You do realise that in IT you have to plan for everything or your moaned at by people expecting the impossible. Trust me the term lusers is something that is earned over time. Besides
Lusers stands for Local Users.
As for IT being a support role, EVERY role in a company is a support role to another department and IT need support from HR and also need support from other departments to...bottom line make money as they do directly or indirectly. Everybody supports everybody else and to think of it as a one way relationship is just the wrong attitude to have unless you have low blood preasure.
But the big thing to remember is, IT is the only department that can and eventualy will replace you, by which time they themself will be replaced and we can all go on holiday.
As for passwords, everybody has there own oppinion and in that it is like a religion to so many people. No matter if you believe in passwords or not, you have to repect those that do and that would be the binary overlords.
Madra - If you ever stand as a MP or in any politcal capacity, then you can count on my vote as somebody who can cut thru the mustard.
On a plus side(sofar) I have been asked if I care about cookies and this has only been the once, thus far touch wood(on the internet this turn of phrase is often understood and if it is you only have yourself to blame).
Oh yeah I know the ability is out there, saw what you outlined at Infosec in 1998/1999 (one of those years) and wasn't new then.
The real crux is that these ID login cards are often very anonymous in looks and in that I mean have no picture of the user. This prevents them being used as building entry ID's were humans are involved (can still use as swipe cards/proximity still).
I have also found that places that use these tend to place the physical security of these down to the user and allow them to go to lunch with it in there pocket or take home or have on the ID keychain with there security pass. This leaves the RFID variations open to being cloned - not many employee's I know of that hand out RFID security tokens also offer you a sheilded wallet to keep them in, dont cost much for them either - just not enough news headlines to drive that market into reality, just yet.
Point is that most RFID/login computer card/physical keys handed out to users only have the added security being deminished as there allowed out of the building and/or at best they get lest under the keyboard/in there top draw of the desk.
What I have not seen is one that is also a security ID and you are verified by a human when you enter the building who then hands you your ID and you hand back when you leave the building. Something as simple as that. Sure I would love a system of plastic cards that had a digital ink that were generated when you entered the building. So reception/security takes a new picture everyday so your picture actualy reflects what you look like and not what you looked like before you went on holiday last week etc etc. That would be nice, some would say annoying and sadly that is the way of life.
Toilets and cigarettes have been the durge of security in so many area's for a while and this was before the smoking laws came into effect. See that firedoor with sensor - if you put duct tape over that sensor then we can smoke all we like without grief from alarms going of in reception.
Though days like this you can just play a ice-cream truck ringtone out load near a fire-exit and stand a fair chance of having it opened for you :).
Aoron - Then learn to type - Seriously it is easier to type "You are an idiot" as apposed to typing "Y0u ar3 a4 1d107" as it is very easy to remember and that being the key. Entropy and typing - embrace them or disinfect your malware ridden puter :p.
If somebody is incapable of typing in there password, should they be allowed to play with the other workers on a live network - NO.
Use two-phase visual login. You first show a picture of yourself and for the verification your secratary has to show her tit. This then logs you in and also verifies your identification the added human component.
But on a non-deemed-sexist (had I switched roles - nobody would of thought it to be sexist - funny that) idea.
Why don't they combine the ID cards you need to use the company toilet et all as a proximity login that also has you type in your micky-mouse password. AND this is the best part - the security ID's are not allowed to leave the building (beeps and flashes and locks the doors if you try) - they are left with the security receptionist who each morning looks at you - and hands you the ID with your picture on it. Genius and clearly so complicated that it's insulting to receptionists that they are not already given this role.
We then have a system that has verified identity, reduced loss of security pass's and also security pass's that if somebody leaves the company on short notice are not left out in the wild. Also ontop of that you can still use the same password over and over again as long as only you know it as it is just iceing on a rather nice cake.
Back in the old days, people had like ophysical security and things with keys - believe they were called offices and they did work. Nowadays with this modern assimulation of battery farm office spaces that would make a chicken blush we find this solution is now impossible and remarkably we now need to find a new solution.
Personaly - go old-school - give your staff the space they deserve and don't make them have to use toilet cubicles with a laptop and mobile just to get a sence of space.
Facebook, large multinational company, pays there staff alot, large marketing department. WHat do they come up with as a marketing stratergy to push the main selling points of Facebook. Well after much debate of genius minds they come out with: Pleeease!
What next 2013's marketing campaign is what - Pretty Pleeease followed in 2014 by Pretty Pleeease with a cherry ontop and finaly in 2015: You must click on 3 of the 10 adverts to verfiy your identity and login to your Facebook account.
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Joke alert, though time may well prove me wrong on this.
Re: Wow, HP realy are slinging there own mud about
@Kebabbert "What? IBM loves monopoly, dont you know that?" Ok, what I was trying to say and failed was IBM don't like to be seen as a monoply, Yes they will take what they can, but they have got alot lot better in making them not appear to be one and in many area's stepped away from the limelight whilst still contolling alot behind the scene.
I wasn't aware of IBM trying to buy sun and had they wanted to they would of had to break up parts and sell of other parts - tere is only so much donating to open source that wil plicate. As for porting customers over to POWER/AIX, probably I know I was consulted on a few migrations over 15 years ago regarding such ports and I can only assume they have increased beyong how to convert CSH to KSH. IBM give out AIX for free, alas you need to buy there kit to run it on so they still make there income one way or another.
So once again sorry I was trying to say and failed badly in saying that IBM whislt not likeing to be seen as a monoply as it incures wrath, will take what they can, though wont make a song and a dance about it and try to avoid limelight unless its some R&D project they hope to sell as a new product and in that nobody argues about monoplies on new markets.
