Posted in MS denies secure boot will exclude Linux
I'm wondering...
...how bootable recovery and diagnostic software environments will run in this case?
Posts by Reality Dysfunction
68 posts • joined Tuesday 9th June 2009 14:34 GMT
to be fair to Virgin Media...
they have blocked TPB in a really half assed manner that makes it a doddle to circumvent, they have gone just as far as legally required and no more.
Of course why would you even need 100MB broadband if not for TPB and its Ilk, VM are just protecting their bottom line while trying to seem to be doing all they can to the court.
they make what????
..in olden days when we were a newer company someone in admin/hr sent round the excel sheet with everyones grades and wages on... to everyone.
10 minutes later they asked everyone to delete the email without reading the attachment and we all did.. honest guvnor!
Posted in 'We're crying out for storage'
REG news fail
"Searches for his name, 'Bo Xilai', and the name of his son 'Zhou Yongkang' pulled up the following error message:"
thats wierd the way I read it the guy who thought about investigating BO senior thought it might not be healthy and ran to the US embassy. BO senior being a majopr Maoist throwback (and that guys sponsor) you got the tech bit right but totally FAILED on the news.
tsk
Posted in Lego builds Lord of the Rings collection
what you need...
spiderwick chronicles.... lemony snickets... labyrinth that type of thing (anything without Harry Fn Potter really) are perfect for 6 year olds, and who knew goblins explode when you hit them with tomato sauce.
Posted in BOFH: The Cloud Committee Calamity
Its getting a bit old........
We need more IT crime and less killing, we all know in most cases they would just have fitted them up as terrorists or anti US hackers and watched them being rendited anyway.
There is too much death now for a UK based story
Its the Friends of the IDF that are the charity that you donate to (or have your card scalped to)
accounts:
http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=3734
website:
http://www.fidf.org/
FIDF initiates and helps support educational, social, cultural, and recreational programs & facilities for the young men and women soldiers of Israel who defend the Jewish homeland.
They send them nice gift vouchers and Barbara Streisand
I also thought I would see if it was as bad as people say.... it was worse.
Avoid at all costs.
You can chuck on 2.3 on the basic desire but with the reduced space left you'll not be able to get up to much so doesnt seem much point..
Just think how great phones will be when you finally finish your contract
Posted in Inside WD's flooded Thai factory
Bad timing....
Priced up x4 2tB samsung f4s this morning for a NAS box at £295 just rechecked and now its £384..
Thats another project on hold till next summer
Posted in Web czar: 'Drag your nan online'
huh?
Won't your gran be annoyed when you wake her up at 2am to get her on the net?
breaking the law??
Doesnt Call of Duty have a PEGI rating of 18?
I seem to remember seeing this on the COD BO box:
BBFC Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over Suitable for 18 years and over. Not for sale to persons under age 18
did the kids mum get prosecuted? were social services called? was he banned from xbox live?
think of the children please......
Posted in Game denies Steam threat claims
Gave up on Game years ago......
They never have a good selection of PC games and won't do second hand ones (although other retailers do) I'm very happy with Steam as a PC gamer.
Can you tell what it is yet?............
Can we have a link to Dell secureworks information on this ... or at least some more in depth info on what the errors would be and where they would show.
What is this the BBC?
I Desire.......
Gingerbread.... ohhmm nomm nomm nomm.
Although Cake may do.
Down with apples and all other fruit based devices (Blackberry you know I mean you)
Posted in Desktop Linux: the final frontier
give me steam/games and adobe and im sold..
Give me steam/games and adobe CS and im sold on linux desktop, people don't just use computers to browse the intertubes and fondle their mp3's no matter what the Ipad would like you to believe.
How hard can it really be .... and no I don't want to bugger around with VM's or dual boot or Wine as that defeats the whole purpose.
Without being able to get some real photo/web work done in those premier apps and blow off some steam on my favourite games in the same OS why would I bother with linux. Im still running some old win98 compatible games under win7 64 bit but I cant run pretty much every new game of the last 3 years on linux.
Get the apps compatible or its always going to be a FAIL for the home user, and if it fails at home then there will always be more resistance at work.
