Posts by razorfishsl

When customers try to be programmers: 'I want this CHANGED TO A ZERO ASAP'

Te sad thing is this 'SUCESS' code might actually work...

if it was a global variable and set in an interrupt routine.....buried in a totally unrelated section of code.

The horrors I have seen and been party to in 40 years.....

One of the greatest uses for this sort of programming was in the commodore 1541 disk drive

the BVI flag, if i remember correctly could be branched on which was an overflow condition

so

:loop NOP

Bvi loop

Then a situation the 6502 processor had an extra pin to allow this flag to be set externally......normally never used, but they used it as the BYTE clock for the read /write head, since it was way faster than setting & reading a port.........

IE 2 clock cycles as opposed to 8

Hey Mac users, want to be unpaid guinea pigs for Microsoft? Sure you do

Re: Mac Office users must be a very rare breed these days, surely?

good luck with that, they will be making mods to close it down .....

notice how suddenly it is getting loads of updates?

Microsoft... the only company to provide an office suite for home users WITHOUT an email client....

Reverser laments crypto game protection, says wares dead after 2018

Re: A month.

And you clearly do not know what you are talking about....

I have at least one system in our company that cannot be virtualized due to the damned USB dongle....

Going on a date, and it's just the two of you? How ... quaint. OkCupid's setting up threesomes

Sorry, I thought it was a review about the new windows 10.......

Happy 2016, and here's the year's first ransomware story

Re: "distributed via email"

Obviously you never met my users.......

i recently had one, with over 350 viral notifications..

yes but i really wanted the file but the AV kept deleting it.....

Storage in 2016: Could abandonware claims come to the fore?

Except microsoft ... who have just announced ANOTHER price increase by taking your storage on asure 'local' rather than global......

Feds widen probe into lottery IT boss who rooted game for profit

Re: Pity an innocent friend or associate

Or you could call it "Lucky numbers" and make the film over 20 years ago......

No £160m for you: BT to receive termination notice from Cornwall before Christmas

Re: Outsourcing

Fail.......

Outsourcing is done for one reason only....... to look good on paper by paying less.

Everyone and their dog think they are experts in IT because:

1. They read about Cloud computing and love the idea of not needing any 'hardware', not even networking because that can be virtualized too.

2. They own a computer and know how to plug it in.

Telstra wins copper repair contract on the copper it sold to nbn

Re: Commercial in confidence gets the best deal for Australia

No.... when you mess-up this badly it is best to bury it before leaving, but it is no surprise a certain company is behind this.......

About 25 years ago we used one of their 'sealents' products which ended up destroying a massive quantity of electronics, they recommended a product that was acitoxicure which produced an acidic reaction and stripped off the metallic filters on our products lenses.

How to log into any backdoored Juniper firewall – hard-coded password published

The Backdoor boys are back.........

Ho ho hosed: Asian biz malware pwns air-gaps, thousands of Androids

A company smart enough to have air-gapped computers but too dumb to prevent mobile devices near it, deserve what they get.

'Unauthorized code' that decrypts VPNs found in Juniper's ScreenOS

So how about why it is "unauthorized"?

Was it debug code placed their by staff or by some external agency doing work for the company?

or was it "unauthorized" , just because it was not part of the remit for the original Kernel?

Windows XP spotted on Royal Navy's spanking new aircraft carrier

How the hell do you think so many IT projects are going titsup in the UK?

Why the hell would you sell a system that has 10 years of life?

Sell a system that undercut your competitors by supplying dead hardware and dying OS, then getting massive fees for upgrades.

Typo in case-sensitive variable name cooked Google's cloud

Obviously you never worked with java....

The gear I use in my test lab: A look at three Trident+ switches

Re: Quotes

LOL...

Have to agree on the D-link, currently clearing out a substantial installation over 2 manufacturing sites.

D-link & consumer grade cisco for WIFI.... , who needs SNMP anyway?

WTF....

And don't get me started about which T...W...A...T... put in Synology as a corporate solution for NAS.

Re: Personally...

It is BIG in China and HK.

but they are real asses about updated firmware.

