Posts by MrReynolds2U 275 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Mar 2018
Always use MAC restrictions on private WiFi (even though you can spoof your MAC address) and if you can, on any internal network. At home I run a private WiFi network with MAC allow list and a separate guest WiFi via voucher code for when visitors ask "What's your WiFi password?".
For the UK...you must stop and exchange details if there is damage to property (not necessarily insurance if you are handling it privately) and you must inform the police if there is suspicion of injury or a driving offense. Anything else is just bluster.
From the Met:
"You don't need to report a collision to the police if you've exchanged details, nobody was injured and there are no allegations of driving offences.
You must report the collision to the police if you were unable to exchange details at the scene, if anyone was injured, or if you suspect that the other person may have committed a driving offence."
https://www.met.police.uk/advice/advice-and-information/rs/road-safety/collisions/
When I was driving to work today (I have to, there isn't a viable public transport option if I want to sleep past 5am) I noticed a another vehicle with more than 1 person in*. First time I've seen that in ages.
*Excluding trades vans which usually have 2-3 people in.
The hub and spoke public transport model means I would need to take 2 buses and a train to get to work. It would cost at least twice as much and take twice as long (if I was lucky and the train wasn't cancelled). Oh, and I probably wouldn't have a seat. When you add in that I drive my daughter to college on my way to work, that cost for public transport becomes more than triple my car-based costs.
If there was a viable public transport option, I would use it, but TPTB need to wake-up and plan a system where cars are no-longer a necessity if they want wider adoption and a lower environmental impact. Instead they are just focused on electric car ownership and banning non-EVs which will limit personal transport options for the poorer in society (there isn't a reasonably-priced 2nd hand market for EVs).
I'm running virtual Win10 on Hyper-V on-prem and although it's a fight to understand the correct licensing, I'm pretty sure that just having 365 Enterprise subscription allows this. Unfortunately the software we're using only works with MS Office, otherwise I would have used an alternative. Could utilise EXSi or Xen, but I'm just more familiar with Hyper-V.
I had an MSP recently try and sell us a rather convoluted cloud-based, locked-down, virtual desktop and server solution utilising VMWare. I advised TPTB that for an initial CapEx equivalent to 3 months of their quoted cost, we could run our own on-prem solution and retain control of our own data. There's still a bit of push-back from those who think "cloud" is best but I've got plenty of horror stories to drop on them when the time comes.
While I applaud your re-use of the heat throughout the premises, having the air-gap at the bottom could lead to ingress of dust and other material. Obviously the air is cooler at the bottom, but you've got to factor in the air quality too. You might be better off with a small wall vent close to the floor with a replaceable/cleanable filter.
That reminds me of the BT to ComputaCentre fiasco. I contracted for CC at one point and was amazed at the extortionate costs and work they were able to bill BT for; who happily paid out. It was part of their restructure when they sold off buildings to rent them back and TUPE'd a bunch of engineers over to CC.
On Win10 or 11 you've got SSTP, PPTP, IKE2 (IPSec) along with good-old L2TP/IPSec (PSK\Cert) and I'm pretty sure Win7 had the same options and they were available on all editions.
For more advanced options, if you want to direct specific traffic down different tunnels, then it can be done but requires a little fiddling.
Win VPN doesn't support MFA yet which you may get with VPN clients from firewall vendors and they also may have better methods of sharing PSKs and credentials.
I personally don't really understand why people use 3rd party VPN clients on Windows so if anyone has a decent reason, please share it.
I remember kill switches being very common during the 90s when car security was pretty crap.
My mates often just repurposed an unused switch on the central console. I think one put his in the back of the pull out ashtray. Oh, and we all had detachable head-units on our stereos (aka ICE).
Tried to find that scene from When a Man Loves a Woman where Meg Ryan pelts the car with the alarm going off. I had that alarm and it used to go off all the bloody time at night. Meg Ryan never came by to throw eggs at mine though, shame.
Yep. I had an old Morris Minor. A small screw-driver to unlock the quarter window, reach in and open the door. I can't remember if the screwdriver worked on the ignition but there was a solenoid button under the bonnet lid to start the engine and no built-in steering wheel lock.
For a Golf, Polo or similar, a large flat-blade with some percussive force pushed the boot lock through and then you could use a finger to release the boot door. So I never left anything of value in that car.
As a question though, it always appears in US films that car thieves simply get in, remove the steering-wheel trim and join wires before driving off (presumably requires older cars). There's never any indication of a steering lock, do you have that on US spec cars?
I think maybe they need to look up what an oxymoron is and tone down their coffee intake.
Or you could use Bullshit generator and play them at their own game.
Very true. I don't recall the NCSC releasing reports on Cisco or Juniper kit and there are plenty of CVE entries filling up the database there.
It seems that most of the bigger vendors prefer security by obscurity. It's a sad state of affairs but the kit most of us rely upon to police our networks could very well be full of holes having never been given the kind of scrutiny that has been afforded to Huawei kit,
AD doesn't need Microsoft.
