And yet....
The Earth is only about 6000 years old...
Posts by Lord_Beavis
161 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Nov 2015
Ancient water found in Canada is two billion years old – giving hope to Mars colony dreamers
SHIFT + F10, Linux gets you Windows 10's cleartext BitLocker key
Friday 2nd December 2016 16:42 GMT
@ davidp231 Re: No other place to put this
"Chrome has only one use in my eyes, and that's for watching Netflix under Linux."
I'm using Firefox (with uBlock Origin) and the User Agent Overrider and this in the preferences:
Linux / Chrome 53: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/535.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/53.0.2785.34 Safari/537.36
LinkedIn officially KickedOut of Russia
Murder in the Library of Congress
Disney aims for Netflix. If the deal was made, it would shoot itself in the foot
Oh, ALL RIGHT, says Facebook, we'll let Windows admins run osquery
Cisco snaps shut remote pwnage hole in Cloud Services Platform
BOFH: The case of the suspicious red icon
Viacom, Mattel and pals busted for stalking kids with creepy web ads
Pokémon-loving VXer targets Linux with 'Umbreon' rootkit
Latest Intel, AMD chips will only run Windows 10 ... and Linux, BSD, OS X
Judge rules FBI can hack any time, any, place, anywhere
Friday 24th June 2016 15:30 GMT 
Serious question
Can you claim self defense if you are "reverse" hacking a hacking attempt on your system/network being that you don't know where it is coming from?
Say you have some counter measures setup that might kill the offending system(s)/network(s). What then?
But I guess this is all moot if you are using any Cisco gear. It's full of holes like Government (Swiss) Cheese...
The Microsoft-LinkedIn hookup will be the END of DAYS, I tell you
Hillary Clinton broke law with private email server – top US govt watchdog
Friday 10th June 2016 14:04 GMT
Re: If Clinton were a CEO ...
"What amazes me is how the Americans are willingly ignoring the fact that she lied..."
It's not that we are ignoring it, there's not a whole lot that we can do that isn't already being done to her through our broken system. Short of dragging her ass out in the street and give her a short drop with a sudden stop...
Patch ASAP: Tons of Linux apps can be hijacked by evil DNS servers, man-in-the-middle miscreants
Friday 3rd June 2016 16:27 GMT
Re: I'll bet...
"The fact is that the Linux advocates missed a security flaw for the best part of a decade while sitting there and criticising (sic) Microsoft, Apple and other big businesses for their security."
Not to mention that most administrators have missed the the security flaw that Windows is for that last 2+ decades...
US nuke arsenal runs on 1970s IBM 'puter waving 8-inch floppies
Adobe...sigh...issues critical patch...sigh...for Flash Player zero day
Microsoft half-bricks Asus Windows 7 PCs with UEFI boot glitch
Computer says: Stop using MacWrite II, human!
Microsoft adds OneDrive to bug bounty program
Microsoft's Linux Inquisitor Grand Master is off to Spotify
Flying Scotsman attacked by drone
Thursday 17th March 2016 21:19 GMT
@AC
" the resent study"
That typo has crept in several times recently.
The spelling for something that has happened in the not too distant past is "recent",
"re-sent" is "to have dispatched something again"
"resent" is the feeling of objecting to something said or done.
Maybe we should "resent" that study...
Reprogrammble routers axed by TP-Link as FCC bans custom firmware
Microsoft has made SQL Server for Linux. Repeat, Microsoft has made SQL Server 2016 for Linux
US DoJ files motion to compel Apple to obey FBI iPhone crack order
Friday 19th February 2016 22:25 GMT
Work Phone
Being that it is a "work" phone, can't the IT department use their MDM tools to issue an unlock?
I'm sure that they've already asked that, but I hope that they haven't just gone straight to Apple. Otherwise, this whole thing stinks of a false flag op.
The company I work for has the ability to reset the PIN using our current MDM solution so that all you have to do is swipe and set a new one.
Comcast celebrates Presidents Day with Gerald Ford impression
Tuesday 16th February 2016 21:20 GMT
Re: Temporary?
Maybe it's only affecting those who 'upgraded' their modems to those new monster modem+wifi+voip boxes.
When I upgraded from DOCSIS 2.0 to 3.0 they sent me one of those. It did not like my Cisco router at all. I had them configure it so that it didn't do anything but act as a cable modem, but everytime the power went out I was on the phone with them getting them to set it back to bridged mode.
I finally got sick of it and made them give me an actual cable modem and haven't had that trouble since.
Fuck them if they think I am going to be their hotspot.
Facebook tells Viz to f**k right off
BOFH: I want no memory of this pointless conversation. Alcohol please
Don't you see these simple facts? Destroy Facebook and restore human Liberty
GOP senators push FCC to kill support for local broadband
North Korea's Red Star Linux inserts sneaky serial content tracker
Per-core licences coming to Windows Server and System Center 2016
Mystery hacker hijacks Dridex Trojan botnet... to serve antivirus installer
The Mad Men's monster is losing the botnet fight: Fewer humans are seeing web ads
Friday 5th February 2016 19:52 GMT
Bandwidth caps
Is there any recourse for ads eating into your allotted bandwidth? It would be like cable and satellite TV charging you for watching to much telly because of all the adverts.
Why doesn't the likes of Comcrap go after the advertisers for making sure their ads get through instead of banging on Netflix and whatnot?
BOFH: How long does it take to complete Friday's lager-related tasks?
Saturday 23rd January 2016 16:17 GMT
RE: We had the same problem. We were forced into using PSP and TSP.
(Yes, I know... I'm tardy to the party...)
Many years ago I worked at a certain US auto parts store (let's just say it was a zone of auto's) in the store computer support area. I won't even begin to describe the equipment...
Our office was not at the corp HQ, but at one of the parts distribution warehouses as we needed a loading dock for some of the stuff we did.
One day, we all loaded up into one of the vans that the field support guys used and headed to to corp offices on the other side of town for a meeting. When we get to the meeting room all they are talking about is the planning of the next couple of meetings. Our boss asks them what we are going to be doing at this meeting and they say that it is just a meeting for planning the other meetings (yes it really does happen). He is none to pleased and tells them that we have work to do and we all get up and leave.
BOFH: We're miracle workers. But you want us to fix THAT in 10 minutes?
What did we learn today? Microsoft has patented the slider bar
Thursday 31st December 2015 07:20 GMT
RE: Perfomance
I find Libre Office damn quick on my Ubuntu laptop, but dog ass slow on a Windows desktop that is inherently faster than the laptop.
It wouldn't surprise me in the least to find out Microsoft is sapping clock cycles from the CPU when Windows tries to run LO.
Mines the one with the aluminium hat in the pocket...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
