Posts by Jamie Jones

UK.gov isn't ready for no-deal Brexit – and 'secrecy' means businesses won't be either

Re: So join your local campaign group to stop this

It would be great if someone could offer me a Virtual Private Server with LAMP for this site,

I offer - no charge, of course. And anything else you need.

Re: Hmm

"From my outsider's point of view, it looks like the UK needs the EU more than the EU needs the UK. If that's true, then why would the EU bother?"

You've got it. Brexitter are like someone cancelling their gym membership, and then expecting to make some sort of deal allowing them access to the weights on a friday, in exchange for being able to use the rusty old exercise bike in the shed.

Unfortunately, they still believe Brittania rules the waves, and the British empire is still a thing that those funny foreigners look up to.

Re: Hmm

Noooo! Are you telling me the result was leave but you dont know what that means? We voted to leave, to go, not to remain... but you find it ambiguous? I

Don't act all sanctimonious. Your own leave campaigners don't even know what it means, seeing as it was all a bunch of lies:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xGt3QmRSZY

From: this link:

Absolutely nobody is talking about threatening our place in the single market’ – Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan

"Only a madman would actually leave the Market" - Owen Paterson MP, Vote Leave backer

And when you remember that Norway are in the Single Market but not the EU, it makes these quotes quite awkward reading.

"Wouldn't it be terrible if we were really like Norway and Switzerland? Really? They're rich. They're happy. They're self-governing" - Nigel Farage, Ukip leader

"The Norwegian option, the EEA option, I think that it might be initally attractive for some business people" - Matthew Elliot, Vote Leave chief executive

"Increasingly, the Norway option looks the best for the UK" - Arron Banks, Leave.EU founder

Those messages make uncomfortable reading when you look at the post-referendum discussion of what Britons voted for on June 23.

Farage himself said less than two months after the poll that remaining in the Single Market would be a “betrayal” of the 17.4 million people who voted for Brexit.

App-y, app-y, joy, joy: Pain-free software installer Flatpak (kinda) works on Windows Subsystem for Linux

Re: Pulseaudio not present on WSL

Bob, Linux did use OSS for some time, but never got it to work properly.. (Inability to play multiple streams was the main one - also the reason all these userspace daemon hacks appeared)

As typical of the Linux crowd, instead of fixing their OSS implementation, they came up with a new shiny-shiny.

Yes, at the time they were most vocal about software portability and microsoft lock-in, they came up with ALSA (where the "L" stands for "Linux")

When Linux people screamed for software to be portable, what they really meant was "it should run on Linux - we don't care about anything else)

So, now Linux has all sorts of audio APIs and userspace add-on hacks, whilst FreeBSD OSS "just works" (yet has to have crappy emulation layers to cope with software written hardcoded to one of the crappy API's)

Sysadmin misses out on paycheck after student test runs amok

Re: Naming Schemes

I named our department after Ibizan nightclubs... I never told the bosses that though... Instead I came up with crappy fake explainations:

amnesia - that was the machine that was rebuilt requiring new memory.

space - that one had loads of free disk space

privilege - The new fast server that it was an honour to be using.

...

Alas no more, the names still exist on my mail and dns servers

Euro bureaucrats tie up .eu in red tape to stop Brexit Brits snatching back their web domains

Re: "That's why I'm glad I voted for Brexit"

Brexiters are that bitter and stupid, yes!

Like the Trump voters, the more evidence of the inevitable car crash, the more they bury their heads in the sand.

But look at the other side. Those of us born EU citizens and glad of it have suddenly had this entitlement removed (I never knew you could be decitizened). And now, they want to take away established domains - owned mostly by those who favour being in the EU. Stop new registrations, sure, but removing entitlement to domains already owned is a dangerous and unnecessary precident.

Re: More anti EU Propaganda

You Brits did it all to yourself. Who would have thought, there might be consequences.

You realise that such a broad generalised swipe like that makes you just like the feeble minded Brexiters themselves?

For your information, I did not vote to leave, so please, what did I do to myself to get these domains taken off me? You can bet your life no brexitters had .eu domains, so you are only attacking those that wanted to remain.

Congratulations.

Own goal

Don't they realise that the vast majority of British owned .eu domains are owned by remainers?

First, a bunch of idiots remove my supposed "EU citizenship" birthright, and now the EU beurocrats are going to take my .eu domains?

