Posts by karlh

Linux fans may be in for disappointment with SQL Server 2016 port

Re: Perfectly understandable

He (J J) was joking...I think?

Chrome devs hatch plan to mark all HTTP traffic insecure

Re: HTTPS is also about privacy

Well, https doesn't encrypt URLs, for one thing. So a snooper can see (the URL of) all pages you visit using https, even if they can't see the content.

Does Apple's iOS 7 make you physically SICK? Try swallowing version 7.1

Re: Dancing keyboard

Not sure I would classify changing the key labels from 'a' to 'A' etc as a layout change.

It's interesting that you compare a physical keyboard. It certainly does sound like a remnant of skeumorphic design.

So now the keyboard can show bold letters when bold is switched on. How about lowercase letters when caps lock is off and uppercase letters when it's on?

Movie review: Star Trek Into Darkness

Re: The first movie of the reboot did it for me....

Um, 4 years late? Don't disagree with what you're saying, but what about, you know, the film that came out last week?

If only enterprise IT worked like my iPad ... or at least my car

iPad 1 - resilient

"Apple has showed Microsoft the way, ... tablets that are ... remarkably resilient."

Ha ha, that's a good one. Apps on my iPad 1 crash all the time (even, in fact especially, the ones by Apple).

It's a mystery to me that Microsoft were pilloried for so long over GPFs, and yet no-one seems to mind app crashes straight back to the home screen on the iPad 1.

Next from Microsoft: 'Blue', the Windows 8 they hope you don't hate

Re: Start Menu?

"C:\Windows\explorer.exe shell:::{2559a1f8-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}"

That's one of the things I love about Windows...it's so intuitive!