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Mmm...
Better yet, document it in advanced and it won't be a bug, it will be a feature
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DOS Subsystem for Linux integrates a real Linux environment into MS-DOS systems, allowing users to make use of both DOS and Linux applications from the DOS command prompt. "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents..."
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Why do I have the impression that this is not going to end well (again)?
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My only question is: "why?"
What would this odd combo give me that a command-line installation of Linux (NO GUI installed) wouldn't give me?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: and it saves one machine? Are you sure about that? Maybe your definition of "save" and mine differ a bit.
Let's see how many posts about problems due to this you post in the future...
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I meant that you don't need two machines/VMs - one for DOS, one for Linux. But yeah, that was scraping the bottom of the justification barrel.
TTFN - Kent
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The meaning was clear... no worry. I am just a bit cynical with all this mixing they came lately.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: What would this odd combo give me that a command-line installation of Linux (NO GUI installed) wouldn't give me?
How else would you natively run Lotus 1-2-3 for DOS and Wordperfect for DOS as well as Linux?
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Microsoft announced a lot of new devices, including a new flagship laptop It's like the Apple presentations, but fewer turtlenecks
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Will they have rounded corners and new colours?
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A "design flaw" in the Microsoft Autodiscover protocol was subject to an investigation by researchers who found they were able to harvest domain credentials. They didn't say _what_ it would autodiscover, did they?
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Maintenance is often associated with trudging through lines of code with the debugger in a desperate search for bugs, in software that someone else wrote. 0: Console.WriteLine 1: Pleading 2: Prayer
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Oh, I thought finding the source meant the person. That's who I want to go after, not the damn bug. Let the person who introduced the bug fix it!
I think I'm management material
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It's always easier to fix the blame than fix the product...
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: It's always easier to fix the blame than fix the product...
And more fun!
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The final section is "A binary search for the root cause of a bug", which refers to varying the inputs to see which of them reproduce the bug. I don't know about you, but my experience is that many people use a binary search when inserting printf s or breakpoints to pinpoint where the code goes wrong.
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Algorithms are being improved, so in turn less computing power is needed. Quicksort ought to be enough for everyone?
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Manufacturers should maintain their software and firmware indefinitely Good luck with that request
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And customers should pay a yearly fee as long as they're using the product.
Good luck with that request too.
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Quote: We should mandate that device manufacturers set aside a portion of the purchase price of a gadget to support ongoing software maintenance, forcing them to budget for a future they'd rather ignore. I'll take some of what he's smokin'.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
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Exactly! There is no way to calculate the costs incurred for an indefinite period of time. If it was attempted, the price of the product would be well outside the range of most, if not all, customers.
"When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others; same thing when you are stupid."
Ignorant - An individual without knowledge, but is willing to learn.
Stupid - An individual without knowledge and is incapable of learning.
Idiot - An individual without knowledge and allows social media to do the thinking for them.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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Indefinite duration updates aren't reasonable unless paid; but makers of consumer devices should be required to provide security updates and any required server support running for the reasonable lifespan of the hardware (probably 5 or 10 years for most consumer devices). Although the article didn't touch on them, high dollar value long life commercial/industrial/medical need to be supported for however many decades they're typically used in the real world. For the latter I'm fine with paid support only, with the caveat that for anything medical/safety related that's connected to the internet there're regulatory requirements that it be kept patched.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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Maybe if they valuated quality over profit again, they wouldn't need so many updates when the product reaches the market
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I want some of whatever you are smoking...
As long as Marketing defines the required features, you can guarantee that they will be distracted by the latest "new shiny". Quality? Only if it doesn't slip the Ship Date!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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