Can I claim reimbersement for the years in advance I've paid, and can I sue for other loses?

Redis does a Python, crushes 'offensive' master, slave code terms

Re: I just got back from a rather large data center.

No worries, and haha yeah, you've experienced your very own bikeshed moment!

Re: I just got back from a rather large data center.

Ah... the bikeshed argument!

The internet – not as great as we all thought it was going to be, eh?

Re: ".....how much smartphones have become essential everyday tools in our modern lives"

Whilst I agree that sucks, my point was that the phone and internet access are not essential!

Luxury.

@GruntyMcPugh

Ah yes, me too! cbs%uk.ac.cardiff.... coloured (grey) book software, and bouncing through nfs-relay to reach the internet:

cbs%uk.ac.nfs-relay::example.com::user

Happy days... (Though at least one miserable downvoter doesn't agree!)

".....how much smartphones have become essential everyday tools in our modern lives"

"What is stark in the survey is how much smartphones have become essential everyday tools in our modern lives"

............ NO....... THEY.......HAVEN'T..

Only really for a very small minority... Unless you mean how people consider them essential when they really aren't.

Hell, I've been "online via mobile" since the nokia communicator days circa 1997, but still, seeing how people are glued to their phones 24/7 is depressing...

We're all old farts, that's why!

My first email address had the subdomain order the correct way around (unlike now!). To get to the internet I used to have bounce janet->earn->decnet->internet - and I was resposible for giving Alan Cox internet access back in Swansea uni, and for not killing him in a car crash on the occasions I drove him home (usually via the chippy at 2.30am), so you linux people owe me for that :-)

Oh, and my first modem was 1200/75 followed by 2400/2400 -- luxury!

And yes, I did sometimes upload stuff at 75 baud. Only slightly faster that typing speed!

--------->>>> OLD "get off my lawn" MAN icon

Python joins movement to dump 'offensive' master, slave terms

"Whatever next, removing the colour black and using the hex code for it?"

Please take your offensive witchcraft talk somewhere else.

Re: re: removing the colour black and using the hex code for it?

> FFS.

No, FF5 is virtually pure white, you mean something closer to 005.

Vodafone cops ads rap over Martin Freeman's vanishing spaceship

Re: Umm

The target market for these ads isn't you though, and if everyone else uses actual speed, isn't it unfair for voda to use sync speed?

PPI pushers now need consent to cold-call you

Re: It's a start

Give me your address - I want to accuse you of watching my videos without paying, and demand a fee.

Don't worry, you can stop the letters simply by spending a few minutes filling in a form on my website.

Re: If anyone

upvoted!... just in case you think I only ever disagree with you!

Y'know what? VoIP can also be free from pesky regulation – US judges

Bob, that's bollocks. That's EXACTLY what the whole net neutrality issue is about... anti-competative? you mean like cartels to control monopolies on cabled areas, and then when the customer can go no where else, throttle netflix et al. indiscriminately?

I'm not experienced in such matters, but from what I see, you both make sense.

The problem is, though, that with the lack of net neutrality, companies can now do what the hell they like, such as hobbling access to save their phone service, or - as in the article - push customers to their own VoIP service.

That stinks.

HTTPS crypto-shame: TV Licensing website pulled offline

And yet....

No-one seems to mind the "email a link to reset your password", which is rarely encrypted end-to-end, and not even obvious that it isn't (or is)

Official: Google Chrome 69 kills off the World Wide Web (in URLs)

LOL, you weren't joking!

Mischief

1) Register a domain:whatever.com

2) Create a www subdomain, host a website on it full of criticism and insults against google.

3) Have the IP for "whatever.com" point to one of googles services.

4) User reports or looks up the ip address of the site they think they are on, and they think it's google.

5) ???

6) Profit!

It's too late on a friday night (hic!) to think properly, but I'm sure some evil could be done along these lines... even more effectively, probably, using the "m." bit.

I've seen the future of consumer AI, and it doesn't have one

Re: An "AI powered cooking assistant"?

The nearest I ever come to a recpie is reading the cooking time guide on the box...

Strewth! Aussie ISP gets eye-watering IPv4 bill, shifts to IPv6 addresses

Re: Finally?

Yep. talk-talks network is sound.

Indeed, I use talktalk.FTTC as a consumer, and have never had an issue - 7.7ms ping first external hop, and always 8Mb/s. It's BT to the exchange anyway.

