Posts by Dan 55

Re: x86 Software

will run MacOS, irrespective of the underlying hardware

Catalina has shown that that's not true, not even for 32-bit software on the same CPU. There was no real reason to remove support for 32-bit software either.

If they do the move to ARM in the same way then you can kiss most of your existing software goodbye.

Re: Well you obviously don't write software that does much

I thought the registry was out of fashion now and %APPDATA% was recommended by MS.

I.e. files just like Linux and Mac.

I'm don't doubt that Domino and replication were the bee's nuts, but the client was all most people saw. It didn't need some improvement, it needed a lot of improvement. Server-side Lotus also died because the client was terrible to use for years.

Lotus Notes, eh? There was a website dedicated to how bad it was (the archive.org copy sadly does not have the row of stock photos of business people facepalming across the top).

Re: Disk free

Such is the state of things these days that your first install from disc is an unplayable bug-ridden mess and a day-one update is required anyway. However unlike, say, Steam, there is no CD key, so you can actually sell/buy discs second hand and the new owner can put the disc in their drive and get updates too, so there's that.

Hopefully the lack of CD keys will continue with the PS5, but you can see that the frog boiling continues apace.

Your Sony TITSUP already happened in 2011, didn't it?

Re: Junction support

Yes, you also can't set DISPLAY to localhost:0 because it's in a VM.

I installed it against my better instincts but at least the computer didn't go up in flames, that's 'pretty good' when it comes to major Windows version upgrades.

Re: Evidence in the privacy case against Google?

It's certainly a big list and even more reason to switch away from Chrome (and Chromedge which uses MS replacements).

Re: Vivaldi?

Vivaldi forum mod says just the extension updater abd chromecasting uses Google services.

Re: Nuts

There was a made-for-TV film version which started Leonard Nimoy about 20 years ago.

Re: 450 cities protesting racism

Do you think, with so many robocops around?

Still seems like a 50/50 coin toss on whether the country will be called the United States or Gilead by this time next year.

Re: While I believe that Britain would have been better off overall staying in the EU....

The policy being revised four times was mostly due to EURid setting a date than the UK kicking the Brexit can down the road meaning EURid's policy has to be updated.

Could we work out the relative dismalness of both the UK's can kicking and EURid's policy changes which are mostly a reaction to said can kicking?

Re: We dont need .eu !!! :)

As the guy said, "USA food poisoning is 10x EU".

Re: I always thought .eu was for European nations, not the European Union.

The EU has a habit of adopting European organisations that were created as independent collaborations prior the EU existing.

But that can't be claimed that about EURid.

Re: victim mentality

What irritates us is when a particular proposed arrangement is clearly of some benefit to both the EU and a non-member like the UK, but the EU refuses to agree because any apparent benefit to the UK post-Brexit is unacceptable, even if it also benefits the EU.

What would be the benefit for the EU in handing out .eu domains to non-EU organisations? Thruppence ha'penny in the grand scheme of things? I think we're overrating ourselves a bit, aren't we?

Re: The EU was not keeping you from doing more.

Do you mean Britain has absolutely no say in EU trade deal negotiations?

And even if the UK could negotiate completely independently and bilaterally while being part of the EU, could it ever hope to achieve the same leverage as it did when negotiating deals as part of the EU whole?

I think the answers there are no and no.

Re: does filter out friend&family support calls

Also, if you double click there is no option to override Gatekeeper, but if you right click then choose Open there is.

Whoever thought of that hadn't read Apple's own UI guidelines, it should have been something like shift-double click or holding down shift in the context menu to get Open Overriding Gatekeeper.

Re: Developers!

Whatever version of Windows 10 this guy is using must be missing the 'Settings' option.

I can't remember offhand which box(es) you untick to make all the stuff he's whinging about never appear.

[...]

You'd expect a 'computer savvy' person like a developer would know this kind of basic stuff.

So the choice for the average user is going into settings and clicking non-obvious places or responding to seven prompts, many in non-obvious ways.

Lucky we have you here to tell us it's easy, you just go into Settings and, er, oh. You can't remember off-hand.

Re: I thought containers were a thing now

Each 'level' is really a different VM so try configuring it as you would on your own computer: Limit internet to one site.

Nissan wants to wind down the whole of their European operations, the only question is will they wind down Sunderland last or will they wind down France last. As Brexit is supposedly next year we will find out fairly soon.

"If nothing else works, a total pig-headed unwillingness to look facts in the face will see us through."

Re: Didn't that happen already?

If only there was some way to get an extension to the temporary arrangement without the humiliation of having to ask for one.

If only there was a way to have Brexit without any Brexit?

Re: "The BBC is selling Beeb as a privacy-friendly option"

And probably linked to your iPlayer sign-on.

They missed a trick, they should have called it Auntie Beeb though. Makes a nice change from Big Brother.