Posts by Jamie Jones
516 posts • joined Thursday 14th June 2007 21:06 GMT
Re: Good joke, more of this please
If indeed they had working nukes, and used them just because anonymous hacked a few of their websites, do you really think they were that stable to begin with?
@Electric Panda: Re: News from NK
"This is clearly nonsense. Linux was written by Kim Il Sung so I don't see how any system maintenance is ever required.
Vile viperous, insidious capitalist Yankee pig dog Wall Street lackeys will persist in indulging their grotesque capitalist tastes on inferior products created in the dens of iniquity "Redmond WA" and "Cupertino CA" rather than use perfect, free operating system developed by the Great Marshal for the masses through his benevolence and love for mankind."
Best Kim Eadon Sung impression ever!
Hey Neighbour!
You won't be able to come into my house whilst I'm away to watch my big screen TV anymore.
I've just installed the most advanced security system out there. There is no way in through any of the windows, and all door locks are secured by the most advanced crypto available. It is uncrackable.
Oh, by the way, here are the keys and the passwords so you can come in to water the flowers. Have a nice day
Re: Translation
@Pen-Y-Gos, and JustaKos: Cheers for the clarifications!
Incidentally, I grew up in the very "English [language]" South Gower. I do not natively speak Welsh, and like others, had to do it for a few years in Comprehensive School.
Not interested at all in languages, but having to take at least ONE at 'O' level (showing my age) I chose Welsh over French and German, simply because I found it easier. As it was, I failed the O level.
Growing up in this "insular" society, as a kid, Welsh was this annoying language that confused road signs, and often stole from our choice of TV channels.
It wasn't until I went to Cardiff University that I started to pay attention, as alot of the (mostly English) students would ask me if I spoke Welsh.. At the end of my time at Cardiff I was virtually fluent, through no specific learning classes.
It's at times like these, when I read the majority of posts on this topic, that I tend to brush up on it :)
Re: You can get the bible in klingon for kindle
"They can't realistically expect Amazon to support every third world country that has some weird and virtually unused legacy dialect. Wales isn't really a proper country anyway. They don't even have a set at the UN and even Palestine managed that!"
Poor troll is poor.
Wales isn't a country. No one here has said it is. What has that got to do with anything?
Re: The welsh lobby
"Simple answer, more people live in the London Metropolitan Area than live in the whole of Wales, N.Ireland and Scotland combined! You may not like it but that is the hard truth. Both Welsh and Scottish programming actually get undue prominence when you consider population sizes. It is hard for some to realise that programming that appears to focus on the London area is actually relevant to upwards of 15% of the population of the entire UK."
I lived in London for 10 years, and hardly ever saw programmes focusing on the regions. I agree with your population statistics, but that still means that going by your figures, 85% of the National viewing population are not in London.
I could probably agree that when you count regional TV, we get more than (say) Londoners do of local programmes, but my beef was with the *nationally* orientated programmes that have presenters guffing about what an amazing day it is, then they pan to the weather, and most of the North is covered in snow, and in Wales it's raining :)
"This Morning" etc. is a big culprit of this (not that I ever watch it of course *cough*)
P.S. I'd be perfectly happy to agree with you if you said that the London regions should show more regional programmes - it's the nationals I have the beef with!
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How about this, if there is this supposed market how about you stop whining and provide the books yourself.
I must have forgot when Amazon became the BBC.
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Did you actually RTFA, or just decide to whine about others whining?
Re: The welsh lobby
" the only time you could guarantee the locals would speak Welsh is when an English person walked in the room."
That old chestnut.
That's right. All native Welsh speakers choose to speak their second (and less natural) language to each other all the time, only defaulting to their first language to spite the English, who they obviously hate so much.
Re: The welsh lobby
"As a Londoner I was irritated and puzzled as to why we were being subjected to this"
Why do so called National programmes rejoice about the great weather when it's only great in London, and put a downer on the 'really bad rain' when it's sunny and nice everywhere else.
Why are London related news items given so much more prominence on National television than those from the North, Scotland, South West, Northern Ireland and Wales?
Why are the National programmes so London centric?
As a non-Londoner, I (and I'm sure many others) are irritated and puzzled as to why we are being subjected to this.
Translation
“Wnes i ddarllen hyn mewn 5 diwrnod, doeddwn i ddim yn gally rhoi hi lawr! Werth pob ceiniog a awr! Joia pobl!”According to Google Translate, this means: “I read this in 5 days and could possibly have wished I did not put her down! Worth every penny and now! Polite people" [That can't be right].
I'm rusty, but I'd say something like:
"I read this in 5 days, and couldn't put it down. Worth every penny and more.[word that is not welsh] people"
By the way, why so much Welsh negativity? I can take a joke as can most of my fellow sheep-shaggers, but there are some not very nice undertones in some of these posts... Klingon ffs
Re: Windows Security Patches + Anti-Virus considered Harmful
"Preventing viruses from operating is trivially EASY. You set the execute flag to OFF. It's a problem that was solved in the 1970's. However, Windows cannot do this without breaking backwards compatibility, hence the need for these Windows virus scanners.
