"While Microsoft makes its own efforts by rushing out patches and sharing concerns with other companies, it also chastises customers who could have closed the WannaCry hole two months earlier but didn't."
If Microsoft didn't dress up Windows 10 deployment campaigns as security patches maybe people would have applied important updates, instead, many people got fed up of cleaning up the Windows 10 installer so turned of auto update instead.
Glad I'm no longer dependent on Windows.
Since this outage started, the Battery life on my Blackberry Bold has been depressingly short.
Today it was flat after just 4 hours...I hope the device isn't repeatedly going out to RIM servers and running up a crazy data bill (with nothing to show for it).
That's the only reason I can think that the battery life would coincidentally drop radically...or...the battery simply failed at the same time as the outage.
- COINCIDENCE? I THINK NOT!
To all those laughing and making jokes about this...
Two years ago I got a DVT as a result of too long sitting down. This is a potentially life threating problem if not spotted (As well as being very painful!)
If you get a feeling of cramp in your calf muscle that doesn't go away and is even worse when walking that you can't put down to sport or a muscle strain, go see a doctor immediately!
I suffered for nearly 10 days with this and then had the complication of a lung embolism as a result (That's the life threatening part). I ended up in hospital for a week hardly able to breathe and on morphine for the lung pain. I then had to spend 6 months off work recovering.
And watch out, I found that some doctors are not good at identifying this problem.
Take this seriously...it is not a joke. Now get up and walk around!
Re:Let the EU buy it then.
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GM owns it (which was dumb in the first place), so let the Swiss buy it back from GM.
errrm, now let me see what's wrong here...
1. Saab are SWEDISH, that's SWEDEN, not SWITZERLAND.
2. Switzerland are not a member of the EU anyway although they are a part of the EEA, so why on earth on your logic should the EU want to buy it anyway.
But true, GM were dumb, they showed complete incompetence in managing their business and their aquisitions.
How many great brands must Ford and GM Destroy?
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I for one hope that SAAB can move into some caring hands that will allow the company to thrive and innovate as it did in the earlier half of it's life. The death of Saab I think started once GM had it's dirty incompetent hands on it. The demise was signalled after the 900, when they started to become just another Eurobox built on the same chassis as every other boring old Eurobox, shared floor plan shared engines...etc.
I once owned a 1974 SAAB 96, it was the most quirky car I ever owned, column shift, freewheel built in to the transmission, a Ford V4 engine. No transmission tunnel, a boot you could sleep inside, all finished in Sh1t Brown, but I loved it, until it caught fire due to my own stupid tuning attempts. The 99 Turbo and the 99 EMS were ground breaking cars in their day, and for a while unbeatable on the rally circuit.
I hope Spyker can resucitate the brand, before someone else has to bring the badge back from the dead.
Solo
...that this story follows that in the UK where six ISPs have now agreed a deal that will see hundreds of thousands of letters sent to net users suspected of illegally sharing music. Now I suppose there'll be a few more trying to get replacements for tracks that yesterday they were able to listen to and today they can't.
If I simply turn on the Wi-Fi of my Fujitsu Siemens Pocket Loox 720 and it simply connects to something and works...how am I a criminal?
The water and light analogies are BS, in many cases we are talking about consumer devices that simply pick up a signal and connect as soon as you turn on Wi-Fi (No warning messages, no disclaimers, nothing). There is no hacking going on, there is not necessarily intent to steal bandwidth, it just works - by design - by Microsoft's design.
If that simple functionality is wrong in some way, then I see a class action coming against the device makers for failing to point out the risk of turning on Wi-Fi and connecting to anything other than your own home wi-fi network.
And before anyone says...yeah but blah blah...tell me how a non-IT-literate person could reasonably go about confirming whether a signal he connects on the high street is 'allowed' or not?
The industry needs to address this urgently as innocent consumers will increasingly be burnt by this nonsense.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mesa_Research_F acility/...In addition to this legitimate research, several secret projects are also carried out at Black Mesa, which are deliberately left vague. A large amount of classified research is carried out, including the development of high-tech weapons and defense systems, research into extra-dimensional travel
Rather than all the whining about how obvious this problem is, and how irresponsible people can be. I haven't seen one single post that actually gave any help on how to at least prepare yourself with a safe installation CD.
I know that I can use nlite (http://www.nliteos.com/) to easily create slip streamed CD that has SP2 included, and I know that I can also add hotfixes using that tool as well
...BUT...
How the hell do you figure out which hotfixes need to be/can be added to that build CD. I know there are lots of hotfixes available (I just checked), what should a user who is trying to be responsible do, add them all, add just the "Security Updates", what?
