* Posts by Hans 1

3796 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Aug 2009

OMG, that CLOUD has a TV in it! Sony goes Over The Top in telly wars

Hans 1
Windows

I am pretty sure it will be a success, I mean, if you're silly enough to have a PS4 with "online" account, you are certainly the target audience for telemarketing ... and yes, you do need that new, revolutionary, gourmet, deluxe, incredible, magical, posh kitchen cloth.

UK PM Cameron says Internet must not 'be an ungoverned space'

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WTF?

“extremist material” "hatred"

I guess, Dave, that you might consider starting with your own backyard ... I mean, UKIP website is hosted in the UK and still up and operational at the time of this writing.

Seriously, though ... you, like a great number of other government officials, are already taking down bits and bobs here and there, so I guess that if you can take down a site when RIAA kindly asks, you already can take down Islamist, Zionist, Jehova witness', Mormon, Scientology etc websites ... so what is your point ?

Alcatel-Lucent buries EDGE routers in x86 server fleet

Hans 1
WTF?

x86, not ARM64 ????

WTF, where have these numpties been over the last couple of years ... why move to x86, when ARM64 is pretty powerful and readily available ???

Headshot

BOFH: SOOO... You want to sell us some antivirus software?

Hans 1
Windows

You do know regedit.exe, do you not ? There is a almost useless "Find" option in there, what it does does help in getting <whatever_the_kids_installed> off of the computer.

I use two combinations:

Find <folder_name>|<program_name>

while (! EOF)

{

if (keyname.isHighlighted)

{ hit(DEL);}

else if (Value.isHighted)

{ //some uid

hit("<-"); //left arrow key

hit("<-");

hit(DEL);

}

hit("F3");

}

Delete folders on FS.

Works for me - takes time, though :-(

On Mac, I throw /Applications/<application_folder> into the bin, search for plists and throw them in the bin.

On linunx, it is just "apt-get remove --purge <program_name>", but I digress.

Hans 1

Exactly, I do not get all this non-sense.

I think you could do with Linux, remove the hard drives from the workstations as they arrive, setup boot from LAN, use Linux, see slax for an amazing example ... 180Mb of read-only joy, complete with office suite, browser etc. Customize your image[s] with apps you need. Build a massive RAID with the hard drives to house docs, home folders, your 4/5/6 images, and their respective backups ... remember, you do not need an image per hardware combination, more an image per target audience.

The home folder would be a network share, ideally sshfs. You have an issue, reboot ... takes 1 minute, including download/loading of image, and the beast is clean again. If you have over 2Gb RAM in the clients, use copy-to-ram for exceptional performance ... only uses like 512Mb RAM.

Alternative:

FreeBSD or Solaris and a distributed ZFS file system, using all drives in all machines for storage of documents.

Microsoft .NET released from its Windows chains... but what ABOUT MONO?

Hans 1
Boffin

As for the commentards claiming .Net is better than Java - I understand that taste is something you cannot challenge, however, the .Net runtime nightmare (absolutely 0 backwards compatibility) really is a mayor showstopper for me. It is a pain.

And keeping the runtime versions safe (security updates) will become a very big problem as new mayor runtime versions are released.

With Java, you do have some compatibility issues here and there, but, if it ran on 1.4, it will run on 1.8 ... if the original devs were bright.

Hans 1
Happy

GNU/Linux had won, now it's OpenSource's turn

Linus said that when Microsoft would write software to run on GNU/Linux, it would have won. Now, there are apps that Microsoft shifts that run on GNU/Linux and/or Android/Linux now.

Now, not only are they writing software for */Linux, they are also porting their dev languages to */Linux - yes, they were doing it via mono before, but this time, they have acknowledged that OpenSource is the best thing to do!

All hail the best development strategy out there ... OpenSource. Richard Stallman must be drinking champagne ...

That much for cancer!

Hans 1

Re: Reap what you sow

@downvoters

Why are you downvoting ? Think for a second, why is Microsoft giving away Visual Studio and .Net ? They want traction, they have none, devs have moved off of Windows 8[.x] and onto mobile (Android, iOS[Apple]).

Seriously, stop being biggoted for a second and think about what is happening here ...

Redmond aims to outshine Eclipse with FREE Visual Studio

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Windows

hell freezes

Shit, they are really getting desperate....

Yorkshire man NICKS 1,000 Orange customer records. Court issues TINY FINE

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Facepalm

EE?

