Posts by tux_is_god

Take Windows 11... please. Leaks confirm low numbers for Microsoft's latest OS

Re: There's nothing particularly wrong with it except for its hardware requirements.

"Microsoft has become", it's always been that.

Re: There's nothing particularly wrong with it except for its hardware requirements.

I miss those days. Now its so easy, everyone and his/her dog can have linux running. Where's the fun in that?

Asahi Linux developer warns the one true way is Wayland

Re: Nope

"The Solaris Sun Ray software.." agree. That was a proper thin client. I still remember taking my id card out the sunray at Guillemont park, travelling to London office, putting my card in and my desktop as I left it. As they said, The Network is the Computer.

IceWM reaches version 3 after a mere 25 years

Re: Old and really powerful Window Managers often overlap

Vote for OLVWM. Moved gnome 1 because you could'nt run it under Sun Ray thin clients. Probably best WM I've used closely followed by FVWM. 3x3 grid, drag windows out of the pager and drag them back into pager. Wish it would come back as gnome/kde too bloated and slow. Hopefully XFCE will not get spoiled by devs trying to copy gnome.

A match made in heaven: systemd comes to Windows Subsystem for Linux

Re: Better idea.

Been on linux since 1997ish, never seen this "OK" prompt.

GNOME 42's inconsistent themes are causing drama

Re: I hate "modern" UIs.

Totally agree, Tab (and title bars) being a slight different shade between in-active and active ones. CSD another borked idea, needs to go away -- it's window manager's job to manage max/min buttons and title bars etc, CSD also breaks point to focus.

Feel that most of the UI designers are complete idiots, can you imagine the chaos if they were left to design traffic lights, all the lights would be just different shades of the same colour.

Journalist won't be prosecuted for pressing 'view source'

Re: wilfully decode ASCII

Proper patching

Saved by the Bill: What if... Microsoft had killed Windows 95?

"(though my memory _is_ muddled, I am sure)", yes muddled. OS/2 did'nt (itself) care about memory under 640Kb but it did really require 8Mb (16Mb if you were doing serious stuff like development). The DOS sessions in OS/2 generall had a lot of under 640Kb memory available (it made good use of virtual memory).

Went from Dos 4.x to OS/2 and then Solaris/Linux. Did'nt do much with windows at all. But OS/2 years ahead of the competition, maybe just a bit too far ahead.

The ideal sat-nav is one that stops the car, winds down the window, and asks directions

winds down the window, and asks directions ??

Do that in certain area's of most cities, your likely to get pulled for kerb crawling.

Google proposes Logica data language for building more manageable SQL code

Re: Be real Google - Data scientists and most devs would rather use Pandas or SQL

Don't do much (any) Paython, but can someone show me following in "Panda"

select c.TXT from COMMENTS c, USERS u where c.USER_ID = u.ID and u.NAME = lower('joe.bloggs');

"all too often ODBC is used to vacuum data into the application which then does sorting and analysis that should have lived in a SQL query."

Seen this for real, dev's pulling data from database and using bubble sort to it in the order they want.