Posts by redwine

Notepad++ dev slams Google-clogging notepad.plus 'parasite'

Re: DDG

Weren't DDG fingered for sharing your info with Microsoft?

They readily admit to using Bing in their search results.

Microsoft gets new Windows boss as Start Menu man Parakhin 'to explore new roles'

Gnome pops up a little app-launcher list and a search bar when you press the win-key, the focus is put to the search bar so you can just start typing to search.

Re: Vertical taskbar in Win11

I prefer the simplicity of XFCE :)

Re: Vertical taskbar in Win11

No you can't, and that's the issue - I use 3 screens in landscape position and have a single taskbar vertically on the right hand side of the middle screen, it makes no sense to lose a strip across the bottom of the screen.

Vertical taskbar in Win11

Vertical taskbar in Win11 - Please please please!

OpenELA flips Red Hat the bird with public release of Enterprise Linux source

Oracle support licensing is much cheaper than redhat's.

When is a privacy button not a privacy button? When Google runs it, claims lawsuit

Also, Chrome's incognito ...

... isn't private either - did it need saying?

37 Signals says cloud repatriation plan has already saved it $1 million

Re: Is it comparable?

We deploy application, database, network and backup solution as a site template for our internal customer - we've deployed 20 sites in the last 3 or 4 (5?) years. A site runs around 500 application VMs and the solution takes 4 racks. Cloud comes in much more expensive.

Wow, turns out cloud sales can slow down – eh, Amazon, Google?

Too expensive

If you're a company with an in house tech team, cloud becomes too expensive after just a few hundred VMs.

If you're a startup and happily running from the cloud, you'll never know this and as your company grows, you'll just get raped more and more by the provider who had already locked you in from day 1 with their platform tools.

Some engineers are being paid between $250k and $1m, says salary survey

Re: Middleman

I would like to go contracting next to have a bit more freedom in my own work however when I check https://www.contractorcalculator.co.uk/contractorcalculator.aspx to see what my take home pay might be then it seems low (even when outside IR35) - am I missing something? Perhaps offsetting expenses helps a lot?

I'd appreciate your input - thanks.

Corporations start testing Windows 11 in bigger numbers. Good luck

vertical taskbar please

Upgraded to Win11, quickly noticed I couldn't move taskbar to the vertical position, immediately rolled back to Win10

Cult leader meets the Pope: Apple CEO chats to Francis

Unclear ...

Which one is the cult leader?

Excel's comedy of errors needs a new script, not new scripting

awk/sed

I do a lot of work on the command line before copy/pasting into excel for presentation.

I sometimes try to do it directly in excel because that would make sense right? ... but no, it's too fiddly and things just don't work as you'd expect.

awk/sed all the way!!!

Microsoft low code branches into lightweight GUI widgets

Win 11 vertical taskbar

Maybe with these amazing new tools, their dev guys will find the ability to create a vertical taskbar for Win11 ... Here's hoping!

vert_task_bar &>/dev/null && win11 || win10

We can't believe people use browsers to manage their passwords, says maker of password management tools

In the year of our lord?

Please, there are no such things as gods and magic isn't real. Update your use of language!

Windows 11: What we like and don't like about Microsoft's operating system so far

since Win95

The only real advancement since win95 is the search facility ... win8 or thereabouts.

Who needs the A-Team or MacGyver when there's a techie with an SCSI cable?

An SCSI?

Who on Earth pronounces each letter?

Things I learned from Y2K (pt 87): How to swap a mainframe for Microsoft Access

Made a killing

The accounts software company I worked for at the time sold their Y2K fix to their customers for a fortune; a few lines of shell script as I remember!

Sudo? More like Su-doh: There's a fun bug that gives restricted sudoers root access (if your config is non-standard)

Re: I suspect that most didn't even know it was an option

Update sudo of course, but I can't think of any real world scenarios where this specific configuration would be used.

Re: As a ex sys-admin....

As a current sys-admin, I deploy sudo for various teams across my Linux estates to great advantage.

Re: I suspect that most didn't even know it was an option

That sudo scenario would likely be to allow a user to run commands as another specific user, not allowing a user to run commands as any user except root.

This move by Dropbox will reduce users' files to tiers: Rarely, regularly accessed data now kept separate

Automatic tiering

Any half decent storage system already employs tiering where it will automatically move infrequently used data to slow storage like disk and frequently used data to fast storage like SSD.

Windows 10 can carry on slurping even when you're sure you yelled STOP!

Cinnamon desktop

Under whatever your distro. of choice is - really good!

Sysadmin’s plan to manage system config changes backfires spectacularly

Wanna major problem everywhere very quickly?

... config management!

Windows 10 Pro goes Home as Microsoft fires up downgrade server

Re: Just go Linux

I updated my laptop to from Windows 7 Windows 10 a couple of weeks back (you can still do it for free) and since then it hangs within 24 hours. It's an older gen i7 with 4GB RAM - should be fine. I tried contacting M$ Support but gave up, going to install Linux this weekend, prolly Fedora as I manage RHEL clone instances for work.

I used to prefer KDE years back, what desktop do people go for these days - Gnome? KDE? Other?

Microsoft points to a golden future where you can make Windows 10 your own

Whatever, if they get rid of mspaint I'm moving to Linux.

Hello 'WOS': Windows on Arm now has a price

Contractor rates going up!

Updating application code for new processors is not a hugely expensive task, it's just one that dev teams don't necessarily expect to have to do and possibly don't have the skills for - bring on the contractors!

Guess who's hiking their prices again? Come on, it's as easy as 123 Reg

Thanks for the tip - I'll take a look at easily too.

Security robot falls into pond after failing to spot stairs or water

Self loathing

That's how much it hated its own existence, suicide by steps/pool.