"Personal data is a valuable commodity. Devlin lied and manipulated to access this information for his own profit and now he’s facing a fine and a criminal conviction. EE [which now owns the Orange brand] swiftly alerted us to this breach and their security procedures allowed the ICO to identify Devlin as the perpetrator."

Excuse me if I am wrong, but were the techies that install EE Internet for you not the guyz with spreadsheets full of unencrypted customer credentials? Could he not have ordered EE Internet instead?

Microsoft: It's TIME at LAST. Yes - .NET is going OPEN and X-PLATFORM

Hans 1
Windows

Wake me up when I no longer need a gazillion .Net runtimes to run apps.... unlike Java, where I can run 1.3 code in a 1.8 JVM... might need a little tinkering, but mostly it works.

You have v3.1 .Net runtime and the app wants 2.x, you're fucked. This sucks golf balls through garden hoses.

I think this is a desperate effort to promote an outdated, useless piece of crap... consider .net dead in 5years.

Bouncy bouncy: Comet probot Philae landed twice

Hans 1
Alien

I do think that the press coverage of all this is a tad light. Imagine the complexity of getting a craft out of our atmosphere, speed it up using amongst other means gravitation from earth and mars, have it speed into space at high speed for ten years on a journey of 6 billion km, then reach orbit of a comet moving at 18km/s some 500 000km away.

That alone is quite a "brave" idea ... some boffin then says, we might as well land a robot on it, and they listen to this guy!!!!! Knowing that you have 28 minutes delay.

These guyz actually made it happen! They had to trust their theory!!!!

Behold the Lumia 535 NOTkia: Microsoft wipes Nokia brand from mobes

Hans 1

Re: @Bleu on DLLs innovation

That and DirectX sucks big time ... the sooner that goes, the better for makind.

The last PC replacement cycle is about to start turning

Hans 1

Re: The laptop and desktop are dead.

Who in their right mind pays for online gaming when you can get better hardware for the same money and free online gaming on the PC - all using the same game?

Exactly, over my dead body.

BTW, I was helping a mate move-in the other weekend and found an xbox 360 lying in the garden ... was the former occupant's toy, apparently ... no charger ... I took it home, used an old 350W PSU and fired it up ... works like a charm ... now, I might get a charger second hand somewhere ... but I will never pay for online gaming for the thing, ich bin doch nicht blöd.

Hans 1
Happy

Re: Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose

>Most modern games don't benefit from any CPU faster than an i5.

Haswell ? i3 even ... until they bring out more games with proper multi-threading - a few use two cores, very, very few use more.

Hans 1

WTF?

Listen, I have a BB10 Z30 hooked up to my TV via HDMI, with wireless USB keyboard+trackpad and mouse (used if needed). They work as intended. I can do my work on that thing quite reasonably, although I never really did it for very long. USB host mode is great with a powered hub.

The sources lie on a 3Tb drive, also hooked up via USB - this thing has 2Gb of memory. Now, I do not waste time in MS Office, I do my stuff in vi from the command line - and it works pretty well. Does the iPhone have USB host? I am not sure and am too lazy to look it up - actually, I do not really care to know.

The only thing I miss is the preview.

Yes, I can create presentations from within vi, they can also end up as MS Office presentations, after a little work. I personally use PDF, but I can output almost anything - docbook, for example.

ESA sends back PRE-LANDING COMET CLOSE-UPS

Hans 1
Holmes

Re: Barreling along

>I don't see the point in mentioning the speed of said rock since the speed means nothing without a reference point and the only valid reference in space is the relative speed difference between the two objects concerned.

It just means you have to get to the same speed as the comet, or as close as possible, which might be a challenge, even in space. Imagine the thrust, the direction, the orbiting to meet up with a comet doing 18.3km/s ... yes, km/s, something like 12 miles/s.

It indeed might be the relative speed that counts, and also, the 28 minutes it takes for the signals to reach the craft/earth ... that is like playing Crysis on a 1Mhz 8086.

Patch Windows boxes NOW – unless you want to be owned by a web page or network packet

Hans 1
Windows

Re: No way to force?

>Killed, added more domains to hosts, found it was an attempted incredibar install, why do AV companies not block this?

Because "incredibar" is an addon and not a virus, it ticks all boxes for trojan in my opinion, but AV companies think otherwise. It is, after all, the type of "addon" you can get with very legitimate Windows software - a source of income for many.

>My HOSTS is getting very large, I even used to have Facebook in it!

Why is facebook not in it anymore ? Ever considered, maybe, moving to Linux ? Seriously, you won't get any of this shit .... just my $0.02...

