@masonwheeler I guess the upside from me having a completely unique first and last name combination is that this never happens to me.
Which is funny, since my Internet handle is apparently fairly common.
@masonwheeler I guess the upside from me having a completely unique first and last name combination is that this never happens to me.
Which is funny, since my Internet handle is apparently fairly common.
@dangeRuss I have actually had it catch one that had gotten downloaded to my HDD somehow.
I immediately unplugged my PC's network cable and did full Malwarebytes and Defender system scans (one at a time), which came up with nothing.
I suspect the attack vector was Skype since I remember hearing the IE "navigation" sound shortly before the AV reported that file. Skype is the only app that I "regularly" used that still used IE's libraries. And by "regularly" I mean I never ACTUALLY use it, but it was running anyway, so simply getting rid of it was an option, which I took.
Edit: OK, I downloaded Malwarebytes and updated it, THEN disconnected my network cable.
@RaceProUK El Reg's quality seemed to have a sharp downward spike in the late 2000s.
Lets just say, there's a reason that I don't launch games when I first launch my PC.
@lucas1 Silly lucas, this is why you copy random words into your clipboard after sending kinky stuff to your lovers/friends.
@TimeBandit said in The Return of Windows RT?:
@Deadfast said in The Return of Windows RT?:
Note the utter lack of a "NEVER AGAIN" button.
Note that there is an X in the top-right corner.
But with Micro-Soft, clicking on it may do the same thing as clicking on "Sign in"
Didn't they get sued over doing that with the Upgrade to Windows 10 thing?
I wonder how that lawsuit is doing...
Edit: Apparently they lost one such lawsuit already, but it was only for $10k.
I have a tendency to retype terminal commands myself.
I dunno why, I usually don't like copy/pasting things like that.
@lucas1 said in Patch Better:
@TimeBandit Which proves what exactly? We all know that every platform has it holes. May I remind you that a few years ago that every SSL cert was fucked on a *nix system, but was fine on Windows machines ...
The sad part is, there were warning signs well before this that OpenSSL had issues.
The fact that it failed Valgrind tests because it was essentially reading uninitialized memory (which may or may not have old data) as an entropy source was a huge fucking clue.
And mind you, that was a known issue in 2008, 6 full years before Heartbleed.
It's not like there weren't alternatives, gnutls existed far before then.
I almost said the cast of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but then I remembered people who are kidnapped in the series usually end up dead or turned into a vampire.
Unless they're part of the main cast or a recurring character.
@Kuro said in drop kick a space alien:
The title is "drop kick a space alien", the first image shows a post of @blakeyrat with that space alien computer thing from that one videogame as an avatar...
Zero III from Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward.
As long as I'm talking about it, I'm sidetracking this thread to point out that the first two games in the Zero Escape series are finally arriving on Steam on March 24, with PS4/Vita versions following shortly after. Virtue's Last Reward being the second game in the series, and thus being included in said package.
@Tsaukpaetra I assume uschwarz meant the preview versions of Chrome.
@Jaloopa The reaper sometimes chooses to end those deals. See also: Dick Clark.
@RaceProUK 1 2 Switch is a collection of minigames intended to be played while not looking at the screen:
Your typical video game has you playing while looking at some kind of screen, right? But 1 2 Switch can be played without looking at any screen. So then, where exactly do you look? In the eyes of your opponents.
No, I'm serious... the Switch hardware director / game producer for 1 2 Switch actually said that during the conference.
While we're discussing the Switch, I'm getting Sonic 06 vibes from Mario Odyssey. Maybe not the buggy mess part, but definitely the "awkward, nonsensical plot that nobody likes" bit.
@DogsB said in The new Nintendo Switch:
@lucas1 funnily enough Zelda is the system seller for me but its on the Wii u too so I'll probably pick it up for that.
Same here.
@DogsB said in The new Nintendo Switch:
I didn't bother with the Wii because Twilight Princess came out on GameCube so with that in mind I'll probably skip this generation too.
Not only did Twilight Princess come out for both systems, but the GameCube version was the better of the two because it didn't have the whole "wave your arm randomly to attack" bit.
