Windows 10 was 6.4 too, until they arbitrarily bumped it to 10 in one of the builds.
Posts by Butler1233
16 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Jul 2018
Intel seems to think Wi-Fi 7 is too cool for old-school Windows 10
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
The end really is nigh – for 32-bit Windows 10 on new PCs
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
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/
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.