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Facepalm

Re: EMET

>For good reason. Linux patches might require fewer reboots but you have an order of magnitude more of them to evaluate....and defacement statistics show that you are a lot more likely to be hacked running a Linux facing internet server than a Windows facing internet server!

Ever heard of social engineering ? It is the main "tool" the crackers use to deface websites.

As for Internet sites ... since most run Apache/nginx there is no need to panic when Windows server has an SSL vuln ... just saying.

Ouch, I know, I am sorry, luv!

Microsoft's Bing hopes to bag market share with ... search apps

Hans 1
Happy

Re: 30% of what?

Does this mean every time I use yahoo search I have MS pay! yahoo! money!? I'll switch to yahoo! immediately and I advise everybody to do the same ... let! MS! pay! billions!

Farewell Nokia: First ever 'Microsoft Lumia' set for Tuesday reveal

Hans 1
Pint

Re: A phone with Microsoft emblazoned across its back?

You should try BlackBerry 10!

Firefox decade: Microsoft's IE humbled by a dogged upstart. Native next?

Hans 1
Mushroom

Re: Wishful thinking, as always

> "Today Internet Explorer is a shadow of its former self, with half its 2004 market share."

> Reality: IE's market share was 91% in 2004, now it's 58%. That's practically 2/3s.

Not sure where you have been over the past four years, but ie share is below 50% - have you not noticed prime-time TV ads for their browser ? Remember that their browser is bundled with windows and downloadable free of charge. Also, even in their US stronghold, ie has 30% market share since june this year:

http://www.irishtimes.com/business/sectors/technology/chrome-overtakes-ie-to-become-most-popular-browser-1.1823163

(I have a source, you have wishful thinking)

Note that you should take into account that an incredible number of MS-only shops (aka window cleaner shops) forbid the installation of alternative browsers, so this means that something like 80% of households use anything but ie.

>"It also opened up the market for others: without Firefox there’d have been no Chrome."

>Because of what? Firefox had nothing to do with Chrome. If you'd have said that without Apple/WebKit there would have been no Chrome... well... you'd would be still wrong. But not as wrong as with this one.

You do not have a clue, webkit does not come from Apple, but from ... KDE.

>"With hindsight, we can now see Firefox as the star of the beginning of the end for Microsoft’s desktop troika: Office’s lock on documents had been cracked by open-source and web-based alternatives like LibreOffice and Google Docs since 2004."

>So a browser that appeared _after_ the Office-hegemony of Microsoft was supposedly already broken was that started breaking the Microsoft monopolies. Makes sense. Not so much.

Why "after" ? Mozilla Phoenix (Forefox/Firebird pre-1.0) was available early 2001, iirc ... was miles ahead of ie, already ... besides, the articles states that the hegemony started to crumble in 2004 ...

>"The PC has been surpassed by the tablet and smart phone, by iOS and Android."

>Wrong. According to Gartner there are still 2x as more PCs out there as iOS and Android devices combined. Also, the tablet market is practically collapsing these days.

Gartner ? ROFL

> Yeah, it so exploded, that its market share never ever reached (even at its peak) the 1/4 of IE's. And it took them 6 years to reach that. In contrast: IE only needed 4 years to achieve 90% market share. Chrome needed 6 year to reach more than Firefox ever did.

> "But 10 years on, with zero per cent growth versus growth for Chrome and stabilisation for Internet Explorer"

Actually, not that wrong, what you say here ... although FF managed to get 25% pretty quickly ... considering that at the time you had no "browser choice window", I would say pretty impressive - most users had no choice ... they needed to know of Mozilla to download it. Mozilla that probably posted three ads in the Washington Post over the years, and even then ...

> "Arguably, the desktop is less of a concern given that the PC market has stalled. Growth is in devices, where Mozilla reckons Firefox has its future with Firefox OS."

> Neither Firefox OS's, nor the Firefox browser's can be measured in the mobile area. They're practically below measurement threshold.

Never seen any data on that ... all I know is that I have firefox on my android devices ...

You sir, have no clue.

Microsoft warns of super-sized Patch Tuesday next week

Hans 1
Windows

>The Microsoft method of scheduled updates on a known timescale (unless exploits are already in the wild) is far better than most other products with random patch release dates.

With FOSS software and a git/subversion/cvs client, you can get the sources as soon as the software has been patched by the dev and compile from source if it is a 0-day ... NOTHING BEATS THAT.

Proprietary software is for numpties like you, no ifs, buts or maybes.

