Posts by nijam

Windows is now built on Git, but Microsoft has found some bottlenecks

Re: So to paraphrase "MS Using Fat Gits for development."

"feel the buglyness" - ftfy

The real battle of Android's future – who controls the updates

Re: No Skins please.

> Econ 101 tells me that if there is no supply, then odds are the demand isn't there.

Or that the supply side is an effective monopoly. Or the distribution side is an effective monopoly.

With most phones sold via carriers, it's probably both of those. Manufacturers spec their product not for the end user but for the carrier, in practice.

Nutanix, IBM hug each other in Power pity party

> That is like saying "have an electrical utility plant in your own house."

There are circumstances and locations (not many, I concede) where solar panels or a small wind turbine make sense for a house, of course.

10Mbps universal speeds? We'll give you 30Mbps, pleads Labour in leaked manifesto

Re: Completely scrapping ADSL then

> SNCF runs like a dream compared to our network

No, not really ... a few high profile services are impressive, but mostly French railways are just as shit as ours.

Mozilla to Thunderbird: You can stay here and we may give you cash, but as a couple, it's over

Re: "The long term plan is to migrate our code to web technologies"

> As long as your main competitor is Outlook, you need to do far better.

Outlook is scarcely a benchmark as a competent email client. Of course, there are many other things it does badly, besides email.

Re: Modernize

“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.” - Oscar Wilde

> ...fewer potential exploit avenues and/or points of failure.

I think not. Webmail is an abomination anyway, and a browser isn't a "point of failure", it's a whole 3-dimensional space of failure.

Windows 10 S: Good, bad, and how this could get ugly for PC makers

Re: Blanket Laptops.....

> ...this is to make the laptop more durable...

Actually it's to keep the laptop warm, thereby creating a hospitable environment for a whole ecosystem of bugs to thrive in.

Post Unity 8 Ubuntu shock? Relax, Linux has been here before

Re: Losing Unity 7/8 is not the end of the world!

> ... the vast majority of the world disagrees with you and thinks Windows 10 is more polished than Linux Mint

Would that be because they've tried both and then made a well-informed decision, I wonder? Or because they're too dim to realise that there's an alternative to having GWX perform unwanted surgery on their computers?

Apache OpenOffice: Not dead yet, you'll just have to wait until mid-May for mystery security fixes

Re: I admire their spunk!

> ...at MS, they must spend a lot of time figuring out ways to get open software to fail to properly render an MS Office document

I don't think they need to. MSOffice makes such a dog's breakfast of layout, font, etc. that it's pretty much a given that well-designed software would struggle with it.

> Because it was confidential information.

Maybe it used to be, at some point in history. But once it's been on a public facing website, even for only a few minutes, it's not confidential information.

Re: I prefer OpenOffice

> An office suite is an office suite, and the storage problem is quite orthogonal to it.

True. And yet...try getting Microsoft to understand that.

Re: I prefer OpenOffice

> ...it seems smother...

Odd phrasing, but I take it to mean you're supporting the OpenOffice euthanasia vote.

Republicans want IT bloke to take fall for Clinton email brouhaha

The "formal letter" quoted in the article gives every appearance of being pure showboating.

European Court of Justice lays down the law on Kodipocalypse

Re: mmmmmmmmmm...

> One assumes, further, that it may become illegal to pass any directions as to where you can find the instructions on how to install such software.

Since URLs are not (and never were) any more a "communication to the public" than telephone numbers, yours is the only possible interpretation of the ruling (i.e. it is not the URL per se, but telling people about it, that constitutes a "communication to the public"). Your only error is in using the wrong tense: "may become" rather than "is".

Don't install our buggy Windows 10 Creators Update, begs Microsoft

Re: Another day

> Machines that were worthless after about Vista can be given a new life.

Yes, they were all upgraded to Linux.

(sorry, couldn't resist.)

Re: Another day

> I welcome the delay very much, take as long as you need to fix it MS.

Heat death of the universe would be fine by me too.

Don't stop me! Why Microsoft's inevitable browser irrelevance isn't

Re: Hacking.

> ... if it compiles successfully then ship it and fix any bugs in the next version

if it compiles successfully then ship it and fix one or two bugs in the next version, ad infinitum

Swamp-draining Trump pushes ex-AT&T lobbyist to oversee AT&T mega-merger

He is the swamp. Or the drain.

Uber cloaked its spying and all it got from Apple was a slap on the wrist

Re: RICO act

> ...if you have developed functionality to specifically lie to law enforcement agents

Not supporting Uber at all here, but isn't the functionality at least partly (or even mostly) to stop law enforcement agents lying to them, rather than just the other way round?

systemd-free Devuan Linux hits version 1.0.0

Re: Cat among the pigions but...

> I'm puzzled by people that raise the bogey man of "binary logging"

I'm puzzled that anyone thought binary logging was of any use whatsoever. Saying it's not a problem because you can fix it with yet another piece of otherwise unnecessary baggage is rather unhelpful.

> It's an elegant system that works with easily understandable text-based configuration files

No, it's not elegant, and the config files are no easier to understand than the scripts used previously.

