Posts by Butler1233

Microsoft thinks cloud PCs might be overkill, starts streaming just apps under Windows 365

RemoteApp

That's it, they're selling RemoteApp.

A feature of Remote Desktop Services in Windows Server for decades at this point

I'm surprised this wasn't a thing already with the 365 boxes.

Intel seems to think Wi-Fi 7 is too cool for old-school Windows 10

Windows 10 was 6.4 too, until they arbitrarily bumped it to 10 in one of the builds.

Secure boot for UK electric car chargers isn't mandatory until 2023 – but why the delay?

Re: Petrol provides more energy per £ than mains electricity

>"First google hit suggests up to half a gallon an hour for an idling ICE, which feels absurd..."

> "200cl looks more reasonable"

You realise that 200cl = 2 litres, which is about half a gallon?

"Basic html" is supported my ass. How tf does on quote

Re: Secure boot is going where?

If you've been in the EV game for a couple of years, you'll know that (for some reason) it was exceedingly rare to find charging points with card readers. They're very much a relatively new feature... For some reason....

I'm not sure why a load of companies all thought "I know, let's roll out membership schemes and people have to sign up to be a member" for the chargers.

Where are we now? Microsoft 363? 362? We've lost count because Exchange Online isn't playing nicely this morning

Re: Just don't...

We've just been looking at it where I work.

It doesn't even look that good on paper. Unless you're under the thumb of the consultants that is.

The end really is nigh – for 32-bit Windows 10 on new PCs

Re: WoW64 exists so you don't need to

Including some from Microsoft

They only started giving out 64 bit office by default last year. Until then they *recommended* 32 bit, despite Excel crashing every time you showed it a spreadsheet more than a couple of MBs.

WHY IS OFFICE STILL SINGLE PROCESS

Re: I honestly thought it never existed

Nope, the NTVDM is very much still there. You could probably count the people using it one one hand, but its still there because its Microsoft and if it doesnt need to be removed, its not getting removed.

See: every other feature which still exists

Re: I honestly thought it never existed

> I wonder if anyone has done that yet

Yes they have: https://copy.sh/v86/, and not just 3.1, but a whole host of options. You can even run Windows 98!

You can try to run something harder but the virtualised hardware has quite a limited feature set (it is javascript after all) so many things wont go well.

Microsoft finds itself in odd position of sparing elderly, insecure protocols: Grants stay of execution to TLS 1.0, 1.1

The link on "fervently" in the paragraph after the tweet appears to be broken, btw

20 years later, Microsoft's still hammerin' Xamarin: Bunch of improvements on the way for cross-platform coding toolset

As someone who's worked with xamarin forms for nearly 3 years now, I am thrilled that it's actually becoming more usable. Anyone who had the displeasure of using XF in 2017 will remember how much of an absolute nightmare it was.

Although I appreciate everything getting better, my application which I started in mid 2017 still works, but recent updates to VS break the tooling because of how the projects used to be set up. I fear that I'll have to completely rebuild the application.

Probably not a bad thing. XF apps used to require some horrific hacks for fairly basic functionality.

BSOD Burgerwatch latest: Do you want fries with that plaintext password?

Operating McSystems

I can answer the questions here:

The normal tills use either XP POS ready 2009 or Embedded standard 7 for newer ones, and the kiosks use embedded standard 7.

The back office though is a whole other beast. The store server runs some windows server sku, the store I worked at ran server 2008, but the actual interface for the back office work (GUI is a generous description of it) is from 1985 and probably runs in some sort of dosbox type thing.

McDonald's software development basically involves just piling stuff on top of other stuff. The kiosk software is basically just the till software (called NewPOS) with a new GUI and some modifications thrown on top. And newPOS itself is just some horrible monolith which takes about 15-20 minutes to start

Controversies aren't Boeing away for aircraft maker amid claims of faulty oxygen systems and wobbling wings

Ah bollocks you're right. I must have got the two confused, but I did a quick Google and found something which suggested it was correct.

This article from the Seattle Times I think is the one that threw me off.

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/faa-orders-787-safety-fix-reboot-power-once-in-a-while/

This is the same 787 which has *official guidance* to turn the plane off and on again every 248 days else the flight controls *stop working*...

Sure, we made your Wi-Fi routers phone home with telemetry, says Ubiquiti. What of it?

Re: Once more, with feeling

Unifi hardware doesn't auto install updates. I've the hardware has been adopted you can happily not update your devices as long as you like.

So if you don't want to have your devices phone home, just don't install the updates. When they allow users to disable phoning home, sure, continue updating.

Ex-Mozilla CTO: US border cops demanded I unlock my phone, laptop at SF airport – and I'm an American citizen

Re: FF versions

What's wrong with the version numbering? Or specifically with Firefox's?

The ridiculous practice of releasing "major" versions every 6 weeks or so is commonplace after the Googs decided it was a good idea with chrome.

Now version numbers are meaningless on most things. Major numbers = Major breaking changes. Minor = changes which should be backwards compatible if not forwards, anything after that should be tiny bug fixes which don't matter when working between versions.

Dixons Carphone still counting cost of miserly mobile phone sales

Re: About hashes, pounds and hashtags...

I wouldn't wish a Mike Ashley buyout on anyone. Have you seen Sports Direct? Or his whinging like a fucking child when he gets called out on his shit.

I worked for Sports Direct a few years ago. Got a staggering 350quid for 9 months "work"!

Sysadmin sank IBM mainframe by going one VM too deep

Re: About hashes, pounds and hashtags...

You oculd call it the sterling sign, but you will upset users of the following currencies:

Guernsey pound

Saint Helena pound

Egyptian pound

Falkland Islands pound

Gibraltar pound

Manx pound

South Sudanese pound

Syrian pound (uses £S, but close enough)