Posts by Dan 55

Re: Crime and unniceness: Totally mainstream

I won't have a word said against Shutterstock.

Re: Every 30 months?

England and Wales have a six-year guarantee that makes retailers angry, click here to find out why!

Re: GDPR

The GDPR says the data must be rendered anonymous in such a way that the data subject is not or no longer identifiable if it is published by the data controller or processor. That is debatable.

Broken by design...?

Re: When was the last time you heard about a government agency/program...

Even Universal Credit is succeeding, although for that to happen the requirements must have been that it plunge large sections of the population into poverty.

Re: All very nebulous

Don't see the NCSC mentioned anywhere there.

Re: The sky is falling in

Yo do realise that VMS's security is by obscurity? It's quite expensive to get hold of.

I do hope they didn't have to install a uuencoded binary.

Re: ignore the actual issue

Are you sure? We have a government educated in the philosophical arts (the P in PPE) and they're currently running the UK into the ground.

Re: Cloud Native Foundation is a neutral organisation

It's like the egg marketing board saying their independent advice is you should go to work on an egg.

Re: As soon as Windows 7 support finishes

No, registry keys are almost always at a way more granular level than configuration files in Linux.

No, because a key holds a collection of value-data pairs, similar to a configuration file holding a collection of settings.

But if that happens you just boot to the "last know on good configuration" or a system restore point.

Which was disabled from Windows 8 onwards. You need to set a registry key to enable it again. Difficult if the problem is due to the registry being hosed.

No, they recommend that for data that must or you choose to store as files. There is no recommendation not to use the registry.

So on the one hand we have, "if you want, go ahead and use files", and on the other we have Registry Junk: A Windows Fact of Life and finally the future (UWP) does not use it. Not difficult to work out what MS' advice really is.

Because .Net apps can be multiplatform.

UWP apps are multiplatform but mobile is dead so it's multiplatform with one platform.

Re: As soon as Windows 7 support finishes

You have per key ACLs and auditing, you have atomic transaction commits with rollback and snapshot capability and above all it's a single interface, a single location and a standard format for all configuration data. Windows stopped using crappy solutions like INI files many years ago - Linux has yet to catch up.

The registry was a Windows 3.1 solution to there being no defined hierarchy of directories to hold application settings, so it had to be centralised because otherwise developers would put files anywhere and nothing could stop them (unlike UNIX).

Registry keys are equivalent to files, which can also have ACLs and auditing. Most configuration files are stored in the user's home directory meaning the settings are private to that user without doing anything.

In UNIX if you want to copy a program across from one comouter to another it's easy to install the same program from the repository and copy the configuration file/directory across. Try that in Windows.

Commit and rollback are necessary because it's centralised, and that still isn't good enough as registry corruption and registry cleaners are things in Windows.

If there is a corrupt configuration file in UNIX you just wipe it or restore from backup and carry on with your day. Try the same on a Windows machine with a hosed registry.

Finally the registry is legacy. MS now recommends %APPDATA% is used for desktop software settings and it isn't used in TIFKAM app settings.

Re: If you don't eat your Windows 10s, you won't get any Office 2019 for pudding

to me its you

face facts

wouldn't matter what the hell Microsoft did - in these forums the penguins would be all over it

I use Windows, macOS, and Linux and I don't discriminate, I hate them all equally. Perhaps MS could pull the plug on the slurping. Until then, it's Windows 7 for me.

Re: just to it

Jesus christ...the ribbon has been around for 11 years.

The interface hasn't had a radical change since.

By all means bash them for the stuff they do. Not the stuff you didn't like over a decade ago.

If that doesn't show you how really fucking awful the ribbon is, what will? It's not as if commentards actively refuse to learn it, it's there day in, day out. It's just such an atrocious user-hostile design, like TIFKAM. Both, incidentally, pushed by the same person.