Posts by razorfishsl

Using Office 365 at work? It's dangerous to go alone! Take this...

They should spend more time on sorting out the crap they are already selling, before adding more functionality.

Biggest mistake we EVER made was using 365 for email.

Marvell: We don't want to pay this $1.5bn patent bill because, cripes, it's way too much

Re: A school owns patents?

you need to wake up.

Even at British universities, students on Msc & PHD are 'informed' that their work at the university belongs to the university and any ideas they may have during their time at the uni. also belong to the uni.

I'm afraid that the idea of Uni.'s being places of learning died out a long time ago, they are now just massive businesses selling off qualifications for a quick buck, even many of the courses are not run by qualified professionals, but rather students using teaching material ripped from books.

Go do an Msc at a reputable Uni. and see for yourself.

Are you sure there are servers in this cold, dark basement?

I find it difficult to believe, this is criminal damage and theft.

Power, internet access knackered in London after exploding kit burps fire into capital's streets

Maybe some fire-doors and suppression systems would have been in order

Quantum computers have failed. So now for the science

Re: It's quantum...

Incorrect...

It actually means its state is undetermined until it is observed.

Re: nice article....

all this "information traveling faster than light", is easily explained if there are 11 dimensions as hinted at by other research.

It just means that the particles are connected in another dimension at a shorter distance that the distances we are observing in our classical models.

It may be the particles appear to be significant distances apart in 'our' dimension, but in one of the other 11 they are actually next to each other, so overall nothing is breaking the 'golden rule' of faster than light.

Even visiting the opposite side of the Earth can be done via two paths, over the surface of the Earth & thru the core., passing network cables thru the core would appear to break the golden rule of traveling faster than light, when viewed from the perspective of cables traveling over the surface.

Entangled particles have just found a short cut for 'communication...' that is all.

POW! Apple smites Macbook Air EFI firmware update borkage

I recently reported a 'self-distruction' bug in the EFI firmware for 13" mac air books.....

When I say 'self destruction' I literally mean the whole machine.......

The bug puts the computer CPU in 100% mode whilst the cover is fully closed & with the 'apple' lid light off........

So if you then pop the machine into a computer bag It makes an excellent winter warmer, either the machine destroys its main board...(since the air intake is blocked by the bag fabric) or the battery runs out, depending on your luck.

Maybe the initial update was to fix 'that' bug........

Got a killer Microsoft or Oracle cloud deal? Start sweating

Lets just say that microsoft 365 in Asia is a pile of steaming crap.

after 3 months it is STILL loosing & failing to deliver emails, virtually every day something is 'down' or broken, impacted or some other bullshit excuse that seems never to make it onto the "reliability" figures.

Then they 'cleverly' make the support data unavailable (deleted), so you cannot do a long term comparison.

And we will not even go into the continual attempts to RAM 'godaddy' services down your throat.

Erik Meijer: AGILE must be destroyed, once and for all

"He advocates instead a “move fast and break things” model, where software is deployed and errors fixed as they are discovered."

This is not a guy I would want developing code for Nuclear power plants or navigation control systems for aircraft.

Microsoft man: Internet Explorer had to go because it's garbage

Re: Let me be the first to say...

You obviously have a very poor understanding of what "spoofing" actually does.

It's the same as a butch sailor wandering about saying his name is "Shirley", underneath it is STILL a butch sailor.

There are a large number of websites/ businesses that WILL NOT WORK with anything other than a user running 'windows & I.E" and no amount of 'spoofing' a character string will fix them, in many cases they require a VM of windows XP-8 to function correctly.

Boffins brew up FIRST CUPPA in SPAAACE using wireless energy (well, sort of)

Re: energy for cloud-cuckoo land

And birds/ insects?

Are we going to have a repeat of birds bursting into flames as they fly over the power delivery equipment.

US Copyright Office rules that monkeys CAN'T claim copyright over their selfies

Re: Jurisdiction?

Because if you knew anything about the US, you would know they are gradually forcing in US law all over the world via the backdoor.

Mattel urged to scrap Wi-Fi mic Barbie after Register investigation

You are kidding right?

Yesterday I saw a mother give a Cert 1 video game to her kid to play on the train whilst she played candy crunch.

Leaked Windows 10 build hints at peer-to-peer patching

So would they ask the permission of the 'hosting system' or would they just steal the electricity and bandwidth without asking?

PernixData chap: We are to storage as Alfred Nobel was to dynamite

Er no.......

Well I won't be using your storage products then.......

You design stuff that fucks things up?

Glad you are so honest about it.

Countless Belkin routers go TITSUP in massive mystery meltdown

Seen this before with other kit.......

Some scruffy manufacturer decides to setup a 'secret' heartbeat server,, hundreds of thousands of products contact heartbeat server.

some idiot updates server, then server thinks it is under attack. mass disconnects and blockages of 'offending' ip addresses.