Any exploitable buffer overflow etc. that allows a process to take control to write virus files to the file system would also have the ability to chmod +x the file.
If the users of the system are really just casual users, your only option would be to mount the whole user partition as no-execute (or set on a per-directory level on some-unix-systems-that-names-don't-rhyme-with-pinux
The constitution and the land of the free
The same presentation states that agents are free to place GPS tracking devices on their targets without a warrant and that cars parked in a driveway are not covered by the Amendment's "right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures."
If many (not all) Americans took their heads out of their arses (not asses) for 5 minutes and stopped spouting the American propaganda they are brainwashed with from school age, "them in charge" would find it much harder to do things like this, and the patriot act etc.
...not saying it's much better over here in the UK - it seems people here know more about Jeremy Kyle guests and who's the latest old fart to go eating bugs in the Australian jungle just to get themselves an extra 15 minutes of fame... Walk into Tescos, and look at the magazine racks... 95% 'celebrity' tat.
Oh, and I know the author is in 'cisco, but the web site is www.the.register.co,uk so "an herb" should be "a herb".
Sorry, it's 5.30am, I can't sleep and I'm in a mood!
Ooopsie! Someones site has forgotten special entities in the "abstract"
From the source code;
<p class=abstract>Mozilla developers are considering dropping support for the <blink> tag from future versions of the Firefox browser, in a move that would see the web rid of the scourge of blinking text once and for all.
Firefox's Gecko HTML rendering engine is currently the only one to support the blinking effect, which usability expert Jakob …</p>
*cough* htmlspecialchars *cough*
Re: Misleading Headline?
When our coffee machines were switched to 'free vend' I was told that technically, I should declare all the cappuccinos I've had over the year for tax purposes!
This was in the UK
Re: If Talk Talk say they are so good...
I'm much further away that that, but I get a comfortable and constant 17Mbs from talk-talk
Re: "Security was barely an issue when email was designed"
"proper delivery/read receipts with non-repudiation
Surely that (and other parts mentioned) depend on the security of the software, particularly on the endpoints.
On our x400 system it was trivial to add/remove 'read receipts' to emails; you didn't even need to be root to do so
Re: Bullshit
"Microsoft is dying."
Does Netcraft confirm this?
Is this really news?
At the time, all we heard about were toxic mortgages, "bad loans" and "good loans"
For a while, many of us could see the stupidity in house prices rising - whilst the news always portrayed such a thing as good news.
Good news for who?
Those idiots who though "oooh, my house is now worth £50 grand more than before" - well, that's irrelevant, because if you ever move, you'll have to spend the same corresponding amount on a replacement house". But, it made the people feel happy, it made them feel rich and successful.
The only people who benefited (apart from bankers) were greedy landlords who owned more than one property, whilst potential first time buyers had to suffer.
Many of us realised this wasn't sustainable - indeed, the site http://www.housepricecrash.co.uk/ has been going almost 10 years!
Ahhhhhhhh. It's friday!
Beats "April fools day" for many reasons!
Re: Is there any reason ...?
"@Alfred - so true. Apple must be gutted that some saboteur gives away a free IDE and full set of developer tools, system wide scripting language and graphical automation tool, LAMP stack, PERL and so on with every Mac. I bet when they find him, they'll crucify him.
That would be a Famp stack
I never left plain-text mail
Re: What ever happened to multicast?
RTFA !!
Re: OK fine
well, get your friends and family to upvote me, and we'll put it to the test!
To save time.....
Before I read this, is it an "April Fools" article?
Re: OK fine
I've modded you up - it's ok for you, you'll be silver soon. I still have another 400 odd upvotes to get before i turn silver...
Maybe my posts are "biting the hands that feed IT"
Re: @ Jamie Jones
"I was sweeping the "GPL - bah!" side under "maybe idealist", though calling out separately "maybe pragmatic" would have been clearer."
Oh, I see now. Sorry for being (slightly) sarcastic in my reply!
From the wiki link:
"....that the engineers who had written the Solaris kernel requested that the license of OpenSolaris be GPL-incompatible. "Mozilla was selected partially because it is GPL incompatible. That was part of the design when they released OpenSolaris...."
Assuming that is correct, that may again have been because they didn't like the inherent rules of the GPL rather than "It's GPL,ARRRGH"
But I see your point. There are fanbois on both sides :)
Re: Computers legally are Sidewalks, not bedrooms
explain your downvote!
Re: > scrawl "except for ZFS which is ok so far as we're concerned" somewhere in the middle of GPL2
"Is llvm-as and llvm-ld/link usable instead, in a clang-based work-flow, or have they got rid of them completely now ?"
