Posts by Doctor Syntax 40432 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Jun 2014
"Yes, file deletion was not good, but, only affected limited number of users with a specific bespoke configuration."
If you are one of that limited number it's a big issue.
"I have had no problems at all"
Have you considered the possibility that next time you may be one of the limited number of users affected? Have you worked out the possible financial impact is you are?
One of the requirements of an OS is to work properly for all users, not all except for a limited number.
I wonder what the GDPR situation with a breach before the go-live date but disclosure wwwellllll delayed until after. It's delayed disclosure that brings the biggest fines.
"We want to reassure our passengers that we took and continue to take measures to enhance our IT security,"
And why did el Reg publish this without challenging it.
I believe "thee" is correct as I was using it - https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/thee - but I'm not an expert.
MW says, correctly of course, that it's the objective form. You were using it as the subject. When I grew up in Yorkshire second person singular was still in current use by older gernerations so, give or take the dialect pronunciation, it's second nature.
"Why would they, they have your money and they know you'll be installing Windows 11 as soon as it's out"
That would mean a pretty big rethink (although it might be the only way to get out from under W10's reputation). They made it clear that everything from now on will be W10 even if the rolling upgrades mean not a single line of the original code remains.
"ugly and limited widget sets for the GUIs"
Amen. I think it's because they're trying to ape the MacOS & Windows. There's an oversupply of W7-like decoration themes for KDE. With a bit of effort I have a nice, clean-looking set-up which looks very much like what W2K could have evolved into.
"I don't see Linux as it's too fragmented by too many distros at this point."
There are relatively few that matter and even then they have their particular niches.
If you want something to put on your rellies' PCs when you get fed up with digging them out of their malware pit it's likely to be Mint or Zorin.
If you want something for your own desktop or server to do serious work and don't want to spend time tending to the latest shiny it's likely to be Debian or Devuan depending on your take on systemd ditto with paid support OpenSuSE or Red Hat (maybe a few Red Hats for the support and a stack of CentOS for most users).
"changes are much more likely to be written, tested, and put into operation quickly if the codebase is modern."
Define modern. This sounds very much like the usual rant about having to periodically update legacy S/W i.e. the stuff that's earning the business's income.
And you shouldn't need to remember what that HEX code meant because there should be documentation, preferably as an old-fashioned comment in the source, to tell you what it means.
"Meanwhile, SatNad is doing his best to make come true that ever-receding Year of the Linux Desktop."
I wonder if MS have looked at the way various Linux distros work and not quite understood what they've seen.
The Fast, Slow, Release stuff looks a bit like Debian's Unstable, Testing and Release and the 6 month schedule looks a bit like Fedora. What they haven't grasped is that the cadence of Debian's system is a few years, not 6 months and the 6 monthly Fedora releases feed stuff into the money system, Red Hat, when things are good and ready.
What's more these are distros. Their development is integration of components that have already gone through their own development in a myriad of other projects.
Everyone in software development should occasionally go back and reread chapter 1 of TMMM and reflect on the difference between a raw component and the finished article. I wrote "reread"; probably too many have never even read it once.
"Then there will be clear policies and training in place about what is acceptable and what is not acceptable, and appropriate level of controls."
Including staff selection policies. If he'd been warned about misuse of company facilities should they have reviewed the level of continued trust placed in him?
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