I also think MS are pretty irresponsible in this area, with every update they release, sure, they should be automatically installed, but, there should also be easily identifiable sets of 'rolled up' updates that can be downloaded. Hell, I count myself as an IT Professional, and I'm not sure any more what the difference is between a Hot Fix, a Security Update and a Roll Up, so how the hell can we expect Joe Public to have even the faintest idea other than turn on and wait for things to get updated?
I have been using Cobian Backup http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm for quite some time now. You can do all the normal scheduling of jobs. Importantly, it allows the use of containers (and encryption) OR a flat file structure. It also allows you to have Full, Incremental and Differential backups so that you can go back in time for those lost files.
I do my backup to a second PC hard disk, but, I believe Tape is supported too. The most important thing I have that I don't want to lose are my photos, these are also periodically archived to a DVD (1 per year) and are stored 'offsite' at my office, so that if something truly horrible happens at home, I still have my photos in a safe place. (The years of photos that have been archived to DVD already are excluded from the regular backup to save some disk space).
Can you imagine the irony, if this was released as a single and it went to Number 1...then again, everyone would download it anyway, so it would never get anywhere. But, just for a moment imagine that...
I once saw an interview with Prince Charles (about 5 years ago). He was congratulating two students on an award they received for a new design for a mobile phone. The conversation when like this...
Prince Charles [While admiring the half brick sized phone in his hands] "Ahhem, it's really amazing how small you can make these things"..."but what's to stop you maing them even smaller?" Designer [While thinking what a dumb ass question that was]: "Well sir, the distance between your mouth and your ear"
With hindsight, who's the smart one now...technnology moves ever forward, apparently there is nothing to stop things getting ever smaller except maybe cramming more and more functionaility into it, at which point, when does it stop being just a phone?
I generally agree that Microsoft has the monopoly and consequently it is very hard for Linux to mean anything to the home user but...
Lose the Microsoft Office Applications off of the Windows platform and the home user suddenly has less and less reason to be sitting on a MS platform. The Opensource movement can make a serious impression on the Microsoft world by pushing hard the alternatives like OpenOffice.org that the home user can really make productive use of.
Make a couple of apparently insignificant 'baby steps' away from the Microsoft applications and all of a sudden, you begin to wonder why you need Windows. I made the move to OpenOffice back in November 05 and I am now beginning to see the light and the possibility that within the next few months I may not need Windows at all. Without MS Office, there is almost no need to have Windows!
There are only two things that need to be fixed in the Linux world in my view for even greater acceptance: * Vendor support for Printer drivers (eg: Canon) * Mainstream publisher support from all the top games vendors.
The more I read the comments, the more I think the point is being missed. If the RIAA can succesfully put everyone off buying CDs and force them towards dowloads (DRMd or not), then the RIAA ultimatley saves themselves a fortune in pressing and distributing CDs. Consequently, they're operating costs are lower and there profits higher.
They should be careful though as I have bought more CDs in the last two years while being an iPod owner than during the previous five! At the present time, I will not buy DRMd downloadable MP3s as I cannot be sure I can move the media on in the future. I went through the LP to CD transistion in 1985 (There really was no alternative available to make copies of those LPs to CD back then). Interestingly though, more recently, I have transferred the cassette tape copies of those same LPs that I still own over to MP3...hmmmm...is that illegal too, they seem to have forgotten about LPs and tapes:-P
Anyone who is aware of how bad traffic congestion is in the UK will realise that it will be barely possible to hit the speed limit based on the average speed of a vehicle between two points, let alone actually get fined for breaking that limit!
I look forward to the next range of gadgets that tie in GPS to known speed limits and provide you with a Heads Up Display of your average speed and an alert system that allows you to slow down just enough to keep from getting a fine based on that average speed.
100MPH sprints between traffic queues anyone!?
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"While Microsoft makes its own efforts by rushing out patches and sharing concerns with other companies, it also chastises customers who could have closed the WannaCry hole two months earlier but didn't." If Microsoft didn't dress up Windows 10 deployment campaigns as security patches maybe people would have applied important updates, instead, many people got fed up of cleaning up the Windows 10 installer so turned of auto update instead. Glad I'm no longer dependent on Windows.
Castle, Rock, Castle, Rock, Cat Whoaa!, Castle, Rock, Cat Whoaaa! ...
Since this outage started, the Battery life on my Blackberry Bold has been depressingly short. Today it was flat after just 4 hours...I hope the device isn't repeatedly going out to RIM servers and running up a crazy data bill (with nothing to show for it). That's the only reason I can think that the battery life would coincidentally drop radically...or...the battery simply failed at the same time as the outage. - COINCIDENCE? I THINK NOT!
