Re: And I quote...
It's still one body and hasn't been ripped into a billion pieces.
Yet.
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Heritage Company will not be re-opening. It seems the cost of recouping the data and getting everything back up and running was too much
It seems crooks have yet to learn from nature. You only cause enough damage to your host to make them want it to stop. (i.e. Pay up) Killing your host lowers the chance of propagation (i.e. getting paid).
I had a user complain, after we replaced their faulty desk phone, that they lost all of their speeddials. This surprised us as speeddials were stored on the PABX and not on the phone. We popped over to take a look at the problem and discovered that what the user was calling "speeddials" was just the phone's call history: New phone, new call history.
There are numerous routers out there that can do this automatically. You just supply your own data-enabled SIM. Some ISPs can supply you the complete package as well.
These options aren't cheap - but if you can't run your business without an internet connection, then it may be worth it.
The web browser is becoming the new operating system: Intended to abstract the differences between different computers and "real" operating systems.
Which in turn run on hypervisors - which are mini operating systems.
And let's not get started on IBM's Ultravisor - a hypervisor for hypervisors.
I'm sure there was some kind of slight-of-hand where Starbucks (UK) pays a large licensing fee to Starbucks (Netherlands) to the use "Starbucks" brand. This makes Starbucks(UK) overheads high (so less profit to tax at UK rates), whereas Starbucks(Netherlands) has big income but in a low tax rate area.
Whilst the higher frequency used by DAB may allow transmission of data faster than the lower frequency analogue FM, all the digital processing (both sender & receiver) has a speed impact. Hence why, as others have mentioned, the pips on DAB are later than on FM. It's the same reason why the BBC no longer has an analogue clock showing the second hand before the news: Analogue viewers see it before digital. (And on Freesat, HD is even slower than SD - by several seconds)
I don't think there's any doubt that the "cost" of hosting these old BIOSs is insignificant. The "cost" is probably more in the management of the website. If you're maintaining a site as large as Intel's, you want to keep it as trim possible so you stand a chance of it all working.
We're all geeks here so I'm sure we've heard about "code bloat". Well, the same thing happens with websites too.
A single 13A socket at 240V provides 3kW of power. At 12V, to get the same power, you'll be pulling 250A. That's a very large current and you'll be running into all sorts of heating & resistance issues. (There's a reason the National Grid runs at voltages in excess of 200kV)
You may not be pulling a total of 3kW through your 12V system, but the current is not going to be negligible - and will also be very dangerous.
..cramped for a lanky bloke like me!
Anyone who is taller than about 5' 6" or wider than a 30" waist will find the carriages snug.
To be fair, though, this railway was never designed to transport humans but letters and parcels, so it's fantastic that they've managed to shoehorn in trains to carry humans.
My vague thoughts on the exploit from the linked Github diff in the article:
Terminal applications often update the window title bar with the name of the command being executed. iTerm appears to have been keeping track of its terminal sessions by their name. I'm guessing there was some exploit by abusing this feature.
What's one of the rules of programming? Never trust user supplied input.
The 900-strong team of “tech experts “ will be dispatched to people’s homes to help them install or fix their digital stuff
Let's hope they're more helpful then many of BT's current engineers who are only interested in closing* your support call with as little work as possible.
* Note: I didn't say anything about them fixing your problem.