Posts by TheVogon

Re: Coming soon to the UK...

"Prime Minister Corbyn"

He lost. You are Diane Abbott and can't count and I claim my £5...

Re: Mensa

"That's because you only need to take a look around some of the certification forums to see that half the people gaining certs in MS, Oracle, CISCO, etc are simply performing verbatim regurgitation of test questions you can buy or simply rip off torrent sites."

The Microsoft exams at least were heavily redesigned about 5 years ago to stop that. The questions, scenarios, parameters and answers are now randomly selected and shuffled, meaning that you can no longer just learn a list of correct answers because the actual questions themselves are dynamic in content.

Re: There is a dark evil danger to the big uptake of HTTPS

"LOL, no, it seems you do.

Nope, read and learn.

"Hint2: Each client has a unique encryption key to the AP.

Hint3: The only way a client can see data is if the AP specifically sends it to the client."

Not the only way. FYI, ARP traffic still gets broadcast across the network using a shared key so that DHCP can maintain clients.

So, If the ARP table is poisoned with a broadcast MAC on the client entry you will force the clients system to use the broadcast shared key when sending data. If the system is fooled into using the shared key to send data it can now be seen and you will bypass the client isolation.

Thus, if you set your local static ARP entry using the clients ip with a broadcast mac your local system will think its sending broadcast traffic when talking to that client and use the shared key allowing the client to see your traffic...

Re: So where is the AI?

I bet it would still have issues.

See

https://lettersfromnairobi.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/hot-dog2.jpg

Re: Well I got that wrong.

"That sort of lolly could buy you 15 million Soleros"

Or a few dozen Oracle licences....

Re: I feel retarded

"Linux and other Unixes have had extensions"

That's part of the problem - fine grained security control is an after-thought - not built into everything from the ground up like in Windows.

"From the earliest days of Unix, setuid provided a way (albeit with its own problems) to execute tasks requiring administrative privileges without using an admin/system level account."

Not the same thing at all. For instance how would you control rights to different functions within the same executable?

"Despite your false claim that Windows has an advantage in this regard"

But it is massively superior in this regard - see the above.

Re: SFPs + Fiber = cost more than switch?

"So, that means that the highest possible speed for a single connection is 100Gb?"

No - you missed: "at least 10 km over single-mode fibre (400GBASE-LR8) using eight parallel wavelengths (CWDM) each at 50 Gbit/s"

That's a single fibre connection.

Re: Is it just me...

"There is the common practice in many companies that domain admins use the same prooveleged user in their day to day laptop"

That's certainly not common practice in companies large enough to have an "IT department". Most companies make it such that you cant easily work like that. No email, no profile, etc. on admin accounts. So that you must use a separate user account only for admin type operations.

"That level of resilience costs money"

Dual WAN connectivity really isn't very expensive these days and there are cheapskate options like a VPN over internet. - and would likely cost a lot less money in the long term than a few thousand employees sometimes not being able to work...

"Just look at the manner in which UK Students are drip fed debt"

It seems perfectly fair that the privileged / likely high earners directly pay for their choice of education. Many other countries also do this.

" it's all interest free to start with"

No, it's at the RPI + 3%. So relatively low.

"they hit you with the fees and interest for the next 20 years or more."

You only have to pay if you earn more than £21K a year. And because it's over a long period with low interest rates, the payments are relatively low...And if you have not paid within 30 years, it gets wiped.

Re: Ewoks.f@$!$ Ewoks

"Who are you people voting for Return of the Jedi? The film in which sentient teddy bears win the day."

Like the other episodes are any more credible?!

Re: "We can't avoid the IoT revolution by refusing to play part."

"I'll find another way to make a couple of slices of bread crispy if it comes to the point that commercially available toasters need to phone home on my dime."

It's coming. See https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LRq_SAuQDec

Re: An article about a bunch of rumours..

"virtually nobody knows what the change is exactly."

We do however know that this is only about 10% of the sales force! and that 75% of the cuts are outside of the US...

Re: so much wrong here...

" the second is absolutely not. "

It is. 2 x 2.5mm cables in a ring main significantly exceeds the tolerance for overloads of a 2.5mm or 4mm radial circuit.

"2.5mm2 cable is good for up to 21A"

No, they are good for up to 27A. And if you did get a break in a ring main, then the load will effectively be split across 2 x radial circuits, so the chances of it then exceeding that rating are relatively minimal. So if the current did exceed 27A then likely it will be a short circuit - which would almost certainly trip the breaker before the cable was damaged...

Re: It's an option

I suspect he might find it more difficult to insert a floppy in his new job...

Re: School boy mistake

Apparently NASA also recently issued a denial that intelligent life had been found in the WhiteHouse...

Re: in the control center photo

"and how big of a pipe from CERN to MS is needed so they can phone home with all the data."

Presumably they would be using the corporate versions - which don't have most of the telemetry...

Re: Better not say anything bad about The Only Democracy in the ME

"International Campaign is Criminalizing Criticism of Israel as “Anti-Semitism"

Shocking. Especially that the UK has apparently adopted that twisted definition.”

"What if my need is to have it available 24x7x365?"

Then you need to fork out on your own 2 datacentre setup with full resilience / no single point of failure - and that won't come cheaply...

O365 is targeted at 99.9% availability type uses which equates to circa 45 minutes a month of downtime.

In practice O365 usually achieves 99.99% on a quarterly basis- see https://products.office.com/en-us/business/office-365-trust-center-operations

Good to see Slurp finally getting a spanking...

Re: Makes perfect sense

"it will be damn expensive to make the move"

Very. And massively complex and would take many years. And many users would always still need Windows.

"but the long-term benefits will be worth it."

I doubt it. You would just end up with an expensive to run mess. If this were true, many CIOs would be doing this, but near zero are....

Re: We send the EU 0.16 DUP a week

"Let's stop these arseholes privatising it."

That was Labour via PFI. And we did - they lost...

Re: defense

"simply do not use WiFi on any Windows PC."

Well if you are a terrorist or have something to hide maybe!

"Setting it up is pain anyway"

There is nothing to "setup" It just works out of the box.

"the speed is not so good,"

I likely get higher real transfer speeds via my 5GHz AC WiFi than you do over Powerline!

Re: I miss the days when it was just email!

"Different clients,"

It's a entirely different product.

"no conferencing."

You can do person to person conferencing (video messaging) and make voice calls between normal Skype and Skype for Business.

The Sype for business user can also send you a conference link to . Works from your web browser or you can install a fat client.

"It's a mess."

Not really. If you want business (multi user) conferencing, you need Skype for business, or accept an invite from someone who has it.

Re: Same but different

"and with a name like Steve, probably white"

Don't count on it. It's also Dell for Sanjay, etc....

Re: Cyber sex in action

"logged in as an admin or domain admin into running a booby-trapped email attachment"

What sort of shoddy organisation allows admin accounts to have email and be used for general purpose access?!