Samba has come a long way and I use it for some clients as a drop in replacement for AD. Sure the tooling could be more friendly but if you want centralised control of authentication, file shares, printers and policies, then Samba already does it. Even if the best way to configure it is a cross between Windows RSAT and Linux command line.
I've been using Sky's NowTV app to watch the F1 via my XBox or PC (which means a costly sports subscription).
Even paying this subscription, they still show you adverts (90% of which are for betting or car sales).
On top of that, they want an extra £5pm if you want to watch it in HD (1080p).
(Also means no adverts for streamed programming and multi-device use).
Yes, they actually want you to pay more for HD in 2022.
Hilariously, nothing in the comments about the actual context of the article, it's all about cross-pond spelling differences and the editorial changes at El Reg.
As for the use of "checks" in place of "cheques", it grates on me a bit but I'd prefer that the journalists spend their time and efforts on the story rather than converting it between different flavours of English.
I notice the HTML "lang" attribute is set to "en" so content could be any English variant. Personally I can't wait for articles written in "en-jm" along with a bit of local slang.
I would like to point out that theoretical Communism and by extension Marxism are not inherently evil, but have been in the most notorious instances hijacked by those who would seek to mercilessly control a population while enriching themselves. Indeed, common definitions now include the idea that a communist government is typically an authoritarian one.
We've also seen in the UK that socialist agendas fail to live up to their egalitarian aspirations.
Instead we are left with a system that rewards those who seek power and money at the expense of others.
We're constantly told that free-market capitalism (also incorrectly referred to as freedom) is the right way, but let's be honest; it's not working out that well for the average person right now, is it?
When you are talking about companies like Microsoft, they do business in the UK, so the UK government has a right to interject if they think competition or consumers could be adversely affected.
Yes they are a US HQ company (unless they have Irish or other tax bases) but you have to work responsibly in a country if you want to be allowed to operate there.
Theoretically, there could be some spin-off geographical or division-based companies if the CMA finds against this merger.
I'm curious about your Prius MPG. You say 55mpg but over what distance and what breakdown of electric to petrol?
Mainly curious because my 2.0L diesel car averages 50mpg which is about 1/2 urban and 1/2 motorway speeds and I tend to travel about 80 miles per day. I'm still weighing up how viable is EV for me.
The same lawyers who looked over the acquisition of Nuvia and thought they were getting full IP use?
If this goes in ARM's favour, QC may have wasted a lot of money on Nuvia. So, if there is anyone sane at QC anymore they'll re-open a dialog with ARM over the IP.
Also ARM probably don't want to go to court - it could lead to some of their IP or licenses being pushed into the public eye.
When my daughter expressed an interest in driving I told her something similar.
It's not that everyone else is a bad driver, but that we all have bad days when we drive. Or occasionally do something that we realise was stupid afterwards.
You have to assume that anyone can have a bad day at any time and drive accordingly.
From experience, around 1 in 20 are having a bad driving day at any time. That goes up to 1 in 2 for BMW and Audi drivers ;)
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The change to Windows 10 and 11 licensing is going to make a positive difference for one of my clients who are looking to virtualise desktops for a project. It should make things a lot clearer in terms of licensing.
Honestly when I was recently reading up on the licensing requirements just to virtualise a Windows 10 desktop, it was giving me a headache.
There are significant differences in quality of 4K cameras and recording systems. Not only do you have the camera's sensor quality to take into account, but also the auto-zoom, face-tracking, codecs, compression and probably a few other factors.
I've worked with high quality, well configured systems and they are a lot better than what you see on Crimewatch but mostly I see crap consumer-grade stuff. If you have a decent quality screen grab then there are ways to find a person using their digital footprint and a few other techniques.
I studied under CC aka Kevin Warwick at Reading University back in the day. There were some very interesting and knowledgeable characters there at the time. I was hoping to work on prosthesis and human applications of implanted tech but my work took me in a different direction.
Some of the mods he has had might seem strange now but implanted tech is one possible future and could be key (pun intended) to helping humans overcome physical limitations and improve quality of life where it's needed.
(icon because that's where my interest was first ignited).
Exactly. A good compiler setup will typically warn about unsafe function use and _may_ suggest an alternative.
To still be using what are effectively deprecated functions are a pointer to either learning using out-of-date texts or just not learning and understanding how functions actually... function.
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But in all seriousness, I've seen a lot of poor code around bluetooth drivers and the like over the years. It feels like they are written in a rush by someone with no investment in the result.
The price of nuclear electricity generation hasn't increased significantly (although 3rd party costs like wages, food, services, logistics etc have contributed).
However wholesale energy costs have increased due in large part to "market forces".
i.e. the hint of a restriction in supply allows the energy brokers to charge more per KWh to everyone.
So although country A has adequate supply, country B doesn't and will pay a premium. So you sell to country B unless country A matches the price.
Generation costs per KWh are largely irrelevant now and we all end up paying more.
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