Posts by Strahd Ivarius

October 2025 will be a support massacre for a bunch of Microsoft products

Well, they will have to migrate to Lotus Notes, then...

Tired techie 'fixed' a server, blamed Microsoft, and got away with it

Re: Interesting

If you want to cover all bases, use a Windows Server for handling DNS

French issue alerte rouge after local governments knocked offline by cyber attack

Re: An alerte rouge solution?

No, they don't get further than Nouvelle-Orléans and the Café du Monde

We never agreed to only buy HP ink, say printer owners

Re: This feels like an own goal...

Isn't the UK government buying IT services from Fujitsu?

Microsoft unbundling Teams is to appease regulators, not give customers a better deal

Wait till you see the ones about the New Team...

Microsoft thinks bundles are great and customers love them

Re: Benefits me - kind of

At first, I read that "E1 doesn't include the unstable programs", and I thought I had never read anything so true.

Re: Really?

"It is a shame your system is so insecure because you didn't subscribe to the proper Ex bundle..."

Based on recent events, even MS doesn't subscribe to the proper bundle when security is at stake.

Microsoft Teams decouples from Office 365 suite globally

what about the bundling

of Windows and Office and Intune in M365 offers?

You break it, you ... run away and hope somebody else fixes it

why didn't he notice...

... the messages on the other computer stating "I am sorry Dave, i can't do that" ???

Canadian arrested for 'stealing secret' to speedy Tesla battery production

Re: Open secrets

Fortunately, Elon was able to remove all the bots that plagued Twitter in the past.

Suppliers to Intel and TSMC's Arizona fabs now face build delays

Re: The only way to make it work is a jump start (jump over the ocean)

I am wondering why we don't see any US carrier in the Red Sea?

(for UK ones, we know: no support ship available)

The last mile's at risk in our hostile environment. Let’s go the extra mile to fix it

Re: Panels and battery?

Solar panels? in the UK?

McDonald's ordering system suffers McFlurry of tech troubles

Someone made the mistake of connecting the McFlurry machines to the network, with predictable results...

Re: McDonalds now offer table service

Bobby?

Trump, who tried kicking TikTok out of the US, says boo to latest ban effort

Re: "a government that can demand data and pretty much anything else from [its] organizations"

This piece has clearly been written by and for the US version of El Reg...

Grab a helmet because retired ISS batteries are hurtling back to Earth

perhaps if it is distracted at the right moment it will miss the ground?

Re: The Earth is 2/3 water....

Because there is still the hope it will fall on EM, VP or DT...

Re: From the heavens above

I remember going to a burger joint few days after seeing "Supersize me" with my wife and daughter.

We were eating outside (cold but sunny day in February), and the girl noticed a very round sparrow moving between the tables and eating bits of fries.

She stopped going to McDo & the like that day (she was 10).

IAB Europe's ad consent popups pose privacy problem

Re: But here in Blighty ... [Other Tracking Methods]

Have a look here Navigateur & Système d’exploitation for some information that any site can retrieve easily.

But the MAC address, as far as I can say, is not something that is available outside of our local network.

EU users can't update 3rd party iOS apps if abroad too long

Re: Oh, always on, individualised, global, localtion tracking.

No, no, Apple said it would track your location without using location tracking data...

So, I suppose every Apple customer in EU will get an Apple employee following him/her 24/7.

It will solve any unemployment issue everywhere in the world, we may even have to import Aliens...

Re: Why does anyone buy Apple?

Are you speaking of the spywares you can install from the Apple store?

Boeing paper trail goes cold over door plug blowout

Re: "Don't try to find the documentation"

Is is a blue or red cookie?

Belgian ale legend Duvel's brewery borked as ransomware halts production

Re: Stick to the real Trappist beers

Which town of Rochefort?

Rochefort-sur-Mer

Rochefort-du-Gard

Rochefort-en-Terre

Rochefort-en-Valdaine

Rochefort-en-Yvelines

Rochefort-Montagne

Rochefort-Samson

Rochefort-sur-Brévon

Rochefort-sur-la-Côte

Rochefort-sur-Loire

Rochefort-sur-Nenon,

or any other just called Rochefort?

They call me 'Growler'. I don't like you. Let's discuss your pay cut

Re: Depends on your definition of growler I guess.

I knew a Polish girl who drank it for breakfast.

