* Posts by Alan Bourke

968 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Aug 2006

Take DOS, stir in some Netware, add a bit of Windows and... it's ALIIIIVE!

Alan Bourke

"HP driver causing grief"

Uh huh.

Apple: EU can't make us use your stinking common charging standard

Alan Bourke

We eant to keep gouging customers

for our flimsy crap cables.

Look sharp: Microsoft Blazor's gone mobile. Fancy developing mobile apps with C# web technology?

Alan Bourke

Re: Beware: Microsoft has thrown more former technologies under a Bus

And of course they're completely unique among tech companies in doing this.

Cough.

AppSheet. Gesundheit! Oh, we see – it's Google pulling no-code development into a cloudy embrace

Alan Bourke

No no no

We don't want bloody citizens developing.

Are you getting it? Yes, armageddon it: Mass hysteria takes hold as the Windows 7 axe falls

Alan Bourke

Ah, Git ...

What's wrong with Windows 10?

I don't want to go on the cart! Windows 10 Mobile hauls itself from the grave one last time

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I had a WinPho

As a phone OS I liked it well enough. What killed it really for me was the lack of 'second tier' applications. Yes, your FaceBook, Twitter, Tumblr and all were there. But your local transport and utility providers, banks and the like only ever really did iOS and Android. They had two do two versions of their app already, why would they do a third for a much smaller player?

Was glad to get back on Android by the end.

Microsoft's Teams goes to bat for the other team with preview on Linux

Alan Bourke

Ah, Git ...

Ah dry your eyes.

Microsoft emits long-term support .NET Core 3.1, Visual Studio 16.4

Alan Bourke

Re: Proof in the pudding

Compared to what?

Irish eyes aren't smiling after govt blows €1m on mega-printer too big for parliament's doors

Alan Bourke

Re: Details

All the shite that comes through doors from politicians in Ireland is printed in government buildings and claimed back on exies.

Google throws new version of Dart at the desktop, will be hoping it sticks with app devs

Alan Bourke

Re: What about a language for mere mortals

Xojo, LiveCode ...

Ye olde Blue Screen of Death is back – this time, a bad Symantec update is to blame

Alan Bourke

Just here

for the ratio.

Chemists bitten by Python scripts: How different OSes produced different results during test number-crunching

Alan Bourke

Not really Python's fault then.

Was it.

Conspiracy loons claim victory in Brighton and Hove as council rejects plans to build 5G masts

Alan Bourke

Still remember the Great Late 90s Mobe Scare

We were all supposed to be dropping from brain tumours as I recall.

How bad is Catalina? It's almost Apple Maps bad: MacOS 10.15 pushes Cupertino's low bar for code quality lower still

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But ... but I thought it was only Microsoft ...

who ballsed up the occasional update and everything was roses and unicorns in Apple and Linux land.

GNU means GNU's Not U: Stallman insists he's still Chief GNUisance while 18 maintainers want him out as leader

Alan Bourke

He brings it on himself with utterances such as:

""Even when it is uncontroversial to call the subject depicted a "child", that is no excuse for censorship," he added. "Having a photo or drawing does not hurt anyone, so and if you or I think it is disgusting, that is no excuse for censorship.""

Wrong-o.

Microsoft emits .NET Core 3.0, C# 8.0, Visual Studio 2019 16.3, and more at e-conference

Alan Bourke

Re: The missing piece is ...

Cross-platform desktop GUI libraries tend to end up as lowest-common-denominator in terms of usability as they rarely fully cater for the paradigms of the host OS.

For real this time, get your butt off Python 2: No updates, no nothing after 1 January 2020

Alan Bourke

Re: Can you explain?

It's very structured code-wise, and syntactically simple compared to {} languages. It's kind of the reason people used to use VB6 - it gets out of the way and lets you solve the problems. Data scientists don't want to be pissing around with the scaffolding involved in using other languages.

How do you do, fellow kids? Facebook now Boomerbook as British oldies outnumber teens

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The kids are united.

Teens today grew up with tech that means they never have to lose touch with anyone unless they want to. A fair chunk of the people on Facebook now didn't, and joined up at least in part so they could use it to dredge up old friends and family.

Zapped from the Play store: Another developer gets no sense from Google, appeals to the public

Alan Bourke

Re: Top Failure is MS Windows 10.

Windows 10? WTF has that got to do with anything?

Microsoft's only gone and published the exFAT spec, now supports popping it in the Linux kernel

Alan Bourke

Re: It's a trap!

Yeah because then it would run desktop software that people actually use and we can't have that.

Twice in one month: Microsoft updates new-style Terminal preview

Alan Bourke

Re: Bless 'em

There hasn't been a decent update from Microsoft but there are plenty of other alternatives like Cmder and especially Hyper.js

Windows 10 Fast Ring Insiders see double while SQL Server 2019 sidles closer to release

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Re: Paint and notepad

And your point?

Can't bear to part with that well-worn copy of Windows 7? Microsoft might let you keep it updated an extra year

Alan Bourke

Re: Good. Another year for people to move away from Windows

Fantastic, could you just direct me to the Mac or Linux versions of all the software we need to actually run businesses in the real world and maybe some AAA games for when I'm at home.

There once was a biz called Bitbucket, that told Mercurial to suck it. Now devs are dejected, their code soon ejected

Alan Bourke

Ah, Git ...

The Javascript of source control. Sort of shite, but somehow ubiquitous.

When the chips are down, buy a software biz: Broadcom snaffles Symantec for $10.7bn

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Re: Why?

Yeah. You know, a business to run, games to play when not running the business.

And we're back live with the state of the smartphone market in 2019. Any hope? Yeah, nah

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Ah, folding screens ...

