Re: But is this unit not superfluous?
1 kiloHour = 1,000 hours.
I think you meant kibiHour!
(Yes, yes, I know it's not quite 1024 either)
Posts by alexdonald
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New measurement alert: Liz Truss inspires new Register standard
Scientists use dead spider as gripper for robot arm, label it a 'Necrobot'
Microsoft has made an Android phone. Repeat, Microsoft has made an Android phone. A dual-screen foldable mobe not due until late 2020
Take two cornerstones of British life, booze and queues, then squirt them with face scans: AI Bar
It's all in the wrist: Your fitness tracker could be as much about data warfare as your welfare
Marriott's Starwood hotels mega-hack: Half a BILLION guests' deets exposed over 4 years
From 'WebEx' to 'WebExec' to 'WTF, my PC!' Cisco rapped in chat app security flap
Erm... what did you say again, dear reader?
123-Reg customers outraged at automatic .UK domain registration
Thursday 14th September 2017 15:35 GMT
"So if I really want to move it from 123 where is cheap and competent?"
Gandi get my vote - bit of a learning curve on the way their systems work, but good value, decent visibility of options with sane defaults, tech support has been a bit dismissive of my misunderstandings, but prompt and effective nonetheless.
Boffins' five eyes surprise: Bees correct colour for ambient light
Wednesday 5th July 2017 11:44 GMT
RE: stinging and dying
Bees' barbed stings only get caught in elastic mammalian flesh.
They are designed to cause complete havoc on other insects, both predatory and scavenging. For example, a wasp, hornet, or other bee attempting to raid the hive for pre-made honey will find that the defending bees' stings come out very easily; along with chunks of scavenging bee!
Germany, France lobby hard for terror-busting encryption backdoors – Europe seems to agree
Ubuntu plugs code exec, DoS Linux kernel holes
500Gbps DDoS attack flattens world record
LastPass in 2FA lock down after 'fessing up to phishing attack
Monday 18th January 2016 12:44 GMT
Re: KeePass Cross Platform Synching
https://keepass2android.codeplex.com/ - android Keepass2 client that you can give access to an app folder in your dropbox account. There is a non-network access version in the Play store that you can use if you're paranoid, or a networked version if you wish to trade a little security for convenience of sropbox sync.
Set up the desktop application to read/write directly to the Keepass2 file stored in the app folder in your dropbox folder on your PC/Laptop/MacBook/Mac/etc...
Can't help with iOS, sorry.
Slightly more advanced:
http://keepass.info/download.html - use the portable version of Keepass2 to allow access to your passwords on a USB stick. I have yet to find an acceptable dropbox add-on for the main application, so this route requires the odd synchronisation between the USB stored file and the dropbox version (Ctrl-R works really well for me, no problems so far).
IoT baby monitors STILL revealing live streams of sleeping kids
British banks consider emoji as password replacement
Wednesday 17th June 2015 18:31 GMT
Re: Optional
Don't change to the app version.
I did. Then my phone broke.
Easy, I thought, I'll just order a new key fob... But low and behold, you need the old authenticator to activate the new one. Which was on my phone. Which was broken.
It took ages on the phone, and another letter before I'd got the new fob working again. Grr.
(It's probably sensible that it's not easy to replace the authenticator, but it was posted to my house, which is deemed acceptable for my bank card and its associated pin)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