Their customer service may be crap, but there's a lot of snobbery against them here.

IP6 would be nice, but the HE broker has been 100% stable for me for years, and having the tunnelling done on the router, the internal network is effectively native ipv6. My first ip6 hop is only 15ms.

Don't let Google dox me on Lumen Database, nameless man begs

Re: @onefang Solicitors from London law firm Pinsent Masons

Wow. I hope you still get paid whatever compensation you would normally get paid.

Anyway, a handy tip for avoiding jury service in the future!

As an aside, in my clubbing days, there was this really cooled chilled out nightclub in Mumbles village, that sorta had an "inverse dress code" - well, not literally, but generally most guys were there in casual jeans, or even shorts and sandals (me!) .

In the clubs in nearby Swansea city, you invariably had the groups of people "smartly dressed" who invariably started fights... The sort who's only other chance to wear a suit is at their court hearing :-)

If they had been kicked out of too many clubs they'd often 'spill over' to Mumbles, and would be refused entry because they were most likely the "smartly dressed thugs".

I was working in London shortly afterwards, and I told a mate there, who didn't believe me.. We visited back home once, and went down Mumbles, and even his casual clothes appeared too formal, and he was only allowed in after I vouched for him!

@onefang Re: Solicitors from London law firm Pinsent Masons

I agree totally.. Often those who "dress to impress" are doing so to hide the fact they haven't got much talent.. I see three of these people are your downvoters :-)

Anon man suing Google wants crim conviction to be forgotten

Re: blogsite

"You say 'prurient clickbait', I say 'surprisingly well-written news reports obviously produced by someone with a background in criminal court reporting for a news agency'.

Either that or it's entirely fictional, hard to tell with it being anonymous."

Hmmmm, are you admitting to a bit of blogging on the side? !

Spies still super upset they can't get at your encrypted comms data

Re: Meetings on a desolate beach

Doh! Of course!

Hark at me - always being negative! :-)

Meetings on a desolate beach

You know, if I decide to go to some random beach with mini-me, to discuss taking over the world, should the governments ban beach going?

Technology has made it far easier for them to track people in general - they want to still have that cake after eating it

Security bods: Android system broadcasts enable user tracking

I posted how anyone could do this, 3 months ago.

I posted the proof-of-concept that this could be done on this very web site (up to version 5.1 at least) a few months ago, but got no response.

Can I have a belated "scoop" article written please? :-)

https://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/containing/3520637 (ish) (2 posts)

Apologies for the tone, I was responding to a trolling tosser!

VMware 'pressured' hotel to shut down tech event close to VMworld, IGEL sues resort giant

Re: Convention contracts

StheD & Cirby, thanks for the replies. I am not l lawyer, and have had no dealings with event bookings from either side, so would have to bow to your experience.

However, as a layman, I'd have thought JohnFen was spot on. If the restaurant aren't privvy to the details of hotel contracts that can effect bookings they are allowed to make, then they damn well should be.

If the restaurant then makes a booking, and - as in this case - it turns out they shouldn't have, how can IGEL be to blame?

As I see it, when the events unfolded, they should have continued to honour their contract with IGEL, leaving vmware to demand compensation from the hotel for any failure to provide what was contracted.

I see it as the hotel totally screwing up here (after all, it's them that forced the restaurants actions) - they should have sucked it up, and dealt with any fallout that occurred. Kicking IGEL out mid-flow like that is just not on. - It makes IGEL out to be some sort of unreliable company that can't organise an event, and/or isn't a reliable payer. I think they are therefore fully justified to sue for losses, and damages to their reputation.

I certainly wouldn't now trust this venue to hold any event I was responsible for.

Re: Convention contracts

Cirby, so if that's the case, shouldn't the restaurant have refused the booking in the first place? They didn't know? Sounds like it's their problem.

The way you describe it makes it sound like IGEL booked a peppa-pig convention, then secretly revealed their true selves at the last minute!

Xeon-bashing Tachyum claims its Prodigy CPU will run AI jobs as well as traditional apps

Can I donate via your kickstarter?

Android data slurping measured and monitored

Re: 'The nature of some data may also surprise. App developers receive your age and gender'

> an ancient Symbian Nokia

Me too! I actually bought a "new" one after i'd learnt for myself all the shite that is slurped from android (and it'd not just google - most of the third party app suppliers are bad too)

Bonus? The battery last a week, the phone can be easily dialed in the dark and the rain, it's not as hard to hold as a "slate", and I don't have to worry about things slowing down because youtube decides to launch in the background.

