Posts by Captain Scarlet

That LVI CPU hole wasn't the only Intel fix: Dozens of flaws patched to stop chips turning into potatoes

Re: Re. Bugs

My experience is it will try and update and fail part way through after several hours on incompatible hardware. Thankfully only one machine in the family had this issue.

Hello, support? What do I click if I want some cash?

Re: Windows appears in the most unlikely places

Did it have a Fiery unit attached to the back?

Southern Water not such a phisherman's phriend, hauls itself offline to tackle email lure

Re: Phishing

Email link scanners are only useful if it detects something wrong, if its a spearphish to a specific company it might be crafted just for that company meaning the link scanner is useless.

Aria Technology loses Court of Appeal bid over £750k VAT dispute

Re: Bankruptcy next?

Sounds like a theme park!

Re: Bankruptcy next?

hmm I remember seeing Aria on Secret Millionaire (Or a similar program in the UK), at that point Aria was living at the warehouse.

Is the warehouse now owned by Velo?

Did you know? Internet money lender Opera also offers a free web browser

Re: About murky waters and all that....

Looks like extortion to me, but then again in the UK we have payday services charging 2000% per year (As they always have an admin fee for a payday loan meant to be paid back in 30 days, but you still often see you almost have to pay double what you borrowed) and services light Brighthouse.

The sooner they all go under the better.

Zyxel storage, firewall, VPN, security boxes have a give-anyone-on-the-internet-root hole: Patch right now

Re: CPE

Updates also got annoying when links in the interface broke and a new feature would kill the routers web servers if you went to a non existant web page.

Microsoft uses its expertise in malware to help with fileless attack detection on Linux

Re: searching the internet

Sounds like the browser found an auto config file for your proxy

Re: Its expertise in malware

Pfft, I can easily edit the registry rendering the machine unbootable, try spying when it won't even load Windows!

Firefox now defaults to DNS-over-HTTPS for US netizens and some are dischuffed about this

Re: Good and bad

I have to point out that you pay the ISP for internet service, a part of this service is DNS which the majority of home users won't know how to change (Other bolt on such as email addresses and web hosting these days are less important).

I have no issue with this, I have an issue on supplied routers not letting you change DNS Settings especially if you pay for the router (Looking at you BT).

Just the place you'd want to spot a BSOD: While waiting in line for a roller coaster that lifts you up 124ft

Its better than spotting said device is running Windows Vista!

Yes I did steal the joke from the IT Crowd!

Don't use natwest.co.uk for online banking, Natwest bank tells baffled customer

Re: So not nwolb.com then?

Hi Downvoter, just to confirm when I used Phishtank and was someone who checked it I can confirm on multiple occassions Phishtank listed the website as a Phishing site.

Re: So not nwolb.com then?

Yup and one that ended up in OpenDNS's Phishtank many times.

Why so shy, Samsung? Weird Find my Phone push notification did not only affect Galaxy mobes

O2 still sell them:

Samsung Xcover 4S - P/N 1SAX4SBN

Galileo got it wrong – official: Jupiter actually wet, not super-dry: 'No one would have guessed that water might be so variable across the planet'

Re: “No one would have guessed"

Its to dusty to keep our hottubs on Mars.

Reddit gets downvoted as site takes a Wednesday tumble

Here from Reddit

Sorry its something Redditors seem to like stating, anyway pfft to the new site as the old site work fine (Even more so with the outage).

Microsoft crack habit reports: User claims Surface Laptop 3 screen fractured again after repair

Re: "Physical damage do[es] not happen if there is no external force"

Ah yes I remember a brand new Panasonic Semi Rugged Toughbook was sent to site, was reporting not working.

Photos showed clearly something sharp had been stabbed at the screen and I could see remotely it had been used that day, after some denials I gave up and got it repaired making sure to cross charge the department for the repair (Which was 1/3 of the price of the machine).

$2.07bn? That's one Dell of a deal to offload infosec biz RSA

Re: "consortium led by STG Partners, a private equity investor"

What do you mean here comes, already had the price of tokens double.

