Posts by Captain Scarlet

Users sound off as new Google Workspace for Education storage limits near

Re: A lot of research data will never be read again

Ah yes, its great that noone listens. The ultimate Trolls, they then bugger off to some new job just as the shit hits the fan.

No, I've not read the screen. Your software must be rubbish

Its amazing how many times this happens.

Targeted ransomware takes aim at QNAP NAS drives, warns vendor: Get your updates done pronto

Re: Still sticking with QNAP tbh

Ah ok sorry I should have made that clear, I am on Qnaps mailing list for security vulnerabilities but must admit it would be useful if there was one for Firmware updates.

Then again the huge range they now have might make that a pain, especially if they follow HP's route for product update emails.

Re: Still sticking with QNAP tbh

It is a bit hidden, I've double checked and do the following

1. Login

2. Click the notification bell icon in their Gui top right or the 3 horizonal lines in top left

3. Click Notification Centre

4. Click System Notification Rules

5. Scroll to Firmware Update and ensure the box is clicked (You will be able to see a lot of other alerts you can choose here also).

If smtp isnt stup click the Methods and Recipients tab and you can setup the notification method there.

Still sticking with QNAP tbh

Like any consumer grade NAS its just not worth having them internet facing (As they are designed for convenience), for any QNAP users they should be aware of the security nagging for a number of years. The apps can be set to update daily, firmware is supposed to self update however I normally update this myself when it notifies via email that it has a new firmware version to install.

The biggest issue I see (I do lurk from time to time on the Qnap forums) has been weak passwords, putting everything on the internet (MyQnapCloud has a uPnP option which might make it easy to setup means non technical users are exposing the management interface, etc...) and not disabling the admin root account. I can't see this changing anytime soon. As it seems QNap's popularity is biting I admit myself to removing everything internet facing and now using VPN for the management interface.

Happy birthday, Windows Vista: Troubled teen hits 15

Windows ME is 10x worse than Windows Vista

I think people forget the added bloat to Windows ME meant it would blue screen what felt like 3 to 4 times more than Windows 98 with the exact same software (Active Desktop crap, the Explorer Shell bloat not helping). I brought my first pc with 128MB of ram (Evesham Vale). I experiemented a lot and as my parents had a slightly older Evesham Vale PC, re-using the 98 license and media install found my pc was fine. As my dad wasn;t happy with this, I reinstalled with Windows ME, upgraded memory to the maximum I could at some point (I seem to remember 512MB but I'm not 100% sure) and it was then stable.

Pop quiz: The network team didn't make your change. The server is in a locked room. What do you do?

Re: Out of date building plans

Ah yes finding out a site was doing work when the fibre link is trashed when destroying a wall.

Re: Out of date building plans

O_O wait, mezzanine floor.

Great thats the next thing to happen to me then.

Re: Been there, done that.

Never heard of mini sledge before but makes more sense than an engineer hammer, surprised no mag lock stories though. They are easy enough assuming everything is on UPS, kill the power walla. If you can't just quick kick to the door followed by whoever from security realising just how crap they are.

Windows box won't boot? SystemRescue 9 may help

Where is the line about owning your soul?

Lots of new toys, caps lock still stuck on: ONLYOFFICE hits version 7

Appears it does

Version 7 of WINE is better than ever at running Windows apps where they shouldn't

Yup 2k was consitent across desktop to server, fast, stable (I also have same opinion of versions of Cent OS, Debian I used over 10 years ago as well, but I can stick to the text interfaces)

Insurance giant Lloyd's hires DXC to migrate org off legacy mainframes to AWS cloud

Re: Should have checked with Games Workshop

However Sage Line 100 (Best Software MAS 90) and Sage Line 500 (Tetra CS/3) are completly different in terms of data structure, what the actual product was programmed in and its usage.

Perseverance on the rocks: Pebbles clog up the rover's Martian sample collection

Re: Nothing there...

That hasn't stopped us before

**Slurps tea and dunks biscuit**

Re: Nothing there...

Quick send up a Union Jack and claim it as part of the British Empire!

Re: Nothing there...

hmm must admit when digging on my grass patch never considered I was supposed to fill in an environmental impact assessment form.

Re: Surely...

As an Alien I can confirm, we did not place dirt there.

Don't look that way look over there.

A slice is better than none: Apple gives in, allows third-party app billing systems in Korea, per local law

Re: Doesn't fix the real problem.

Weird every time we asked someone to give a reason why they needed an iPhone instead of a Windows Phone/Android the store wasn't one of them.

In most cases it was they just wanted something shiny or couldn't use Windows/Android (Even though to me they are all the fecking same usage wise, a deliberately crippled system designed to rinse as much cash out of you as possible)

What begins with a 'B' and is having problems at tsoHost? Hopefully not your website

Re: There's another problem at TSO...

