Posts by steviebuk

We are Google, we are proud, English football is moving to our cloud

They'll regret it

Having supported gsuite for 3 years they'll discover, as we did, that it is shit. Google keep is only thing i like.

'Evolution of the PC ecosystem'? Microsoft's 'modern' OS reminds us of the Windows RT days

The fact they can't even......

...get Windows 10 Updates to install without randomly picking laptops at work where it then kills the WIFI, so you then have to uninstall the WIFI card, reboot so it can resetup the WIFI is fing annoying. So why they think it will be "seamless" is anyone's guess.

I can't type because this bollocks makes me so angry. They seem to think the world is on fibre broadband to the house and not on slow, piss poor speeds. Or in some areas with no BB access at all. So won't be able to do the "Always connected" with the bullshit "AI".

Considering we're thinking of a move to the Isle Of Wight where, the best you can get is WightFibre that already looks slower than the Virgin Fibre we're currently on is worrying and Virgin don't look like they are never going to invest in the Island and not forgetting its stuck in the 80s. The fact WightFibre is only 15mb up also, so all the advertising slurp their new "OS" will push to the "cloud" will probably chew all that up. I hate marketing people, especially when they spout bullshit and even more when directors fall for said bullshit.

):-(

Multi-form factor. "A modern OS has the right sensor support and posture awareness to enable the breadth of innovative form factors and applications that our partner ecosystem will deliver."

What a cunt.

Infosec bloke claims: Pornhub owner shafted me after I exposed gaping holes in its cartoon smut platform

In a few months time or by the end of the year....

"Mindgeek, owners of Nutaku and Pornhub, as well as the future operators of a large chunk of Britain's upcoming porn ID card scheme, told El Reg it "takes the security of its users very seriously."

....will we be reading "Mindgeek's ID card scheme compromised. Millions of users data exposed"

Place your bets.

"Mindgeek's spokesman added: "None of the reports regarding the Android APK for Nutaku demonstrated a means to remotely capture login credentials without having full control of the user's device and or its network connection."

As this statement clearly means they don't give a fuck. "or its network connection". What, like in a fucking hotel or other such free WIFI? Do they know how the Internet works?

Two weeks after Microsoft warned of Windows RDP worms, a million internet-facing boxes still vulnerable

Why do they make it complicated

I know I'm a bit of an idiot but why do they have to make the patching complicated. Can they please just give me a straight answer to a KB I need to search WSUS for the update.

Clicking the links takes me to various areas with no clear indication of which KB has the patch in it.

That magical super material Apple hopes will hit backspace on its keyboard woes? Nylon

Re: Louis Rossmann

I like being an old grump :) she accepts me being an old grump as I'm not an old grump all the time.

Re: Louis Rossmann

Tell the girlfriend that. She loves Apple and unfortunately loves Dyson. I like the portable nature of it but that is all. We have the animal one but it sucks like a straw with a hole in it. The only way to get it to be useful is on full power, then the battery only lasts about 15mins. Whats funny is if you watch the advert, it even states on there all testing was done in max mode. So even they know normal mode is shit.

She also likes the bladeless fans. They feel as if someone is in the corner blowing. They are useless. "Oh its so quiet". No it fucking isn't. She insists its on in the hot evening. What can I hear, the fucking noise of the motor. The annoying fucking noise of the motor ):-(

I'd had enough. She uses the Dyson. I went and bought a numatic Henry and use that.

Re: Apple is stubborn if nothing else

Yep and watching the promo videos for it where Jobs said how beautiful it was. Sickening. He'd sell shit to a blind person if he could.

Re: Apple is stubborn if nothing else

I somewhat disagree. Ivy has always been a clueless fuck and chosen design over function. I know he doesn't care what we think as he's a multimillionaire for being a clueless fuck & I do my work properly but am not a multimillionaire.

My point is. He designed the hockey puck mouse and that was while Steve was alive. Steve clearly agreed with the design as he was as bad as Ivy. So that's where I'd disagree. Steve would never have reeled him in. Steve always championed Ivy. If anything Steve would been doing presentations now claiming how "All other laptop manufacturers have the same issue. At the end of the day, you are using it wrong" much like antennagate. And no Steve, other laptop manufacturers do not have the issue.

So no, they are both arrogant fucks. One is just a long dead arrogant fuck. And the dead arrogant fuck would be in 100% support of the living one.