HP are starting to go a bit emo over this, so what they started then canned porting HPUX onto Itanium, IBM ported AIX to Itanium, run for a release and then dropped it like a ball and that was around 10 years ago so how slow can HP be. Saying they delayed as they were thinking about buying Sun is frankkly a load of bollock and if true is such bad managment for being so late to porting HPUX in the first place. No wonder Oracle was like - sod supporting your dwinderling platform. IBM was never going to buy Sun and anybody in the industry could of seen that was the case, IBM dont like being in a position of being a monoply due to historical bad press and since Microsoft and then others came along have been able to get back to work without being brow beaten every other year as they used to be. They did after all invent having lawyers in IT pretty much, so know what they can and cant get away with and prefer to stay under the radar.
Realy starting to look like HP are going to throw out all there toys from there pram and wonder down the line were it went wrong and still end up blaming others.
True, though that was about 10+ years ago now iirc and allowed the market to promote there more expensive solid state capacitors on the back of this bad electrolyte mixture in these cheap caps that killed my lovely BP6 mobo.
If Tegra3 is not cheaper than Tegra2 then the lack of cheap tegra2 tablets would not be indicative of a this panning out well.
Though a realy nice fast CPU and graphics chipset tied to a horribly cheap screen with little internal storage and poor battery life (yes even the best chipsets can be paired with a less than powerful battery) is not going to make much difference. This and if you have a cheap battery and screen then a cheaper chipset that is more than upto the screen size/performance makes more sence and does explain why this is not happening anytime soon in a reality near you.
Hope I'm wrong, but no spelling was involved so probably not alas :(.
So they were not fired - was the effected people told?
So if they were not fired were those effected told about this abuse and why not. If somebody illegaly accessed my file for neferious means then I'd want them disaplined into a new job and I'd want to be told about it. After all if I had the option of sueing there ass's then and only then will the goverment take there responsibility to heart. If I joe public access information illegaly it is called hacking and is known as a crime which can lead to me being deported very easily and these pissants get a peace of paper acknowledging there failure and allowed to carry on as long as they dont do it more than 3 times in any 6 month period and in that I mean get caught.
Floweracre - you will find with a little insight into star wars and having read the story that it is a play on words for "Fucking idiot" Withe the word fucking being replaced by Falcon (one of the items allegidly stolen) and ijediot which if you look closely is a almalgermation of the word idiot and jedi - again a star wars reference.
I hope that helps your misunderstanding and apploogies for not careing any further.
Did Bobby Tables change banks from HSBC to Barclays?
Given HSBC's recent problems and now Barclays - BOTH performing a Denial Of Service attack upon there customers. One has to wonder if Bobby Tables ( http://xkcd.com/327/ ) recently got a bank account at HSBC and then Barclays. Who will he go to next we have to wonder!
Personaly though I'll blame them both for getting rid of IT staff who know what to do as apposed to ones that have bits of paper that say they know what to do in controled circumstance. Huge difference and sadly the difference in actual pay is so small but still acted upon as a fiscal savings approach.
Well he's gone from being a Sap to a Faclon ijediot, of all the crimes to comit! Now if this was a story about somebody still at schooll instead of in mid-life, well then it would of been alot more understandable and everybody going good for him, the force is stong in this one etc etc. But no; It's somebody haveing a mid-life crisis and showing his perchant for star wars and lego as he probably couldn't afford those when he was a kid and only just showing thru the cracks now.
Still the lack of hocker involvement shows he is at least happy with one aspect of his life :0.
Sensible move and the whole mainframe aspect will apeal to lots, some as/400 love or whatever they clal it thesedays and ther will be alot of happy people out there, well except your local salesperson. Who in the past could sell a new bit of kit every 5 years or so will now sell a cloud package and poof, he is forefilling his own redundancy plan. Also for the companys that over the years made money hosting mainframes and the like for companies and in all effect offered cloud based services over leased lines will probably be more impacted if they havn't moved on already and those that have will have already proved to the customer that they can use such a system and open them right up to IBM's hands who will be able to cut the better margin breaks.
Also lets IBM get some extra millage out of some older kit, which whilst not end of life is not exactly the prime pick.
Now if they offer up usage for training for individuals with come cheap certification, well, they could make alot of people happy. Can't see how it can fail as they have all the locations and network etc etc in place to do this type of service, so be interesting.
But I see what they did there, they removed some overheads to the windowing system that they had previously added and thus making things more stable as less to go wrong, less memory usage, cpu, win win.
This what we call Microsofts Shift Shaft cycle, First they Shaft you and then they Shift you. Windows Vista was in general to most a Shaft as it had new driver models, Windows 7 used the same driver models which were by then alot more robust and stable and removed some of the so called annoying demands for admin rights to do certain tasks. This was a Shift release as it Shifted more versions. This means WIndows 8 Should be a Shaft release, though until its released I could not pass judgment. Though it would appear to be affording more stability for the GUI, but it must have negatives in there to bring it inline though this could be were the ARM branch limitations come in being the common denominator may dictate the level of programs afforded interface usability wise.
Still as long as a command/shell prompt window is the same I'll say again, nothing has realy improved since CDE.
I have an O2 and a GiffGaff on payg and found GiffGaff to be s god as the O2 for signal etc and when you factor in the cheaperness over there plans I cant say I'll complain. Though in the SE London area.
Have a three mobile data stick though - nice speeds and £15 a month for 15gb on a contract that has passed it's ocntracted period and now a rolling month contract per say work well for me. Only grip is that I have noticed that I will get signal drops effecting my connection on three when the sun goes down, odd yes, maybe quirk of local basestations or some weird quirk. But it happens.
But yeah GiffGaff fine, if it works on o2 it works on giffgaff so if you have signal problems with them then dont even think about o2 as you will get verbaitum signals.
Is it just me, or did the sentence "Windows 7 PC loaded up with forensic software" make you laugh. I know I did.
Anybody with a pile of mobiles without data connectivity will just also go lol at this.
Also if I was worried and personaly not breaking the law covers me against this (well to a 95% level anyhow as I didn't make my phone or its OS so there are flaws). Well i would simply use skype via a VPN and modify my phone so would need a special modified charger, anything else would instantly cause some extreeme voltages that would not bode the phone well, as well as the machine attached as well perhaps. This would then be a case of the police tampering with evedence. Though the law's of quantum mechanics and a good jury can argue that the by observing they tampered with the evidence in any case :-).
