Why?

Why?

Easy Tiger!

Perhaps you should switch to decaf!

If you wanted to bring this to a wider audience you should have posted it somewhere people actually go - like Slashdot for example.

I totally agree that this is a major security issue, but it's hardly ground shaking.

Until very recently GMAIL only encrypted the logon credentials, and dumped you back to http once you were logged in. There is now an option to encrypt everything in the user settings, but most people won't know about it, and therefore all their email contents are there for the sniffing

Considering that people get password resets sent to their email accounts, this is a much bigger security issue than that of the calendar.

Correction

One providing access from everywhere EXCEPT iDevices

Where's my edit button?

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"And since I have experimented with F/OSS and found it to be unreliable in document translation, I am compelled to meet the standards that my clients and suppliers follow - MS Office. Get back to me when that lack of OSS reliability has been overcome."

False - it is M$ who don't even follow their OWN standards, it is this that causes the (very rare) rendering anomalies. FOSS productivity packages in my experience are actually far more reliable, and enjoyable to use than Redmond's abortions. Particularly since that fucking awful ribbon that appeared in Office 2007

Besides - you cannot even guarantee that an M$ Office doc will render the same on two WinTel machines, especially if using different versions.

This is why PDF was developed, to ensure that any document you want to send electronically gets rendered exactly as the author intended. And Open/Libre etc Office have the export to PDF function built in to the file menu, something that you either have to pay for or hack into M$Office by way of a PDF printer.

As for the adobe packages, there are alternatives, but if you're suffering from vendor Lock-in that badly, just use Wine.

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> Both Be and O2 use BT for backhaul. The network was apparently set up in the early days using BT's BES/WES service. Be just rents capacity.

Erm yeah, but no, not quite - a BT BES / WES circuit, is just that - a point to point circuit. When you purchase a (for example) 1Gig Circuit, you get a Fibre connection that will run at 1Gbps - exactly the same speed as if you'd laid the fibre yourself.

You are technically correct that BT 'Owns' the fibre, but it isn't a case of buying capacity in the same sense that BT resells ADSL. The BES/WES circuits are uncontended, which is the important bit, and BT has no say whatsoever about what data can run over the fibres.

I'm quite certain you knew that, but didn't want others to shun Be on the premise that it's just another Resold BT service.

I've been with Be for several years now and am very happy - Regularly get 2MiB/s download... that's right MEBIBYTES - roughly 16.7 Mbps

I'm more than a mile from my exchange too. It isn't cheap (£17.50 pm) but worth it in my opinion for the unrestricted downloads, great speed and a /29 subnet of static IPs.

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As someone has previously stated, Cisco are innovators in the networking arena - HSRP came about LONG before the Industry Standard VRRP (in fact VRRP is BASED on HSRP) Plus almost every Cisco L3 device supports VRRP.

GLBP doesn't have an open standard alternative - but you can be sure that if/when one does become available Cisco will support it (and will probably be one of the first to do so)

ISL came about long before 802.1q and again - dot1Q is supported on every Cisco switch in existence. Noone uses ISL anymore.

IGRP came about because RIP was complete crap.

EIGRP is about the only proprietary routing protocol still in use, but that's primarily because its bloody good! If you did want to interoperate with non-Cisco gear then you would just use OSPF instead.

I don't agree *at all* that Cisco use proprietary protocols as a vendor lock-in mechanism - if that were the case then they wouldn't be on so many of the boards and panels that come up with the Industry Standards in the first place, and they wouldn't support the opposing protocols!!

Go visit BT or C&W or any ISP on the planet and and see how many of them don't use Cisco - you will be able to list them all on the back of a postage stamp - and this isn't due to protocol lock-in as they all use BGP!!

Be careful with 3Com

Be careful with 3Com

We (Very Large Public Sector Body) were a 3Com house 15 Years ago, then they just up-sticks saying that they were getting out of the networking market, and fucked off leaving everyone with an installed 3Com hardware base in the total lurch. No hardware replacements - no support nothing - fucking twats.

That's when we moved to Cisco, and while expensive it is bomb proof, and when you have a problem on your network that you need to identify, all the tools are there.

I recently helped a friend to troubleshoot an issue on his HP Procurve based network (granted I'm talking Switching now, as opposed to routing) The problem ended up being a misbehaving device that was using another device's MAC address. It took FOUR HOURS to identify the problem and track the bastard down because HP don't think it's important to report MAC FLIP events - something that even the cheapest Cisco switch would do.

