Posts by Michael Habel

You can't understand the Windows hate?! Funny 'cause you touched on sever points of why I disliked Windows 8.x for instance.... Things I hate (or at least on paper dislike), are enforced Driver / UI Updates with little to no say in the matter of what gets installed... The p2p sharing of the aforementioned updates at MY EXPENSE! Sure uncle Google can tell you how to turn this one off. But, why is it even on to start with?!

I'm sure the allusion of having to shellout for things like the standard DirectX Updates will also go down well, as well. There are plenty of reasond to dislike where MicroSoft are taking Windows. Its one thing to move Office online... It will not be as simple for them to do this with Windows which is on a far more personal level. While the exit en-mass to Linux may not happen. It will happen with other non PC style equipment, and I think MicroSoft have their finger on this pulse. But, they're making this a self fulfilling prophecy with Windows 10 as it is. When what every one wants is the LTSB (5+ year version).

To add to this... DirectX shall never be the noose with which they'll hang me with... I could care lees if DX12 is ONLY for Windows X! I'm sure the PC Master Race will swallow it But, PC gaming has never appealed to me in the post MS-DOS era. But, MicroSoft will end up finding its market this way. But, I wonder how paying for something that was essentially an OS Patch will eventually play down.

But, whats sadder in this post Windows X launch, is the lack of heart felt motivation to step away from Windows 7. Like I said... It probably is very well a godsend for those on Windows 8.x. I have NO problems in believing that! But, this is in-and-of-itself is NOT enough motivation for me a Windows 7 user to want to pack it all up and, call it a day. And, its only just shy a slap in the face that only the Bankster Classes will be granted the LTSB (Ultimate) Branch of W10.

I have very little interest in being just a bit further up the chain then a bleeding-edge alpha Insider Tester. So that they can be in turn spared. And, then there are other problems with this OS like the p2p update system... Yeah... I'm sure thats gonna last the lifetime of the OS without ever getting p0wned once.

Suddenly Windows (H)8 is becoming itself more, and more attractive... This can't be good for MicroSoft.....

Re: Linux

Try Linux Mint, all the Debian (apt-get), goodness without the Amazon bloat. -- fixed that for you... Ubuntu might be the goto brand... But, at the end of the day it is itself only a fork of Debian.

PS: I actually like Windows 10. Upgraded it over a dinner time from Windows 8.1 and started using it as I'd left off before. No glitches or anything. Very impressed.

I'm sure a random dog turd on the sidewalk, would be more impressive then Windows 8.x. So I'll trust your opinion on this matter. But, what I'd like to know is how it fairs against say a real OS like Windows 7 x64 Ultimate...

Re: Workarounds

'Cause VLC would as likely as not also rely on the Stagefright CODECs to Videos to actually work.... Since its actually part of the Android -- Linux System, and would NOT otherwise be included with Kodi, or VLC... It's hardly like we could expect them to fix it for us. I'd imagine a Patch in-and-of-itself wouldn't take the World to fix.... But, getting that Patch out to everyone who'd needs it, is. Google need to have a re-think about how to bypass the OEM's to allow those who need to get Security Patches, to then actually get them... FAST!

Then again... With no credible third Mobile OS out there, they still have time.... I suppose. And NO WinPho... Is in my book anything BUT, credible.... As bad as Android might be.... I'd still would have it over WinPho every time. This just makes me wish that the Ubuntu Phone was a bit closer to reality now though.

Re: Workarounds

Anonymous commenter at Slashdot suggests modifying the following entry in /system/build.prop:

media.stagefright.enable-player=false

(Root is required to modify build.prop)

Great so I managed to kill off stagefright.... How the Hell do I use my seemingly legit Kodi Install (Google Playstore), to watch stuff on my Phablet now?! Speaking about Kodi I guess it would be an even higher infection vector, in the sense, that its raison d'etre IS to play Movies (i.e. Clips)... Not above the board. (i.e From unknown sources). While there hasn't been much said about it. I don't think this is the first instance of a Video managing to pw0n some System. (Thinking of Windows here),.

But, Kodi (Formerly known as XBMC), or in some cases SPMC. Damned well nearly relay on stagefright to work. Assuming you wanted your Movies to actually work.

