the government is now handing out advice on computer security
http://www.itsafe.gov.uk/
i feel so much safer now
Tant
http://www.itsafe.gov.uk/
i feel so much safer now
Tant
funniest site of the week
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Now they are really taking the micky, I just looked at the how to section, it only covers one operating system, not really very much on that and office :roll:
It's a joke right?
That picture of the launch looks like a bad photoshop job. A child could have designed a better website and it contains no useful information whatsoever.
I bet they wasted £500,000 on that, damn my company could have given them a site twice as good for half the money and we would still be laughing all the way to the bank.
That picture of the launch looks like a bad photoshop job. A child could have designed a better website and it contains no useful information whatsoever.
I bet they wasted £500,000 on that, damn my company could have given them a site twice as good for half the money and we would still be laughing all the way to the bank.
:rolmao:nearly as useful as the "what to do in the event of a terrorist attack" booklet! :rolmao:
tenbears10 said:It's a joke right?
That picture of the launch looks like a bad photoshop job. A child could have designed a better website and it contains no useful information whatsoever.
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Yup ,That sounds like a genuine Goverment Website.
MickT
Looks like one of the many phishing images that comes pretending to be from a bank - same sort of feel to it. Shall we all ask them about linux, or start crank questions about how we're worried we might have caught a virus off the computer......
I wonder how much taxpayers money that cost?
Couldn't see any mention of how to stop granny trying to make toast in the disk drive. or how to stop GCHQ reading all your bank details when you pay for something online with the risk they'll sell it to the US and it'll end up in the hands of the mob.
I feel so much safer knowing they care about Mr Gates' system.
Couldn't see any mention of how to stop granny trying to make toast in the disk drive. or how to stop GCHQ reading all your bank details when you pay for something online with the risk they'll sell it to the US and it'll end up in the hands of the mob.
I feel so much safer knowing they care about Mr Gates' system.
Erm, I'm an XP Pro user on all 3 of my systems and they have this little thing called "auto-update" that does all that automatically for me...
And both my firewalls are also configured to auto update, with some personal tweaking as I don't trust Mr Gates.
Most systems these day also do this automatically, hell even my keyboard gets new patches as and when they appear, so why do we need the government to tell us how to do this? Oh yes! Its coming to the end of the financial tax year and they have all that money they didn't spend on USEFUL things like public transport etc that they need to get rid of by doing USELESS things like paying someone £1M to design a website, that as someone already pointed out, a kid of 7 could have done infinitely better...
(Wanted, 1 log cabin in the hills with lake and river close by and NO GOVERNMENT IDIOTS WITHIN RIFLE RANGE(Barrett .50 range that is...))
And both my firewalls are also configured to auto update, with some personal tweaking as I don't trust Mr Gates.
Most systems these day also do this automatically, hell even my keyboard gets new patches as and when they appear, so why do we need the government to tell us how to do this? Oh yes! Its coming to the end of the financial tax year and they have all that money they didn't spend on USEFUL things like public transport etc that they need to get rid of by doing USELESS things like paying someone £1M to design a website, that as someone already pointed out, a kid of 7 could have done infinitely better...
(Wanted, 1 log cabin in the hills with lake and river close by and NO GOVERNMENT IDIOTS WITHIN RIFLE RANGE(Barrett .50 range that is...))
Hmmm, while they were busy worrying about computer security it looks like someone's nicked the roof!
jakunen said:
Where do those "updates" come from? The same place as the original, buggy software.
jakunen said:
I don't trust Mr. Gates to provide me with a reliable pair of shoelaces. I certainly wouldn't trust him to provide a secure computing environment.
jakunen said:
Patches for a keyboard? I suppose you mean the driver. Really, I think that the keyboard driver is about the oldest component in the OS, and should have had all its wrinkles ironed out of it donkey's years ago.
If I really needed a tweak in the keymap, I'd do it myself.
Keith.
He's the one who looks after e-mail.
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http://www.itsafe.gov.uk/library/explain/virus/page01.html
Keith.
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http://www.itsafe.gov.uk/library/explain/virus/page01.html
Keith.
jakunen said:
Yeh, mine's set for manual update,, now how do I get rid of the sodding balloon that keeps telling me updates are available? And the reminder to reset the machine that pops up every five minutes after an update. I KNOW! I don't CARE you can finish updating after I've finished my own faffing around.
Can you make flaked tools out of computer components?
Realgar
Monitor glass should work nicely, similar to obsidian....but keep away from the semi-conductors, the particles produced when flaked are liable to be toxic 
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PCB laminates make interesting knife handles too
): PCB laminates make interesting knife handles too
leon-1 said:
You must have missed the bit saying "And if you work on a real computer, please check with a responsible adult OR your UNIX sysadmin."
Wahey. OS wars on a bushcraft site...
Sorry
Jim (onetime UNIX sysadmin, let's just leave the "responsible adult" bit for now. Ther's a reason for the "OR". :wave: )
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