Posts by Havin_it

Re: Boobytrap a VM.

Mm, I wondered the same. Not sure the CMD shell can even do that on the host VM all that easily, let alone reaching back through the tubes and doing it to the VNC client's host machine.

Not to mention that if Hide Extensions is enabled (as has been default for quite some time), the mark might wonder why the file *has* a .TXT extension showing?

Now you could name it "Passwords.bat" but the icon would still be wrong. Worth a try would be creating the batchfile elsewhere and placing on the Desktop a shortcut to it, which IIRC you can change the icon of the shortcut.

But I'd still like that recipe for how this batchfile is pwning the intruder's machine. Still with us, OP?

Icon: closest available to "chinny reckon".

Re: My exact thought

"HEYYY! It looks like you're losing a gun-battle. Would you like some help?"

Re: Need more variety, not less

Some impressively over-engineered solutions above, but this can be accomplished using Firefox alone. I use this feature myself to insulate extra-sensitive workloads from day-to-day omnivorous browsing. Just start Firefox's profile manager:

firefox -P

Create a new profile called e.g. 'banking'. When done, launch not this new profile but your original one (called 'default' by, er default).

Now, without closing Firefox, execute this:

firefox -no-remote -p banking

Voilà: a completely separate instance of Firefox running side-by-side with, but fully insulated from, your normal browsing. And because it's completely separate, you can customise the browser UI, add-ons and other preferences completely independently, to optimise them for the one or few sites you'll use it for.

Re: Multiprocess

I don't think any of the multiprocess code was rolled out as far back as 45.* (could be wrong).

If it is, you should be able to check in the about:support page. If it's present but not active, then as someone else said, it will be because you have an add-on installed that's not compatible with it.

To see which addons are and aren't compatible with multiprocess, you can install a Mozilla add-on called Add-on Compatibility Reporter; once installed, this will add (in-)compatibility labels to each installed add-on's listing in the add-ons screen.

Sadly, if you've been collecting add-ons for a while, you'll probably find quite a few marked incompatible. I'm using quite a few that are pretty indispensable, both at home and work, and which all evidence suggests are unlikely to be ported to WebExtensions* as the developers have long-since moved on. It will be a real wrench and I'm honestly not sure my fondness for the Fox can endure it; I fear the add-on catalogue will be a shadow of its former self soon, and with that goes a lot of what made it awesome. Sad times.

[* Because it's not just a question of replumbing extensions to work with multiprocess, oh no. The whole extension architecture is being thrown out and replaced with something [semi-]compatible with the WebExtension format as used by Chrome and Edge. So far, I've seen nothing to suggest that the possible gain of ease of porting addons from those browsers will outweigh the loss of the existing massive and diverse AMO collection.]

Re: Yes, good idea

Doesn't flak usually come from underneath though?

Ah, but the sentence is still grammatical and doesn't even change meaning if you delete "People", so there's no problem :)

Re: Delaying Hope

Well, you know, we could use what we learned to fix knackered (not by us) monkeys too. I doubt we will (outwith the class of vet practice Michael Jackson had for Bubbles back in the day), I'm just saying.

Don't be too hard on John. His language is a bit blunt, but he has a point and I find I largely agree with it (uh-oh). I don't desire the extinction of any species of life, nor inflicting suffering (a very difficult thing to quantify in less-sentient organisms, mind you) without purpose. However, it's unthinkable that humans could thrive as we do without exploiting other species in various ways, including lethal and "life-changing" ways. Polio is a lifeform, but I'd eradicate that in a heartbeat. It's all relative.

By and large, I'd sooner we cracked the technique of not doing unspeakable cruelty to our own species before we get to micromanaging the extent to which we're comfortable doing it to cows or monkeys. Because one way or another, we'll always be doing so. I challenge anyone to establish a "red line" on that which can't be argued against.

Re: What's the thinking?

I hope you kept your Tor on when you admitted doing this while signed in to this (non-SSL) comment forum then. Oh, and that you've done so every time you've ever signed in to El Reg, otherwise Insp. Knacker of the Yard can pop down to Vulture Central and ID you right quick (if he can be arsed).

Re: Incontinent Flyer

>an intercontinental flight from the UK to Europe

Christ, I'm not looking forward to Brexit either but I hadn't heard we'd be classified as a different continent!

I vote we name it "Justenoughrope" :(

I think it's reasonable to assume that Scrooge's parsimony was a year-round occupation, and that the Christmas season merely provided the appropriate background conditions for the filthy lefty free-riders to perform their cynical bit of social engineering upon him.

(Signed, someone for whom the emotional blackmail to spend spend SPEND has already entered high gear.)

Besides, a downvote is as expensive as an upvote, so I don't think it was him at all. QED

A Honeywell appliance materialised on the wall of our Throne Room at the same time the gas boiler was replaced. I'm guessing it's a CO detector. It does give me a little frisson to see it, albeit that there's very little connection with the tech titan that was.

Part of me wants to pry the casing open in case there's an advanced supercomputer in there (hell, relative to Honeywell machines in their pomp that's probably a valid comparison) but another part of me thinks that if either my landlord, the boiler maker or the plumber felt the need to surreptitiously install such a thing in our bog, I probably don't want to know why.