* Posts by Hans 1

3796 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Aug 2009

Microsoft makes Skype beach body ready with web browser beta release

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WTF?

hello.firefox.com

WTF ? why not http://hello.firefox.com ? Easy, works with Firefox and Chrome, no hassle comm's. No plugins, no problem!

HP haters: Get ready to rage against THE MACHINE 'next year'

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Re: How will that work....

Linux and the BSD's will be ported, if it works out to be worthwhile ...

The thing that puzzles me is the architecture. You can reboot the CPU's without touching memory, great, but what does that mean ? A reboot becomes a sleep/wake cycle ? If so, why reboot in the first place ?

I do not get it ... :-(

Sysadmins rebel over GUI-free install for Windows Server 2016

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Hell freezes over

Microsoft make a sane decision for once! Us freetards have been saying it for years^H^H^H^H^Hdecades, a system that has a gui is no "real" server.

I can understand the outrage, though, how are point and click experts gonna administrate this ? With Administrative Tools alone you cannot get it all done ... The server manager and wizards might help, but I guess it will become harder to install enterprise class software like Oracle Database or SAP - which is OK, Windows Server has never been an enterprise-worthy OS anyway.

Good move, Microsoft ... for once!

What an eyeful: Apple's cut price 27in iMac with Retina Display

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Boffin

> SAP have had an OS X GUI for a few years

As well as various other UNIX-like operating systems ... however, they are inferior to Windows SAPGui in a number of areas, process chains springs to mind ... mainly because SAP built some "very good" process chain editor tool that requires the highly acclaimed ActiveX technology into SAPGui, which is only available on Windows.

So yes, most things can be done on Linux, Mac, Solaris Java-based SAPGui ... however, some things cannot.

Who thinks Microsoft Edge sucks? Erm, Microsoft

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Windows

Re: Another New 'Feature'

>The sort of person that makes the decision what someone like you gets on their corporate desktop...

The Microsoft Certified Surface Expert, aka "Windows cleaner", makes no decisions ... those are made by Redmond on your behalf, so Microsoft Edge it will be.

Seriously, I don't trust those browser benchmarks, besides, depending on which benchmark, Chrome, Firefox, & Opera are faster ... cannot find the link, but it is on here somewhere.

Next we'll hear Windows is executing browser code in kernel land, to boost performance.

BTW, does Microsoft Edge come with IESHIMS.DLL ? There is completely unrelated software that depends on that DLL, most notably SAP JCo... not sure why ...

Windows 10 upgrade ADWARE forces its way on to Windows 7 and 8.1

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Boffin

Re: @Charles 9 - Why are Microsoft giving this away?

Well ... they use free in reference to FREEDOM.

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Re: Windows 10 Upgrade

>You mean the Windows 10 preview (beta test software) has this tool to revert back to a working production version of the OS. There's no guarantee the final version will do so, since MS is trying to get all of their user base on Windows 10.

To be fair, the nagware explicitly says you can revert your system back ... that will probably mean a reinstall, though ... unless it takes an image of your old system and manages to save that to the partition it is currently cloning ... lol - downgrading is not that simple to get right, you know ... especially if you have installed software ...

So, yes, you can, but they'l make it hard and unstable ...

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Re: Why not create a system image...

Good luck activating your Windows 7 again after the first windows update install... surely you will have to call Redmond ...

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Re: You Know Windows 10 Is Going To Be Good...

>Apple told me about Yosemite in a similar manner on Mavericks...

In the App store, yes ... not "quite" similar ... similar to Windows 8.1, yes, to Windows 10 ? Not quite ... plus, check your scheduled tasks, this shit is gonna do stuff ...

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Joke

Re: I'm confused

Was he ? Do we have evidence or a witness ?

Where are Jehova witnesses when you need them ...

American Idle: Seacrest keyboard startup Typo goes nowhere after BlackBerry bust-up

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The struggling Canadian smartphone mogul ????

With all this NSA talk, and the fact the NSA can infect any Android, Windows Phone, or iOS device, it is only a matter of time before everybody realizes that BB is the only secure option.

Besides, big shops in Europe have already mandated BB10 and forbid BYOD - too many sensitive leaks.

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Re: Seriously?

After a year of owning the z30, I finally got my wife one ... I have black, she has white ;-).

She kept complaining about her Android phone... I had gotten her a curve back in the day, then an android, with her z30, she now has a decent email client and web browser ... again.

