Posts by eric79xxl

Microsoft won't fix .NET RCE bug affecting slew of enterprise apps, researchers say

Irrelevant

Not a single word you said has anything to with anything in the article, beyond the word Microsoft.

Techies tossed appliance that had no power cord, but turned out to power their company

Personally, I would have noticed the activity lights on the ethernet ports and took a pause.

Sometimes you gotta unplug something and see who screams, but never just rip out an unknown.

I learned that the hard way when I took down and entire automobile manufacturing plant one time. Luckily, "just following orders" saved my bacon.

Mozilla is rolling Thundermail, a Gmail, Office 365 rival

Hope it gets better

I gave up on tbird so long ago. Outlook PWA is less unwieldy. Hoping they can make tbird better this time.

Mozilla flamed by Firefox fans after promises to not sell their data go up in smoke

I can't find a browser that works on Windows and Linux that is not either gecko or chromium based. Pretty depressing. If anyone says 'webkit', forget about it. That's just gross.

Both KDE and GNOME to offer official distros

Re: Fixing 25+ year old problems?

"If all you want is to customise shit and have your desktop look subjectively awesome"

This is the exact reason why KDE is my favorite DE of all time. LoL

I mean at core, all desktop environments are just there to launch applications. I've no problem using any of them, but I likes my pretties and KDE is where it's at.

Sysadmin shock as Windows Server 2025 installs itself after update labeling error

So many SNAFUs recently

it seems like they are significantly worse this year than ever. SO many update and upgrade SNAFUs. It's like they have completely abandoned all Q/A testing to match the level that everyone has been talking smack about them for so long. It's getting a bit disturbing.

But also, yeah, if you deploy patches straight to prod... I mean you really should know better by now. :/