Posts by TonyJewell 10 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Oct 2017
Hopefully, effected companies will now learn the lesson to take control of updates: Test first on minimal unimportant machines and then schedule a phased rollout to your estate when confirmed as a non-breaking update.
Do not allow your computers to just download and auto-install updates from external sources when available.
My heart sank every time i had to use SNOW to raise a ticket or make a change request. Laborious, tortuous and appalling UI.
And all run on external servers with all that implies.
It was the worst thing about my role as developer in a large financial organisation.
There are far better self hosted solutions out there that allow you to focus more on the process rather than fighting with the SW that manages the process.
I am the original poster of the Tips app complaint on the Lenovo forum. I have now managed to disable the Tips app through adb thanks to user linuxct's hints. See https://forums.lenovo.com/topic/findpost/1088/5094365/5422293
Lenovo have a lot to learn about customer experience. The hardware is fantastic but the firmware leaves a lot to be desired. My biggest grief with the P11 Android tablet is the so called "Productivity Mode". It would have been a while stopper if is known what I know how about it.
See https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Lenovo-Android-based-Tablets-and-Phablets/Productivity-Mode-feedback/m-p/5068560?page=1
It attempts to overlay a window manager on the basic Android experience and originally would automatically default to enabled when the keyboard was connected. Trouble is the implementation is flakey as hell and is only "implemented" for a select few apps. Any other apps that Lenovo had not hacked (so that would be most of them) would appear in a tiny portrait phone like window on your shiny new tablet 11inch goodness.
They later implemented a switch to turn off auto-enable but if course that was flakey and it would still come on if you attached the screen while the tablet was locked.
I finally disabled with Automate. But, like the Tips fix, you need to be technically savvy to make this work.
I'm so glad I didn't splash out on the P11 Pro.
Yes, I was wondering about that. I'm a very minor OVH customer but was surprised that one of the services I use is currently offline and not just automatically routed to another data center. As you say, give it a day or so for the engineers to do their best in this difficult time for them. I can wait but for some this is more serious.
After installing a networked computer system in my daughters' small primary school I sat down with the head to show her how to login and use the computer.
Me: Ok first use the mouse to move the pointer to the password box and click the left button.
Head: picks up the mouse, points it at the screen and clicks.
This was the late 90s and yes, this was a youngish head of my kids school.
"Lenovo also told us that there are Ubuntu-certified models lurking in the range for those who prefer to remain Windows-free. ®"
It's great to see major manufacturers actually shipping with Linux instead of Windows. My Dell had Ubuntu from birth about 4 years ago. It's good to see Lenovo finally doing the same.
Putting aside the issues that made this data accessible to the two researchers, to me, the most unforgivable thing is storing people's passwords and biometric data as non-hashed.
So often now, products come to market as experimental internal proof of concepts that are then productionised and rushed to market. If you are transporting and storing such sensitive data you should start your design with the question: what if the data leaks - how can I minimise the risk? The evidence appears to be growing that this is rarely done.
Further, before go live any such system should be fully audited for security.
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