Posts by stiine

Rejoice! System Administrator Appreciation Day (SAAD) is nigh

Strippers and party balloons.

My smartphone has wiped my microSD card again: Is it a conspiracy?

Re: Maybe its Huawei

I have a Samsung phone and have had older Samsung, ZTE, and Nokia phones. I've been through about 7 microSD cards that have all randomly just stopped working. Alternately, I've got one card that is in its 3rd device...

Need baby formula? Buy a pregnancy test at Walgreens

really?

Ask Walgreen's if 'sell' includes lease, rent, share, or give?

And if not, suggest they check their website logs.

Crypto miners aren't honest about power use – time for a crackdown

Re: One wonders if ...

Your EV can generate less 'bad' emission than your ICE after ~450k miles ( https://youtu.be/S1E8SQde5rk?t=655 ). This is graph to which I'm referring that includes the not-currently-counted manufacturing emissions.

Re: So What ?

If they signed up for 'market rates for power,' then yes, what you just said is true. Sad, but still true.

Re: So What ?

Do they pay different rates than other businesses that use the same amount of power? Where I've lived, businesses pay for a (for exampl) 500-amp service, and then the business rates for power. The only time I think it should matter is if what's being powered supports health and safety (like a hospital.)

Dev's code manages to topple Microsoft's mighty SharePoint

Re: Microsoft phone support (baggy-pants edition)

I have been on hold before where I asked the tech who took the call to put me back on hold until the song ended. I don't remember which company, nor which year...nor which song...

CP/M's open-source status clarified after 21 years

They were VERY expensive business tools...

Re: Ah, the memories!

I stopped using BSD before the 4.4 release...

I also don't think the Z80/Intel 8080 problem was real. If you were using CP/M in 1975, you had probably written your own decompiler.

IT departments often regret technology buying decisions

Re: Huh?

It means that its easier to recognized unhappy customers after they become former customers.

James Webb Space Telescope looks closer to home with Jupiter snaps

How many people have ever seen a turtle from that distance?

Homeland Security warns: Expect Log4j risks for 'a decade or longer'

Re: In a decade or longer the world will be a completely different space. Of that you can be sure.

Yeah and we all know that rust and paint can never seal a door or window closed.

CISA pulls the fire alarm on Juniper Networks bugs

Re: what we want

What we want are puns, snark, and in-jokes to be used in a diabolical way to keep us informed about the changing landscape of computing.

Twitter claims Elon Musk bailed from sale with 'invalid and wrongful' reasons

Re: "vowing to see the deal through to a conclusion"

I envy you.

Re: Pay up + interest

They don't know how many bots there are.

NASA's CAPSTONE silence down to a software flaw

Re: Whats Happens If

Read Douglas Adams' "Mostly Harmless". I think the computer blacked out.

It doesn't matter if the software is perfect, hardware can have issues, too. I remember a router who's ASIC added the length of the padding bytes to the length of the data field of the packet if it was of a particular type.

Five accused of trying to silence China critics in US

Re: Double standards

Fucking hilarious....

Meta accuses data scrapers of taking more than their share

Re: Surely

Didn't the Linked-In case resolve this in favor of the scrapers?

Google location tracking to forget you were ever at that medical clinic

Re: controls to delete all or part of those records, or switch it off

But the telco's do, in fact, know exactly where you are with GPS coordinates from the baseband controller in your phone. You might know it as E911 (depending on your country it probably has a different name.)

Old-school editor Vim hits version 9 with faster scripting language

Re: Who wants that?

Alas, I don't code in Perl, only bash.

Who wants that?

What I want is the ability to hit undo repeatedly after returning from the fridge/toilette/bar and be able to see what I changed last blink to my keypresses...and then try to figure out why...

Re: Others preferred

Wow! You had a 2400 baud modem in 83ish? We still had a rack full of 1200baud modems when I left the college at the end of 93. Of course, a dumb not-quite-Wyse terminal and 1200 baud modem taught me to touch type much more quickly than my highschool course. Of course I found out the hard way, by dropping DTR that my terminal/modem connection wasn't configured for xon-xoff...

new features? who cares?

As long as they don't break the at&t unix System V compatibility mode, I don't care.

NOBODY PRINT! Selfless hero saves typing pool from carbon catastrophe

Re: aaargggh!

Do what I do. Sign clearly on paper, scan paper at the highest dpi you can. Save as transparent. Open to-be-signed documents in paint program, paste signature on appropriate line. Save and send back. I've been doing that for so long I no longer remember when I started.

W3C overrules objections by Google, Mozilla to decentralized identifier spec

Who's Tim?

