Posts by julian_n

Ah. That explains the smirk on Theresa May's face.

Re: It's in the cloud!

Ask Mr Bezos - although (allegedly) he failed to take the same precautions over his own photos.

But doesn't this go back to the issue of the biggest pricks?

Re: Trackers!

Only 3? ABP shows 10.

T480? We've just been upgraded to them.

Mine overheats and gives "Fan Error" messages.

My colleagues has had a new motherboard already after the USB-C connector failed. As they now use cheaper USB-C expansion boxes rather than the proper docking stations with proper connectors if you take your laptop around and have to plug / unplug the USB-C this happens. I leave mine connected all the time and use it as a desktop - so it is OK.

If you want reliability, look elsewhere.

Re: Britain's " muted line about its offensive cyber capabilites"

It was long before that. The French had their SCSSI laws and sniffed everything - until Duncan Campbell told the world about Eschelon.

Actually, yes - seems to be issues with my sound - Viber and Skype and Youtube videos.

Re: "Unless there is reason to believe a password has been compromised ..."

One answer would be to check passwords, as they are changed, against the compromised list from Troy Hunt - he has an API for this - and tell users to pick again if the password is on the compromised list.

Re: Quite nice ...

Ask OnePlus 2 owners how updates worked out for them.

Re: skype 9

Version 8 is incompatible with my Windows 7.

It installs, then hangs - nothing short of a reboot kills the processes.

Re: another buy out of my bread and butter

As I recall, Sun killed the x86 version to boost sales of their Cobalt Linux.

It did boost sales of Linux alright - SuSE Linux, RedHat Linux . . .

Cobalt Linux died, Sun revived x86 and then shot themselves in the other foot by charging for patches when others were free.

Re: Lily Savage is Apples new CEO?...

I thought he had left the country after the 2015 election:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/11579451/Lily-Savage-star-Paul-OGrady-to-leave-Britain-if-Conservatives-wins-election.html

What? He didn't? Another leftie hypocrite

Re: Barton Gellman defended auto-updates, arguing they do more good than harm

But wasn't that also the case with the forced upgrade to Windows 10?

Not to mention having had his skull reshaped with a bit lopped off the sides and put on the top whilst pushing his eyes further apart.

Sounds very similar to the One+ hack - I hope that BA are better than One+ at assisting affected customers.

Re: MS abandoning Windows??

You must be running a different version to me. My Office 365 is vastly inferior to the thick client. Loads of the shortcuts either don't work now or are intercepted by the browser

Re: Did anyone else immediately expect something about hotels?

Actually the Forte lubricants and additives do a good job - a can of fuel additive before the MoT cleans out some of the gum and crap making a pass more likely especially as most modern fuels are contaminated with rape oil or ethanol.

A&A offer Broadband only - £10 pm - but on a TalkTalk backhaul.

Round us they mole drain and subsoil deeper than a foot.

Biggest risk is BT leaving cables above ground - the whole village was off for up to a week after a farmer caught some stray wires in his hedge-cutter.

You have to have the physical wires - yes - but you don't need a voice service. I pay £10 line rental pm for the lines with no voice service.

Correct. Local Apps OK - web apps (365) bad!

Re: Hmmm

Maybe all postal deliveries should be done after dark - so the EVs have all day in the sun to charge?

Re: "So basically that means Windows 10"

Oh come on now - we all know that Hillary Clinton is greater than the law.

Re: NSAgram

Maybe . . . or maybe this has just patched a hole the NSA knew about and were using themselves.

In the past, Amber Rudd and her ilk have named Telegram and Whatsapp as two applications that use end to end encryption that are allowing horrible murderers/paedophiles/terrorists/tax evaders/[insert bogeyman] to hide their traffic.

They never mention, for example, Signal.

Now what if the reason these apps are named is to encourage the bogeymen to use them instead of stronger apps?

What if Kaspersky have found one of the NSA routes in?

Sweet revenge for the ban, and maybe one less way to be snooped on.

Still prefer Signal though.

Re: We are done for good with Tenable

I have to disagree about the false positives - Nessus is no better and no worse than Qualys. Personally I preferred the Nessus interface - Qualys tries to do everything and ends up as a jack of all trades master of none - leaving users having to hop around between different parts in an inconsistent manner.

Furthermore, Nessus here picked up an error Qualys missed caused by our desktop team having the wrong CAB file in SCCM.

BUT all this is no use if the tool is unmanageable or the vendor cannot be trusted - which is where we now are with Nessus.

Finally, taking the fingers-in-ears approach and shutting down the community server to avoid adverse discussion shows a company that seriously just does not get it.

Very sad. Good product. Crap company.

Re: Advancing our civilization into less a democratic state...

Read the Conservative manifesto 2015 - nothing advisory about it.

What - you mean like David Miranda?

Nah - couldn't happen.