* Posts by LewisRage

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User filed fake trouble tickets to take helpful sysadmin to lunches

LewisRage

Re: Not an apology

It all fizzled out when it became apparent that we weren't actually that interested in each other.

LewisRage

Not an apology

I spent a week migrating a small office to a hosted system. Frankly it should have only taken two days but on the first day I had just migrated Exchange from on prem to the hosted solution and whilst checking the mail flow I opened an email at random and found this:

http://imgur.com/Tyf8uO5 (Yes, I kept a copy of the email! I couldn't believe it frankly)

The three women in that email chain were all friendly and attractive and the alternative was heading back to the office chock full of standard nerds.

So I dragged things out and enjoyed myself. Frankly it's one of the best working weeks I've had.

So I didn't get an apology, but at the end of it I did get a date.

Microsoft ctrl-Zs 'killing' Paint, by which we mean offering naff app through Windows Store

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It's not that everyone loves paint, its that it is quick, familiar and is already installed. Even having it on the store is going to be a pain. My users aren't able to install from the store, but having a free and quick application that allows them to do basic image manipulation is very useful, I guess then it'll be added to the build...

I was seeing suggestions of Paint3D, GIMP or Paint.net or the 'free' Photoshop CS2 as alternatives. Which is fine but a very rough test had me open paint , resize an image and save it in less time that GIMP took to load. I guess the same would be true for paint.net and PS would be worse. And although I've not used it for more than 30 seconds I'm assuming Paint 3D is wildly more complicated than paint even for the same basic functions.

It's like getting rid of notepad because you've bundled Wordpad, their functions are comparable but notepad is lightening fast and does the minimal function that lots of people need with zero fuss.

Talk about a hit and run: AA finally comes clean on security breakdown

LewisRage

Re: Always simpler than you think

Might have been more than just a customer DB? Depending on the nature of the backup it could have other stuff in that isn't specific to customers.

Dark web souk AlphaBay outage: Users fear they've been scammed

LewisRage

Re: "Security Update"

really doesn't seem that unlikey does it? if they've popped the darknet site then gaining control of a reddit account seems trivial in comparison.

In touching tribute to Samsung Note 7, fidget spinners burst in flames

LewisRage

Re: There's an opportunity here

> Fidget Spinners: The Movie.

Not only is this an amazing effort but having made a film out of the Battleships board game it's not even that unlikely that Hollywood will pick this up.

Microsoft's new hardware: eight x86 cores, 40 GPU cores

LewisRage

Re: I'll buy it

I've got an Raspberry pi 3 that's running a PS1 emulator.

Printer blown to bits by compressed air

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I've got a picture somewhere

of a very disappointed desktop engineer stood next to a very shiny keyboard.

Next to the keyboard are two almost identical cans, one containing the compressed air the engineer had _thought_ he was picking up to clean the keyboard, and one containing WD40.

Apple fans, Android world scramble to patch Broadcom's nasty drive-by Wi-Fi security hole

LewisRage

Re: At least...

Mine hasn't had one for ages (LG G4) and I'm definintely running the affected SoC.

Two million recordings of families imperiled by cloud-connected toys' crappy MongoDB

LewisRage

Re: Harry Harrison - I Always Do What Teddy Says...

Just had a quick read, very appropriate and thoroughly enjoyable.

LG, Huawei unwrap 'Samsung Galaxy-killers'

LewisRage

Re: please start every phone review with:

It isn't just you. LG have been the last bastion of SD and Battery flexability in recent years. Looks like those options are even more limited now.

I'd possibly give up the SD slot, but a replacable battery is infinitely more convenient than having a pocket USB charger.

Who do you want to be Who? VOTE for the BBC's next Time Lord

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according to the article,

not black enough.

Did you know? The FBI investigated Gamergate. Now you can read the agents' thrilling dossier

LewisRage

Re: Lies

Classic alt-right tactics, misdirection of the argument away from the core elements of the argument.

Perhaps, they have generated some of this themselves, but lets be honest it's not the issue. Whatever they have done does not mitigate or cancel out the horrific tirade of abuse that they suffered from a well organised and co-ordinated horde of young men.

There is no justification for the personal attacks that they suffered.

Also I'd reject out of hand anyone that turns to return of kings as a reliable reference.

