* Posts by ken jay

53 publicly visible posts • joined 26 Oct 2008

Page:

Splunk to junk masters and slaves once a committee figures out replacements

ken jay

but who has ide drives

cant find it on my nvme drives

Trump issues toothless exec order to show donors, fans he's doing something about those Twitter twerps

ken jay

How can you get both sides of a story if you are being forcefed the side of the narrative that the people who control you want you to hear, the germans thought hitler was brilliant in the 1930`s and if you were a german during these times he probably looked good coming out of a war. so if we allow all social media companies to carry on pushing just the side that either the bots programmers or the socially inept call centre workers point of views are and be hidden from the world just because you are different and may need a little more proof.

Surge in home working highlights Microsoft licensing issue: If you are not on subscription, working remotely is a premium feature

ken jay

actually my home computers are far more secure than any corporate

US court responds to Chinese comms giant sueball: There's no Huawei we're lifting ban on federal agencies using your kit

ken jay

we are all responsible for our own security, plus we have already exposed our data to all and sundry already. if huawei had backdoors or infact anything at all non standard our security professionals would find it anyway.

does this mean we can ban all usa equipment that we know the cia and fbi have been caught using against us

LastPass stores passwords so securely, not even its users can access them

ken jay

moved to bitwarden myself only 3 weeks ago, lucky me

Mozilla locks nosy Avast, AVG extensions out of Firefox store amid row over web privacy

ken jay

it gets to something when its safer to let one russian antivirus have any data it collects just to hide yourself from american companies

Avast lobs intruders into the 'Abiss': Miscreants tried to tamper with CCleaner after sneaking into network via VPN

ken jay

i am probably not the best person to comment on avast as i still use avg free and i have not been subject to any malware or virus attacks since the late 90`s. because i am far too dilligent to allow myself to install software that is only open source and verified by its users.

He's coming for your floppy: Linus Torvalds is killing off support for legacy disk drive tech

ken jay

i just had to walk round the room checking computers and servers to see if i still had any floppies, nope go on linus do your thing but please make a module that we can use if needed :)

Chrome ad-blocker crackdown preview due late July. Here's a half-dozen reasons why add-on devs are still upset

ken jay

we make the rules

when will these multinationals realize they are where they are because we actually trusted them to give us the most safe and secure browsing experience, we now need adblockers to stop attacks on our system by meddled with graphics and video, we need a vpn to keep us safe from snooping and even today we need antivirus to stop not viruses but malware attacks.

maybe its time to stop our computers sending ANY data outside our own networks that we do not initialize like we did in the late 90`s.

i have blocked every advert for the last 28 years because if i want something i will research it why should noobs be able to profit from someone looking for information.

Autonomy integration was a 'sh!t show', HP director tells court

ken jay

yesh but.

Every company that aquisitions another company do not give a flying fcuk about anything but the one little bit of IP they are interested in. screw the workers, screw the backbone the companies have spent time and money one all they want is OUR IP

Strewth! Apoplectic Aussies threaten to blast noisy Google delivery drones out of the sky

ken jay

not the only one, if any drones fly close enough to me to shoot down, that is my gear easy as

'What's up, Skip?' asks paraglider – before 'roo beats the snot out of him

ken jay

fuck you skip

WLinux brings a custom Windows Subsystem for Linux experience to the Microsoft Store

ken jay

what PAY!, never going to buy an OS ever.

and no i didnt have to pay for my legal windows OS either

well i lied, i did pay for slackware 3.1 a few hundred yrs ago

Working Apple-1 retro fossil auctioned off to mystery bidder for $375,000

ken jay

why would al capone ask for $45 in gold coins or is that just a technical glitch :)

Biz! Formerly! Known! As! Yahoo! Settles! Data! Breach! Cases! To! The! Tune! Of! $47m!

ken jay

so let me get this right.

they steal our data and cause it to be misused.

they get fined

and the government takes every penny because they dont give a flying crap about the peasants

Arm reckons its 'any device, any data, any cloud' IoT tech has legs

ken jay

oh dear he opened his fridge at 8am i am sure he must be a terrorist

UK cyber security boffins dispense Ubuntu 18.04 wisdom

ken jay

i use debian and wait for you all to write about it

Scam alert: No, hackers don't have webcam vids of you enjoying p0rno. Don't give them any $$s

ken jay

even if there was a video i do not think it would shock my family due to being black sheep and can do anything i want without bowing to family pressure

