Posts by BillGatesOfHell

Political poker? Tariff hunger games? Trump creates havoc for PC industry

The future's bright the future's orange

Have they tried switching his neurolink off and on again?

Names, bank info, and more spills from top sperm bank

Re: this hacking news is hard to swallow

They could have with some thorough pen testing.

UK council selling the farm (and the fire station) to fund ballooning Oracle project

Ransomware

I worked as a mere minion at a very, very big place back in the day that had oracle databases (it still is and and still does). When the company was testing upgrading client PCs from Win 98/NT to XP, the oracle client software after installing fine would not work anymore popping up some dlll error when connecting. Oracle's answer was upgrade the software on each client at £5k per seat. While the other regional centre's IT staff and head office were eating prawn sandwiches and having meetings about what couldn't be done about it, I discovered after a couple of weeks of persistant hacking, that just deleting the offending dll made the client software run fine thus saving around £5 million nationally. I gained hero status with managing directors and above, but IT project management etc developed quite a distain for me afterwards due to making them look like the numbnuts that they truely were. IMO, anybody with an ounce of common sense should treat all things Oracle as ransomware, especially if you are spending somebody elses money on it.

Nvidia shrinks Grace-Blackwell Superchip to power $3K mini PC

A.I. think, therefore A.I. am not.

Hey Project Digits. I am a professional and successful ebay scalper. Provide me with a description of your hardware and aesthetics that will enable me to sell you for 3 times what you are worth.

US reportedly mulls TP-Link router ban over national security risk

I had a pair of cheap TP-Link ASDL routers in the early 2000s. I got them because they had PTP tunneling, which until then, was only available in very expensive kit!

Firefox slow to load YouTube? Just another front in Google's war on ad blockers

illegal in the UK

WTF, found these motorcycle footrests on amazon today and it made me chuckle.

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51HczXtdeaL._AC_SL1000_.jpg

Responsibly posting link to image only!

There are ads on the internet?

adblocker ultimate + ghostery + clearurls + privacy badger extensions combined in your browser of choice will supress almost all ads. Need to disable ghostery nowadays on youtube but still working ad free with adblocker not detected (at time of writing).

If you want to pwn youtube on a level beyond comprehension, then get the smarttube android app from github and run in wsa or emulator of choice. This is a must have app for any firestick

Microwaved fish could help scientists create sustainable LEDs

Click Bait / Hake News

It's o-fish-al. After scaling up production, Carpbone Warehouse will soon be shelling a clamshell flipper phone with a USB sea port. Clever bass-tards.

Google engineer suspended for violating confidentiality policies over 'sentient' AI

sequel

Seems to me that the programmer for the zx spectrum game 'iD' has been busy writing a sequel.

Google set to face fresh sueball over its Play Store revenue commission after probe by several US states – report

WTF?

There's something I just don't understand about it. Apple/Google take 30% for an app purchase on their store, I understand. Epic make game free but add in-app purchases to get around it and Google/Apple don't like it and want 30%, I understand. App stores don't get 30% from in-app purchases from apps like Uber, ebay, Amazon etc so WTF is the difference?

Tech scammer who fooled Cisco, Microsoft and Lenovo out of millions jailed for more than seven years

Scamming the scammers

You should assume any promise of warranty or support as lies with these companies. Shame they don't have the same quality of staff in support or manufacturing as they do in sales and legal.

Indian mega-carrier Jio to build pair of 200-terabit submarine cables

live by the sword

Reliance also have a large finger in the pie of the offshore oil/gas industry off the East coast of India. Currently they are conducting subsea projects with McDermott and other greedy western oilfield service companys and people are literally dying of COVID on vessels. Rather than suspend/postpone these projects, they are pushing to complete them and carrying on regardless and refusing requests for people to return home. Collegues I know are on these projects and are subject to the usual NDA stuff so you won't hear anything about it for a long while. These companies don't give a F**K about them now but when they need the skilled personel to lay these new cables they are building, they are just going to have to get it done with locals that only know how to BS on a CV.

Man arrested after UK school finds wiped hard drives on devices connected to network

Re: sophisticated and certainly state sponsored

.....or the unwitting owner of an infected device now sobbing in a cell while the forensics pore over his dubious intenet history.

What do you call megabucks Microsoft? No really, it's not a joke. El Reg needs you

microslurp

bloatzilla

pseudopenguin

migrainesoft

'Non-commercial use only'? Oopsie. You can't get much more commercial than a huge digital billboard over Piccadilly

Re: Free for non-commercial use?

Agree 100%, OVH are great and provide alot more options than most as standard with no hidden extras. Yes they jack up the prices a bit on domain renewals but who doesn't. Went the VPS route purely for fun and greater flexibility and portability. As far as people slating OVH, try comapring to Crazy Domains who are still charging extra for SSL certs and spam filters in their hosting plans so baiscally you end up paying double the advertised cost once you realise your http site is blocked by most modern ISP supplied routers, not to mention their shared hosting bandwidth is slower than hosting from home despite what they claim.

Re: Free for non-commercial use?

Teamviewer is the go-to product for scammers and it is very plausable a client employee could give the quicksupport 10 digit code and password to anybody calling them thinking it was IT support. This is why most use alternative products like splashtop and connectwise to avoid this scenario not to mention the cost. Personally I had a 5 year dyndns subscription, and with some client side router port forwarding, I access my clent PCs via RDP. A bit more fiddly to implement than teamviewer but infinately less expensive and far more secure. I was quite surprised though when it came to renewal since dyndns has since been gobbled up by oracle. Initially my 5 year sub cost $67.50 but now they were demanding $55/year despite the competition being at leat 50% cheaper. It turned out however I could get a VPS, and with a bit of docker magic, create my own dynamic dns server for less than the dyndns annual renewal.

Finally – news that something is guaranteed to be healthy and well looked-after for the next six months. That something is Windows 10 1709

GRRRRRRR

Hey Microsoft, Update from 1903 to 1909 keeps failing. *yawn* just like all the other 'upgrades'.

notification..... 'update is ready'

reboot...... 'prepares for update'

reboot...... 'applies update'

reboot...... 'could not apply update'

reboot...... 'undoing update'

reboot...... 'back to normal after wasting 10 minutes'

48 hours later, download same 300mb+ file and same old shit.

put up with it for 2-3 months thinking thay will provide a fix

give up and reinstall

wait for next 'upgrade'

This is the 4th time in 5 years, same old shit.

Windows support forum full of clueless dinlos (probably bots designed to make you feel sorry for them cuz it's not their fault they are useless).

Bill Gates stepping down?

About time he and his crew started stepping the f@*k up.

Good luck Bill finding a cure for malaria when you can't even fix the shit you wrote. Oh, and thanks for all the pain you've caused over the last 25 years, I'm sure your replacement will continue to have us all in good hands.