Posted in Peugeot compo cam aids amateur espionage
they did this at the wrong time of day....
at 25 bedford av in camden you can see a big glass box on the roof with someones unoverlooked bathtub in it...
the things you find looking for cars on roofs...............
yes indeed..
thats just what I emailed in to the link provided :)
Posted in Ten... fantasy swords you wish you owned
what about..
Callandor.. why slice and dice when you can lay waste to entire cities
now theres an idea
I'LL GIVE THAT A TRY
Flood Control → #
Superhub - Switch off flood control - First thing I did.. doesn't help bad power levels down the line
Superhub - Switch off flood control - First thing I did.. doesn't help bad power levels down the line
Superhub - Switch off flood control - First thing I did.. doesn't help bad power levels down the line
Superhub - Switch off flood control - First thing I did.. doesn't help bad power levels down the line
Superhub - Switch off flood control - First thing I did.. doesn't help bad power levels down the line
Superhub - Switch off flood control - First thing I did.. doesn't help bad power levels down the line
MY packet loss is ONLY 18-30% ( hah can't believe I would ever say ONLY to that) its the total unavailability of VM's network for large portions of the day that are pissing off user round my way.
no theres an idea
I may give that a try tonight.. cheers
not that strange....
From what I gleaned 20MB and 50MB are on different UBR so if they have oversold on 20MB but there arent many 50MB in your area then upgrading should have brought some benefit in peak bandwidth... which it did for about 2 days before going bat***** and being worse than the 20MB.
when it works as advertised its gorgeous.. its just that only for the 8 hours of the day you wouldnt be using it (unless you just want to torrent overnight in which case its the best BB out there but I don't)
lies, damn lies, VM press releases.....
I admit I was a mug who went for the 50MB upgrade as my previously rock solid 20MB had been pretty poor since December. Result is a shiny box that runs between 0.5 and 3mb from 10am till 1am the next day with anywhere from 16-35% packet loss. According to the VM advised speedtest it does run at 200MB every morning when I've tested it between 5am and 7am but this isn't much use for VOD, radio 6 and online gaming for the rest of the time.
Superhub is also terrible for wireless my range has gone down almost nothing @ 10m ( from a strong 20) assuming there isnt more than 1 wall and window in the way so I can't even get wireless in the garden without a door open.
There are loads of people in my neck of the woods with massive issues on 50MB and below, and VM are doing jack**** about it.
there is a country for old men
Watched Bruce last night in RED (Retired Extremely Dangerous) and he was excellent for his age or half his age, he did seem to have got a decade younger than the last film I saw him in though. On the other hand the love interest was Mary-Louise Parker who is 46 but doesn't look it either.
this is just bad words...
I have an android smart phone...
I download stuff using the kindle app...
its all free stuff, which is probably true for a lot of the stuff in this report.
where is the breakdown? i think that this may all just be **** ( aka advertising on how wonderfull ebooks are)
If you cant give us a full breakdown don't bother posting the story
but but
but if I secure my wireless I won't be able to use it as a defence...... against the black helicopters and their lawyers
If you follow the link....
If you follow the link.... Then MS advise on how this account was cheating and the mother admits it, where's the story?
Posted in BOFH: Pain fear games
@Deadly Headshot
......and yet again another Friday comes with no BOFH.
Every week there is no BOFH another one is made redundant (see fairies)
where do you work?
the laundry?
ook
sounds like its all just one big wheel of time.....
Hurry up.. in need of a Firefly
to escape the alliance/condem coalition
Great idea
All versions of windows should come with basic MS av as default, if you want to fork out for an additional package thats up to you.
Posted in Virgin Media begins 100Mb upgrades
hmph
I have enough trouble getting anything over 3mb after 6pm till about 11pm (on a 20 MB package), true I can get the full 20MB first thing in the morning or for most of the day on a saturday or sunday.. buts just cos the scallies are still pissed in bed instead of battering bbc iplayer.
Its what the public want.......
"Second, it is not the armed forces' money we speak of but ours. Defence chiefs grumble that the nuclear deterrent is imposed on them by politics, in other words by public opinion - this being a democracy. Of course it is, and so it should be: if the electorate want nukes instead of tanks or frigates or jets, that's what they should have."
Well thats one view, can we have an informed unpolitical debate followed by a national referendum on the subject where we can vote for the options with second preference.
