Posts by jake

Microsoft to spooks: WannaCrypt was inevitable, quit hoarding

@IanMoore33 (was: Re: Security Agency?)

"NSA told MS about it and they never released a patch"

Do you have proof of this assertion, or is it purely idle speculation on your part?

Sainsbury's IT glitch spoils bank holiday food orders

Round these parts ...

... barbecue & beer is a daily occurrence, should we feel the need. You lot have to wait for a bank holiday? Sad state of affairs, that. Do you blame the Tories or Labo(u)r?

'President Zuck' fundraiser opens for business

"But that's all water under the bridge now."

Shirly you mean "water in the bilge now" ... and the pumps ain't workin'.

Hey, Zmuck: Your anti-social medja is forever, BITCH!

Init freedom declared as systemd-free Devuan hits stable 1.0.0 status

Re: Consider this: (was: No - systemd doesn't offend me)

It's called inertia, MacroRodent. Once systemd is entrenched deep enough, getting all the other projects that depend on it to change will be virtually impossible. None of your examples were designed to preclude similar software running along side them, on the same machine, often at the same time.

systemd is designed to do exactly that. The authors want control.

Consider this: (was: Re: No - systemd doesn't offend me)

systemd is handling far more than just the init function. And as more and more bits of the running system are incorporated into systemd (unnecessarily, for the most part), systemd will become MANDATORY to run Linux. In other words, systemd will become a choke point.

And the choke point is controlled by whom, exactly? It sure ain't "the community" (whatever that is!). Are you certain you want Linux to become capable of being held to ransom? To me, it sounds foolhardy, at best.

And that's without going into any of the technical arguments against it.

As a long-term un*x user, are you sure you are not offended?

Good advice.

But somehow, it seems cleaner to just go without the baggage to begin with.

Re: ARM, pretty please!

You can also try Slackware, if you want "One OS to rule them all":

http://docs.slackware.com/howtos:hardware:arm:raspberrypi

Re: Bah!

No, it's not Linux XP. It's release 1.0.0 of Devuan Linux. Do try to keep up, there's a good chap.

Re: Already have it running.

Clearly, that ship hasn't sailed or we wouldn't be having this conversation.

Re: Already have it running.

"Sooo, that has changed."

Has it? From what?

"May I ask how much effort it took?"

I honestly don't remember, so probably not much ... Except I had to run out to Fry's & get a brick of floppys to burn the installation set onto. (I haven't shopped at Fry's since 1996, when they started treating customers like criminals).

Yes, I have all that running, and more. 99% of it worked out of the box (I had to tweak a few bits & bobs to get my third display working). Give Slack 14.2 a whirl. You might be surprised. Report back.

Already have it running.

Slackware is my primary desktop, and has been for a long time, but I support Devuan and will have at least one machine here running it for the duration.

IMO, systemd is a cancer that is growing out of control, and needs to be cut out of Linux before it infects enough of the system to kill it permanently.

Google wants to track your phone and credit card through meatspace

Re: Google might get very confused

"Unless I am an incontinent cross dresser with a fetish for nappies"

Jersey Jim! Where you been, man?

Poor old Brian is going to get inundated with spam.

And that was previously a spam-free email address, too. What did Brian do to you to deserve this kind of treatment?

$ dig JudeanPeoplesFront.org

; <<>> DiG 9.10.4-P8 <<>> JudeanPeoplesFront.org

;; global options: +cmd

;; Got answer:

;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 2624

;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:

; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096

;; QUESTION SECTION:

;JudeanPeoplesFront.org. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:

JudeanPeoplesFront.org. 14400 IN A 69.163.166.136

;; Query time: 57 msec

;; SERVER: 192.168.1.254#53(192.168.1.254)

;; WHEN: Thu May 25 10:08:06 PDT 2017

;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 67

Re: Stores? I remember those.

I have never purchased anything online. Why would I? If I need/want something, I can get it faster, and cheaper, in person. For literally any value of "it".

