Posts by hmmmhmmm

What does London's number 65 bus have to hide? OS caught on camera setting fire to '22,000 illegal file(s)!!'

Encrypted video files

All the video files are stored encrypted as per TfL spec, and it's normal for such systems to store lots of small files in case of power failure (drivers regularly power cycle the buses to remove fault warnings).

Although much of the CCTV retrieval is now done over WiFi when the bus gets to the garage, in 2016 most retrieval would involve physically removing the hard drive and replacing with another. When the files are pulled from the drive by the CCTV/accident person, the hard drive just gets put aside until it gets swapped with another when CCTV from another bus is requested. I would expect these are just video files and log files with the wrong key and are therefore unreadable or "illegal" in the context of that individual bus.

It could be 'five to ten years' before the world finally drags itself away from IPv4

IPv6 was designed for a world of servers. now everything is a client instead.

sharing similar capability is not the same - it's still different.

yes, adding extra octets WILL break things, but it's just a matter of doing some relatively minor alterations to existing code rather than rewriting everything from scratch.no one complained when ASN length was increased because it was a simple change that could be coded relatively quickly and easily and consumers noticed no difference in how things worked.

it would give you the option to include all existing addresses (e.g. 1.2.3.4 becomes 0.0.1.2.3.4) and routing tables can expect that. interfaces to old equipment that can't be upgraded can sit behind a very simple translator that changes 0.0.1.2.3.4 to 1.2.3.4 and blocks anything outside 0.0.*

one of the most unexpected outcomes of NAT was how much people actually like it. much harder to target something that isn't addressable. clearly the designers of ipv6 were under the impression every device would need a server running on the same port. in reality, since select/poll/epoll came about all of these devices are just clients instead of servers.

Barmy ban on businesses, Brits based in Blighty bearing or buying .eu domains is back: Cut-off date is Jan 1, 2021

Re: I always thought .eu was for European nations, not the European Union.

"I always thought .eu was for European nations, not the European Union."

The EU has a habit of adopting European organisations that were created as independent collaborations prior the EU existing. After 2016 suddenly everyone was worried about our membership of them being removed. The EU has been steadily convincing everyone over time that it IS Europe rather than just a political organisation WITHIN Europe. It was convenient for many orgs to reorganise under the EU, but that doesn't mean their membership is restricted to the EU.

One could say that a .eu domain should only be available to true EU companies (Societas Europaea). In April 2018 there were 3000 registrations TOTAL, where as the UK had over 600,000 company registrations in the prior YEAR alone, and still well over 120,000 that year when dissolved companies are removed from the number. This would drop total .eu domain registrations by 99.9%.

EU General Court tears up ban on Three slurping O2. Good thing the latter's not set to merge with Virgin Media, eh?

In case you get lost in the text or just can't be bothered to read it:

This is(was) essentially a disagreement between the two pillars of the 4th Reich: Big business and Bureaucrats.

Anyway, the EU thought that less companies = less competition, completely ignoring the fact that technology changes and ultimately they are competing on new products(handsets,modems) and services(5g,burning poles) that require lots of innovation and investment.

So just before they became irrelevant they decided to undo what they had done just before it doesn't matter anymore.

Competition? We've heard of it. MoD snubs cloud rivals to hand Microsoft £17.7m Azure hosted services gig

Re: Yeah, f**k UK industry...

Technically it will be awarded to a UK company, with UK staff and UK premises. Foreign-owned, but British registered - just like much of the "proper-British" competition would have been. From a subjective cultural point of view it's irritating but for the most part unavoidable, unless the MOD can find a way to invest in a small privately run British company to get big enough but would effectively be a one-client company. Granted the equivalent is done in Israel all the time, and is the reason for their tech growth, but the UK likes to keep corporate stuff at arms length.