Then we will know what the electorate actuually wants
blah blah McAfee are S*** (slow)
@ AC Posted Friday 10th September 2010 05:30 GMT
"Also, current desktop AV - McAffee at least - did nothing to prevent the execution or propogation."
I guess that depends on when you get infected and how often you update your AV....
At 9pmGMT McAfee notified all users on their security lists that they were seeing lots of issues, at 10.30pmGMT they released an extra DAT, at 4.00amGMT they released an out of schedule DAT update while also posting a standalone stinger tool to clean and repair.
I thought they were pretty quick this time (makes a change)
Posted in Black helicopters circle 'Welsh Roswell'
its the americans....
the first thing an american thinks of is a dorito... triangle shaped comes a poor second
its like showing a UK tech an amber coloured cylinder they dont say "Oh look a ruled surface spanned by a one-parameter family of parallel lines" they say PINT!
Posted in Intel snaps up McAfee in $7.68bn deal
I cant disagree with system resource hogging comment...
but come on... Symantec ( the general software company) bought out Norton ( the security/tools software company in 1990 and sold the AV under that badge. Its the same company they just badge consumer and corporate products under different names. Unlike Mcafee who sell different products to consumers and corporates under the same name just be make things even more difficult with support.
Mcafee dont just sell AV anyway they have a big presence in remediation management and network security using black boxes and seem to be drifting this way more and more over the last few years aquisitions.
Posted in Iran clamps down on mullets
old news...
this was in the papers months ago (with great official pictures of valid islamic haircuts - short back and sides, no skin jobs and no mullets), just because the christian nutjobs comment on it doesnt make it newsworthy again.
......dissapointed in El Reg
virgin media AV software
"Those with infected machines will be encouraged to download free security software to remove the malware and protect their connection in future. "
yeah right thats why I've just spent 2 days stripping and rebuilding a laptop as the user decided to use Virgin "free" (to heavy subscribers) antimalware/security suite.
Result: totally pwned laptop
Anyone considering using virgins offering should just use nothing, you'll get the same peace of mind
Posted in Air steward resigns via emergency chute
nice one
is there a defence fund we can contribute to?
local as in ....
.. Seattle WA USA.
Posted in FarmVille moooves onto iPhone
farmville on the iphone... no luck there
Most post 70 farmvillers are using wall farming toolbars or have gone the whole hog and use a BOT to do all the boring stuff.. bet we won't see much of this from the Christian Brotherhood. ( Jesus Phone Fanbois)
How will they be able to stomach being second class Farmers?
No Eiffel Towers in their future......
council info swat team...
We iz in youz exchange cluster reading your email
Posted in Gov ICT contracts to go online in July
cut spending.... cut quangoes
Nice to see they are going to create a new quango "Public Sector Transparency Board" with some jobs for the boys to help cut public spending.
Posted in £15 a month for legal P2P?
but what does your 15 quid buy you....
I would I guess happily pay out 15 quid a month to have access to all current and archived UK/US (dont watch much UK TV) TV and on release ( DVD) movies ( I do still go to the cinema but only 6-8 times a year for the big screen spectaculars) not really bothered about music as its all gone Pete Tong in the last 10 years but I guess there are still some few good ones out there.
What would you do about things like the licence fee though?
Personally I dont have a TV, still watch some time shifted TV via online players but the Beeb just isnt worth the insurance on the toddler target never mind a licence. What would the Millions who do have a TV think of the online "relative" freetards, why would you pay for a licence twice? who decides on the split? would this be a mandatory broadband tax?
how would it all work????
would UK bods now be allowed to share files (we payed for the access but to what? to some badly resourced archive of junk or to be allowed to share files between us (in which case how do you stop others outside the uk or wherever pulling the data down) I know that P2P sharing is much faster than any of the current UK online TV download sites and if this was more ubiqitous this would be even faster
Mascots in Sex Bracelet scandal.......
Did no-one notice the sex bracelets they are wearing? More than just a cuddly mascot one of them is up for a lapdance. Don't tell the Daily Fail......
its a pity there is no alternative....
... for busy workers like a postal vote, then I could have voted a week ago and not bothered to go to a polling station at all, oh wait a minute I did.
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