Posts by druck

Freed from the office, home workers roam sunlit uplands of IPv6... 2 metres apart

Re: Plusnet Party

However Plus Net are providing the John Lewis broadband, it's not going through their core system, which is IPv4 only. But it does look like you get their crappy encryption not supported email servers though.

Re: IPv6 by default

Well Plus Net aren't joining the party, they had one small IPv6 trial over a decade ago, and haven't gone near it since. They also think that it's acceptable to still only offer plain text email access these days, and refuse to implement TLS.

The shelves may be empty, but the disk is full: Not even Linux can resist the bork at times

Re: R/O FS

A dash cam is just continuously writing 1 (or 2 if it has a rear camera) streams, this is pretty much what SD cards are designed for. Using an SD card as a general computer filing system in a Raspberry Pi with lots of random access writes far smaller than an erase block, cause an SD card to perform a vast number of re-writes. SD cards just aren't meant for that, it what SSDs are designed to do, and they have more sophisticated controllers and lots of RAM to consolidate writes.

Re: R/O FS

It all depends on what you use them for. Out of my dozen Pis, the ones writing on average less than 10MB a day are on their original cards. The ones writing 500MB or more a day would go through a class 4/6 SD card in about a year. Those are now either attached to SSDs (yet to fail) or USB 3 memory sticks (1 failure after 4 years).

Linus Torvalds ponders: Is Linux 5.6 going well because it's bug-free, or thanks to that other bug?

Thank F*ck...

...Something is continuing as normal, and the government hasn't limited git commits to no more than two files.

Captain Caveman rides to the rescue, solves a prickly PowerPoint problem with a magical solution

Re: Understated..

At last an actual use for lettuce and cauliflower leaves.

Theranos vampire lives on: Owner of failed blood-testing biz's patents sues maker of actual COVID-19-testing kit

Re: Simple solution

It would also eliminate companies such as ARM who design processors, but licence them to other companies to make them.

Broadcom sues Netflix for its success: You’re stopping us making a fortune from set-top boxes, moans chip designer

Raspberry lining

This lawsuit may be ridiculous, but the huge profits Broadcom made from US cable boxes enabled them to spare a few pennies to make the Raspberry Pi possible.

US Health and Human Services targeted by DDoS scum at just the time it's needed to be up and running

Re: At Just the Time

It's thought of as a zero sum game - whatever hurts my enemy, helps me.

Build goes digital, Brexit goes virtual (really): El Reg gets some unexpected lessons from WSLConf

Re: The challenges of remote trade negotiations

Maybe having a beer and swapping jokes is why trade negotiations have often taken 7 years or more.

Perhaps do it via video conference can cut out a lot of the time wasting, especially seeing that we've already been in negotiations for over 3 years, and it's clear than chemistry and report is rather thin on the ground with our EU counterparts.

Control is only an illusion, no matter what you shove on the Netware share

Re: "Or heard the sphincter-loosening words: 'What's a backup?' "

She now has a MacBook... and the backup drive permanently attached

Better hope she doesn't get hit by ransomware, or lightning, or even something spilled over both.

There no thing as a 'backup' only 'backups', unless there aren't at least 3 additional copies of the data, one of which is offline and another offsite, it's not backed up.

Appareils électroniques: Right to repair gets European Commission backing

Re: This jumped out:

The article implies that the UK is the only country that is out of the EU, and there would be no one making products aimed at the other 168 countries and 7.2 billion people not in the EU.

HP Inc to Xerox: If you complete a hostile takeover, and try firing our chief exec, you will pay...

Every loser wins...

...as long as they are the CEO.

I fail to see how awarding yourself a massive severance package if you lose, gives you any incentive to fight off a hostile takeover.

GCHQ's infosec arm has 3 simple tips to secure those insecure smart home gadgets

Re: Create strong password, write it on the monitor

First I'm not a millennial by a long way, although my wife qualifies. Secondly, the first few times we both went out together after having a baby, were to Council meetings, as we were both elected councillors at the time and attendance was mandatory. So it's not all about abandoning the baby to have fun.

Re: Create strong password, write it on the monitor

Obviously not many people on here have had children. When you are a first time parent, it is a big thing to go out and leave your baby in the hands of a baby sitter. No matter how much you think you wouldn't be worried or feel guilty before being in that situation, you do, you really do. Being able to just check the baby is OK when you are out, is a massive reassurance, and is a small step towards getting some sort of life back.

