Posts by katrinab

Microsoft pulls plug on IPv6-only Wi-Fi network over borked VPN fears

Re: Two questions if I may

"One overlooked advantage for companies is user tracking"

That is a disadvantage

Re: It’s not going to happen

25 years ago, when IPv6 first came out, I had an Amiga 4000. That has long since been retired. Is there any guarantee that it will reach big-time within the lifespan of my current equipment.

Other than a spinning logo on an IPv6 test website, can you name anything that is currently IPv6 only?

Re: It’s not going to happen

Why would I want to chat with IPv6 cleanly, or indeed at all, given that everything is available on IPv4?

Re: It’s not going to happen

Can you explain the benefits of a dual-stack network over an IPv4 only network? You still have to find an IPv4 address either way.

It’s not going to happen

If people haven’t rolled out a 25 year old technology yet, they never will. This is around the same time that Tim Berners Lee introduced the World Wide Web, and Microsoft introduced Windows NT.

TV Licensing admits: We directed 25,000 people to send their bank details in the clear

Re: Which bank details exactly?

Yes it can. It can be used to set up direct debits, to, for example, pay your TV licence. That's why they are asking for the information.

There are savings accounts that accept payments in by direct debit, so it is possible to steal money that way. You will get caught though.

Leeds hospital launches campaign to 'axe the fax'

Re: But... but...

The sender and recipient are on the same Exchange Server. Is that going to make any practical difference?

Re: digital signatures

The NHS could set up their own certification authority, and the probably already have.

Re: We have two fax machines

We have a big fax / scanner / copier thing. About a year ago, the phb asked for it to be moved to the other side of his office door. Since then, it has not been plugged into the phone socket, and nobody has noticed.

Re: Easy for internal

Way more than 340. There's 9000 in hospitals alone, then you have all the GP surgeries and so on. The NHS is the world's largest purchaser of fax machines.

Re: But... but...

Print out the document

Scan to email

Forward the email to the recipient's secretary

It gets printed out and placed on the recipient's desk

Git it girl! Academy tries to tempt women into coding with free course

Re: Feel free to be patronised

"I've no doubt somewhere there's a similar campaign to force more men to become midwives."

No there isn't, but there should be. Well certainly for nursing / care assistants in general.

Women can enter the healthcare sector at any level, from care assistant to surgeon. Men seem to only be allowed to enter at doctor or above. That is a problem.

Google Chrome 69 gives worldwide web a stay of execution in URL box

Another not so welcome feature

If you type the first few letters of a website address, you can no longer use the arrow keys to select from the list of results. For example, if I type "th", The Guardian comes up as my first option, The Register as the second, and The Telegraph as the fifth. If I want to come here, I can no longer press the down arrow once, then the enter key.

Former Detroit IT boss sent down 20 months for bathroom bung bonanza

Re: Add another

I did Google it, and got an answer of 672,795 people.

I am aware that the metropolitan area has a population of 4.3m, which is quite big, but not relevant in terms of contracts with Detroit City Council. Windsor, while very nearby on the other side of the river, is in Canada, and particularly not relevant to the discussion at hand.

Re: Gifted is not a verb!

The Oxford Dictionary says it is:

Look under gift. Gift is the verb, gifted is the past participle of gift.

VERB

[WITH OBJECT]

1 Give (something) as a gift, especially formally or as a donation or bequest.

‘the company gifted 2,999 shares to a charity’

Re: $30,000.... really?

It is Detroit which is not a particularly large city, and not at all lucrative in terms of contracts. I guess $30,000 is the most you can get.

US govt concedes that you can indeed f**k Nazis online: Domain-name swear ban lifted

Yes

Also, the Fleetwood Underwater Canoe Klubbe were unable to register their domain.

Microsoft: You don't want to use Edge? Are you sure? Really sure?

Re: Dear Microsoft

Yes, Edge is the tool Microsoft provides for downloading the Firefox installer. Not as good as BSD Ports, but it does the job.

Chromebooks gain faff-free access to Windows file shares via Samba

Re: Not going to make a lot of difference?

It is almost a minute since I last accessed a file share, running FreeBSD + Samba. Where do you keep your files if not on a file share?

Re: I don't know why...

Android Desktop Edition?

British Airways hack: Infosec experts finger third-party scripts on payment pages

Paying by bank transfer is very bad advice, because you have no come-back if the supplier doesn't deliver.

It's a mug's game: Watch AI robot grab a cuppa it hasn't seen before

Re: Couple of questions

I think I usually pick them up by the back of the heel, but I'm not really sure, and I would probably do it differently if I thought about it consciously.

Or, if I am taking shoes from the pile at the bottom of my wardrobe, then whichever bit is closest to me.

Couple of questions

How does it cope with for example a Chelsea Boot that doesn't have a tongue.

How does it cope with a shoe that is upside down and positioned such that the tongue isn't immediately accessible to the robot's fingers?

Python joins movement to dump 'offensive' master, slave terms

Re: @malle-herbert

"Or wife and husband"

But which one is in charge there? Men seem to think it is the wife, women seem to think it is the husband. but shouldn't be.

Seagate passes gassy 14TB whopper: He He He, one for each of you

Re: Every cloud...

It happened to me about 5 years ago. RAID Z2 pool, so it was OK.

Re: Every cloud...

Indeed, about 30 hours to resilver a 3TB drive a couple of weeks ago.

Re: Foot in both worlds

The very idea of a two bay NAS fills me with horror, especially if you are going to use RAID0 on it.

