Posts by Spasticus Autisticus

Linux kernel security gurus Grsecurity oust freeloaders from castle

Re: I don't care about Grsecurity or Linux

Hi Arthur

Try these two, I'm sure there are others

Tablespoon

All Recipes

BOFH: The Boss, the floppy and the work 'experience'

Re: Incriminating Evidence

We added airborne troops to Risk, forget which card was used to enable that move, probably the all three 'joker' card. Oh the howls and tantrums when you attacked a place with just a few armies on it and took someone's continent bonus away.

Firefox 52 kills plugins – except Flash – and runs up a red flag for HTTP

'I actually use BOTH uBlock and Ghostery.'

Those two plus Privacy Badger - and NoScript

As Microsoft touts Windows Insider for biz, let's take a look at W10's broken 2FA logins

Lets turn that PR guff around - 'IT Professionals recognise that Windows is a critical pain in the ass to any organisation.'

The Life and Times of Lester Haines

Manningtree - my neck of the woods! After 50+ years I'm nearly accepted here now :-)

Action Outdoors!! Run by two friends of mine.

I feel famous by association.

RIP Lester

CERT tells Microsoft to keep EMET alive because it's better than Win 10's own security

Re: Mint!

+100 - more and more of my customers are moving to Mint when they see how much faster, familiar and easier it is over W, w, w, w, w, w - I can't bring myself to say it, don't want to make my mouth dirty :-)

-100 for the MS dead donkey floggers that down vote negative (to MS) - but often funny - comments.

BSODs from around the world, from the wrist-job to public art

Re: Two images missing

Thank you El Khaptain - it is NoScript's doing, the lowres image thing only started a couple of weeks or so ago, perhaps permissions got reset and I didn't realise.

Had my porridge with honey (from Shropshire) this morning thank you - still disappointed in direction El Reg has gone recently.

Two images missing

I couldn't see two of the images, and I don't click twitlinks.

Seen the super low res images on the right? A sign that El Reg is hurting financially (even more?) since its dreadful changes, plus just including a link instead of the image saves storage space, saves money? Makes sense when you're down on your uppers. Too late for a subscription service, many of the good guys and girls have gone - reporters and 'tards.

Ashes to ashes, funk to funky .....

Some Windows 10 Anniversary Update: SSD freeze

Re: Business as usual then?

I believe the first line of this song more accurately sums up Microsoft

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtuVBPwzstM

NSFW

Microsoft’s stealth scripting engine arrives on Android

'Microsoft has historically been slow ...' slow? MS? surely not.

Quip away, but Microsoft Excel 365's REST APIs win the day

Re: Huh?

Advertorial?

16 paragraphs - only 4 didn't feature the name Microsoft. Welcome to the new owners of The Register.

Opera sells open-source Chromium browser for $600m to Chinese bods

The fat lady is singing.......

Tor torpedoed! Tesco Bank app won't run with privacy tool installed

Bank app or TOR?

Bank app or TOR on my phone? Hmmm

Bank app or TOR?

Bank app or TOR?

Fsck bank apps, Facebook, Whatsapp (is that right?), Snapchat, fsck them all!

TOR above any data slurping, location seeking, ad pushing app on my phone - and yes I know I can be tracked - and whatever else - just by having a mobile phone on me. It's already too late for most of us to withdraw from digital surveillance but some gadgets are useful despite their drawbacks.

Microsoft to buy LinkedIn

Delete me

If I hadn't recently cancelled my account anyway, I'd be cancelling it right now. I suspect my details are still on a LinkedIn database somewhere, how long do 'deleted' accounts last before they truly disappear?

Beleaguered 123-reg customers spot price hike

Express Hosting is where I keep my sites - fantastic service.

90 days of Android sales almost beat 9 months' worth for all flavours of Win 10

Re: Microsoft is finished

Bonjour mon ami AC

Pourquoi écrivez-vous comme AC, est-ce parce que vous êtes un shill fuckwit Microsoft?

Win10 - Privacy settings.

Once in Privacy, go to the General section and Turn off 'Send Microsoft info about how I write to help us improve typing and writing in the future.' While you’re there, examine the other options and consider if there’s anything else here that you may want to change.

