* Posts by Ilgaz

1245 publicly visible posts • joined 17 Jan 2009

Google crashes supposedly secure Aviator browser

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Re: SO what to us on Android then?

Firefox. If you require better privacy and ready to give up a lot of stuff Orbot & Orweb in default setting.

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There are better alternatives

You can get Firefox ESR, secure it with known extensions and settings, in fact better run it inside a conservatively setup Debian stable in a virtual machine.

On mobile there is a very interesting couple to check: Orbot&Orweb.

By going this way you get mainstream support, help open source and show finger to Google.

'Hotmail, since you changed to Outlook, you've been a massive pr**k'

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Re: 2 possible plans to save Nokia

People stare at you like you are crazy when you say Android still isn't mature as symbian yet.

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Android Skype broken too

It is the first time I have seen Android text input went crazy, only on Skype.

Actually, using it since symbian s60, 24/7, it was the first time I noticed such a serious bug in Skype client.

Either they do it on purpose or they are being victimized by an internal conspiracy.

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Re: Outlook App on Android

They don't even ship it themselves, it is another company. They don't even understand the concept of service vs software.

On the other hand, Yahoo seems to have a decent, official client which adheres to Android standards.

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Re: Android is not a saviour

Nokia managers managed to lose all symbian technical users and advanced developers (lonely cat etc) to Android.

People&companies in need for advanced, centralized security run blackberry.

Who will listen or believe them this time?

Notebook sales to surge, says notebook seller

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Lets attack Intel a bit?

I have checked the market again, usual scenario... I like a modern design like lenovo yoga just to find out a detail, "Intel graphics" and give up.

Oh yes,I want to play games, I am 12! (easier than lecturing people 500th time about why you shouldn't run a crap graphics chip in 2013)

Google shreds Reader in new round of 'spring cleaning'

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Sarcasm right?

"Happily, users can extract their RSS subscriptions and use them in another reader using Google Takeout."

Until next spring cleaning...

Yet another Java zero-day vuln is being exploited

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Re: Every Android sold

So, there is/was something wrong with Java. Developers aren't really blind fans of google/Android too. That excuse works with Apple but not Android.

Does oracle do anything to fix the problem? No. They just broke sun.com domain by buying it and nothing else.

That is what I talk about.

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Every Android sold

Forget these 0 days stuff. Ellison should ask "what did/do we wrong?" themselves when they see Android phones and developers.

Mindless fans? Image? No. Talk to any developer about Android and you will be surprised.

SimCity 2000

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It needed extra stuff on Amiga too

If I remember correct, it needed 2 mb of RAM on Amiga while almost all Amigas had just 1 mb with RAM plugged in.

Base memory of Amiga 500 was 512K.

Truck-maker CAT flogs smartphone spawn to butter-fingered fondlers

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It will work but

Spawning in out of apps if you are ex symbian multi tasking type will drive you crazy.

At least, you can throw it to wall for your sanity.

Sergey Brin emasculated after HORROR smartphone disaster

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Re: Irony, He Haz It

They are yet to figure the irony of Sun founder's famous Wired article.

Review: Sony Vaio Duo 11 Ultrabook

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Re: Intel HD graphics

Why wouldn't a 2013, i7 cpu based device reaching $4K wouldn't run a high end game?

If it is normal, why wouldn't we buy a top ends nvidia tegra tablet with quarter of price?

See what I talk about? Intel should really do what it does best: Cpus. Graphics is totally different business. Their solutions are weak, pushed/forced to consumers.

I7 with 8 gig RAM? I expect it to play 4K 10 bit h265 with colour correction. Regular HD? Even my smart phone does it.

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Intel HD graphics

It must be the worst thing happened to progress of x86 hardware& software especially in tablet& netbook form.

IMHO it was Intel graphics which killed the netbook alone.

Nokia opens Maps to rivals, flogs uber-budget €15 phone

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Re: Nokia NEVER learn

Worst thing is, lower model is lighter and thinner than high end model.

Next, they will start doing E72 type mistakes, an upgrade to E71 business phone which can't take proper macro photos.

See symbian haters? That was what we were talking about when we said symbian os is just a victim.