I bought a cheap Chinese WiFi camera, with an abysmally insecure remote server and app, but disabled UPnP on the router and firewalled it from making any external connections. Instead I used a early Raspberry Pi to provide an SSH tunnel to the camera, with key authentication only. Now I use Raspberry Pi cameras and OpenVPN for remote access, the kids are older and we don't feel the need to check on them in the same way, it's more to give the baby sitter a ring to tell them to start tidying up before we get home!

After 16 years of hype, graphene finally delivers on its promise – with a cosmetic face mask

Quantum Graphene

Well at least graphene has found some even some modicum of usefulness, which is more than we'll be saying for the government's recent £93m investment in quantum computing.

But then I'm willing to be proved wrong, or right, or both simultaneously.

Time to svn commit like it's the year 2000: Apache celebrates 20 years of Subversion

Re: Hey, remember Windows 2000?

After using Perforce at work, I set up one of my Raspberry Pi's as a P4D server for various other Linux and Windows boxes. It worked very well until 2016 when Perforce decided to not only drop support for ARM, but also erased it from history by removing all traces of previous versions from their web and ftp sites. I accused them of being right gits, and switched to git right away.

Sure, check through my background records… but why are you looking at my record collection?

Re: Coding test

Anyone without an ounce of programming skill can get through an interview coding test, by arriving five minutes early and googling "20 most asked C/C++/C#/Java/Python interview questions".

Quantum compute boffins called up to get national UK centre organised for some NISQy business

Re: Kinda superb, but.....

You might not like what MPs spend their expenses on, but at least it will be something real, rather than just shovelling money at quantum computers, just in case they ever work.

'I give fusion power a higher chance of succeeding than quantum computing' says the R in the RSA crypto-algorithm

Re: Glib rejoinder

Well I'm with him 100%, I've never believed you will get anything really useful from quantum computing. I would go as far as saying you are more likely to see cold fusion succeeding.

I'm sorry, Elon. I'm afraid I can't do that... SpaceX touts robo-rides for orbital vacations, lift-off in 2021-ish

Re: Autonomous?

Apollo 12 - SCS to AUX.

Can AI-enhanced virtual sports presenters do the job? It's a big ask

Re: De-de-de-de-deja vu

What a coincidence, I watched 20 Minutes in to the Future last night on YouTube, to show the wife, as she was only 1 when it came out.

Re: To be fair...

The i2c temperature/humidity sensors such as the htu21df or 1-wire DS18S20 temperature sensors, are fine for this sort of thing. Absolute accuracy of under a couple of degrees is pointless, as where you put the sensor in the room will make more difference to the reading than that. As long as the relative accuracy of the sensor is ok, you can maintain what you feel is the comfortable temperature in the room, regardless of what the absolute value is.

Voatz of no confidence: MIT boffins eviscerate US election app, claim fiends could exploit flaws to derail democracy

Re: I'm baffled

If your mobile banking application is compromised, you will find out when you receive the next statement from your bank, the details of all transactions will be there for you to see. If you dispute any of them, there is a clear process to follow, which (in exception of cases of gross negligence) will result in any losses bing refunded.

With mobile app voting, you will not get a validated statement of how you actually voted, so you will be unaware of any fraud, and have no ability to raise a dispute and have the vote corrected.

There's got to be Huawei we can defeat Chinese tech giant, thinks US attorney-general. Aha, let's buy stake in Ericsson and Nokia

Re: We've done it before

Not to forget what a roaring success it was when a US company last bough a bit of Nokia.

Wake me up before you go Go: Devs say they'll learn Google-backed lang next. Plus: Perl pays best, Java still in demand

Re: Some thoughts about "slow languages"

I think what you mean is that you used Perl to feed strings in to the RegEx library which is written in C, and is much faster than C# and its CLR.

Re: If you want to do Low-Latency properly ...

You do realise you are talking ms? Low latency is us or even ns.

Astroboffins may have raged at Elon's emissions staining the sky, but all those satellites will be more boon than bother

Re: Nuts

Is it really worth fucking up the night sky forever, just because the US can't regulate it's telecomms sector?

This AI is full of holes: Brit council fixes thousands of road cracks spotted by algorithm using sat snaps

It's definitely not using satellite images, but as google labels what are primarily aerial photography images as satellite, people no longer know any better.

Where do you draw the line? Escobar Inc doubles down on cut-price gold phone buying demographic with second pholdable

Re: I'd buy that for a dollar

Nah, old hat. They are now delivered to the seaport or navigable river of your choice, by narco-sub.

Is everything OK over there, Britain? Have you tried turning the UK off and on again? ISPs, financial orgs fall over in Freaky Friday of outages

Re: War with Spain now :)

The Spanish will have to wait their turn, it's traditional to have a war with France first.

