Posts by Roland6

Re: "Beat the Bastards"

And not paying taxes...

Which gives the Government (Democrate or Republican) a big problem; it has no monies to pay welfare or (if it decides not to pay welfare) pay the police/army to repress the exploited workers..

Re: I think we're reaching a point...

>I wonder how many people work in the local Starbucks, etc., without a thought of Wi-Fi security / snooping / infiltration / etc.

Well if they are using a company laptop to access corporate systems (on-prem and/or cloud) then if the laptop doesn't automatically use end-to-end VPN etc. suggest the IT department needs talking to...

Obviously VPN products such as NordVPN being sold to joe public are also a defence to the coffee shop Wi-Fi attack vector, but how many have set these to automatically carry all traffic once outside of the home network....

Re: I wonder...

That is the calculated risk - which they are already taking with their on-prem server offering, remember it is a common business strategy, often implemented out of the application of the 80:20 rule. (Which gets quite interesting if you apply it to board rooms, something Tom Peter's - management writer, alluded to...)

I suspect unless PC World et al. fully adopt A.N.Other OS distribution (Currently they are favouring Apple, but they could adopt some Linux-based distribution and thus grab a bigger slice of the on-going support sales and revenues, although I would not totally rule out something from left-of-field like ReactOS! ) Joe public will have little real choice: it's either Apple or Microsoft.

>Why can't Win11 cope with older hardware by not offering certain features?

Commercial decision. MS has made many similar decisions in the past to encourage upgrades to their new OS and Office product offering.

Personally, I think physical TPM is a dead end technology, Windows really needs to include a software TPM, so that my VM/cloud instance can fully benefit from TPM.

Re: Don’t see it happening

Expect to see OFcom do a u-turn over its previous statements concerning there being room in the UK market for 4~5 national operators. It will also use the same justification for allowing the merger to go ahead, namely: it is in consumers interests.

Why will Ofcom do this? Well because Truss & Co. are devotees of the unregulated free market. They will say that if consumers don't like it they can vote with their feet; being devotees they will naturally be blind to the real world....

Re: Perfect fidelity

Just make sure that you also default both the Windows PDF printer paper size and the Word defaullt template - Normal.dotm, to A4 portrait...

Obviously, need to do similar with the rest of Office.

Re: We found a large attack surface area, so we increased it...

>The don't use Facebook button?

From my reading of the article, you probably don't want to install FB. The impression I got was that FB would effectively replace Chrome with FB-WebView/Chrome as the default browser; so doing anything that invokes the browser will result in FB-Chrome being loaded...

Re: Useful, perhaps...

A little surprised this has taken so long.

Oliver Sacks decades back identified the study of damaged minds as giving insights into how the (healthy) mind actually works. This might form the basis of a useful hypothesis on speech, giving the potential for even better speech recognition and generation systems.

Re: Or is it?

Agree, are these really exploitable through the standard ports many open through their firewall to enable access from the internet, ie. the SMTP ports and HTTPS port.

Re: @Roland6

Given your description of the installation, I would agree with your analysis.

Suspect from what I've seen around here the OR fibre team have done their work, however, the fibre may not actually be for OR; OR installed the pole mounted Gigaclear fibre to a row of cottages near me, it took some months before the Gigaclear engineers did their part. So given the multi year lag you've seen wouldn't be surprised if either OR have it as a low priority job for their fibre node team (too few subscribers per node), or the original ISP who installed the fibre have effectively abandoned it.

Perhaps someone needs to suggest to Microsoft they put their collection of sites in different security domains and so permit a user to have different passwords/credentials for Outlook, OneDrive, O365, Azure etc.

Re: I can count them on the fingers of one toe

Bet they would soon change their tune, if several major markets decide that without global tax transparency all revenues are deemed to have been accrued in their jurisdiction and thus taxes are due in their jurisdiction on the global revenues....

Re: What goes around comes around

Funny how people still think the x86 is CISC..

Having encountered a number of mainframe and minicomputer assembler languages and done several years of x86 assembly programming, when RISC vs. CISC first blow up, I didn't really see the x86 architecture as truly CISC, but more of a RISC architecture with instructions merely being shorthand handles to standardised microcode for many common operations. From memory the comparisons at the time had problems identifying clear water between "true RISC" and x86 instructions...

