Re: 3 9s....
Remember the bad old days, where you bought software and installed it yourself and that was that until you decided to upgrade it? And any outages were your own responsibility and within your own control?
Gosh, however did we manage?
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Update 'designed to improve user experience' takes down the Microsoft 365 Admin Portal
Oracle Linux appears somewhere unexpected: The Windows Store
Thursday 3rd February 2022 05:59 GMT 
Re: Inaccurate
Good points. I read the article as less of a swipe, more a “uh, there’s something on here claiming to be Fedora but it costs, Fedora is usually free so proceed with caution”. I think the author perhaps suspected that the “Fedora remix” was one of those sketchy knockoff products that plague app stores.
It’s academic now though, as I see someone’s edited the article text - probably prompted by your comments - to make it clearer that the remix is a legit project.
Lost your mouse cursor? Microsoft's PowerToys 0.55 has you covered – with a massive crosshair
Wednesday 2nd February 2022 21:01 GMT
Re: I put it down just a second ago, where'd it get off to?!
>I have two extra buttons on my trackball and I would love to have them move the cursor to a specific place.
As long as the buttons are picked up by the OS as WM_MESSAGEs, I think that sounds like a great use-case for AutoIt or similar. A simple script that idles waiting for the appropriate message and then jumps the mouse cursor to wherever.
50 lines of Bash to bring a Wordle fan out of their shell
Breath of fresh air: v7.3 of LibreOffice boasts improved file importing and rendering
Google Cloud started running its servers for an extra year, still loses billions
Wednesday 2nd February 2022 18:07 GMT
Re: Can't wait to get this
>"Brands… can personalize ads at scale and use video ad sequencing to tell powerful stories," he said, adding that advertisers can target connected televisions "which means users get a more helpful viewing experience and brands get to drive more online sales and/or leads."
<Marvin>
Sounds ghastly.
</Marvin>
Happy birthday, Windows Vista: Troubled teen hits 15
Tuesday 1st February 2022 19:52 GMT
Re: Vista Stumbled so 7 could Run
>the user interface was "designed" by a muppet who looked at a book on good user interface design principles and chose to ignore every single point in the book
As opposed to Windows 8, where the same muppet took very careful notice of every single point, and then did the exact opposite.
Or Windows 10/11, where he/she tired of trying to parse the book and instead simply shoved it up his/her nose instead.
Microsoft brings Jenny, Aria, and more interface tweaks to new Windows 11 Insider build
Saturday 29th January 2022 23:13 GMT
Re: Microsoft is starting to nag you about your PC bneing too old...
Just a thought off the top of my head, but perhaps there should be a rule that once your company gets beyond a certain %age of market segment share, or a certain $value market cap, it's forbidden to make any acquisitions. Related to, but independent of, competition/monopoly regulations.
Any economists or game theorists care to weigh in on whether that would be a good idea?
Tougher rules on targeted ads, deepfakes, crafty web design, and more? Euro lawmakers give a thumbs up
Hardware boffin starts work on simulation of an entire IBM S/360 Model 50 mainframe
Machine needs more Learning: Google Drive dings single-character files for copyright infringement
US President Joe Biden reminds the White House he is serious about repairability
Thursday 27th January 2022 03:29 GMT
Re: Do The Right Thing
Quoting Blackadder:
"Not while Pitt the Elder's in charge. As long as his feet are warm and he gets a nice cup of milky tea in the sun before his morning nap, he doesn't bother anybody until his potty needs emptying..."
Any relevance of the above quote to the current POTUS is entirely in the mind of the reader.
OpenShell has been working on a classic replacement for Windows 11's Start menu
Wednesday 26th January 2022 22:57 GMT
> Remember when they brought back the Start/Windows button and made it default to the desktop?
Ah yes. As summed up at the time in this comic.
Wednesday 26th January 2022 22:55 GMT
Re: "If it ain't broke..."
At the risk of sounding like a broken record (or whatever the 21st century equivalent is... "a tiktok video stuck on 'endless repeat'"?), there's a quote I read just after the release of Windows 8 that sums this up for me.
"Microsoft, we wanted familiar ways to do unfamiliar things. What you've given us is unfamiliar ways to do familiar things..."
Robot vacuum cleaner employed by Brit budget hotel chain Travelodge flees
Watchdog clears 90 per cent of US commercial aircraft to land in low visibility at nation's 5G C-band airports
Wednesday 26th January 2022 06:02 GMT
Re: Finally.
Honestly, I'm just very puzzled that the airline industry and the FAA waited until the 11th hour to wake up and go "huh, wait, maybe we ought to check this stuff for interference risk". It's not like the C-band auction, frequencies, or deployment schedule were a closely-guarded secret.
Sophos: Log4Shell would have been a catastrophe without the Y2K-esque mobilisation of engineers
Hive View security camera customers left in the dark as some gear gives up the ghost
Three US states plus Washington DC sue Google for using UI design 'dark patterns' to harvest your location
Tuesday 25th January 2022 18:47 GMT
Not to go all whataboutery on this thread, but I get the same feeling about disabling Wifi/bluetooth on iPhone too. Since IOS 12 (or was it 11?) tapping the "disable wifi" or "disable BT" buttons in the quick access panel doesn't actually disable them (and their associated location-tracking powers) - just temporarily disconnects you from your current WWAN or devices. I strongly suspect that's done deliberately as a dark pattern, also.
IPv6 is built to be better, but that's not the route to success
Parallels: Purveyors of decent virtualization software... and occasionally iffy checksums
Tuesday 25th January 2022 16:28 GMT
Re: Were they hacked...
"Ech, recalculating the checksum and updating the website every time we post a new version is too much hassle. Just stick a random hexadecimal string up there and call it good. Or better yet, post the MD5 checksum for the string "PARALLELS DESKTOP FOR MAC", that won't change ever, makes life nice and easy... sorted."