Remind me again where anything in this article or comment thread says you should upgrade?

Oh, it doesn't? And you're just throwing shit around like a confused monkey?

Fine.

You Sir are correct, there is nothing in the article at all about how the reception to Windows X over the coming months could spell either the success, or eventual continued failures in Redmond.

We begin Redmond's fiscal 2016 with the Windows 10 launch next week, and it's very much a make-or-break moment. If the new OS is received as coolly as Windows 8 was, expect a very bloody year indeed for Microsoft.

Not a single word at all....

To my friendly downvoter.... Since you seem to be of the opinion that Windows X is, going to be the next greatest thing since XP.... Would you mind sharing these opinions with the rest of us?!

Thanks!

As Zaphod once remarked:

That's impossible!

Trillian responds back:

No... Just very, very improbable.

Lottery Tickets are kinda like this... If the chances of ever winning were 0:∞-¹ then nobody would bother playing it at all...

Re: @Mage Lotteries

A shame that TV's can't work that way....

Re: no matter what MS force on us

You wont get patches sight-unseen. The insider program is going to continue even after the official release. Any updates will first be rolled out to the insiders and then to the general public. Although how much that will help only time will tell.

A.K.A. MicroSofts like of Alpha Testers... Really if your not already on W7/W8.. To get the *cough* free *cough* Windows OSX Update... Why would you reserve yourself to this special place in computer Hell for yourself? Probably the same 'dolts that actually convinced themselves that W8+Metro was the BEST THING EVER!!

Really such users should probably bight the built and, install Cinnamon Mint instead!

Re: no matter what MS force on us

What could *possibly* go wrong with simultaneous updates of scores of millions of computers in the homes of technically unsophisticated users?

What indeed.... Let's though this pile of Tat, at that wall... (of massively), unwilling of Windows OSX users out there, and see what sticks! Before we feed our latest creation off to the Banksters. No sense in pissing them off... Since they'll be the first to transition to Linux, should they be provoked into doing so....

And, so congratulations! EVERYONES A BETA TESTER NOW! Save the Insiders... They get promoted to become MicroSoft's Alpha Team!

Me I'm the kinda guy that prefers to wait till six months after the first Service Pack, before installing.

Re: no matter what MS force on us

<blockqoute>Why would anyone want a 'fix' to stop important security updates & fixes? Anyone declining updates puts themselves at risk as well as others.

Some of you are being awkward just for the sake of it. Having said that, as I.T Admins you'd be using the Enterprise version which you having full control over updates. If you are the kind of Admins who do not deploy updates after a week or two of testing then you should be removed from your jobs.</blockqoute>

Yeah 'cause MicroSoft NEVER install such utterly useless and annoying crap like KB905474 (Windows XP WGA Phonehome Spy/Nag-ware), and will boldface lie to you, about how "Critical" this Update was at the time!

In more recent times... (Of unwanted, or unbidden, unasked for Nagware's), we have KB3035583. Which after how many Months this crap has been up, and gets set to "hidden DO NOT alert me about this again...". Just keeps popping up every month again as an "Important Update"....

So I for One will trust MicroSoft IMPLICITLY to never abuse such a mechanism EVER... I've never once said! I might have mentioned somewhere in passing, a old Hitchhikers quote about not trusting MicroSoft in this capacity more then I could spit a lightly fried Stoat.... In a Bun!

Well I still don't, and as if I actually needed reason to avoid Windows 8.x / Windows OSX like the Plague.... I'd say look no further.... As far as MicroSoft's history of destructive / disruptive history of Windows Updates go.... When you have Security Houses... Warring you to perhaps, let that KB3065718 (SQL Server Remote Code Execution). Which MicroSoft postponed last month, because they thought it wasn't quite ready for prime-time. Are telling their Customers that, they may well still want to give KB3065718, the slip. Should they actually value stability, over updates.

Yep.... Sign me up for Windows OSX TOUT SUITE.... I also never said!

Re: no matter what MS force on us

There is a perfect fix for this already, it's called a Linux distro...

Or Windows 7 x64 Ultimate! ... Or perhaps to a lesser degree if your into that sorta thing... (Which personally I'm not!), Windows 8.x. Both of which should be ok for the time being.

Re: Is it possible that in going from 8 to 10 they've skipped the decent release?

