it's obviously due to some third-party crap you have installed
Posts made by TimeBandit
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RE: Shutting down Windows is hard
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RE: Shutting down Windows is hard
So... I have no idea what's going on with your computer. But it's probably due to some third-party crap you have installed.
Of course, every Windows problem is always caused by third-party apps and/or plugins.
If an Explorer plugin, using MS's designed interface can screw up Explorer, it's not MS's fault for badly designing that said interface.
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RE: If Windows is Updated, Only Windows Users Will Have Updated Windows
People keep saying that they have this "desktop" thing...I don't understand, why doesn't everyone just use a tablet?
That's what my desktop sits on
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RE: If Windows is Updated, Only Windows Users Will Have Updated Windows
Turn off suggestions, and remove the starting tiles.
What tiles ? KDE doesn't have tiles
@xaade said:I don't know why I'm not having all these problems.
I'm not having those problems either.
Maybe because I'm not on Windows -
RE: If Windows is Updated, Only Windows Users Will Have Updated Windows
It's superior to pinning to taskbar because it gives you categories.
You mean like that ?
Windows start menu is a clusterfuck of company names
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RE: If Windows is Updated, Only Windows Users Will Have Updated Windows
Got windows 10.
Switched the start menu to full screen.
Like it better than the popup.
Can I get some of what you're smoking ? -
RE: If Windows is Updated, Only Windows Users Will Have Updated Windows
You're trying to pass your opinion as a god-given definition again.
Are you implying that @boomzilla is not a God ? -
RE: If Windows is Updated, Only Windows Users Will Have Updated Windows
If we post a poll in the New York Times of "What do you think of @Rhwyden?", most people will respond "Who the fuck is he?". That is not positive, and it is not negative, but it is a reaction.
Even @Rhywden would answer "Who the fuck is Rhwyden?" -
RE: What (Who?) needs research
Since we are now in a world where Web app is a great deal, I believe that part to be of significance.
Never played with Mono for mobile, so I believe you that it works very well.
Will have to re-investigate when CoreCLR is more mature.
But... probably will not be that great since (quoting @blakeyrat) "Open Source Is Crap"
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RE: What (Who?) needs research
Besides, there's also the CoreCLR or whatever, which works on everything and isn't mono.
That will probably improve things a lot.
Still, Mono is so much behind .NET it's not even funny.
And just go and try running ASP.NET on Mono and see how slow it is and how much resource it takes to render a simple page. -
RE: What (Who?) needs research
And it's also portable to all
majorWindows operating systems.
FTFY
[spoiler]Mono sucks big time[/spoiler] -
RE: If Windows is Updated, Only Windows Users Will Have Updated Windows
Jesus fuck, you and @blakey would buy a box of shit with a "Genuine Windows" logo on it and harp the whole time about how it is the latest version.
And it extend battery life ! -
RE: Car Crash: A Story
I think it's a warning that if you think current car hacking is bad, wait until your car is run by MS software.
Gives a whole new meaning to crashing -
RE: This is quite annoying.
Right; but on my laptop sleep-mode works.
I use it everyday on mine. What's your point ?
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RE: This is quite annoying.
Plugging in the mouse makes a cursor appear, but the trackpad has no influence over it. When I unplug the USB mouse the cursor goes away again.
Since you are a Windows user, this is probably the first thing you tried but just in case, did you try rebooting ?
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RE: This is quite annoying.
Blakey blaming Microsoft for shitty touchpad drivers? Is the world coming to an end?
That driver is WHQL approved, so nobody can be blamed except MS.But yeah, the world is probably coming to an end.
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RE: This is quite annoying.
Open source is still more crappy on average.
My laptop's touchpad is still working fine after applying 2 years worth of updates to Linux Mint.
But don't change your belief, MS needs all the beta testers they can get
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RE: This is quite annoying.
Crappy open source shit. No quality control what-so-ever.
Oh wait...
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RE: Mrguyorama defends Gibberish
Our users use a mix of things on their desktops/laptops, Windows, OSX and Linux, as well as a bunch of mobile gizmos too. We've got exactly zero mandate to change that. So we make our stuff work with whatever. Our servers mostly run Linux (plus a smattering of other operating systems when some piece of software needs it) for historical reasons
Our servers pretty much all run Linux, except our AD, Exchange and SharePoint.One thing that convinced me to work here (beside working with Linux servers) is that they gave me a desktop with a fresh install of Windows 7 but then told me : if you want, you can install whatever you like. Good thing I always carry a USB key with Mint on me
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RE: Lecturing linux guru slapped into place
As I recall, it would let you use the desktop, but not the personal items, such as My Documents.
Not from what I recall. Remember, under Win9x, every user was an admin with full privileges. Having a user account meant having a personal folder -
RE: Lecturing linux guru slapped into place
Whatever you like, Ben. I'm not going to debate with an insane person.
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RE: Lecturing linux guru slapped into place
Well given the 9x security, you'd think it was a zero-user system...
I would not say zero-user but zero-security.
Proof of that : The login screen contained a "Cancel" button, and if you clicked on it, you would get the desktop anyway with full privileges. -
RE: What are the pros/cons to upgrading to Windows 10?
Ok well I guess I'm just Mr. Fucking Stupid!
I think you've hit a record number of people agreeing with you with that phrase
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RE: Lenovo laptops using rootkit-like techniques to install their software
>LSE uses the Microsoft Windows Platform Binary Table (WPBT) capability (archived version)
A rich set of tools exist to aid Windows provisioning, ranging from driver injection and offline registry management to sysprep imaging tools. However, there is a small set of software where the tools are not enough. The software is absolutely critical for the execution of Windows but for one reason or another, the vendor is unable to distribute the software to every provisioning entity. This paper describes a mechanism for a platform, via the boot firmware, to publish a binary to Windows for execution. The mechanism leverages a boot firmware component to publish a binary in physical memory described to Windows using a fixed ACPI table.