Ok that's bizarre considering its an official free add-on that literally every WHM and cPanel host have enabled. Seems you can use a workaround https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/tso-host-remove-letsencrypt-from-cpanel/167591 but that's really odd when its basically something that has been standard for a number of years.

Planning on buying a new motor? Chip shortages set to hit UK carmakers this year and next

Or at least consolidate some functions into few chips/seperate systems

Northern Ireland aims to break free from BT's 27-year reign with £125m procurement of land registry systems

27 Year Old System

Having no experience (Google failed to find a website for it) with this I assume its been developed since and kept updated at least partly?

Otherwise that will be a proper Web 1.0 experience

It takes more clicks to reject their cookies than accept them, so France fines Facebook and Google over €200m

Reject all

I personally tend to allow site to store information, select functional and reject anything else (Unless forced to click more than a few, anything with legitimate interest options gets the reject all button clicked then the site closed).

I am wasting years of my life with this crap

Google fixes bug that stopped some Pixel phones from making 911 calls

Thats odd

I received an email from Google about this, however my Pixel phone was removed from my account over 5 years ago.

hmm

The monitor boom may have ended, says IDC

Re: Blue Christmas

Never knew iiyama did those types of monitors, got 2 x 27" iiyama's myself.

Do you not find yourself looking up to high though for the top screen (As my only concern would be I've always bitched at staff having them set to low or high)?

Sage to acquire remaining stake in ecommerce platform Brightpearl for £225m

Its not surprising, the majority of Sage's software has been purchased rather than written from scratch, so for instants Sage Line 10, is actually completely different to Sage Line 200 also to Line 500/1000 or Sage X3.

Sage has grown through acquisitions for as long as I have known them

Gnu Nano releases version 6.0 of text editor, can now hide UI frippery

Re: "fourteen new color names"

No however pointing out simple things like crisps incorrectly being called chips are very easy to troll.

*Slurping continues*

Re: "fourteen new color names"

*Slams cup of tea down launching biscuits on the plate across the room*

They spelt colour wrong again!!!!

*Bri'ishness intensifies*

When product names go bad: Microsoft's Raymond Chen on the cringe behind WinCE

Re: I swear it was unintentional...

Needs to check what you say in many game these days, mentioned I would brb to check my faggots were in the oven. This was apparently enough for a 3 day chatban in Rocket League.

How to destroy expensive test kit: What does that button do?

Re: Expensive test equipment

"huge inductor and a variac"

Images of Photonicinduction now come to mind using his variacs

Netgear router flaws exploitable with authentication ... like the default creds on Netgear's website

Re: The world needs to be reformatted.

The dial in out of band modem?

Visiting a booby-trapped webpage could give attackers code execution privileges on HP network printers

Re: Malware or just a link to the firmware update site?

Sorry I wasn't applying this to stuck spooler files, but to get around the print spooler service not sending a print when the status was in error.

I probably should have replied to the first post.

Re: Malware or just a link to the firmware update site?

Why not just turn off snmp pooling on the printer port (Uncheck "SNMP Status Enabled" on the port settings, been the same box since Windows 2k)?

Much simpler than restarting the print spooler service.

Also some applications still call printing spooling (Such as Sage Line 500)

Santa's sack is bulging with browsers: Vivaldi 5.0 arrives full of festive cheer

As a Presto lover

Is it worth giving Vivaldi a go yet?

It's 2021 and someone's written a new Windows 3.x mouse driver. Why now?

Re: I remember a buddy of mine...

hmm getting an Access file to run that quickly takes careful planning of the front end and backend, however they are easiest to keep working under newer versions of Access (Not that Microsoft has put any development effort in since it dropped Access for Web).

I still always use Access for a front end only with a SQL backend for your data so I don't have to worry about some of the limitations of the Jet database (Such as users going meh it didn't refresh in a nanosecond lets terminate the process).

I wonder if he used the option to compile into Binary ADE files (If that was available).

BOFH: What if International Bad Actors designed the vaccine to make us watch more Steven Seagal movies?

Re: Loonies are reading this

I wonder if they have also fallen for the flat earth theories, where they link a video tell you to play at double speed and don't understand that horses defecate on the floor and fail to give sources for their images of cities with noone in them.

Reviving a classic: ThinkPad modder rattles tin to fund new motherboard for 2008's T60 and T61 series of laptops

Build quality getting worse feels normal

Each new version of HP's Probook (650's especially I've got good experience with since we've brought them since they were 6710b's or maybe nx6120) feels like something else had had a corner cut. Sometimes things are made better after whining.

Putting the power button on the top row of the keyboard is one of the most confusing things done recently (At least 2 people had to Google how to turn them on, so I know point it out if I am handing one over), plastics to me feel cheaper every time (I also want to slap people who think lighter notebook computers are better).

