Posts by Wensleydale Cheese

In which case was it simply too many curious people hitting the main page and not a deliberate attack at all?

Or another bit of subtle marketing?

Beer 'cos I fancy one right now.

We are not out of the woods yet

Red Hat has become aware that the patch for CVE-2014-6271 is incomplete.

"Update: 2014-09-25 03:10 UTC

Red Hat has become aware that the patch for CVE-2014-6271 is incomplete. An attacker can provide specially-crafted environment variables containing arbitrary commands that will be executed on vulnerable systems under certain conditions. The new issue has been assigned CVE-2014-7169. Red Hat is working on patches in conjunction with the upstream developers as a critical priority. For details on a workaround, please see the FAQ below."

Re: And here we go again...

"Well you've obviously got something to hide, or you wouldn't be encrypting it!"

I use encryption every time I use rsync to copy between my Mac and my Linux box.

Should I arrest myself?

"nterestingly if anyone was to make use of this information it would instantly become wrong."

Quantum computing then.

"There is no skills shortage. There's an unwillingness to work for chicken feed. Let the poxy blighters suffer, I say. Pay a man a living wage or get the hell off the job boards!"

Ain't that the truth.

The disturbing development recently is that every time I see an article promising good future earnings if you specialise in security / data science / networking / whatever, there's some sourpuss of an accountant telling us that once everyone's got trained up they'll squeeze the salaries in your chosen specialisation.

And this article with the KPMG laddie's comment is no exception.

Re: Can't say I blame them

"And Windows works fairly well as a guest VM on my Linux host. Except it just keeps expanding to overfill the disk it was allocated."

Which is where I moved my Windows guest VM to VMware Fusion on my Mac. Fusion has the ability to reclaim the space Windows keeps gobbling up.

And Windows Activation after that was a good half hour struggle with an automated phone system, NOT something that could be achieved in 10 seconds, as another poster suggested.

Re: It's not Open Source it's an open standard

"Also: documents will now be readable in 100 years time."

Only if we keep on shifting them to whatever replaces today's disks and file systems.

It doesn't matter how open the file format is if we don't have the kit to read the physical copies.

Re: firefox ESR updated too

Here's the Mozilla video Why Tabs are on Top in Firefox 4 (just over 7 minutes long).

Apart from the fact his argument is very weak (was any ergonomic research done?), he faithfully promises that we will have the option to keep "Tabs Not On Tap".

They've broken that promise.

P.S. My updated ESR version arrived during the night.

"Google still sends a lot of traffic to a web page I removed last November."

That simple statement has gained me 4 downvotes so far.

Proof that Google shills are out and about?

Audio-in is dead already

"So you're left with the 3.5mm connector. It is analog today, but there's no particular reason a 3.5mm connector can't be used to pass digital data."

If you look at Apple's computer line up only the Mac mini is left with a 3.5mm audio in connector.

For output the MacBook Air, MacBook Pro and iMac have this:

- Headphone port

- Support for Apple iPhone headset with remote and microphone

- Support for audio line out (digital/analog)

The new Mac Pro has what is described as:

- Combined optical digital audio output/analog line out minijack

- Headphone minijack with headset support

Am I the only one who sees the lack of audio-in combined with a move to digital audio-out a move towards preventing the consumer from copying audio from one device to another?

Re: In the Microsoft World

"The patch would be ready today, but you cannot have it until Tuesday."

Which at this time of the month is nearly four weeks away.