Personaly instead of a 5 day course indicating the software is badly written to the extent that it is not plug in, wait for machine to go ping, unplug, is light flashing red or green. They should talk to a univercity about getting a Raspberry PI and making a small box that does just that. If I had one I'd happily do that and after working out what a policeman gets paid for over 5 days, charge them around the price they pay for 5 hours work for the whole thing and still make a fat margin and sell more. Either way how much are they paying for it currently, how much does the training course cost and then the epenses of the officer to attend the training course etc etc and get the true cost.
But for using the device they shouldn;t need 5 ruddy days, anyalysing the results - well maybe, but only need a few in back office for that and the main devices just extract the data for analysis. Though can see how if i wasnted to creame a contract I'd mush the income about over cost of hardware, then software, then other software extra's, support, hardware support, training. Those who have past the period of 7 years in IT will know the cynical but true observation in alot of products out there.
It's nice when you read something that is new and has real world use benifits.
I also approve of any diagram that can be printed on the back of a fag packet (British slang and not some new networking thang). Though looking at the picture it does look like the GPU can talk to the harddisc without having to go via the CPU, which would be news in itself. But it is one of those diagrams that without the slides prior and labels on some of those number make it open to many interpritations perhaps.
Still GPU processing will have truely landed when some git releases antivirus software for it. I dread that day for many reasons.
But bottom line, this has much use and will be just lapped up by the cloud people out there, just hope the software that drives it is flexable and non limited in its application to problems. Though its a nice big step into a direction that is actualy needed at this end of the scale.
If you didn't know what SPSS (originally, Statistical Package for the Social Sciences, rumoured as Sales People Sell Shite for a while) stands for then this covers you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPSS
Nice and logical of IBM to move from flash to html5 and on a side note if it wasn't for this release of information I'd have completely forgoten that WImbledon is on this Olympics year.
That all said this year I shall be mostly routing for the rain and bad transport.
Well the only problem I would have in doing that would be that I would have to buy one of these drive's and this also ignores the aspect that I don't have a TV. Though all that said I do have the walls and duct tape.
I agree it is expensive. I also wondered what the performance was like and if it was a 5400 or 7200rpm disc. Looked at the handy freecom url and saw datasheets and lovely pdf's etc - still none the wiser. Remarkably as USB3 is new the fashion again as its a USB device is to list the USB standards maxium ideal, with tail wind speed and no hint on the real world speed is taken on the pdf and datasheet by freecom alas. I was also unable to ascertain if as to the speed of the hard disc.
All that said I can't think of any funky TV's that have USB3 on them or indeed need them just yet. So for the price and possible uses i'd question that being a good use for it, given the cost.
Another concideration is that of the length of cable and your nice wallmounted TV might be happy but when you try to attach said drive might find it hanging halfway up the wall, so that is a factor to look at. No LED is nice and and all but not a major selling point given the advent of duck-tape.
I do like that it includes a power supply and is not a totaly bus powered version which is an issue with some USB3 drives plugged into USB2 I have found that run of the bus's power, though no idea if you can run it solely of the USB3 port without the external PSU.
All in all, it's nothing special and for the price you could get something that has a built in mini NAS.
Also the operating temperature seems not suitable for rooms with direct sunlight in the summer, just a thought but a max operating temp of 35c is not enough margin of error for the 2 day british summer in october we have.
Fair play to him but he should pay tax at source IMHO
I can see all the arguments for him doing it and if you can then why not, especialy given all the factors. But the way it's presented is that he is doing it soley to avoid TAX. Now he did well inthe company he helped build and in that will get a nice income, but if he had not of done well would he of stayed, would he of claimed support. So if he can say no to the reverse coin the moraly he is doing nowt wrong, but he wont be the first to of tried this approach and I'm sure there be means and ways for the TAX man to take his cut.
But hey, worst case because its more money than we mortals see in a lifetime it will be a case that he is able to haggle with the TAX man and pay less than us mere mortals. If its less than a few million your done for TAX evasion and have to pay fines and the full amount, over that you get to haggle and get off with nobody non the wiser.
Do I blame him - no, poor global TAX laws that are allowed to be in effect a subsidised product that had it been a physical product for consumers would incure many fines over monoplies etc. There to blame.
Intersting list, few I wouldn't of picked but after seeing that playlist in VLC I'd not question them further.
One ommision I feel you should of had in there was InfraRecorder http://infrarecorder.org/ - nice burning software (InfraRecorder is a free CD/DVD burning solution for Microsoft Windows. It offers a wide range of powerful features; all through an easy to use application interface and Windows Explorer integration.
InfraRecorder is released under GPL version 3.)
I'd also say CygWin as well, but I'm sure others will.
Also I'd say I do prefer applications I can just run of a memory stick, why install anything onto windows with that option.
I'm sure others will add there gems they didn't see on the list.
If only they could find oil in North Korea, then things would be alot easier to sort out.
Still, not like there aint missiles out there that don't use GPS and some that probably home in on any signal you care to point it at, even jamming signals.
They have offered a application for Apple users only that will route them out of the way of the main route you would normaly take.
So as far as I see this they will be forcing Apple users to congregate at unpopular stations, dark alleys etc, sure this will work out realy well for muggers etc.
The other aspect is that after they have moved all these people out of hot-spot area's they will then get them to queue up for a haircut with all the other people who thought they were unique and special with there vouchers, causing new hot-spots.
Pisses me off, the only legacy over 99% of London users will get to experience and did they upgrade it, no there idea of capacity planning the public transport is over the years since being awarded the Olympics was to raise the price, reintroduce the old design bus they replaced with a disaster and to ask people who regularly pay for this shit to carry on paying and either please dont use the service your paying for or we will route you the long way.
Seriously just reintroduce Trams into central London, pave over few more roads and the trams will easily cut down on idiot driver as they do in Holland and we will have transport options that only get delayed by accident reports.