1. no details about latest firmware

2. you have to send a separate email for each product to ask if firmware is updated.

3. you have to prove you own the equ.

4. they send the firmware.

5. they do not give clear installation instructions for the FW.

But the biggest crap is the lack of battery backup or storage of the date.... loose power/reset and your date gets set back to 1998 or 2000, great for log files....

'Dear Daddy...' Max Zuckerberg’s Letter back to her Father

He has given nothing 'away'

1. setup a taxfree charity.

2. transfer all assets, that 'were' taxable to said charity.

3. Make yourself head of charity

4. Get all your expenses paid by the charity via various other tax dodges.

5. Make yourself look really cool to anybody who is incapable of adding numbers, where numerical total is greater than said individuals number of fingers.

'Logjam' crypto bug could be how the NSA cracked VPNs

Re: Why?

The plane.... The Plane........

Amazon vendors flog thousands of rooted, malware-laden tablets

Re: Crap is crap

Cheap means the manufacturers have to find other ways to raise money.

Infact if a 'real' analysis was performed people would find WAY more of these TV boxes and slabs have root code in.

Some of it is compiled into the actual kernel modules of the underlying OS.........

The only time I purchase a Chinese made TVbox is when I want the hardware to load my own kernels on.

CoreOS open sources Clair, the vulnerability scanner for your containers

It is only when you look into 'backup', that you realize just how 'F***d' you are with cloud....

Chinese fire up world's 'most powerful' drone brain

if the logo is anything to go by "the future of possible", you know it has a strong possibility of being produced for $10us in Shenzhen......

Plus with the size of those connectors and a fullsize HDMI socket, it looks more like a failed overpriced TVbox that has found a new market

Get 'em out for the... readers: The Sun scraps its online paywall

Those scumbags over at the 'mail' have started to enable auto 'click' and auto play on adverts......

The DM is not about news , it is about leveraging SEO and making as much money as possible.

Some like it hot ... very hot: How to use heat to your advantage in your data center

Re: Data centers can be run much warmer

It is set by physics, something called the "Arrhenius equation" and relates to activation energy.

All those little chips and shit are made from chemicals and are bound by the laws of chemistry and physics.

Re: Data centers can be run much warmer

Please don''t talk crap

For every 10 Deg above 25 you half the life of electronics, this is a GIVEN.

The fact that disk drives claim to run at 65 deg is a fallacy and goes against the well established physics of electronic design, go ahead write data onto a disk surface at 65 deg.... Then see what happens to your error rate on a cool day.

Just because you "delivered" kit does not give any indication of the failure rates, show some data, do you have any long term analysis available?

Boffins' twisted enlightenment embiggens fibre

Re: A power loss of -1.5db when sending light ?

Simple.......

Light does not "travel" down a fiber the way most people think...

It actually bounces off the side walls of the internal fiber structure.

Have you EVER seen a perfect mirror, that NEVER looses or never absorbs a photon?

If MR ROBOT was realistic, he’d be in an Iron Maiden t-shirt and SMELL of WEE

When I saw they used a raspberry pi to hack a 'climate control system' I knew the consultants were ass holes...

That thing is so big it will not fit inside a standard back box...., but hay with a load of sweaty wannabe 16 year old hackers using Pi's it cuts down on police time.

But their portrayals of female hackers as muslims or S&M lesbians was a bit much.

Apple may face $900m bill after A7 CPU in iPhones, iPads ripped off university's patent

Re: Oh the irony

That is bollox.....

when I signed up to do a course at Uni.... they requested I sign a paper saying anything I developed belong to them, including any research I might perform.

The fact that I paid them to enter Uni. did not seem to enter into it.

I told them they could go screw themselves.

Re: Why not ARM?

Why not read the article rather than looking at the pictures and the heading.....

Microsoft now awfully pushy with Windows 10 on Win 7, 8 PCs – Reg readers hit back

It is great......

I'm getting more and more users saying their home computers running windows have been updated and cannot boot or are slow, can I fix non-work equipment.......... NO!!!!

Go buy a mac or run linux....