Turn off all of the other settings there too - for what good it does, maybe OFF in Microsoft's world means ON now that the close window X means yes take over my computer with Win10

Re: Microsoft is finished

Saw one of my farmer customers today, he likes his WP phone but unless you're using Lookout and Exchange Server getting a calendar sync app on the phone looks a bit difficult. He'll be going Android soon.

3 new Linux users this week, all pissed off with the UI abortion that is Windows 10, not to mention the spying that further disgusted them when they saw what MS collected from 'their' systems. Little by little MS's dominance is waning, and not before time.

Hacking Team hole still unpatched, exploit pop doc claims

Hole for foot

'foot hole' - not familiar with that one, foot hold I know about.

BT: We're killing the dabs brand. Oh and can customers re-register to buy on our site?

Re: "Dabs was truely the worst customer service I ever got from any retailer ever."...

I buy most of my kit from ebuyer these days, gave up Dabs many, many, many years ago. I have had a laptop die after a few months that ebuyer replaced with no issue. I bought an open-box motherboard with 60 days warranty that died after around 90 days, ebuyer were brilliant and refunded me the cost. The very few problems I've had with kit from ebuyer have all been handled properly and if anything ebuyer have gone the extra mile to keep me happy - but then I am polite to them when complaining.

How I feel about ebuyer --------->

Flying Scotsman attacked by drone

Thank you so much for all your kindness and down votes. Loose, lose, luse, luce, louse, whatever, there's a clue in my handle perhaps? I try but fail regularly, I read this, I read that, no wonder foreigners think English isn't such an easy language to master.

Anyway, what the pilot of this camera drone did is probably illegal (private land, close to objects, danger to people) and should be prosecuted as its a nice high profile incident that the media might run with for an hour or two.

Need a middle finger icon too :-)

The CAA should find the pilot responsible and throw the book at him. Maximum sentence, f**k his life up, loose job, loose house, loose family (if train spotters have families). F**k one person up so that hopefully others will think twice before being twats with multi-rotor camera platforms. Also might save a serious incident when many innocent people might have their lives upset by the action of one idiot with a 'drone'.

Where's the 'F**k 'em up' icon?

Microsoft: Ditch your phone biz and do crazy hardware experiments

Yesterday's people

I typed the title but now can't be bothered to type anymore, why am I wasting time commenting on Microsoft - yesterday's people, bunch of useless counts.

Microsoft wants to lock everyone into its store via universal Windows apps, says game kingpin

Re: Do bears shit in the woods?

I think Garry Perez put it better than I can -

http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2015/10/15/pushy_windows_10/#c_2665698 - and I concur with FozzyBear's sentiments a couple of posts later.

(#c_2665698 is the end of the link - it gets chopped off on my screen and I don't know how to do links on El Reg (do I need a badge to do links?))

Essex cop abused police IT systems to snoop on his in-laws

Re: Why did he make the searches?

3 down votes! Have you guys no sense of humour - that's funny! I'll get you one of these later right hand ---->

Pilot posts detailed MS Flight Sim video of how to land Boeing 737

Re: Knowing what a lever or button do is just the beginning...

I've been enjoying FlightGear recently, its a very long time since I last flew MS FS. There's an F-86 burning somewhere in South London after I tore East Anglia up - again - and then failed to get my aircraft down safely - again.

Scottish MP calls for drone-busting eagles

Morons and dickheads can now fly without crashing

The problem with drones is that they fly themselves, very little skill needed. Even conventional model aircraft with stabilization systems need more than a moron at the controls to avoid breaking them on landing. Many drones have a 'home' switch, hit that and the drone will fly back to its starting position or one that has been pre-programmed in, no damage ready to fly again.

A mid-air with a full size aircraft is likely to happen sometime, can we stop that? or shall we just wait for it happen and then wring our hands about it.

I enjoy radio control model glider flying and drones are causing the other model flying disciplines a big problem, the FAA (USA equiv. of UK CAA) have gone over the top and made all 'drones', including all model aircraft, be registered if they weigh over 250g. These multirotor drones could be responsible for all outdoor aircraft modelling being seriously compromised.

What's the answer - I don't know, but drone killing eagles is a fantastic idea.

'Blue light services will get 4G on London Tube!' Cool, how? 'Errrrm...'

Re: Seems to be an error there.

Exactly - its not what you know but who you know.