Can we replace Bojo with an application, probably be more productive but wasn;t a option on the voting ballot last week alas, maybe next time somebody will get a application standing for Major, we have 4 years to create our monster of choice - is The Register up for the challange?
So this is basicly a single signon for wirelessnetworks and in that its not just wifi but also open to the xg mobile networks.
This has its positives and negatives on many levels. Yes easier for non geeks to have there fun, whilst at the same time allowing you to be tracked just that bit easier and also being open to another form of passport theft.
One aspect that will appeal to the mobile telco's is that it allows them to passoff the mobile phone network onto wifi ala femtocell. If they can do that and still charge you for making a call you could of made via skype over wifi, they will be all for that. As well as being able to sell it as better coverage and tie your passport onto one of there branded phones/SIM's and in that offering them the ability to secure there customer base into new technologies and to potentual eat into the whole credit card market, passport control, and down the line having your sim chip implanted into you at birth with the world run by the mobile telco companies. Maybe, sure somebody has done a book already.
Still as long as the Reg Blanks of the world can login the hard way, then everybody will end up not even realise that they will get sold a identity card dressed up in the name of making your life easier and having you activly market yourself.
Hope it's secure, the tools for the mobile telco's are now comming into place, will they use them and will this casue WIFI to become the new femtocell. Though BT do have alot of this technology inplace already with there phone/braodband/wifi customers, just those extra details and they suddenly BT becomes a name on the street again.
Sounds like he is describing accountants more than most with the way they make there books look. Give an accountant worth there salt a data-set and they will make a profit from it one way or another.
But data is like shoes - people are different, but there will always be somebody selling sandle mentality.
You know what, I reckon that those three fruits blended would taste great. What with Apple and there iProducts and now Raspberry with there Pi products, maybe RIM should rebrand to RiM and focus on making lemon products as they might just fail and get something nice again in the process.
Agreed for data they are the better of the offerings. though I have noted that over the past year things of gotten a little unpalatable when all the freebie mobile webbying adding to utilisation of base stations. But compared to others there been alright.
The part that got me was ""turned the corner in terms of perception". "; Why yes they have for me in the past month when on your check allowance page which was before a simple page that gave you the information you wanted. Found itself transformed into a 3 page affair with interjected adverts hosted upon external sites from Three and as such eating into my usage as well as taking the ruddy piss. So yes my personal perception of them has changed for the worse over the past month, soley due to this change.
Beyond that seemed like they were moaning and thought we cared when its usualy us moaning and from experience them not caring so in summary HAHA.
Apparently they ordered a load of toilet roll and according to sources have been buying in supplies for a very long time now. Our source further notes that as of this day, no toilet roll has left the building leading to speculation that a some new shit hot product will be appearing soon from our favourite fruit themed supplier, unless of course you prefer Raspberry's to Apples.
A earlier rumour about a 10" iPad was soon squashed when Apple launched the new iPad 5" screen which is sold in pairs.
This is because OS/2 does not support flash drives perhaps :)
If OS/2 supported flash drives then this would change.
Though the MTBF for flash compared to spinny discs is still completely different levels. This is in a ideal world and ideals are not something you see in a server room.
light moves at say 5 units per second so to get from A to B it would take 2 light units
to measure the light at point A and point B we have a measureing device of some sorts
this measure device takes 1 light unit of time to measure any sample
Given this premise you can see that the speed of measurement can impact the results and in this area .000000001% margin of error is still alot. As such to truely measure things they use large distances to in essence slow things down enough to make that margin of error smaller.
This is why they tested neutreno's over a distance of nearly the entire planet and still made a error.
Given this - I find anything done in a lab which is small in terms of how far light can bounce around in it or anything else to be flawed before it even starts.
Thing I found in life in general that to get a accurate sample you realy want to sample 4x the speed of the data involved (video being a poor but acurate example of this when you want say you film something at 500x500 and also film it at 2000x2000 and reduce it down to 500x500, even with the same lenses etc you will get a better picture from the downsampled 2kx2k film at 500x500 than shooting raw at 500x500). So to mearure the speed of light accurately you would need to be able to measure it at 4 times the speed of light. This is deemed impossible and rightly so, this is why you cheat by in essence slowing down the data and in this case by having a larger distance is how you do it, though you never completely eliminate that margin of error you simply end up shifting that decimal point further and in essence reduce the margin of error.
As it stands it's like measureing a 10 pixel image with a 2 pixel camera and declaring you see 12 pixels.
If I still fail to explain myself then I feel assured that the universe is just as bad at explaining itself as well and in that I have good company.
Things change, attitudes don't, move along. Nothing to see here. When they have glaciers in Australia's outback is when you should worry, until then stop running intencive computer models that heat up the planet!
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Re: Fuck me, eh? Class!
You do realise that in IT you have to plan for everything or your moaned at by people expecting the impossible. Trust me the term lusers is something that is earned over time. Besides
Lusers stands for Local Users.
As for IT being a support role, EVERY role in a company is a support role to another department and IT need support from HR and also need support from other departments to...bottom line make money as they do directly or indirectly. Everybody supports everybody else and to think of it as a one way relationship is just the wrong attitude to have unless you have low blood preasure.
But the big thing to remember is, IT is the only department that can and eventualy will replace you, by which time they themself will be replaced and we can all go on holiday.
As for passwords, everybody has there own oppinion and in that it is like a religion to so many people. No matter if you believe in passwords or not, you have to repect those that do and that would be the binary overlords.
Re: Pot... meet Kettle
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Re: Pot... meet Kettle
Madra - If you ever stand as a MP or in any politcal capacity, then you can count on my vote as somebody who can cut thru the mustard.
On a plus side(sofar) I have been asked if I care about cookies and this has only been the once, thus far touch wood(on the internet this turn of phrase is often understood and if it is you only have yourself to blame).
Re: "Active Directory as it comes out of the box"
LOL yip - ANY software defaults that are not your own standards would be a security oversight.
Re: Use two-phase visual login
Oh yeah I know the ability is out there, saw what you outlined at Infosec in 1998/1999 (one of those years) and wasn't new then.
