Posts by Jimbo1954

Is your Windows 10, 8 PC falling off the 'net? Microsoft doesn't care

Re: It's all a bit farcical, isn't it?

Muppetry! Its DHCP, not DNS, that MacroShaft hasa stuffed, and setting static addresses willy-nilly may bork other devices like printers which use DHCP, if you end up with duplicate IP addresses.

Microsoft quietly emits patch to undo its earlier patch that broke Windows 10 networking

Re: ,So there's an online fix for not being able to get online?

It would be simple, as you explain, but how may Win10 users know of the CLI, let alone are able to use it to control their PC. Macroshaft and others have dumbed-down the userbase with their WinDoze to such an extent that even something as basic as this fix would be impossible for a significant part of the userbase.

And anyway - DHCP has been round since Methusla was in short trousers, so WHY were MacroShaft messing with it...It implies that they either got it wrong a long time ago and only just realised and patched it, or they were up to some other badness, probably related to chasing users for their data (paranoid? Moi?...Nah, just a realist!)

Ordinary punters will get squat from smart meters, reckons report

How long....

...before the blackhats find a way of intercepting the data, and using it to find when houses are regularly, predictably empty, and so good targets for burglary?

Can I "Just say no" and retain my existing meter?

And I'm assuming they use mobile phone technology? So what if I was to create a Faraday Cage around my meter and prevent it delivering data?

I got one thing to say to Big Brother....Fek Off!