> A change of init system isn't something we should be doing more than once every couple of decades

Agreed, but systemd is not an init system (hint: init is an init system). Systemd is spaghetti architecture - even calling it "architecture" at all is generous, of course.

Re: It is not that clearcut

Emacs vs vi...

"Unfortunately, only one of them will lose" H Kissinger

(or something like that, can't be bothered to check).

Re: It's not infighting

> Apache is laughing at you right about now.

And that laughter is the reason why nginx is gaining ground.

Shooting org demands answers from Met Police over gun owner blab

Re: Smart Water

Like Smart Cars and smartphones... not actually smart, just seem that way in comparison with the people who use said products(s).

Re: it's happened before, a few times

> We have a different approach to ... data privacy

Except we evidently don't.

Time to remove all police exceptions from DPA etc?

So few use Windows Phone, Microsoft can't be bothered: Security app is iOS, Android only

Re: It still makes me giggle

> ... a 5% market share for windows phone is a total failure ...

a 5% market share for windows phone is a total fantasy

Re: The latest version on Windows Phone 10...

> Just how hard is it for MS' coders to develop a tiny app for Windows phone?

In my experience. developing software for Windows is more difficult than for (say) Linux. I fully expect the same to true of Windows Phone vs Android.

Toshiba spins out new NAS disk drive with its fastest transfer rate yet

Re: Let's not be ignorant

In other words, MTBF really is made-up drivel.

No, Microsoft is not 'killing Windows 10 Mobile'

Re: Alas poor WinPho I knew him well

> ... how zippy their incredibly low-end devices are

They just seem fast because there's bu??er-all on them. Even the apps they originally came with (inherited from Nokia I surmise) no longer work.

> No, Microsoft is not 'killing Windows 10 Mobile'

No, everyone else is killing it.

Will the MOAB (Mother Of all AdBlockers) finally kill advertising?

Re: "People don't hate adverts, just awful adverts"

> "People don't hate adverts, just awful adverts"

In other words, "People don't hate adverts, just all adverts"

Why Firefox? Because not everybody is a web designer, silly

Re: Designers..

> I don't think the artists/designers got that memo

Artists & designers should never have been allowed in...

Microsoft raises pistol, pulls the trigger on Windows 7, 8 updates for new Intel, AMD chips

Re: This should help Apple and Linux

> Apple lost my vote when they decided to just up and abandon PowerPC even though they were selling machines with those chips in them just months before the announcement.

Apple lost my vote when they decided to just up and abandon 68000 even though they were selling machines with those chips in them just days before the announcement.

Re: Optional

> windows-as-a-service

Windows is pretty much the very opposite of a service.

Back to the Future 2: Gasp! America's trade watchdog discovers the risks of 'free' movies

Just for clarity, is he saying that if you use your credit card card to pay for things that you can get for free, you might get ripped off?

Re: Of course, will they go after other bad guys?

> Like those who fake being the IRS, or "Microsoft" support.

Why mention "fake"? "Like the IRS and Microsoft" would have done just fine.

Troll it your way: Burger King ad tries to hijack Google Home gadgets

Re: Shout through the letterbox

> Ok Alexa order 100 dildos

Which order would like them in? Sorted by length or by thickness?

Re: Computer Misuse Act?

> Doesn't burglary require forced entry?

No.

Nerd Klaxon: Barbican to host Science Fiction exhibition this summer

> "When something is good enough in Science Fiction, they say it's not Science Fiction."

Which is the converse of Sturgeon's Revelation.

China emerges as digital rights champion with new info privacy law

> requiring them to obtain users' permission before sending any data on them outside the country.

I believe you meant "requiring them to obtain government permission before sending any data on them outside the government"

Apple wets its pants over Swatch ad tagline

Re: Daft thing is ...

I don't, never have done. Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly ... ah, must just pop out, back soon.

> "Dead Steve Jobs' marketing department"

One less thing.

As you stare at the dead British Airways website, remember the hundreds of tech staff it laid off

As an aside, can we just be clear that other locations than India are available for outsourcing and India is by no means the worst possibility...

Senior managers (and middle managers for that matter) are a much bigger cost centre than IT. But guess which of them gets to decide where to cut costs.

Cowardly Microsoft buries critical Hyper-V, WordPad, Office, Outlook, etc security patches in normal fixes

Re: Proper procedure?

> ... Microsoft don't test them that way

They should, though.

Re: Proper procedure?

> ... You need to deal with MSFT

No you don't. Really.

Law Commission pulls back on official secrets laws plans after Reg exposes flawed report

Re: BBBut...

> ... whole point of Brexit is to get rid of people's rights ...

It is completely unclear how that could possibly be construed as sarcasm.

Re: When are Prime Ministers democratically elected?

> it is quite refreshing to be able to count on policy being largely driven by actual economic and social needs rather than short-term, egotistic political interests.

Notr that I'm disagreeing with you general point, but in any other context, that would have been phrased as "... driven by big-business and self-serving pressure groups...".

Google fumes after US Dept of Labor accuses ad giant of lowballing pay for women

Re: The DoL sued Google earlier this year seeking to get its hands on the details....

> why not just hand that over to the DoL

According to the article, the DoL didn't ask; the first Google heard about it was went DoL issued the lawsuit.