Tesla's autonomous lane changing software is worse at driving than humans, and more

So why call it autopilot

“Navigate on Autopilot is based on map data, fleet data, and data from the vehicle’s sensors. However, it is the driver’s responsibility to remain in control of the car at all times, including safely executing lane changes.”

Autopilot term is so misleading. Everyone thinks of that as the fly autopilot. They should at least be forced to rename it.

Re: Incomplete

Will they be called Johnny Cabs?

Activist shareholders to target Zuck with giant angry emoji inflatable at Facebook AGM

Ironic

"Facebook stock-owning activists" activists shareholders? Is there such a thing? You know what you are doing when you buy the shares. You're trying to make a profit off the company you apparently appose. Only thing you can do now is dump your stock. If you have enough you can cause a price change, but I doubt you do and dumping the stock screws other investors also. As in Wall Street "I could dump the stock just to burn your arse". Again only makes a difference if you own loads.

If however, you could buy enough to be able to put pressure on, to force change. Then you'd have a point but I suspect they don't.

Never let something so flimsy as a locked door to the computer room stand in the way of an auditor on the warpath

Re: Are you an auditor as well now Jake?

I forgot :p

Re: Are you an auditor as well now Jake?

The people that did the Hatton Garden robbery should of just said "We were doing an audit".

Comcast – the cable giant America loves and trusts – confirms in-home health device to keep tabs on subscribers

Pointless

"Motion sensor". So the old person falls over, ComCast sees their waving hand as "motion" and just ignores it. Seems bollocks to me. Things like the redbutton which most areas have are good enough. They sub to it monthly and wear their red button. If they fall, just press it and someone comes to check. Or you can have the option where you have to press it every day at least once to say you're OK. If you don't, someone will come round to check you're OK. Works just fine and is simple.

Backup your files with CrashPlan! Except this file type. No, not that one either. Try again...

Re: Crashplan refugees are always welcome at rsync.net ...

Most people prefer companies that don't have knobby sales people spouting bullshit. They want honesty.

So I like your post :)

So why didn't you start blocking from the start then!

"CrashPlan for Small Business was designed to back up and restore business files (e.g. documents, spreadsheets, presentations etc.)."

Now making it policy is like shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted.

Next we'll hear is "CrashPlan goes Crash and gets the admins in".

Wanted: Big iron geeks to help restore IBM 360 mainframe rescued from defunct German factory by other big iron geeks

Re: Divorce..

So true. It annoys me when people say "Well done those unmarried men". Sometimes a partner is very supportive in your hobby. My other half is somewhat glad I'm into computers as a hobby as well as a job, because she knows 100% I could never be bothered to have an affair as I'm too busy pissing around with my home network setup and virtual machines :)

Oh and of course cause I love her as well :)

They should contact....

....CuriousMarc on YouTube. He'd be very interested, I'm sure, in helping with this. He recently helped in restoring the old Apollo AGC

Exclusive: Windows for Workgroups terror the Tartan Bandit confesses all to The Register

The little spiders

I'm hoping someone remembers the screensaver or program from the 90s. At college and we had Windows 3.11 for workgroups. I got the program from a magazine floppy disk. It either was a screensaver, acted like one or was just a shareware time waster app.

Anyway. You'd set it up and after a set time it would kick in and loads of tiny spiders would start eating the screen. I'd set it on the machines in the study room. Was a bit of a dick move really because everyone used those computers not just IT people. But just move the mouse and it stops but so many didn't realise. Was in the room once when a student was typing her assignment and it kicked in. She panicked thinking she was losing her work and I kept quiet. I feel like a cunt now. But all she had to do, which she eventually discovered, was move the mouse.

Bluejacking

Bluejacking (different to Bluesnarfing) we always used as harmless fun. I say we, there was a website for it back in the early 00s for the "hits" :)

I have two specific memories. One was being in town between a row of shops and sniffing for Bluetooth devices. Found a printer, assumed it must of been in one of the shops very close by. Either the bank or WHSmith. I sent a message to it so it would print it out. I oddly never sent any swear words. Much like I must of be one of the very few who used to go into WHSmith in the 80s and type 10 Print "Hello" 20 GOTO 10 and NEVER put anything profane :) I was very innocent back then.

The best Bluejacking incident was on the Isle of Wight ferry. Because the distance for picking up devices was low I scanned the area near me. Only found one device and there was only one guy in the area. On the sly I took a photo of him, then via Bluejacking sent it to him then quickly walked off :) I never knew if he looked at the message then looked around to see who sent it :) I could of just quickly moved but kept him in view. Oh well, was still fun.

