* Posts by Lord_Beavis

161 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Nov 2015

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UKFast bit barn yarn: 'Cisco switch glitch' leads to service ditch

Lord_Beavis
Linux

@ A Non e-mouse

You mean someone did a "reload" without a "write mem" before hand?

You wouldn't believe the number of times our network group has configured a switch, boxed it up, shipped to site and then find out it has the default config when it's installed and powered up. All because of not using "write mem". It's like they let some pseudo journalists loose on it.

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Firefox to feature sponsored content as of next week

Lord_Beavis
Pirate

New Tab Override Add-on

New Tab Override works... for now.

Lord_Beavis
Pirate

I don't know about you...

But I'm already seeing this bullshit.

Gonna be busy adding sites to my DNS blacklist.

Press F to pay respects to the Windows 10 April Update casualties

Lord_Beavis
Pirate

Re: Windows @Barelyman

"Is 2018 the Year of the Linux Desktop?"

There is no "Year of the Linux Desktop". One day it will just be. Don't fall for the Windows hype.

Lord_Beavis
Linux

Windows

Is still a thing?

Intel's security light bulb moment: Chips to recruit GPUs to scan memory for software nasties

Lord_Beavis
Pirate

What if it's diabled in the BIOS?

Something tells me that it truly isn't.

"This can be regulated or scheduled depending on how busy the GPU is – for example, if it's rendering a video game, "

Solitaire counts as a video game? Just barely, I would guess.

I'll stick with AMD and the Linux hating Nvidia for video games.

How machine-learning code turns a mirror on its sexist, racist masters

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Re: HAL

Great... That's all I need. A canner giving me shit.

Lord_Beavis
Trollface

Challenge Accepted

FYI: There's a cop tool called GrayKey that force unlocks iPhones. Let's hope it doesn't fall into the wrong hands!

Lord_Beavis
Pirate

Here's how that phone call would go

Wife: Hello?

Me: Got picked up by the cops. Execute Order 66.

Order 66 would be getting the sealed envelope from the Emergency Hiding Place with instructions on how to get my username and password for iCloud and how to wipe the phone.

Airbus CIO: We dumped Microsoft Office not over cost but because Google G Suite looks sweet

Lord_Beavis
Trollface

Is that

Munich I smell?

OK, deep breath, relax... Let's have a sober look at these 'ere annoying AMD chip security flaws

Lord_Beavis
Trollface

Old Tech

Glad I'm hanging on to these 6502 and Z80 CPU's...

BlackBerry unveils bold new strategy: Suing the c**p out of Facebook

Lord_Beavis
Linux

Blackberry

is turning in to SCO...

Chrome adblockalypse will 'accelerate Google-Facebook duopoly'

Lord_Beavis
Pirate

Combination

I use No Script and uBlock Origin on my laptop and an ever growing DNS blacklist to protect the users on my network.

Ubuntu wants to slurp PCs' vital statistics – even location – with new desktop installs

Lord_Beavis
Linux

FFS

Looks like it's back to Slackware.

Apple's top-secret iBoot firmware source code spills onto GitHub for some insane reason

Lord_Beavis

RE: It's not that hard to find

"Anonymous Coward

It's not that hard to find.

Link"

Damn you sir. Damn you to Hell.

No Windows 10, no Office 2019, says Microsoft

Lord_Beavis
Terminator

"Dilberts use Linux and Mac, Pointy-haired Bosses like Windows."

The solution is simple. Kill all the Pointy-haired Bosses.

Lord_Beavis
Linux

Is any of this relly going to matter?

Until Intel fixes their CPU cockup so we don't have to patch the current ones back to 2010 levels of computing power all of this is just laughable.

Most of the work I've seen people doing really shouldn't need a GUI. A dumb terminal to enter data is the most they really need.

Nork hackers exploit Flash bug to pwn South Koreans. And Adobe will deal with it next week

Lord_Beavis

Flash?

Aaaaaa aaaahhh

Sorry, just had to do it.

Death notice: Moore's Law. 19 April 1965 – 2 January 2018

Lord_Beavis
Trollface

A return to the Golden Age of Computing

You mean programmers are now going to have to optimize their code? Development times just went up by a factor of three and costs by 12...

Serverless: Should we be scared? Maybe. Is it a silly name? Possibly

Lord_Beavis
Facepalm

Marketing Droids

Sounds like that "Cloud" nonsense all over again.

Job ad for designer proves its point with MS Paint shocker

Lord_Beavis
Trollface

100K/yr in Cali?

Isn't that poverty level pay?

Text bomb, text bomb, you're my text bomb! Naughty HTML freezes Messages, Safari, etc

Lord_Beavis
FAIL

Re: Downplayed

If you are using iMessages as an archive, you're the tool.

Hey. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube. Get in here... so we can shake your hands – US Senate cyber-terror panel

Lord_Beavis
Pirate

Oh my god...

TL;DR - Fucking Nanny State.

YouTube turns off cash tap for automatic video nasties

Lord_Beavis
Trollface

At leat you're honest...

"Or turning our nonsense into videos."

HTML5 may as well stand for Hey, Track Me Longtime 5. Ads can use it to fingerprint netizens

Lord_Beavis
Linux

Yes, but

did they try it with Lynx?

Oracle says SPARCv9 has Spectre CPU bug, patches coming soon

Lord_Beavis
Pirate

Now is the time

for someone to write Plutos Kiss.

Wanna motivate staff to be more secure? Don't bother bribing 'em

Lord_Beavis
Trollface

Re: Dont' name and shame persistent offenders

"'don't shit in the boss's desk drawer' policy"

Where do you work that that is a policy?

