* Posts by sloanrb

4 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Jun 2018

It took 'over 80 different developers' to review and fix 'mess' made by students who sneaked bad code into Linux

sloanrb

Re: The only sane thing to do

So the Linux patch validation infrastructure was so bad that a bunch of dippy college students was able to upload bad patches into the kernel.

Yes, what they did was bad, but why has no one called the Linux maintainers onto the carpet? Instead of them looking at their processes and find out what needed to change, they decided to come down on the entire University of Minnesota and punish them.

If this had been Microsoft that had punished the University everyone would be screaming bloody murder.

But apparently the Linux guys are held to the same standard.

Bada Bing, bada bork: Windows 10 is not happy, and Microsoft's search engine has something to do with it

sloanrb

You can also fix with Group Policy

Group Policy fix

Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Search

Do not allow web search Enabled

Don't search the web or display web results in Search Enabled

Don't search the web or display web results in Search over metered connections Enabled

A reboot is required.

Microsoft wakes up, stretches, remembers: Oh yeah, we do Windows too. And lo, SQL Server 2019 Windows-based container emerges

sloanrb

But like the movie bad guy, SQL 2008 isn’t quite dead yet...

You can get 3 additional years of SQL 2008 support.

If you migrate it to Azure. No joke.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-new-options-for-sql-server-2008-and-windows-server-2008-end-of-support/

Devuan ships second stable cut of its systemd-free Linux

sloanrb

Re: Is it Upgrade Season or...

The BOFH explained Upgrade vs Update

"Think of it this way. An upDATE is when your Missus gets you to buy a new suit and and upGRADE would be when she gets Brad Pitt in whatever clothes he's wearing. She may upDATE his clothes at some stage in the future or she might just be too pleased with the upGRADE to bother."

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/02/21/bofh_2014_episode_2/