The real crux is that these ID login cards are often very anonymous in looks and in that I mean have no picture of the user. This prevents them being used as building entry ID's were humans are involved (can still use as swipe cards/proximity still).
I have also found that places that use these tend to place the physical security of these down to the user and allow them to go to lunch with it in there pocket or take home or have on the ID keychain with there security pass. This leaves the RFID variations open to being cloned - not many employee's I know of that hand out RFID security tokens also offer you a sheilded wallet to keep them in, dont cost much for them either - just not enough news headlines to drive that market into reality, just yet.
Point is that most RFID/login computer card/physical keys handed out to users only have the added security being deminished as there allowed out of the building and/or at best they get lest under the keyboard/in there top draw of the desk.
What I have not seen is one that is also a security ID and you are verified by a human when you enter the building who then hands you your ID and you hand back when you leave the building. Something as simple as that. Sure I would love a system of plastic cards that had a digital ink that were generated when you entered the building. So reception/security takes a new picture everyday so your picture actualy reflects what you look like and not what you looked like before you went on holiday last week etc etc. That would be nice, some would say annoying and sadly that is the way of life.
Re: security joke
Oh I completely believe this.
Toilets and cigarettes have been the durge of security in so many area's for a while and this was before the smoking laws came into effect. See that firedoor with sensor - if you put duct tape over that sensor then we can smoke all we like without grief from alarms going of in reception.
Though days like this you can just play a ice-cream truck ringtone out load near a fire-exit and stand a fair chance of having it opened for you :).
Re: In fact it is not
Aoron - Then learn to type - Seriously it is easier to type "You are an idiot" as apposed to typing "Y0u ar3 a4 1d107" as it is very easy to remember and that being the key. Entropy and typing - embrace them or disinfect your malware ridden puter :p.
If somebody is incapable of typing in there password, should they be allowed to play with the other workers on a live network - NO.
Re: Correct Horse Battery Staple
XKCD wins
Use two-phase visual login
Use two-phase visual login. You first show a picture of yourself and for the verification your secratary has to show her tit. This then logs you in and also verifies your identification the added human component.
But on a non-deemed-sexist (had I switched roles - nobody would of thought it to be sexist - funny that) idea.
Why don't they combine the ID cards you need to use the company toilet et all as a proximity login that also has you type in your micky-mouse password. AND this is the best part - the security ID's are not allowed to leave the building (beeps and flashes and locks the doors if you try) - they are left with the security receptionist who each morning looks at you - and hands you the ID with your picture on it. Genius and clearly so complicated that it's insulting to receptionists that they are not already given this role.
We then have a system that has verified identity, reduced loss of security pass's and also security pass's that if somebody leaves the company on short notice are not left out in the wild. Also ontop of that you can still use the same password over and over again as long as only you know it as it is just iceing on a rather nice cake.
Back in the old days, people had like ophysical security and things with keys - believe they were called offices and they did work. Nowadays with this modern assimulation of battery farm office spaces that would make a chicken blush we find this solution is now impossible and remarkably we now need to find a new solution.
Personaly - go old-school - give your staff the space they deserve and don't make them have to use toilet cubicles with a laptop and mobile just to get a sence of space.
Apparently Microsofts BOB will run there Bank as well.
Apparently^
Re: spare a dime gov
LOL
Yeah thats it in a nutshell.
Facebook, large multinational company, pays there staff alot, large marketing department. WHat do they come up with as a marketing stratergy to push the main selling points of Facebook. Well after much debate of genius minds they come out with: Pleeease!
What next 2013's marketing campaign is what - Pretty Pleeease followed in 2014 by Pretty Pleeease with a cherry ontop and finaly in 2015: You must click on 3 of the 10 adverts to verfiy your identity and login to your Facebook account.
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Re: Wow, HP realy are slinging there own mud about
@Kebabbert "What? IBM loves monopoly, dont you know that?" Ok, what I was trying to say and failed was IBM don't like to be seen as a monoply, Yes they will take what they can, but they have got alot lot better in making them not appear to be one and in many area's stepped away from the limelight whilst still contolling alot behind the scene.
I wasn't aware of IBM trying to buy sun and had they wanted to they would of had to break up parts and sell of other parts - tere is only so much donating to open source that wil plicate. As for porting customers over to POWER/AIX, probably I know I was consulted on a few migrations over 15 years ago regarding such ports and I can only assume they have increased beyong how to convert CSH to KSH. IBM give out AIX for free, alas you need to buy there kit to run it on so they still make there income one way or another.
So once again sorry I was trying to say and failed badly in saying that IBM whislt not likeing to be seen as a monoply as it incures wrath, will take what they can, though wont make a song and a dance about it and try to avoid limelight unless its some R&D project they hope to sell as a new product and in that nobody argues about monoplies on new markets.
Wow, HP realy are slinging there own mud about
HP are starting to go a bit emo over this, so what they started then canned porting HPUX onto Itanium, IBM ported AIX to Itanium, run for a release and then dropped it like a ball and that was around 10 years ago so how slow can HP be. Saying they delayed as they were thinking about buying Sun is frankkly a load of bollock and if true is such bad managment for being so late to porting HPUX in the first place. No wonder Oracle was like - sod supporting your dwinderling platform. IBM was never going to buy Sun and anybody in the industry could of seen that was the case, IBM dont like being in a position of being a monoply due to historical bad press and since Microsoft and then others came along have been able to get back to work without being brow beaten every other year as they used to be. They did after all invent having lawyers in IT pretty much, so know what they can and cant get away with and prefer to stay under the radar.
Realy starting to look like HP are going to throw out all there toys from there pram and wonder down the line were it went wrong and still end up blaming others.
So sue china in court - then tell us something new
So sue them, then China can sue those involved, There country it orginated from, there problem, they pay for it.
That all said were you hosting barclays and hsbc past week or so, as explains lots.
Re: Lower price components?