The revolving door between government and business needs to be jammed fast. Whatever body that oversees movements, either way, B2G or G2B, needs a full overhaul - its cronies all the way down.

Eighteen year old server trumped by functional 486 fleet!

Re: Does my Amiga 1200 count?

My Acctim 80/2011 Electronic Digital Clock was bought around 1978, I bought it because it has blue digits and the alarm makes a sound like a blackbird's distress call.

Both switches have been replaced and I can't use it as an alarm clock any more as it doesn't fully stop twittering - it sits there going tweet every couple of seconds. Otherwise it has been plugged in and telling the time pretty much since I bought it.

Yahoo! Mail! Had! Nasty! XSS! Bug!

Re: Regular problem

I get quite a few "Help I need cash" from @btinternet.com email accounts too. BT are supposedly moving their email off the Yahoo servers sometime, whenever I speak to the BT help line and ask when my and many of my customer's email will be moved off the shitty Yahoo servers they always say soon. <rant>This has been going on for years, I ask "is soon weeks? months? or what?", they answer weeks. I suppose 100 weeks is still weeks but will I see my btinternet.com account moved before I die - what a bunch of counts.</rant>

Icon for everything BT & Yahoo

Brit cuffed for Kyrgyz 'horse penis' sausage quip

Re: it IS a big deal...

@Ian Emery

Septic = septic tank = Yank - get a Peggy me old china :-)

Belkin's N150 router is perfect for learning hacking skills – wait, what, it's in production?

Nice wires

Belkin make (made?) nice cables, every router or WiFi dongle I saw from them was dreadful compared to other brands. Haven't see a Belkin router for many years now, I thought they'd given up.....

Third suspect arrested over TalkTalk breach

Re: @Spasticus Autisticus Everybody out!

Shame, wrong people at the party. (I won't upvote you because I don't 'like' that it cleared the room, nor downvote you because I like your comment.

I'm from Essex - in case you couldn't tell.

Everybody out!

All ISPs need to learn from TalkTalk's mistakes; getting hacked in the way they did, their response via Baroness Harding of Shit Creek, etc. To teach TT and other ISPs a lesson we need to encourage everyone we know that is a TT customer to move suppliers to someone else - anyone else but preferably a company with UK tech support - only when TT collapse as a company or are severely financially hurt will anyone take much notice. I have several customers with TalkTalk, I hope many of them will move away, it'll be just a pin prick to TT but if enough do it......

Power to the people!

'Foxy'

How Microsoft will cram Windows 10 even harder down your PC's throat early next year

Re: wsusoffline - win

@keithpeter

I mainly service private individuals with either laptops and/or desktops. I have a few SoHos, usually Hos. I do have one So using a Ubuntu server with a mix of XP (holy crap!) and Win7 desktops with shared files, printing, and backup.

All users have sudo for logging in and updates, I doubt very much any install new programs even though I show them how to use Synaptic, once these systems are set up they hardly ever need looking at. There is a 10+ year old laptop out there using Mint 11 (oh well, but it keeps on working), a few on 13, one or two on 16 and the rest on 17.x

Re: wsusoffline - win

I want to retire and all my customers know how I feel about the steam driven, three wheeled lorry (truck) with no locks that is Windows, (slow, unstable, bloated, needs loads of extra software to keep it secure-ish). Fuck Microsoft telling me and my customers what we're going to have to do with our PCs, I tell them there are better OSes out there and that I'm unwilling to deal with the MS POS* that drives me to despair. My health is more important to me than my customers and because I'm good at my job almost all will go to Linux or OSX.

Care in the community - Windows is often sickly & is mentally retarded, I am self-employed fixing computers for a living. My Linux customers (around 30 at present) are a joy to visit when they need something upgraded or added, very rarely fixed.

*Classic use, not Point of Sale or Proof of Share.....

Re: wsusoffline - win

I've been telling my customers* that MS is like a beached whale, it'll take along time to die but it is going nowhere and will die eventually.

* I provide care in the community for Windows mainly but 95+% of my current customers will be moving to Linux or they won't be my customers any more. A small number that have no choice because of particular software or hardware can stay but I'll be even more ranty about the halfwits at Microsoft.

