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In 1998 Kickstart 2.0 wasn't out, which was a vast improvement on 1.3.
I've programmed System 7 in the early 90s and don't recall the experience to be particularly user friendly, so I have my doubts over previous versions of the Mac's OS. Meanwhile the AmigaOS just clicked with me, it was just the right balance between simple and powerful and probably the last PC that could be understood competely. But again, that was post-1.3.
You can claim System 7 is many things but preemptive multitasking is not one of them, that was introduced in 8.6.
Memory management was pretty terrible in 7 too, the user had to get info and reserve a fixed block of memory that other apps couldn't use and the app itself couldn't go over.
In the real world, it's practically impossible to leave the Catholic Church. No apostasy for you.
Try Explorer or Ghost Commander with the SMB plugin.
I think the local HTTP server for ES File Explorer would be for transferring files over LAN or WiFi Direct, but in an effort to make it tap-and-drool they opened up a honking great backdoor.
No AC, you remember where MS first bought Acompli, it used an AWS instance to talk to the Exchange server and the app talked to the AWS instance. Then MS changed the backend to Azure but apart from that the architecture remained unchanged, it was still a cloud backend talking to the Exchange server and the app talking to the cloud backend.
And here is a diagram from MS themselves.
As it's unnecessary I would have thought approval would not have been forthcoming, but it seems they don't care that much.
The legality of gambling in a state depends on the type of gambling it is and which state the gambling is carried out in, but after this ruling interstate gambling is always deemed illegal even if you're in one state where it's legal and the backend is in another state where it's also legal.
Hence servers in every state (except Hawaii and Utah where all gambling is illegal).
Internet gambling is going to be difficult, I guess, unless it's via a mobile app with location services on.
I presume this means big video game corps will be happy to set up a server in every state possibly sharing hosting with each other to keep costs down, or maybe Azure/AWS will do one data centre per state and all the leaches will pile in and rent space.
Where there's a will to suck money off of people who can't afford it there's a way.
And it also seems they are relying on Google pushing out the new version of the app to everyone, at the same time, on the day the backend is migrated, and everyone being able to update, which probably isn't going to happen either.
Which is also what happened with TSB's migration.
Nobody cripples their own Windows 7 machine, the Windows Update process does it all by itself.
If you install SP1 on a newly formatted hard drive and then run Windows Update once to get up to date, it can end up in a useless state where it can take days to check for updates. You cannot blame this on the user, this entirely MS' fault.
The solution as given in the link above is to force feed it a certain list of manually-downloaded KBs in a certain order while it is not connected to the Internet and then, lo and behold, it works again.
So that was hours of my time wasted because MS doesn't do basic QA any more.
It is actually pretty normal for Windows 7 to take 90 minutes or even 90 hours to run Windows Update since MS screwed it up in a way which requires manual intervention.
As for the Windows 10 machine, it sounds like a HP Stream or something with 32G flash space being filled up completely by Windows and Office updates (a common problem) so it can't do anything else.
Modern agile telecos complain about legacy customers using legacy technologies then provide you with a bare internet connection (if you're lucky) and technical support that barely knows what a router is.
Then down at the GSMA they all weep into their beer that they're being reduced to dumb pipes and can't sell any value added services... and that'd be because they don't even try.
Icon is a demon, because it's appropriate.
Machine code-like crashes for a supposedly BASIC program were also jarring. As were error messages being incorrectly presented, the key click being slightly the wrong tone, and RUN [enter] not clearing the screen...
They obvioisly made the wrong choice in not hiring me as a consultant.
I didn't say UNIX based but UNIX inspired, the guy who did Exec himself said so in the Bedrooms to Billions Amiga Years documentary (well worth watching). When the bottom dropped out of the videogame market in the US and they decided they wanted to repurpose it as a computer, they of course decided they wanted to do a proper computer and as they'd previously seen a highly expensive UNIX system they decided that they would do the same at a cheaper price point.
Thanks for the other info. Not going for an 010 if it was so compatible does seem like a mistake, perhaps there was some slight incompatibility with the custom hardware or OS or they had so little time to release they didn't want to chance it without testing thoroughly.
The OS made the simultaneous I/O possible which is way then went with pre-emptive multitasking to be able to service interrupts. You could talk to everything, all at the same time, and it didn't grind to a halt. On everything else if you did something crazy like read the disc then you probably couldn't talk to the rest of the hardware until you'd finished.