ProtonMail launches Tor hidden service to dodge totalitarian censorship

LewisRage

Re: Not sure it will fly much

Just signed up, they've recently moved to a single password system.

My fortnight eating Blighty's own human fart-powder

LewisRage

Re: I really don't see the point

You do realise he was cooking a proper meal most evenings don't you?

UK's new Snoopers' Charter just passed an encryption backdoor law by the backdoor

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Re: This is the last backdoor

The term is Warrant Canary, currently used by services that may be subject to US based request for information that also inclues a gagging order.

Basically you post a sentence that says 'We have not been subject to a request to introduce backdoors for government surveillance'.

When that request does come in you remove the sentence and everyone can infer that this means you have received the request. It avoids the explicit ban on informing users directly of the request. I'd be surprised if the UK gov haven't made this illegal also, although I haven't read any of hte text so thats a complete guess.

Gone in 70 seconds: Holding Enter key can smash through defense

LewisRage

Re: @Homer ... Missing item in the series?

It's like you people are willfully missing the point.

At a kiosk machine/library machine etc you can't pull the disk out because it's completely fucking obvious to anyone nearby that you've just unscrewed the top of the box and are in the process of stealing some hardware.

You can't boot from a disk as they've (hopefully) locked that down/removed the dvd drive.

With this vulnerability you can hold down the enter key and get a root shell, to any casual observer you are just using the machine as normal, whilst the reality is your up to nefarious shenanigans that you shouldn't be.

"Clone the harddrive"... yes, by using the unexpected root shell that you've got to from this vulnerability.

Will US border officials demand social network handles from visitors?

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Too many to list

I've been using made up shit for social media for years, not only can I not remember them all they're all used for exactly nothing beyond occasionally stalking someone elses profile.

But how do they define social media. Pretty much anything these days comes with some kind of social media-esq element. Do they need my Battlefield accounts? How about spotify? I certainly hope they don't want Playstation network accounts as I suspect my account name of Mullah-Lite may raise a few eyebrows, especially if they look up the address it is registered to...

1400 Defense Pentagon Washington, DC 20301-1400

Remote hacker nabs Win10 logins in 'won't-fix' Safe Mode* attack

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NEWS JUST IN...

Having physical access and local administrative permissions on a machine allows leet crackers to perform actions that compromise other users.

Hollywood offers Daniel Craig $150m to (slash wrists) play James Bond

LewisRage

Re: Sigh ...

For a poor tenant crofter his parents certainly had a very nice big old house that we saw at the end of Skyfall...

At this point everything has deviated so much from the books objecting to a black man playing the role is pretty pointless.

Kotkin on who made Trump and Brexit: Look in the mirror, it's you

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"not so hyper specialist. And they were not trying to be (in quotes) ‘scientific’”."

Goddamn specialists, they're as bad as Gove's experts. People knowing a lot about a thing and then writing about it so other people can know about the thing, basically useless if you ask me.

Of course it gets worse when they try to apply "science" to it too, imagine using a methodical approach to presenting empirical data. You'd have to be some kind of New Blob Clerist Elite Chatterai Urbanist to behave like that.

4-day Fasthosts outage: Customers' sites go TITSUP

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If its in the cloud AND it's condensing you might be in trouble when it all rains down on you...

Judge torpedoes 'Tor pedo' torpedo evidence

LewisRage

Re: Why not release this?

They've released enough information (Flaw in the version of FF used with the 'tor browser' project) that we know to not use that browser.

You're know now that you are going to need to use Tor as your proxy and use a different browser. Ideally one that doesn't have flaws, or at least one that doesn't have the weaknesses that the bundled version of FF has. Even better would be to retrieve everything via curl and view it offline.

Vanity dating site BeautifulPeople popped

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Mushroom

I'm the only HOT Reg reader?

Dear BP Member,

On December 25th 2015, all BP members were mailed regarding a specific vulnerability with one of our test servers that was holding some user’s data. We were initially informed of this breach by two security researchers. The server was immediately shut down. At this time we did not believe the data was accessed by anyone other than the two security researches.

We were informed this morning, April 25th 2016, that the data on this server has been illegally distributed and could now be in the public domain.