Pushed around and kicked around, always a lonely boy: Run Huawei, Google Play, turns away, from Huawei... turns away

Re: Aside from this being political

I believe because they are an American registered company so are forced to if a ban is in place.

Re: OpenAppStore

Sounds good but we can't have nice things and it will be riddled with bent apps. And then the genuine ones will get lots of fake down votes from the mafia app makers of the bent versions.

Well thats just fing great!

We switched to honor 10 lite at work as they are good phones but cheap. Come with gorilla glass protector already installed. So now we have to look for another make. Bollocks!

Salesforce supremo Benioff buys Time magazine for $190m

Re: Fire Sale?

Print magazines are still enjoyable to read while on the bog or in the bath.

Polygraph knows all: You've been using our user feedback form

The worst part

is that so many people that watched and appeared on Jeremy Kyle believed in the bullshit that are polograph tests. Despite them not being admissible as evidence in court. But then we can also blame Jeremy Kyle and the producers for exploiting that fact.

Dedicated techie risks life and limb to locate office conference phone hiding under newspaper

Re: The boss who knows best

This may get down votes but I have said this before under the anon tag where it didnt, but I did know one such mega arsehole who I recently found out had cancer for a year, long after I left. I wasn't ashamed to have had the very vindictive (if that's the right word to use) thought "Shame he never died from it". Sorry, but I can't stand shouty people that do it to try to be controlling and to belittle you. Which he used to do, with a smirk on his face. I'm also convinced he took bribes over the years as well but never had hard evidence.

Re: The boss who knows best

Maybe I'm just very vindictive. Shouty boss sounded like he was a cunt and everyone needs to know his name even if dead. Cunts don't deserve any respect.

Re: Shouty men...

That's the way it should always be. Shouty men and women are arseholes.

Re: ALL my calls from shouty men

And doing a Michael Caine and just staring at one eye only. He said it makes you seem more powerful than you are, on camera at least :)

Michael Caine: On Acting in Film, Arts, and Entertainment

Watch it, it's great and I hate acting and still enjoy watching it.

Office 365 user security practices are woeful, yet it's still 'Microsoft's fault' when an org is breached

It doesn't help that...

...when turning on MFA it randomly picks users who it'll have different MFA settings to everyone else. Outlook 2016 or Outlook 365 as they call it is a Modern App yet when at home the FING thing keeps asking for the Application Password for my Outlook instance. MFA works fine when logging into the 365 admin console but the fact its not working properly for my Outlook instance but works fine on others is annoying. And the mobile app is fine and just accepts the MFA code. We have one user who you can't turn it off for, despite us being full admins and the MS support don't know why either.

It's good having it on but people don't turn it on as sometimes it can be a pain in the arse.

Re: Security Polices Set by Microsoft

But also doesn't work that well. Not only that but it quarantines an email. Fine its not been released. Oh actually no it has? But fucking why? MS told me "Yes you've blacklisted that domain but you now need to setup a rule with what to do with that blacklist otherise they just default to the junk folder in Outlook" WHAT!

Quit worrying about killer robots, they are coming whether you like it or not – and they absolutely will not stop

Re: End of the World

Not really. It gives nothing away accept the name of the pub :)

And there surely has to be a time limit on spoilers. It's over 15 years old now that movie :)

Madness, where does the time go. And as I get older I still find it strange that a 15 year old movie still looks good today as if it was made yesterday. You can't say the same if you were watching a 15 year old movie from the 70s in 1990.

Re: Bloody hell

Shaun of the Dead.

Banhammer Republic: Trump declares national emergency, starts ball rolling to boot Huawei out of ALL US networks

But..

"And FBI boss Christopher Wray warned earlier this year that China is the biggest cyber-security threat to America." yet they aren't banning Apple phones despite being built in China via Foxconn.

Microsoft goes to great lengths to polish Azure Active Directory's password policies

Finally

We wanted to make ours long but this was the issue. The other issue is, I don't know if this fixes it, is a space at the beginning of a password. AD accepts it, Azure doesn't. So I was trying to work out for a while why a user couldn't login to Outlook which ignores the AD version and looks at what it is on Azure.

How much open source is too much when it's in Microsoft's clutches? Eclipse Foundation boss sounds note of alarm

Re: EEE

Oracle, IBM, the car industry.

