Posts by TonyJewell

ChatGPT has a Thursday lie down

The Machine Stops

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The Machine Stops

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CrowdStrike file update bricks Windows machines around the world

Global auto update: What could possibly go wrong?

Hopefully, effected companies will now learn the lesson to take control of updates: Test first on minimal unimportant machines and then schedule a phased rollout to your estate when confirmed as a non-breaking update.

Do not allow your computers to just download and auto-install updates from external sources when available.

Europe's USB-C deadline: Lightning must be struck from iPhone by December, 2024

EU market size.

And that's the influence of a large Trading Bloc. Something the UK can only dream of now.

You can keep your old ERP system, but you'll still need ServiceNow, CEO tells The Reg

SNOW? Don't remind me.

My heart sank every time i had to use SNOW to raise a ticket or make a change request. Laborious, tortuous and appalling UI.

And all run on external servers with all that implies.

It was the worst thing about my role as developer in a large financial organisation.

There are far better self hosted solutions out there that allow you to focus more on the process rather than fighting with the SW that manages the process.

Have you tried restarting? Reinstalling? Upgrading? Moving house and changing your identity?

Does anyone have any actual experience with this

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Lenovo pops up tips on its tablets. And by tips, Lenovo means: Unacceptable ads

Tips app is now disabled on my P11 but don't get me started on "Productivity Mode"

I am the original poster of the Tips app complaint on the Lenovo forum. I have now managed to disable the Tips app through adb thanks to user linuxct's hints. See https://forums.lenovo.com/topic/findpost/1088/5094365/5422293

Lenovo have a lot to learn about customer experience. The hardware is fantastic but the firmware leaves a lot to be desired. My biggest grief with the P11 Android tablet is the so called "Productivity Mode". It would have been a while stopper if is known what I know how about it.

See https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Lenovo-Android-based-Tablets-and-Phablets/Productivity-Mode-feedback/m-p/5068560?page=1

It attempts to overlay a window manager on the basic Android experience and originally would automatically default to enabled when the keyboard was connected. Trouble is the implementation is flakey as hell and is only "implemented" for a select few apps. Any other apps that Lenovo had not hacked (so that would be most of them) would appear in a tiny portrait phone like window on your shiny new tablet 11inch goodness.

They later implemented a switch to turn off auto-enable but if course that was flakey and it would still come on if you attached the screen while the tablet was locked.

I finally disabled with Automate. But, like the Tips fix, you need to be technically savvy to make this work.

I'm so glad I didn't splash out on the P11 Pro.

Talk about a Blue Monday: OVH outlines recovery plan as French data centres smoulder

Re: It's not the incident that's important

Yes, I was wondering about that. I'm a very minor OVH customer but was surprised that one of the services I use is currently offline and not just automatically routed to another data center. As you say, give it a day or so for the engineers to do their best in this difficult time for them. I can wait but for some this is more serious.

Mirror mirror on the wall, why will my mouse not work at all?

Mouse pointer basics

After installing a networked computer system in my daughters' small primary school I sat down with the head to show her how to login and use the computer.

Me: Ok first use the mouse to move the pointer to the password box and click the left button.

Head: picks up the mouse, points it at the screen and clicks.

This was the late 90s and yes, this was a youngish head of my kids school.

Stand back, we're going in: The Register rips a 7th-gen ThinkPad X1 Carbon apart. Literally

"Lenovo also told us that there are Ubuntu-certified models lurking in the range for those who prefer to remain Windows-free. ®"

It's great to see major manufacturers actually shipping with Linux instead of Windows. My Dell had Ubuntu from birth about 4 years ago. It's good to see Lenovo finally doing the same.

Not very Suprema: Biometric access biz bares 27 million records and plaintext admin creds

Design Strategy: What if the data becomes public?

Putting aside the issues that made this data accessible to the two researchers, to me, the most unforgivable thing is storing people's passwords and biometric data as non-hashed.

So often now, products come to market as experimental internal proof of concepts that are then productionised and rushed to market. If you are transporting and storing such sensitive data you should start your design with the question: what if the data leaks - how can I minimise the risk? The evidence appears to be growing that this is rarely done.

Further, before go live any such system should be fully audited for security.

Google AMP supremo whinges at being called out on team's bulls***

Re: DeAMPify

Yes, DeAMPify works well. For searches in the browser, set your search engine to encrypted.google.com - no more AMP results (for now).