Hans 1
Windows

Ohh, just another 15 reboots required ...

Why solid-state disks are winning the argument

Hans 1

Re: Developers need what now?

Dear anon, I regret to write that I downvoted you ... then I thought, anon ? Must be a window cleaner, so yes, when you develop Windows software (clock.exe, calc.exe, browser extension, toobar, adware, or malware) then you should not be allowed to have an SSD ... but, when you build ENTERPRISE software, you ought to have an SSD.

As for wear ... I believe in the theory of this and after 5 years must say ... it is utter bullshit. There is no wear, I build every workday, multiple times, a multiple Gb code base, the doc alone is 2000+ pages PDF, hundreds of files per build, many < 4kb ... you get it ... I used to build just the doc on spinning laptop rust ... 45 minutes, 15 on Samsung F1's, back in the day on Core2Quad ... now on SSD ? More like 5. Everybody in our team has SSD's, none have worn out, even after 5 years of builds ... AND I am the only one who has toggled swapping, hybernating etc ...

Besides, say the SSD breaks after 7 years, could happen, how big were spinning rust drives 7 years ago ? Just about 1Tb, iirc ... now, imagine ... forget spinning rust, SSD's will very shortly kill spinning rust price wise and capacity wise ... easy - not even comptetition ... first multi teras out already ....

The ULTIMATE CRUELTY: Sandworm uses PowerPoint against Swiss bank customers

Hans 1
Boffin

Re: Bah!

You know what, I am a trained trainer ... and powerpoint sucks dicks to get a point across ... unless you have a bunch of numpties in front of you who will appreciate the prowess to have managed four different font colors on a single line ...

Seriously, though, a whiteboard does the trick much better, you do need to know how to entertain and draw, though ... PowerPoint, Impress, KeyNote is for the rest.

KeyNote beats PowerPoint hands down on `wow factor` ...

Hans 1
Windows

Re: Aghast

>But stupid money bearing NEW end users come along in droves every few minutes wanting a point and click world, so at this rate, there'll never be an end to this sort of malarchy, oh, sorry meant anarchy. Any attempts to run a country or a bank, etc using these softturds is just a fucking joke, always will be.

There are point and click environments out there that do not have these kinds of problems, thought I would let you know ... I upvoted, though, the rest is ok, imho.

Brit cops nab six in Silk Road 2.0 drugs sting

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Facepalm

Hippies, do not forget, these guyz were NOT ONLY dealing HTC, they were dealing other stuff such as heroin.

No, I do not take illegal drugs, as beer, wine & co do it for me. I have absolutely no problem with ppl taking HTC stuff, though, and don't forget their brain usually gets damaged over the years - I know many who are taking this crap daily, they are now slow thinkers ... even when they have not had anything over the last few days. I guess AA attendees have these issues as well, though.

Now, the irony is, not later than last week was there a documentary on French TV, prime time, about the dark net ... they claimed it was "safe" for villains ... Now, you must know that French TV is heavily censured, not as much as during the 60's & 70's or between 2005 and 2012, but still.

So obviously, when these topics come up on TV here it means the French intelligence (TNS/Sofres aka RG) have the means to get you.

I do not bother to post anon, because they already know me, what I say about them on the interwebs and the day they smash my front door in, all they'll get is a Royal British Salute: \/

Happy 2nd birthday, Windows 8 and Surface: Anatomy of a disaster

Hans 1

Re: Next up, Jony Ives?

> but faulty internal SATA cables are a surprisingly frequent problem with some non-Retina models.

I suspected that on a mac, then switched to a Samsung Evo SSD (Samsung Pro works wonders as well) and the issues were gone.

Not sure what it is, but I updated firmware on mac, on SSD all to no avail, plugged ssd into another mac where it worked fine ... not sure, but I switched to the evo and that seemed to just work wonders.

Microsoft releases free anti-malware for Azure VMs

Hans 1
Windows

Thank god in the FOSS world you do not need this shit ... if there is a flaw, it will be fixed before lunch, get the sources, recompile, done ... no wait til patch Tuesday followed by three reboots ... but hey, whatever floats your boat, man ....

Elon Musk hits the brakes on Tesla's e-SUV Model X production

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Coffee/keyboard

Re: e-SUV?

Because you think consumer SUV's can tackle anything resembling a ploughed field ?

LMAO!

Edit: Consumer SUV's being any Volkswagen group or BMW SUV's ... Ford's don't count, as they fail to reach the ploughed field, under normal operation.