IT-savvy US congressmen to Feds: End your crypto-backdoor crusade

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Crypto backdoors?

Not really needed ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy3-QZLTpbQ

Worth a watch/listen

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Re: In other news GPG still supports 2048-bit RSA keys

They cannot ... up until 2012, that is, they could not crack PGP.

Source (inn Djörmann):

http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzpolitik/snowden-dokument-so-unterminiert-die-nsa-die-sicherheit-des-internets-a-1010588.html

Microsoft: Here's what you'll cough up for Windows 10 next year

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Windows Update Disaster

The Windows update disaster will be even worse once they do away with patch Tuesday, since we will not have the benefit of having a large number of people testing the updates at a specific time in the month.

If you really wanna know why Windows Update sucks, ask a Brit, David Brooks, MS Senior Test Developer. He used to work for the X consortium on CDE before he went off to Redmond.

On his Linkedin page, you can see MS have a testing team in .... India^H^H^H^H^HChina.

Got more popcorn and a quite a few pints for this summer ... I'm loving it.

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Windows

Re: Free Legal Torrent for all

According to my nag screen, you can go back whenever you want ... I love it, they say the start menu is back and I am already an expert before it ships.

Right-clicking the nag screen does not allow a "fsck off and leave me alone" option, aka "exit".

The process you wanna kill is GWXUX.EXE, which lives in %windir%\System32\GWX.

Snapping four things max on my screen is not enough, I have an ultra, ultra-wide screen, often have 5 or 6 windows open at any given time (IDE, APP, terminal, email/browser, vm's ...). I have very good eye-sight, so the fonts I use are quite small ;-).

Yes, I am back on Windows for a short period of time, I hope...

Microsoft doubles down on productivity with Wunderlist buy

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Unhappy

Same old story

The iOS/Android versions of these apps will vanish in no time or become so buggy nobody will want to use them ... look at Skype, for example ... the linux version has become buggy as hell ...

Apple: Relax, fanbois! We never meant to read your heart rate during wild wrist action

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Re: "Yup, it's a feature, not a bug ..."

Indid, vee haf x nekst to y on our keyboarden and vee ze best scientisten, Ja, in ze vorld!

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>You know damn well an Apple employee's wife/husband had a quick peek at the heart rate app on their watch and asked them "Jonny, why was your heart rate at 120bpm at 11:30pm when you were downstairs watching TV?"

I's thinking of you, honey!

Inside the guts of Nano Server, Microsoft's tiny new Cloud OS

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Windows

Re: took long enough

The link on the reg article is dead, you might find this useful instead:

https://superfrink.net/athenaeum/www.securityoffice.net/mssecrets/hotmail.html

Not sure it is 100% accurate.

Don't you just love the "Strengths of Windows" section ...

1. is an utter lie, even back then, if you consider Linux a Unix system

2. Might have been true then, today, it's completely different

3. BS, how can I read the temperature, for example, on Windows ? Even back then, the guy who wrote that did not know about dmesg.

4. UNIX (FreeBSD and Linux) have better hardware support than windows

5. Is there a version of Windows in Esperanto ? Linux now has so many more translations than windows ... and I am sure FreeBSD just picks them up.

Phished IT bod opens door to 40,000 finance folks' personal details

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WTF?

Re: Reassuring

A member of the support team has access to personal details of 40 000+ affiliates ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmRKgkGFoRo&t=0m16s

If you say so, thanks for the laugh ...

Android Patent Dispute: Microsoft, Samsung hug it out

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Invalid patent claims

The patent claims Microsoft holds against Android vendors have for the most part prior art dating back to the 60's, 70's, and 80's ... they are bullying and Samsung managed to have them STFU - Samsung have an interest in other Android vendors paying the Microsoft bribe, though ... so non-disclosure agreement.

Beware Red Hat interviews: You'll pay for coffee, lunch and fuel

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Re: Sounds appropriate...

I upvoted because you are right, however, when you know which cretins they employ and what mayhem those cretins cause in the OpenSource world ...

SourceForge accused of shackling GIMP in kinky adware

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Mushroom

1. Sourceforge: Trojan Horse purveyor

2. Gimp: Nobody in their right mind wants version 2.7+ because they did away with the cool "Save" dialog. Now, you have to export a eg JPG image to JPG, FFS. The user base complains, the authors say "Expert users wanted that 'feature' because they kept losing image quality when saving images to compressed GIF." (read that one again, yes, "EXPERT USERS")

So both suck!

