Posts by Mr Dogshit

New Outlook marches onto Windows 10 for what little time it has left

It is SO BAD

They've got the programmers (sorry, they're called developers nowadays aren't they), they could have written something decent. The current Outlook is a crappy, bug ridden piece of shit, but this new thing is just hopeless.

Elon Musk's galactic ego sows chaos in European politics

God I hate him

Thoroughly obnoxious, vile arsehole, who isn't fit to run a fucking scout troop.

One third of adults can't delete device data

Re: An Age Thing

Iz da troof innit blud dyou no wot i mean

SvarDOS: DR-DOS is reborn as an open source operating system

Is there any practical use for this?

Apart from masochism

Fear of Foxconn reportedly driving possible Nissan, Honda and Mitsubishi merger

Re: No more Rootes, no more Simca.

Are you suggesting that was bad?

Asda decided on a 'no go' for 'mass rollout' of store IT conversion

Slow news day?

Retailer implements change freeze at the busiest time of yeah.

Watchdog deep-sixes job ad that was actually pay-to-play training course

Erm... yeah

Happens all the time. Half the "jobs" on certain job sites are just an invitation to take out a loan in order to buy some crappy course which in turn will result in £££££££££ working on the service desk.

Phishers cast wide net with spoofed Google Calendar invites

I don't know what's more pathetic, the fuckwits who send this stuff or the fuckwits who click on it.

British Army zaps drones out of the sky with laser trucks

"sometime in the early 2030s"

We need this shit yesterday.

Boeing busted by employee over plans to surveil workers, quickly reverses course

"The system, used by other companies"

It's used by companies other than Boeing? Oh, that's all right then.

Fired Disney staffer accused of hacking menu to add profanity, wingdings, removes allergen info

Re: Fired Disney staffer accused of hacking

Some l33t haxor skillz indeed

ServiceNow root certificate blunder leaves users high and dry

CircusNow

UK trio pleads guilty to running $10M MFA bypass biz

But how did it work?

Curious minds need to know

Sam Altman's basic income experiment finds that money can indeed buy happiness

Why this sounds like SOCIALISM!

CrowdStrike shares sink as global IT outage savages systems worldwide

Re: "CrowdStrike, not Microsoft" - debatable

You clearly have no idea what kernel mode is.

Angry admins share the CrowdStrike outage experience

Re: Who, me?

It wasn't a threat definition file.

CrowdStrike file update bricks Windows machines around the world

Yeah, probably in about twelve years' time.

Re: Related?

It's fuck all to do with Microsoft, you dodo.

It's clearly a kernel mode crash. No OS can cope with that.

Oracle Java license teams set to begin targeting Oracle users who don't think they use Oracle

racketeering

UNCOUNTABLE NOUN

Racketeering is making money from illegal activities such as threatening people or selling worthless, immoral, or illegal goods or services.

NHS boss says Scottish health board wouldn't give cyberattackers what they wanted

What are you on about, you dodo?

Volvo recalls all of its 72K EX30 cars due to software bug that obscures speedometer

All the vehicles in Volvo's current range suck. No proper controls, just a sodding great laptop screen in the middle of the dash.

"Google built in". No, I am never, never going to drive a car with Google anything.

Not to mention all their cars are as fugly as the Fiat Multipla.

Cybercriminals raid BBC pension database, steal records of over 25,000 people

Don't worry

They're taking it "extremely seriously"

Crims abusing Microsoft Quick Assist to deploy Black Basta ransomware

"That's such an awful idea security-wise, why would they do that?"

Yeah, BAD MICROSOFT. NAUGHTY MICROSOFT. How dare they include a useful support tool for free?

Dublin debauchery derails Portal to NYC in six days flat

Been done

"If any English, Scottish, or Welsh cities were in the running for a Portal, they should probably be struck off immediately"

They did this in London years ago. Bit passé really.

VMware by Broadcom blinks again – this time easing change for cloud service providers

How to lose friends and alienate people

What's brown and sticky and broke this PC?

"help desk"

It's Service Desk actually, if you want to be ITIL® compliant.

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

Re: Look Out!

Phillips

McDonald's ordering system suffers McFlurry of tech troubles

Oh no!

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

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

the Rainbow Programme?

Somewhere Over the Rainbow

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

And people buy cars from this weirdo.

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

It's not hosts.txt

It's hosts

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

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

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

Okay Wyze guys

Raspberry Pi Pico cracks BitLocker in under a minute

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

Re: Business as usual

Just like 3com then.

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

"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

"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'

Re: When good companies go bad

Don't forget Autonomy

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

PC LOAD LETTER

DevTernity conference collapses amid claims women speakers were faked

Wow

Epic catfishing

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

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

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'

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?

Damn

Yesterday was Spreadsheet Day and no one told me

Tesla goons will buy anything – including these $150 beers

Re: Lager?

Now Hobgoblin Rugby I would watch.

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

Ethiopia?

Ethiopia?

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

"posh motor maker BMW"

What's posh about a German Mondeo?

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

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

Wow! Where do I sign?

Re: if you disable the snooping on some cats

Cats?

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

Re: Genuine Question

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