Saved by the Bill: What if... Microsoft had killed Windows 95?
Throw away your Ethernet cables* because MediaTek says Wi-Fi 7 will replace them
Microsoft seems intent on buying the gaming industry with $68.7bn purchase of troubled Activision Blizzard
Thursday 20th January 2022 08:18 GMT
Or, my preference, support indy developers on Gog.com - no DRM, no need to install their client software, and they have a lot of long-tail older stuff too.
Speaking of, I booted up an old tower PC of mine the other day, and rediscovered Unreal Tournament. The original one from ‘99. I’d forgotten just how much fun it was. Sure it’s graphically primitive by modern standards (though surprisingly better than you’d think for something 22 years old…) but it’s amazingly addictive. We’ve been playing CTF and Assault game modes pretty much non-stop for the last few evenings!
Sniff those Ukrainian emails a little more carefully, advises Uncle Sam in wake of Belarusian digital vandalism
Version 7 of WINE is better than ever at running Windows apps where they shouldn't
Tesla driver charged with vehicular manslaughter after deadly Autopilot crash
Wednesday 19th January 2022 22:24 GMT
…speed limit signs can be deceiving, as some of them will have a bit "55mph" sign and small print saying that it applies only to trucks…
Or the one that confuses my car & my wife’s regularly… school zone signs that say “20”, but with small print saying that it’s only during school hours or when the lights sre flashing.
Foxstuck: Firefox browser bug boots legions of users offline
Wednesday 19th January 2022 22:15 GMT
Re: "Waterfox users were totally unaffected. ®"
Upvote for linking to one of my favourite songs. Though the Youtube error “the uploader has not made this video available in your country” made me laugh, considering there’s a dozen other copies of the same song on there that I can access, plus I’ve had it in my MP3 collection since about 1993…
“The Martians could land in the car-park and no-one would care…”
Tuesday 18th January 2022 20:26 GMT
Re: "Waterfox users were totally unaffected. ®"
Absolutely, same here.
However, and I've commented as much before, the problem with this is that it skews the telemetry results.
1) All the knowledgeable and privacy-conscious users disable telemetry
2) All the users who are too naive or oblivious don't.
3) Mozilla examine the telemetry data - "huh, 99% of our users spend their whole time on Pinterest and Facebook, we must integrate Firefox better with those sites. Also, no users ever use the advanced features like integrated FTP support or the Configuration menu - let's remove the former and hide the latter behind a hamburger menu so the users don't get confused. Excellent! We're serving our users!"
4) Profit More annoyed techie users, further declines in product usability, etc etc.
NB: See also Windows 10.
Epoch-alypse now: BBC iPlayer flaunts 2038 cutoff date, gives infrastructure game away
Autonomy founder's anti-extradition case is like saying Moon made of cheese, US govt tells UK court
Planning for power cuts? That's strictly for the birds
Games Workshop has chucked another £500k at entrenched ERP project with no end to epic battle in sight
US Senator Marco Rubio calls Intel cowards for scrubbing remarks about Xinjiang and apologizing to China
Wednesday 12th January 2022 01:48 GMT
Re: What would happen if
Whilst I agree wholeheartedly with your sentiments, I must point out that you're perhaps being a little naïve if you think the CCP will pay a blind bit of attention to "pulled IP" or "revoked licenses". They've been stealing IP and trade/military secrets from the West on a vast scale for years; why would you think they give a fetid panda's kidney about our obsession with "intellectual property"?
To err is human. To really screw things up requires a wayward screwdriver
Tuesday 11th January 2022 02:03 GMT
Granted, this is a house old enough for a NEMA 10-30 for the dryer, which has a neutral but not a ground (which is why it's no longer code)
Heh. I can relate to that. The previous owner of my house was a radio ham, which is why there's a 240V outlet box coming up through the floor under my desk, and why there are grounding rods all round the house in various places for - I presume - his antenna array.
The wiring on this 40-year-old house is interesting. The office and garage are on the same breaker - I keep meaning to split them, especially as it's only 15A, with 14/2 NMB cabling.
The dryer had a NEMA 10-30 outlet; when I remodeled that part of the house last year I inquired about moving/extending the (aluminum cable!) dryer outlet, only to be firmly told "nope, don't even think about it". Which meant I had to rip and replace the aluminum cabling, running new cable from the breaker panel, and a 14-30 4-prong outlet. Oh well. As I was already running a bunch of new cables to the breaker for a tankless water heater it wasn't quite as much of a hassle as it could have been.
China puts Walmart in the naughty corner, citing 19 alleged cybersecurity 'violations'
Notes on the untimely demise of 3D Pinball for Windows
Monday 10th January 2022 20:37 GMT
Re: Games..
Anyone with any sense installs Windows 10 (Home/Pro) offline, with networking disconnected. Then the very first thing to do is go to Personalization and turn off "show suggestions on Start Menu". Sounds so helpful and fluffy, doesn't it. Suggestions. Aaaw, how thoughtful. What they mean is "relentlessly auto-install shovelware crap that I neither asked for nor want", but I'm assuming that string was too long for the available space.
Not looking forward to a greyscale 2022? Then look back to the past in 64 colours
Sunday 9th January 2022 18:48 GMT
Upvoted purely for mention of the 440. I had two - one was a G-reg one in black metallic - it was a complete heap - and I replaced it with a K-reg one in an extremely '90s shade of metallic teal. Loved those cars. Eventually replaced the 440 with a succession of S/V40s and so on.
Living as I do in the US now, I have occasionally toyed with the idea of importing a 440 - just to see the expression of complete puzzlement on their faces at the local Volvo dealer. The 3x0/4x0 series were never (officially) imported to here.
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