True, though that was about 10+ years ago now iirc and allowed the market to promote there more expensive solid state capacitors on the back of this bad electrolyte mixture in these cheap caps that killed my lovely BP6 mobo.
So is tegra3 cheaper than tegra2?
If Tegra3 is not cheaper than Tegra2 then the lack of cheap tegra2 tablets would not be indicative of a this panning out well.
Though a realy nice fast CPU and graphics chipset tied to a horribly cheap screen with little internal storage and poor battery life (yes even the best chipsets can be paired with a less than powerful battery) is not going to make much difference. This and if you have a cheap battery and screen then a cheaper chipset that is more than upto the screen size/performance makes more sence and does explain why this is not happening anytime soon in a reality near you.
Hope I'm wrong, but no spelling was involved so probably not alas :(.
Re: What a Falcon ijediot
TheRealRoland
Cheers man - though I have explained in the past that there digital signatures. Though +1 for listing them and blame the forums spellchecker ;0.
So they were not fired - was the effected people told?
So if they were not fired were those effected told about this abuse and why not. If somebody illegaly accessed my file for neferious means then I'd want them disaplined into a new job and I'd want to be told about it. After all if I had the option of sueing there ass's then and only then will the goverment take there responsibility to heart. If I joe public access information illegaly it is called hacking and is known as a crime which can lead to me being deported very easily and these pissants get a peace of paper acknowledging there failure and allowed to carry on as long as they dont do it more than 3 times in any 6 month period and in that I mean get caught.
Re: What a Falcon ijediot
Floweracre - you will find with a little insight into star wars and having read the story that it is a play on words for "Fucking idiot" Withe the word fucking being replaced by Falcon (one of the items allegidly stolen) and ijediot which if you look closely is a almalgermation of the word idiot and jedi - again a star wars reference.
I hope that helps your misunderstanding and apploogies for not careing any further.
Re: Why should he care?
Having seen various video's I'd say he was long gone a while ago now.
Did Bobby Tables change banks from HSBC to Barclays?
Given HSBC's recent problems and now Barclays - BOTH performing a Denial Of Service attack upon there customers. One has to wonder if Bobby Tables ( http://xkcd.com/327/ ) recently got a bank account at HSBC and then Barclays. Who will he go to next we have to wonder!
Personaly though I'll blame them both for getting rid of IT staff who know what to do as apposed to ones that have bits of paper that say they know what to do in controled circumstance. Huge difference and sadly the difference in actual pay is so small but still acted upon as a fiscal savings approach.
Re: "Legos" is wrong
We know, we may not care as much as some, but we know. Now lego of all that tension, just LEGO of it.
What a Falcon ijediot
Well he's gone from being a Sap to a Faclon ijediot, of all the crimes to comit! Now if this was a story about somebody still at schooll instead of in mid-life, well then it would of been alot more understandable and everybody going good for him, the force is stong in this one etc etc. But no; It's somebody haveing a mid-life crisis and showing his perchant for star wars and lego as he probably couldn't afford those when he was a kid and only just showing thru the cracks now.
Still the lack of hocker involvement shows he is at least happy with one aspect of his life :0.
Sensible move
Sensible move and the whole mainframe aspect will apeal to lots, some as/400 love or whatever they clal it thesedays and ther will be alot of happy people out there, well except your local salesperson. Who in the past could sell a new bit of kit every 5 years or so will now sell a cloud package and poof, he is forefilling his own redundancy plan. Also for the companys that over the years made money hosting mainframes and the like for companies and in all effect offered cloud based services over leased lines will probably be more impacted if they havn't moved on already and those that have will have already proved to the customer that they can use such a system and open them right up to IBM's hands who will be able to cut the better margin breaks.
Also lets IBM get some extra millage out of some older kit, which whilst not end of life is not exactly the prime pick.
Now if they offer up usage for training for individuals with come cheap certification, well, they could make alot of people happy. Can't see how it can fail as they have all the locations and network etc etc in place to do this type of service, so be interesting.
Still functionaly offers less than CDE
Still functionaly offers less than CDE.
It's true.
But I see what they did there, they removed some overheads to the windowing system that they had previously added and thus making things more stable as less to go wrong, less memory usage, cpu, win win.
This what we call Microsofts Shift Shaft cycle, First they Shaft you and then they Shift you. Windows Vista was in general to most a Shaft as it had new driver models, Windows 7 used the same driver models which were by then alot more robust and stable and removed some of the so called annoying demands for admin rights to do certain tasks. This was a Shift release as it Shifted more versions. This means WIndows 8 Should be a Shaft release, though until its released I could not pass judgment. Though it would appear to be affording more stability for the GUI, but it must have negatives in there to bring it inline though this could be were the ARM branch limitations come in being the common denominator may dictate the level of programs afforded interface usability wise.
Still as long as a command/shell prompt window is the same I'll say again, nothing has realy improved since CDE.
Re: Giffgaff
I have an O2 and a GiffGaff on payg and found GiffGaff to be s god as the O2 for signal etc and when you factor in the cheaperness over there plans I cant say I'll complain. Though in the SE London area.
Have a three mobile data stick though - nice speeds and £15 a month for 15gb on a contract that has passed it's ocntracted period and now a rolling month contract per say work well for me. Only grip is that I have noticed that I will get signal drops effecting my connection on three when the sun goes down, odd yes, maybe quirk of local basestations or some weird quirk. But it happens.
But yeah GiffGaff fine, if it works on o2 it works on giffgaff so if you have signal problems with them then dont even think about o2 as you will get verbaitum signals.
Is it just me, or
Is it just me, or did the sentence "Windows 7 PC loaded up with forensic software" make you laugh. I know I did.
Anybody with a pile of mobiles without data connectivity will just also go lol at this.
Also if I was worried and personaly not breaking the law covers me against this (well to a 95% level anyhow as I didn't make my phone or its OS so there are flaws). Well i would simply use skype via a VPN and modify my phone so would need a special modified charger, anything else would instantly cause some extreeme voltages that would not bode the phone well, as well as the machine attached as well perhaps. This would then be a case of the police tampering with evedence. Though the law's of quantum mechanics and a good jury can argue that the by observing they tampered with the evidence in any case :-).