That EVIL TEXT that will CRASH your iPhone: We pop the hood

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Coffee/keyboard

>Remove friend from Christmas card list.

EPIC

I managed to get off everybody's Christmas card list ... the cards used to take up waay too much space in the recycling bin.

Nest rival: Smartmobes will decide who survives the Internet of Stuff war

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I was in Aldi the other day and got Bluetooth scales, because they were priced as much as ordinary scales and I needed some.

Of course, you can download an app, hook it up to the scales, and it works out your BMI, fat etc etc etc ... yes, it has a pair of sensors, you are supposed to use it barefoot.

Anyway, instead of storing the data on the phone, it stores the data in the cloud. WTF ? The manual reads: "The data is stored in the cloud in case you lose your phone." Apparently, they never heard of "backup".

So, dumb scales they will remain.

Microsoft to TAKE OUT THE TRASH in the Windows Store

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How many will remain ?

>"Zamora said apps should also be appropriately priced. One app should not be significantly more expensive than another than provides substantially identical functionality, for example."

If they follow their guidelines, they will have to boot a lot of apps ... even MS Office, since it is much more expensive than, say, Libre Office, yet offers little, if any, added value.

They should consider removing the store altogether ... much easier!

Why are all the visual special effects studios going bust?

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Happy

Re: there's plenty of people willing to see ads

I am one, I like clicking on ads for companies or services which I truly dislike, such as Microsoft, or our competitors. I then know they pay google/theregister/whoever (depending on which site I am on).

So that is one of those.

PS: No I do not care about the actual ads.

Nokia getting there with HERE as rivals talk up price

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Hello ? No Really, HELLO??????

You are a corp, you wanna make $$$$ by fsck'ing the competition, you are not gonna help them by funding Open Street Map, especially if you are the only one to do so.

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Re: Worth as much as 6 billion?

Beat me to it ...

Windows Server 2003 end of support draws ever closer

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Gimp

Don't panic, switch to FreeBSD, it might kernel panic for you!

SAVE THE PLANKTON: So much more than whale food

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"Plankton are much more than just food for the whales. Although tiny, these organisms are a vital part of the Earth's life support system, providing half of the oxygen generated each year on Earth by photosynthesis and lying at the base of marine food chains on which all other ocean life depends."

This was already known when I was in primary school, and I am reasonably old, have reached about "half-life".

ZX Spectrum 'Hobbit' revival sparks developer dispute

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Joke

Those are "enhanced" graphics???????? Almost as bad as minecraft with a GTX TITAN, almost.

ROFL

Factory reset memory wipe FAILS in 500 MEELLION Android mobes

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Re: Simple solution

Make sure you break and disperse the memory chips, otherwise, data can be retrieved ...

US Air Force launches not-so-secret space plane. Thanks Russia

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Re: why we use Russian stuff

@self

Ohh, I forgot, the young techies also are to blame ... a lot of them think that since they have their shiny diploma with good grades, they are god-like when it comes to technical design.

A bit like current IT developers ... 150Mb for a printer driver ... FFS!!!!! Shoot them, please!

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Boffin

Re: why we use Russian stuff

>Its virtually impossible to do any complex project today without it turning into a massively over budget super late delivered clusterfsck (see the F35 and virtually ever other aircraft developed in the last two decades). This is doubly true if Boeing is involved (see over billion dollars wasted on virtual border fence Boeing pork).

That is mainly because the guyz in charge USED TO BE veteran techies, now, the guyz in charge are management school excrements with absolutely zarro clue of the technical side of things, or implications of their decisions.

As for the other numpties, the Airbus 320, 330, and 340's were not late.

City of birth? Why password questions are a terrible idea

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I call BS on this, I think they just want to harvest phone numbers out of people - a way to identify you and better target their ads.

Their questions are rather silly, especially the family-related questions ... you would not want your wife/brother/sister/father to access your email account, would you ? City of birth is really silly, too many people know that. These, of course, make social engineering so much easier.

I think you should be able to ask your own questions, as for the mathematical "questions", those can be detected and vetoed.

I hate it when I cannot use spaces in passwords.

The worst website I have come across in recent years is www.apec.fr - THEY EMAIL YOUR PASSWORD TO YOU, IN 2015, HONEST!!!!!

A good effort, if a bit odd: Windows 10 IoT Core on Raspberry Pi 2

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Facepalm

What good is an ssh server if you have no command interpreter installed ?