Cisco may well be the BORG, and for many of their products I would prefer to stay away (Cisco Works in particular - yuck) but as far as core routing, switching and firewalling goes it will take some serious arguments to tempt us away.

Nothing wrong with EE

Not sure why people dislike experts exchange, just scroll to the bottom of the page - the "You must register to access the answer" is just there to deter the luddites I think.

I find MANY of my technical answers on EE and I've never paid them a penny.

By the way, for people who dislike all those bloody horrible comparison sites:

GIVE ME BACK MY GOOGLE http://www.gmbmg.com/

*YAWN*

Just scroll to the bottom!!!

Nonsense

"And Linux on mobile has the same issues Windows on mobile has. Both were never designed to run on such devices."

Nonsense - Linux is a Kernel - NOT an operating system. You can still have a fully functional Linux Distro running on a 486 with 16Meg of RAM. It won't be quick or pretty, but will work.

Modern smartphones, let alone tablets and NetTops have Hardware that surpasses this by orders of magnitude. Building a Linux Distro that runs smoothly on a 1Ghz ARM with 512Memory and 32Gig of storage (which is still quite conservative in this area) would be childsplay for many linux gurus.

Linux can be as big or as small as you like, Windows however cannot.

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Presumably your car is also looking at the road lines, and as for brakeing - a computer can do that much more reliably that you or me anyway... probably 50% or more of the space you need to leave from the car in front is for reaction time - time that a computer doesn't need.

I still agree that it's a fail (for now) though, as even if this tech was available in this country, the handwringers would still require you to be sat up and alert watching the road - no way they'd allow for you to sit there with a newspaper and a coffee!!!

Eh?

I have multiple systems multibooting - WinXP + Ubu on a Laptop and Win7+Ubu on my desktop (Which has 3 HDDs)

The Desktop is also an NVidia Chipset with built in RAID.

My Server also runs SME Server 7 with 4 Identical Disks, also on NVidia Chipset.

I'm not sure what you're doing wrong but I've NEVER had an issue like you describe. The only way that any installer I've used would treat individual drives as a RAID array is if they already were a RAID array. Is your SATA mode set to RAID perchance?

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Considerably more reliable disks in RAID arrays, yes.

If a Tape fails you don't usually know until you come to do a restore, whereas RAID arrays can be monitored and if a disk fails or develops a fault it can be replaced without any loss of data integrity.

Grammar Nazi

No:

I am pretty sure this is the most "closed" thing Google could HAVE done.

Not Illegal

Except that card counting - in your head - is NOT illegal.

Those in prison must have been using some technological means to assist in the counting.

No way the guys should be found guilty.

Cisco

Cisco are the same with their Routers and Switches - they ship without K9 images (and are therefore incapable of SSH)

The first thing we do is drop a K9 on every new router / switch we procure, then disable Telnet.

These stupid US export restrictions have probably been one of the major reasons why Telnet is still in use today, and has without a shadow of a doubt caused numerous security incidents due to lazy sys/network admins.

Maybe now manufacturers can start shipping all devices with SSH only, and resign telnet to the protocol graveyard where it should have gone over 10 years ago.

Virtually no Ads

Even without Ad blockers there are virtually no Ads on Gmail, just a teeny tiny text banner above the archive, report spam etc buttons.

And if you cared about privacy you wouldn't use email. Full Stop.

emails are sent in plain text using the SMTP protocol... anyone in the middle, (Network Admins, Proxy Admins, ISPs, Government, spooks, gremlins, the boogy man etc) can capture your email and read it without any effort whatsoever.

And if you think Microsoft don't read your email you are kidding yourself.

Google may primarily be an advertising company, but I can honestly say, hand on heart that no google ad has ever pissed me off by taking up too much screen space, flashing, spinning or causing popups/popunders etc. etc. Go onto Hotmail, and all you can see is bloody gaudy flashy adverts everywhere - yuck.

If you want your emails to be private then you'd better set up your own mail server and start encrypting and digitally signing all your emails - of course you won't be able to send them to anyone as they won't know how to decrypt them.

@Eveready

Check your definitions - that isn't piracy - Piracy would be using a keygen or other method of installation without a license. At worst my friend has misused a license - nothing has been 'stolen', no money has changed hands, infact he paid a vast sum of money to get that MSDN subscription in the first place.