OpenSUSE 13.2: Have your gecko and eat your rolling distro too

Hans 1
Windows

Re: testing...

Why do you think BTRFS is the current hot thing in the GNU/Linux ecosystem ? Where have you been over the last 5 years ?

You can go a look at wikipedia as well, you know, before posting a comment ... just saying ...

Hide your Macs, iPhones and iPads: WireLurker nasty 'heralds new era'

Hans 1
Coat

Whatever you do, stay covered and watch out where you insert it... that is what me dad told me when I was 14. Applies to all USB devices I have around here as well ... ;-)

Basically, an infected computer can infect non-jailbroken iphone. I assume that is a bug in both iTunes and iPhone, then.

Forget Paris: OpenStack is not a cheap alternative to VMware

Hans 1

Re: VMware versus Hyper V.

Thank god you are anon ... You know, when you go looking for virtualization solution, you do need to go and do some homework.

You got confused by Vmware server, ESX, ESXi, vcentre, and vcentre client ? I think there is this great unreliable encyclopedia out there, wiki .... wiki ... oh yeah, wikipedia, ever heard of that ? That should have been step one.

Step two is you look at the support queries in forums ... with a big pinch of salt, as of course, ppl that are happy with their setup usually do not ask questions on forums.

Oh, and Hyper-V ? Can I migrate a vm from one physical server to another as seamlessly as with vmware ? You know what, MS have had issues with that since day one .... hyper-v sucks golf balls through garden hoses. That is why OpenStack is an option.

BBC clamps down on illicit iPlayer watchers

Hans 1
Boffin

Re: Smart TVs too

I have said it numerous times, only dumb people buy smart devices (smart tv's, blueray players etc ) and expect the functionality to last. And firmware updates are very uncommon because the devices in question have a short shelf life ... better processors, more memory etc means these TV's only remain on the market for a year or two ... then they get replaced by bigger and better ... the manufacturers have no incentive to release new firmwares ... get something of which you have full control ... a SOC device with your OS, such as a raspberry pi or the like ...

Russians hear Tim Cook is gay, pull dead Steve Jobs' enormous erection

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Re: This post has been deleted by a moderator

@Belardi

>And there are guys out there (who are not gay) who have their wives perform back-door sex on them.

They ARE gay and just don't have the balls to admit it, and, that's ok as well. That IS their choice, their life ... as long as you are not forced to assist, I guess you (not you Belardi, but all the anti-gays on here) can shut the f up.

Hans 1
Windows

Re: This post has been deleted by a moderator

@Tapeador

>I can only assume you feel deeply status-deprived and inadequate, and wish to drag someone down to your level so you can feel some sense of power.

Some of the high profile anti-gays are/were gay, Haider, Putin ... I take this further and believe the gay-haters are in fact gay themselves, however, they do not accept it for some odd reason and that is why they are afraid of gays, it reminds them of their true feelings and they are panicking ... gays around them might find out ...

That is the only rational reason I can think of why people are anti-gay.

Brighten your November morning: 900 in-browser arcade classics added to the Internet Archive

Hans 1

Just lost 30 minutes playing those games ... I have firefox 33 and some work, others are a bit flakey, some did not work at all for me ... any, thanks, I will have to leave later, today ...

Was ist das? Eine neue Suse Linux Enterprise? Ausgezeichnet!

Hans 1

Remembers Suse with a little nostalgia. I bought the 7.0 Professional version back in the day, worth it for the books alone that were shipped with it. I read them and became an instant power user. I was able to compile a kernel, optimized for my hardware - back then, performance required hacking (no, window cleaner, you DO NOT KNOW what hacking means, you confuse it with cracking).

Anyway, I moved to Debian for apt alone, after a move to from Suse to slackware.

I remember the nightmare it was to install an rpm with dependencies, you require 5 rpm's, which each require another set of rpm's, et cetera ad nauseam. I kept it on my workstation, though, until v8.x, not sure which release it was exactly, where a night-time update replaced glibc with something that did not allow me to launch even a terminal.

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Facepalm

Re: Isn't the whole thing about systemd...

>'my way or the highway'

There is no such thing as 'my way or the highway' in the Freetard ecosystem (GNU/Linux, *BSD, OpenSolaris ...), there are numerous alternatives to systemd out there, you choose whatever floats your boat - yes it takes a little configuration, but hey, it can be done and there are step-by-step instructions available on the interwebs.

