* Posts by Mr Dogshit

688 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Oct 2014

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

Mr Dogshit
Headmaster

Re: Look Out!

Phillips

McDonald's ordering system suffers McFlurry of tech troubles

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Oh no!

Those, poor, hungry chavs had to go to Greggs instead.

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

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the Rainbow Programme?

Somewhere Over the Rainbow

Twitter's ex-CEO, CFO, and managers sue Elon Musk for $128M

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Meh

And people buy cars from this weirdo.

Security is hard because it has to be right all the time? Yeah, like everything else

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Headmaster

It's not hosts.txt

It's hosts

London's famous BT Tower will become a hotel after £275M sale

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Paid for by the taxpayer, it should never have been given to BT.

Wyze admits 13,000 users could have viewed strangers' camera feeds

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Joke

Okay Wyze guys

Raspberry Pi Pico cracks BitLocker in under a minute

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IT Angle

Slow news day?

So fucking what? This has nothing to do with BitLocker.

If you have physical access to the data bus to and from the TPM, of course this can be done.

This is a stupid, nonsensical, clickbait story.

Official: Hewlett Packard Enterprise wants to swallow Juniper Networks in $14B deal

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Re: Business as usual

Just like 3com then.

Fujitsu wins flood contract extension despite starring in TV drama about its failures

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"the Japanese tech maker"

What's Japanese about them? It's the remnants of ICL.

Messed up metadata could be to blame for Microsoft's Windows printer woes

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"This caused printers to identify themselves as HP"

It's 2023, they can identify as whatever they want.

HP TV ads claim its printers are 'made to be less hated'

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Re: When good companies go bad

Don't forget Autonomy

Microsoft confirms Smart App issue renaming everyone's printers to HP

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Mushroom

PC LOAD LETTER

DevTernity conference collapses amid claims women speakers were faked

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Wow

Epic catfishing

MOVEit victim count latest: 2.6K+ orgs hit, 77M+ people's data stolen

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What is this MOVEit?

Does it copy stuff from one place to another? If so, wouldn't a dozen lines of VBScript do the trick for the price of $0?

Civo CEO on free credits, egress fees, and hauling it all back on-prem

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I told you so

"A few years back, everyone was in this cloud hype … now it's like: 'This is really expensive'."

"I think people are now starting to think: 'Just put it in the cloud' is not the approach."

Well what do you know, I was right all along. Stupid fad that the CEO read about in the in-flight magazine.

Word turns 40: From 'new kid on the block' to 'I can't believe it's not bloatware'

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That must have included a manual that was about three inches thick. Yes kids, software used to come with a user manual.

What did the VisiCalc fairy bring you for Spreadsheet Day?

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Unhappy

Damn

Yesterday was Spreadsheet Day and no one told me

Tesla goons will buy anything – including these $150 beers

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Re: Lager?

Now Hobgoblin Rugby I would watch.

US govt IT help desk techie 'leaked top secrets' to foreign nation

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WTF?

Ethiopia?

Ethiopia?

Getting to the bottom of BMW's pay-as-you-toast subscription failure

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FAIL

"posh motor maker BMW"

What's posh about a German Mondeo?

BMW deems drivers worthy of warmth, ends heated car seat subscription

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IconicSounds Sport "plays BMW engine sound inside the vehicle."

Wow! Where do I sign?

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Re: if you disable the snooping on some cats

Cats?

Lawsuit claims Tesla corp data security is far less advanced than its cars

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Re: Genuine Question

It is equivalent to our National Insurance number. The problem is that countless organisations use it as a GUID.

If you like to play along with the illusion of privacy, smart devices are a dumb idea

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Can't you just walk in the door and press the switch on the wall?

Want tech cred? Learn how to email like a pro

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Re: Oh boy

You are Richard Stallman, and I claim my five pounds.

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WTF?

Oh boy

Epic diatribe from the beards and sandals brigade.

If you want to compose your emails using vi, be my guest, but the rest of us don't live in 1995.

Microsoft makes some certification exams open book

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Whatever

There isn't a Microsoft exam or certification I'd be interested in taking any more.

Need a decent dining spot in Ottawa? Microsoft suggested a food bank

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FAIL

Re: This is nothing new.

There's an ordinary house in an ordinary street near where I live that Bing Maps is convinced is a Starbucks.

Sextortion suspects on trial after teen victim dies from a self-inflicted gunshot wound

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Re: Modern Yoof Culture

omg txtspk lol

Electoral Commission had internet-facing server with unpatched vuln

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FAIL

Sigh

When will they learn?

Microsoft admits unauthorized access to Exchange Online, blames Chinese gang

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As opposed to what? Notes?

Microsoft puts out Outlook fire, says everything's fine with Teams malware flaw

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FAIL

"Sorry, something went wrong"

Gotta love error messages such as these. It's your damn product, you wrote it, you can do better than "something went wrong"

See also "Aw, snap", whatever that is supposed to mean.

Missing Titan sub likely destroyed in implosion, no survivors

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Re: RIP

I couldn't give a crap. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

Even a ten-year-old kid could tell that thing was as dodgy as fuck.

HCL proves Lotus Notes will never die by showing off beta of lucky Domino 14.0

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Wow

I can't wait!

British Airways, Boots, BBC payroll data stolen in MOVEit supply-chain attack

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FAIL

I'm glad to hear Progress takes the security of their customers very seriously.

What does this MOVEit do anyway that Robocopy can't do?

Watchdog calls for automatic braking to be standard in cars

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FAIL

Re: And if the car behind you hasn't got ABS ?

ABS has bugger all to do with it, you dodo.

Rackspace datacenter infrastructure took 12-hour nap in London, Sydney, Hong Kong

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Re: CDT?

Zulu time.

That Meta GDPR fine is €1.2B. Plus biz must stop sending EU data to US

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What does Nick Clegg have to say about this?

Don't panic. Google offering scary .zip and .mov domains is not the end of the world

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Have I understood this correctly?

Has Google got the ability to invent new TLDs?

Another security calamity for Capita: An unsecured AWS bucket

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Re: Muppets - no open buckets are cloud 101.

Start secure by keeping it on prem.

Millions of mobile phones come pre-infected with malware, say researchers

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Re: Non-Google Android

https://volla.online/en/

India calls for all mobile phones to include FM radios

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That's actually a really wise thing to do.

Meta CEO doesn't Zuck at Brazilian jiu-jitsu, apparently

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Even though he won, he's still a loser.

When you try to hire a freelancer to write SQL and all you get is incorrect AI garbage

Mr Dogshit
Headmaster

Re: AI?

"to author" is not a verb.

Capita admits some pension data 'likely' to have been accessed in March breach

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A spokesman said: "We take IT security and the risk of cyber attacks extremely seriously."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-65443841

UK PM Sunak plans to allocate just £1bn to semiconductor industry

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Headmaster

"the proof is in the pudding"

No, "the proof of the pudding is in the eating"

UK becomes Unicorn Kingdom, where AI fairy dust earns King's ransom

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Re: Now only if we could think of a suitable company

Initech

Pentagon super-leak suspect cuffed: 21-year-old Air National Guardsman

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Re: Why would he have access to any of that stuff?

Because he was part of the 102nd Intelligence Wing. Presumably, military intelligence is kinda what they do.

Anyway, if you can't keep a secret, perhaps military intelligence isn't for you, eh Bradley Manning?

Microsoft ditches plans for 500,000 sq ft London office

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"have facilities across the country"

Really? Any further north than Potter's Bar?

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