Severe vuln in WordPress plugin Profile Builder would happily hand anyone the keys to your kingdom

Re: CMS 101

I do and from experience it goes in one ear and out the other, as soon as the site is up its the fault of the IT department for any fowl up.

Re: "Vulnerabilities in WordPress plugins are not uncommon"

Yup, have had exploits for everything I have ever used such as PHPNuke, e107, IkonBoard, Invision Power Board, mostly via plugins.

That'll take the spring out of your step: Apple warns of iPhone shortages, revenue miss due to coronavirus

Shortage of iPhones

I see it now, people screaming its the end of the world because their idevice soon enough.

Oh well at least they will keep their money a bit longer, unless they pre-order.

Early adopters delighted as Microsoft pulls plug on Mobile Backend as a Service. Haha, only joking – they're fuming

Re: Shafting

Well yes thats where they make the most money, not sure anything programmed will last more than a few years these days anyway.

It's a Bing thing: Microsoft drops plans to shove unloved search engine down throats of unsuspecting enterprises

Re: Waaaaaait a minute.....

Oh yeah the Nokia handset business :S

Although they can't be accused of tampering it since there was like 4 apps for the environment (Still in my opinion best handset for just Outlook email, not anything else), did any search engine provider bother making extensions for their search engines?

Re: Waaaaaait a minute.....

Microsoft's way of integrating anything is to try and replace it with their own, until they receive enough fines they drop support for it.

Re: Waaaaaait a minute.....

Or like me I just use Office.com which can search OneDrive, Sharepoint sites, everything else Office online related.

I fail to see why changing the default search engine after a user has already selected Google is a good thing.

It's official: In May, Microsoft will close the door, lock the vault, brick over the entrance of dreaded Windows 10 1809

Re: Not Downgrading to Windows 10 ... Ever !!!

I would agree if I could install their OS legally on my own hardware, but they all have to have a special chip to make them unrepairable so I'll pass and point and laugh at you.

Re: You can update system with small SSD by using a external drive during update.

Was it plugged into a USB3 port with the "Superspeed" gubbins, as it worked fine for me on some Linx tablets (To me they are proper bottom of the barrell machines).

Only issue I had with updates was a 4 year old Dell laptop, that was because Intel stopped supporting the chipset a year before W10 was released (Hugely annoying when a 14 year old Dell machine was still supported and although ran like a dog updated perfectly fine every time) and Arcsoft Totalmedia Extreme causing my machine to BSOD over 1/2 the time it booted (Probably doesn't help I have performed a clean install since the days of Windows 7 Home, but then I will be lazy if it works).

Astroboffins agog after spotting the first repeating fast radio burst that pings every 16 days from another galaxy

Re: Alien TV

hmm it appears to be an episode of "Single Female Lawyer"

(Yes I cba to come up with another joke to distract you from Mysteron coded messages being passed via space radio)

B-but it doesn't get viruses! Not so, Apple fanbois: Mac malware is growing faster than nasties going for Windows

Re: It's an obvious target, no?

To be fair they published articles about them killing off iTunes and Quicktime on Windows.

I hate Apple but I can't hold not notifying something going out of support as something.

Whoa, France. Take it easy. Wow. You're out of control. Fining Apple 55 minutes of revenue for secretly slowing down iPhones? Maniaques!

Re: On the other hand

I think users should be given a choice, I have seen Getac Toughbook like devices and HP Probooks have an option to only charge to 80% to greatly increase the life of the battery.

I can't see why Apple can't have an option for this and if the device sees shutdowns due to the battery offer the user the ability to throttle the cpu.

Come to Five Guys, where the software is as fresh as the burgers... or maybe not

Lazy gits

It takes like 1 minute to slap your logo on a wallpaper and deploy it, even if its embedded!

What else did they leave installed by default?

Re: One of the better Windows releases

pfft 2000 > XP

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

Re: Keyboards

:O

*Covers his 14 year old Intellimouses buttons*

'Tens of millions' of Cisco devices vulnerable to CDPwn flaws: Network segmentation blown apart by security bugs

Re: I'm alright Jack!

Erm 79xx had both monochrome and colour displays?

Re: I'm alright Jack!

hmm wonder if the 79xx series will run Doom.