It's that most wonderful time of the year when tech cannot handle the date

Re: Oh, come on - this is elementary

So you are likely the one responsible for the accountExpires attribute in Active Directory represents the number of 100-nanosecond intervals since January 1, 1601 (UTC)?

Re: Don't people test edge cases any more? [Time Libraries: The Next Problem]

Don't forget the edge case for Sweden in February 1712

City council megaproject to spend millions for manual work Oracle system was meant to do

Re: Priceless ..

Or use Excel with a few customized Python macros scripts?

Staff say Dell's return to office mandate is a stealth layoff, especially for women

The list of Dell sites is available of course

"But Mr Dabbs, the list have been available in the local planning office for the last nine months.”

“Oh yes, well as soon as I heard I went straight round to see them, yesterday afternoon. You hadn’t exactly gone out of your way to call attention to them, had you? I mean, like actually telling anybody or anything.”

“But the list was on display …”

“On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find it.”

“That’s the display department.”

“With a flashlight.”

“Ah, well the lights had probably gone.”

“So had the stairs.”

“But look, you found the list didn’t you?”

“Yes,” said Alistair, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard’.”

Trident missile test a damp squib after rocket goes 'plop,' fails to ignite

Re: HMS Vanguard

You can't give an English sub a Turkish name!

What about HMS Guy Fawkes?

I am pretty sure that nobody would object to have all its nukes aimed at Westminster.

Re: What if?

Or "Vamos a la playa"

Re: not suprised.

With the missile hatches closed of course.

Re: What the hell?

What about vibranium?

Re: What the hell?

And then since there is nobody to replace VP and win a consensus, you'll have to deal with an unknown number of local despots with their own stock of nuclear weapons...

Heads you lose, tails you lose.

Re: Tactical Use

Telegram?

It was updated to fax a few years ago...

Re: FALSE

You'll note that every time a launch fails, it is when performing a test from a location just outside the USA territorial waters.

Coincidence?

I don't think so...

Meta says risk of account theft after phone number recycling isn't its problem to solve

The only proper solution is to have your login tatooed on your forehead as a barcode, and iris based recognition for the password.

FBI: Give us warrantless Section 702 snooping powers – or China wins

Remember...

... that vacuum cleaning is called "hoovering" not because of the brand, but because of the FBI HQ name...

And that the best argument the FBI forgot to mention is that if they are not allowed to hoover everything at their leisure is that then they'll have to buy the data from GAFAM and other companies, and that the money will have to be diverted from what was intended to be spent on Medicare/Medicaid/infrastructure/bridges ...

Please install that patch – but don't you dare actually run it

Re: Harks back to

You are very naive...

Leaked memo: Microsoft employees should be using Copilot too

Copilot will handle requests from pesky journalists...

IT suppliers hacked off with Uncle Sam's demands in aftermath of cyberattacks

Testing?

We have customers paying to do it!

Re: "Trust us. We're with the government, and we're here to help."

"bad guys"

You mean the 3-letter agency that engineered the intrusion to be able to "legally" come to the contractor office (let us say Microsoft, although it may be better labelled as a cyber-criminal organization), and get access to all the data of foreign companies because buying it from data-brokers becomes too expensive?

Ford pulls the plug on EV strategy as losses pile up

Re: Spent Batteries

And if recycling a £20000 battery cost £20000.01, what do you think will happen?

Re: Once upon a time....

Based on recent events, the "cold weather" option on Teslas is: "move to California"...

Alaska Airlines' door-dropping flight was missing bolts

Re: "poorly drilled rivet holes"

The data would have to be stored in the cloud.

Planes are already flying in the cloud.

So the data is already in the cloud, no need to transfer it.

Developer's default setting created turbulence in the flight simulator

You forgot the magic word: Microsoft...

Re: sort of on topic...

I am pretty sure you could get a better picture with a drone and a camera.

It would be something new to behold!

Tesla power steering probe upgraded after thousands more incidents reported

Re: No problem

This is the issue there, the car doesn't want to steer to the right, as it is supposed to do every time EM posts something on X...

Re: Lucky for them...

enough to overcome most drivers

It reminds me of something...

Was it per chance designed at Boeing?

Techie climbed a mountain only be told not to touch the kit on top

Re: Try turning the cable end to end

you need wireless cables to avoid this kind of situation.

Re: A wasted trip

I experience this koan on a regular basis: unless I am the one turning it off and on again, it doesn't work...