Posts by agatum

Re: Microsoft will be paying vendors to deploy their malware os Windows 10....

I have to ask, do you really believe Microsoft give a flying fuck what is written on this rather parochial website?

Yes, yes I really do. Any other questions?

Re: Buh?

Dabbsie will explain it better - with a bacon sandwich analogy

Probably. While waiting for his article I suspect it's about how all failing dynasties resort to magic. Romans did that and so did Numenoreans.

Re: Facebook & Maturity have never and will never go hand in hand

I know very few actual adults who are capable of doing this, it's one of the primary reasons I have dropped many people from my friend circles

Ditto. These days my address book does not consume too much memory. But hey, quality over quantity any fucking day.

Re: Ah...

... installed Windows 10 on their laptop.

When in uni I certainly had my share of horrible mornings after all night 'studying' but not nearly horrendous as that.

Re: Why can't they just fire him?

Surely someone has the power to fire him.

I'd say surely someone has that power. He's just very very good at sucking those particular balls/ballettes so that he won't get fired. With that kind of behaviour he should be fired, that's what is certain. And those of you familiar with Futurama know with what he should be fired and to where.

Re: vexatious litigant, eh?

we shall keep this asshole from becoming anything more than he is today

Would you be so kind as to keep that promise? I am truly worried world will be a lot worse place to live if that individual gets to rule.

Re: Logic & Gui

As I understand it Outlook (for example) cannot be compiled to run on ARM..

There must be some clever business/strategy reason for this.

Alternative: slurp engineers are truly incompetent bunch of twats. Calendar & mail software can not be compiled to run on ARM, really? Or maybe outlook really does some real weird low-level stuff that's all the more reason to stay away from it.

Re: Where to begin?

>> Of course, if your current workstations don't have access to the Internet, just how are you posting to this forum?

Could he possibly have a cell phone or tablet with gsm hardware? Or do you think you need a full blown desktop env to post to elreg? Large server farm surely required to process these hundreds of characters..

>> I am willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.

Really, after win10? You amaze me.

Re: Thanks but no thanks...

One of my favourite statistics is that 98% of the world's supercomputers run on Linux, 2% on Unix and 0% on Windows.

With your permission I will have this framed and will decorate my office with it.

Thank you, sir.

Re: meh

use Windows without having to keep looking over my shoulder all the time

Your hardware, your system, and still _you_ have to be looking over your shoulder worrying. One of the myriad of reasons I like about my boxes of mint is that I don't have to, look over my shoulder, that is.

Re: There is a secondary problem here..

Apple is playing this absolutely right, and thankfully has enough financial clout to follow this through.

Apple indeed has enough gold. Annoying thought: all government has to do to force this kind of sick precedent is by challenging some other, considerably poorer company with a product with encryption. Said company can't defend itself, case becomes precedent and voila!

Re: Surprise, suprise....

"Poor? Slow bandwidth? Low allowances? Then fuck off!"

Many would be utterly pleased of such slogan. They'd still be comfortably using their good old win7 instead of force fed crap that is ten.

Re: interesting list there

so-called 'security professionals'

The age of linkedin et al offers too easy way to become a self-proclaimed pro. Too easy to add a 'skill' of something even though you have just touched the said something with a bargepole.

Re: If someone is able to run arbitrary code on your server

> Is code signing really hated by a lot of people?

No hate here whatsoever. From a developers point of view: as long as the process doesn't get in my way no prob. In Xcode's earlier versions, iirc, code signing was a bit pain to set up, at the moment smooth as silk. Ditto for android studio.

The enhanced security vs the minor trouble: I vote for security any day.

Re: Anti-Trust suit impending.

> and mostly we are watching and shouting "Jump !"

And seems that they jumped. Now we are watching them fall. I am having popcorn and beer and enjoying the show, all the way down.

Slurp treats world as their oyster, but not in a good way (admitted, they are not alone in that).

Re: Jonas Savimbi

> So are we to expect archeologists to find him in a block of ice in 1000 years?

Considering it's a lawyer I sincerely hope they will not find it at all.

Re: I am not a fucking product.

> "What about Linux" - its free but nothing supports it not even its own community half the time. Its just abandon ware on a grand scale

What the fuck have you been smoking?

> It was originally my understanding that if you ran Windows 7 joined to a domain, then GWX would ignore you

About a month ago I was thinking 'slurp would _never_ dare to fuck with business users'. At the moment I am wondering...

> Do they want to build trust, or destroy it?

No. They want to force the trust down your fucking throat. And they will fail miserably.