Oh, and while we're at it, both Twilight Princess and Breath of the Wild were originally made for the lower end system then turned into launch titles for the higher end system. In other words, it's already targeting the older system's specs.
I'm guessing PS1 support was emulation on all PS3 versions.
On a side note because someone else mentioned it, WoW was only 45GB or so right after Legion launched.
@Parody said in Project NEON:
There were transparent and translucent window borders and menus before then
For reference, Windows itself has supported translucency since Windows 2000. It just works a hell of a lot better in Vista (and newer)'s window compositor.
@cheong Do you usually make a habit of trying to program in a language without its standard library?
'cause I'd hate to have to write my own low-level file I/O routines, among other things.
@sloosecannon said in RIP Java in the Enterprise:
@powerlord welllllll....
OK that makes more sense.But .NET Core != C#
It's the cross-platform version of the C# Standard Library.
@sloosecannon said in RIP Java in the Enterprise:
@Adynathos said in RIP Java in the Enterprise:
there seems to be no GUI library
O.o
You know he's talking about .NET Core and not .NET Framework? While .NET Framework has 3 GUI APIs built in, .NET Core has none.
@HardwareGeek said in Oracle exec quits over co-CEO Safra Catz's promise to assist Trump:
“Therefore I must resign from this once great company.”
I thought he worked for Oracle. :P
No, he's right. Oracle was once a great company. You know, back in the 80s.
@Lorne-Kates said in Traffic sins:
@heterodox said in Traffic sins:
IF YOU STOPPED FIRST, FUCKING GO. YOU'RE NOT BEING POLITE BY MOTIONING FOR SOMEONE ELSE TO GO. YOU'RE RUINING EVERYTHING.
Yes. Please.
Stop-signs aren't difficult. Car that is there first goes first. Then just go roundabout in turns.
Did the car in front of you just go? Okay, asshole, you sit there until the car to your right, then in front, then to your left goes. Did three cars go yet? If not, YOU JUST SIT THERE MOTHERFUCKER.
Too many people think "Well, I stopped because the car in front of me stopped-- that counts as stopping at a stop sign, right?"
Speaking of stop signs, I've noticed lately that malls and shopping centers near where I live have started to put 3-way stops for a 4-way intersection, with the side coming from the entrance not having a stop sign.
People seem to grasp that one of the sides doesn't stop, but they don't seem to grasp that if I arrive there before they do on one of the side that stops, but I have to wait for the side that doesn't stop, that I have the right of way next because I was the first to stop.
I also think that my state (Michigan) has some wacky laws on the books for 2-way stops. Obviously, you have to wait for traffic from the other street first, but then the order depends on which direction you're going... right or straight first, then left turners regardless of who actually stopped first.
Telltale's games have never really required high-end graphics cards.
@HardwareGeek said in Amazon's Just Walk Out technology:
@TimeBandit said in Amazon's Just Walk Out technology:
Why bother with it ?
When they were first introduced, hardly anybody used them and they were almost always quicker than waiting in line for a human cashier. I guess now it's mostly habit, except that a lot of the time nowadays I do a full week's grocery shopping in one trip, for which the self-checkout is not so practical, so I go to the live cashier.
One of the store chains in the Midwest US has started putting 4 non-express self-checkout lanes in its stores.
It works... poorly to put it nicely.
So, I don't normally follow Angular stuff, but in a discussion about other topics on Reddit, it was mentioned that Google is adopting an even crazier release cycle for Angular than they did for Chrome.
Sure, that means its version number will go up more slowly than Chromes, but it also means you get 6 new versions of Angular for every new version of Chrome. For a framework/library that is embedded in other peoples websites.
To me, that's absolutely insane.
Side note: Angular is also skipping version 3.
@Lorne-Kates said in Why do the various Firefoxes-but-not-really suck?:
@aliceif said in Why do the various Firefoxes-but-not-really suck?:
What's so bad about normal Firefox?
Fucked up UI, intrusive ads, plans to intentionally break plug-ins for no reason other than to reduce what plug-ins can do, hijacked homescreen, sold out to Yahoo, security updates mixed in with UI updates, run by sociopaths.
