Posts by Spiz

Re: Ah, yes. The dreaded "fix it NOW!" call ...

"the ops centre must have slept through the alarms"

They weren't delivering the alarms via pager, were they? :)

c:\> copy con test.txt

ksjdhfkahfdahjds

askjdfksdajhf

jkasdhkjadshf

askdjhfkasjdhf

^Z (or F6)

1 file(s) copied

Re: not much better and made one line illegible to REALLY show you how its done

I never ever want to see any of your code.

Not ideal but you could Group Policy this:

https://knowledgebase.cobweb.com/help/outlook-autodiscover-registry-fix

Re: Bullshit article premise

To be fair I have a rule in my firewall doing exactly this, and it's enabled at the moment along with FB's.

Results are hit-and-miss, but they're certainly not catastrophic. ElReg, BBC News, Amazon, Reddit, microsoft.com, my online accounts software - all work without any issue whatsoever. Some sites balk a little to start with while they (I presume) try and contact the mothership but will load pretty quickly after that.

I have seen some sites which completely fail to render but they've not been of such importance that I can't go else where, but then maybe my list of frequented sites isn't everyone's. I certainly don't use any of Google's services (knowingly) and therefore don't have an issue with them being blocked.

The only (slightly unrelated) issue I have is when I want to use the Quest 2, but then I have a bespoke app on my phone where I can tell the router to unblock FB with one tap and block it again with another, at the same time routing them through a VPN.

Re: "using things like multi-factor authentication"

You don't have to give up your phone number if you use an authenticator app

Re: Sustainability

We're doing this. They haven't been able to print for over a year now working from home, therefore don't need to (or we've provided electronic alternatives) so our rented printer fleet is going back.

Re: Support contract

Shame - that would have been a massive perk of the job.

Come into work one morning "Hi Jeff, just a quick question: how are you with G-forces and confined spaces?"

Re: Just an iPhone . ..

Yup - I often take an entire car on a plane with me.

We get it - you don't like Elon. Chill out.

Re: Don't forget the rest of the world

Your apathy about the issue shouldn't mean that I have to suffer.

Your post is the equivalent of "I don't wear a mask because I'm not bothered about catching (and spreading) COVID".

Re: Mythic Beasts

Another +1 for Mythic Beasts.

No nonsense, no frills, no 5Mb per page web interface, great support. Just works.

Re: Is it just me ..

It's just you.

To be fair

You might want to give them just a teensy bit of time to sort this lot out first. I have no doubt that analysing what happened here and future mitigation is a big priority for them.

Re: You know what would stop rapes?

Downvoter: Please explain your rationale?

Re: Who knew data centres were tinder boxes?

"there is a 'holdoff' button next to the doors in case anyone can't get to them in the 60 seconds allowed."

Well if you've managed to get to the button, go through the door?

(I know, I know - it would hopefully be someone else who presses it for you)

Re: What, exactly, is 'free speech'

Sure, I put my correct name in when I signed up to El Reg, and *an* email address, but I don't believe there was any ID required so I could have put in what I liked.

Re: It is fair trade ...

Good work! Are you a dad by any chance?

Re: Good idea in theory

Cool so make another amendment. And while you're at it add into that amendment that you can't pardon people just because you feel like it with no valid reason, and you attack the problem at both ends.

Re: An elephant in the room

Anonymous for a reason there champ?

Don't have the courage of your convictions?

Twat.

Re: HOWTO: hack their voting machines

"For god's sake, child"

Well, aren't you a conceited little twat!

No you don't have a dedicated line in the sense of bandwidth.

That's like saying your £80 a year car tax (or equivalent) pays for you to have exclusive use of the road in front of your house. It's just not true.

You might get 1Gbps up/down most of the time but your ISP is under no obligation to provide you with that bandwidth 24/7/365 else they'd go out of business.

^ this guy/gal satellites

Re: TikTok tracks its users ?

After reading your post, I'm confused as to why you've got the "Joke Alert" icon...

Re: They do have a clown as their mascot after all

Holy shit do we absolutely have to politicise EVERYTHING?

Re: If you check on https://crackstation.net/ (as I just did, as I was curious)

Is that "Ivankas hot"

or

"Ivanka shot"?

Re: Walk in to a zoom meeting just like that?

Right, so what should be "view only" logins get leaked. How does that end up with someone taking over the entire session and showing porn?

I don't use Zoom, but if these basic restrictions can't be put in place easily then it sounds pretty crap.

/me waits for jake to repeat his comments above...

Re: Fail

"Don't leave a bloody mess for the cleaner!"

FTFY

Re: As I read that

I can’t even count the number of times that comments on here have had to make the distinction between people who are technical like most of us El Reg readers, and your average consumer.

The average consumer is not going to say “oh wait this might be rebranded, I had better contact TomTom to close the account because I did a quick google search”.

Mazda were the ones that bundled the system and by proxy the link to TomTom, therefore they should be making it clear to the consumer that said link exists and provide clear instructions on what needs to be done at the end of ownership to remove it. It’s a simple addition to the page shown in the article which would save a headache like this.

It is not unreasonable on Ben’s part to assume that, with no warning to the contrary, the relationship with TomTom would be handled during the “reset” process.

That brought back memories for me as well of VB6. Apparently .NET does it too:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/visual-basic/language-reference/data-types/boolean-data-type

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-to-force-bing-search-in-chrome-for-office-365-proplus-users/

Just applied it myself ahead of time. Bastards.

Re: Almost a great article

Also:

"The researchers have good reason Jupiter was once solid."

Re: bob?

*sigh*

don't feed him!

Re: Apple Ad-Blocking?

Have you got a spare box (or even the same box) that you could plonk OpenVPN onto? Quite easy to set up and you could set the DNS servers for the OpenVPN connections to the Pi-Hole. Then Set OpenVPN to be "always on" on your mobile/tablet and hey-presto: No ads, no SSL inspection on dodgy WiFi.

Works quite nicely for me.

Re: RE: onefang

Which child is running through all of these posts and downvoting? This doesn’t even have any content one could be offended by!

Yeah, but

It makes a damn fine platform for cutting it up on when you re-supply.

I’ve been told...