Remember those holy tech wars we used to have? Heh, good times

Lord_Beavis
Linux

Re: No mention of systemd?

"What f*****g genius decided to include a DNS resolver in Systemd that includes embedded IP addresses pointing to Googles DNS servers?"

Goddamn if that right there doesn't just piss me off. I run my own DNS server and I don't want systemd trying to second guess me.

Isn't the monolithicness of systemd the very thing penguinistas hate M$ for?

Lenovo inherited a switch authentication bypass – from Nortel

Lord_Beavis
Pirate

Re: "readers with long memories..recall that HP was a reseller of the switches, back in the day"

"We have a decommissioned IBM Blade Centre with Nortel Switch modules slapped in the back (To make it look like the comms room is more populated than it is so we can't be forced to move to a smaller room again)."

The BOFH is strong with this one.

Supermicro crams 36 Samsung 'ruler' SSDs into dense superserver

Lord_Beavis
Paris Hilton

And the serious question again is...

how much 4K pr0n will it hold?

Amount of pixels needed to make VR less crap may set your PC on fire

Lord_Beavis
Paris Hilton

Really, did no one think to ask...

about pr0n?

Wait, what? The Linux Kernel Mailing List archives lived on ONE PC? One BROKEN PC?

Lord_Beavis
Facepalm

Like have a prod server under a desk in a cubicle...

The companies internal IM system was running on a workstation with a server OS under the app managers desk for 2 years before some figured it out. Other than no one being able to use IM if something were to happen to it, it wasn't "mission critical". Luckily enough, the guy's cube was on a circuit that was tied in to the server room's UPS/Generator.

Oh, and the system was listed as Proof Of Concept. In Prod.

They do almost everything that way.

And we return to Munich's migration back to Windows – it's going to cost what now?! €100m!

Lord_Beavis
FAIL

@Kristian Walsh

"...the software licences are never the big line items in a business process improvement project."

I'll mention that during the next "Battle of the Budgets" and see how far that flies. They always change to the lesser cost of MS services and then plan a big project that requires resources from MS that isn't in our agreement and blame us for not being able to implement it -OR- pay through the nose to get it when they only could have paid a little bit upfront.

We translated Intel's crap attempt to spin its way out of CPU security bug PR nightmare

Lord_Beavis
Trollface

Fixe it for you

Translation: Don't click on any bad links or emails, you rubes. And for God's sake stay off of PornHub!

Ubuntu 17.10 pulled: Linux OS knackers laptop BIOSes, Intel kernel driver fingered

Lord_Beavis
Linux

Re: Accidental Aardvark @Snorlax

"Of course the Linux apologists will say it's an Intel problem."

Why? There's no apology needed. But, if your OS manhood feels threatened enough I'll give you a "sorry, not sorry".

Lord_Beavis
Linux

Re: Accidental Aardvark @Oliver Jones

"I shall, in the meantime, continue to run Windows, and grin."

Yes, but it is a teeth gritting grin that you get when you know you're getting dry fucked in the arse, because that's all you can do.

Oh, the weather outside is frightful, but the data centre temp's delightful

Lord_Beavis

Bean counters

Most of them are mouth breathers...

DNS resolver 9.9.9.9 will check requests against IBM threat database

Lord_Beavis
Linux

Re: Smut Blocker

And that is why I run my own DNS server... They might can still track me but I'm not going to make it easy on them.

Linux-loving lecturer 'lost' email, was actually confused by Outlook

Lord_Beavis
Linux

The academi (is that even a word) were right

They should have stayed on Linux.

I welcome the down votes you Windows pukes.

What the fdisk? Storage Spaces Direct just vanished from Windows Server in version 1709

Lord_Beavis
Pirate

@bombastic bob Re: You're expecting sense?

And now you have systemd...

Lord_Beavis
Linux

@ma1010 Re: You're expecting sense?

Welcome to the fold, brother.

Lord_Beavis
Black Helicopters

Re: It will probably be back...

"lessee... FORCED update that removes a critical feature, and then PAY UP if you want it back!"

More like, "That's some nice features you have there. It'd be a shame if sumptin wew to happen to 'em..."

BOFH: Oh dear. Did someone get lost on the Audit Trail?

Lord_Beavis

Re: "Yes. I'm the decoy," I say, as the sound of a heavily loaded shredder...

“Sounds like Simon has been to Texas:”

I’ve heard the same story but with kids at a party...

BYOD might be a hipster honeypot but it's rarely worth the extra hassle

Lord_Beavis

I for one like BYOD...

When the problem is not with the software / resources we supply it is on the user to fix it.

More time for Pr0n.

Twitter reckons Trump's Nork-baiting tweet was 'newsworthy'

Lord_Beavis
Linux

Twitter

Is still a thing?

IBM packs 120TB into a carry-on bag, for snow-balling cloud uploads

Lord_Beavis
Black Helicopters

Ah, the cloud

It's just someone elses server.

No thank you.

Western Digital hauls out weighty tome with 20TB external storage

Lord_Beavis
Linux

False advertising

Buy a real backup solution. You'll be happier if you ever have to recover data.

Sysadmins told to update their software or risk killing the internet

Lord_Beavis
Joke

Instructions unclear

I put my dick on the Internet.

Lord_Beavis
Trollface

Re: Simple Fix

Google DNS?!?!? Are you mad?!?!?

Lord_Beavis
Trollface

Re: windows 2K

"if a company was say running a windows 2000 server , or windows XP machines, !!"

Then they get what's coming to them...

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