Personaly instead of a 5 day course indicating the software is badly written to the extent that it is not plug in, wait for machine to go ping, unplug, is light flashing red or green. They should talk to a univercity about getting a Raspberry PI and making a small box that does just that. If I had one I'd happily do that and after working out what a policeman gets paid for over 5 days, charge them around the price they pay for 5 hours work for the whole thing and still make a fat margin and sell more. Either way how much are they paying for it currently, how much does the training course cost and then the epenses of the officer to attend the training course etc etc and get the true cost.
But for using the device they shouldn;t need 5 ruddy days, anyalysing the results - well maybe, but only need a few in back office for that and the main devices just extract the data for analysis. Though can see how if i wasnted to creame a contract I'd mush the income about over cost of hardware, then software, then other software extra's, support, hardware support, training. Those who have past the period of 7 years in IT will know the cynical but true observation in alot of products out there.
Re: Microsoft to devs: Don't ruin Win 8....
Beat me to it.
Dev's to microsoft: hey you started it.
LOL
Just LOL.
Anybody here reckon the share price will be the same or higher a year from now, heck even month?
Also anybody know anyone who is intent in purchasing these shares?
Fair play to Zucker for outsmarting the banks.
Excellent
It's nice when you read something that is new and has real world use benifits.
I also approve of any diagram that can be printed on the back of a fag packet (British slang and not some new networking thang). Though looking at the picture it does look like the GPU can talk to the harddisc without having to go via the CPU, which would be news in itself. But it is one of those diagrams that without the slides prior and labels on some of those number make it open to many interpritations perhaps.
Still GPU processing will have truely landed when some git releases antivirus software for it. I dread that day for many reasons.
But bottom line, this has much use and will be just lapped up by the cloud people out there, just hope the software that drives it is flexable and non limited in its application to problems. Though its a nice big step into a direction that is actualy needed at this end of the scale.
SPSS
If you didn't know what SPSS (originally, Statistical Package for the Social Sciences, rumoured as Sales People Sell Shite for a while) stands for then this covers you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPSS
Nice and logical of IBM to move from flash to html5 and on a side note if it wasn't for this release of information I'd have completely forgoten that WImbledon is on this Olympics year.
That all said this year I shall be mostly routing for the rain and bad transport.
cool
Cool but for us mere peons it will only mean you get to your airport queue's faster.
What comparable Intel chip?
"but they fall behind current comparable Intel kit on efficiency when running YouTube and HDD video viewing."
Which comparable Intel kit is this on about? Atom? Do tell please
RIM will headhunt some managment from these SNAFU's
Well we never saw this comming now did we all. Guess there managment are overqualified to lead RIM into the next chapter in there book.
You just can't make this up, ever.
Why
I find apple rumours have more IT content than this clarkson.
Re: Duct Tape
Well the only problem I would have in doing that would be that I would have to buy one of these drive's and this also ignores the aspect that I don't have a TV. Though all that said I do have the walls and duct tape.
I agree
I agree it is expensive. I also wondered what the performance was like and if it was a 5400 or 7200rpm disc. Looked at the handy freecom url and saw datasheets and lovely pdf's etc - still none the wiser. Remarkably as USB3 is new the fashion again as its a USB device is to list the USB standards maxium ideal, with tail wind speed and no hint on the real world speed is taken on the pdf and datasheet by freecom alas. I was also unable to ascertain if as to the speed of the hard disc.
All that said I can't think of any funky TV's that have USB3 on them or indeed need them just yet. So for the price and possible uses i'd question that being a good use for it, given the cost.
Another concideration is that of the length of cable and your nice wallmounted TV might be happy but when you try to attach said drive might find it hanging halfway up the wall, so that is a factor to look at. No LED is nice and and all but not a major selling point given the advent of duck-tape.
I do like that it includes a power supply and is not a totaly bus powered version which is an issue with some USB3 drives plugged into USB2 I have found that run of the bus's power, though no idea if you can run it solely of the USB3 port without the external PSU.
All in all, it's nothing special and for the price you could get something that has a built in mini NAS.
Also the operating temperature seems not suitable for rooms with direct sunlight in the summer, just a thought but a max operating temp of 35c is not enough margin of error for the 2 day british summer in october we have.
Cows just got LART'd
Cows just got LART'd
Fair play to him but he should pay tax at source IMHO
I can see all the arguments for him doing it and if you can then why not, especialy given all the factors. But the way it's presented is that he is doing it soley to avoid TAX. Now he did well inthe company he helped build and in that will get a nice income, but if he had not of done well would he of stayed, would he of claimed support. So if he can say no to the reverse coin the moraly he is doing nowt wrong, but he wont be the first to of tried this approach and I'm sure there be means and ways for the TAX man to take his cut.
But hey, worst case because its more money than we mortals see in a lifetime it will be a case that he is able to haggle with the TAX man and pay less than us mere mortals. If its less than a few million your done for TAX evasion and have to pay fines and the full amount, over that you get to haggle and get off with nobody non the wiser.
Do I blame him - no, poor global TAX laws that are allowed to be in effect a subsidised product that had it been a physical product for consumers would incure many fines over monoplies etc. There to blame.
Good luck to him.
Interesting list
Intersting list, few I wouldn't of picked but after seeing that playlist in VLC I'd not question them further.
One ommision I feel you should of had in there was InfraRecorder http://infrarecorder.org/ - nice burning software (InfraRecorder is a free CD/DVD burning solution for Microsoft Windows. It offers a wide range of powerful features; all through an easy to use application interface and Windows Explorer integration.
InfraRecorder is released under GPL version 3.)
I'd also say CygWin as well, but I'm sure others will.
Also I'd say I do prefer applications I can just run of a memory stick, why install anything onto windows with that option.
I'm sure others will add there gems they didn't see on the list.
If only they could find oil
If only they could find oil in North Korea, then things would be alot easier to sort out.
