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Posts by Zippy's Sausage Factory
766 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Mar 2008
Sneaky Google KOs 'right to be forgotten' from search results
European Union set to release anti-competition hounds on Google
Ad slinger Phorm ceases trading
Websites take control of USB devices: Googlers propose WebUSB API
The future of Firefox is … Chrome
How Remix's Android will eat the world
Friday 8th April 2016 15:56 GMT
Re: "Remix OS with...
"What matters here is whether Windows 10's App Store is catching up, not just in mere quantity, but in quality apps from major names. And they are."
What matters is whether Windows 10 devices are selling. The phones aren't. There will be a Surface phone next year, but it will probably be too little, too late. In the meantime, it's down to Windows 10 on the desktop and the recent broadening out of the app store suggests there's some desperation in Redmond around how things are going.
I've looked in the app store on Windows 10. I can't see that many quality apps from major names myself.
Go nuts, brother: Ubuntu 16.04 beta – no more auto data-spaffing
Tuesday 29th March 2016 15:48 GMT
Too little, too late in this house...
My other half hath glimpsed the promised land of Fedora, and pronounced it good...
Seriously though, the bodgy updates of the last version meant we couldn't recommend it to family members, especially those who always press the "install each and every update, I care not what they do or why, for I enjoy living on the edge!"
So I guess reinstalling her laptop as Fedora 23 is on the cards for the next few days...
Biometrics not a magic infosec bullet for web banking, warns GCHQ bloke
Google-backed British startup ‘stole our code’, says US marketing firm
SQL Server for Linux: A sign of Microsoft's weakness. Sort of
Wednesday 9th March 2016 11:30 GMT
Re: So what's getting ported?
.Net's already available on Linux and OS X, and they're just going to expand that. Active Directory as a service already exists. SQL has always supported its own authentication, and outside of a developer's PC you're probably not using AD authentication anyway (yet), so I don't see a problem.
As for whether it'll run better than a three legged dog in lead boots wading through treacle, that's the killer. I doubt the port will be even half baked, but it'll be disastrous enough that the Windows team can start screaming "see, NOBODY wants SQL on Linux!" and the internal warfare at MS will start again
Wednesday 9th March 2016 11:26 GMT
Re: I came to work this morning, so it makes no sense ever to go home.
I read that bit as meaning that porting it would anger the partners whose IP they originally licenced, and it would have made no sense from a "not getting bogged down in expensive and annoying legal cases and potentially have to drop the product altogether" kind of way.
GCHQ: Crypto's great, we're your mate, don't be like that and hate
MAME goes fully FOSS
Sunday 6th March 2016 22:06 GMT
Not really an ironic disclaimer...
Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds, and other open source efforts have had their names trademarked by unscrupulous asshats who then use UDRP to get hold of their domains and then push poisonous adware / malware infested versions of their hard work. It's a sensible precaution, is all.
$17 smartwatch sends something to random Chinese IP address
Irate IT distributors chase Amazon over unpaid bills
Microsoft sneaks onto Android while Android sneaks onto Windows
Monday 29th February 2016 18:06 GMT
Re: Microsoft's biggest enemy: Microsoft
All those clever people - led into a war by complete idiots that are only bothered about a short-term gain (which they get a bonus on).
This is why I think the term "Applicants with MBAs need not apply" should be put on the bottom of every job advert, ever...
Life's three certainties: Death, taxes and Salesforce losing money
Hackers use Microsoft security tool to pwn Microsoft security tool
Wednesday 24th February 2016 18:38 GMT 
So... the function that unloads EMET can be used to unload EMET? That's a discovery along the lines of when you shoot yourself in the foot, it hurts.
Isn't this simply using something to do what it's supposed to do to do something you don't want it to do. I can sell you a chainsaw, but if someone breaks into your house and saws off your leg with it, that's really not a problem with the chainsaw, per se, but one of access to the chainsaw.
Which sounds like it's already fixed, so really no particular annoyance. Although to be fair, I doubt it's ever going to get fixed on anything before Windows 10. I'm going to stop now because I'm really trying hard not to say "all your data are belong to us" here. Oh. Damn.
