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Posts by caffn8me
6 publicly visible posts • joined 23 May 2012
DNS cockup locks Virgin Media customers out of ntlworld.com email
Yes, the BBC still uses FTP. And yes, a Russian crook hacked the server
ITN hacked via FTP too
Many years ago (about 1999/2000) I was called in to deal with a hack via FTP which defaced ITN's web ste. That was a Solaris box to - a Sun E450.
It wasn't a technically difficult hack though. FTP was world available, the username was ITN and the password ITN. This account had root privilege. Doh!
Mystery of Guardian mobos and graphics cards which 'held Snowden files'
Master Beats: Why doesn't audio quality matter these days?

Sound quality was better in the 80s ;)
A while back, a friend got a new home cinema system with some nice B&W speakers and a good receiver. She wanted to see how good it sounded with music so I suggested Peter Gabriel's 'So' album. When this came out in 1986 (an original analogue recording) it caused a stir in professional audio circles because the sound quality and production were so good. It became a reference recording for many engineers.
Unfortunately I couldn't find my CD of it so we downloaded it from iTunes.
I couldn't believe how dreadful it sounded. It even had what sounded like mains hum! It was lifeless and muddled. I could honestly say it was impossible to enjoy.
I finally managed to find my CD and the difference is incredible. It's back to how I remembered it.
If people these days only know music from downloads and poor stereo systems they really are missing out.
Speaking to someone the other day they had never realized that if you had a decent stereo set-up and a good recording you could close your eyes and point to all the instruments :)