The CPU didn't have MMU but apart from that the implementation was sound (remember the 030 came out as late as 1987, two years after the Amiga's release). I guess nobody complained about lack of memory management on other computers of the time because you couldn't even properly multitask on those.
Then Commodore International were just happy to coast on the initial success. R&D never made it into end products. ECS and AGA were late and AAA never appeared but even around the time of Commodore UK folding (the last part of Commodore to survive), Exec, Intuition, and so on were still practically indistinguishable from magic when compared to Windows 3.1 and Mac's horrid APIs.
I guess Linux is the closest thing there is at the moment to the Amiga's OS, which was UNIX inspired after all (although an earlier, less bloated, UNIX). I suppose BeOS would have been a little closer to the spirit of the Amiga but I never got to play with that.
But still don't know how contemporary OSes have turned into gigabyte-sized things and are hardly more functional while running on CPUs which are orders of magnitude more powerful.
You wouldn't really want to get too close to a herd of cows if a mother decides you're a threat to its calf.
Cows officially the most deadly large animals in Britain
Farmers continue to be advised not to put calves and their mothers in fields accessible to the public
You see comments on The Heil about Brexit being like about Y2K, and in the Grauniad too where some will patiently explain why it is nonsense, but I never thought I'd see it in the Register of all places.
You cannot compare the contingency planning and work that went into Y2K to the complete lack of the same things for Brexit.
Given I work somewhere that used to have 10 smokers and now has 8 vapers (2 quit completely)
You must be one of the lucky ones living in a US smoker state. You could try asking your company to bring its smoking policy up to the late 1970s/early 1980s and have a smoking room if making people smoke outside is a step too far.
There was a hint yesterday (yes, Christmas Day) that a 15 year old was about to take a picture of a family gathering and upload it to Snapchat or the like so I stated quite firmly that I did not give my permission for my image to be uploaded anywhere. Yes there were one or two perhaps cross faces, and no photograph was taken AFAIK; Christmas Day or not I was not going change my opinion about what I firmly do not want to happen with my likeness.
Well that's kind of sad indictment. Not that you didn't want your image to be uploaded, but that the 15 year old didn't think the photo of everyone around the table was worth taking because it wouldn't be uploaded to Snapchat or whatever.
I think VC and Parallels are a perfect match, Parallels is ransomware. Every major version of Parallels seems to be incompatible with every new version of OS X in some way, and, oh, we have a new major version of Parallels which fixes that, at a very reasonable price. And in case you're not convinced we're also dropping all updates for the version you have now.
To be fair paused=off in that sense. if it renamed it to off it would still do the same thing just have a different name. It doesn't automatically re-enable itself after a set period of time for instance.
You pause the location history on the dashboard, but that doesn't mean Google can't track you.
By naming it 'pause' instead of 'off', it's probably the one thing Google are (slightly) honest about.
... and it seems all they were guilty of was having a photo of a model helicopter posted on Facebook, so they've been released without charge.
Still, at least the police can be thankful social media as it allows them to make quick arrests on the flimsiest of excuses which appear in the press and on TV, which is what people will remember.
Apple need to address some pretty big things with iOS before it can be used for development.
1. Access to local drives.
2. Access to local network.
3. Transfer data between apps in a less clunky way.
4. Compile and run arbitrary unsigned code.
In short, Mr. Cook, tear down this wall.
But it's not going to happen, as it would mean less money from the App Store.
Zuckerburg clearly doesn't...
Mark Zuckerberg tapes over his webcam. Should you?
Does covering his laptop camera and microphone with tape make Facebook’s boss paranoid, or are they really after him? Probably a bit of both
Clearly human intervention was required to compile the response to the GDPR request, and it looks like Amazon employees can get access to that.
What do they do with the video recordings from the Echo Narcissist or whatever it's called?
I think you'd be crazy to let a microphone connected to a US megacorp in your house, let alone a camera.
Why on earth would Google sabotage not only their own Android platform, with ~100% Chrome usage, or iOS, with ~100 Safari usage ?
Google wouldn't be sabotaging mobile platforms as a) they control Android's rendering engine that most Android browsers just skin over and Blink renders it fine, b) must people would use the YouTube app anyway, and c) YouTube can easily serve up something else for iOS if necessary (unverified claim).
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