Still, not like there aint missiles out there that don't use GPS and some that probably home in on any signal you care to point it at, even jamming signals.
So as it currently stands
They have offered a application for Apple users only that will route them out of the way of the main route you would normaly take.
So as far as I see this they will be forcing Apple users to congregate at unpopular stations, dark alleys etc, sure this will work out realy well for muggers etc.
The other aspect is that after they have moved all these people out of hot-spot area's they will then get them to queue up for a haircut with all the other people who thought they were unique and special with there vouchers, causing new hot-spots.
Pisses me off, the only legacy over 99% of London users will get to experience and did they upgrade it, no there idea of capacity planning the public transport is over the years since being awarded the Olympics was to raise the price, reintroduce the old design bus they replaced with a disaster and to ask people who regularly pay for this shit to carry on paying and either please dont use the service your paying for or we will route you the long way.
Seriously just reintroduce Trams into central London, pave over few more roads and the trams will easily cut down on idiot driver as they do in Holland and we will have transport options that only get delayed by accident reports.
Can we replace Bojo with an application, probably be more productive but wasn;t a option on the voting ballot last week alas, maybe next time somebody will get a application standing for Major, we have 4 years to create our monster of choice - is The Register up for the challange?
So single signon standard
So this is basicly a single signon for wirelessnetworks and in that its not just wifi but also open to the xg mobile networks.
This has its positives and negatives on many levels. Yes easier for non geeks to have there fun, whilst at the same time allowing you to be tracked just that bit easier and also being open to another form of passport theft.
One aspect that will appeal to the mobile telco's is that it allows them to passoff the mobile phone network onto wifi ala femtocell. If they can do that and still charge you for making a call you could of made via skype over wifi, they will be all for that. As well as being able to sell it as better coverage and tie your passport onto one of there branded phones/SIM's and in that offering them the ability to secure there customer base into new technologies and to potentual eat into the whole credit card market, passport control, and down the line having your sim chip implanted into you at birth with the world run by the mobile telco companies. Maybe, sure somebody has done a book already.
Still as long as the Reg Blanks of the world can login the hard way, then everybody will end up not even realise that they will get sold a identity card dressed up in the name of making your life easier and having you activly market yourself.
Hope it's secure, the tools for the mobile telco's are now comming into place, will they use them and will this casue WIFI to become the new femtocell. Though BT do have alot of this technology inplace already with there phone/braodband/wifi customers, just those extra details and they suddenly BT becomes a name on the street again.
Interesting times ahead.
Sounds like my last reprocessed baked bean
Sounds like he is describing accountants more than most with the way they make there books look. Give an accountant worth there salt a data-set and they will make a profit from it one way or another.
But data is like shoes - people are different, but there will always be somebody selling sandle mentality.
Re: our favourite fruit themed supplier
You know what, I reckon that those three fruits blended would taste great. What with Apple and there iProducts and now Raspberry with there Pi products, maybe RIM should rebrand to RiM and focus on making lemon products as they might just fail and get something nice again in the process.
Agreed for data they are the better of the offerings. though I have noted that over the past year things of gotten a little unpalatable when all the freebie mobile webbying adding to utilisation of base stations. But compared to others there been alright.
The part that got me was ""turned the corner in terms of perception". "; Why yes they have for me in the past month when on your check allowance page which was before a simple page that gave you the information you wanted. Found itself transformed into a 3 page affair with interjected adverts hosted upon external sites from Three and as such eating into my usage as well as taking the ruddy piss. So yes my personal perception of them has changed for the worse over the past month, soley due to this change.
Beyond that seemed like they were moaning and thought we cared when its usualy us moaning and from experience them not caring so in summary HAHA.
Apparently
Apparently they ordered a load of toilet roll and according to sources have been buying in supplies for a very long time now. Our source further notes that as of this day, no toilet roll has left the building leading to speculation that a some new shit hot product will be appearing soon from our favourite fruit themed supplier, unless of course you prefer Raspberry's to Apples.
A earlier rumour about a 10" iPad was soon squashed when Apple launched the new iPad 5" screen which is sold in pairs.
This is because OS/2 does not support flash drives perhaps :)
If OS/2 supported flash drives then this would change.
Though the MTBF for flash compared to spinny discs is still completely different levels. This is in a ideal world and ideals are not something you see in a server room.
Re: resolution of measuring equipment
ok you have point A and point B
they are 10 units apart
light moves at say 5 units per second so to get from A to B it would take 2 light units
to measure the light at point A and point B we have a measureing device of some sorts
this measure device takes 1 light unit of time to measure any sample
Given this premise you can see that the speed of measurement can impact the results and in this area .000000001% margin of error is still alot. As such to truely measure things they use large distances to in essence slow things down enough to make that margin of error smaller.
This is why they tested neutreno's over a distance of nearly the entire planet and still made a error.
Given this - I find anything done in a lab which is small in terms of how far light can bounce around in it or anything else to be flawed before it even starts.
Thing I found in life in general that to get a accurate sample you realy want to sample 4x the speed of the data involved (video being a poor but acurate example of this when you want say you film something at 500x500 and also film it at 2000x2000 and reduce it down to 500x500, even with the same lenses etc you will get a better picture from the downsampled 2kx2k film at 500x500 than shooting raw at 500x500). So to mearure the speed of light accurately you would need to be able to measure it at 4 times the speed of light. This is deemed impossible and rightly so, this is why you cheat by in essence slowing down the data and in this case by having a larger distance is how you do it, though you never completely eliminate that margin of error you simply end up shifting that decimal point further and in essence reduce the margin of error.
As it stands it's like measureing a 10 pixel image with a 2 pixel camera and declaring you see 12 pixels.
If I still fail to explain myself then I feel assured that the universe is just as bad at explaining itself as well and in that I have good company.
It gets hot it gets cold, move on
Things change, attitudes don't, move along. Nothing to see here. When they have glaciers in Australia's outback is when you should worry, until then stop running intencive computer models that heat up the planet!
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