Posts by DJ Smiley 449 publicly visible posts • joined 14 Sep 2011
Why would they know?
Anyone who follows the office policy of NOT going on google or wikipedia wouldn't have any other way of knowing.
However the IT guys should have noticed and fixed it for them before it gets to the point it becomes a problem. (Providing of course they are given the time to do such things, heh ;))
Whats the size comparison of usage of Linux against the BSD's?
When I started with linux, I came from a windows system where everything worked, most of the time (unbelievable for some, I know!).
I tried out nouveau a few years ago and it was terrible. It'd kernel panic and die pretty much every boot. If you'd told me "well you can't have the nvidia binary drivers" then I'd of gone back to windows.
Hmmmm
Maybe he has been told they were hashed, and not "we only store the hashes" because.... most of the media won't know the difference anyway.
A rainbow table will still give you the password (or a selection depending if its on a collision. Either way, if people have stupid passwords they are likely to be compromised even if they were just hashes.
I'm personally hoping the courts will get angry and fine BT for wasting time. I can't see them coming to any agreement over tpb other than maybe forwarding all the traffic to some other site (bpi sponsored overprice music.com?)
I guess I'm hoping they don't try and pull some stupid stunt where they then go "We are the only ISP in the uk to allow access to tpb!".
So buy stuff with longer warranties then..
Sigh.
If you believe (and I believe its tosh) that the item is designed to expire shorty after the warranty, buy the slightly more expensive item with the 5 year or lifetime guantee.
If no such item exists? THAT'S BECAUSE THERE'S PARTS THAT WEAR OUT. It will die eventually. This is natural.
My 10 year old washing machine and dishwasher show that they were brought sensibly.... considering the warranty on them both was 5 years. Of course, occasionally I'll dismantle parts of each and clean them out / keep them going. The lock broke on the dishwasher, cost to fix was less than £10. There's no conspiracy, no trickery, nothing cleverly designed to fail.
Infact, if it was true, why don't all the iphones die shortly after the new version has come out? Why don't all the cars die just about the time that a new reg. plate comes out? TV's should all die just before the world cup / other sporting event / something else lots of people want a LARGER tv for - that way everyone will buy a "slightly" larger tv.
Hows that work blocking all the pedophilia in the world going?
Oh, you mean you just use it to source the IP's so you can arrest people instead, but now your IP feed is turning up all sorts of random people including grannies and 4 year olds? And it never actually stopped it anyway, just made it more annoying to find?
You can't full block things on the itnernet without going entirely the other way (Great firewall of china) and even then that doesn't work, you need extra things like factories so you can lock your workforce up.... sorry, I mean provide them with accommodation.
So the iP* users don't like boxes huh?
They don't like Shiny?
We'll see - the thing is, this will cause a split in the market which Apple I think has failed to appeciate. This gives windows that "shiny" feeling that apple device users expect. No longer will they feel the need to buy an apple computer to go with their latest shiny tablet or phone. As their new computer has the "same"* boxes on a screen interface their iP* already has
* Yes, I'll think you'll find most users don't know/care that windows and iOS are two different things - both present boxes in a grid format which you activate to achieve a goal.
So all those people who went "I've moved to sky because virgin suck up to the UK Courts".... umadbro? ;)
Seriously tho, I'm sure i'm not the only one who spotted the rush of "bad" news about virgin, shortly after the block came into effect, I've no doubt that blocking on this scale did cause some hiccups and that they may explain some of the oddities seen on virgins network lately (of course others will cry that its just over loaded etc etc).
Now we can sit back and enjoy the amusement as sky and the other providers start having the same hiccups.
Watched a talk from defcon on youtube the other day - basically it detailed how you could use javascript + old versions of browsers to connect to IRC, do dcc requests (so theres your file transfer and C&C); connect outwards to _any_ ports. Yes any.
That means DDoS, mail spam, proxying.... all via visiting a website and a little bit of java script all without requiring html 5.
Not sure how well the current browsers hold up to these attacks.... maybe I'll find out*
*devil icon for this ;)
Sky (when I lived in my student house, I'd never use them otherwise) told me BEFORE we agreed what the speed was to be (6Mb for a 16Mb connection :/ ).
They also told me at the same time with all the legal stuff that this COULD change, and if so I have the right to cancel etc etc.... but the fact remains they told me BEFORE I agreed to it.
Isn't this all a bit too easy?
Knowing how /b/tards / anon LIKE to get people vanned (This is the art of getting random people / people who've annoyed them) arrested for various crimes, doesn't all of this seem a bit too easy?
I dunno, maybe he IS that dumb, or maybe hes just another fall guy.
Hmmmmm
Network-solutions site sucks, I should know, I've been trying to migrate a number of domains away from them for awhile.
And adding every domain to your calendar? Really? We have over 3000 domains all expiring on random dates. That'd be wonderful on the calendar ;)
However I do have a spread sheet, which highlights which domains will be expiring - and if they are to expire (by default everything is set to renew anyway). Oh, and I DO get the emails from our registrars.
is a simple way to check if I've hit the "limit" and am being throttled.
Nothing is more annoying than thinking (as I did before after some large downloads) that I'd been trottled only to go onto the forums, chat with an admin and find it was some equipment in the box on the street that was actually causing my issues!
If I could see how much I'd used, how much I use on average, etc, I'd be far more inclined to try and use it "fairly"
Or it was just a very long url which somehow got randomly uncovered (someone shared / typo'd?)
for example:
google.com/linux/users/x3+_34312123/kerpow
No one is going to deliberately type that in, and if nothing linked to it, no one would ever "guess" it either. They likely also look at the referer, and will only display if you came from a specific page previously. (Or none at all maybe?).
Eitherway, good job IWF, nice to see that someone seems to be able to keep up with the changes in technology.
Because first its "don't improve the backup process because no one notices" soon becomes "Don't have a backup process because no one notices".
We all know what lies that route. The problem _is_ management. They are lead to believe by some reasoning that IT don't produce value for a company.
This is only partially true, the same way traffic lights don't produce money for the goverment.
Without them, there would be chaos and with chaos there is a loss of income from formally reliable sources.
"Speaking as one who grew up in a working class poor environment, I can affirm the fact that many working class are non-smoking, moderate drinking, decent, honest and reliable people - far more so on average than middle class people I encountered as I caught up with it."
The other 74 werent.
Yup, the 40+ year old woman my wife nearly ran down due to her walking out in front of the car at a busy junction is definately within that age range.
Lets be honest - teenagers have grown up with this tech and if they've survived to 14-18 age range, they going to be aware of how to "look for cars" while crossing the road. Its the older generation who can't cope with doing the 10 things at once (Hense this report! :D )
Which was meant to spot rogue traders.... except some of them (because they helped program it) knew that if you traded in the pattern it expected, you could fool it and carry on?
Now.... all a good virus needs to do is monitor a user, and replicate them..... most users exchange data regularly so the virus could spread and nothing would be "abnormal"....
Still, interesting use.
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