. . OK, that made me laugh! :)

Stephen

:)

Ok, who has them?

Someone stole an entire shipment of EVGA RTX graphics cards.

As if the chip shortage didn’t make it hard enough to get our hands on graphics cards, criminals are making it a heck of a lot worse. According to a forum post by EVGA product manager Jacob Freeman, thieves made off with a whole truckload of EVGA RTX 30-Series graphics cards. The graphic cards were in transit from San Francisco to EVGA’s southern California distribution center at the time of the theft, and it remains unclear how many cards were affected.

Send me a couple and I'll stay quiet. ;-)

Cheers.

Ok, who has them?

Someone stole an entire shipment of EVGA RTX graphics cards.

Send me a couple and I'll stay quiet. ;-)

Cheers.

. . Yep a brace of 3080ti's and mum's the word.

Stephen

:)

And you thought M$ Windows was full of holes to patch...
AMD reveals an Epyc 50 flaws – 23 of them rated high severity. Intel has 25 bugs, too
Think of an attack – DoS, arbitrary code execution, memory corruption – and one of these vulns allows it

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You then get the Windows fixes "blah blah blah":


There's something to be said for delayed gratification when Windows 11 is this full of bugs
wrote:

Also: Emergency patch for Windows Server after Patch Tuesday broke single sign-on for some users

An update to the Insiders version of Windows 11 includes a massive list of bug fixes, many of them serious, showing the wisdom of holding back on an early upgrade from Windows 10...

... The new Insiders update, build 22000.346 for the Beta and Release Preview channels, shows another reason for not hastening to upgrade – bugs in the initial release. Release Preview means that these fixes should soon come to all users of Microsoft's latest Windows.

The company lists over 70 bug fixes, including significant issues like "we fixed an issue that causes the system to stop working..."

What "issues" might those be?...

So... Some sort of 'things' got 'fixed'?...

Try guessing through that lot!!!

Glass houses and throwing a meteor storm and all that?...

Microsoft really needs to improve whatever might be their "QA" and stop treating the paying public as entrapped perpetual Alpha testers...


IT is what we allow it to be...
Martin

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See new freedom: Mageia Linux
Take a look for yourself: Linux Format
The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3)

Microsoft really needs to improve whatever might be their "QA" and stop treating the paying public as entrapped perpetual Alpha testers...

HA! Like that will ever happen any time in the future. M$ has always used the public as their alpha & beta testers guinea pigs.

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Wouldn't surprise me at all.

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Grant
Darwin NT

I've always thought the Cloud was a good idea for acting as a backup service, or as a part of an overall system, but with more & more devices requiring the Cloud to function at all the madness of that system still doesn't seem apparent to many people. Even after the many home automation devices that no longer work since the supplying company ceased to exist and their servers went offline.

And then this- App outage leaves Tesla owners stranded, unable to start their vehicles. There's still a place for a physical key, even if it's just a remote unit. Especially here in Australia as there would be 100,000kms of road with no mobile coverage.

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Grant
Darwin NT

Never trust the cloud ...
Stephen

Never trust the cloud ...
Stephen

+100
I think it simply inane that all applications are going to the cloud for no apparent reason when they absolutely don't require it for simple applications or physical usage.
Seems to be the next big thing or FOMO.
And when the cloud is unavailable all these applications and IoT things are instant bricks or doorstops.

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Never trust the cloud ...
Stephen

+100
I think it simply inane that all applications are going to the cloud for no apparent reason when they absolutely don't require it for simple applications or physical usage.
Seems to be the next big thing or FOMO.
And when the cloud is unavailable all these applications and IoT things are instant bricks or doorstops.

. . The reason is simple enough, the providers want to know which of their apps you use, whenever you use it and what you do with it. They call it research for development, I just call it spying. :)
. . I considered getting a fitbit or garmin or something of that ilk but gave up when I learned that they do NOT function unless connected to the internet. Something totally unnecessary to perform their purpose but without it they are just an exercise weight on your wrist.
. . If any company built an autonomous self contained unit that will happily provide the data to your mobile or home device WITHOUT an internet connection they would instantly have at least one customer :)

Stephen

Data security comes in several flavours - against hackers, against accidental loss etc.
About three years back several of us investigated the use of "the cloud" to store our ever growing photo collections. Some of us looked at the on-going costs and decided not to, others decided to use the cloud as a backup to their main store, but one decided it would be his only store and set up his account.
All was well for the first couple of months, but then the price jumped as he needed more storage and went over a price gap, OK. But at the same "the cloud" noticed he was moving three or four times as much data as his plan included, so his bill went up again, OK. Then he changed banks, and for whatever reason the standing order for his monthly payments didn't get transferred to his new bank properly. For a couple of months nothing happened apart from him uploading more photos.... Then one day he tried to upload a weekend's photos and he couldn't, his account had not only been locked, but closed, and his photos were gone. He was near suicidal at the loss of a couple of years photos, a few of us had copies of a handful of photos, but I doubt that there were more than a hundred recovered this way. Unbeknown us one of his friends had seen what was going on (in terms of risk) and had copied all the "victim's" photos to his own mountain of disks. The "victim" bought a large NAS array, and after a lot of copying he has his photos back....
(Aside - The annual cost of the cloud storage was more than the cost of buying the NAS)

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Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

As a converse to that: I'm not a great taker of photographs. I took a few in the age of film, mainly while travelling, but I rarely bother nowadays. But when I started posting on this and related message boards, I wanted to share images - some photos, otherwise graphs and screenshots. So I set up a free photobucket account.

Photobucket got greedy, changed the rules, demanded money, and held my images to ransom. No loss - I have the originals here, and they were all shared 'for the moment', not as a long term archive. So I ignored Photobucket, and moved to another free hosting service. That was nearly ten years ago, but I'm still getting daily emails from Photobucket asking for money to 'save' my photos from deletion ... of their copy.

I got McAfee antivirus as a freebie from upgrading with BT. What I wasn't told was that it was only for one year. That ran out a month ago, and I use another program. But the bastards keep reminding me every day to renew. If it doesn't stop I will sue them in court for harrassment.

Good luck in stopping the sending you those infernal nag notices.
It's over five years, probably nearer ten, since I gave up with McCafee and I still get nag notices, despite repeatedly telling them to remove me from their databases.

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

If I get anything for free, be that antivirus software pre installed on a new computer, or anything else, I never register the product with the companies in question.
My position is that they're all out to grab my wallet, so they've never get my name and other personal details.

. . Very wise!
Stephen

Junk mail is worse. Since the cable was laid, receive these 2/3 a month.
Within 3 months of the cable being laid, had 2 visits from their sales reps. After the 2nd visit, had none (ask me no questions, I'll tell you no lies).
Got this one yesterday.


After those visits, started receiving the junk mail from Vodafone.
After snail mailing CityFibre stating not interested & to cease mailing me, snail mailed Vodafone. Theirs stopped, however, since then CityFibre restarted. :-(
Vodafone is one of CityFibre's major partners.
Even though both were contacted by mail, all still state "The Occupier".

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Grant
Darwin NT

sadly many services don't accept any punctuation marks in passwords :(
Stephen

probably aren't being dumped into a CSV file anyway. most likely a database file, which wont be affected by this. but it's also easy to delimit by a different character instead of a comma.

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