goonerw - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Probably deliberately. (Score 4, Informative) 146

by goonerw on Saturday January 01, 2022 @08:45PM (#62134863) Attached to: 'Year 2022' Bug Breaks Email Delivery For Microsoft Exchange On-Premise Servers

They are coming up with all kinds of b*llsh*t to force customers into their subscriptions. Including an artificially initiated ca. 124GB RAM requirement for the recent versions of on-prem SharePoint.

Huh?
Requirements haven't changed for On-Prem Sharepoint for over a decade. The max for a single server is still 24GB and that's only if it's running everything, including SQL Server.

Comment Re:Betteridge applies (Score 1) 252

by goonerw on Sunday March 14, 2021 @11:23PM (#61159038) Attached to: Should We 'Heed the Science and Abolish Daylight Saving Time'?

We have the opposite problem in the non-DST parts of Australia. They don't want DST because it'll cause the curtains to fade.

Comment Re:Or, when the coronavirus situation is settled (Score 1) 110

by goonerw on Thursday May 21, 2020 @11:25PM (#60088998) Attached to: Apple and Google Launch Digital Contact Tracing System

Not really recent.

Apple introduced Wifi MAC randomization in iOS 8 (2014) https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2F9to5mac.com%2F2014%2F09%2F26... and https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsupport.apple.com%2Fen-u...

Android introduced it in Android 8 Oreo (2017) https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsource.android.com%2Fdev...

Comment Re:Stupid politicians ... (Score 1) 151

by goonerw on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @10:34PM (#57756792) Attached to: Australia Set To Spy on WhatsApp Messages With Encryption Law

This is stupid. Encryption is mathematics, and mathematics has no built in back-doors for illiterate politicians who don't understand how encryption works.
They know how it works. Our former PM (same party) declared that while the Laws of Mathematics are noble, the only Law that applies in Australia is the Law of Australia.

Comment Re:account successfully deleted. (Score 1) 493

by goonerw on Monday June 04, 2018 @09:52PM (#56728554) Attached to: Microsoft Acquires GitHub For $7.5B

As soon as I saw the headline here on Slashdot, I googled "delete github account" and I have just completed the process of downloading my meager repos and nuking it.

I do not wish to be part of any club which would have Microsoft as a member, let alone one run by Microsoft.

You might want to stay away from Linux then.
Linux Foundation - Corporate Members

Comment Re:Cash is so much better. (Score 1) 186

by goonerw on Tuesday February 24, 2015 @03:18AM (#49117355) Attached to: Google Teams Up With 3 Wireless Carriers To Combat Apple Pay

It must be quaint that the US is going Chip and Sign, when the rest of the enlightened world has had Chip and Pin for over a decade and some merchants in some countries, such as Australia, don't allow signatures anymore.

Comment Re:Moron Alert! Moron Alert! (Score 1) 280

by goonerw on Tuesday July 02, 2013 @03:15AM (#44162843) Attached to: Microsoft To Shut Down TechNet Subscription Service

Any questions?
Yep. What makes you think your suggestions have anything to do with Technet? Technet has SFA to do with the MS Development stack. It doesn't come with any paid version of Visual Studio for a reason. If you want a development stack, get MSDN.

SharpDevelop is free.
So's Visual Studio Express.

Comment Re:How about removing the faux caps? (Score 1) 66

by goonerw on Saturday July 21, 2012 @10:31PM (#40727221) Attached to: Aussie Network Engineers Form Members-Only ISP

With the NBN I believe most of the international links and peering will be handled by NBNCo

Umm no. All NBNCo do is provide a connection from you to your chosen RSP (reatil service provider), nothing more. Your RSP is the one that needs to provision the bandwidth from the PoI you're connected to, to the Internet.

Comment Re:That's it for me and Blizzard, man!! (Score 1) 540

by goonerw on Wednesday June 13, 2012 @03:31AM (#40306119) Attached to: <em>Diablo 3</em> Banhammer Dropped Just Before RMAH Goes Live

Oh they did ask me to do a virus scan etc., which of course I did do, as well as trojan scans, autoruns, malaware, you name it. Nada.

Name one AV product that picks up 0-day malware/viruses/trojans.

Comment Re:That's it for me and Blizzard, man!! (Score 2) 540

by goonerw on Wednesday June 13, 2012 @03:27AM (#40306101) Attached to: <em>Diablo 3</em> Banhammer Dropped Just Before RMAH Goes Live

To me, Blizzard's reasons and excuses are clearly nonsense.

And you have two clear choices
1) Accept Blizzard's design and pay for the game/play it
2) Don't accept Blizzard's design and don't pay for/play the game.

There is no 3) I'll pay but complain loudly that this isn't what I paid for.

Comment Features already present in previous versions (Score 4, Informative) 470

by goonerw on Sunday May 13, 2012 @08:06PM (#39990095) Attached to: The 30 Best Features of Windows

Yet another "click here dozens of times so we can get more advertising revenue" article. This could have been done in 3-4 pages, not 10+.

They also clearly haven't used Windows 7 as it has the ability to mount VHDs as well. (Windows 8 improves upon that by adding ISO mounting support) The way they wrote that "feature" is as if the VHD mounting is absent in previous versions.

Comment Re:Features (Score 1) 460

by goonerw on Sunday April 15, 2012 @04:55PM (#39695465) Attached to: Apple Under Fire For Backing Off IPv6 Support

I'd expect to see ISP wide NAT deployed before IPv6.

Too late. Although they default the configuration of the modems they ship to having IPv6 disabled, this will soon not be the case. So when that happens and you sign up to this ISP and buy a modem along with it, you'll get IPv6 by default.

Comment VBS2 (Score 1) 54

by goonerw on Wednesday April 11, 2012 @08:10AM (#39642479) Attached to: US Government Licenses Unreal Game Engine To Train FBI Agents and Army Medics

No one's mentioned Virtual BattleSpace2? What I don't get is that there's no mention of the fact that the US government already licenses the Unreal Engine for America's Army and they also license VBS2 for precisely this form of training.

Comment Re:Judgement (Score 2) 121

by goonerw on Friday March 30, 2012 @11:01PM (#39531627) Attached to: Australian National Broadband Network Releases 3-Year Plan

Also it's bloody YOUR not you're

You forgot the repeated failure of the Australian people to actually be able to spell the name of one of the major political parties.

It's LABOR not LABOUR.

Comment Re:I'd bet there is. (Score 2) 317

by goonerw on Saturday January 14, 2012 @10:32PM (#38702902) Attached to: Code Cleanup Culls LibreOffice Cruft

Visual Studio also highlights regions of code that are unreachable (such as lines of code after a return statement for a simple example).

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