Posts by fnusnu

Open source's new mission: Rebuild a continent's tech stack

"I'm from the government and I'm here to help..."

How come there's not a single large public sector organisation (less for the French Gendarmerie and they are still 3% MS) which has successfully moved off Windows?

Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever

IrfanView was the very first application I ran under WINE, back in 1999(?)

Brussels plots open source push to pry Europe off Big Tech

If only they could realise that all they need to do is reduce regulation and taxes

UK to spend £23M on AI to tell benefit claimants where to go

It is worth noting that HMRC can't even provide an accurate tax calculator on their own website...

Ministry of Justice splurged £50M on security – still missed Legal Aid Agency cyberattack

That's not an update, that's a party political broadcast!

Apply here to win a Microsoft Ugly Sweater. It's uglier than ever

I'll be warm under my coat

Tech industry grad hiring crashes 46% as bots do junior work

Re: "Companies are making short-term efficiency gains"

They may well find in 5-10 years that AI has advanced sufficiently to deliver 2nd line roles

Mind the gap – in mobile coverage: UK train signal to stay patchy till 2030

4G / 5G coverage on HS1 is absolutely dreadful. I suspect that's what the wifi hangs off...

How to get free software from yesteryear's IT crowd – trick code into thinking it's running on a rival PC

Re: Check the kernel times.

Life was easier in 1998

Reminds me of the NT 120 day demo CD trick: set the bios date to 3 years into the future, install NT then set the date back to today.

Hey Presto! A 3 year demo of NT

Mozilla rolls out Firefox 140 with ESR status and fresh features

Pinch and reflow on android

I've no intention of returning to Firefox (or derivatives) on android until it properly supports pinch and reflow.

Opera manages just fine.

This is the FBI, open up. China's Volt Typhoon is on your network

Re: I am deeply impressed.

No point sending an email to a work address on a network compromised by hackers thereby alerting them to the FBI's actions.

You haven't thought this through, have you?

Troubled French outsourcer Atos finds pot of gold at the end of UK state bank Rainbow

I'd settle for a website that just works without all the stupid hoops and requirements of the current one.

Windows 7 lives! How to keep your favorite fossil running

I suspect the hardware will die shortly. I hope they have a backup of essential files and photographs and that these can be restored to a modern OS.

Mega city council's Oracle finance fix faces further delays

The whole system of local government is too complex for the intellectual capabilities of local councillors.

What's needed is for them to do less and to leave money in the taxpayer's pocket.

You're going to do what to the feature? Microsoft defines what it means by 'deprecation'

Re: Forced hardware upgrade? No thanks

Create a bootable USB stick with rufus.ie and the Win 11 iso from Microsoft. Select the option to ignore TPM requirements and off you go!

UK government tech procurement lacks understanding, says watchdog

Re: The conclusion is obvious, but...

I was £35m: https://fullfact.org/health/NHS-test-and-trace-app-37-billion-instagram/

Shove your office mandates, people still prefer working from home

Option 3) Quietly quit

Rollable laptop displays to roll off the production line from April, says Samsung

Embarrasingly for Samsung my Galaxy S10e (EOL) has just received Android 15 courtesy of Lineage OS 22.1, while my Galaxy S23 remains firmly stuck on Android 14...

Haiku Beta 5 / In tests it's (Fire)foxier / It pleases us well

Ooh, is anyone working on a Raspberry Pi port?

Just when you thought terminal emulators couldn't get any better, Ghostty ships

Tinme for the author to splash out on a new mac: https://endoflife.date/macos

DEF CON's hacker-in-chief faces fortune in medical bills after paralyzing neck injury

Ration by scarcity (NHS) or ration by price (USA). Pick your poison.

The latest language in the GNU Compiler Collection: Algol-68

Re: Loved Algol68

This one? http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/pdp10/TOPS10_softwareNotebooks/vol06/AA-0196C-TK_ALGOL_Programmers_Guide_Apr77.pdf

UK gives Openreach £289M for 4 rural broadband contracts in 'gigabit by 2030' push

UK taxpayer gives Openreach £289M

Surely.