So what's Microsoft's counter-AWS cloud strategy? Don't be evil

If I was in business as a handbag designer for example, then no, I don't think Microsoft would be interested in competing with me, but Amazon might well be.

PPI pushers now need consent to cold-call you

They've needed your consent to send emails and text messages since the Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive 2002, but that hasn't stopped them.

Re: Administration is frustrating

The’s no checks to set up a company, but opening a bank account should in theory be more difficult.

Revealed: British Airways was in talks with IBM on outsourcing security just before hack

Re: What have the PCI folks ever done for Jo Public?

Don't you need to have the credit card you paid with when you turn up at the airport?

UK.gov's no-deal plans leave HMRC customs, VAT systems scrambling to keep up

Re: Annual?

Of course it is a lot more complicated than that.

However, it is true to say that if we unilaterally open the border with Ireland and let a pig farmer in Dundalk deliver a van-load of pigs to a butcher in Newry without any customs checks, then we have to do the same for the whole world. Yes it is different if we have a trade deal, but we can't have one with Ireland alone and not the rest of the EU.

The fact remains, there are 260 border crossings between Ireland and Northern Ireland. There are 135 border crossings between the whole of the rest of the EU and the whole of the rest of the world. At the moment, crossing the Irish border is like crossing a local council border, the only sign of the border is the line in the road where the tarmac has been laid at different times by different highways authorities, and some speed limit signs.

Yes, but given that Theresa May doesn't have the slightest clue what is going to happen next year; HMRC, and therefore Sage won't know either.

Last-minute changes are usually things like increasing the VAT rate from 17.5% to 20%, which can done very easily. Anything that requires changes to boxes on the return requires a lot more time for preparation.

Re: Annual?

Without any change in the law, you would have to pay VAT to HMRC at the border before they let the goods in, but given the volume of trade involved, that isn't practical; so the proposal is that you will declare it on your VAT return at the end of the quarter.

WTO rules mean that if this is how you treat a truckload of Irish beef that is being delivered to Sainsburys in Newry, you have to treat imports from all over the world the same way.

I presume the developers at Sage have the full spec sheet for the new import VAT thing together with access to a test submission server that they can use while working on v25 of their software, which is due out towards the end of this (tax) year. Same for Quickbooks and so on.

Official: Google Chrome 69 kills off the World Wide Web (in URLs)

Re: Full URL

People might not realise that

www.nwolb.com.default.aspx.reffererident.1231e898f.date/20180907 is a dodgy site, but if it displayed

1231e898f.date/20180907

then they might

HTTPS crypto-shame: TV Licensing website pulled offline

Re: redirecting HTTP to HTTPS

If you are using IIS, it is a box you tick in the control panel. On Apache, it is a very simple addition to the configuration file.

Voyager 1 left the planet 41 years ago – and SpaceX hopes to land on Earth this Saturday

Re: V'ger

And you don’t need to remind me who did the calculations on early flights, that did reach the correct destination

https://www.nasa.gov/centers/langley/news/researchernews/rn_kjohnson.html

Re: V'ger

Then let's not mention what would happen if you put a man in charge of it.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/news/7755988/Women-give-better-directions-than-men-study-finds.html

Windows Server 2019 Essentials incoming – but cheapo product's days are numbered

Re: Microsoft keep on trying don't they?

Zentyal, possibly. I've not tried it, and there's is mixed reviews on its compatibility with Outlook. It does support ActiveSync, and recent versions of Outlook for Windows also support ActiveSync, so in theory it should work. But note that the Mac version of Outlook and also Apple's own email client for Mac require EWS, and that definitely isn't supported.

Re: Is Cloud computing Smart Meters for IT ?

Windows Server Essentials seems to have been stripped of all functionality to the point that a Synology box would be more effective.

Print server?

Were printers ever connected to the server?

These days, most printers, even the very cheapest, can connect directly to the network.

In the past, I'm pretty sure most people used a Jetdirect or similar to connect their printer to the network. Usually, the printer would be in a very different location to the server.

Canny Brits are nuking the phone bundle

Re: Telefonica own O2 and GiffGaff, so this is nothing new for them

Superdrug is owned by the same company that owns Three, and they have just started an MVN.

Strewth! Aussie ISP gets eye-watering IPv4 bill, shifts to IPv6 addresses

Re: Has anyone truly made the switch?

We still have a fax machine, but it is not currently plugged into the phone line. Nobody has noticed.

Microsoft sharpens its claws to cut Outlook UI excess, snip Ribbon

Re: UI revamp

I needed a Microsoft account to activate my Office 2016, but I used a Hotmail account, not an Office 365 one.

Re: UI revamp

^P for Print will become ^P for Publish - ie forward to your entire address book.

Re: UI revamp

The only problem is that the menubar will be visible as three lines on one of the corners of the window, and when you press it, it hides the entire window and replaces it with menu options.

I've seen the future of consumer AI, and it doesn't have one

There's a best before date on my tub of salt, I think is in 1999, but it is still absolutely fine and I don't need to scrape anything off it.

Obviously navigating a smartphone app is far easier than flicking the switch next to the power cable on the kettle. It's on a computer, therefore, by definition, it is easy to use.

What's the use case for that anyway?

Once it can fill up remotely, pour itself into the teacup remotely, put the teabag in remotely, and walk the cup over to you, then we have something that might be useful. Until then, you are going to have to go to the kitchen anyway.