Posts by DownUndaRob

Non-biz Skype kicks the bucket on May 5

Indial

I use skype indial for my business phone number, what happens to this number?

CompSci teacher sets lab task: Accidentally breaking the university

100% CPU in WinFrame.

Picture a lab running diskless workstations, on a WinFrame based environment

Imagine a lecturer teaching student programming, in BASIC

Teaching about loops.

10 GOTO 10

and run...

CPU Load goes 100% and stays there, everything slows to a crawl, even ctrl-alt-delete wont work.

The unlicensed OneDrive free ride ends this month

Clarification Required

Is this only for One Drive Business or is Personal involved also?

Microsoft encouraged the use of Documents/Pictures etc into One Drive for home users, is this being rugpulled?

QNAP NAS users locked out after firmware update snafu

public relations.

Lack of communications from support, obviously learned their trade from 3CX

OS/2 expert channeled a higher power to dispel digital doom vortex

Chickens

There were places on Usenet where the waving of chickens was required, does anyone know where they migrated to?

Tech upgrade broke the casino – took slots offline for days

Konami?

As in the guys who brought you Frogger and Q-Bert?

Hey Microsoft – what ever happened to 'Developers, developers, developers'?

SMTP Auth

/rant on

Consider SMTP AUTH,, you used to be able to enable it for a mailbox with a basic license and have at it, but apparently SMTP AUTH is insecure and deprecated.

Except it isnt, you can now pay, by the email, in Azure Communications instead..

Atlassian Confluence Server RCE attacks underway from 600+ IPs

Is it time to change the output of whoami to something insulting

is whoami actually required for the application to run?

If not hardwire the response to always return a fixed username.

Indonesia blocks Musk's X.com over its X-rated past

X-Terminal

I was looking at my phone the other day thinking I dont recall installing X-Terminal app on here, then it dawned on me...

It Did??

X.Com hosted adult content???

According to wayback it was Paypal and ebay... this is silly...

Why you might want an email client in the era of webmail

Does it allow commune with monks on usenet?

Does the usenet reader allow you to perform the correct magic that allows posts to be made in a.s.r and thus permit commune with the monks?

(if you dont understand this, then this question is not for you).

Microsoft tells admins to autoreview your Autopatch alerts or autolose the service

Re: Tuesday?

Except where it is Wednesday by the time Tuesday arrives in MSLand.

on an unrelated note

And yet still no way to see, at a glance in the Office365 Admin console, when a user's password will expire

IT phone home: How to run up a $20K bill in two days and get away with it by blaming Cisco

and then there was DoV

There were Data channels and Voice channels, with Data channels costing more than Voice, so there was a trick to force the Data call to happen over the Voice circuits and reduce cost (sure it went a little slower but...)

'Thousands' at Meta face layoffs this week

Not enough users perhaps

Given the high amount of comments being seen on social media of people claiming their accounts are disabled for 'no communicated reason' I wonder if the issue is a downturn in eyeballs looking at the product.

Meta to add verification to Facebook and Insta under scheme that should avoid Twitter's Musk-stakes

Disabling of Accounts

But will the disabling of accounts for no communicated reason except for a vague wave to community standards still continue??

GitHub courts controversy by suspending Tornado Cash developers and reneging on cookie commitments

What a confusing country...

So a Gun manufacturer can argue that they only make the gun, not pull the trigger.

A car manufacturer can make a vehicle, not drive it and kill/maim people.

But a piece of software can be pulled because some people choose to use it in a specific (allegedly unlawful) manner?????

Japan solves 5G airliner conundrum: Keep mobe masts 200m from airport approach paths. That's it

Design Flaw much

2.2Ghz away that's like telling me my 27Mhz CB Radio can listen to Airband, if you cant reject signals that far away from your system, get out of the kitchen...

or double the entire frequency range of the 2.4Ghz wifi band (including Japan's channel 14)

Google Chrome's upcoming crackdown on ad-blockers and other extensions still really sucks, EFF laments

Will they then pay me?

Will google pay me to download the data they are forcing on me to enable the display of these unwanted graphics?

The whole world doesn't have unlimited data plans, some of us still live on quotas.

Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram deplatform themselves: Services down globally

And it's back

This Australian user can access Facebook again, Some comments are still failing however...

Re: DNS?

This entry found on /.

The problem goes deeper than Facebook's obvious DNS failures, though. Facebook-owned Instagram was also down, and its DNS services -- which are hosted on Amazon rather than being internal to Facebook's own network -- were functional. Instagram and WhatsApp were reachable but showed HTTP 503 (no server is available for the request) failures instead, an indication that while DNS worked and the services' load balancers were reachable, the application servers that should be feeding the load balancers were not. A bit later, Cloudflare VP Dane Knecht reported that all BGP routes for Facebook had been pulled. With no BGP routes into Facebook's network, Facebook's own DNS servers would be unreachable -- as would the missing application servers for Facebook-owned Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus VR.

DNS?

I'm seeing DNS failures for facebook.com across multiple root servers...

Microsoft wasn't joking about the Dev Channel not enforcing hardware checks: Windows 11 pops up on Pi, mobile phone

Anti Competitive

So if this article shows that the hardware limitations are an arbitrary list imposed by the manufacturer, how many consumer laws does that break?