OK it's only 50 or so people, but hopefully it will multiply out ,after all business execs usually cannot handle this

Stop climate change by drinking Coca-Cola says Oz government

If the entire population of Australia stopped breathing, it would have more of an effect on Co2 output.

External vs internal: Why hybrid cloud is the way to go

Obviously you never user 365 in Asia.......

It requires a LOT of maintenance, is usually impacted for some reason or other, and it is always "our engineers have identified a problem with a recent software upgrade"

Need discrete encounter with some hardware? Of course, we mean AMD's new Embedded Radeons

Seriously WTF do you need radeon in a sales terminal.....

Printer drivers ate our homework, says NSW Dept of Education

You just know they are speaking about OSX here.......

What with HP & Apple buttfucking every user on each new OSX update.

Yes you thought your printer was supported in OSX and it was until the 10.X.X update... oh there goes your scanner and fax support.

Sorry you bought it 2-3 years ago... go buy a new printer...

UK.gov unleashes 3D virtual world to train GCHQ's kiddie division

Re: Will it involve a holdall?

More than a few S&M gimp fetishists could easily meet that challenge

Don't be shy......... allow your Ego to get it the way of your future, help GCHQ identify potential cyber terrorists whilst you play a 'harmless' game

Find shaving a chore? Why not BLAST your BEARD off with a RAYGUN

Re: There's only two types

You obviously don't visit Asia much.....

Ah So.... laser blade.....

you buy we make soo cheaply.....

Cisco shocker: Some network switches may ELECTROCUTE you

Fail.... fixing screw points should not be located under parts carrying line voltages, and even then there should be a n insulation plate between the PSU and the case.

11 MILLION VW cars used Dieselgate cheatware – what the clutch, Volkswagen?

Just the start....

next the shareholders will sue

BAN the ROBOT WHORES, says robot whore expert: 'These AREN'T BARBIES'

"We must abolish prostitution"....

Even Jesus was not that naive and that was over 2,000 years ago...

Brimming with VM goodness: Qnap TS-453mini 4-bay NAS

Fail........

Synology construction is CRAP.....

NAS is way better.

If you think running rust at >50 degrees C. is good engineering, then you are in for a surprise....

And building an "enterprose/business" NAS with the capability of 25TB storage WITHOUT anything other than 1G networking is just fucking stupid, it can take 4 days to recover a synology......

Email reply-all cat-nado drenches Cisco inboxes with pics, memes

What's this "training" word I keep coming across on this site.......

Sorry... not in our company...

the number of dimwhits who cannot tell the difference between CC & BCC for company wide announcements, is just not funny...

and our customers don't appreciate it either.....

Global warming stopped in 1998? No it didn't. If you say that, you're going to prison

Re: So if I understand this correctly...

So you have a problem with "software Engineering " then?

Citrix reveals 'USB redirection to cloud' plans to vaporise desktop peripherals

Yep and you thought USB 1.0 was slow......

Marvell superheroes and the Fantastic Four (hundred million dollar loss and internal probe)

This is what happens when you build silicon for a declining device....

Should have got into Flash controllers.

Files on Seagate wireless disks can be poisoned, purloined – thanks to hidden login

I just cannot wait for the IOT.....

Currently old fridges and microwaves thrown away have no interest value.

Soon it will have a PCB with embedded linux and wireless services to be recovered, just like the TV's that are starting to appear by the rubbish bins.

Add into that the major stupidity of corporate software 'Engineers' and the future is looking bright,

Most people don't know that modern refrigerators are now filled with masses of explosive gas, since the non explosive stuff was deemed to be damaging the planet, they just gave it a 'magic' name because people would not have a fridge filled with butane/propane mix in their house.

Mind-blowing secrets of NSA's security exploit stockpile revealed at last

As a recent director of software development quite correctly pointed out......

"We can encode the passwords as dingbats, that-way no one can read them"

Boffins promise file system that will NEVER lose data

Re: (Open) ZFS is pretty damned good already

ZFS is NOT safe......

You only have to see the forums and the bug list to understand that it can loose data.