That's right, this is an officially supported Windows feature!
Windows : insecure by design -
RE: More stupid Git errors THIS TIME IN FIRST-PERSON!
Although since the lazy fuckers in charge of this shitty system couldn't be bothered to write an error message with commands that (are guaranteed to) work in Windows
"rm -fr" would work on Linux, OSX, FreeBSD, pretty much every OS out there except on you #%&@ Windows, so just make your brain work a bit (if that is possible) and translate the damned instruction yourself -
RE: Stealth H-1B bitching from Slashdot
I don't hate MS, I just object to using most of it's products.
I have nothing against Microsoft, I just can't stand their shitty software :p -
RE: More stupid Git errors THIS TIME IN FIRST-PERSON!
A site with class I see no there.
And of course, this site is served by Nginx on Linux, no less
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RE: More stupid Git errors THIS TIME IN FIRST-PERSON!
This industry always standardizes on broken shit. There's even a little slogan for it: "worse is better".
This is why IT is shit.
Well, at least it explains why the standard OS is Windows
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RE: More stupid Git errors THIS TIME IN FIRST-PERSON!
TFS is so great it's actually the industry standard !
Oh wait...
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RE: Am I missing something? (hardware related)
According to the manual, there is indeed a 2nd LED which is supposed to blink akin to a Morse pattern if something is wrong. This LED is dark,though.
I've had an Asus motherboard actually telling me "CPU test failed", so plug speakers, you never know. -
Microsoft's helpful error message
I am working on integrating Moodle with Office 365. I installed all the 12 plugins as per the documentation, have the Windows admin setup everything in Azure Active Directory, etc....
Everything looks fine from the management console, credentials are setup, AzureAD Tenant, application permission, whatever, all is OK.So I go in a course and try to add a document from OneNote, I get a button telling me to login to Office365. I click it and a popup open
So, it looks like Microsoft is having some problems. Ok, I will try again later.
I go grab another coffee, come back 30 minutes later to try again and... same thing.
I know Microsoft's services are not the most reliable on the planet but we are not a leap year after all
So I look a bit further. I copy the URL of the error popup and paste it in a text editor.Wow, so that freakin popup is telling me that they are experiencing technical problems, but in fact the request is not valid, it is missing some parameter (client_id), and they even pass the error in the URL, but then the popup just hide it from you !
Try again later indeed, but you'll get the same error since YOUR REQUEST IS NOT VALID
Why, oh why not put the $%^& error message in the popupAnd before @blakeyrat say that it's normal since it is a POS OpenSource product coded in PHP that is making the request, I will just leave the copyright of the plugins here :
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RE: New (to me) Windows Internets Security Feature
It was designed before the internet made file sharing easy.
So was Unix. Your point is ?
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RE: New (to me) Windows Internets Security Feature
with access not only to all API calls, but peripherals directly!
On Linux, unprivileged users can't even access a serial port by default. You need to add them to the dialout group. -
RE: Android bloatware
this is why smart people buy AOSP phones.
Exactly. I'm on my second Nexus phone (Nexus 6).
No crapware, unlocked from the factory, and first phones to get the latest Android version. -
RE: New (to me) Windows Internets Security Feature
If the insecure program is able to affect the system, certainly.
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RE: New (to me) Windows Internets Security Feature
Besides, you're still asked to run the scripts. If you don't want to, just don't run it.
If they would have thought just 5 minutes about security, they would not have exposed those functions in the first place. Why the hell can Excel write to the registry, why the f**k can it run other executable ?
Oh yeah, right, functionality. Better have functionality over security.
So in the end you have only two choice : run the script giving it access to files / registry / run executable OR nothing at all.
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RE: New (to me) Windows Internets Security Feature
Right, so, since you've admitted it's hard to do, then decide: all, or nothing.
I did not say it was hard.
But if I must decide between having my computer owned just by opening a Word document or not having scripting in Word, I vote for the secure option.
Anyway, it's not my problem since I don't use MS Office at all.
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RE: New (to me) Windows Internets Security Feature
Quick: determine whether any arbitrary functionality is safe or not.
That's Microsoft job, not mine. Beside, I don't work with MS Office scripting.
And since Windows, quoting @blakeyrat, is supposed to be a "well engineered platform", they should know what is safe and what is not.
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RE: New (to me) Windows Internets Security Feature
"Sorry everybody, but because it's not possible to perfectly sandbox scripting, @TimeBandit made us rip it entirely out of the product. On the positive side, you'll be doing the economy a solid with all the people you'll be hiring to update linked spreadsheets forever."
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RE: New (to me) Windows Internets Security Feature
How the balls are you going to run an installation script as non-root? At least if you want it to go into one of the usual locations... (i.e. /usr, /usr/local, or /opt)
The context of the discussion is Office documents with script embedded in them, not installation scripts.
And in the case of an installation script in bash, at least you can review the code before running it. -
RE: New (to me) Windows Internets Security Feature
And pray tell, how do you make "running arbitrary code" secure?
By not giving it access to dangerous functionality !
@Maciejasjmj said:It's like complaining
bash
is insecure because someone might have writtenrm -rf --no-preserve-root
ordd -if=/dev/random -of=/dev/hda
in a seemingly harmless installation script.
And that would fail, unless you are logged in as root, in which case you deserve it