I suppose none of the students were scrunchers ;-)
To all those laughing and making jokes about this... Two years ago I got a DVT as a result of too long sitting down. This is a potentially life threating problem if not spotted (As well as being very painful!) If you get a feeling of cramp in your calf muscle that doesn't go away and is even worse when walking that you can't put down to sport or a muscle strain, go see a doctor immediately! I suffered for nearly 10 days with this and then had the complication of a lung embolism as a result (That's the life threatening part). I ended up in hospital for a week hardly able to breathe and on morphine for the lung pain. I then had to spend 6 months off work recovering. And watch out, I found that some doctors are not good at identifying this problem. Take this seriously...it is not a joke. Now get up and walk around!
GM owns it (which was dumb in the first place), so let the Swiss buy it back from GM.
errrm, now let me see what's wrong here... 1. Saab are SWEDISH, that's SWEDEN, not SWITZERLAND. 2. Switzerland are not a member of the EU anyway although they are a part of the EEA, so why on earth on your logic should the EU want to buy it anyway. But true, GM were dumb, they showed complete incompetence in managing their business and their aquisitions.
I for one hope that SAAB can move into some caring hands that will allow the company to thrive and innovate as it did in the earlier half of it's life. The death of Saab I think started once GM had it's dirty incompetent hands on it. The demise was signalled after the 900, when they started to become just another Eurobox built on the same chassis as every other boring old Eurobox, shared floor plan shared engines...etc. I once owned a 1974 SAAB 96, it was the most quirky car I ever owned, column shift, freewheel built in to the transmission, a Ford V4 engine. No transmission tunnel, a boot you could sleep inside, all finished in Sh1t Brown, but I loved it, until it caught fire due to my own stupid tuning attempts. The 99 Turbo and the 99 EMS were ground breaking cars in their day, and for a while unbeatable on the rally circuit. I hope Spyker can resucitate the brand, before someone else has to bring the badge back from the dead. Solo
...that this story follows that in the UK where six ISPs have now agreed a deal that will see hundreds of thousands of letters sent to net users suspected of illegally sharing music. Now I suppose there'll be a few more trying to get replacements for tracks that yesterday they were able to listen to and today they can't.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7522334.stm
I just hope that the BBC picks up this latest music industry/tech fiasco and asks the question...
"Who is looking after the consumer?"
Me, I'll always be buying the original CD (preferably from an indie artist!)
If I simply turn on the Wi-Fi of my Fujitsu Siemens Pocket Loox 720 and it simply connects to something and works...how am I a criminal?
The water and light analogies are BS, in many cases we are talking about consumer devices that simply pick up a signal and connect as soon as you turn on Wi-Fi (No warning messages, no disclaimers, nothing). There is no hacking going on, there is not necessarily intent to steal bandwidth, it just works - by design - by Microsoft's design.
If that simple functionality is wrong in some way, then I see a class action coming against the device makers for failing to point out the risk of turning on Wi-Fi and connecting to anything other than your own home wi-fi network. And before anyone says...yeah but blah blah...tell me how a non-IT-literate person could reasonably go about confirming whether a signal he connects on the high street is 'allowed' or not? The industry needs to address this urgently as innocent consumers will increasingly be burnt by this nonsense.
Worse still though, the g-mail widget on iGoogle doesn't even use https. No way of changing its behavior either.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mesa_Research_F acility/ ...In addition to this legitimate research, several secret projects are also carried out at Black Mesa, which are deliberately left vague. A large amount of classified research is carried out, including the development of high-tech weapons and defense systems, research into extra-dimensional travel
I guess the same guy lost these that lost the Apollo Moon landing tapes
Rather than all the whining about how obvious this problem is, and how irresponsible people can be. I haven't seen one single post that actually gave any help on how to at least prepare yourself with a safe installation CD.
...BUT...
I know that I can use nlite (http://www.nliteos.com/) to easily create slip streamed CD that has SP2 included, and I know that I can also add hotfixes using that tool as well
How the hell do you figure out which hotfixes need to be/can be added to that build CD. I know there are lots of hotfixes available (I just checked), what should a user who is trying to be responsible do, add them all, add just the "Security Updates", what?
I also think MS are pretty irresponsible in this area, with every update they release, sure, they should be automatically installed, but, there should also be easily identifiable sets of 'rolled up' updates that can be downloaded. Hell, I count myself as an IT Professional, and I'm not sure any more what the difference is between a Hot Fix, a Security Update and a Roll Up, so how the hell can we expect Joe Public to have even the faintest idea other than turn on and wait for things to get updated?
