Posts by Combat Wombat

Do not want...

So essentially Google are renting you an OS/Hardware combo ?

I like my desktop, which I can access anytime I like... which doesn't require me to pay protection money to Google, and I am safe in knowing that my personal files aren't being mined for marketing data.

If their servers shit themselves and die (see current Amazon cloud status), its a paperweight.

If my internet connection shits itself and dies, it's a paperweight.

Did you hear that ?

It was the sonic boom, caused by the fed's rubber stamp coming down so fast.

Has to be quoted

"The universe has to move forward. Pain and loss, they define us as much as happiness or love. Whether it's a world or a relationship, everything has its time. And everything ends." --Sarah Jane, School Reunion Ep

Now if you will excuse me... someone is cutting onions..

Maybe it was...

a comet strike ?

They are made of ice, and would leave no trace.

The shockwave of one hitting would make one hell of a bang, if it was big enough

This doesn't surprise me...

I used to work supporting a certain TV show, dealing with supernatural themes.... and well they were tighter than a Jewish Scottish ducks butt when it came to spending on critical IT stuff.

They had all their seasons work on one big 16Tb raid, and NO off site or other backups.

One day the RAID started squawking because 1 disk had failed... but instead of calling us... the producer took it upon himself to swap the disk out.

Pulled 1 disk oooops wrong disk .. pulled 2nd disk.. oooops wrong disk.... pull 3rd disk... still wrong disk... fuck....

RAID Is now killed...

Oh will I will just reinsert all the disks and run Chkdsk..

It was only AFTER he did all this, he called us..

Yeah.. that was a fun conversation..

Welcome to...

tech sector boom 2.0

*sigh*

I can translate this for you

We will have to bribe the FCC much more than usual, and come up with some creative yet non enforceable conditions so the FCC can save face...

then it will be approved

For all you skeptics

It looks like the boom is back in full swing.

Just waiting for the must in about 2014...

Mine's the one with "surviving economic crashes for dummies" book in the pocket

I won't see ads

Ads will be blocked, because;

1) Fuck you I pay for the service... I shouldn't be bombed with ads

2) Ad's are a security risk, as they usually come from dodgy 3rd party ad servers

I really hope skype doesn't jump the shark. I really enjoy being able to make secure, free calls to friends around the world.

I find people bitching about skype call quality usually have a 3rd rate ISP on one end of the call.

I have been using it for years, and I have never had an issue talking to friends. Calls have always been clear and pretty stable.

I guess people are blaming skype in a lot of cases where it is more the ISP to blame.

The node SNAFU was entirely their fault, but given that was the first major outage in a few years, that was a pretty good effort.

So bollocks to advertising! Keep making a product I am happy to use, which does what I want it to, and doesn't contain ads.

I can hear the linux fanboys on various forums crying about the lack of a skype client, and they have been for ages.

It's linux desktop. No one cares about you.

You are a tiny percentage of the market, and not worth the effort.

Now go back to your basement, and play with your kernels.

My bullshit meter just went off....

I can't see this being good for anyone except patent lawyers and their bastard ilk.

Just ads more reasons for businesses to move to china where they can safely ignore the US system.

Well thats stupid

"Existing management will stay in place"

So the same dinosaurs that have been running the company into the ground... get to stay on ?

I am sure Citi took over EMI for tax reasons, because they seem to be awesome at pissing money into a big black hole.

Oh wait... Citi does that too.... So I guess we'll see an EMI bailout at some point in the future.

The revolution...

will not be televised... because the bastards cut off your access.

Now who things the current US scheme for an "internet kill switch: Is a good thing ? Hmmm ? anyone ? Buller ? Anyone?

What happened in Egypt is a clear picture of what can happen. The government gives the order, routers get updated, and AS systems drop off.

This is why there needs to be a open market, with lots of competition. Not the same top 3 or 4 companies running things.

Go Egypt ! Give the bastards hell :D

Hmmm no

Or it could be that people are buying less units.

I bought 4Tb of storage a year ago, and I won't be updating or upgrading any time soon.

It could be that we have hit the size plateau, where most people have enough space for what they need.

I won't be moving anything to the cloud, I like my data where I can control it.

What you will also see is the new push for data caps on internet links, killing off a lot of the cloud hype... especially for home users.

Yes.. the hackers are tools

But isn't this a case of shooting the kid who pointed out the emperor has no clothes?

Do we see AT&T being raked over the coals because they had tissue paper thin security ?

Nope....

What this will end up doing, is stop people reporting things like this to the public. They'll just sell the information to organized crime instead.

Bwa hahahaha !

As an ex aussie, living overseas it's not surprising my knuckle dragging brethren have finally cottoned on to this.

There is almost no reason to use local retailers, as they gouge the hell out of you with no real benefit. With anything tech related, even the warranty is a RTM (return to manufacturer) so you may as well buy it from the source, and cut out the useless middleman.

Australian retailers need to get over the delusion that they matter to the market at all. They are a tiny market, at the arse end of nowhere, so will get treated accordingly.

He got a free ride to Finland

He was sitting on the chair when Ballmer threw it!

I see what you did there Mr Hockey..

He is opposing it because it doesn't filter enough!

He is not against the filter for reasons of principle or free speech, but because the filter doesn't filter everything!