Unisys re-ups $650m deal to look after US taxman's big iron

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Re: Unisys - are they still alive?

Me too, IBM mainframe seems to be alive too.

Why don't we see a clearpath or Z enterprise at Starbucks tables?

McAfee dumps signatures and proclaims an (almost) end to botnets

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Thunderbyte, not Thunderbird

I confused the brand with email app. It was thunderbyte antivirus from Netherlands.

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Re: McAfee rewrites history?

Don't forget Thunderbird (originally hardware based, converted to software) or A-Tool for Amiga which didn't need signatures at all.

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Re: The problem with Heuristics analysis

Another thing is operating system itself may behave like a virus. It is in nature of operating systems.

Unlike mcafee who seems to have "invented" heuristics after decades of use, that is the main reason why companies do crazy things like virtual machines, cloud based white listing, machines left open to internet on purpose etc.

Poor Intel wasted their billions.

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Genius

In a world which companies and even end users expect a common security suite which will work similar on all their devices from a cheap Huawei to top of the line i7 workstation, they ship software which will work fine only on Intel cpu.

If someone at Kaspersky or Sophos came up with such an idea,he would be fired.

Also, heuristics and behaviour analysis are old news in real security scene. Signatures are only a first line in defense. It has been same since IBM&F-Prot.

North Korean citizens told: Socialist haircuts are a thing... go get some

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Old boring cold war stuff

I guess you had to live in end of cold war times to figure you shouldn't trust to all news coming from either side of an ideological war.

It can be true of course or... Russians eat babies stuff.

Hands-on with Ubuntu's rudimentary phone and tablet OS

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Its interface seems to impress Android scene

I noticed someone shipped a launcher for Android resembling the interface of it. Seems to impress.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.np.omkar.unityfree

It also means "unity" that desktop users hated is really optimized for touch. (win8 story again)

Big Windows updates may ship this summer – and every summer

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Re: Still in shock*...

So, days of oems/Intel putting "wifi manager" third party non standard stuff is back?

Didn't Intel release "Intel proset wireless" for win 8 yet?

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There is a reason for your car having steering wheel instead of joystick

Once you get the idea that Mac is itself a very conservative Freebsd/next distribution and the disaster named win8 proved that desktop users don't like revolutions...

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So, they gave up this madness

A win with start menu will ship this Summer, "lets put a touchscreen interface to laptop" gang is on their way out.

Antivirus update broke our interwebs, howl Win XP users

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Re: Still a million times better than McAfee

I always hated the concept of checking signed OS files however;

1) core parts of operating system that checks signature can be cracked,deactivated

2) the certificate itself would get stolen or leaked

3) users are click happy

4) impossible occurs and the OS vendor itself may release malware as update.

Kaspersky users want to have an extremely paranoid Russian security chief in their machines. With the ever increasing OS complexity, these things will happen from time to time.

While on it, vendors like Kaspersky already do a great deal of white list, cloud "common wisdom" etc. Things really changed. Personally I like their "security first, ignore couple of 'it is heavy, slow' trolls" approach so far. They could blindly trust all Microsoft signed executable files and they could be rated "fastest", "lightweight" etc. That is way easier.

Filthy! old! blog! bug! blamed! for! Yahoo! webmail! hijacks!

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They are clueless

Yahoo allows a phish mail targeting them (yes, Yahoo!) into inbox of their users.

No tricks, no Javascript trickery, no Bayesian trickery.

Plain phish mail. I got the mail here.

Netbooks were a GOOD thing and we threw them under a bus

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We didn't throw them, Intel&Microsoft did

Hats off to Intel for insisting on its incapable graphics junk and Microsoft for being lazy to shave off a modern Windows for netbooks.

If you ignore PR, you can still buy a proper AMD netbook with up to spec ATI gpu. Install either win 7 or stable Debian, there you have a real portable computer.

Lenovo said to release Intel and ARM Android convertibles

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Wow man, just wow

"The display is a 1366x768 IPS panel "

I won't lecture anyone, I am speechless this time. I was saying if I buy x86 portable, it would be lenovo.