I'm not sure. There's some chatter here:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2011-June/025558.html
Re: > scrawl "except for ZFS which is ok so far as we're concerned" somewhere in the middle of GPL2
"Afaik there is no bsd licensed assembler or linker. clang isn't enough if it is still using binutils.
http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/elftoolchain/"
True, and thanks for the link. I don't know when "ld" and "as" will be ready, but as your link points out, it's on the cards, and the intention is to have them done in time for 10.X
https://wiki.freebsd.org/BSDToolchain
Re: Reality Check
Don't forget, "outsourcing" has been going on for some time already, where the companies still host their own servers, but the 'outsourcing company' looks after them via remote links. Surely this has the benefits of 'the cloud' but without the drawbacks,
Re: > scrawl "except for ZFS which is ok so far as we're concerned" somewhere in the middle of GPL2
"with Sun electing to deliberately make it incompatible with GPL, for reasons apparently obscure (maybe idealist, maybe corporate screwing around)"
Couldn't it occur to you that maybe - just maybe - Sun, like others, do not like the GPL?
FreeBSD is also actively removing all GPL stuff from the base ( I think replacing gcc with clang in version 10.X is the last thing on the list)
Re: Community?
Some of the replies and downvotes prove my point.
Otherwise, yeah, true, there is 'taking the piss', and how well you know your neighbours, but the reason I asked "where you live" is that when I was living in London for 10 years, I didn't even know what profession my neighbours had.
Here (South Wales) a family member recently had suspected heart problems, and as my car was out of action at the time, we asked neighbours for a lift. One said "why don't you go and see X" [ one of the doctors ] - she then took it on herself to call X, who called straight around, did some tests and eventually all was ok. When he left, he said (paraphrased) "If you EVER have any issue, any time, day or night, then always call on me first" - I know the other doctor and paramedic would also be as happy to help.
I'm sorry that this is so alien to some of you that you had to downvote me, but I knew that would happen, because living in a city, I met loads of people just like you.
Community?
I'd be interested to know where you lot live, and how close inside/to the city you are.
I'll gladly help out my neighbours with computing problems... But then, 2 of my neighbours are doctors, and one a paramedic.. I am glad they don't have your ethos!
Re: Computers legally are Sidewalks, not bedrooms
" Computers are like sidewalks. No one can construct or otherwise emplace anything on your sidewalk, so to that extent, it belongs to you. They can't dig a hole in it either. But mainly sidewalk law says that if it is your sidewalk, you are on the hook if anything hazardous about it damages anyone else."
Hence the mad law that says you are responsible for clearing up the snow on the pavement ("sidewalk") outside your house.
In the UK, all those responsibilities fall on the local councils
Re: Four Yorkshiremen
> I used to dream of having two cups...
You only have one cup? I hear there's a video on youtube about that...
Re: Effectively another "cloud" failure.
"Like one company that had a 300 page DR manual that was supposed to be issued to staff in the event of a disaster. Come the disaster, a murder in the estate their office was in, they discovered the only copies were kept in the office the police had sealed off and no one was allowed in.
I knew of a company that did rigorous backups, and verifications/test restores of those backups, and housed them in a to-spec fire safe.
The building (including their office) went up in a big bang following an IRA bomb. It turned out that the backup tapes were fine.... but it was about 3 weeks before police/forensics/safety officers would let anyone in to retrieve them!
Re: Restore not so simple
"Depending on the nature of the backups, a simple restore may not be an option, since that would then wipe out all the stuff that's been changed since the backup. It's more of a "restore somewhere else, and merge the old with the new".
I would say that the majority of restores work that way - unless you totally close down the system whilst doing the restore.
In my last job, when we've had to restore due to broken disks etc,., the users still want to be able to write/read *new* email / documents etc. They don't want to be without access to the system for 5 hours or more.
Yep, I think 'the goalposts' move in the majority of data restores
Re: @tempemeaty - @China always has their own way, perhaps that's a positive
@AC, you realise you just neatly made 'tempemeaty"'s point?
What a rant!
Did you read her blog page? Obsessive, much?
They were stupid childish idiots, she didn't need write a thesis about it. She's done 'womens rights' more harm than good.
p.s. What was William Riker from Star Trek: TNG doing at a python conference anyway?
Re: Just warp them through
"Hurry up Carter. I can see my house from here"
Re: Bear in mind who they are
FTP? That may be your problem right there.. Don't suppose you were using telnet for interactive access also?
@ShelLuser Re: Why one country ?
I agree. I never thought I'd hear myself saying this about American policy, but, yes, other countries should be contributing to the NASA project too
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Stupid flame wars, ridiculous analogies... (we even had a car analogy in a recent posting)
All we need now is for people to not bother reading the articles and the comments section of El Reg will be just like slashdot!
Re: with different permissions "modify files outside own directory" etc
FreeBSD, you mean?
