MS can't even protect their own security staff's email ... and we should trust them to AI in our business decisions?
Posts by revdjenk
117 publicly visible posts • joined 29 Jan 2010
Microsoft's vision for the future of work is you trusting Redmond to get AI right
Microsoft 365's add-on avalanche is putting the squeeze on customers
WINE 9.0 improves ability to run 32-bit Windows apps on 64-bit-only xNix
Re: What windows version does it report as
Ages ago, when I tried this, the stumbling block was the tax software's dependency on MS' browser.
I sent emails to the specific program I wanted to use, reminding them that they used Linux on their servers. Since I knew they were aware of Linux, I was hoping they'd develop future programs for it.
I just gave up, and switched to OLT, On-Line Tax (olt.com) and have been quite happy.
AMD scours parts bin for old CPUs, GPUs to put in Chromebooks
BOFH takes a visit to retro computing land
Extras ...
Went to a computer shop close-out sale with a friend who was looking for a certain old model computer. He found it ... but the proprietor said to get this great low price, we had to take 10 CRT monitors along with it. For my friend, the price, it was a deal even with the need to dispose of the monitors later.
I took them off his hands, however.
I lined our back deck railing with the monitors ... you see, my wife had been begging for a screened in porch!
Ford seeks patent for cars that ditch you if payments missed
Have you been Hertz?
I've seen many articles about people who have viable rental vehicle agreements lose the vehicle when it was taken back by a major rental car company. This has happened even to people who have bought former rental vehicles ... just one day, gone, and the rental agency claims proper actions and/or ownership!
Now, I've worked for a major credit union in the department that dealt with past due accounts, and have done repossessions myself. While it didn't happen to me, I had associates who had guns pointed at them for attempting to repossess vehicles. So I see the potential life preserving nature of this Ford capability, as well as its ease in recovery of a loan agencies property
However, I also know that communication between loan and credit departments is not always smooth and accurate, much less between a loan agency and the automaker itself!
Dear Stupid, I write with news I did not check the content of the [Name] field before sending this letter
This can’t be a real bomb threat: You've called a modem, not a phone
Hey, GitHub, can you create an array compare function without breaking the GPL?
You can never have too many backups. Also, you can never have too many backups
Copy?
Worked for a large retail chain which had tape backup for its system.
It was the task of every closing shift to copy the day's business to tape, remove the tape and store it, and replace it with a new tape.
That was fine, until it was noticed that the last backup tape had no data on it! whoops
Lot's of busy keystrokes the following day!
Oh Deere: Farm hardware jailbroken to run Doom
Happy birthday, Windows Vista: Troubled teen hits 15
'This was bigger than GNOME and bigger than just this case.' GNOME Foundation exec director talks patent trolls and much, much more
Let's see what the sweet, kind, new Microsoft that everyone loves is up to. Ah yes, forcing more Office home users into annual subscriptions
Re: Ransomware
Um ... the MSOffice formats ARE propietary! Were you around for the switch from Office 95 to Office 97?
Do you realize now the work that must be done by other software companies to bring the MS formats into their programs?
The Open Document Format (odf) is truly non-propietary.
I've used LibreOffice and its predecessors since 1999.
Rise of the Machines hair-raiser: The day IBM's Dot Matrix turned
Crystal ball gazers declare that Windows 10 has finally overtaken Windows 7
Tech support discovers users who buy the 'sh*ttest PCs known to Man' struggle with basics
Re: It's 2018
The Mrs. and I have been through seven different OS's (she is definitely the trooper!)
Color Computer Color Basic (OS/9 very briefly)
DOS
Windows 1.03 (would almost equate this with 10, the basic colors, non-overlapped windows)
GEOS Ensemble
Windows 3.1 - Vista
Linux - various, but primarily PCLinuxOS for 2 years and LinuxMint for 10
Chromebook
Microsoft points to a golden future where you can make Windows 10 your own
Microsoft: You don't want to use Edge? Are you sure? Really sure?
Re: Block IE and Edge
I dual boot LinuxMint and win10 at my office computer. Twice a year, I update windows, in case it gets used, to keep it safe. Just completed that task on Monday. It took from 11am - 6pm! Three reboots!
Once that was done, rebooted into Mint and noticed update available, including kernel update. Took less than 15 minutes, and I kept working! No restarts required!