Re: get ready for “what's your e-mail address?” from counter staff

Don't use real email addresses unless you own them. If you do, you will be causing unsolicited email to be directed at somebody else's email box. That makes you just as bad as the spammers. There is a a reason that we invented example.com ... Me, I use root@127.0.0.1 when I must give an address. Usually a simple "I don't use email" works quite nicely without swearing. Remember, corporate policy isn't the fault of the kid running the POS.

Told you so. At least 7 years ago ...

... here. But would anybody listen? Enjoy your gooverse, sheeple. You've earned it.

IoT standards? We've got 'em. And if you don't like those, we got more

Re: 'No. Advertising.'

Yes, G & F are the ad industry now. Isn't the silence wonderful?

BX[0] (was: Re: xkcd - Standards)

"The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from."

-- Andrew S. Tanenbaum

[0] Before XKCD

Apple asks FCC to let it run mm-wave tests - for backhaul?!

Come to think of it ...

... Black Mountain has quite a bit of old radio gear perched on it. At an elevation of about 2,800 feet, and an easy drive (some would say pleasant) from Apple in Cupertino. Last time I was up there, there was plenty of space/power/security for anything that the wormy one might need.

Apple's campus1 and campus2 are "on the flat", and are essentially at the same elevation as most of Milpitas. That is to say, about 6 feet (about 2 meters) above mean higher high tide.

Cupertino to Milpitas?

Seems to me there is a major airport between them ... methinks the fine folks in charge of Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport will have something to say about experimental radio traffic cutting through their airspace.

Fat-thumbed dev slashes Samba security

Re: Interesting...

Easy enough to find out. Read this page. Compare and contrast your system's version numbers with the patched version numbers on that page. Command line to check yours is a simple samba --version.

EU ministers approve anti-hate speech video rules

Re: I hate mayonnaise with a passion

"I've ordered burgers many times telling the teller no mayo"

Maybe if you ordered your burger at a burger joint instead of a bank?

Re: Ok, here's some hate speech

Why yes. Yes, I do smell of poo & wee.

That'll happen to a guy when he's been mucking out stalls for the last couple hours.

My child ...

... did not need the gubbmint to protect her, online or off. That's because I'm one half of her parents, and we take our parental responsibility seriously. Including teaching her how to verify that damn near everything that any politician ever utters is a lie, with the singular goal of advancing their own career.

Google starts enterprise support for Chrome, including top SaaS apps

No, thank you.

But thanks for the warning asking.

EU security think tank ENISA looks for IoT security, can't find any

Re: Rule zero

"Actually by design". FTFY

Rule zero

The existing iteration of "The Internet" is not now, never has been, and never will be secure ... at least not without a complete tear-down and redesign. From scratch.

Mouse sperm kept frozen in SPAAAAACE yields healthy pups

Uh ...

... if the frozen sperm is subject to the same radiation as the live stuff, and receives the same damage (as hinted in the article) ... The Wife & I are in agreement, AI is out. Live cover rules!

AppDynamics pondering 'business-aware infrastructure'

Hello? Big Business? Are you listening?

How are you going to manage to code something that you can't even teach humans to do properly? I mean, really, have you not noticed that so-called "customer service/support" is almost universally reviled? I rather suspect that getting your existing house in order before trying to automate it would be a good idea ... Throwing CPU time at a problem without first understanding the problem will never work, regardless of what the AI folks are trying to claim ...

Go ahead, stage a hackathon. But pray it doesn't work too well

"Hacking as a scheduled event".

The concept is mentally jarring, and has always seemed particularly unhackish, at least to these jaded old eyes ...

No nudity please, we're killing ourselves: Advice to Facebook mods leaks

Re: Let the Reg prove it is better thaan Facebook

Well, ElReg keeps insisting on displaying pictures of politicians ... and as we know, they are all a bunch of bumbling boobs. They are certainly offensive to the proverbial "thinking man". Methinks politicians should be banned from facebook & twitter!

Re: Videos of violent deaths "can help create awareness"

Brain? Objection. Assumes organ not in evidence.

