Posts by Gerard Krupa

Facebook hands over chats to cops in abortion case

Re: Anything you do say may be given in evidence.

It's hilarious that anyone thinks social media companies want to protect users. Advertisers are their customers and users are just the products being sold.

Google, Oracle cloud servers wilt in UK heatwave, take down websites

Amazon's servers in the UK are so powerful that they managed to fall over due to a thermal event on the 10th, a full week before the heatwave.

Ditching VMware over the Broadcom buy? Here are some of your options

Proxmox was a good alternative even before the Broadcom deal and pretty painless to migrate from vSphere/ESXi.

Microsoft: Many workers are stuck on old computers and should probably upgrade

aka

Microsoft makes excuse for Teams using all your CPU cycles

Docker Desktop no longer free for large companies: New 'Business' subscription is here

I look forwards to seeing whatever open source alternative springs up to take its place.

Penguin takeover: We tried running some GUI Linux apps on Windows the official way – and nothing exploded

With Hyper-V, everything is a VM

"These are available in preview from AMD, Intel, and Nvidia – but will not help when the host machine is itself a VM."

Hyper-V is a type-1 hypervisor. Once you enable it to be able to run WSL2, even your base Windows becomes a VM. It just happens to have automatic PCI passthrough for things like your GPU.

Putin to Trump: Let's collude to stop election hacking

Let me sit upon your back...

...said the Scorpion to the frog

Uncle Sam's legal eagles finally make up their mind on internet giants' Get Out Of Jail Free card – and it's not as bad as you may fear

To spite your face

Doesn't this focus on consistent application eradicate the public interest excuse Twitter used to avoid banning Trump over his many policy-violating tweets?

The good news: Vodafone switches on first full-fat, real-life 5G network in the UK. The bad news: it only got sent to Coventry

Re: News flash!

I think you might be overestimating their logical reasoning

Apple gives Boot Camp the boot, banishes native Windows support from Arm-compatible Macs

No x86_64 Docker

Having to build every Docker container for multiple architectures so it will run on both developer and production machines is just not worth the faff. Unless ARM servers start to become more widely available I can see a lot of places dropping Macs in favour of Linux or (more likely) WSL.

Apple promises third, no, fourth, er, fifth time's a charm when it comes to macOS Catalina: 10.15.5 now out

The bricking supplemental update

I haven't see any response from Apple on the claims that the 10.15.4 supplemental update supposedly corrupted the firmware for the T2 chips for some users requiring either a second Mac or an RTB to recover it. They haven't even tried to address the possibility it was due to user error.

NexDock 2 revisited: Could it be more than a handy Pi hole?

Nice device, shame about that trackpad

It's just not a nice thing to use (even by normal trackpad standards).

'Ridiculous, rubbish, outrageous, complete bollocks': Just some reviews for Amazon's corporate contribution to Blighty's coffers

Look a bit closer to home

It's would be a lot more convincing if the leader of the House of Commons wasn't making millions from a hedge fund based in the Cayman Islands. Nothing will change while members of the serving government have a vested personal interest in keeping tax loopholes open.

Google relents slightly in ad-blocker crackdown – for paid-up enterprise Chrome users, everyone else not so much

Re: Is it time....

There are already solutions available for various platforms that either modify your hosts file or proxy DNS requests to block ads. You could even set up a Pi-Hole server on a cheap cloud provider and have your friends and family configure their machines to use it as their primary DNS; it will, after all, run on any Linux-based system, not just Raspberry Pi.

Indiegogo to ailing ZX Spectrum reboot firm: End of May... or we call the debt collector

Re: My Vega+ is safely in the cloud...

There is no cloud; it's just somebody else's villa in Tuscany.

Oh good, half of Defra's Brexit projects involve IT

CAP is not all that "Common" since individual states have a lot of leeway in interpreting and reinterpreting the rules (even between the devolved UK governments, each of which has its own system) plus incorporating their own regional schemes. The EU also periodically revamp all of the rules and payment calculations - a process known as CAP Reform that has already occurred three times and is due to happen again in 2020.

VMware-on-AWS is live, and Virtzilla is now a proper SaaS player

"automated provisioning tools like Jenkins or MAVEN."

Really? Would it kill you to spend 5 minutes with Google, looking up a few bits of jargon?

Facebook, Google slammed for 'commercial prostitution'

"Anyone else wondering what the business model of a non-commercial prostitute would be?"

Offering consideration and favours (purely coincidentally) to financial donors.

HSBC Business internet banking goes TITSUP*

Yet still far less embarrassing than the complete disaster that happened to Barclays personal banking over the weekend that saw not only online banking fall over but caused debit card payments to be declined.

GitLab snags VC cash, promises to 'Git-ify' the world

Re: Does this mean?

Perhaps a Linus of Gits in honour of its angry creator

Is there paper in the printer? Yes and it's so neatly wrapped!

No lazy stereotyping?

Para 2: "without lazy stereotyping"

Para 3: "pimply-faced youths (PFYs)"

Have you considered a second job as a political speech writer?

UK gov says new Home Sec will have powers to ban end-to-end encryption

Re: Law of Unintended Consequences

Not once they classify envelopes as a form of end-to-end encryption

Ransomware-as-a-service business up for grabs to highest bidder

If you don't want to consider yourself a criminal...

...then don't do criminal things like creating a ransom scam, using your ransom scam to steal money and then selling your scam on to other criminals. It's like a kid that punches you in the nuts and then says "sorry, I didn't mean it" before whispering to his friend "go punch that guy in the nuts".