My PC is broken, said user typing in white on a white background
Does my boom look big in this? New universe measurements bewilder boffins
Re: The edge is nothing more than a ripple in the pond
Traveled western US with some friends, one a guy from Sweden. He made us stop every 15-20 minutes driving across Kansas. He would take a picture. We kept asking, "Why are you taking a picture of 'nothing?'" (To us, the expanse of cornfields going off to infinity was nothing.) He just kept mumbling, "They won't believe how huge it is!"
Microsoft hits new low: Threatens to axe classic Paint from Windows 10
Questions ...
Weren't all these add-ons like Paint, WMP, Internet Explorer,etc. meant to kill off some competing application and/or to give impression of the completeness of the OS by including it into windows?
Are these features being taken out now to fill out the Windows Store with more applications?
Make Christmas Great Again: $149 24-karat gold* Trump tree ornament
Invasion of the virus-addled lightbulbs (and other banana stories)
Linux malware? That'll never happen. Ok, just this once then
Re: "those who run Redis without requiring a password for connections"
First, if you read the article, you need a poorly secured server running Redis.
Second, from Redis' own site:
"Redis is an open source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure store, used as database, cache and message broker."
So, it isn't Linux!
Very peed off: Ohio urologists stay zipped after embarrassing leak
No need to panic, says SwiftKey, as email addresses, phone numbers appear on strangers' screens
Free Windows 10 upgrade: Time is running out – should you do it?
Microsoft joins battery-saving browser bandwagon with Edge claims
Re: A world first!
"The same effect is true on Windows, Linux and Mac."
Yes, Chrome is running hot and heavy on my laptop running LinuxMint (which had win8 installed for about 10 minutes). However, there is no way to test Edge. So, until MS makes it available for more than one OS, we will never know if this test is because of internal code benefit. (MS has been known to do this! http://www.ecis.eu/documents/Finalversion_Consumerchoicepaper.pdf)
Apple man found dead at Cupertino HQ, gun discovered nearby
How Remix's Android will eat the world
Re: VirtualBox?
I can't help you on virtualbox, except point to a youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t5kECk_U_Q
I'm running Remix on Linux Mint (following simple directions here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/remix/remix-os/remix-os-installation-rooting-t3293769).
My problem isn't getting it to run, but actually using it. It is familiar enough, but just enough different, that some actions seem exasperating.
Don't get me wrong! Remix is extraordinary in getting Android working in multiple, resizable windows. I was having trouble scrolling within the windows, getting app screen icons to open the app, having my gmail account suddenly being no longer associated with Remix after 20 minutes of operation.
Barbie-brained Mattel exec phell for phishing, sent $3m to China
Microsoft adds 'non-security updates' to security patches
Confirmed: How to stop Windows 10 forcing itself onto PCs – your essential guide
Remember Windows 1.0? It's been 30 years (and you're officially old)
Microsoft to Linux users: Explain yourself
Re: Microsoft are a large company
@phuzz
"Look at the work they did allowing the SAMBA devs access to all the SMB/CIFS documentation even while Ballmer was still in charge."
December 20th 2007. Today the Protocol Freedom Information Foundation (PFIF), a non-profit organization created by the Software Freedom Law Center, signed an agreement with Microsoft to receive the protocol documentation needed to fully interoperate with the Microsoft Windows workgroup server products and to make them available to Free Software projects such as Samba.
Microsoft was required to make this information available to competitors as part of the European Commission March 24th 2004 Decision in the antitrust lawsuit, after losing their appeal against that decision on September 17th 2007.
https://www.samba.org/samba/PFIF/
That's why they "allowed" access to the documentation!
Long, sticky summer ahead: Win 10 will be with OEMs by 31 August
'Utterly unusable' MS Word dumped by SciFi author Charles Stross
Some Androids can be HOSED by WiFi Direct vuln
@Jeff Lewis
Again, as the OP said, one has to be searching for wifi devices, and someone else on that network has that brief moment to inject themselves into the other phone. And the damage? Reboot!
Microsoft has "rebooted" many relationships with partners and written out third-party vendors by adding their own apps and extensions. They spent much time and resources on giving their own programs the inside track, and slowed or restricted others from these same connections.
They did all this instead of writing in better security, interoperability and using established standards.
DAMN YOU! Microsoft blasts Google over zero-day blabgasm
Re: What's Google afraid of?
I ran win8 long enough on my machine to get to a setting on the "charms" bar to make a change so I could install Linux.
To get to that point, I had to accept the EULA, even though I never intended to use win8.
See the problem there?
[Oh, and I am one of many who don't have to struggle with Patch Tuesdays. Mine are delivered when necessary and needed, and I apply them, and continue on with my productivity.]