Posts by bryces666 67 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Jul 2015
I have three PC's around 5 to 6 years old that can't be upgraded due to no TPM chip.
But they all have a TPM 2 sockets!
However I can not find the chips needed for sale anywhere.
They are perfectly good PC's being high end when purchased so don't want to replace them when the chip would be such a simple fix. (From memory: two gigabyte x99 series m/b and an hp dl120p).
Anyone know of sources?
"I am now firmly in the never-HP - for anything - camp."
Ditto this. I had to replace all our old [hp dl380's) virtual machine host servers and SANs recently, our services management company wanted to buy HP again, I absolutely refused to go that path because of HP's disreputable shenanigans over the years. Ended up with Dell at a much lower price point for similar specs when compared to the HP offerings. So HP may have screwed us on ink but they lost out on $200K in server hardware sales.
Fingerprint readers seem to be a big source of frustration for my users and myself, if I stop setting it up that'll solve this issue.
BTW, does fingerprint login work reliably for anyone? In my recent dell latitude 9430 it drives me nuts, occasionally it will work but much more likely to get 3 failed attempts then told to use my pin so this feature is just out to waste my time.
I naturally was cursing Microsoft for being shit again, however this article seems to indicate my problem must lie in the reader chip instead and I should be cursing Dell.
Won't this just make those that are going to use tiktok more unsafe as there will no longer be the protections of the app stores. Instead you will have to download it from third party sites, who knows what may then get buried/injected into the code.
I do enjoy watching tiktoks myself, there are some really good ones on just how f*cked up America is highlighting what a laughing stock it is to the rest of the world now, sad but true. Maybe this is also some of the reason for republican knee jerk banning, can't expose too much truth to the sheeples.
The app store is so squeaky clean that it won't host apps real people might like to use (e.g. gambling, porno, etc) so people are forced to resort to apps from outside the relative safety of the app store. So Google training us to get apps outside of their store is OK and then it is our fault for sourcing apps in this fashion.
Pisses me off that I will soon have to replace a perfectly functional Samsung galaxy phone not because the hardware is failing or performing badly but because there are no longer any security patches. If I'd gone to the dark side (apple) it would still have been good for a couple more years. Maybe I suck up my aversion to the closed eco system this time and go the dark way as the price is about the same..
I transited through an Australian airport recently (before the lockdowns), I was stuck there for 5 hours. I was appalled to see I could not access some of my favourite free video streaming sites - the sites redirected to some notice about oz government deeming them bad and blocking them. So no liberty there on the internet, you are only free to access government approved information, although how far this blocking extends I do not know. (Of course fired up a vpn and carried on...)
I will like it. Can't wait for my wife to stop buying 4 or 5 lightning cables a year because they keep breaking! Even heavy reinforced ones and apple certified ones seem to succumb and die. So much waste. A usb-c cable can last me several years of use at least. Is it that usb-c are manufactured that much better, or does apple purposefully make theirs such utter crap to force more purchases?
The company I work for has a refresh cycle on hardware running at around 7 to 10 years now as the hardware is so much more reliable than 20 to 30 years ago. So Microsoft's deciding to obsolete so much good gear is madness and morally bankrupt.
I guess if M$ were to continue to support and fix Windows 10 for another 6 or 7 years then the win11 limitation won't be a such a problem (I hate the updates anyway, always moving shit around).
I too wish for a better way. At my company we have started a new round of updating with new computers and I have been trying to deploy without the users having admin rights. Really quite troublesome, users can't install printers whose drivers are hosted on our own servers, and as noted previously can't even kill off wayward programs as they can't even bring up task manager. I do like that they can't install random software but ease of use is definitely not getting any high scores.
How can anyone trust Microsoft to make this all work and keep it working? And what happens when it doesn't, can you get support? We have recently just rolled out office 365 but SharePoint performed dreadfully, getting help and support from Microsoft was nigh on impossible!
I also hope not needing Teams installed also equates to not needing a Microsoft account to join a meeting, that was the prime restriction that drove me to implement Zoom over the other offerings last year.
I like Raymond Hill's software offerings, especially uMatrix to also reduce tracking.
So does anyone know of any software for android phones and my pc's that can do the blocking by intercepting the requests after they leave the browser but before they hit the network since inside the browser will stop working soon? My hope is there is something that works on the device so it is good on any network being used.
Lots of shit going to get broken!
Every time I have to renew our EV certs it typically takes 1 to 2 months, due to need for them to direct phone us to a publicly listed number (not easily located to their satisfaction) , time zone problems and general incompetence of cert providers on dialing the correct numbers for international calls at the right time of day.
If I could do this in a 5 day time frame it would be a bloody miracle, and make me very happy, but then I'd probably be seeing airborne pigs as well.
I still stick with cmd scripts for most tasks, it is just so much easier and quicker to write. I have used PowerShell for more complicated stuff where cmd can't give up the necessary info, but in general the syntax sucks (not saying cmd doesn't suck also) but I prefer the beast I am familiar with. Hope they don't kill it off.
If they can make one that works, and that doesn't need to send everything off to a back end AI server to work if out.
On my phone I previously used the Dragon swype keyboard until they stopped supporting it. While looking for a replacement I found they all sent data back to servers to assist processing and this can include usernames and passwords! Got a little more paranoid from that and stopped using any except the built in Samsung keyboard which does swype but with poor accuracy compared dragon's.
So I really hope they can nail this down, I'd love to type at normal touch-type speeds on a phone.
I've been using camscanner for years, first on a Samsung note 3, excellent for scanning documents and saving them on the go.
I've never noticed anything untoward, but maybe I should factory reset my current phone and start over...
Any insight anyone?
Also, any recommendations of safe alternative that can do the same job?
Regards, Bryce.
When that auto update said we had to pay, because we are a business, that license change was confusing. I don't even know what might actually be making use of java on half of our machines, I didn't install it so other applications may have included it? Anyway, immediate reaction is cancel the auto updates and leave it be, not the best security wise but I guess when we work out where it is really needed we will install openjdk instead, not being extorted for something that was previously free and now Oracle has decided screw you all. Middle finger right back at you Oracle, we will move away!
If I were to see this video, I would be paying attention to how to survive a mass shooting event. Who were the survivors, and what were their actions that improved there chances of making it out alive. Ideally I'd want a sanitised version of the video, maybe done by obfuscating the identity of people (maybe even render it as cartoon effect), and mark it up with survivor, injured or died so one can be a little more prepared if caught up in such an event personally. Could even be rendered as a floor plan of movement, but having the view a of the gun holder also shows what they are paying attention to in their rampage, what catches their attention, and more importantly what they are not noticing. But at the moment this is too soon, the horror of it is too close and real, one day something like this may be a useful resource.
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