The question Belkin users should be asking themselves, is what happens if Belkin goes bust.

some Chinese & Taiwan manufacturers do this with their kit as well.

Murky online paedo retreat: The Nether explores the fantasy-reality divide

This highlights exactly why it is a bad idea to model AI on the human brain.

Do I really want to comedown in the morning to see the toaster getting it on with the mixer....

Re: "We all accept"

What goes on between legally consenting adults as long as it is not made public by them... is absolutely no ones business, anything outside of that should be stamped on hard.

A recent case in HK where a singer got his end away with a twin of another band and videoed it, the material was stolen by a news paper and published.

He had to publicly apologize and was cautioned by the police, the real criminals got way scot free.

'Utterly unusable' MS Word dumped by SciFi author Charles Stross

Re: Content and Style

Please don't talk nonsense...

Try saying that when you have to manage 600 staff and their backups.

I just finished cleaning up a 21 TB mess that was a single OSX attempt at backup using that gash turd 'time machine'.

Don't even talk to me about M$ and their word 365 offerings..... not only do we get royally screwed from behind... but they are now using ground glass as a lubricant.

Government locked into £330m Oracle contract until 2016

Re: The public sector spent £290m in 2013 with Oracle

Yes quite right.... filemaker is more than enough.......

Thecus N4310 4-bay: A NAS-ty beast for the budget-conscious

Useless..... just like the Synology.

They could not even bother to put a second network port on the thing........

Almost as bad as Synology only offering dual network ports WITHOUT fibre adaptors on their 'business' kit.

Not to mention the CPU in the Synology crap out long before you max out the dual network adaptors.

Apple: Fine, we admit it – MacBook Pros suffer wonky GPU crapness

Yep it is nonsense.

I had to farm out a load of company systems... pop off the GPU re-solder and then good to go.

cost several hundred per system.. and all I got from apple was a 'FU'

Google Translate MEAT GRINDER turns gay into 'faggot', 'poof', 'queen'

Re: Does it turn

So what can i now call my set of pencils of different hue's

Re: Fact Hunt!

Or indeed a new pupil to a private school, who's use is to run errands....

Hello Barbie: Hang on, this Wi-Fi doll records your child's voice?

LOL....

Redneck barbie, builds up something she can use on you later in your life....

Prawn cocktail offers hot new way to make solar cells

All smells a bit fishy to me.....

Seagate’s EVault joins the backup providers swarm

I just looked at a Barracuda backup appliance around 18K USD... ok fine it costs what it costs...

Then I found it is built round some crap off the shelf Asus mother board with winbond chips.....

Consumer grade data paths for 18K?.... ER no.... I don't think so...

Woz moves to Oz

WAZ should have come to Hong Kong...... better tax rate , close to manufacturing and great opportunities.

Exablox is pretty sweet - but not great for restore applications

Childrens toys....

I'm sitting on 22Tb of online storage in our setup and finding solutions to even back that up is a problem...

Bitcoin trade biz MyCoin goes dark, investors fear $387 MEEELLION lost

The HK police are on the case, they don't take kindly to this sort of thing in HK.....

But there is at least one other company that is 'illegally' registered in HK.....

I made this point back in 2013,2014 that ANY company in HK has to be legally registered and MUST provide business registrations when requested, not doing so is illegal.

Just pop over to the government website and for 10US$ you can get a list of all directors & their registered address.

Apple knob refusenik Sir Jony Ive handed award - for talking BOLLOCKS

He wins awards for a master of design....

But in reality the products are complete fucking shite.

wireless Apple mouse

1. does not work reliably with rechargeable batteries. (mis configured buck converter inside)

2. Piss poor battery space not all AA batteries fit

3. Piss poor shaped battery contacts with weak springs

4. Vibration causes batteries to move and BT to continually drop out.

Mac mini.

1. Piss poor air ventilation underneath, designed to vacuums up dust and fluff into the absolute inner workings, requiring a massive strip down. (we don't all work in clean rooms ives you twat)

2. Lightning connectors on back too close together to even allow apple plugs to go in straight , if HDMI cable fitted.

3. Overheats regularly if used in Asia.... Where the ambient starts at 25-27 deg.

4. Air ducting inside so restrictive, that the volume of air moved by fan creates a significant vacuum round the fan causing dust & fluff to snag on blades in a matter of weeks after purchase.

5. sticky oil on exposed bearings of fan collect dust and shite around critical point

Would you honestly expect his use of the English language to NOT match his design abilities?

What could be excellent designs are turned to shite due to mediocre research and lack of insight

Even the worst hookers can look good if the slap is applied correctly.

Fraudsters make bank as exec wires $17 MEELLION to China

Irrelevant of who should have called who.

The real issue is that a single person could transfer funds of that size without any secondary checks at a bank or the next level up.

If that guy turned bent... it is irrelevant that he had an email from the CEO.