Citation needed: Europe claims Kaspersky wares 'confirmed as malicious'

ken jay

anything that has the ability to upload suspicious files to anywhere from your own computer should never be allowed as there is nothing stopping an unscrupulous host from stealing everything on that computer, if it has malware then clean it locally and repair the computer then the problem is probably over with.

i would always reinstall any computer that has been infected due to my own paranoia and the fact that i know there are a lot of hackers that are better than i am at installing software hidden in some random unknown user area hidden to the users.

i think the problem with kasperski is that it uploaded copies of any malware it found to its own servers and who wouldn't check data from anywhere with an email address of @gov. @security. @hmrc. or anywhere that looks fun to trifle through.

here is the reason why they are being demonised

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/26/kaspersky-russia-nsa-contractor-leaked-us-hacking-tools-by-mistake-pirating-microsoft-office

Woman sues NASA for ownership of vial of space dust

ken jay

nasa hiding the truth the soil came from area 51 then

Hear that? Of course it's Indiegogo's deadline for a Vega+ whooshing by

ken jay

gambling in hope

does anyone else think crowd funding is just a new way of gambling, buy in early to a pre alpha for ££££ and then wait with baited breath to see if it actually gets worked on, released or lost in the post, if it is released and is successful you have probably made some money back on your investment, get in on a bad idea you lose everything.

Android devs prepare to hit pause on ads amid Google GDPR chaos

ken jay

i have always blocked as many ads as possible, i am not responding to 99% of GDPR emails asking for me to consent.

due to the amount of embedded types of malware in ads i will never consent to seeing them and usually i will research what i need myself and actively shun ads that force their way past my browser protections.

yep devs get it into your heads some of us do not want any advertising on the internet thats targetted or untargetted.

Meet the open sorcerers who have vowed to make Facebook history

ken jay

how things have changed

I am from the generation that would not allow any data out of our computer unless it was initialised by a person on that server, i think the problem is that people need to take control of their personal data and totally ban data transfers between entities that have no relationship.

Google tracks what you spend offline to prove its online ads work. And privacy folks are furious

ken jay

crap internet systems

advertisers are the scum of the country, they hate us users who use adblock or ublock origin and just tell us WE ARE WRONG to hide hell. can we not just get a universal way to deny those people from making money from us and pass the money to us rather than a wanker who can afford 1 million cookies.

Forget the 'simulated universe', say boffins, no simulator could hit the required scale

ken jay

I have been playing role playing games since a little known game called alternate reality the dungeon came on on commodore 64 disk, that one game alone compared to something like destiny 2 or one of the newer MMO`s shows the leaps we have made in virtual worlds, if we look at moore`s law over just a mere 30 years what will the future give us, maybe us running sentient beings on a virtual world while actually being in one ourselves.

Facebook tells Viz to f**k right off

ken jay

new char ideas dead then

How am i going to get my new character in VIZ now, Poulton le flid would of been a great addition, ie a frenchman with learning difficulties living in Poulton Le Fylde who works at the local kebab shop illegally

Juniper 'fesses up to TWO attacks from 'unauthorised code'

ken jay

i used to upgrade the juniper routers, it consisted of, heres a cd go run it on that box. wasnt rocket science either

TalkTalk attackers stole 'incomplete' customer bank data, ISP confirms

ken jay

talktalk and old users

the biggest problem i see is the thousands of people tht left talktalk or cancelled the order before installation a you have to enter bank details and also pay for delivery etc. wht will happen to these people because i am totally sure they have never purged old customer data from any database especially the tiscali ones.

3,500 servers go down – so my FIRST AID training kicks in

ken jay

This is exactly what you look for in not only a sys admin but in a job which you prepare for the worst its brilliant to test out your disaster recovery techniques. but mainly stay calm theres nothing you can do to speed up a fix.

a lot of sys admins only know failure because thats how we learnt to do what we do.