And they changed the icon.
FF22 4evar.
There's a reason I use Chrome, although they still sometimes do the "security updates mixed in with UI updates" thing.
Actually, I've been hearing good things about the Chromium/Blink-based browser named Vivaldi, I've just never tried it yet.
@lolwhat said in Why do the various Firefoxes-but-not-really suck?:
and Waterfox is evidently single-fucking-threaded.
Ummm....
In current versions of desktop Firefox, the entire browser runs in a single operating system process. In particular, the JavaScript that runs the browser UI (also known as "chrome code") runs in the same process as the code in web pages (also known as "content" or "web content").
— Firefox's page on Multiprocess Firefox, last updated less than a month ago.
As for multi-threaded, there's literally no info available about Firefox being multi-threaded.
@Sumireko That reminds me of a joke
Donald Rumsfeld is giving the president [George W. Bush] his daily briefing. He concludes by saying: 'Yesterday, 3 Brazilian soldiers were killed'. 'OH NO!' the President exclaims. 'That's terrible!'
His staff are stunned at this display of emotion, they watch nervously as the President sits, head in hands.
Finally, the President looks up and asks, 'How many is a brazillion?'
@Yamikuronue Couldn't have, the other numbers have different values.
Actually, I wonder if it's a bug related to specific drive sizes. One of my friends just posted something similar to this on Twitter this morning... right down to the 3.99TB number.
Incidentally, he also has a 120GB SSD as his C drive.
This is the image he posted:
@accalia said in Firefox 41-50 is well and truly fucked:
Firefox -11 is well and truly fucked
Well, you could blame the topic creator for not using –, which would look like 41–50
@RaceProUK said in Is ruby dying?:
@powerlord Technically, being on Android, there's already a Linux version
I'm too lazy to look up what the current XWindows servers are, so...
@Dreikin said in Is ruby dying?:
@Maciejasjmj said in Is ruby dying?:
They're trying to push it cross-platform, which to me is not the greatest idea, but just like you, Microsoft seems to have drunk the hipster Kool-Aid.
Any hints of a declarative cross-platform GUI toolkit/framework in the recent .Net moves?
They apparently decided to settle on Xamarin.Forms, which is currently supported on Windows 10 and OSX (...plus iOS, Android, and Windows 10 Phone).
I wouldn't be surprised to see versions of it for Linux, but who knows which widgets it will use on that.
@lucas1 Well, one of the issues with .NET Core was not working with certain external DLLs is because the standard library was refactored.
So, of course, .NET Standard 2.0 will apparently automatically translate those. I suspect it will also automatically add in the appropriate NuGet packages of things that got moved out of the core.
@ScholRLEA said in How much of a RWTF am I?:
or an add-on module for the HTTP server then PHP
To be fair, this is falling out of favor, instead being replaced with a FastCGI bridge. Primarily for security reasons.
Isn't Zed Shaw the person who ragequit the Ruby on Rails community because said community didn't kowtow to him?
@LaoC said in Ubuntu is a fucking trainwreck:
@pydsigner said in Ubuntu is a fucking trainwreck:
CentOSucks? No thanks. Been there, tried that, hated every minute of it's crappy years-behind-repos-and-otherwise-shoddy-everything-blargh-ew-gross-no-bye-k-thanks-have-the-fish-im-leaving
I can appreciate it now that I've been working with it for a few years. If you need to make sure you can run your mission critical gazillion-line hyper-complex application as-is for the next decade, you need something ultra stable. Which necessarily means ultra outdated at some point, but sometimes that's preferable to finding you have to do major maintenance because the latest OS version comes with a newer version of $SOFTWARE that yours doesn't like. My workplace is a Java shop and it's amazing how these types are able to break compatibility in minor releases. Taking an application from Wildfly 8.1 to 8.2 is a major effort. 8 to 9 took long enough for 10 to be released meanwhile. Some shit still runs with Tomcat 6 on CentOS 4. So you want to do this on your schedule, not because not doing it would force you to stick to an OS version that doesn't get security fixes any more. We've implemented some fixes for the worst things like Shellshock in CentOS 4 (EOL for a couple of years now), and it's a major PITA.
