Posts by CAPS LOCK

Oh, the things Vim could teach Silicon Valley's code slingers

^^^^

Emac user - enough said.

'Ancient' Mac backdoor discovered that targets medical research firms

A backdoor in what exactly?

The operating system code? A bundled application? I find this level of vagueness suspicious.

Did somebody say object storage? 9 ways to tell if there's a point

"Look, look the Emperor has no clothes!"

Shut up CAPS LOCK there's money to be made here...

Euro space agency's Galileo satellites stricken by mystery clock failures

Why not just leave the satellites on the ground, where you can go and fix them in a van...

... like eLoRaN?

Credential-stuffers enjoy up to 2% attack success rate – report

Aha - for once somebody correctly stating that it's the user-name/password combination reuse...

... that's the problem. This is ANOTHER reason why 'your email is your user-name' is a Bad Idea.

Phoney McPhoneface: The thrilling tale of ZTE's crowdsourced mobe

"A camel is a horse designed by a committee"...

If only a small fraction of committee decisions were as successful as a camel.

Seagate hauls out fat form factor throwback hard drive

Gah - I thought that meant a return of the...

...Bigfoot!

Opera scolds stale browsers with shocking Neon experiment

Come on Opera, resurrect the features from 12 STILL missing from Developer...

A proper menu, the bookmarks, easy access to screen resize, on screen indicator of Turbo on/off, etc, etc, etc. How hard can it be? < /Clarksonius >

Man jailed for 3 days after Texas cops confuse cat litter for meth

Only TRULY GIGANTIC lawsuits will stop this...

My girlfriend was stopped for driving an old car. She was searched and the foil wrapper of a KitKat was discovered. Plod "What was in this foil?". Her "A KitKat officer". Plod "A likely tail - off to the cells with you". So a night in jail and an arrest record.

Europe to launch legal action against countries over diesel emissions cheating

Speaking as someone who breathes air...

... about bloody time.

What can we use to hit Intel between the eyes, thinks Qualcomm – a 10nm ARM server chip

Hmmm, on the face of it a win - Xeon price cuts to try to stifle the infant at birth and ...

... cheap ARM chips to undercut Intel. But this could easily turn into a cosy duopoly. What needs to happen is for the users, that is Apple, Google/Alphabet, Amazon etc to get together and create on open source design. Then the chips could be turned out by all-and-sundry pushing the costs down.

Broadcom quietly dismantles its 'Vulcan' ARM server chip project

Xeon price rise coming in 3, 2, 1, ....

The consumers of servers should get together and develop an ARM/ARM-compatible chip. Make it open source and the world WILL beat a path to your door. Of course Intel will try to kill it at birth with Xeon price cuts, but still...

Cyanogen parts ways with its founder

"No, the curse of inept business partners."

No, the curse of Microsoft. It happens too often for it to always be 'the other guy'. You go to bed with Microsoft - you wake up lying naked in the gutter with no memory of what happened.

Google turns on free public NTP servers that SMEAR TIME

Instead of another work-around we need to fix the underlying problem.

All it needs is for the Earth's rotation to be speeded up slightly then it would always agree with UTC. I suggest we make all joggers run westward.

Cheap virtual box hosters – Amazon's Lightsail is out to destroy you (yes, you, Digital Ocean)

At INTRODUCTION this may not be a rival for the existing players, but...

... observation leads me to think that, down the road, repeated, savage price cuts will be the order of the day. Time will tell, but I wouldn't bet against Amazon on this one.

SQL Server on Linux: Runs well in spite of internal quirks. Why?

I just dumped my last Microsoft Unix database product...

... Microsoft FoxPro Unix. (No really, that was a thing back in the twentieth century). Long live Harbour. (Google it, you might be surprised)

No super-kinky web smut please, we're British

ALL this stuff is being set up to FAIL...

...to justify a white list later. The income from the fees to get on the white list is what's of interest to politicians.

WordPress auto-update server had flaw allowing anyone to add anything to websites worldwide

"HTML and CSS combined with judicious usage of a JavaScript..."

Or you could try Serif Webplus. There's a free, page limited, version and it's very easy to use. No connection with Serif, just a satisfied user.

Harder, better, faster, stronger (apparently). The IronWolf goes Pro

Oi, Seagate, bring back the Bigfoot you stupidheads...

...cool, slow running (rpm wise), reliable, twice the storage for the same parts count. What's not to like?

Microsoft just got its Linux Foundation platinum card, becomes top level member

'More Linux love' - I think I preferred the old Miscrosoft that said what it believed...

...'Linux is cancer'...

Low-end notebook, rocking horse shit or hen's teeth

And yet PC World are advertising a low end laptops at 150 UK Quid.

Tech distributors trying to talk up the price of new gubbins isn't exactly 'news' is it?

Ubuntu Core Snaps door shut on Linux's new Dirty COWs

When did Linux start becoming like Windows?

It didn't.

Microsoft open-sources half-baked Azure servers to boost OCP innovation

Wasn't it OCP who brought us ED209?

I believe it was: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9l9wxGFl4k

Another errrm, beta prototype...

Vatican and musicians at odds over appropriate use of crematorium leftovers

Re: Now the commercial potential...

Hmm, all the records I bought in the seventies appeared to have ashes as part of the material. I NEVER got what I would call a decent pressing of Larks Tongues in Aspic.