Boffins: Behold the SILICON CHEAPNESS of our tiny, radio-signal-munching IoT sensor

ken jay

next we will be fined for carrying a lightbulb home and not plugging it into a socket fast enough or they attach to laptops fridges hoovers and work out its been reliable for 366 days then the item its attached to breaks and a salesman is at your door with a £50.00 fix or a £300 pounds replacement.

now my ideas are starting to sound orwellian in the 2014`s

The internet just BROKE under its own weight – we explain how

ken jay

my view on the broken internet as a system admin

My belief is that hackers have found a way to access bgp on most main backbones grabbing certain types of traffic to their own c&c servers and others breaking bgp by attempting to access the routes by bgp all thanks to the article on the internet by yourselves

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/08/07/bgp_bitcoin_mining_heist/

I have worked with bgp and thought that the security to access bgp was usually higher than most people with root access to internal servers and talked about in hushed tones around the aircon intake and cisco routers.

no the internet is not filling up, we dont need to rush to buy new equipment but theres a war going on behind tcp-ip between the hackers and the NSA who both want to take over this space because of what you can do to the routed data.

Techies Ahoy! Amazon Web Services has a roadshow just for you

ken jay

Pretty good PR having the AWS customer story from liverpool football club thats gotta be worth the lols just being there seeing mancunians rip them to shreds.

You've got two weeks to beat off Cryptolocker, GameoverZeus nasties

ken jay

hang on havent we been told for the last 18 years that we should be carefull of what we click and always check that you know the sender and you are expecting this email. last virus i got was on the amiga. last malware was just the usual stuff thats detected by avg free and malwarebytes. i think this is just a ruse to make you not look into the NSA or GCHQ revelations. i think our hardware has a better chance of hiding the main threat to privacy and online safety and probably is. paranoia rules.

University boffins build snoop-spotting snitch app

ken jay

at last an app i would pay for

Boffins baffled after Sun fails to fry satellites

ken jay

and?

This is not even new news, i have been watching http://www.youtube.com/user/Suspicious0bservers on youtube for over a year, if you feel like catching up on some real sun science feel free to watch the last 365 days of the 4 min news posts.

I feel there is a correlation between sunspots, pole reversal and the heliosphere but due to there not being 100000 years of data i am unsure if we have a new maunder minimum or little ice age on the horizon maybe in another 10000 years of real data will we know this.

The IPCC have gone very quiet and countries are waking up to the false information that has been shovelled down our throats just to find a way to tax us for using the sun.

Next thing will be C/2012 S1 (ison) blowing up or reawakening the sun who knows as most people to see this have been dead for a few hundred years.

Sueballs lobbed at Tosh, Samsung and LG over 'optical disk cartel'

ken jay

ok for the corporations

What about us.. i have paid between £25 and £1000.00 for these devices over the last 20 years or rather they are making the rich even richer why not help the consumer for a change who made them rich.

I really do not care about dvd`s nowadays while we have plenty of storage for mounting them and less and

less reason to spend so long wasting money and time on single use media.

Maybe we need someone to look into the monopoly the dvd rewriting people have secured themselves.

Adobe demands 7,000 years a day from humankind

ken jay

average joe

never will waste my time reading unenforceable junk, so what if a company feels the need to enforce a EULA i just do not care. people should realise though that any software installed will always have a way to phone home and you should do your best to block all applications from seeking their masters over the internet.

Guild Wars 2 game review

ken jay

not yet polished enough

not sure why people say this is a wow killer, its a nice addition but with no long term prospects.

i was lvl 80 on first char in 2 weeks, i finished story line in 3 weeks well before all the bugs were resolved.

its nothing new, no mounts, no clothes or decorations and only 1 way to fight. oh also same quests etc etc

i will give them a +10 on refunds i can now spend the recycled game money on more beer.

remember the distance selling rules guys and if the game is not your cup of tea get a refund while you can.