Odin (formerly Parallels) bets big on Docker and OpenStack

Ragnarok

Once they get taken over by a company called Fenrir then it's time to start worrying

Fox gives Minority Report the nod – precog goes primetime on tellybox

Re: Fox will cancel it mid-flow

Did it say anything about the product placement that will see the actors waxing on about their Prius (what a great antique car this is, well ahead of its time) for 2-3 minutes per episode.

Visual Studio running on OS X and Linux for free? SO close

Re: Looks Familiar

Your memory of Visual Studio 2008 and mine are very different. If I recall correctly, the minimal, flat UI was added in 2010, the dark theme in 2012 and the mini-map in 2013.

Looks Familiar

Soon all programmers' editors will look like Sublime.

Comet 67P found to be COMPLETELY UNATTRACTIVE

In related news

The ESA are currently seeking a team of talented artists with experience using Vue 4, 3DS Max and Photoshop.

Microsoft cramming free stuff into Galaxy S6es? Not so fast – US telcos

In the spirit of choice

I'm sure AT&T and Verizon don't pre-install their own cloud storage apps either.

Amazon whisks desktop apps into cloud bazaar in virty PC push

Re: Not that this has anything to do with anything, but...

They tend to flip-flop between profit and loss but they reported a higher-than-expected profit last quarter. Their policy is to feed revenue back into the business rather than shareholder pockets, though.

Popular crypto app uses single-byte XOR and nowt else, hacker says

What claims?

"Google has been contacted for comment regarding the app's claims."

Have you even taken the time to look at the app's description on Google Play? It doesn't claim a single thing regarding file encryption - it doesn't even claim to do it. Will the Register comment on Darren Pauli's claims about his affair with President Obama?

Are you clever enough, and brave enough, to give a Register lecture

Re: Hmm

It takes a lot more effort than you think to get really angry about Google and call people names for an hour.

Ericsson buys Sunrise Technology

But sometimes they'll build you a shiny new office just before they dump everyone and sell off the building, which is nice and also very good value.

Raspberry Pi, meet face: You're probably NOT Blighty's biggest PC maker!

Re: Amstrad

The Amstrad PCW range was pretty good in its day - a Z80-based machine designed for home office use. Unfortunately its day had passed by the time the 16 was released since PCs were doing the job more effectively.

Norks blame U.S. for TITSUP internet, unleash racist rant against Obama

Someone just got the James Bond box set

and decided to play out the plot of Tomorrow Never Dies

Doctor Who's tangerine dream and Clara's death wish in Last Christmas

Dr Jr

"one of the explorers blatantly pointed out that the aliens were pretty much face-huggers from Alien"

Probably the most notable thing about that episode - said explorer was played by Michael Troughton, son of 2nd Doctor, Patrick Troughton.

Amazon: Put our ALWAYS ON MICROPHONE in your house, please. WHAT?

Re: In a couple of years

"Echo, what's the weather like?"

*creepy child's voice* "Are you my mummy?"

Doctor Who becomes an illogical, unscientific, silly soap opera in Kill The Moon

Re: I haven't seen the episode yet, but...

'...from the comments it sounds as if the script writer was heavily influenced by Terry Pratchett's "The Light Fantastic"?'

That episode would not have been made any less credible or entertaining by the addition of the grim reaper or a barbarian astronaut complaining he could only eat "shoup".

Fed-up bloke takes email spammers to court – and wins piles of cash

Re: ICO and ASA seem to be backing off in this area...

Not validating my addresses with spammers has never seemed to do anything to stem the tide. I've often heard suggestions that confirming a working address makes it a more valuable commodity but I'm skeptical about the whole thing since I suspect blanketing every address available is more cost effective than being picky.

TrueCrypt hooked to life support in Switzerland: 'It must not die' say pair

Re: Cthulhucrypt

TrueCrypt Fhtagn

You can't be serious

The enemy of my enemy is my, well, temporary ally: Apple and Microsoft in pact against Google

The technical name for something like this...

...is a twact.

Google clamps down on rogue Chrome plugins and extensions

Just sanctioned malware

Every complaint I've seen about malicious extensions were all fully sanctioned and available from the Chrome Web Store. Particularly unpalatable are those that are funded by anonymously overlaying every site you visit with ads masquerading as coupons from the insidious Superfish service.

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/mcRFCUAK1hw%5B276-300-false%5D

'Copyrighted' Java APIs deserve same protection as HARRY POTTER, Oracle tells court

APIs, clearly as secret as an advance book copy

"Google’s argument was akin to an author copying the chapter titles and topic sentences of an advance copy of a Harry Potter book and then paraphrasing the rest and claiming it as fair use"

But only if J K Rowling was shouting these at every other author at the top of her voice.

Google Chrome: Extensions now ONLY from the Company Store

Great...

So I'm sitting behind a proxy that blocks access to the Chrome Store and soon I'll no longer be able to download select developer-friendly extensions, email them to myself and install them to help me work. It's not as if downloading from there is a guarantee of integrity to begin with. The Store's littered with adware-funded extensions that violate Google's own Ts and Cs (Superfish e.g. is spreading like a virus through the Store and causes fake 'voucher' offers to be injected into nearly every page).

If they wanted to, they could already have decimated the Chrome user base by blocking it from the Chrome store. I suspect they won't because the loss of users to Firefox would be more damaging than the loss of ad revenue, a migration that won't happen with Android.

Virgin Media only puts limited limits on its Unlimited service

Re: Anyone here using Virginmedia?

Their email service is provided by Google. This was well-publicised at the time of the switch and is clearly stated in several places including the Web Mail client itself.

Finally! How to make Android USABLE: Install BlackBerry OS 10.2

Smooth

Blackberry... smooth. Are you one of those bots that's been commenting on the BBM app?