Posts by A Non e-mouse 3276 publicly visible posts • joined 30 Jan 2010
Who'd have thought giving prisoners skills they can use on the outside to help them live and be part of society would have helped reduce re-offending rates?
Sure, prison has to have some element of punishment too - but helping give prisons options that don't revolve around crime are just as important.
[Cisco's Gillis] thinks it will also be welcomed in industries like healthcare that can't easily update devices with security vulnerabilities – because they just don't mess with hardware that keeps people alive. Self-updating networks and mitigations that keep those machines safe is Cisco's alternative.
So an industry that doesn't like to change its software often is going to be OK with a network that automagically filters traffic.
Hmmm....
Once you get a financial system working, you need to perform a no-blame investigation to uncover the truth of what happened.
Once that's out, then you can start looking to apportion blame. Trying to uncover what happened with the aim of finding someone to blame will only result in finding a convenient scape-goat. It won't come close to finding the truth.
Microsoft said they dropped Teams on Linux as they had something like 1% of their userbase on Linux and it wasn't worth the effort. As the Teams client is just a web browser (so the desktop experience is much closer to the web interface - they're around 99% the same) MS tell Linux users to just use the web interface.
It takes time to change infrastructure, so Broadcom may well hit their next targets for the first couple of quarters as customer swallow the biiter pill. The real tell will be in a year or two's time. If revenues are still growing, they've pulled it off. If revenue starts to stagnate or drop, then they lost as customers have bailed.
You wanted stability on the desktop back then, you used a Macintosh
1995 was the era of Classic MacOS 5.
Classic MacOS used co-operative mutlitasking with no memory protection. Just like Windows 3/95/98. And if you used Classic MacOS, you'll be all too familar with the Bomb of death (rather than the Blue Screen Of Death)
It took IT and MS years to recover from Win9x which should never have been sold to businesses
A lot of software didn't work on NT4 when it first came out - only Windows 95. Once we could get drivers & software for NT4, it became obvious it was a way more reliable OS than Win95 and we started to move to it. We still stumbled upon the odd piece of software which would only work on Win 95/98, but NT was the future for business.
In my experience, a lot of people setup an Exchange server as they thought it would bolster their IT credibility. But once it was running, they didn't know how to manage it. The instructions and down-time for patching (or worse, upgrades) scare them, so they just leave the server in corner and try to forget about it.
By the time my team come across them, the servers are often in a dire situation and need a serious amount of TLC to stabilise just so we can migrate the user data off.
a critical key aspect of air crash investigations is not to assign blame unless some egregious action has been taken by the airline
I can't speak for the USA based investigations, but in the UK, the air/rail investigation people only perform a no-blame just the facts investigation. If there was loss of life, then the investigators will be shadowed by the police (and others) who will be looking at the possibility of any criminal charges. The air/rail investigation people never perform any prosecution: That is key to why they work so well. They want transport to be safer by learning lessons and making improvements - not by finding someone to blame.
I think you've missed a key aspect of the rail/air investigation authorities in the UK: If there is an incident you have to report it. The authority then undertake a no-blame investigation on what can be learned from the incident and make the report public.
We need more organisations being open about A) Being attacked, and B), how they were hacked.
Until we stop seeing being attacked as something to be swept under the carpet, we can't learn from them.
Over the past couple of years I've come across two attacks: One was handled by the organisation's cyber insures who said "Don't speak to a soul about this or we wash our hands of you" and the other the NCC were involved with who also said "Keep quiet".
For most users, the Office 365 subscription you purchase includes the right to use Word, Excel, etc on your desktop. Some of the low-end non-consumer Office 365 subscriptions only give you access to the browser-only versions of the Office 365 apps - but Microsoft do make it clear which subscription does/does not give you the desktop apps.
With USB C monitors available for all that TV/fillum streaming/downloads, who is still going to want an unreliable HDM
My laptop is only three years old and I connect to monitors and docks via its USB-C sockets. I'm now finding that two of the USB-C sockets are becoming unreliable as the strain placed on the tiny connectors is too great. I'm not rough with my equipment.
Meta wants to instead "focus our time and resources on things people tell us they want to see more of on the platform, including short form video."
My partner likes viewing Facebook, et al, using it to see what the kids are up to (They've flown the nest) I certainly don't want my partner to see more short form videos. I'm sat watching the telly and I get this stream of noise of videos as they auto-play.
Wasn't this the idea of OLE in Windows? You opened your file but it had text which was managed by Word, pictures from Paint, and tables of numbers from Excel. You just clicked on the object and all the menus change to the relavent "application". (I did try this one time but it didn't really work: It was an easy way to briing a PC to its knees)
Corporate lawyers like to write lots of bollocks in their contracts to try to intimidate consumers. But in the UK, as a consumer, you have a lot more legal protection that other parts of the world. e.g. It is impossible to sign away your legal rights - no matter what the scary corporate lawyer claims. And even if you've signed an onerous contract, the court can tear it up if they think it's unfair.
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