Apple wins second round of Samsung patent slugfest

ken jay

lol i just hate every IT company equally.

after 30 years in IT i just want to be a road sweeper with a nokia thats used as a phone and have no technology in my home due to all this fighting about stuff people like me and you other older users invented in the first place.

worst thing that happens in any country is that good IT people suddenly become managers and owners taking away the things we all invented by rewriting code and pulling in a patent.

worst idea of my life was thinking portable computing was the way to go

German court turkey-slaps Motorola in patent case

ken jay

Oh Dear the end of the world is nigh

i see this as a war against programmers, how many people in the 1980`s saw an idea and copied the effect by writing their own version of that code because they liked it.,

i wrote code that would parralax scroll myself. but now computing is out of the hobbyist`s hands the large companies are seeking to take over the technology from the people who actually were the innovators of the original ideas.

unfortunately for apple i will never buy a macintosh or a fondleslab both use stolen ideas made by the users.

be nice please i am trying to make a valid point not troll or be stupid :)

Two weeks 'til the internet disappears, for 58 Fortune 500 companies

ken jay

remind you of y2k bug lol

any self respecting system admin that has servers go dark deserves to work at mcdonalds in my opinion i dont know whats scarier, the reg posting scare-ware stories or the dns changer malware.

Microsoft ejects DVD playback from Windows 8

ken jay
Happy

Ninite.com is the dogs

Use ninite.com download installer to networked storage and run to install your fav apps. the best bit is that if you run it again it will automatically update all your apps for you as well.

Jobs: 'I'll spend my dying breath destroying Android'

ken jay

not only did he see himself better than the pc market he wanted to control how we used phones, total ass, macintosh screwed over the kids in the 80`s now iphone imac and idontgiveaflyingfcuk tries to do it again, we need something that kids are allowed to play with so we invent better not something that takes us back to the 90`s

Solar panel selling scam shown up by sting

ken jay

Why does the government not step in

The electric supply problem would be easily fixed if the government gave all the low income families solar panels and the money generated went to pay for the systems over say 10 - 15 yrs after the 15 years the panels would be old and need updating but at least in that time there would of been locally sustainable electric added to the grid.

only problem i see is what would we do with all the tile makers and slate quarries.

Earth may be headed into a mini Ice Age within a decade

ken jay
Coat

hang on a sec

we know nothing of the way the universe works we do not have enough data or understanding yet.

We have only just started gathering data on the sun and 400 yrs ago the earth was flat, the periodic table was almost empty in 1970 now look at it of you did any type of science in the 1970`s

so until someone has gathered data for at least 10000 years we will never understand or be able to proove or disproove the earths cycles against sunspot activity because we really need data to overlap.

just my 10p`s worth

Darling confirms telephone line tax

ken jay

why us

Do you know that i feel like i am paying twice for the internet nowadays. not only have i paid the higest price for the biggest service for 15-20 yrs now i have to help people who are not that interested in the internet get online, what a farce next we will be bringing back sunlight tax oh sorry that probably comes under the carbon and c02 taxes .

getting really fed up with the uk :)

Mystic Met Office abandons long range forecasts

ken jay

weatheraction

where is the so called proof that weatheraction were wrong ?, i have followed their weather data for the last 12 months they do not say (like the met) these predictions will be 100% but that there is a good chance due to solar activity and climate models that the weather will be pushed north or south, the latest report can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eSD5bMqCoE

TalkTalk steps up attack on government

ken jay

Broadband stealth tax

I have been an internet user since before we had a graphical internet, in those days i had to call a national number and pay through my nose to connect to the internet via a london gateway.

i have moved with the times probably subsidising not only BT but telewest, blueyonder, virgin now o2 and bethere.

my question is i have been an early adopter for 20 yrs now, i have always had to pay premium prices for services for all of this time. so my main question is where did all that money i paid to BT and the cable companies go. not pnly have i paid my fair share of money to these companies so that they can supply me with what i need/want they now want a bigger share of my funds so i can pay for something i thought i was paying for.

no privatised company should be allowed to get away with what they are getting away with, the early adopters have already paid this money out so that everyone else has the ability to connect to the internet cheaply, I suggest that the government goes to these people in rural areas and gets them to pay the extra money for the services like they already do when they need a road or electricity and gas running to out of the way places.

I for one will be looking at my internet usage and cutting down in the future as nowadays we spend more time than ever searching for what we want on the internet and we spend far too long checking that the latest email is a scam.

when the uk`s services get as good as sweden or tiawan or any other third world country then i will gladly pay extra but i will not pay any more stealth taxes to help fat cats get rich while the rest of us subsidise low standard access.

Ken Jay

Remote IT support tool hijacks customer webserver

ken jay

lol

calls himself an administrator thats definately a 5 minute job

Page: