Typical MS
Oh so typical MS. So damn typical.
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is broken and should DIE, dev tells Microsoft
Judge Lower said, “I have found Mr O’Neill to be a vain, manipulative and grandstanding individual who sought to persuade me that black is white and used the valuable time of professionals to describe sexual fantasies he may or may not have,” according to the Guardian.
Know the type well. They make up half the board of directors of the world as well as other minor and major petty fiefdom rulers.
However, being recto-cranially-inverted is not against the law and you can almost count of those types to eventually hang from their own petards.
At the very least that consists of sorting out Windows problems for friends and family.
Many of us have been supporting Windows since literally the last century and we are saying it's crap because it is. (I started with DOS 2.0, but didn't get paid for it until Win 95)
I have worked in IT for years, and installing Linux on any platform/brand has always been a crap shoot. It either works, or it wont and there is no fix for it, unless you develop it yourself.
Really? Because I've installed several flavors of Linux on a variety of machines and they have always worked.
Have you tried in the last few years? I haven't had any problems in the last 5 years.
Wow. The hoops you have to jump through to run Windows these days...
It's always been that way. Remember XP's 3 service packs before it actually became a good OS? And that was considered progress for Microsoft.
And that's the problem. MS has had 21 years since Win 95 to perfect upgrades and updates and they haven't. Yet I can run a Linux DVD, FROM the DVD player, and it works right the first time and runs just as fast as Win 7, 64 bit. From the DVD player. Never mind after I install it. Windows can't even touch it.
MS has used up all my patience. They are crap.
Eventually, your computer WILL be your phone. Monitors and keyboards and mice will be commodity and ubiquitous. Your home and work peripherals will be the custom kit.
The phone will have the power of any modern day average business laptop of today. It will have the core OS and the virtual OS. One will run desktop workstation apps and the other the phone.
This should happen within the next 10 years. Technical hardware wise, it's already all over but the shouting.
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and the app won't work? Sigh
Back up tapes at one place I worked were somehow not working after I began testing them. One after the other. Ran verification tests and still nothing or only partial, corrupted back ups.
Spent weeks trying to figure it out, then by pure happenstance I notice a very strong magnetic field in the vicinity of where the tapes were stored. (strange buzzing noise from a piece of equipment that should not be making buzzing noise but only when sitting in a very certain spot)
Managed to get a building engineer to come down with a field tester and sure enough, there was an unusually strong magnetic field right in that one spot. Turns out it was close to an outside wall that was receiving very strong bounced radio waves from somewhere outside.
You can surmise the rest. Yeah, no backups.
Typical support call:
Me: "what messages are you getting"
User: "I dunno, I just click past them cause they don't make any sense."
Me: "Lets recreate what you are doing so we can see the message"
*recreates event - user closes the windows as soon as it pops up*
Me: "Why did you do that? I need to see message."
User: "It doesn't make any sense to me"
Me: Bangs head on desk for the umpteenth time that day.
My other favorite? When in remote session, user won't stop using the computer and I have to lock them out.
I worked at one call center for internal support and was often asked what the hell was taking so long to resolve the issues? I dunno, maybe because the fix needed 4 fixes to work? With the first fix being a remote connection problem? From literally a 1000 miles away.
Morons.
When will politicians muster the political will to acknowledge that the police - as a body - cannot be trusted to, well, police itself?
They can't. Politicians are literally extorted and threatened by the police the same as the rest of us. So are cops who "snitch" on other cops. The U.S. police are literally the top gang.
That's a lot of money to basically determine that;
A. The grid should never be connected to the damn Internet in the first place.
B. Use good security policy and enforce it with an iron fist.
and C. Most buildings and devices are going to be self powered in another 30 years or less and the grid will just be a back up system.
But hey, when you belong to the right club...