Posts by Asylum_visitor

Contrary to some, traceroute is very real – I should know, I helped make it work

Re: Tracer T

I rarely login here these days but had to just to give you an upvote for this late Monday afternoon humour! Tracer T has got some L337 hacker skills! :D

IBM buys Randori to address multicloud security messes

Accurate.

Infrastructure SNAFU results in French public being unable to contact emergency services

Came here to see if anyone posted this, was not disappointed. Thank you :)

UK Prime Minister Johnson knows not when 400k+ deleted records from police DB will be back

This government's incompetance is borderline criminal negligence, how many jobs has anyone ever done this badly and not been fired, just a 'he's doing his best' comment on the HR file??

When low-balled projects go bad: Scottish pensions agency starts £10m procurement to buy the system Capita could not

Re: £10m seems very low anyway

It's not 'abnormally low' if you never expect to deliver any of the milestones or a working system though.

Red Hat defends its CentOS decision, claims Stream version can cover '95% of current user workloads'

Re: Should it really be called Redhat anymore?

IBMBlueWaffle would be most appropriate at this point.

Dell cuts jobs again... which in Dell-speak is 'addressing cost structure to make sure we’re competitive'

Re: Customer Service?

Is that you, Michael Dell?

Microsoft takes us to 2004 with new Windows 10 so you don't mistake it for Server 2003

Re: "light on features to enliven a keynote, but heavy on fixes"

It's USP is that data hygiene tasks are a lower priority than with other Linux builds, to more closely fit it's userbase.

Time to check in again on the Atari retro console… dear God, it’s actually got worse

Re: I guess they have spent all the money...

Here you go!

https://monsterjoysticks.com/deluxe-mini-monster-retro-gaming-joystick-kit-cherry-red

Infosec bloke claims: Pornhub owner shafted me after I exposed gaping holes in its cartoon smut platform

Maybe some folks get aroused by unencrypted packets! ;)

With the 6T, OnePlus hopes to shed 'cheeky upstart' tag and launch assault on flagships

Re: No headphone jack

I've had the Oneplus 6 for about 6 months(ish), updates have been frequent and well implemented. Including a recent one that upgraded me to Pie. Which was nice. Obviously only time will tell over the next few years but solid recommend from me (The 6 has a headphone jack too)

Windows 10 Springwatch: See the majestic Microsoft in its natural habitat, fixing stuff the last patch broke

Re: In the old days

Windows Citrus

More appealing to those DevOps/Hipster types ;)

Sysadmin unplugged wrong server, ran away, hoped nobody noticed

Always pull the power out of the back of the host ;)

BOFH: Give me a lever long enough and a fool, I mean a fulcrum and ....

Re: cellphone?

It's the singular for moob, which instantly reminds me of the Family Guy scene where Peter Griffin is breast-feeding himself.

BBC presenter loses appeal, must pay £420k in IR35 crackdown

Re: Any news on whether the BBC pays their side of the bargain?

I think you've missed the point of the ruling, which effectively has made her an employee regardless of the use of a PSC. The BBC should now be liable for at least the Employer's NI contribution.

CPU bug patch saga: Antivirus tools caught with their hands in the Windows cookie jar

Re: What is difficult about setting a registry key ?

They don't have a 90's, 00's or 10's iteration of Scrappy/Godzuki. It is much, much worse...

https://youtu.be/K05N2jqFHc8

NiceHash diced up by hackers, thousands of Bitcoin pilfered

This was exactly my thought too, perfect exit strategy when the ponzi has hit its peak :)

Star Wars: Big Euro cinema group can't handle demand for tickets to new flick

Re: spoilerific

Thanks for ruining Episode 9 :P

El Reg gets schooled on why SSDs will NOT kill off the trusty hard drive

Re: I just replaced the HDD in my laptop with...

This has also been my experience, hybrid drives sound like a good idea on paper but the flash caching isn't really big enough to provide any noticeable benefit. With an SSD it's hard to argue that there's a performance increase but with hybrid not so much.

Surfacegate: Microsoft execs 'misled Nadella', claims report

Re: Yup drivers

Welcome to a combination of Agile and using the consumers as your QA Team!

Vodafone customers moan about sluggish data abroad

Well they've still got to pay Martin Freeman's fee for that advertising campaign. So cuts had to be made somewhere :P

UK government's war on e-cigs is over

Re: Jesus, NO!

Let's not forget the people who choose not to wash and then use public transport :\

Gone daddy gone: GoDaddy offloads its cloud businesses

Re: AWS

Surely you mean dough-mane registrations, as per the tv adverts? ;)

I'll take the sandtrooper in white: Meet the rebel scum making Star Wars armour sets for a living

Yeah, this was a news to me too. Although I guess it's similar to how Vader's helmet and armour changed between the 3 original films. It must be very small changes though because I have definitely never noticed. A good excuse to watch them again :)

UK hospital meltdown after ransomware worm uses NSA vuln to raid IT

Re: Oh dear. XP

Funnily enough the last time I used NetBEUI, I was working for the NHS!

Have an Upvote :)

Guardian Soulmates users spammed with smut following breach

Re: El Reg dating

'I love DevOps..'

Swipes left.

The future of Not Reality is a strap-on that talks to my smarting ring

Re: The best stand was...

Do you really need an email to tell you when the bag is full? Surely the smell is a dynamic indicator??

Tip for darknet drug lords: Don't wear latex gloves to the post office

Re: for the summer

Lamb skin string backs for the ultimate disguise.

Hackers electrocute selves in quest to turn secure doors inside out

When I was at school some kid died from investigating an electrical outlet, the headmaster 'told us all his family were deeply shocked.' I got detention for laughing :\

Three CEO confirms hack, 133,827 customers were exposed

It's ok they didn't get your payment information....just enough information for them to order you a new credit card!

User needed 40-minute lesson in turning it off and turning it on again

shutdown -r -t 0

Dirty data: Tech-heavy Thames Valley scores big in adultery index

Re: since when has Guildford been in the Thames Valley?

Shouldn't that be The Wey-Hey! Valley? ;)

Microsoft's done a terrible job with its Windows 10 nagware

Notification options

Maybe they should resurrect the wonder that was Active Desktop in Windows ME, they could use that for notifying us about new OS upgrades. Providing the new OS was called Active Desktop Recovery obvs ;)

The Mad Men's monster is losing the botnet fight: Fewer humans are seeing web ads

This years season of South Park was an on-going conspiracy satire about Ads, relevant and worth watching for the Whole Foods debacle :)

Forget Nokia: Finland's promising future is to be server central

Re: Iceland Is Another Country

Unfortunately Iceland is just a bit north of the major cable routes, otherwise the NSA would have probably claimed it as their base of operations years ago!

http://www.submarinecablemap.com/