Posts by captain veg

So don't do it then.

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Re: One of my favotire tools

Favoutyre.

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From the article:

commonly used by cloud service providers to ensure that those with access to datacenter hardware cannot siphon secrets from tenant virtual machines

The answer, to state the bleedin' obvious, is simply not putting sensitive stuff in the cloud, also known as someone else's servers.

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Re: They've not even updated their own documentation

That same source indicates that Win+Spacebar is not currently used by anything. Why not grab that instead?

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corporate stupidity

My employers for several years foisted Lotus Notes on us as an email system.

Notes was remarkable for many reasons, none of which were its suitability as an email system.

It was replaced by Exchange and Outlook. These are, astonishingly, even worse.

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Re: "it was a very bad fit for investors"

Indeed. So called "investing" in shares is simply buying a piece of the company, for better or worse, in the hope of the former.

Real investors fund innovation.

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Re: So more and more PC's...

Hmm. Haven't tried it, but presumably you end up with a bricked PC. Which might be more productive that Windows 11, but less useful than inserting a bootable medium containing something like Linux Mint and rebooting (and doing whatever is required by your firmware to get the machine to boot off the medium).

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Re: "Couldl it run Windows?"

To fuck off HP and Dell?

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user friendly

As a CS student in the mid-eighties, I spent an awful lot of time writing code on dumb terminals. Our main weapons were line editors.

One of my near-contemporaries (actually a year ahead) created a screen editor named EDT, modeled, I understand, on a DEC program of the same name. We weren't using DEC machines, so this was some feat.

Word got around pretty quickly that EDT let you do weird and wonderful things like seeing your entire source code file through a scrolling viewport and navigating it using the arrow keys on our dumb terminals. Just so long as it wasn't a teletype. There were still quite a few of those around. I dare say that the program was closely tied to the particular dumb terminals that we actually had on campus.

Then we were let loose on Unix, and someone got Emacs working on it. This was almost as obvious to use as EDT but programmable! About that time I splashed out on a DOS PC, and was extremely pleased to discover that you could run Emacs on that too. Add in a 300 baud modem and suddenly I didn't even need to visit the terminal room on campus.

So, I have good memories of Emacs. Haven't actually used it in nearly 40 years.

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Re: I can't disagree more about CSD

There are dedicated graphics chips coming which will offer a bitmapped matrix of 256x192, though only in 8x8 byte cells of background and foreground colour. Astonishingly there will be hardware sprites including collision detection.

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Dunno where they get their geolocation, but the Grauniad insists on "helpfully" serving me weather forecasts for some random mountain in the Alps or Cote d'Azur when actually I live in the Paris region.

The worst of it is that they likely pay for that "information".

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Re: Utterly ridiculous

Outlook is fine. As a vector for shovelling useless corporate shit in my face it is unrivalled.

If only they would stop pretending that it is also an email system then I could safely ignore it.

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Re: I have a question

> his cherished personal free speech platform

Amusing, isn't it, that the "free speech absolutist" charges money for a blue tick. Apparently free speech has a price.

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If I ruled the world...

Everyone should have at minimum a 4K monitor. I got one when lockdown and work-from-home were mandated and, frankly, there's no going back.

That first Covid-induced purcahase was of 28" diagonal, making the pixels a bit small for my near-pensionable eyes. Upon return-to-office I demanded* a 32-inch 4K screen. It's quite usable.

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* If you work with designers who habitually use Figma, as I do, then maximal screen estate becomes essential rather than just nice to have. TBH an even bigger screen with even more pixels would be much better.

Re: Sympathy void

I bought an M1 Mac mini because it seemed a really nice trade off between price and computing power.

I had to double up my usual RAM expectation for future proofing, which cost quite a lot more than a subsequent upgrade probably would have for a non-Apple device. Nonetheless it was, and is, pretty wonderful.

And yet I hardly ever use it. Commodity PC hardware isn't as good, but it is good enough. I run Windows 10 in a VM, on top of Linux on vanilla x86, perfectly well.

Doesn't bode well for Windows 11.

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