FYI The Coke down in Mexico contains a higher grade Cain Sugar, unlike the cheaper High Fructose Corn Syrup most everyone else gets.

Re: Sorry... what OS were we talking about again?

Migrating to another entirely different platform (or even upgrading to a new one of the same) is not something anybody should consider doing 'inside a month'. Any organisation only considering their options at this point has all the IT expertise and acumen of the NHS.

I couldn't have said it any better myself! I mean if your just rolling along, and have only just heard about the passing of both XP, and now WS2k3, then you really only have yourself to blame. As likely that, old chestnut of porting apps... to WS2k12 R2 will turnout to be just as messy for some organizations, as if they'd just went ahead and adopted *nix right this instance. Or was WS2k3 exempt from the IE6 lockdown?

If you were an IT Engineer worth your Pay... You'd have already seen this train wreck coming, and would had a solution in place ahead of time....

But, as one Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz, was once said to remarked;

"But, if you can't be bothered to take an interest in local affairs, that's your own lookout! There's no point in acting surprised about it now. Energize the demolition beams!"

Re: Hmm

You can't do that kind of punt-taking if you're chasing weekly ad-rev fluctuations.

Thats what Pilots are for... I'm not a fan of Ads either. But if a Show isn't good, and can't get the ratings it goes, and something better (usually...), comes along. As much as I hate Big Brother, and its ilk of Reality TV, it manages to sell itself. I'm more of a Documenteries kinda guy myself. So I would watch Stations like PSB in the US, or the BBC's 2 & 4. If something were on... These days it seems that they're just recycling old Shows though. Otherwise I actually do enjoy xCIS <DOMAIN>, along with the Walking Dead. If US TV wasn't some of the greatest TV ever. Then I'd say your points were valid. Doctor Who probably wouldn't, or indeed hasn't been able to survive in that environment. it doesn't mean that it shouldn't exist. But why should the majority fund a Program for the minority that get to enjoy it? At leas PBS with its annoying bi-anual beg-a-thons are at least opt-in, and NOT mandated per law!

1) RIP Top Gear... Its gone, and its never coming back. I have no plans of even entertaining the notion of watching whatever the BBC manage to churn out in this post Clarkson era. Carkson was Top Gear, as was Top Gear being Clarkson. I can not see one without the other. END!

2) HIGNFY on a Boxset really?! I'd have thought that a show sooo topical would be beyond hopelessly dated by the time it got on DVD to start with.

3) Doctor Who needs to revert back into a 20 Minute Cliffhanger format. I don't think the Writers are just that good at writing a script from start to finish in only a 45 Minute arc. Its One of the major things I hate about Nu-Who!

4) Genderbenders... Well I guess every Network must have their Bigbrother crap chucked in. Someone must obviously like it! I could damned well say that of Ballroom dancing. But, even the Yans seem to like this crap too Since it comes on before Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. on ABC. Why however remains a mystery to me...

The biggest problem is creaky old Windows Update which has to be just about the worst update mechanism of any OS. I would not like to do a new OS install on W10 in three years time if the current state of WU is anything to go by, it would take an eternity to patch the system.

>Implying this isn't the case for XP SP2 to SP3... Or just getting up-to-date on a fresh Windows 7 install.

While I agree sudo apt-get update && apt-get upgrade, Windows is not! It is the best we currently have, and I'm sure plenty of Plebs rely on reading about on a Thursday, or Friday Morning as to which "updates" are then best avoided!

With Windows OSX we don't really have that choice it seems now. So if MicroSoft wants to install some nagware UPDATE TO WINDOWS TODAY! ZM0G! (al-la Like a recent nagware update that they made available to both Windows 7, & 8.x or something more insidious like XPs useless (to anyone who isn't MicroSoft), WGA Call Home Update, which they had the cheek to brand as CRITICAL!

I wouldn't trust Microsoft's updates as far as I could spit a lightly fried stoat in a bun.... I however accept 'em for what they are at face vale.

On the same hand I'm probably just as wrong to assume that Linux Updates are much better, if only that they're mostly peer reviewed before going up.

Windows 10 CRS-7 Edition (RTM) got its view first preview yesterday (28/06/15) by all accounts.

So is this clever way of saying it bombed?!