Re: Yeah it's a bummer when it happens

Remember the blue hole from the mid 1970's along with the Penryn quarries - riding in the buckets on the aerial ropeway...

There is also the related problem, "we had to destroy xyz in order to preserve it", ie. people wanting visitors.

Take a location in the Geek's Guide, the Lizard Wireless Station at Bass Point. I visited the site back in 1999 (solar eclipse) and revisited in 2017.

In 1999, it was just some concrete footings in a cow field, with preservation, the cows have gone and been replaced by a car park and visitor centre and maintained grass.

Seen similar with Bletchley Park, its a great museum and day out, and will now be preserved, but compared to visiting in the mid 1990's...

Re: On fire

Heat build up is also a problem when dealing with extremes of temperature. It is also quite a challenge to keep electronics happy so that it can be protected from the extremes of Antartica whilst also not overheating.

Obviously, the extremes of space present further problems - see the design of the James Webb telescope.

Re: "the lack of [..] an automatic fire extinguisher system"

Interesting how it seems to be general practice to put the UPS/batteries in the bottom of the server cabinet they are protecting...

I suppose its probably ok with sealed lead acid batteries, but lithium?

Re: Better yet...

> I've been tempted to find something to keep the light off and then leave the door open for a couple days to let it air out.

Alternatively, you could try cleaning it...

Re: laissez faire capitalism at work?

>We don't have to pay

The only legal way I've determined you can avoid paying is by the energy company failing to bill within a year.

Currently, having fun with Eon - they failed to bill a relative on a dual-fuel plan for gas usage for 4 years - they are disputing the normal level of usage and thus what the bill for the last year should be...

Don't know which Adblocker you were using, never been asked for a subscription.

Personally, if an adblocker blocks the majority of scam websites, that's good enough - just as I don't expect my security suite to detect all malware but I do expect it to flag known scam websites etc..

Re: My advice for a small business would be

>Pi's tend to be bandwidth bottlenecks on cable modem or better networks

Agree they do have some limitations, however, I was pitching at the:

"Find an old retired desktop computer.

Put a £10 ethernet card in it for an additional network port." platform proposition.

In my experience that will be a pre-2014 desktop ie. it probably ran XP and was upgraded to W7 - so x64 if you are lucky, so probably not much better than a Pi...

>To be fair many home routers are also throttling faster connections.

This is also a problem with low end "small business" routers.

>Another option is a small PoE switch...

Need to watch these as they tend to be "desktop" spec.

So agree, unless your ISP supplies a reasonable router, it is best to spend a little more and get something more suited to small businesses and expense it.

Re: 1YO glorification of the monkey test

And the keyboard survived the attention of a 1-year-old, awesome!

Re: Just wondering

Yes and No, remember water vapour is a greenhouse gas, so removing water vapour from the atmosphere is actually a good thing!

As we've discovered these last few days, the 'dry' hot atmosphere was actually holding a lot of water.

Looking at the global extent of the drought/lack of rain, ie. instead of water falling back to earth as regular rain, the carbon heated atmosphere was retaining the evaporated water and then dumping vast amounts of water in very short spaces of time, when cooled.

Re: "I would absolutely prioritise getting a 50/10Mbps"

>The pandemic showed that four people working/studying from home can do very little with 50/10 Mbps.

What were you doing?

I had two teenagers on Teams/Xbox/ipad, partner practically constantly on Zoom (HD streams) and myself. Didn't really have a problem with 40/10.

However, I would agree, having at least 20Mbps uplink (and hence at least 80Mbps downlink) would have been better. Looking forward, tools like Zoom really show that the uplink speed is also important so I would suggest setting the basic service level to 40/10 (permits the upgrade of much of the current FTTC network to be a lower priority) and make 100/25 (FTTH) the universal standard and thus standard for new installs.

Re: Bye bye BoJo???

>He has more chance of becoming US President than a Brit had of becoming Eu president.

I thought BoJo could probably get Trump's backing for that venture... But as you observe, that is not impossible and does not have the comic appeal of Boris standing for EU president.