'my way or the highway' is the mantra of proprietary bullshit, exclusively ... like Adobe software that is sooo bloated it uses more resources than an entire OS needs to build a kernel ... all to display a 1mb bitmap, Windows that has a footprint of an entire package repository, or iTunes ???

You get what you pay for: Kingston's SSDNow V310 960GB whopper

Hans 1

Re: Write endurance /= reliability

Well, I certainly think that for consumers this endurance story is BS. By the time the drive fails, there will be much bigger and faster drives to be had. Even for me as a developer, tens of Gb writes /workday ... I bought a 512Gb drive some three years ago and it is still doing fine - I will be getting a 1Tb drive soon, the price is 1/2 of what I paid for the 521Gb drive back in the day. I will put it into one of the other computers the kids use round here until it finally dies.

It is not like the spinning rust drives, they are not doubling capacity every two years.

I am waiting for the 3.5" SSD with 10Tb capacity, I am pretty sure current tech allows that. I guess they are slowly increasing capacity for maximum ROI to please shareholders.

Microsoft has Windows Server running on ARM: report

Hans 1
Windows

Indeed, it is easy, Windows NT was built multi-arch from the ground up.

The one problem they will have is the same one OpenSolaris has ... drivers. They do expect everybody to write drivers for Windows, well, that does not work out so much since XP 64 and Windows Server 2003. Windows 7 has had better driver support, yet a lot of old hardware remains unsupported and look at the state for Windows 8[.x] !

The second problem they face is software, NT software from 3rd parties is not a recompile away from a new hardware platform, unlike the Linux/Solaris/FreeBSD equivalents.

Windows Server has a footprint in the tens of Gb; compare that to the tens of Mb the competition has.

Microsoft's nightmare DEEPENS: Windows 8 market share falling fast

Hans 1
Windows

Re: I feel a little sorry for Redmond....

>I'm still operating under the belief that an unpublished part of MS' settlement of monopolist charges with the U.S. Department of Justice is a requirement that, starting with XP, every second iteration of Windows desktop OS must be confusing, resource-gobbling bloatware.

I'm still operating under the belief that an unpublished part of MS' settlement of monopolist charges with the U.S. Department of Justice is a requirement that, starting with Windows 2000, every iteration of Windows desktop OS must be confusing, resource-gobbling bloatware.

There, fixed that.

Now, I have now just moved from Gnome 2 to Gnome 3 and am trying very hard to adapt ... of course, <super> ↓↓↓→<enter> no longer opens the browser (yes, I could have made it <super>→<enter> very easily) ... I now have to re-learn ... <super> "fire" <enter>

Hans 1
Mushroom

Re: I don't want it

@ Andrew Jones 2

Shit, that was simple, how come nobody comes up with it ? Probably because it used to be:

"Start > All Programs > Mail app"

"Un-maximise"

Windows 10 feedback: 'Microsoft, please do a deal with Google to use its browser'

Hans 1

Yeah, I know ... Could someone please execute all ui designers who think that big ugly buttons are it? They only ever make sense with a touchscreen that gets some use ... and I have yet to see people use a touchscreen on anything other than a tablet/phone. Waste of screen real-estate for the rest of us.

Tor exit node mashes malware into downloads

Hans 1

This sucks, big time. Not that I use tor, however, I guess this can also be used to tamper with Linux and OS X executables. Is this only limited to tor network ? Any thoughts ?

Back to the ... drawing board: 'Hoverboard' will disappoint Marty McFly wannabes

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Boffin

Re: Wow so many cynics here

Exactly how much power do you need to lift a 150 ton building ? Thought so ... on batteries, Christ, you have some pretty good kit, there, mate ...

PARC Alto source code released by computer history museum

Hans 1
Boffin

Re: Portrait Screens

Yeah, author is not a dev ... You really only need landscape mode to watch movies, look at pics ... for coding, internet etc portrait is better .... it certainly allows you to see more lines of code ...

Microsoft pulls another dodgy patch

Hans 1
Windows

There are other updates reportedly causing issues this month, including KB2984972 (breaks App-V packages) and KB2995388 (causing issues with VMware workstation).

Just sayin'

Source: http://windowsitpro.com/security/kb2949927-may-have-been-pulled

Want a more fuel efficient car? Then redesign it – here's how

Hans 1
WTF?

Drivers urged to speed up to save on costly diesel particular filter DPF repairs

LOL, I know a guy in a BMW dealership ... all they do is replace the DPF, get the Kaercher to clean the used part (as long as customer does not request to have it back), and sell it second hand.

If your DPF is blocked, get yourself a kaecher and clean the f'ing thing.