Admins can give thanks this November for dollops of Microsoft patches

Re: And yet ..

Just use winget update --all

Public sector cyber break-ins: Our money, our lives, our right to know

Why would they be attacked and humiliated? If they had done the right thing and the thing right there would likely be no investigation required.

Try reading some James Dekker or Erik Hollnagel on accident investigations. Such investigations look for causes not blame in order to remove the issues in future.

What we need is an investigator with HSE style powers: that server is not secure - turn it off now and we will tell you when it can be reconnected to the Internet.

Just like they do on unsafe building sites

On-prem SaaS? ServiceNow will do it if you ask nicely, and really need it

Focus on ^^^feeding its AI...

Thunderbird for Android is go – at least the beta is

Re: No zoom and reflow

Thumbs down from those under 40 I'm guessing...

No zoom and reflow

More useless rubbish from Mozilla :(

Firefox 130 lands with a yawn, but 131 beta teases a long-awaited feature

You'll be changing your tune when you need reading glasses...

I'd drop Opera in a flash if Firefox did zoom

and reflow but for reasons best known only to themselves they can't or won't

Zoom and reflow on Android? I'll stick with Opera

UK government can't kick consultancy habit despite promises

If only "government" would do less they could save the taxpayer an awful lot of money.

Patch management still seemingly abysmal because no one wants the job

Re: "That's not where you want to be from a compliance perspective"

Good luck trying to do that in an enterprise with hundreds, if not thousands, of applications.

Angry admins share the CrowdStrike outage experience

The CIA triad has nothing to do with security.

London council accuses watchdog of 'exaggerating' danger of 2020 raid on residents' data

The dogs bark, but the caravan goes on.

Uber ex-CSO Joe Sullivan: We need security leaders running to work, not giving up

Re: What Caused the Uber Data Breach in 2022?

Anyone who calls users "the weakest link" is an idiot who should be nowhere near information security is any way, shape or form.

Capgemini to keep the legacy lights on at HMRC for £245.5M

Time to slash the complexity of the tax code

This cost is a manifestation of our inability to simplify the tax code. No-one understands it any more. Not even HMRC.

Perhaps we should ask AI to review it and suggest an easier way.

RHEL stays fresh with 9.4 while CentOS 7 gets a Rocky retirement plan

Has anyone used tuxcare.com? They offer extended security updates for CentOS7.

If Britain is so bothered by China, why do these .gov.uk sites use Chinese ad brokers?

Re: An idea

They've sold them to someone: https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/23/leicester_streetlights_ransomware/?td=rt-3a

Whistleblower raises alarm over UK Nursing and Midwifery Council's DB

Re: Rubbish in

Rubbish governance processes

Firefox 124 brings more slick moves for Mac and Android

Re: Still no zoom and reflow

It's not being worked on. That issue has been there for five years

Re: Still no zoom and reflow

This add-on is my attempt to provide the "reflow" option for text in Firefox Android. Warning: It is very limited. It will only reflow one paragraph at a time. You will have to tap/click on every single paragraph that you want to reflow.

Still no zoom and reflow

Once again the only usable browser for mobile devices is Opera.

Voyager 1 starts making sense again after months of babble

Re: The saddest part of this story. . .

The "eternal datacentre" surely?

The end of classic Outlook for Windows is coming. Are you ready?

It's garbage

You can't even drag and drop an email on to the desktop...

Bank's struggle to replace Atos threw system back to dark ages

At least that explains their piss poor website. It's a user experience abomination.

NIST updates Cybersecurity Framework after a decade of lessons

Re: Finally, they've twigged

"a convincing paper trial" You are not wrong!

City council megaproject mulls ditching Oracle after budget balloons to £131M

Re: Why?

It wasn't the council, it was a court decision which allowed for comparitive work (NB not the same job) to have equal pay.

Alphabet just banked $3B by stretching life of its servers

I'd suggest that they have an incredible amount of data on these costs and likely know the reliability of different servers (and internal components) to a level way beyond that of the manufacturers.