Posts by eswan

qwerty row offset?

Anybody notice the odd offset to the querty row? Looks like it's lined up verticaly with the zxcvb row, 'Y' being directly above 'B'. Seems like the kind of thing that would really trip me up.

Why does that picture of a C64 keyboard have 2 CRSR up/down keys? For some reason, that really bugs me.

> "Microsoft was a tablet pioneer. The company released Windows XP Tablet Edition in 2003 – seven years before the iPad"

I've still got a Toshiba T200 running Windows for Pen Computing 3.1, from about 10 years before that. Battery even still holds a charge. Back in the day, I had it up and running with a Raytheon Aviator wireless card and Mosaic 2.0.0b4.

"We are currently notifying customers of the need to install this update as soon as possible. Helping our customers to remediate this issue is our highest priority."

Well, the ones with up-to-date service contracts at least.

“Now we’re saying they can be small, tunable, and much more efficient. You could fit this in your backpack, or in your vehicle for wireless communication or high-resolution imaging. Because you don’t want a cyclotron in your car.”

I don't?

I'm disappointed...

Sigh....

"SACK Slowness, aka CVE-2019-5599, which affects FreeBSD 12 using the RACK TCP stack"

FreeBSD ACK RACK STACK SACK SLACK .

"...it was estimated the technology had a whopping 98 per cent false positive rate."

That's not a facial recognition system. That's an excuse to harass anybody they feel like harassing system. Might as well use a motion detector and a lamp labeled 'Bad guy sensor'.

Nobody said it yet?

Fine.

You're folding it wrong.

Somebody plugged a 4-mbit card into a 16-mbit ring?

... turned off spanning tree protocol?

"The paranoid, or those still clinging to the glory days of Windows Media Center, might regard this as evidence of an attempt to remove the aged player from the OS once and for all."

More like pieces falling off as the OS rattles off into the sunset.

Of course there is an xkcd for that.

https://xkcd.com/2057/

Where do you put the quarters?

(google image search for 'shasta vending machine')

I got one of these this week. Well, actually it was addressed to the web server but I handle the email for it. So I guess the web server was browsing porn? Maybe pictures of servers with their covers off? Oh wait, maybe that was me.

"IronWolf Pro, supporting up to 24-bay NAS enclosures, capacity ranges from 2TB to 14B, while the ordinary IronWolf, supporting one- to 8-bay enclosures, goes from 1TB to 14TB."

So if you put the regular IronWolf in a 9-bay enclosure, does it spontaneously combust?

"...features AI-focused Deep Learning Boost (DLBOOST) tech intended to provide an 11x AI performance boost over Xeon Skylake."

Is that the replacement for NetBurst Technology?

So with the 512 GB version of this, plus a 512 GB micro sd, you could have a phone with a terabyte of storage....

That's alot of porn.

"Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps have a noble goal."

Oh, that's what UWP stands for. Thought it was "Ugly Windows Phone app".

Also equally valid--

"It is also critical to understand that this remote connection support model was never used, nor was it ever possible to be used, on any printer, as printers do not contain the required operating system or remote connection software necessary to enable a remote connection," the vendor tells Wyden.

"To be clear, ES&S never installed remote connection software on any printer it has ever delivered to a customer, nor has it ever been possible to do so- either before or after the creation of the EAC."

Now the device that manages, configures, and controls the printer....

Who's got the RAT on my system

Ok, yesterday trying to do some SSL certificate management.

The unamed SSL issuer sends me a link and a username/temp password for their portal

Go to the link, login with the username and temp password, get prompted for old/new/new password.

Type those in, get a 'your session has been terminated, login again'.

Try to login with username/new password. 'invalid'

Try again to login with username/new password. 'invalid'

Maybe I used different capitalization? 'account locked out for 15 minutes'

15 minutes later. Maybe the new password didn't take? username/oldpassword, 'you must change your password now'.

enter old/new/new password. 'your session has expired'

I'm not falling for it this time, login with username/old password.

'you must change your password now'.

enter _really quickly_ old/new/new password.

'you must now set up 3 security questions'

go through that, 'your session has expired'

login again with new password. 'you must now set up 3 security questions'

run through the 3 security questions as quickly as possible. 'you must now give a phone number for 2 factor authentication'

give it my cell number. 'please enter the recieved pin'

Type in the pin. 'your session has expired'

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Some joker set the session timeout to about 30 seconds.

Have they tried turning--

"the agency is hoping a hard reboot of its systems will resolve the issue"

Ah, well then. That should sort it out.

Pot, kettle

"ZTE made false statements to the US government when they were originally caught and put on the Entity List, made false statements during the reprieve it was given, and made false statements again during its probation," said US Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross.

Who do they think they are, banking executives?

From wikipedia--

"... leaked documents known as the Paradise Papers showed that Ross had failed to clearly disclose financial ties to Russian interests in his confirmation hearings."

Ka-shing out?

First read through of the title was interpreted as "Microsoft floats feelers for fake Words" and I thought it was going to be a VR version of Word.

Do they make zhou-zhou trains?

"the Oracle-developed, but open-source MySQL"

You misspelled purchased.

The Campus Formerly Known As Metro

>One such trip involved “four of us sitting around a cage full of monkeys,

>feeding them fruit” because one of the simians had swallowed a USB

>drive that contained classified files.

You should always mount a scratch monkey before copying files.

From signedmalware.org-

Serial Number Publisher Issuer

00ACDB7F6460A6B323B6D2EAD85BC30CA6 Reg Revenue COMODO Code Signing CA 2

Hmmmm.

It's got Electrolytes!

"We are transforming the way we partner with you," corporate VP Ron Huddleston intoned.

"Pray we do not transform it further".