Maybe it's time then that we all stopped watching shows that have terrorism as a focus of their story:
- 24
- Sleeper Cell
- Spooks
- Ultimate Force
- The Grid
Those are just the ones I can think of on TV without starting on Films!
I'm not saying though that Desperate Housewives is really a suitable alternative.
I have been using Cobian Backup http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm for quite some time now. You can do all the normal scheduling of jobs. Importantly, it allows the use of containers (and encryption) OR a flat file structure. It also allows you to have Full, Incremental and Differential backups so that you can go back in time for those lost files.
I do my backup to a second PC hard disk, but, I believe Tape is supported too. The most important thing I have that I don't want to lose are my photos, these are also periodically archived to a DVD (1 per year) and are stored 'offsite' at my office, so that if something truly horrible happens at home, I still have my photos in a safe place. (The years of photos that have been archived to DVD already are excluded from the regular backup to save some disk space).
Can you imagine the irony, if this was released as a single and it went to Number 1 ...then again, everyone would download it anyway, so it would never get anywhere. But, just for a moment imagine that...
I see a trend here...
Wierd Al
MC Lars
Cruisbox http://audiopium.typepad.com/thatpodcastsong/
Can anyone else out there imagine a Live Aid style gig to raise funds to pay lawyers to go up against the RIAA...
I once saw an interview with Prince Charles (about 5 years ago). He was congratulating two students on an award they received for a new design for a mobile phone. The conversation when like this...
Prince Charles [While admiring the half brick sized phone in his hands] "Ahhem, it's really amazing how small you can make these things"..."but what's to stop you maing them even smaller?"
Designer [While thinking what a dumb ass question that was]: "Well sir, the distance between your mouth and your ear"
With hindsight, who's the smart one now...technnology moves ever forward, apparently there is nothing to stop things getting ever smaller except maybe cramming more and more functionaility into it, at which point, when does it stop being just a phone?
I generally agree that Microsoft has the monopoly and consequently it is very hard for Linux to mean anything to the home user but...
Lose the Microsoft Office Applications off of the Windows platform and the home user suddenly has less and less reason to be sitting on a MS platform. The Opensource movement can make a serious impression on the Microsoft world by pushing hard the alternatives like OpenOffice.org that the home user can really make productive use of.
Make a couple of apparently insignificant 'baby steps' away from the Microsoft applications and all of a sudden, you begin to wonder why you need Windows. I made the move to OpenOffice back in November 05 and I am now beginning to see the light and the possibility that within the next few months I may not need Windows at all. Without MS Office, there is almost no need to have Windows!
There are only two things that need to be fixed in the Linux world in my view for even greater acceptance:
* Vendor support for Printer drivers (eg: Canon)
* Mainstream publisher support from all the top games vendors.
[BootCamp] - "Are you sure you want to Boot Windows?"
[User] - Clicks "Yes"
[BootCamp] - "Are you really sure you want to leave your nice safe shiny virus and trojan free environment?"
[User] - Clicks "Yes"
[Bootcamp] - "You must be crazy, but you were warned"
[User] - Chases the "I'm really sure" button around the screen until finally giving up and clicking the "No way Give me MacOS" button
Mac starts up to the sound of Handels Messiah
The more I read the comments, the more I think the point is being missed. If the RIAA can succesfully put everyone off buying CDs and force them towards dowloads (DRMd or not), then the RIAA ultimatley saves themselves a fortune in pressing and distributing CDs. Consequently, they're operating costs are lower and there profits higher. They should be careful though as I have bought more CDs in the last two years while being an iPod owner than during the previous five! At the present time, I will not buy DRMd downloadable MP3s as I cannot be sure I can move the media on in the future. I went through the LP to CD transistion in 1985 (There really was no alternative available to make copies of those LPs to CD back then). Interestingly though, more recently, I have transferred the cassette tape copies of those same LPs that I still own over to MP3...hmmmm...is that illegal too, they seem to have forgotten about LPs and tapes :-P
Anyone else waiting for the big chested blonde to come in and sit on Kirk's lap?
Kudos for trying but...I'll stick to only one genre of bad acting (That needs no sound)
If only they could get it down to 128Mb then it would really be portable! And yes, I am a cheapskate that only has 128Mb sticks!
Anyone who is aware of how bad traffic congestion is in the UK will realise that it will be barely possible to hit the speed limit based on the average speed of a vehicle between two points, let alone actually get fined for breaking that limit! I look forward to the next range of gadgets that tie in GPS to known speed limits and provide you with a Heads Up Display of your average speed and an alert system that allows you to slow down just enough to keep from getting a fine based on that average speed. 100MPH sprints between traffic queues anyone!?