Next-gen H.265 video baked into Broadcom's monster TV brain

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Re: Only as good as the encoder.

This is "on chip" tech. Once industry makes up their minds (Apple and Microsoft/google), I am sure x265 is on its way and it will be a way more important project.

New tool jailbreaks Microsoft Surface slabs in 20 SECONDS

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Bat

Buy a tablet that will run bat files...

'SHUT THE F**K UP!' The moment Linus Torvalds ruined a dev's year

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Re: John Szetela

I got a friend who got hospitalized for literally smacking a CRT monitor with filter noticing a very stupid bug in his own code.

It took some time to explain to hospital police.

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Here it is

Quote from link:

"If a change results in user programs breaking, it's a bug in the

kernel. We never EVER blame the user programs. How hard can this be to

understand?"

Seriously, it is a rule which should apply to all operating systems up to Z/OS.

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Re: Err...

GPL code, public development. Take it or leave it. Nobody forces anyone.

I also heard Ms submits professionally formatted and respectful to Linux standards code when they have to. Who flames them? Nobody.

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Re: Linux audio...

That is exactly why Linus is furious. Nothing did more harm to Linux desktop other than audio.

So while things got better thanks to pulse audio etc, you submit something that breaks audio somehow. Linus is a human being too.

Microsoft camp may compare this to submitting a win8 patch that will allow another "blaster". Wonder how polite will be the kernel/security chiefs...

Ten… top tech cock-ups of 2012

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Marvell deserves a last minute note

I have just read on BBC that they lost a patent case against Carnagie Mellon university potentially losing the freaking company itself since we talk about a really pissed off judge who may order $3B+.

Not into details.

Microsoft 'surprised' by Google Gmail 'winter cleaning'

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So lets blame people

So imap and syncml are future ready open documented protocols but dumb admins and the IT decision makers who picks bad software& hardware are to blame.

It is 2012 and people still use pop3 because of these idiots.

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There is a standard for calendar/contacts

It is called syncml, industry standard, documented, allows "push" and even IMAP remote configuration.

Even Nokia S40 "dumb" phones have it.

One of standards you opted out when you have chosen exchange that is.

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Basic question

Where is native Microsoft (not third party) outlook client which adheres to Android standards?

Search engines we have known ... before Google crushed them

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Re: alltheweb.com

It was owned by fast.no ,a Norwegian company and was eventually ended up in Yahoo's hands to be wasted.

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Yahoo was always a portal/utility

Yahoo never took search too seriously and never insisted on its own engine when something better exists.

Yahoo always cared about mail, news and the (still) excellent "my Yahoo".

Altavista engine mentioned,I also remember them using google for a while. Now they use Bing engine.

Ray Kurzweil to become Google's top engineer

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Re: Symbolic appointment to hide the evil?

I don't think Kurzweil is liked by everyone especially by religious /conservative circles.

Facebook ditches mobile HTML with native Android app

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Re: Google should thank Facebook

Google lost me once they did stupid trickery like forcing google+ account to post reviews on market. I am absolutely sure now that we have a new Microsoft in hand.

It requires real name and I won't hit that low to fake my identity to post reviews, positive or negative.

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Re: Oh, awesome.

Good for you but someone should lose their job for this.

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Great news for black hats

Now you have a specific, single target that you know it is running, serving and if you are lucky (99%), the victim has logged in.

Now we all know which will be the next "flash player for windows".

Sinclair ZX Spectrum FAILS latest radio noise rules SHOCK

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For debugging

I mean for debugging, literally listening loops. Sorry.

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Re: It was a feature

I remember reading about how early developers used the RF noise to their advantage with AM radios.

Note that they were likely far slower than z80.

Stallman: Ubuntu spyware makes it JUST AS BAD as Windows

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Re: Alternate headline

Go to Ballmer with exact same idea and he will call security to escort you out of campus.

Yes even that guy.

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Re: Not in any non-U buntu

I don't understand this phobia from Debian, it has to have "buntu" in it?

As a person who hates any kind of needless tech junk, I installed Debian to powerbook g4. It was almost easy as OS X install. Also it was the feared "stable".

Every distribution which is derived from Ubuntu adds to their argument.