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Thumb Up

Come on! Windows 1,2,3 were not thaaaat bad in that respect, XP was bad (needed 4 times more ram, exclusively to display a FisherPriceRipOff ui), Vista was worse ... what was it again ? 8 time more RAM (2Gb), high end graphics card, all to show less effects than OS X with 500Mb RAM and a TNT2. Now, Windows 10 IoT is so much worse than Vista in that respect, Windows is such untidy bloat that WIFI depends on some obscure subsystem that could not be squeezed into a 900MB image, go figure.

I have a 180Mb iso, Linux with KDE, browser, office suite, a bunch of servers ... you name it ... and ... WIFI support YAY! (all you need is a firmware for your WIFI card, should the ones in the iso not work for yours).

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Coffee/keyboard

>> it's the price you have to pay to avoid to maintain n completely different versions of an OS.

>As a comparison I can get a Linux distro that will boot off a 1.44 diskette and run as a firewall, SQL server, web server and other stuff.

Yes, and thus be more useful than Windows IoT Core.

NetApp consciously uncouples from 500+ staff

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Re: Reminder from England.

Well, things evolve on this planet ... according to the theory of evolution ... so do languages. And ... just like animals, they evolve differently on different islands.

Thou art mistaken!

I upvoted'th thou as I liked the sense of humour!

PS: I am British, I cannot stand how the USians pronounce to-may-doe, either ... sadly, we have to live with it!

Huawei announces tiny 10 KB IoT kernel

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Re: 10KB for the OS?

kernel != OS

Besides, with flash prices being what they are, you can pretty cheaply get 1Gb flash these days, ram is more expensive, but even then, 8 or 16Mb would be more than enough for IoT, and that comes quite cheap.

A tailored Linux kernel would be much better, has much better support, been developed and gone through testing for 20+ years, and, best of all, drivers for chipsets are readily available. Not sure what the RAM requirements for systemd are, <joke>I guess at the least 2Gb</joke> ... but then again, who needs systemd when you do not need gnome.

Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – a true monster in the making

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Got it with my GTX 960

I got this with my GTX 960, well, I got a download coupon ... I thought it would be some crap/cheap game, apparently, it is not. I will download ... I do not like RPG's, but my son in law does ...

Feds: Bloke 'HACKED PLANE controls' – from his PASSENGER seat

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Wired article is MUCH better!

http://www.wired.com/2015/05/feds-say-banned-researcher-commandeered-plane/

RAF radar station crew begs public for cash to buy gaming LAN kit

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Re: morale support needed!

>having sat for 6-months in Bosnian communication blackholes and wondered how the hell to get some entertainment going.

I hope you are not a French General ... like the guy who stood on a tank and said:"We will protect you!" to a bunch of Muslims, hours before Serbian forces deported and murdered 'em all. I heard he has now a hefty retirement plan ...

Oracle proposes to deliver Java 9 SDK on September 22nd, 2016

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Don't bother with the java applet.

That DRM support in Firefox you never asked for? It's here

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Mushroom

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Mozilla, I have had enough. I have been using Firefox/Pheonix on Windows/OS X/Linux for close to 15 years now, and, guess what, in FF37 I have experience the first stability issues. Yes, it is bloated crap, now, but until 37 it got the work done, now, not only does it hide the address bar (THE ONLY FSCK'ING USEFUL THING), since 36 iirc, in FF37, the thing hangs. in FF38 you add DRM ?

You know what? Byebye.

There is no excuse for DRM, if you think there is, be so kind, do us all a favor, leave the industry ... windows cleaners are needed in Hull.

WikiLeaks, er, leaks the Bundestag Inquiry into NSA naughtiness

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Happy

Popcorn time

Seriously, though ... if the BND passed privileged information from Siemens and EADS to the NSA, heads must roll, because, shit, they are putting German jobs at stake.

Who will trust the BND if heads do not roll ...

/!\: I wrote the same about GCHQ, so the Brits on here can STFU!

Old, forgotten, lonely? SQL Server 2016 will sling you into Azure

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Coffee/keyboard

Can I use LIKE on in-memory tables, yet, or is that for 2020?

Windows 10 bombshell: Microsoft to KILL OFF Patch Tuesday

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>Each of my Windows installs in the past 13 years has lasted the life of the device.

Lucky you ... really, I doubt you are telling the truth ... coming from somebody who does not re-install Windows even when it is borked with virii ... I know how to manually remove the shit.