@edps
Forum Replies Created
-
AuthorPosts
-
THIS IS A NON PARTISAN JOKE THAT CAN BE ENJOYED BY All PARTIES! NOT ONLY THAT– it is POLITICALLY CORRECT!! …”
Great joke – but uneasily too close to the truth!
Its a bit of a gamble whether you get hit with a duty charge, normally HMRC ‘waive’ duty below £50 as the costs of collection start to outweigh the revenue.
Her raised baton and Taser are just out of frame!
Lots of Linux ones such as Handbrake but that does not help.
You could try VLC then just burn the resulting file using the Windows 10 software.
There were a LOT of ‘schoolboy’ errors in the Wannacry worm, and its follow-up variants. Too many relatively simple ‘hurried’ errors were made (e.g. the hard coded URLs and unlinked payload) that cost the perpetrators a fortune, all of which makes me believe a relative amateur just lifted code rather than the actions of a nation State. (If you want to compare sophistication look at some of the known NORK attacks on the ROK link. Of course all this could be a double or triple bluff but I smell a cover-up by the West looking for a scapegoat. Some of the so-called ‘proof’ was just a list of file extensions that quite frankly proved nothing.
I think a lot of A/V and backup companies will leap on the band-wagon. All that is except Sophos who have a LOT of NHS egg on their face! link
More likely a crude attempt to distract people from the NSA origin of this mess. Irresponsible US/UK hoarding of exploits is becoming a source of political and diplomatic embarrassment.
Just one exploit from that early tranche has caused a lot of public concern on the impacts of Ransomeware. Reuters now report that Shadowbrokers the group who released the first tranche of NSA exploits are threatening to put a whole lot more for sale in June to the highest bidder. Microsoft is apparently preparing a response, and I wonder if the revelation of an Intel backdoor may have been them doing a bit of Corporate ‘deck-clearing’/CYA. – watch Steve Gibson’s report
The list of additional data that is up for sale is to say the least very interesting. (Reuters link)
“It also threatened to dump data from banks using the SWIFT international money transfer network and from Russian, Chinese, Iranian or North Korean nuclear and missile programs, without providing further details. ”
Depending on the sensitivity of the missile and bank data this could perhaps point a finger towards a Western or Mafia-type ownership of Shadowbrokers.
Incidentally if you check Innisfree’s own web site, the Telegraph actually understated a lot of the facts (it owns the GCHQ building!). I could not find a list of external directors or ‘consultants’ which I think may have otherwise made interesting reading.
With respect to PFI even the Telegraph (the author of the earlier link) seems embarrassed by the obscene profits earned by one City company.
“An almost unknown City company, Innisfree, with only 14 staff, is the largest single player in the PFI market, owning or co-owning 269 PFI schools and 28 hospitals.
According to accounts filed at Companies House, Innisfree’s profit margin was 53 per cent last year. A successful FTSE 100 company makes margins of around 6 per cent. David Metter, the founder and chief executive of Innisfree, owns almost three-quarters of the company and collected pay and dividends of £8.6 million last year.”
Unfortunately unless they are breaking any contractual conditions it would be VERY expensive to break these contracts, and given the proven the lack of contractual diligence by our Civil Service I’ll bet any contractual holes are the other way around.
Hospital Admin is always a potential issue with much of it (at least in this area) being staffed by volunteers. We are lucky in that the volunteers are mainly ex-Nursing staff with a sprinkling of retired accountants who all seem to take their jobs seriously and probably put in efforts over and beyond requirements. While I would give these people a rose for their efforts, I know only too well how crass overbearing management can quickly screw up the best volunteer-run organization in the world. Management of volunteers is an art, and one that really needs to be taught. The principles are not too different from normal management, but need a much lighter hand and recognition that the volunteer may know a hell of a lot more in practical terms than the grass-green manager.
The Trust’s funding problems were not (afaik) due to financial mismanagement but more the legacy of a rip-off PFI. Yet another ‘Major’ catastrophe.
From the LibreOffice Draw Wiki:
“Lets you select objects in the current document. To select an object, click the object with the arrow. To select more than one object, drag a selection frame around the objects. To add an object to a selection, press Shift, and then click the object.”
Good question John!
I had assumed we were just talking of stock Android/Apple or m4v output, and there was a ‘physical’ problem in viewing them. I never even thought about DVD TV format being an issue.
While I was seeking to improve my knowledge of the operation of MRI scanners I came across this job-spec for an MRI Technologist. By the cringe, these guys/gals really do have to know a bit about everything in order to do their jobs. I read their job spec and duly noted the need for a high stress tolerance – I think I would have underlined that bit!
Incidentally I did find out why any 15 year old MRI scanners may have a Windows problem. They used SGI work stations that are completely stuck (due to their hardware) with a Windows Server 2000 OS. It cannot be upgraded, and as the SGI workstation is integrated into the scanner the whole lot would have to be replaced. Later machines are OK and their OS could be upgraded assuming they are not caught by some of the artificial Microsoft CPU constraints.
Wrong sort of disk – DVDR+, DVDR- or DVD RW? The plus and minus varieties have all but disappeared but if they are really old disks they may be the problem. The RW can also cause some systems to be picky. I rarely need to burn a DVD but when I do I use DVD R and that gives no issues.
However I would just try reburning the disk and verifying the write.
Try Googling on “ps4 dvd disk problems”. Judging by how many people have similar problems it looks like the PS4 disk controller has a design fault. Try the PS4 forum as a starter.
A selection box? Not tried it in Draw but in other programs an object is not selected unless it is wholly contained within the selection box (then copy not cut)
Just in case the Government repeats this morning’s untruth about there being no new variants of the malware there were at least two when they issued their report. link
One was rapidly killed by buying its new hard coded domain, the other worked but failed to encrypt due to a bug.
For the life of me I cannot understand why the Government would want to make us forget about this malware — hang on, wait a moment it could not have anything to do with NHS funding surely!
I’m not sure that the Beeb has any people who are real technical experts, even their ‘Security Expert’, Rory Cellan Jones only does a half-a*sed bit of analysis – for example he concentrates on XP in this report and fails to mention Windows 8 and Server 2003 – the latter probably being the most important vehicle for propagating the worm.
He also failed to ask Hunt about this, but we can put together the real picture from reports from locations such as the York Trust where 70% of their systems are OK but 30% are down. Either these are all XP and Hunt is lying through his teeth or they have been brought down due to the failure of a much smaller number of critical servers.
-
AuthorPosts