Apparently its not even true that Control Panel is being removed (https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/27/24229436/microsoft-windows-control-panel-removal) so even basic fact checking has been missed by the author of this article.
Posts by Falmor
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Microsoft decides it's a good time for bad UI to die
Check out Codon: A Python compiler if you have a need for C/C++ speed
An open-source COBOL contender emerges
Geneticists throw hands in the air, change gene naming rules to finally stop Microsoft Excel eating their data
Linus Torvalds pines for header file fix but releases Linux 5.8 anyway
Oh what a cute little animation... OH MY GOD. (Not acceptable, even in the '80s)
Re: All of these tales and comments...
Share permissions often seem to be left at full permissions for everyone but NTFS folder permissions are usually set correctly (not always though). That does mean the files are properly protected but anyone could remove the share (or change it's permissions) and thereby block access.
One map to rule them all: UK's Ordnance Survey rolls out its Data Hub and the juicy API goodness that lies therein
Sure is wild that Apple, Google app store monopolies are way worse than what Windows got up to, sniffs Microsoft prez
Wow, Microsoft's Windows 10 always runs Edge on startup? What could cause that? So strange, tut-tuts Microsoft
Auto App Start
Sounds a bit like what ever it is in Windows 10 that restarts any apps that were active when you shutdown or reboot. Feels like I have to disable this after every windows update.
Nice to see Microsoft still using stdout redirection with "> c:\users\edgelogfile.txt" rather than the more verbose "| out-file c:\users\edgelogfile.txt".
25 years of PHP: The personal web tools that ended up everywhere
Huawei gets misty-eyed for the good old days (of a year ago) with maudlin P30 Pro remaster
'VPs shouldn't go publicly rogue'... XML co-author Tim Bray quits AWS after Amazon fires COVID-19 whistleblowers
Apple: We respect your privacy so much we've revealed a little about what we can track when you use Maps
US prez Donald Trump declares America closed to those flying in from Schengen zone over coronavirus woes
Huawei unfolds latest shot at the phone-tablet hybrid with reinforced hinge and reassuringly Xs-sive price
Hey, Brits. Your Google data is leaving the EU before you are: Hoard to be shipped from Ireland to US next month
Forgotten motherboard driver turns out to be perfect for slipping Windows ransomware past antivirus checks
Re: Driver Signing
The driver was signed with a certificate from a Symantec owned company, not Microsoft. The driver has been updated by Gigabyte to remove the exploited flaw. Presumably revoking the certificate will stop machines working that haven't been updated. If the certificate is revoked, the original Sophos article points out that there a plenty of other signed drivers that could be used.
Vendor-bender LibreOffice kicks out 6.4: Community project feel, though now with added auto-█████ tool
The delights of on-site working – sun, sea and... WordPad wrangling?
The time PC Tools spared an aerospace techie the blushes
Re: Not me personally...
In the 90s, I once had a call from someone who couldn't get their PC to boot. A few questions revealed that they'd deleted a sub-directory from the root using something like the following commands:
C:\> cd subdir
c:\subdir> del *.*
Are you sure (Y/N)? y
c:\subdir> dir
Volume in drive C is DOS
Volume Serial Number is D4F6-F60C
Directory of c:\subdir
24/12/199? 09:27 <DIR> .
24/12/199? 09:27 <DIR> ..
0 File(s) 0 bytes
2 Dir(s) 779,776 bytes free
c:\subdir> del .
Are you sure (Y/N)? y
c:\subdir> del ..
Are you sure (Y/N)? y
Still makes me smile.
Oi, Queenslander who downloaded 26.8TB in June alone – we see you
Darkest Dungeon: Lovecraftian PTSD simulator will cause your own mask to slip
User secures floppies to a filing cabinet with a magnet, but at least they backed up daily... right?
Re: Well if the US ships want the Chinese to keep out of the way
In the 90s, I saw this sort of thing so can believe this is true. Once CDs became established, I also had someone write on the silver side of a CD with a ball point, ripping the surface and making the CD unusable. Working a materials science lab, they'd sputter coated the CD but couldn't understand why the data hadn't been restored.
Who needs malware? IBM says most hackers just PowerShell through boxes now, leaving little in the way of footprints
Crash, bang, wallop: What a power-down. But what hit the kill switch?
Cray Red Button
I used to work at a site that had a lot of mathematical modellers. One of the Cray Supercomputer models we used was just the right height for a raised elbow. The designers hadn't considered this but did consider the perfect place for an emergency stop button was on the top of the box. We put a plastic cover over ours so no one ever accidentally shut the thing down. Seeing this a Cray engineer tells he'd been to a site that had used half a coconut shell for the cover.
CMD.EXE gets first makeover in 20 years in new Windows 10 build
Re: What's the point?
Not everything works in a Powershell console. Legacy Perl scripts are the only thing I can remember at the moment but there are others. Biggest improvement to CMD has been allowing Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V to cut and paste. Not having to reach for the mouse to paste when you're typing is so much better. If I could remap Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V to Alt-W/Ctrl-Y for the whole of Windows, I wouldn't then keep pressing Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V in Emacs.