Posts by Dan 55

So basically Microsoft are making their gaming platform (Windows 10) much more console like, when one of the great benefits of the gaming on the PC is that games could be modded.

They're not doing too well at it. Their Minecraft Better Together update, sold as a way of playing Minecraft online across different previously-incompatible platforms, also changes the UI on the console versions to match the PC's. It's now impossible to play on console.

Remember that horrendous UI mistake they made with mobile and PC? They're now now making the same mistake with console and PC.

Re: Computational Power, Battery Life: Pick one.

When I learnt CompSci, kernels and userspace system services didn't run on pixie dust, but now we've got people seriously suggesting JavaScript should run on the server I'm willing to believe anything.

Re: The utter fools

It seems to me like they're more interested in sharing information about breaking endpoint security than breaking encryption in transit and therefore allowing bulk surveillance to happen.

Which is a good thing, isn't it?

Re: Why?

I ran cpuburn (all four cores at 100%) and it maxed out at 82.7°C with an ambient temperature of 23.5°C. Normally when running as a media centre it runs at about 50°C.

Re: Inivitably!

You don't seem to understand - Windows 10 computers can reboot without notifying while you are at the keyboard. His nan's seen it, my workmate has seen it, and if you Google it, the Internet has seen it.

Let's have a look at MS' answer... Oh dear, the guy had to disable the update service.

Re: I bought my Surface directly from Microsoft.

I expect the margins are razor thin and resellers have to field support calls like "the battery doesn't last very long" and "it won't sleep and wake up properly".

Re: "crunching 16-bit floating point numbers"

I don't think C even does a two byte float.

Edit: it's a thing in graphics cards, apparently. FP16. So the fail is for us crusty server-side programmers for not knowing.

Re: Web site encryption

I think it must be HTTPS Everywhere. I just tried going to the HTTP site in two other browsers (IE11 and Vivaldi) and it didn't switch to HTTPS.

Same with letters. If you make a will, you have to trust the executor (who is named by you, after all).

Re: But..

The exact same thing would happen in the UK now under RIPA... if there were any businesses with e2e encrypted IM products silly enough to base themselves in the UK.

Someone's managed it and he's licensed, but only by the CAA it seems.

Re: E2E encryption

If they're doing it right the protocol should be XMPP perhaps with a simple IMAP extension to let the mail client know that XMPP is available and how to configure the chat client on the client side. Thunderbird has XMPP chat built-in already.

If they're really doing it right, you should be able to use your own XMPP server if you like and flick a switch on Dovecot to get the IMAP extension.

There are a lot of XMPP clients about and it'd be a shame to waste them.

Re: How in the name of fuck can the YouTube Kids app get a free pass?

They could be scientologists for all I care, it still doesn't detract that from the fact that the videos actually exist and are discoverable in the way that the articles say.

Re: Commentards obviosly know more than mere mortals

Presumably if they still had the source they'd have managed to get someone in, recompile, and upload to the App Store.

They've only had about four years to do that.

The problem is that normal menus, as well as categorising options better than the ribbon can, continually remind you of keyboard shortcuts whereas the ribbon doesn't.

With Outlook 2003 I would probably have immediately remembered the advanced find shortcut as it's listed next to other more used menu options. Since the ribbon everything's hidden or buried and I've forgotten it.

Re: VS2017 Community Edition is a POS

What they mean is they can't be bothered to go through the code and check the types and the whole thing is so string-and-yoghurt-pots anyway that any slight change to the compile options means 1000 new bugs bloom.

Re: Craptastic

Perhaps you could try 17track.net?

Re: Let's see how it works...

If you trust APKMirror, here's the last version of Skype 7 which we were all complaining about until Skype 8 came along, but with hindsight it really is better.

You get both. A lot of games use AdMob.