Posts by hutchism

Orders wrong, resellers receiving wrong items? Must be a programming error and certainly not a rushing techie

Re: Dropped cards

Guns don't kill people rappers do!

Firewalls? Pfft – it's no match for my mighty spares-bin PC

Re: I could post my history of 'temporary' bodges .....

Don't w**k too hard....

When software depends on a project thanklessly maintained by a random guy in Nebraska, is open source sustainable?

Re: Bullshit

Forked. Now Rocky

So what if I pay peanuts for my home broadband? I demand you fix it NOW!

Is someone in the room? Are they OK!?

That made me laugh out loud when I listened to Irene Papas and imagined hearing that in the background of a Zoom call! Thanks for that! :) :) :)

Microsoft OneDrive for Windows 7 drives off a cliff for business users

Re: TLS 1.2

Can confirm TLS 1.2 was enabled and issue remained.

Weirdly we're using Cisco Umbrella for DNS it was broken and pointing DNS back to a DC seemed to fix issue.

Thankfully we're so close to saying goodbye to the last of our win7 machines it's probably given it the final shunt it was crying out for....

Another Windows 10 patch that breaks printers ups ante to full-on Blue Screen of Death

Lots of users here getting blue screens, mainly with Kyocera printers, possibly Canon also.

Naturally I get the first glut of calls directed at me as I'm in the process of migrating print servers from 2012 to 2019.

Uninstalling update fixed issue. Thanks MS...

Hidden Windows Terminal goodies to check out: Retro mode that emulates blurry CRT display – and more

I'm guessing you mean putty? Copy/paste and inability to CTRL arrow through lines of text. Native bash on Linux is a much better experience....

If you own one of these 45 Netgear devices, replace it: Kit maker won't patch vulnerable gear despite live proof-of-concept code

Re: EU directive 1999/44/EC

Can't argue with you there. I'm using pfsense myself.

However, I'm still not sure whether Netgear not bothering to patch a vuln which likely has little real world application and isn't hitting any devices newer than 5 years old is really something to keep me up at night.

Http Wan...?

Does anyone actually have their router portals open on the wan side? Is this even a risk on a consumer level device?

Seems like anyone who may be at risk here has probably got way bigger issues on their network and most likely will never care.

Leave it to Beaver: Unity is long gone and you're on your GNOME

Re: Does Wifi Work?

Who down voted this. For anyone thats struggled with bad wifi firmware on Linux

, this is the most painless thing to do! (even if you do have to run a patched BIOS: I'm looking at you Lenovo!!)