Re: If you want to live don't fund Microsoft ever

Instead of wasting their time on that they should be forcing the likes of Microsoft, Apple and Samsung to make all the devices repairable by 3rd parties. And make all parts for said devices purchasable but at a reasonable cost. This would help combat the throw away nature of said devices. Apple bangs on about how great their are with renewable energy, forcing all their supply chains to follow suit. But Apple are still insisting on fighting Right To Repair. And why? Because they want you to buy their next Apple shit and not be able to repair your last one.

Two Capita staffers to double up as non-exec directors, get keys to corporate biscuit barrel

And then we'll be reading

"We are determined that the employee's perspective and increased diversity of thought are represented at board level,"

"I thought this meant I could be open and honest. I was wrong. They just want you to say what they want to hear. If you say anything different you suddenly find your roll 'redundant' but magically see they replaced you several months later with someone else, doing same role , different title"

Or am I being cynical?

Upgrade refuseniks, beware: Adobe snips away legacy versions of its Creative Cloud apps

Perfect reason

To avoid the bollocks that is software as a service. And the amount of scaremongering in the blurb they've sent to people to scare them into paying for the latest version.

They have become "Cunt Company Of The Month"

Techie with outdated documentation gets his step count in searching for non-existent cabinet

Re: So it wasn't his job

True. Got me fuck all. Although where I am now it's truely appreciated but never expected. Which is very rare and taken me a while to get used to.

Re: So it wasn't his job

And he was no longer customer facing so sounds like 3rd line yet didn't know about the infrastructure he was supporting. Or the 3rd line department didn't bother mapping out what they supported.

We suck? No, James Dyson. It is you who suck – Bosch and Siemens

Old but..

...its burning inside of me. I hate the Dyson pet vacuum we have. Wasn't my choice and the advert is annoying me more and more as the testing, as mentioned in the small print, is ALWAYS in boost mode.

What a con.

IT bod who does a bit of everything: You might want to specialise if that pay rise proves elusive

Gartner

I can't take anything they say serious after giving Equifax awards year after year. Not only that but you specialise and then find everyone dumps the thing you've specialised in.

I know a certain place that uses a piece of Low Code software. They are trying to get their staff to "specialise" in it. It's not working. The staff realise after a few months, that pretty much no one else uses said Low Code app so they can't take the knowledge with them. They then realise they are getting paid peanuts for what they do, so leave only with the experience of "doing a bit of coding" because they can't advertise the Low Code app as no one has ever heard of it.

Blockchain is a lot like teen sex: Everybody talks about it, no one has a clue how to do it

It would help if..

...blockchain meant something.

Even I don't understand what it means, but then I am a little bit of an idiot.

To me, it just seems like another marketing buzzword bullshit word.

Anyone care to explain really simply what the word actually means?

'Software delivered to Boeing' now blamed for 737 Max warning fiasco

I wonder

If it turns out someone elsewhere is responding to this statement while watching the news

"Senior company leadership was not involved in the review and first became aware of this issue in the aftermath of the Lion Air accident,"

With

"What? I did warn you about it. But you said it wasn't important enough and would cost to much of a delay to check so we note what you say but we're going ahead anyway." I wonder if that happened? Not saying it did, just wonder if it may have. Their lawyers will be telling them to deny everything at the moment. Or at least comment in a way that doesn't admit guilt.

Personality quiz for all you IT bods: Are you a chameleon or an outlaw? A diplomat or a high flier? Vote right here

Re: The insecure IT guy

They are the knob engineers. Not bothered about the not going to the pub bit, some people, me, just aren't interested in socialising. But I try to share my knowledge to whoever is interested. The ones that are like what you describe, are the ones that know, because you know more or the same as them, you'll be able to expose that they actually do fuck all, that's what they are really scared of.

If the thing you were doing earlier is 'drop table' commands, ctrl-c, ctrl-v is not your friend

Disappointing ending

I was looking forward to reading that all day. Kept getting interrupted so couldn't. Then ended with no real ending. Even if the ending was boring as in "We recovered the database from last nights backup" it still would of felt like an ending.

A real head-scratcher: Tech support called in because emails 'aren't showing timestamps'

Not all apocryphal

At a place I used to work the PA to the CEO would be in charge of readings his emails and replying as him. You never knew what he'd actually read or if the replies were his or her's.

Mystery Git ransomware appears to blank commits, demands Bitcoin to rescue code

Re: The Microsoft curse

You know Bill Gates hasn't worked at MS for years. He's also not a majority share holder so wouldn't be able to decide what it does and doesn't purchase.