Posts by Zippy´s Sausage Factory 520 posts • joined 10 Aug 2018
"this technology will have automatic upgrades built into it"
Seriously? Ahahahaha... oh my sides... that is a good one. That's what every salesman wants to be able to get away with saying, but it's never actually the truth, really. Because new capabilities will always need new hardware, new software, new configuration - there will always be things that the current system doesn't and can't cope with.
If they really believe this, I've got a slightly used bridge available for sale...
One way ticket...
Seriously, what are they thinking?
"We've got two APIs. Nobody knows which one to use. What do we do?"
"Obsolete one and kill it off?"
"No, I've got a better idea - let's create a third, completely different, slower API and tell everyone to use that".
You couldn't make it up, could you?
Reading between the lines, I think the impression she is trying to convey - either of her own volition, or because it has been impressed on her by senior management that it would be a serious career-limiting move not to do so - is that Linux should stop its mailing list and move exclusively to Microsoft Teams.
Which, given that Teams is proprietary and does not run on Linux, is a good idea in the same way as is attempting to trim your fingernails with a chainsaw.
"Bridgefy was promoting itself earlier this year as the app of choice for protesters in Hong Kong and India to organise their activities without being easily spied upon by law enforcement agencies."
If it's that easy to break into it, you have to wonder whether it was actually written with that level of snooping in mind.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to polish my collection of tinfoil hats. Can't let them get too dull, you know, it impairs their efficiency...
I wonder if Paragon's thinking was "we're not sure what we actually need to do with this, let's just submit and they'll give us some pointers as to how we need to sort it out".
If that was the case, then I'm sure it's all going according to plan. However, I suspect they were just being lazy and hoping someone else would just do all the heavy lifting.
Honestly Microsoft really don't do themselves any favours the way they do things.
There's a load of old, obsolete or genuinely poorly designed technologies that Microsoft should have given the Old Yeller treatment long ago - not just IE, but Silverlight, UWP, WPF, ActiveX, etc - yet they somehow stay shuffling around like zombies. I really don't understand it.
Microsoft’s decided to restrict the roles its AI assistant Cortana is permitted to fill.
In other words, they're giving up on Cortana. And having given up they're just restricting it to the only place where there's no other choice, in the hope they can either revive it or someone else will come along with a third party product that enables them to say "Cortana, have you ever seen the film Old Yeller?"
"The Surface is just to carry around and put on a desk in meetings like a decorative figurine."
I guess this is what most Surfaces are used for. Having prodded one in the local shop, they don't seem particularly sturdy to me. The creaking noises when I touched the screen were particularly alarming.
Well the last two or three haven't lasted too long. Connect seems to have disappeared. UserVoice is going, piece by piece. Can't even remember some of the others.
Oh well. Meet you all back here next year for a new announcement that Microsoft are merging the whole thing into something else new, yeah?
Explorer's search function is still a car-crash too. I'm more likely to use PowerShell to search for files these days.
Oh I forgot about explorer. Mainly because I've been using Free Commander for what feels like forever.
I also search for files through command prompt (not PowerShell though because I'm not a believer in it, as I keep expecting MS to pull the plug on it and replace it with something even more inexplicable on a daily basis; aside from the fact that every time I've been forced to use it for work has been a soul-crushing nightmare). In truth, I just turn the Windows Search service off in admin tools to save it thrashing the hard disk all the time.
Windows is now a mess of stuff. Two control panels - something they don't seem to have bothered fixing up much since Windows 8. Legacy cruft like WPF and Silverlight still exists, for some unfathomable reason. And the failed UWP limps along like a three legged dog in lead boots trying to run through glue.
And my boss wonders why I have a Mac at home. It's not much better (and it certainly doesn't look much better on the UI front any more these days, unfortunately), but at least it (sort of) works.
Speaking as a developer, I personally put my hand up as soon as I realise it's my bad.
Mainly because I've noticed that, in job security terms, it tends to be a lot safer than the standard "I don't do anything / Well yes but but I didn't change anything / OK there was a change but it wasn't me / I mean yes I checked in the change, as per policy / And I did do a build, to make sure the build didn't break / Ah well yes now I did deploy it but.." sequence.
If they want to fix that, then all they need to create an easy way to remove Edge and block its installation.
It's not rocket science, but for some reason the Microsoft managers really seem to want to rerun the Internet Explorer anti-trust lawsuits all over again.
Yes but don't Apple hate nVidia, after the debacle a few years back when nVidia chips were going wrong and they kept blaming Apple?
It makes me think Apple might wake up and make an offer for ARM now.
That said, they may not want the hassle of so doing, of course - it might never get approved under anti-trust laws, there would be licensing deals, Android slingers would be less willing to trust ARM if Apple owned them, etc.
Still, I fully intend to sit back, open some popcorn, and enjoy the show...
Both myself and the wife are on our second SEs. For me it's a reaction to the 6 plus I had - I found myself envying the smaller footprint she had in her 5. So when we upgraded last time, it was to the original SE, and that's what we've just replaced.
If anything, the SE 2020 is a bit too big for my taste, having got used to the smaller form factor of the old SE, but unfortunately that's all there is.
I assume that most of them work on new ways to poke the users with spurious notifications.
"Your third level contact, Jizhammer Buttflower, recently posted a post you might or might not be interested in." That's the sort of thing I seem to have spent the last few months saying "do not show me this type of notification ever again" to, two or three times a day for the past three months.
Reminds me of the time a former employer decided to install a proxy server to their single 56K modem.
Within days me and the rest of the IT team found out about so many dodgy sites. Still, at least we found that the block function on the proxy server worked really well, so that was a bonus.
As far as I can tell, anything that uses "Very Fit Pro" can be connected to your phone and store data locally there, nowhere else. It's not the best app but as far as I've been able to tell so far it isn't doing any data slurping that I know of.
That said, I now feel I must run WireShark or similar and check that that is right.
/edit: its mobile data use since I bought the phone is 0.2KB, make of that what you will.
Basically I think the problem is perception, and certainly it is for me.
People think of the .Net Framework - that's what all the marketing hype has been around for years, and it's the proven, tried-and-tested, used in production, well known, considered stable and usable part of .Net. It's also considered tied to Windows and Visual Studio.
While .Net Core isn't as well known, and if anyone has heard of it then they think of it like "oh cute an open source version of .Net, how experimental. Come back in a few years when it's actually been used in production"
It isn't 2005 any more, yes. But Microsoft doesn't do marketing as well as other people - isn't Swift newer? And I'd imagine it already has a better takeup than .Net Core.
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