Researchers reckon 500k PCs infested with malware after dodgy downloads install even more nasties from Bitbucket

Not sure of the downvotes as Gimp and Libreoffice are very good alternatives.

Yes it doesn't do everything, but if I need those features at home then I will pay for it.

'Windows Vista' spotted doing a whoopsie over EE's signage

Re: AC cos I'm ashamed of saying something nice about Vista

>_< blasted no editing

Never had any issues with my machine with 512MB, never tried 384MB before I never liked having non identical sticks of ram.

Re: AC cos I'm ashamed of saying something nice about Vista

Tried 128MB which would have a BSOD after 60 minutes no matter what, 256MB which would go for a few hours before blue screening and 512MB had running over 2 days at a Lan full pelt during a Red Alert 2 LAN match which lasted 2 days. Never had any issues with my machine with 384MB.

I admit I ran anti virus software and my only experience is from my first machine I purchased with my own money from my weekend job (I told Evesham Vale I wanted Windows 98SE, but they couldn't supply) as I knew at the time it was bad. Everyone else at the time had Windows 95/98/98SE and obviously from my experience I would recommend Windows 98SE until I went to Windows 2000 Professional myself.

Re: AC cos I'm ashamed of saying something nice about Vista

Windows ME struggled with anything less than 512MB of ram (Well ok not struggle but I found it would crash frequently, but 512MB was a sweet spot for it).

Naviset

Ah ok this is some software from NEC, which lists Windows XP to 10 as supported.

Was someone using the device, as the log file was opened by someone, so I assume it originally had no internet access before someone connected.

Things I learned from Y2K (pt 87): How to swap a mainframe for Microsoft Access

Ah ok, often for us its Microsoft Excel Spreadsheets linked to god knows what doing god knows what in macro buttons

Finally, that cruel dust world Mars proves useful: Helping scientists understand Earth's radio-scrambling plasma

Don't interupt that last episode of "Single Female Lawyer"

You don't want Lrrr from the planet Omicron Persei 8 to miss it!

iCloud hacker perv cops nearly 3 years in jail for stealing and sharing people's private, intimate pics

Re: Hack?

They are using software so I would either class them as a Cracker or Script Kiddie

Very little helps: Tesco flashes ancient Windows desktop on Scan-As-You-Shop device

Well actually it was Motorola before Symbol, now Zebra!

And look at how cute those handhelds are, do they still work after being run over by a Forklift, then a Lorry (MC9090's we had here often would work fine until I yelled at someone for using a handheld that could scan round corners and not reporting it, as the repair service offered was brilliant for even the bronze service contracts)?

Ah, night shift in the 1970s. Ciggies, hipflasks, ADVENT... and fault-prone disk drives the size of washing machines

Re: Sacrificing systems for gameplay

Ah you were lucky not to be limited by the RM Networks software then

Apple finally clambers to top of phone market again as spider-eyed iPhone 11 lures fanatics out of the shadows

Well my work replaced my work DTek with some cheap Sony Xperia L3, it blew me away!

3-4 day battery for a work device, on zero touch MDM (I admit its false advertising, I have to at least press Skip!) and its cheap (Couldn't really give a crap about anything else, only use it to be woken in the night by Helldesk and check work emails).

Quick, get the popcorn: Amazon Web Services says Microsoft's benchmarks for Azure are a load of stripe

Re: It'll be fun to watch

Sorry but virtual crashing and exploding is boring (Unless you are trolling online playing older versions of F1 2016, otherwise you just ghost)

Indie VPN WireGuard gets the Torvalds seal of approval with inclusion in Linux kernel 5.6

Re: Baby seal

:O do you have an issue with users from YaBB/ikonboard/invisionboard etc...?

Top tip: Using AI to detect alien civilizations is dangerous because if it spots anything, even just a blurry blob, people are going to go nuts

An "AI" system

If we actually had any system that had proper AI, I think it would be bored looking at dust.

I would like to think it would deliberatly show aliens and share it on Facebook/Instagram to send people into meltdown, just so it can satifsy this new feeling it has learnt called laughter.

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

Re: WTF?

hmm but the article mentioned the issue was on land rather than with the satelittes!