If Windows were reasonably priced then I would - grudgingly - pay for it.

<£50 would be a reasonable price and would still make M$ mind boggling sums of money. I refuse to pay £150+ for something that I don't even want anyway.

And for the record - all other software/games I pay for, I just refuse to pay protection money to the OS Mafia.

Re: Err

Really?

I have (or had) accounts with HSBC, Capital One, MBNA, Alliance & Leicester and Halifax - none of them allowed non-alphanum characters in their VbV or MSC implementations. I think that's a pretty decent spread across the UK banking spectrum.

Granted I haven't used a couple of these for a while so they may have changed recently.

However this doesn't detract from the central premise of my comment - that these are not security improvements - they're methods of shifting blame from the banks to the consumers.

I presume that the upvoters were agreeing with this fact rather than what you obviously did and just reading the first paragraph and finding something to complain about.

The poster above replied in a decent manner - HIS implementation allowed non-alphanum - that's great. Your reply was just plain wrong.

Begone troll.

Just because it's USB...

Just because it's USB doesn't mean you have to plug it into a PC.

Nearly all new phones (except Apple) use a micro USB cable for both data and power, and they come with a Wall-Wart PSU with USB socket for mains charging.

If you really want to charge up off a PC without making a data connection then either set your phone's USB mode to power only, or get a power-only cable. They are included with pretty much every "multi-phone charger kit" available in supermarkets for a few quid, and only connect to the Vcc+ and GND pins of the USB port, plus send enough power back on the signal line to let the phone know it's OK to draw power.

I picked up an in-car multicharger from Morrisons for about £5, screwed the microUSB connector to it and have it connected to my Laptop docking station permanently at my desk. When I connect to it the PC doesn't register a new device so no risk of it wiping any files.

Frankly, users who ignore security posts about connecting non-work devices to their work PCs deserve to get their phones wiped, if only to teach them to 'F'ing listen. I also find it very difficult to believe that any software would arbitrarily reformat / encrypt an attached storage device without prompting the user first - Deny Access to unencrypted volumes, fine, but just go ahead and wipe without prompting? I don't think so - unless your Desktop & Server people are both script monkeys and very, very stupid.

And no - it doesn't necessarily mean that you'll need two chargers - I seriously doubt that Apple will remove their proprietary connector, they'll probably just have MicroUSB as well.

WTF?

That is all.

erm...

Plex isn't a Mac port of XBMC... it is a Partially Commerical derivative / fork of XBMC, that just happens to be MAC / iOS only.

XBMC runs fine on Mac as it is, however Plex claim some better OS integration, among other things.

Grammar Nazi

Interesting that you used the Grammar Nazi icon...

Alternately means (roughly) to switch between two states or actions.

Alternatively means "in place of" - or in this context, "on the other hand"

Not that I don't agree with you - I wear glasses and those 3D goggles are a pain in the arse unless you wear contacts, and I just end up with a bloody headache watching it anyway.

3D TV for the time being = FAIL as far as I'm concerned.

VLC unstable? Eh?

Can't say that it's ever died on me and I use it on Win XP, Win 7, Ubuntu 9, Ubuntu 10 and CENTOS 5.

I rarely even bother installing codec packs anymore unless I'm encoding something.

Quicktime is BLOODY awful - as is Real Player - if I'm looking at someones PC that is running slowly they are the first things I remove.

Oh Dear

I just looked up the Cyrus AV Master 8.0 to see what made it such a looker.

http://www.bartlettshifi.com/product_detail.asp?sku=969

Oh dear. Seriously? That looks more like something sold in Toys R Us.

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Might I humbly suggest that if your primary concern when buying a receiver is what it looks like, then these wouldn't be the boxes for you anyway.

Save your money and buy one of those cheap Blu-Ray / Amp / Speaker packs that clutter up the AV sections of Curry's & Comet - they are designed more for aesthetics than performance, so would be more up your street.

All of these boxes are the standard AV size and shape, and fit perfectly within a Separates Stack, because let's be fair, at this price bracket these aren't aimed at people who's primary method of listening to music is an iPod dock or a portable CD Player. They may look ugly or out of place on their own, but in their own habitat they fit right in, and personally I rather like them. I have a earlier version of the Onkyo, and next to my HTPC, CD Player and other devices in the Separates shelving it looks quite striking.

I am intrigued though at those complaining about the looks... What exactly would you change to make them 'prettier'? I ask out of genuine interest.

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