Remember when Europe’s entire Galileo satellite system fell over last summer? No you don’t. The official stats reveal it never happened

Re: Isn't it amazing

A quick googling reveals:-

https://sciencebusiness.net/news/71710/Agriculture-raided-to-fund-Galileo-and-EIT

http://www.defense-aerospace.com/articles-view/release/3/86182/european-commission-to-unveil-galileo-financing-plan.html

https://lloydslist.maritimeintelligence.informa.com/LL098161/Brussels-digs-deep-for-Galileo-cash

Shall I go on?

UN didn't patch SharePoint, got mega-hacked, covered it up, kept most staff in the dark, finally forced to admit it

Re: so much fail

You've got to think more BOFH!

When whoever told you to wait is found in the data centre, with forensics saying the only explanation is he must have been taking a leak against the main bus bar, you've now got plenty of time to patch things as you are bringing all the servers back up.

SLS goes vertical at Stennis while NASA practises SRB stacking

Re: The future here ...

Except the past was hell of a lot better. The 53 year old Saturn V didn't need a pair of fireworks strapped to the side to do the job.

Bank IT bod pocketed nearly $1m in kickbacks from tech contractor bosses for sending deals their way, Feds claim

Re: Won't be a problem in the UK ...

@AC: Aww didums.

CityFibre relieves TalkTalk of its FTTP sister biz for £200m – after Boris win blows away Labour's nationalisation vow

Re: FTFY

BlackBogiesFibre?

EU declares it'll Make USB-C Great Again™. You hear that, Apple?

Re: 51000 tonnes?

I'd just got past the stage where kittens had stopped chewing through the phone charger leads, then the children started using them for teething practice.

Re: 51000 tonnes?

Plus a couple left over to use with Raspberry Pi's.

Are you getting it? Yes, armageddon it: Mass hysteria takes hold as the Windows 7 axe falls

Re: Ah, Git ...

Back when it was made with real beef extract.

It's just vegetable derived shit these days.

Windows 7 and Server 2008 end of support: What will change on 14 January?

Re: A repeat of XP?

Using Windows 7 in a VM was slow for me, as if I gave it more than one CPU, it complained about licencing. There's probably some fix, but I only need it so infrequently, that dual booting is an option.

What was Boeing through their heads? Emails show staff wouldn't put their families on a 737 Max over safety fears

Re: I guess

Even organisations which make washing machines need to consider safety and not cut corners. There have been many deaths from fires of overheating tumble driers.

Hey kids! Ditch that LCD and get ready for the retro CRT world of Windows Terminal

Does it have double height text though?

No horrific butterfly keys on this keyboard, just you and your big, dumb fingers

Re: Chorded keyboards

You mean like the 1980's Microwriter Quinkey for the BBC Micro?

2 more degrees and it's lights out: Mercedes-Benz Grand Prix's toasty mobile bit barn

I was lucky enough to be at the front of the FIA garage watching Redbull do practice pit stops next door during winter testing in 2018. You really can't believe your eyes how quick 14 people can move in unison.

Re: Weight, its all about the weight!

It isn't just a case of plugging a containerised systems in to mains and network, the environment is different at every one of the 21 races. The building and tear down involves running all the wiring from the servers in a trailer in the paddock in to the racks of laptops and monitors in the pit garages, and hooking in to all the FIA network which provides the telemetry. The pits are grotty bare concrete boxes, all the nice shiny white plastic interiors are you see on race weekends, are constructed by the teams.

Behold Schrödinger's Y2K, when software went all quantum

RISC OS Y2K no time soon

It's going to be a while before RISC OS's 40bit centiseconds since 1900 rolls over, so I'm afraid I wont be around to fix that one.

Two missing digits? How about two missing employees in today's story of Y2K

Re: There's notthing so enjoyable as rightful smugness

You seem confused, have another snowflakeball.

El Reg presents: Your one-step guide on where not to store electronic mail

Did we retrieve this one out of the trash can from a couple of weeks ago?

News aggregator app Flipboard hacked: All passwords reset after hackers pinch user data

Flipboard was replaced on Samsungs by the equally annoying UpDay, so it's probably only a matter of time before we find the same thing has happened to that too.

Hey, ICANN, if you need good reasons to halt the .org super-sell-off, here are two: Higher fees, more website downtime

10% annually? It will be more like when a US pharma company buys up a drug patent, you are going to get an increase of a 1, followed by a shit load of zeros % on day one.