Free Software Foundation urged to free itself of Richard Stallman by hundreds of developers and techies

Oh the irony

That an organisation that talks about freedom of choice is now being pilloried because they have exercised such freedom...

RMS has a right to be a d**k, we have a right to think he is a d**k (or not) just because your offended doesn't mean you are right...

Now where is my coat, and get off my lawn...

Facebook bans sharing of news in Australia – starting now – rather than submit to pay-for-news-plan

Re: Interesting

I dont think the Australian masses will react that way, this may be the downfall of this plot.

Australians will essentially tell FB where to get off.

Bork to school: Apple kit management service Jamf pulls a sickie for IT crews trying to get pupils on iPads

Brexit?

A symptom of Brexit perhaps

(I'll get my coat)

If you own one of these 45 Netgear devices, replace it: Kit maker won't patch vulnerable gear despite live proof-of-concept code

Certificate issue

Is it just my Firefox that tags the kb link with an insecure certificate?

All that Samsung users found on UK website after weird Find my Mobile push notification was... other people's details

Australia too

Got this here in Australia too....

Strangely the Samsung site seems to be suffering a Slashdot effect.

Google Chrome to block file downloads – from .exe to .txt – over HTTP by default this year. And we're OK with this

Intranet

Well that will mess up the corporate intranet.

OneCoin lawyer trial kicks off in NY as cryptocurrency founder remains on the lam

Re: Incorrect Reporting

The differences are vanishingly small, so they equate very closely to fraud.

But they are there, one of the key differences being if there is more effort put in building than retailing then you are probably not in a 'real' MLM but a pyramid masquerading as one.

An argument can be made that shows Tesco's is a pyramid scheme.

Re: Incorrect Reporting

And there you show the usual level of ignorance shown by people who have swallowed the MLM == Pyramid == Ponzi malarkey.. please do some research.

Incorrect Reporting

Please stop painting the Multi Level Marketing industry with this brush, the source document never refers to a multi-level marketing pyramid, but simply a pyramid scheme.

SpaceX didn't move sat out of impending smash doom because it 'didn't see ESA's messages'

Faulty Process

So the system sending the alerts didn't have an alternative notification method, like perhaps human intervention of picking up an old fashioned telephone and calling someone.

Need to automatically and securely verify a download is legit? You bet rget this new tool

Re: Not a panacea

An ideal opportunity for blockchain to display its real use.

Loose tongues and oily seamen: Lost in machine translation yet again

Re: Mijn grootvader is een schaap

antipodean potty mouth

Oi, ya ba**tard, I resemble that remark...

Video not available.

Lost in translation? I cant even watch the first video due to geoblocking.

Google: We're not killing ad blockers. Translation: We made them too powerful, we'll cram this genie back in its bottle

Pay for my traffic

Will Google pay for the extra traffic I will end up using, parts of the world still live on a quota internet model.

Android clampdown on calls and texts access trashes bunch of apps

Re: Call recording too.

I also use ACR, fortunately they have released a version I find in Samsung Apps that still works as it used to...

Top AI conference NIPS won't change its name amid growing protest over 'bad taste' acronym

Re: GIMP

So change the name of GIMP to something that includes Image in its name???

Howabout

The Gnu Image Manipulation Program.

???

As it turns out, no, you can't just run an unlicensed Bitcoin money exchange

America != World

Has anyone pointed out that this guy lives *in Mexico* therefore is subject to Mexican law, not US law...

Australia's Snooper's Charter: Experts react, and it ain't pretty

Jbhyq or shaal vs vg jnfa'g fb frevbhf

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Re: Set

Please name this VPN provider, I may be interested.

Mailshot meltdown as Wessex Water gets sweary about a poor chap called Tom

and for Bill Posters

But poor Bill Posters, what did he ever do to have signs off him being prosecuted posted all over town??

ZTE can't buy chips from America – but can still get sued for patent infringement in the US

Do these patent title strike you as vague, or bleedingly obvious

These patent titles seem so incredibly vague that the could mean anything,

Telling someone half their password in email and the other half by phone could be a breach of US Patent 9,325,600

Date engraved onto net neutrality tombstone: June 11, 2018

"Restoring Internet Freedom" ??

"Restoring Internet Freedom" ??

Who comes up with these titles, should be charged with false advertising.

Zero Tech Emitted: ZTE halts assembly lines after US govt sanctions cripple mobile maker

cant see past his own boundaries.

Attempts to rescue car industry, damages two tech companies in the process (Qualcomm & Acacia)

Woeful NBN services attract ACCC's attention

ACCC already intervened.

The ACCC's intervention in the design phase of the NBN is what caused this issue (and they were warned that it would happen).

The original 14 POI plan was technically superior.

Domino's Pizza delivers user details to spammers

Good luck on the Diet Coke

Domino's has gone pepsi

10 minutes of silence storms iTunes charts thanks to awful Apple UI

Plagiarised..

Paging the estate of John Cage...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4%E2%80%B233%E2%80%B3

Linux kernel hardeners Grsecurity sue open source's Bruce Perens

To quote Shakespeare

GRSecurity doth complain to much, methinks.