Please be assured this information did NOT include any credit card data, and user passwords were not accessible. The vulnerability was specific to a test server and not part of our production database.

The privacy and security of our members data is of the utmost importance and all concerns we receive are dealt with immediately and comprehensively.

Out of a general matter of caution we strongly suggest you take the following action as recommended in our last email to you in December of 2015: Please change your BeautifulPeople password.

To do this; simply login to www.beautifulpeople.com and go to ‘Account’ -> ‘Settings’ -> ‘Login information’. From there you will be able to update your password.

Should you have used the same password on any other website or device that holds private information, we suggest that you change these passwords too.

Kind Regards,

The Team at BeautifulPeople

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Don't seem to have the one from the 25th. This was in my spam folder though (and all the spam was in my inbox, brilliant) so my have been trimmed already.

Romanian ATM hacker exploits vulnerability in FENCE, escapes jail

LewisRage

Exposed CD slot?

Why on earth are people able to load malware via an exposed CD slot? Surely thats trivial to make impossible? And perhaps they should be disabling autorun too...

Californian tycoons stole my sharing economy, says Lily Cole

LewisRage

Re: Lily Who?

WELL DONE. WE CONGRATULATE YOU ON YOUR IGNORANCE.

LewisRage

Re: £200,000 for no tangible output

Add a couple of zero's to that figure you could argue she thinks she's ATOS

LewisRage

Re: Newsflash

Define spoiled little rich girl. Seems to me she had a fairly normal upbringing (according to wikipedia). I'm sure you must know more than I though; I can't imagine you'd make wild claims on the internet without having the faintest clue what you are talking about?

Wi-Fi standard could make Internet of Things things even easier ... for hackers

LewisRage

Re: IoT?

Idiot O'Twats?

LewisRage

Re: Wasn't it bad enough already?

"I wouldn't trust any consumer-grade (or even ISP-provided) wireless router much further than I can throw it."

Whilst I understand your point the router I got from plusnet has a pretty good throwing weight. I reckon i could get it down the garden and over the wall fairly easily.

The cisco I actually use is much heavier, I could barely chuck it halfway down the garden I reckon. Although with a couple of Cat5's plugged in and thrown like a hammer I could probably put it through the neighbours back window.

FAIL - the most incompetent IT pros

LewisRage
Unhappy

Where to start.

Very early on i my career I was generously given an external iomega Zip drive, but no PSU. No problems as I am also studying towards my BTEC in electronics and computer technology; I whizzed up a spare cable, jury rigged it to a molex hanging out of the side of the box and plugged it in. Everything ran as expected and I was pleased with myself.

Cue a few months down the line I'm not using the Zip drive for anything and have unplugged it, leaving a pair of bare wires hanging out of the side of the box. Bare wires that, I realise, are hovering millimeters above the surface of my cup of coffee. I very carefully try to move one away from the other and instead lump it with my meaty fist and blow my PSU.

Much later I'm in charge of a file server for a client. This is my first foray into virtualisation. I've built a new box in vCentre, got it up and running, replicated shares and confirmed permissions. All is left to do is to mirror the data from the old server to the new.

I setup the mirror (using Double Take I believe) and let it get to 100%. Jigger and poke the logon scripts to redirect our users to map the new server location, check its all ok and leave it a week.

After a week I check that no-one is using the old server, which they aren't, and set about deleting the data from the old server.

Have you spotted it yet...

I get a call half an hour later from the client saying "all our stuff is disappearing in front of our eyes". I check their share and they are correct, everything is deleting in front of our eyes. It was then I learned the vital maxim; break the mirror before deleting the source.

Today's exoplanet weather: 1,000°C, glass rain, 8,700 km/h winds

LewisRage

Re: maybe i'm ignorant but...

I thought gas giant's had secret entry points for a network of wormholes at their centre?

Hillary's sysadmin left VNC, RDP exposed to the internet - report

LewisRage

Re: There is no need to read her email for it to be a disaster

"And no, no person alive today should have to care what his/her[..] grandparents did 200 years ago. But as far as I am concerned you still owe us billions of dollars and some gratitude"

But I don't care what my grandparents did, so you can do one.

AVG to flog your web browsing, search history from mid-October

LewisRage

Re: 4 letters, then 3 letters...

Fear Guf

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