Yep, I'll keep my android hacking to the comfort of my armchair.

Whilst I'm ranting about the horrible shape of all mobiles these days, I wonder, what happened to HCI? Why has user interface gone from practical to fashionable?

A few months ago, I splashed out a few hundred on a high specced android tablet... it's so thin that after a while it digs into your hands a bit, and the edgeless screen means my fingers keep drifting into pressing something I don't want to press... For non-intensive use, I literally use my old £40 tablet more often, because, well, borders, and more rounded sides.

pffft.

Redis has a license to kill: Open-source database maker takes some code proprietary

Re: Jolly Good Journalism, El Reg.

"And it's the internet, so whichever one you chose someone will probably tell you you're wrong. :)"

No! Youre wrong! :-)

Fire chief says Verizon throttled department's data in the middle of massive Cali wildfires

Re: Verizon: "We Can"

"Don't blame net neutrality for this. Even with Obaka's stupid FCC regs in place, Verizon could STILL throttle bandwidth if you went over your plan's data cap.

Stop it Bob. You're better than that.

Yes, nothing to do with net neutrality, and yes, the same thing could have occured under net neutrality.

Why couldn't you have just said that instead of getting all partisan?

But as you raise the issue, the mind still boggles to how republicans can equate rules that say "ISPs cannot arse around with your internet traffic" with "government controlling our internet" - I suppose its' bloody commies... Oh no, you're best buds with them now... Errm. bloody Muslims.

Use Debian? Want Intel's latest CPU patch? Small print sparks big problem

Re: Throw the license in the bin

"The microcode is necessary to make the device you have already bought work better."

Even worse, the microcode update is necessary to make the device you have already bought work properly!

Re: Shrug

heretic!

Apple shocked, SHOCKED I tell you, to find gambling in its Chinese App Store

Re: Sensor its service?

Being psychic, I sense your censure censor sensors

Google risks mega-fine in EU over location 'stalking'

Re: Confusopoly

Product codes.... not helped by certain large retailers giving unique model numbers to items they sell, so they can use the "if you see the same model elsewhere for cheaper, we'll refund the difference" line without being bitten:

Quote: http://blogs.thisismoney.co.uk/2012/02/thinking-of-shopping-at-brighthouse-stop-dont.html

Brighthouse is selling this glossy-black Hoover model, pictured, for a cash price of £703.29. I reckon I found the identical model, with exactly the same specifications but with a white paint finish, being sold online for £469.Correct washing machine catalogue

Could I be 100% certain they were the same? No - because Brighthouse, of course, magics its own unique codes out of thin air, rather than use the standard Hoover codes other retailers cite.

What do a meth, coke, molly, heroin stash and Vegas allegedly have in common? Broadcom cofounder Henry Nicolas

Re: Some stories are just stories

"Aircraft oxygen masks only have 5-10 minutes worth (even pilot ones). They're simply there to get from high altitudes to below 10,000 feet without losing conciousness"

..... at which point, they are no longer relying on air from inside the plane....

Re: Not very flattering pictures

Usually it depends how rich they are, what neighbourhood they come from, and their skin colour.

Editing post seems permitted if system clock is set back

Re: Editing post seems permitted if system clock is set back

... It's ever since they switched to that annoying javascript bling that manipulates the date locally.

Annoying 'edit-post' bug

POST EDIT bug (#2)

If you edit a post to change it to an anonymous post, it accepts the change, but doesn't actually action it... Presumably the other way around, too, but I didn't test that.

Also, this one still not been answered: https://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2018/06/08/Jamie_Jones_Annoying_editpost_bug/

AC enumeration

Re: How about a slight wrinkle in this plan?

- Yay to different words instead of anon + number.

- Yay to proper threading

- Yay to automatically timstamping the reply (Incidentally, the full date/time is now available if you disable javascript)

For all the excitement, Pie may be Android's most minimal makeover yet – thankfully

"I've been told the ADB backup system is not that reliable, not compatible with many devices, "

Fair enough - it's not something I've used much.

Incidentally, I don't know why you got the downvotes - especially as no-one posted their reasons...

cheers

Devon County Council techies: WE KNOW IT WASN'T YOU!

5 days or 5 weeks?

The letter says the kid was out of school for 5 weeks, not 5 days...