* Posts by astfgl

6 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Sep 2020

Microsoft floats bringing a text editor back to the CLI

astfgl

The answer is joe

...with Wordstar key bindings.

BOFH: You. Wouldn't. Put. A. Test. Machine. Into. Production. Without. Telling. Us.

astfgl
Facepalm

Test into prod?

The test database is indeed on the test server. It worked flawlessly, so they put the prod database on there as well. And didn't tell anyone. Despite there being an identical prod server provisioned and ready to go.

Then there was the prod database on the test webapp server along with the test webapp, the test database on the test database server, the prod webapp on the prod webapp server, and the prod database server doing nothing.

Good thing we backup our test servers.

Unpatched flaw 'weaponises' Apple AirTags to turn them into the phisherman's friend

astfgl
Coat

Re: Stop educating the sheeple

The play store lists the Tile app as having between 5 and 10 million installs. Lets be generous and add double that maximum number as the iOS installs. Tile and it's partners have sold around 35 million devices. Again, lets be generous and say that no-one bought more than one tile and every single owner installed the app, which makes those numbers come close to equal. Of course, no tiles failed and no-one uninstalled the app, or failed to reinstall it on a replacement phone, and no one disabled BT or location access.

35 million iOS/Android devices available for Tile tracking.

Currently there are around 1 billion active iphones, plus a couple of hundred million ipads. Lets be generous and say that half the owners are security conscious Reg readers and have turned off BT and location access, or do not have mobile data enabled.

600 million iThings available for AirTag tracking.

I've skewed those numbers wildly in favor of the Tiles, but I was making a point.

Some references:

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/27/apple-airtags-versus-tile-tracker-how-they-compare.html

https://9to5mac.com/2020/01/28/apple-hits-1-5-billion-active-devices-with-80-of-recent-iphones-and-ipads-running-ios-13/

astfgl
Devil

Stop educating the sheeple

Shush, I'm using that flock as a distributed GPS tracking network for my mobile assets. Total outlay was a 4 pack of tags and a secondhand Air 4. No ongoing costs except a few CR2032 batteries every year or so.

Way more people have iThings with location and BT turned on by default, than have the Tile app installed and active.

BOFH: Here in my car I feel safest of all. I can listen to you ... It keeps me stable for days

astfgl
Happy

Re: Unlike the £1 coin...

1. Notice the small amount of epoxy leaking out from under one side and walk right past.

2. Come back the next morning with a chisel and hammer.

3. Profit!

Before you buy that managed Netgear switch, be aware you may need to create a cloud account to use its full UI

astfgl
FAIL

Never bought one, never will

That's them off my suppliers list - which is admittedly restricted to HP/Aruba and D-link.

I can't think of any reason to buy network infrastructure which requires internet access, but Netgear has apparently deluded themselves into thinking that some people can.