SUSE: Question. What do you call second-place in ARM enterprise server linux? Answer: Red Hat

:Think of it as the persians invading Greece"

I prefer the Harry Lime interpretation: "in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock"

Duck Google's data grab

Great news....

... for Privacy Badger, Ghostery etc...

It's finally happened: Hackers are coming for home routers en masse

"[*] Paranoid, me? Yes".

No - it's only paranoia if they're NOT out to get you...

@Dwarf - A detailed and thoughtful comment...

... most unusual and welcome. Have an upvote. BTW after my Homehub debacle (that's five pounds wasted) I went the ADSL modem (Daytek Vigor, 10UKP off Tatbay - protip install a fan to prevent the power supply burning out) and pFsense, on an old Atom box, route. Most satisfactory and informative.

Re: Time to research alternatives

I've spent some time looking at third party firmwares and sadly I have to say they are not ready for prime time. Only a small number of models are fully supported "yes you can install OpenWRT on your Blah+ router, 0h by the way, the modem won't work" etc. Even on 'fully supported' models the install process can be extremely difficult (for instance the BT Homehub 2 version b. I bricked mine). It's time for a better way. Someone like Canonical or iXsystems need to put out an open-source hardware platform with a default open source firmware. Until then your best route is to look for a pre-installed system. Ebay has a few, but Ebay...

I think security-by-obscurity is only a problem if it applies to many items which...

... are all the same. A different user name greatly increases the resistance of 'cracking' the username+password space.

Who killed Cyanogen?

Re: Who?

Hmm, I was thinking the MS investment was more of a my-enemy's-enemy-is-my-friend type of thing?

SHA3-256 is quantum-proof, should last billions of years

Re: You mean PUBLICLY KNOWN quantum computers

DougS is correct. The NSA etc. are probably five to ten years ahead of what is publicly know. For example GCHQ had developed Public Key Encryption five to six years ahead of Diffie, Hellman et al. Who employs more maths Ph.D. than anyone else in the world? They don't do it for no reason...

Open-source storage that doesn't suck? Our man tries to break TrueNAS

Re: They also do systems for humbler budgets

No one should ignore Nas4free.

Location boffins demo satellite-free navigation

.I can't even think of a place on the Earth that would not have satellite GPS coverage but...

I can, Otley.

Cisco president: We've lost to AWS et al on the public cloud

Didn't Penny and Sheldon have a startup in this field?

Why yes they did... https://youtu.be/zUDnAf1Av9k?t=1m46s

Yahoo! halts! email! forwarding! to! outside! email! addresses!

Horrible article image...

... is horrible.

SSDs in the enterprise: It's about more than just speed

The writing has been on the wall for a while now.

Stationary silicon will replace rotating rust. Despite my early experience with problematic SSDs I'm going all in for the future. No more purchases of HDDs will take place here.

Adventures in (re) naming your business: Fire up the 4-syllable random name generator

"Choose wisely..."

I believe that Bradford University has a Management School. In fact I know. In fact they call it the School of Management. Obviously much better...

Self-driving networks will arrive before self-driving cars, if Juniper has any say in it

Re: best of both worlds

Exactly. The writing is on the wall for Juniper. Frankly I'm surprised they're still with us...

4chan is going /b/roke

There must be SOMEBODY who wants to advertise to the 4Chan users...

... the producers of Michael Bay films? Defense lawyers? Purvayors of anonymity software?

Yahoo! couldn't! detect! hackers! in! its! network! but! can! spot! NSFW! smut! in! your! office?

Oh thank Dog Yahoo are here to save us from internet porn...

... what have we done until now?

"Everyone is nude under their clothes."

Well you may be naked under your clothes, but proper people such as myself, have a thick coat of woad.

Ladies in tech, have you considered not letting us know you're female?

"a very large global American bank"

Hmm, I'd be wary of asserting that because banks do it it must be right. After all banks don't have a prefect track record in decision making. In fact I would go as far as to say that they are robber barons.

Microsoft warns Windows security fix may break network shares

"Unlike Apple who regularly screw with Nas products."

Microsoft Online Reputation Manager at work. (AKA Superinfluencer - LOL)

Oracle's Coach Larry needs Microsoft plays to beat Amazon

Oh Larry, did you learn NOTHING from War Games...

... "the only winning move is not to play". Going toe-to-toe with AWS is a shortcut to a bloody nose.

BT tops Ofcom's broadband whinge list

A number of my friends have ditched ADSL etc and gone with 'MiFi' type devices.

I have a feeling that the flexibility and freedom from digging-up-the-road of 3/4G may be the future for many, if not all.

Yahoo! Mail! down?! Great! timing! as! more! US! senators! dogpile! hacked! web! giant!

stll down

at least for me

Unimpressed with Ubuntu 16.10? Yakkety Yak... don't talk back

The early releases of Ubuntu were a revelation and made Linux a practical desktop, but...

...since Unity, Canonical seem to have gone all Microsoft. Sad. I'll carry on using Mint XFCE for the foreseeable future.

Jeremy Clarkson and Co. rise to top for Great British Bake Off replacements

Re: I loved Top Gear

"You[']r[e] in luck as the new show is indeed on Amazon (not sure how you have missed that info)." And very shortly thereafter all over the intertubes.

Larry Ellison today said really nice things about rival Amazon's cloud

Hahaha, the Streisand effect at work...

"Don't look at that other company's product, it is all the rubbish, don't look, don't look"