... the self-driving car of the phone world.

Official: Microsoft will take an axe to Skype for Business Online. Teams is your new normal

Alan Bourke

Re: Never get too wedded to a particular product

Nah, MS are far, far from alone in doing this in the modern tech world. Google, Apple and the rest are just as bad.

2019 set to be the worst year yet for smartphone market as lack of worthy upgrades dents demand

Alan Bourke

Pickied up a mint Nexus 6G from CeX 12 months ago

and I see no compelling reasons anywhere to change it ever, unless it dies. Even my Apple fanboi kids have stopped nagging about newer iPhones.

Tesla’s Autopilot losing track of devs crashing out of 'leccy car maker

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This whole fully autonomous thing remains a complete fantasy.

Even if it were technically achievable in any of our lifetimes, which I seriously doubt, I also doubt many people actually want it. Think it would help reduce accidents in your country? I suspect proper driver training and law enforcement might be a better use of the time and energy than this horseshit.

Get rekt: Two years in clink for game-busting DDoS brat DerpTrolling

Alan Bourke

Oh good.

The twat.

ReactOS 'a ripoff of the Windows Research Kernel', claims Microsoft kernel engineer

Alan Bourke

Re: M$ is abandoning the desktop

Thanks for putting a dollar sign there, I thought they were a charity.

Before we lose our minds over sentient AI, what about self-driving cars that can't detect kids crossing the road?

Alan Bourke

Re: “Shouldn’t we worry about the emergence of consciousness in AI?”

No more than we should be worried about stargates or time travel.

You're not Boeing to believe this, but... Another deadly 737 Max control bug found

Alan Bourke

So anyway

how are fully autonomous cars coming along?

Out of Steam? Wine draining away? Ubuntu's 64-bit-only x86 decision is causing migraines

Alan Bourke

Re: PoS

Why would Android take over the desktop when Linux won't?

The issue is the software people run in businesses, and the games world, is Windows and installed locally. Until that changes neither Linux or Android (or Mac) will make any inroads.

Alan Bourke

Re: Interesting

They'll also work fine on 32-bit Windows 10. And on Windows 3.11 running on DosBOX on whatever bitness of whatever OS.

Microsoft emits next year's Windows Server for lucky Insiders... as for the rest of you, see you vNext year

Alan Bourke

We care a lot

about the WAC and SAC and crack that hits the streets

Silicon Valley doesn't care about poor people: Top AI models kinda suck at ID'ing household stuff in hard-up nations

Alan Bourke

So anyway

How's that realtime 'avoid the child running into the road' vision tech for self-driving cars coming along?

Microsoft Windows 10 'Burger King' build 1903: Have it your way... and it may still leave a nasty taste in your mouth

Alan Bourke

"I'm so glad I got off Windows"

"And onto this mythical OS that never has any issues with upgrades and is perfect in every way, and suits the fact that I have little or no requirement to run any software that might be required in the worlds of business or gaming."

Tangled in .NET: Will 5.0 really unify Microsoft's development stack?

Alan Bourke

Glad that Blazor is getting the official nod

as anything that hastens the demise of JavaScript is fine by me.

There might be a lot of Web Forms out there but only in the way that there's a lot of VB6 out there. Things have moved on

Unexpected OutSage: Sage Business Cloud enjoys a Tuesday totter

Alan Bourke

Re: Looking for something better than Sage 50 Pro.

Opera

How much open source is too much when it's in Microsoft's clutches? Eclipse Foundation boss sounds note of alarm

Alan Bourke

He wouldn't be sore

about VS Code making Eclipse look even more outdated than it already does?

Also LOLs at the MS paranoia.

Blockchain is a lot like teen sex: Everybody talks about it, no one has a clue how to do it

Alan Bourke

All we need is to blockchain the AI in the self-driving cars

or whatever it is this month.

ConnectWise fails to connect: Customers down and out in the EU

Alan Bourke

And Leon

is getting laaaaaarger!

We dunno what's worse: Hackers ransacked Citrix for FIVE months, or that Equifax was picked to help mop up the mess

Alan Bourke

"Threat actors"

You're not in a fucking Bourne film, lads.

Microsoft's Edge on Apple's macOS? It's more likely than you think for new browser

Alan Bourke

It makes about as much sense

As the abortive Windows version of Safari

Sophos antivirus tools. Working Windows box. Latest Patch Tuesday fixes. Pick two: 'Puters knackered by bad combo

Alan Bourke

Re: Out o'curiosity ...

"emind me again why, exactly, people still purchase anything from Redmond? Do they expect it to suddenly get better? "

Seriously? Have you ever been in a corporate environment?

Windows, by and large, works very well. Otherwise it would be dead a long time ago.

"At this point, what corporation in it's right mind would actually spec Windows for any desktop? "

Any corporation that needs to run the actual real-world software required to do business in the modern world, i.e. all of them.

Get a clue.

The peelable, foldable phone has become the great white whale of tech

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Like self-driving cars, isn't it?

A technology that's nowhere near even close to viable aiming to solve a problem that doesn't exist.

Overzealous n00b takes out point-of-sale terminals across the UK on a Saturday afternoon

Alan Bourke

The mainframe tech was a prick in this case.

Not the kid's fault, his manager's fault.

'Safety will always come first,' insist Arizona biz org in response to Uber self-driving car death

Alan Bourke

It's such a waste of time.

Teach humans to drive properly.

Make America buy phones again! Smartphone doom 'n' gloom crosses Atlantic to cast shadow stateside

Alan Bourke

Re: Mature Product

"When I want to use the internet, I've got a (Linux) PC with a proper keyboard and big monitor."

Unwieldy on the bus though I'd imagine.