Cybersecurity is slowing down my business, say majority of chief execs
Debian 6.0 about to take flying leap off long term support cliff
Tuesday 16th February 2016 12:44 GMT
I've always fancied rolling my own Linux. I'd try and avoid all direct GNU and BSD components, not for any particular ideology but just to see whether it could be done. Probably use the open source CDE stuff, LLVM for compiler...
That said, I'm nowhere close to good enough a Linux hacker to actually go further than this being a pipedream, so I guess I'll end up upgrading anyway...
Sick and tired of modern Windows? Upgrade to Windows 3.1 today – in your web browser
Friday 12th February 2016 10:33 GMT
Re: Not that hard actually.
"It's hard to imagine the enormous leap that was Windows 3.1.."
I took that to be mild sarcasm :)
And isn't this corporate propaganda for the Internet Archive, not MS?
I for one, shall be downloading like fury to build up a big Virtual Box VM I shall cheerfully label "3.1 nostalgia". Presuming I can fit everything I want to play with in 500 MB :)
Sorry slacktivists: The Man is shredding your robo responses
Google, didn't you get the memo? Stop trying to make Google+ happen
Lincolnshire council shuts down all IT after alleged 0-day breach
Wednesday 27th January 2016 14:06 GMT
Re: How is this a zero day?
Because if they say it's a zero day it sounds better than "but LiveUpdate has said there's no updates for Symantec Antivirus for ages... I mean, 2001 is still the latest version our IT policy allows us to support, but you know - we are quite busy with all the austerity and everything. I mean, all these benefit appeals won't deny themselves..."
'Unikernels will send us back to the DOS era' – DTrace guru Bryan Cantrill speaks out
Microsoft hammers first nails into Enterprise Agreements' coffins
Learn you Func Prog on five minute quick!
Sunday 17th January 2016 23:09 GMT
Re: Well, obviously ...
Wise programmers considers all the tools in their toolboxes before choosing one over another. Almost every tool is the best one for something (even perl and javascript, I'm told).
Whereas in most cases, the PHB gives you a box full of red hammers - being as how they're the "corporate standard" and then expects you to build a functional moon rocket. Out of cheese.
BTC dev: 'Strangling' the blockchain will kill Bitcoin
The Day Netflix Blocked My VPN is the world's new most-hated show
We know this isn't about PRISM, Matt Warman MP. But do you?
Confirmed: How to stop Windows 10 forcing itself onto PCs – your essential guide
BT and EE, O2 and Three: Are we in for a year of Euro telco mega-mergers?
The Register's entirely serious New Year's resolutions for 2016
Monday 4th January 2016 16:42 GMT 
In other words
Character is out, blandness is in.
Broadening people's horizons is out, retreating back into out comfort zone is in.
Talking to intelligent people is out, making sure we never offend anyone is in.
Being different is out, being yet another IT publication is in.
Who's made you an offer of lots of money to merge with El Reg then? CRN? Ars? "Just that small matter of being different from every other IT news site out there to sort out first"
Hmmm....
Forget anonymity, we can remember you wholesale with machine intel, hackers warned
Microsoft mandates browser-extension defence to malvertising
Tuesday 22nd December 2015 11:57 GMT
So... really strict rules for running on Microsoft's ad network, but nobody cares if you're running on someone else's network?
Seriously though they can't win - enforce this, everyone goes elsewhere. Enforce this for other networks, expect lawsuits.
Never an MS fan but they're at least trying to do the right thing here. It'll probably be the death of their ad network, though. Which, given that they're trying to make ads behave nicely, is a shame.
T'was the night before Christmas, and an industrial control system needed an upgrade
Windows 10 won't come to old WinPhones until some time in early 2016
Help! What does 'personal conduct unrelated to operations or financials' mean?
Tuesday 15th December 2015 11:38 GMT
I can think of two other options
Either he admitted he's a Trump supporter, or there is some serious financial shenanigans going on in the company they just found out about and they want a scapegoat before the SEC comes knocking.
Oh wait, that second would usually call for a promotion, wouldn't it?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
