.
what's the unique brand promise that it's ever successfully established?
the Intel "experience" is for the vast majority of people really the Windows experience: vulnerable as hell; grinding to a halt after a few years of accumulating viruses etc., so you just go buy another box.
Apple iMac 21.5in 2010
Thursday 19th August 2010 08:23 GMT
"the price point for what you get doesn't seem justified" — sure; that must be why…
…Apple's repeat sales to existing customers keeping tanking, their brand is so universally reviled as a promise of post-sales remorse, disappointment and abandonment; and they're struggling not to be de-listed on the stock exchange.
because the post-sales value experience is so disappointing.
thanks for the insight.
Thursday 19th August 2010 08:22 GMT
why would you go to the manufacturer for OoW repair?
you surely wouldn't be silly enough to do that with a Dell or HP box, would you?
the economics of the entire personal computer biz have long militated against that idea, for individuals.
all dis-/re-assembly procedures are well-documented on the the web: e.g. see iFixit.com. we're talking step-by-step, screw by screw, copiously photographed; complete with effective tips & tricks and warnings wherever needed about the odd lurking mechanical pitfall.
all recent (i.e. this millennium) Macs use commodity parts, just like PCs.
so buy a replacement/upgrade component, and put it in there yourself. it's not exactly hard.
Short passwords 'hopelessly inadequate', say boffins
Monday 16th August 2010 20:32 GMT
LastPass works pretty well for me
browser add-on in Firefox/Chrome/WebKit, supports OSX *and* that toy OS from Redmond WA.
took a while to get comfortable with their architecture and with them; but it's been working well for a year now.
makes it easy to end the password-reuse trap even the best of us are prone to; its generator supports arbitrary password length and character-set options; system has as export facility for local backups.
what I really want, though, is an end-to-end idiot-proof simplified UI for setting up SSH authentications. the infrastructure mechanism for creating and using great big digital keys obviously works well enough for people with the technical knowledge to configure and maintain their own server accounts, but is nightmarishly incomprehensible for the majority audience. it shouldn't be that way, and it doesn't have to be.
OpenID was/is a well-meaning effort to simplify things, but it of course has its own issues; its adoption ramp also seems to have stalled.
Tesla Motors: Elon Musk's divorce won't sink us
Saturday 5th June 2010 15:48 GMT
codswallop; lots of people have the "infrastructure" already
a significant majority of people in the US do a daily commute that's substantially shorter than the range of most of the recent EVs that are appearing on the market.
you drive your 'leccy barrow to work. you park it.
you put in your BOfH stint for the day. when the Boss's last twitches have subsided, you pop your cattleprod back into its handy holster, and pop back to the car park.
you commute home; when you arrive, you note there's easily enough charge left run a quick trip to WalMart for another case of Doritos, and and a swift pint or two down your local.
however, you decide to earn some much-needed Brownie points with SWMBO, so you park the heap inside your nice attached garage, and plug its cord into the wall socket.
finally, you go inside to irritate your spouse, hassle the kids, and doze off in front of the telly.
rinse and repeat.
the price of off-peak electricity is negligible by comparison with current gasoline prices. and with US offshore drilling frozen for a good long while to come, it's pretty easy to guess which way the trend will be heading from here on.
now, what with:
* the ever-declining cost of solar panels;
* the pretty hefty federal and State tax credits that offset the money-down lump you'll have to wave a fond goodbye to;
* the better-than-net-billing tariff which you can now count on in many States;
-- and your actual cost per mile driven is going leave you feeling pretty chipper.
Saturday 5th June 2010 06:16 GMT
yeah; yer man Lewis is trying much too hard to pee on electric cars
mechanically, the drivetrain of an electric vehicle is probably going to be in significantly better nick than yer bog-standard oil-guzzler at 100K miles; fewer bits whizzing around and vibrating and banging together; fewer bearings to wear out; less heat generated by bearing friction, etc. etc.
so you may well prefer to just refresh the batteries and press on.
I'm guessing we'll find that 250K mi becomes the new 100K mi ceiling: the point when you get that inner voice saying, "I think I'd better sell it before something expensive breaks".
not to mention, none of us knows what new battery tech will be available in another decade.
or, how much cheaper that tech may be, given that manufacturing volumes are clearly going to rocket up as essentially everyone switches to EVs, which should drop the marginal costs of batteries.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
