* Posts by Ryan Robinson

9 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Jan 2011

Smut oglers told to opt in to keep web filth flowing

Ryan Robinson
FAIL

Article is wrong

Surprised no-one has spotted this.

You have to opt-in if you want to block porn.

You can browse porn by default but to get it blocked you have to opt-in.

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/broadband/370450/confusion-reigns-as-government-announces-porn-ban

LulzSec says it will partner with media on Murdoch emails

Ryan Robinson
FAIL

Hmmm

dox or gtfo

Popular FTP package download tarball poisoned

Ryan Robinson
WTF?

Lulz?

"Therefore, perhaps someone was just having some lulz instead of seriously trying to cause trouble."

Tampering with a piece of software that handles the logging into FTP servers to edit websites and web apps is actually malicious and should be treated seriously. For all we know the code could have been hijacking the credentials being used on the infected client.

Play.com pummelled over purported piracy permissiveness

Ryan Robinson
Devil

Amazon is at it

Amazon is the same.

I purchased a copy of Windows 7 Ultimate for £79 thinking it was dirt cheap and there must be a catch but it was Amazon so I purchased it. The software activated and got updates for 2 months then I was hit by the "Windows is not genuine" message at the bottom right corner.

Turned out I was sold an MSDN serial key which was later flagged by Microsoft.

It happened to numerous other people who were complaining in the review section of the product. Because it was 2 months after purchase, it was difficult to get refunded but I did in the end as the reseller was not replying to my emails.

Just looking at Amazon now and it looks like they are still allowing these scammers to sell their pirated software through Amazon.

IT pros get Google Apps certified

Ryan Robinson

oh god...

Lets see how many employers will make it a requirement on job postings as it might be the next big thing...

Also, lets see how many "internet marketers" will have the Google App certified logo flashing on their ready-made WordPress blog/website.

Severe bug deadlocks BIND

Ryan Robinson

Update BIND

This bug affects and older version of BIND.

Update your BIND install as it has been fixed.

French back Google monopoly complaint

Ryan Robinson
FAIL

Use Google adhere to their rules

"The companies complained that Google was unfairly tweaking search results in order to favour its own services and sites."

If you use a free service such as Google Search, expect to see them favor their own services ahead of yours. Do you own the crawler? No, Google does.

If your business relies solely on Google Search, you need to re-think your advertising model.

Alabama sex shop owner swaps 'Guns for Toys'

Ryan Robinson

Only in...

America.

Court orders seizure of PS3 hacker's computers

Ryan Robinson
Flame

Not fair

As a Linux user myself, I'm all for the open source movement and the hacking of hardware to make it do things it wasn't supposed to do.

But to post hacks on the internet that pirates can use to play downloaded games is not necessary. I feel as though it penalises the people who use their PS3 as it should be used.

You get a few thousand people taking advantage of the exploits and on the other hand, millions of legitimate users who have to constantly update their firmware and go through other security processes that Sony will now be rolling out.