Robotaxis freed to charge across 60km² of Beijing

I would take whats more convenient tbh

I say I want to support human workers, but if I am honest I like going to a taxi rank and getting a ride immediately.

Once also in The Netherlands my phone dropped out of my pocket whilst going to Rotterdam airport, I was returning home and our office who had arranged had closed. Chap very kindly found it and dropped it off to our office. Robo taxi's will probably be behind a lifeless multinational corp who would probably not care

Microsoft slows Windows 10 release cadence to yearly. If they're all as dull as the November Update, this is fine

Re: Is it stable yet?

Assuming drivers are supported yes, only issue I had was my nans Dell notebook computer had an out of support intel chipset, wouldn't update between releases (Although would if I used the media creation tool and upgraded via a usb stick) would try and install and then rollback. Annoyingly my old mans Dell notebook computer which was 5 years older, was fine except for the lack of cpu bottlenecking the machine. I replaced them all 2 Christmas' ago to give me less headaches.

BOFH: So you want to have your computer switched out for something faster? It's time to learn from the master

3 years O_O, my OS drive which has been cloned (Norton Ghost and Acronis freebies, from mechanical 512 bytes to mechanical 4k, to numerous SSD's to lots of m.2 which I currently use) and had numerous windows upgrades performed hasn't been formatted since Windows 2000 (Windows 95/98 and ME yes a reinstall was pretty much a requirement). Didn't even reinstall after my last cpu and motherboard swap to a i5 6600k and I'm not going to reinstall when I get around to replacing them again.

What on earth does everyone install that I don't, I even use AV which is guaranteed to slow everything down (Eset Nod32) and have the Epic bloatstore installed?

I could only wish for 3 years, although these days I would prefer not to have my machine replaced as its to much of a ball ache reinstalling anything especially when newer machines are just as fast as my old one for all the corpware we use.

EasyJet flight loadsheet snafu caused by software 'code errors' says UK safety agency

Re: Weight of passengers

Most planes have 3 sets of wheels having contact with the tarmac, I'm not sure if that's enough to accurate check if it is centred as all the weight tends to be within those wheels.

Edit: I know nothing about how planes are built, so high possibility I'm barking up the wrong tree!

Microsoft admits to yet more printing problems in Windows as back-at-the-office folks asked for admin credentials

Re: Easy Alternative

Have Samsung derived copier machines, with Samsung firmware booted in about a minute, HP firmware feels like an eternity. Personally never liked HP's newer printer firmware.

Re: Only affects users where there are differing time zones

By any chance an Elitebook 820 G1?

I know one of their small machines had a plastic area under the keyboard where most other Elitebook ProBook models relied purely on the keyboard (Only one occasion that might of helped as the user had buckled the chassis of a 6730b so much so the cd drive wouldn't eject)

If your apps or gadgets break down on Sunday, this may be why: Gpsd bug to roll back clocks to 2002

Re: Well...

Then again normies think coders are very random people

Is that a meteor crashing to Earth? No, it's Chromebook makers coming back to reality

Re: Impressive

If only, still waiting on an order from Q1 2021. Currently HP having issues getting hold of wifi cards for their notebook computers and getting chips for their USB-C to ethernet dongles.

How Windows NTFS finally made it into Linux

Re: Title to long :whaa:

I suppose the problem for me is I used to be a heavy Lotus Notes and Opera (Presto) user, many years ago so just let the OS close both and re-open where I left off. Outlook has only recently introduced the feature (I'll be enabling once helldesk installs) and Edge I've enabled the function to re-open websites.

Title to long :whaa:

I've never seen the point in Fast startup or Hibernate, first thing I disable on my personal machines.

Always nice to see the missing Hibernate option on the shutdown option in Windows 10 when there is an update to apply and hibernate is disable :S

Microsoft turns Windows Subsystem for Linux into an app for Windows

Re: Found a shortcut

I have known plenty of stubborn Windows Users (MS Surface Tablets are not good value for money!!), it happens with everything though such as iPhones, Android.

Like me, I am known to bang on about new features in email clients appear that were in in Lotus Notes or how I still prefer Blackberry Q10 for a mobile OS (Yes weird one me).

Edit: I am a Windows user (Although keep your hands off my local accounts MS, don't care about your "Store"), I did used to use Linux quite a lot as well and for me either OS has pro's and cons.

Reason 3,995 to hold off on that Windows 11 upgrade: Iffy performance on AMD silicon

Re: Who is This Guy?

hmm considering its a joke bit surprised by the downvotes so have an upvote

Re: Who is This Guy?

Either that or its their comment nemesis who hates them and has to downvote you everytime.

Btw anyone seen my comment nemesis, slacking recently!