Posts by Dan 55 16877 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Jun 2009
There are no expandable Macs any more nor will there be. It's all glued up and unexpandable by design.
It started when Jobs asked the engineering team why the MacBook battery life doesn't last as long as the iPad and they ended up redesigning everything so internally it was as like an iPad as they could get but running Intel.
RAM requirements have shot through the roof for OSes after Snow Leopard. Snow Leopard would run respectably on 1GB, but the Lions needed 2GB, Yosemite and El Capitan needed around 4GB (and even that's slow on El Capitan), and the Sierras need about 6GB.
Still can't figure out why memory requirements have gone through the roof though. If you were to put High Sierra and Snow Leopard side by side what are the differences? Save As is knackered, iCloud integration, Continuity, some new APIs which do the same thing as the old APIs, and that's about it.
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned dd-wrt/Tomato/open-wrt/freewrt etc... You flash your router with the firmware, it's not that difficult to be fair as there are full instructions.
Unfortunately with the advent of fibre ISPs have decided to provide VoIP routers which the phone runs off. Some of those have no known exploit so you can't do anything with them.
Others are OEM versions of routers and while you can put your own firmware on them but it's impossible to get the VoIP settings out of them so you lose your phone line. Such a mod has an extremely low Spouse Approval Factor.
So basically Microsoft are making their gaming platform (Windows 10) much more console like, when one of the great benefits of the gaming on the PC is that games could be modded.
They're not doing too well at it. Their Minecraft Better Together update, sold as a way of playing Minecraft online across different previously-incompatible platforms, also changes the UI on the console versions to match the PC's. It's now impossible to play on console.
Remember that horrendous UI mistake they made with mobile and PC? They're now now making the same mistake with console and PC.
You can install any extension not marked as compatible with threading and Firefox will disable threading.
You don't seem to understand - Windows 10 computers can reboot without notifying while you are at the keyboard. His nan's seen it, my workmate has seen it, and if you Google it, the Internet has seen it.
Let's have a look at MS' answer... Oh dear, the guy had to disable the update service.
Is someone's nan supposed to know that it automatically updates and reboots whenever it wants? Perhaps there should be a dialog box on first run if MS can't come up with an auto update which doesn't bother the user.
As for the second post, how about the computer not rebooting when people are logged in and working? No other OS seems to need to do this.
Article also says:
As for Windows 7, it is an old operating system, and while its more consistent user interface and superior Start menu is still missed, security considerations and missing features are strong arguments for upgrading.
Windows 7 gets security updates till 2020 and Microsoft should be fully taken to task if they try to skip one.
If they wanted to fuck up the NHS as an excuse to privatize it, they couldn't pick a better person.
Calling it Improvements is just the cherry on top.
It must be on purpose. The plan is to wreck everything using the worst person imaginable for each job, and that person doesn't even know what they're really doing.
Genius.
What is motivating Yahoo to take this stance? I don't see what they are worried about.
The contents, it it ours. If the tricksy lawyers come and take control of the contents for dead people today, they will come back tomorrow and and take control of the content for live people. We want the contents, it it ours. It makes us money. Filthy tricksy lawyers.
If they're doing it right the protocol should be XMPP perhaps with a simple IMAP extension to let the mail client know that XMPP is available and how to configure the chat client on the client side. Thunderbird has XMPP chat built-in already.
If they're really doing it right, you should be able to use your own XMPP server if you like and flick a switch on Dovecot to get the IMAP extension.
There are a lot of XMPP clients about and it'd be a shame to waste them.
Have you seen what it's infested with? Link 1 and Link 2 if you haven't.
Google might deign to remove a video or two if you report them, but unless this gets media attention they will do precisely nothing about it... perhaps attention from an IT news source that knows the issues and can't be fobbed off (hint)...
The problem is that normal menus, as well as categorising options better than the ribbon can, continually remind you of keyboard shortcuts whereas the ribbon doesn't.
With Outlook 2003 I would probably have immediately remembered the advanced find shortcut as it's listed next to other more used menu options. Since the ribbon everything's hidden or buried and I've forgotten it.
Don't fool yourself, the ribbon is still shit.
Yesterday in Outlook 2013 I wanted to do an advanced search. But there's no search options in Outlook 2013’s ribbon. I went through all of it and found nothing.
Instead you need to start a useless quick search so the search tab magically appears (which you may not realise as you're looking at the quick search bar) and you can then choose a hidden drop-down option at the end of the ribbon to get an advanced search.
Time wasted: best part of five minutes.
Multiplied by: x people = x * 5 / 60 person hours.
The fact that more shit has come along since doesn't detract from the fact that the ribbon is still as shit as it ever was.
Examples include the central management of security keys and operating system updates; - no third party involved, the key to verify and decrypt the OS update is held by both the OS supplier and the OS itself.
the scanning of content, like your emails, for advertising purposes; - wrong, email is held at rest as plain text.
the simulcast of messages to multiple destinations at once; - usually wrong, if it's encrypted the message is sent multiple times and multicast doesn't work over the Internet anyway.
and key recovery when a user forgets the password to decrypt a laptop. - again wrong, no third party involved, the key to verify and decrypt the recovery key is held by both the OS supplier and the OS itself.
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