Insult to injury: Researcher remote pwns RAT of cuffed FireEye VXer

"Burbage says Dendroid and mobile RATs like it are making bank thanks to the lack of security integrity of many devices."

Que? Is "making bank" like makin' bacon?

Linux 4.2 release 'possible' for next week, if Linus feels good

Re: Wow

Oooo - you're a brave boy AC, maybe you're just ribbing us?

I'd sooner have a foul mouthed, ranting person that strived for perfection heading the production of my OS of choice than a bunch of 'is it good enough yet?' sales men.

If you were ribbing us, well done - if not, well stick with your three-wheeled lorry (truck) of an OS, my OS is ready for work in less than a minute, shuts down in 5 seconds, doesn't need AV, does its updates in seconds and doesn't need a restart afterwards. F*ck Microsoft and f*ck the horse they rode into town on.

ZUCK OFF: Facebook nixes internship after student embarrasses firm

Internship sounds like its an unpaid job, hopefully he can get a proper paid one at a decent company - that's if he needs a job now.

Will flash save the data centre? Don't spread your wings yet, Vultan

Re: Dara?

Depends how many obvious boogers are hanging out their nostrils.

Re: Dara?

I don't have an email program set up on this laptop so the Tips and Corrections link is useless, pity it wasn't a form instead. I've sent corrections on my main PC in the past which got ignored so what's the point? El Reg has taken a dip in its quality of stories recently which isn't helped by sloppy typing or lack of checking. A pendant? yes a bit, an ass? - he aw, he aw, he always calls me donkey.

Re: Dara?

Zero stimulants here, not coffee or even tea.

Its only a small typing error, if it was code, the code would fail, all I'm doing is pointing out the bugs - such an obvious bug that a eight year old analyst could spot it within a few seconds.

The door is automatic.

Dara?

What should we 'Reference dara' for?

FFS - PROOF READ

Global spy system ECHELON confirmed at last – by leaked Snowden files

Menwith Hill Station

I remember a Mark Thomas program where he found out that there was no no-fly zone over the Menwith Hill giant golf balls and organised a large number of hot-air balloons to over fly the station. Plod weren't very pleased - like a lot of things Mark does so brilliantly. I don't remember when the program aired but I'm fairly sure ECHELON was mentioned then too.

Windows 10: THE ULTIMATE GUIDE to Microsoft's long apology for Windows 8

Re: Windows 10: YOUR ULTIMATE GUIDE to Microsoft's apology for Windows 8

I read 'Windows 10: YOUR ULTIMATE GUIDE to Microsoft's apology for Windows 8' as....

Windows 10: YOUR ULTIMATE GUIDE to Microsoft's apology for an OS

Will rising CO2 damage the world's oceans? Not so much

Re: Proof of evolution on the back of beer mat....

Yup, the planet will be fine. It'll be far better off once we've all gone.

What we're doing to The Earth is perfectly natural, we are part of nature, we developed from nature and anything, ANYTHING we do is natural. It would only be unnatural if we couldn't do it - whatever 'it' is.

If nature doesn't get us first then perhaps an asteroid or comet will - more natural phenomena (shit, I spelt that right first time - its a good day today already :-) ).

Looking forward to getting Windows 10 the day it ships? Yeah, about that...

Re: Ferfuksache

So if I was to install Win10 in a year's time (I hope to never install Win10 but....) will it download just what I need at that time or will it download the base and then all the updates issued since? I like my OSs to install and be ready for use in less than an hour.

'This ruling does nothing to change the facts' thunders Apple in latest price-fix appeal blow

Re: You didn't publish the best part of the decision...

I'm not sure. I went to edit one of my posts and ended up with a duplicate. I then deleted the 'new' post and had the 'post deleted by author' under my original post. Possibly a bug when using a particular OS/browser combo? May be user error? I'll edit this post to see what happens.

Added this line, clicked Submit (8 mins)

2nd edit. Oh well, I'm talking BS as usual.... or the machines are out to make me make a fool of myself

Apple CORED: Boffins reveal password-killer 0-days for iOS and OS X

A car with a serious flaw in its operation would be recalled and be fixed by the manufacturer or supplier in a time scale commensurate with the scale of the danger. If the scale of the fault is as great as losing passwords then a fast fix has to happen - or it might be better to turn the product off and not use it again until it is fixed.