Vegemite tries to hijack Qantas name-our-planes competition

Re: Convict Colony

That ain't the Poms, Yob, that's the APU ...

Yahoo! retires! bleeding! ImageMagick! to! kill! 0-day! vulnerability!

What! The! Hell! Does! ImageMagick! Have! To! Do! With! Yahoo!?

Colo(u)r me confuzled.

You'll get a kick out of this: Qualcomm patents the 'Internet of Shoes'

Re: Logging

To see if you turn right more than you turn left? Cheaper to put a dime-store pedometer in each sock, though ... and just as useful. That's to say "not".

I won't comment on the stupidity of the current iteration of the USPTO as it is self evident. You are quite welcome.

Re: What a bunch of wusses we hav here.

John Brown (no body), see this https://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/containing/3182776 post, some 14 hours before yours.

It's Friday. Have a beer! :-)

Methinks ...

... Qualcomm needs a boot to the head.

What is dead may never die: a new version of OS/2 just arrived

Re: @jake

Actually, Intel's biggest problem back in the day was a lack of MMU ...

Frankly, I never had an issue with the segmented address space. Every CPU has it's quirks, some are more quirky than others. They all suck, but we use 'em anyway.

Re: Reasons OS/2 didn't catch on

No, Ballmer hasn't ... because "Barkto" was fairly conclusively outed as being Rick Segal, or perhaps a flunky of Rick's. Microsoft was running scared. Still is, in some ways, thus the "if you can't build or buy better technology, baffle the illiterate with bullshit and FUD" form of marketing they embrace.

Re: Open Source

See: MKS Toolkit

Or perhaps http://os2ports.smedley.id.au/index.php?page=tools-utilities

Re: Ah, the days

Ever try Mark Williams Company's "Coherent"? Nice little un*x clone of the era, written entirely in assembler. $99/seat, as advertised in Byte. Available via FTP at:

ftp://www.tuhs.org/UnixArchive/Distributions/Other/Coherent

Don't blame me for the www in that address.

Re: But OS/2 did give us...

I haven't lost any data on any of the Linux file systems in over twenty years of use (outside of testing, of course ... but who uses anything irreplaceable when testing?). I'd be curious to see where you are going amiss ...

Re: Tip.

So does registering as an ElReg commentard. I fail to see your point.

I see where your problem was.

It wasn't OS/2 ;-)

Concur.

They should have some variation of "try before you buy" ... There is an entire generation of folks out there who have no idea what OS/2 is all about ... I suggest dropping them a short, polite email to this effect. I just did. Squeaky wheel & all that.

Tip.

Bottom of TOA. Left hand side. "Tips and Corrections". Click it & follow your nose.

Re: Retro?

The buzzphrase you are looking for is "focus follows pointer". Windows had it natively as an option starting with Win95 (registry hack ... I believe TweakUI could make the change). It's useful for some things, hellaciously annoying for others. I use it probably once a month or so on Slackware w/KDE (pointy-clicky: System Settings -> Window Behavior -> Window Behavior -> Focus, a slider gives 6 different variations on the theme.)

I still have a couple contracts running eComStation ... IBM should have called MS's bluff way back when. If they had, there would be an entire generation of happier sysadmins.

Do we need Windows patch legislation?

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned it yet ...

Why the fuck are we even thinking about using a General Purpose OS to run specific purpose equipment? Quite honestly, I've never seen a need to create a spreadsheet, do a little desktop publishing, or browse TehInterWebTubes when using my Bridgeport CNC; my local small animal vet sees no need to do the above when running bloodwork, and my neighbor (who runs the MRI machine here at a local hospital) says he's never seen a need for the above at work, either.

And now they are putting full-blown Linux into coffee pots and Windows into Refrigerators? WTF? Where in the hell did this need to"OverOS" machinery come from, anyway? Am I the only one who remembers when small & elegant was considered de rigueur?

Me, I blame marketing running what should be engineering firms ... ANYway, is it any wonder that this entire conversation is happening? We're quite simply using the wrong tools for the job in the first place! Is anybody really all that surprised that they break?