Why was the finance department not noticing that a massive payment had been made to an 'unusual bank'

'Camera-shy' Raspberry Pi 2 suffers strange 'XENON DEATH FLASH' glitch

Just because something looks 'black' to your eyes does NOT make it 'black' or opaque to other wavelengths of light....

This was a common problem in the 70's & 80's and even as late as the 90's, seems it is set to become an issue for some manufacturers again.

Ross Ulbricht, in the library, with the laptop: Silk Road boss found GUILTY of all charges

Now we just need that scumbag Mt Gox founder Mark Karpeles .

Why Windows 10 on Raspberry Pi 2? Upton: 'I drank the Kool-Aid'

Thar she blows

Bloat ware on an underpowered postage stamp.....

I'd rather be running linux, secure , fast configurable......

Bacon-smoking locals provoke noxious Chinese smog

Re: Diesel and Coal are...

Whereas in the West we are opting for Adobe365, Microsoft365 & IOT.

Re: Diesel and Coal are...

A trip to China would fill you in..... A 'professional' operation is usually some guys with an old Oil drum with the top & 1 side shaved off.

There is even a TV advert showing this method as being more traditional.

The fun starts when they start burning old pallets or shipping containers to produce the smoke.

Sony post-mortem: Obama lobbies for new legal powers to thwart hackers

Re: .." improve confidence in technology by .."

It is nonsense that you 'know what you are doing' will prevent an attack.

Consider 'zimbra' a popular email system, those assholes left an exploit in the front end that would allow a remote attacker to craft a simple soap packet, thereby giving access to an XML file that contained all the passwords for the installation.

This then allowed a privilege escalation to take place.

So anyone who had a Zimbra installation got owned.....

How would being knowledgeable prevent such a zero-day attack?

Post-pub nosh neckfiller: Hot Spanish tongue action

You should not be frying with olive oil........

It is NOT healthy, in fact it is downright dangerous.......

FBI boss: Sony hack was DEFINITELY North Korea, haters gonna hate

The question is...

if it was an upset employee, was that person capable of routing traffic so that it appeared the traffic came from North Korea or is there actually a '3rd party' involved in all this mess?

No cellphones in cells, you slag! UK.gov moots prison mobe zap law

Re: How do you identify the phone?

Derrrrrr.....

Each phone has a unique ID built into the hardware that persists sim changes.

Just leave a SDR and pick out the ID from cell tower communication, map the patterns then switch off the ID acceptance at the tower/network....

WTF would you try to triangulate a rarely used mobile phone or try to 'jam' it?

EU VAT law could kill thousands of online businesses

Re: This is entirely UNreasonable

Or she could just setup a business in Hong kong and not worry about it.

Cops think Mt Gox meltdown was an 'INSIDE JOB' – report

yep....

All the time this goes on, the amount of money to be returned to the account holders slowly diminishes in 'administrator fees'.

They could have sold the coins they had and repurchased at the lower rate, thereby ensuring EVERYONE got ALL their coins back, as it is they have completely destroyed the value of the assets of the company... something NO administrator should do.

Zuckerberg asks the public to tell him where to go in 2015

Re: Can't feel the love here.

He is out to destroy your privacy & the privacy of the under age members of your family...

Is that not enough to hate him for?

Want to have your server pwned? Easy: Run PHP

Today I found a major new customer is running Ubuntu 5 on all its web facing production servers....

(as the IT guy pointed out.... when we run update there is nothing to be updated....) (mental note to self... strong kicking in the nuts needed)

Security by obscurity........ but at least the PHP is secure....

ISC.org website hacked: Scan your PC for malware if you stopped by

Re: Why do websites like this even use a CMS anyway?

Sometimes people you work for insist that complexity and the cloud are the way to go... when all along they just need 50 pages served to the masses

Dotcom 'saved' Xmas for Xbox – but no one can save Sony's titsup PlayStation Network

So he bent over paid a ransom ... and thinks it is something to boast about?

ICANN's technical competence queried by Verisign report

Time to get 'localhost' & 'localdomain' registered........

Assange's WikiLeaks: Give generously this Xmas – for statue of our dear leader

Re: What scale is that?

The planet is not large enough for such a construction

Microsoft drops early Chrissie pressie on Mac Office fanbois

Yep the key is 'once setup'........

I am still in the middle of an office 365 migration... it is a complete nightmare once you get up to migrating several hundred staff.

Very difficult to delete accounts if you make a mistake, cannot initially install a hundreds of users with the same password then change on login......(yep each user has to be dealt with separately...thanks Microsoft for making me type in EVERY notification email address)

CANNOT have a catch all situation to route unknown mails, almost impossible to copy messages and route through.

( FAILS on China based staff)... weird you are using encryption in Exchange--- 'get lost' messages...... but works on OSX client!!

Microsoft partner & Microsoft don't know why.......