Of course no sane person would want to use this on a workstation.
OK, lets try this again with the right post referenced this time.
This is probably why there seems to be a big push in the Java world to not use full JavaEE servers any more, but just use a Servlet container (Tomcat, Jetty, etc...) behind Apache/nginx and then add the libraries you want directly using your Java build tool (Maven/Gradle).
@Adynathos I've always assumed that Windows Update is designed to only work with updates signed by a particular code signing key.
That's why, when Windows Update itself is updated, you have to install that update first before you can install other Windows Updates.
Or at least you had to in Windows XP and older, not sure if that still applies in Windows 7 and newer.
@Adynathos Has to be on Steam.
I can't decide between Flock and Goat Simulator for that category.
@masonwheeler OK, I haven't been following that closely.
How does the .NET Standard versions correspond to the .NET Core versions?
Last I checked, .NET Core was only at 1.0.2 with 1.1 just showing up in the VS 2017 preview last week.
@Tsaukpaetra said in Skype Call vs. Windows Update:
@TimeBandit said in Skype Call vs. Windows Update:
@Polygeekery I remember when 3429 baud (33.6k) was considered high speed.
A boatload of Micro SD cards is massively high speed, just also massively high latency. So tradeoffs?
RFC1149 defines something similar. I think it was superceded by RFC2549 though.
@Deadfast I was talking about updates and apparently they did change how their form worked for it at some point (probably the Anniversary update).
Having said that, you're right, BITS seems to ignore it.
The problem with BITS is that it seems to go by what your network connection is.
Great, I have a Gigabit LAN connection, but my ISP refuses to offer anything faster than 15Mbit (and the other "high speed" ISP in my area offers max 3Mbit).
@coderpatsy said in Skype Call vs. Windows Update:
@cheong said in Skype Call vs. Windows Update:
@Deadfast Sounds like you should adjust your Active Hours then.
Until Windows Update decides to ignore that setting for whatever
dumbIntelligent™ reason.
I'm a night person.
Windows 10 checks to make sure that the end time is after the start time, which means if I tend to use my computer until, say, 4am I can't actually set my hours to cover that while at the same time covering the time I'm up before midnight.
@TimeBandit said in MS SQL Server and Visual Studio intallers:
@flabdablet said in MS SQL Server and Visual Studio intallers:
I believe both those tools are available for Linux now.
And both have RPM and DEB packages.
Which show that MS can actually do a proper installer.
It's just that the install/uninstall system in Windows is utter shit.
I'm not sure that's true.
Or at least you can't say that based on Visual Studio's installer/uninstaller as it doesn't (directly?) use the Windows install system...
So, apparently Microsoft is now making a Visual Studio for Mac product.
However, looking at it, it sounds like it's actually a product formerly named Xamarin Studio that has been reskinned to look like Visual Studio, so there's no telling what differences there will be.
@heterodox said in Benjamin Button reviews the new MacBook Pro:
One of my laptops does this and EVEN WORSE, the ESCAPE key is not ESCAPE unless you use Fn; it pops up SYSTEM INFORMATION. I do this many, many times a day and each time my blood pressure raises to aneurism levels.
At least you have an Escape key. The new Macbook Pro doesn't.
@Rhywden said in Infinite recursion with SymLink on Ubuntu on Windows:
Okay, bear with me. I have this one Node program which best runs under Linux due to symlinks.
I'm not following. Windows has had symlinks for some time now. In fact, here's the Vista direction for creating symlinks.
mklink /d client C:\Users\name\Documents\files
Edit: Forgot that mklink has the two args reversed from ln
@dkf The biggest WTF in this situation is this:
This is an ancient bug that was actually attempted to be fixed once (badly) by me eleven years ago in commit 4ceb5db9757a ("Fix get_user_pages() race for write access") but that was then undone due to problems on s390 by commit f33ea7f404e5 ("fix get_user_pages bug").
Did I mention it was Linus Torvalds who wrote that?
If you knew there was a bug and didn't know how to fix it, why wouldn't you ask someone else about it?