I use Notes at work and it is truly appalling. I have been objective and built a list of its faults which currently has 120 entries.What is the worst? Maybe that I cannot read webmail on my smartphone because most on my email is filtered into folders and Notes actively prevents you from reading them.
Posts by petef
230 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Sep 2010
IBM thinks Notes and Domino can rise again
Until last week, you could pwn KDE Linux desktop with a USB stick
Obligatory XKCD reference
From July, Chrome will name and shame insecure HTTP websites
Crypto-jackers slip Coinhive mining code into YouTube site ads
Facebook invents new unit of time to measure modern attention spans: 1/705,600,000 of a sec
Take notebooks: About those new Thinkpads...
As Apple fixes macOS root password hole, here's what went wrong
Pro tip: You can log into macOS High Sierra as root with no password
IBM offloads Notes and Domino to India's HCL Technologies
I like to be objective rather than just saying that Notes sucks. (Others may find different labels for my attention to detail.) I have my own list of annoyances through major defects that runs to over 100 items. Many of those are actions which are unintuitive, the list started as a crib sheet. That compares with Outlook at 21 and Gmail with 4.
Java SE 9 and Java EE 8 arrive, 364 days later than first planned
Massive iPhone X leak trashes Apple's 10th anniversary circus
Two million customer records pillaged in IT souk CeX hack attack
Browser trust test: Would you let Chrome block ads? Or Firefox share and encrypt files?
Set your alarms for 2.40am UTC – so you can watch Unix time hit 1,500,000,000
G20 calls for 'lawful and non-arbitrary access to available information' to fight terror
Bloke takes over every .io domain by snapping up crucial name servers
Australia to float 'not backdoors' that behave just like backdoors to Five-Eyes meeting
First-day-on-the-job dev: I accidentally nuked production database, was instantly fired
Google to give 6 months' warning for 2018 Chrome adblockalypse – report
Avast blocks the entire internet – again
As of today, iThings are even harder for police to probe
eBay dumps users into insecure authentication mechanism
Git sprints carefully towards SHA-1 deprecation
AMD does an Italian job on Intel, unveils 32-core, 64-thread 'Naples' CPU
Re: But What About Purley?
In that video the unreleased Naples was tested against Broadwell-EP which has been out for about a year. It will be fairer to compare against Skylake-EP when it is released. That will have AVX-512 and presumably the other performance lifts we expect with a new generation.
GitLab.com melts down after wrong directory deleted, backups fail
I've got a brand new combine harvester and I'll give you the API key
Terry Pratchett's self-written documentary to be broadcast in 2017
Kaspersky fixing serious certificate slip
Browsers vs Antivirus
Avast had a security problem with their SafeZone browser last year too. Comodo’s Chromodo also had a security issue. I personally trust the dedicated makers of browsers over the products supplied by AV vendors. I use Avast on the PCs I look after but use a custom install to exclude SafeZone.
MacBook Pro owners complain of short batt life – so Apple kills batt life clock in macOS
Re: Apple only Hard disks
If you buy a hard disk from Apple then part of the price premium is for their guarantee that it will install okay and continue to work.
I did my own upgrade to a non-Apple SSD and turned on TRIM. Both those actions are unsupported by Apple and if things had gone wrong it would have been my fault. But all is well and my old MacBook Pro is usable again at a fraction of the cost of a new laptop or parts blessed by Apple.
Hull surfers cut off by router attack
Backdoor
“ZyXel has developed a software update for the affected routers that will address the vulnerability. In most cases this will be applied remotely and customers will not need [to] do anything”
So ZyXel have a backdoor into the routers they have sold? What happens when (not if) the bad guys get a hold of that?
Google's Chromecast Audio busted BT home routers – now it has a fix
Debian putting everything on the /usr
Password1? You're so random. By which we mean not random at all - UK.gov
Living with the Pixel XL – Google's attempt at a high-end phone
USB-C is now wired for sound, just like Sir Cliff Richard
Let's Encrypt won its Comodo trademark battle – but now fan tools must rename
BBC detector vans are back to spy on your home Wi-Fi – if you can believe it
Bought a GTX 970? Congrats, Nvidia owes you thirty bucks
Baked Apple
The Nvidia GeForce 8600m GT graphics processor on my MacBook Pro failed in that way. However i did manage to fix it myself following the instructions in this link. Basically take the circuit board out of the laptop and bake in the oven for 7½ minutes. Scary stuff but that was over a year ago and the repair has held up fine.
http://computers.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-cook-your-mac--mac-45148
Microsoft cancels Remain speech after death of Labour MP
GNU cryptocurrency aims at 'the mainstream economy not the black market'
Unicode serves up bacon emoji
Facebook to kill native chat, bring opt-in crypto to Messenger
Cr-app-y
I deleted the Facebook app from my Moto G 2nd Gen because (a) the battery would not last for a day and (b) the storage used was horrendous. Just how many kittens were filling up 240 MB? Swipe as an alternative to FB+M uses less than 3 MB. I never installed Messenger as it was reputed to behave the same. Unfortunately the relevant reviews have been lost from the Play store as it has been swamped by complaints about the recent release.
I begrudge Facebook their right to hold a monopoly on apps for their services but what really riles is the lamentable quality of the apps.
Linux command line mistake 'nukes web boss'S biz'
I have effectively done this
Some time ago my work group had individual workstations, well 386 PCs actually running Interactive Unix. I had an account on a colleague's machine and they asked me to remove it. So I deleted /home/mydir/ but left myself a login with a home of / (root) and let my colleague know I had cleared my disk space.
They then proceeded to remove my account banging Y to all the questions, including that of remove home directory. The PC was bricked and had to be loaded afresh from floppies.
I filed a bug report to Sun who by this stage had taken over ISC. They did respond to my suggestion that the remove user script could have an extra safeguard but said they were not going to do anything.