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Kent Sharkey wrote: most significant architectural updates
Why when I read these words do I mentally translate them as "we just mades sure your old code won't recompile ... again" ?
«I'm asked why doesn't C# implement feature X all the time. The answer's always the same: because no one ever designed, specified, implemented, tested, documented, shipped that feature. All six of those things are necessary to make a feature happen. They all cost huge amounts of time, effort and money.» Eric Lippert, Microsoft, 2009
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Linus Torvalds has decided to move the Linux kernel release from 3.19.x to 4.0 more from whimsy then from a serious need. "Hurr durr I'ma sheep"
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It became a twice-a-week ritual - Torvalds shows how he is unable to handle the Linux project anymore...How sad...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Is it any worse than Microsoft skipping V9 for Windows and going straight to 10? What was with that anyways, I never really got "the scoop".
Marc
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You know, when Microsoft announced that the next version will be 10 - it happened once. It is also happened that Windows belongs to Microsoft...
However Linux version number 'game' is with us for half a year at least now, and around it Torvalds made some announcements - like the middle finger - that not fit Linux. Let face the fact that the actual kernel was written by over 10000 people, but it seems Torvalds want to hold it in his hands so all that version 'game' is nothing more than a demonstration of force... (Torvalds wrote about 0.7% of the new kernel!)...In my opinion, he behaves in a disgusting way...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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They've never admitted it fully, but the best guess is due to many string searches for "Windows 9" (testing for 95/98) in their - and their partners - source.
TTFN - Kent
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In this particular case, I think Microsoft should have raised the middle finger to their - and their partners - stupidity. String searches to test for a specific Windows version - if this is true, why is this kind of bad practice, the buggy code of apparently incompetent programmers, always be honored?
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Because when an application barfs on a new version of the OS, how many people think "Derpsoft are a bunch of morons for abusing something in an old version of Windows that MS fixed in the new one, guess I'll have to buy a new version of their competitors product" and how many think "Windows.next is elephanted, the sunshines in Redmond can't code their way out of a paper bag and broke all my apps, I'm going to stick with V.last forever and badmouth v.next everywhere"?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Well, you're right, but the point is that it happens there is no bug on Microsoft's side - it's the third-parties that just don't use the proper APIs. And how difficult can it be to fix it and deliver an update to people these days in our always-on world? I mean, c'mon, an application that is using string search to guess via "Windows 9" if it is running on 95/98? People who code such stuff deserve to be called a bunch of morons and their applications being broken. But that's just my two cents.
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Uh, Hello. It's the YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP (yes, I'm yelling) so we had to move it to the version 4. Duh! Probably ought to get her up around 10 by June or so.
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A program is a story told in two languages: code and prose. On GitHub, countless stories of countless programs are being told every day. I think that I shall never see, a poem as lovely as a b-tree (when properly balanced)
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A lawsuit charged Lenovo and Superfish of fraudulent business practices, making PCs vulnerable. Well, that didn't take very long
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The lawsuit is making PCs vulnerable? 
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Good... I bought a 17" Y50 in December, and had no idea it had that Superfish thing installed. Sure, it took 30 seconds to uninstall and kill the root certificate, but I wouldn't have noticed it if not for the news articles, despite being a computer geek...
I took a chance with a Lenovo... Great hardware so far, but this makes me wish I picked a different brand.
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Ditto
They say that the business line wasn't affected, but I'm not looking forward to getting my Thinkpad back from the shop anymore.
TTFN - Kent
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I hope you killed the root cert everywhere, Mozilla uses its own cert-store so just flushing the Windows one won't fix it.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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No Firefox/Thunderbird on that machine... Just Chrome and IE.
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I ran across this[^] a few weeks back and have been forgetting to post it here ever since. It's a restoration project to get a PDP8 that's been in storage since the late 70's back into working order. After almost a year and a half of work (that appears to have been more EE than CS) they've managed to power it up and it appears like it may be functioning; but a more detailed assessment is being blocked by the need to repair a number of front panel issues.
Doug Ives and I then powered up the machine and began working with the front panel. The switches are balky, but the load address switch worked for clearing the program counter. Repeated use of the examine or deposit switch increments the program counter, although some of the lightbulbs don't light, and the memory address register tracks the program counter (one step behind), with other lights not working. The deposit switch loads from the switch register into the memory buffer register, with yet other lights non working, and the continue and stop switches toggle the run light. When the machine is in the run state, the PC is obviously incrementing. Enough lights are burnt out that it is difficult to see what is going on, so it is clear that further diagnostic work will require replacing a number of front panel lightbulbs. To do this, we will have to disassemble the front panel.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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My first full time job after college was based on a PDP-8. 
According to my calculations, I should be able to retire about 5 years after I die.
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If they want it, I still have LISP for PDP-8 on paper tape!!!
A positive attitude may not solve every problem, but it will annoy enough people to be worth the effort.
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Doug Jones lists his contact info on his main page[^] if you want to offer it. He has a collection of assorted PDP artifacts, so if he doesn't already have a copy of lisp (or even just not a copy of the version you've got) I assume he'd be interested.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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The move would signal a more open Apple, after the company began allowing the public early access to Yosemite last year. Where'd they get such a 'different' idea?
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More than half (55%) of 250 IT professionals in the US. surveyed said they had been bullied by a co-worker. "It's not okay because if they take my stapler then I'll set the building on fire.
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Three weeks before one of my co-workers decided that she didn't got a proper answer from another co-worker, so decided to call him 'names'...Today she's looking for new job with no hope to get recommendation from us...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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