Posts by dancecat

Who gets a Mac at work? Here's how companies decide

"staff preference"

If your employer considers your work environment as a mere preference, it's time to leave.

If we plan to live on the Moon, it's going to need a time zone

On the other side of the moon from wherever Lunar Britain is founded.

Technoking of comedy? Elon Musk to host Saturday Night Live

Tech Noking

My brain split up "technoking" incorrectly. What is it to noke some tech?

Atheists appeal to higher power for intercession over alleged sins against privacy

South Park as prophecy

Never mind Life of Brian. This is almost exactly how the factions are named in the multipart South Park episode Go God Go:

https://southpark.fandom.com/wiki/Unified_Atheist_League_(UAL)

https://southpark.fandom.com/wiki/Allied_Atheist_Alliance_(AAA)

https://southpark.fandom.com/wiki/United_Atheist_Alliance_(UAA)

License to thrill: Ahead of v13.0, the FreeBSD team talks about Linux and the completed toolchain project that changes everything

Looks promising

Virtual hugs all round

Big Tech workers prefer 3 days at home, 2 in the office. We ask Reg readers: What's your home-office balance?

I'd be happy to do a day in the office every other leap year.

That's it. It's over. It's really over. From today, Adobe Flash Player no longer works. We're free. We can just leave

Bye, bye old web

For all its faults, Flash made the 90s and 00s web come alive.

Now the plugin mainly serves to maintain compatibilty with old pages and some corporate tools so I can't join in with the celebration.

Ireland unfriends Facebook: Oh Zucky Boy, the pipes, the pipes are closing…from glen to US, and through the EU-side

Re: "does this prevent people accessing it from the US? "

For me, “datums be” looks the most right

Mirror mirror on the wall, why will my mouse not work at all?

Invert y-axis and...

invert x-axis. Makes sense.

20 years to get Amiga Workbench 3.1 update, and only a fortnight to get first patch

Gave up the Amiga...

...just to stop being told that Atari is better because it has MIDI.

British killer robot takes out two Britons in Syria strike

Victims?

Wrong word.

Apple logging passwords in plain text

Re: Really, the bug affects any network share

Finally, someone who understands the scale of this problem.

Sysadmins: Forget the comments about FileVault, HP, fanboi etc etc. - this is the worst, most careless bug Apple have ever released. If you care about domain password security then you need to make sure this version of the OS can't authenticate against your domain.

Re: @dancecat

You're wrong - I've actually connected a Mac to an Active Directory domain using the AD plugin (dsconfigad from the command line) and it exposes AD passwords.

Re: well

This is not a "trivial bug indeed".

If you have Macs connected to your Active Directory domain then it's an appauling bug that exposes enterprise account passwords. Granted, the log file it's stored doesn't have world read permissions by default, but it still means that anyone who has local admin rights can harvest passwords from the organisation.

This incident should be getting more coverage and it serves as a reminder that Apple are a trinket company whose products should never be let near the enterprise.

Samsung Ultrabook specced up by retailer

What about the last piece of vaporware??

It's been a year since they showed off the Sliding PC 7 at CES and it's still nowhere to be seen.

I'll believe it when I see it in PC World. Then I'll get it from somewhere else.

After Jobs: Apple and the Cult of Disruption

"Business model"

Andrew Orlowski's use of "business model":

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/19/libdem_policy_proposal_pirate_friendly/page2.html

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/11/grow_up_google/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/03/google_settlement_rewards_privacy_groups_wtf/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/25/netflix_bittorrent_traffic_share/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/04/baby_googles/page2.html

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/02/11/nokia_microsoft_history/