Good god porn and scams are coming through the email portals as well !!!!oneone!!

I am so glad I moved out of that backward assed country.

Hey Reg, any chance of a maple leaf icon ?

We need a "screw this, I'm moving to Canada" Icon.

Unlike most people.. I actually did. :)

They need a bigger cricket bat..

Why *smack* won't *smack* you *smack* die !?! *smack*

Yeah...

kind of a hollow victory there.

Company is in the process of going titsup, so they didn't bother to defend and the GPL guys are unlikely to see a penny from them once the vultures have picked the corpse clean for the other creditors in the queue

A for effort though guys.

I for one..

still applaud the stance that iinet has taken against these bastards.

The argument they put forward (which was vindicated by the judge) was that determining whether copyright was actually being infringed, was not up to an ISP.

ISP's do not have the ability to determine this (legally or in practical terms), and it is up to the copyright holders to chase down people on an individual basis.

This is exactly what the media companies DON'T want to do. They want the ISP's to take all the risk, and do all the work for them.

Will it ...

Run on my Windows 7 box ?

Step 1 to success

Fire Ballmer !

The guy is a clueless tool.

Say you fire him in an ironic manner, say duct taped to a chair, which is fired from a catapult and aiming him to land in a pile of unsold Zune's and boxes of Windows Vista.

Get someone who knows what the hell they are doing, can fix the management culture at Microsoft and cleanse the massive pile of middle managers there with fire.

Gee

Would the lower data usage have ANYTHING to do with the lower throughput speeds on the network.

If your maximum speed is measured in kbps...then of course you are going to have a lower total data usage....

Stupid study is stupid.

*sigh*

This is about the UAE not being able to read mail.

The security issue is that the UAE security services can't read peoples mail, and they are bitching about it.

What they want is a nice cosy server in the UAE, so they can read all the mail of people there and look for excuses to arrest people. I am sure BB's are really popular with the local population because they know that the morality police can't intercept their flirty txts.

This is about an oppressive government wanting to spy on their citizens and they can.

RIM is Canadian, but I am sure they have servers in the US as well.

I for one hope they tell the UAE govt to kiss off

Awesome !

If I were working at RIM now, I would be sending Microsoft a thank you note, and some chair deflecting helmets for managers.

What a F'ing stupid idea.

We had an iphone Vs Blackberry debate here, and we firmly told management they could not have their itoy because we did not have the infrastructure to manage and secure it.

MS is aiming squarely at the business crowd, yet they have no fucking idea about their customers basic needs.

I'll be buying stock in RIM methinks..

Do not want !

So what happens is I get an OS update that makes me play ads, or it bricks the machine?

Can I set up a script to make the ads play when I am at lunch, or on the john?

I am just waiting for Apple to come up with a chip that zaps you if you aren't sitting at the machine watching the ads as they play.

Call it iownyou and I am sure the fanboys will line up to get the new jobisian control device installed.

I hate advertising in all its forms.

Fire, because we need to cleanse the ad industry off the planet with it.

What I am reading is...

Waaaah Waaah Waaaahh ! We want to keep doing security through obscurity, and only disclose stuff when we have to !

Damn all this hax0rs ! They are making us throw extra resources at solving problems in 30-60 days, rather than when ever we get around to it!

I am all for security experts disclosing issues, provided they have contacted the vendor first, and given them a reasonable time frame for a fix.

Let me clarify "reasonable"

If the explore is a remote exploit, that DOESN'T require the stupid monkey user to click on an infected link, then it should be 30 days to fix.

Remote exploit stupid link clicky longer, but engineer it so it zaps the user when they click stupid links

Things like the DNS re-direct issue that forced DNSSEC to be finally rolled out..well vendors need to suck it up, fix it ASAP, and then make their customers apply patches.

That's WHY we have IT admins, and patch cycles.

Of course companies like Cisco COULD fix their firmware update process, so an IOS update doesn't brick features... or the router.

*ahem*

BOLLOCKS !

What a crock of lies..

I call bullpucky !

What the hell ?

If it has been terrorist related, they would be crowing about shutting down a terrorist cell.

If it were pedo related, they would have pulled IP's, grabbed the kiddy fiddlers, and been crowing about it

So why are they NOT crowing?

So it is part of an ongoing investigation.

My money is that a fair bit of copyright related material was being hosted, and they are in the process of handing over the details to the *IAA goons as we speak.

It's more concerning that they are NOT saying which law enforcement group took it out.

So it's the internet version of the KGB.

Your blog gets kidnapped in the night by faceless police goons, never to be seen again.

Moral of the story

Do NOT host anything in the states.

It is liable to the stupid laws of the US, in regards to copyright.

Mine's the one with the Canadian passport in the pocket

Ow

My Eyes ! the Googles ! they do nothink!

Dear god... could be he was just trying to get away from the ham beast who was molesting him..

I have rolled out SP3 to machines...

of all sorts of hardware specs.. and I have never had a machine BSOD with it, or any of the issues above.

Probally because I know what the hell I am doing, and run a proper network.

Only people who have bsod's with SP3 are people who have undetected root kit infected machines.

Oh wait.. I have a well designed network, so a rebuild only takes 30 minutes + apps to come down via SCCM

F**king muppet admins..