Start using Modern Auth now for Exchange Online

Re: The whole thing is a worsening nightmare

I don't want any of them to know that I have a phone because its none of their business and I don't want anyone to link all of my logins to a single 2fa dongle. That means I have to have a non-USB one, actually I need one for each service because I don't want someone to find/take my 2fa dongle and then work backwards to find my accounts and my locations when accessing those accounts.

the convenience isnt' worth it to me. just give me a 128character password limit and I'll be safe.

Intel’s CEO shouldn’t be surprised America can’t get CHIPS Act together

Tough

Tell him, his shareholders, and his board of directors to fuck right off, and then stop buying Intel hardware.

OpenSSL 3.0.5 awaits release to fix potential worse-than-Heartbleed flaw

They'd just rebrand OpenSSL and then take a holiday to Greece.

You need to RTFM, but feel free to use your brain too

Re: Check you can complete before you start

I disagree. If you get to pick one, then picking the obviously evil guy is definitely the way to proceed.

Re: Based upon personal experience....

I've you're like me....you also include several examples of what to expect when you do it wrong and tell you how far back up the instructions you have to go to recover.

When I'm writing instructions, I always document the steps as I'm, for example building a new application server, performing them. Then I delete the VM and start over by following the instructions. When the instructions are complete, I do it one more time just to make sure it wasn't a fluke.

The perfect crime – undone by the perfect email backups

Re: CEO investigation

So is a rock.

Mars Express orbiter to get code update after 19 years

Its definitely with them.

Its a long-standing trade-off. More data for a shorter time period or less data for a longer time period....the one that you choose has to be based on what you are going to do with the data. Or in this case, what they're going to do next!

Re: It never ceases to amaze me ...

Congratulations, you have discovered a downward trend... Have a drink, it'll help.

Don't ditch PowerShell to improve security, say infosec agencies from UK, US, and NZ

See icon...

Totaled Tesla goes up in flames three weeks after crash

Re: Am I the only one

No, tires don't have to be grippy. Once all vehicles are computer controlled, there won't be any more emergency braking.

Re: Am I the only one

How many tons of rock are required to make a Tesla battery?

This is an troubling article: https://www.mining.com/all-the-mines-tesla-needs-to-build-20-million-cars-a-year/

Re: Another one.

Chevy Bolt's also have battery problems, they use LG Chem batteries as mentioned in the article.

Re: thinking outside the box

What are the chances tht Elon's car self-ignites??? Will we be able to see it?

Intel withholds Ohio fab ceremony over US chip subsidies inaction

They should not pass it

Intel made the business decision to move manufacturing overseas because it saved them money. If they're now complaining that moving it back will cost money.....well, fuck 'em.

If you didn't store valuable data, ransomware would become impotent

Re: So instead of...

But they do, sort of, because zero trust also means they won't take your word that a 9 month old widget has broken and you think they need to replace it.

Windows 11 22H2 is almost here. Is it ready for the enterprise?

Re: I hate the lack of task manager

Right-click taskbar to access the task manager was there for decades...

If AI chatbots are sentient, they can be squirrels, too

Maybe there will be different voices for reading aloud kids books compared to horror stories.

I want 'The Shining' read by Mr Rogers, and Lolita read by Elmer Fudd.

But what I really want is for a book with 20 characters to have 21 voices (including the narrarator). I want the male characters to sound male, the female characters to sound female, and the animals crossing the road to squeak.

Know the difference between a bin and /bin unless you want a new doorstop

Bah, as long as you discover this before booting it, you can recover by copying files/dirs from another machine. I've seen it done and can say it was fun to watch.

The advantage, perhaps the only one, is that if you restrict yourself to a-zA_Z0-9-_ and 8.3 format, you should never have any problem copying/opening the file no matter which OS you're using.

Wi-Fi hotspots and Windows on Arm broken by Microsoft's latest patches

Re: WTF has .NET *anything* have to do with WiFi ?

.NET is the root of all evil and most of what Microsoft writes links to the .NET runtime. This is especially troubling when its Defender...

Indian government issues confidential infosec guidance to staff – who leak it

bans the use of 3rd party ntp servers

How else are they going to propel the country into the past.

Microsoft readies Windows Autopatch to free admins from dealing with its fixes

That's what you think.

All I could think when I read the headline was 'Oh Fuck No You Aren't!' I already have to prevent my home machines from being able to access any microsoft.com networks to prevent projects, recipes and more important files from being destroyed by microsoft's idea of 'active hours'. When Its time to update, I change my firewall policy to allow and commit the changes to auto-rollback in 60 minutes.

Re: So clearly the Mk 1 is about to sink into the swamp.

No, they won't because the morons who write the new system will have been trained by the senior morons who wrote the previous system.