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Mozilla, why?! (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)

Buy Switch

Buy Switch

Can't afford

I don't get it, how can web development have such a difference in portability, to cause such a post?

I am crippled on windows machines and avoid them wherever possible. In a 2-to-1 vote (a husband and wife vs me), we chose the platform I can't do any testing on.
I was reduced to writing documentation.

The last time I had windows installed on bare metal, I absolutely needed Cygwin and/or MinGW/MSYS to get anything accomplished.

Oh, also, Visual Studio nowadays takes 12 hours or so to install (and I'm barely exaggerating). That was pretty fucking annoying when I just needed to use Microsoft's old assembler a few years back, but it's even worse now.

Then, you need Active Directory, MS SQL, etc. on top of that.

I tried to warn my group that while Mono in theory is capable of doing all the stuff they wanted to do, in practice it's buggy as hell and will only do about three quarters of what it should be capable of. They just said the equivalent of "Oh, it can't be that bad."

It's called microsoft. The third most portable software producer in the word, just after IBM and the producers of portable house cleaning african elephants.

Did you know? Prior to the adoption of all that .NET code into Mono, Mono would build and successfully run on big-endian PowerPC and/or POWER machines (And other big-endian architectures).
Not anymore, thanks to MS's "contributions" to the project.

Also, IBM's J9 used to be pretty portable. Their other offerings? Not so much.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: May 6 2019, 05:54

I didn't have an account number to put in either of those forms. Now I'm on this page because of that. And still don't have the accoimt number you're asking for...

Glad to see Win32 gets Microsoft's attention once again.

Can't say I didn't see this coming.

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Glad to see Win32 gets Microsoft's attention once again.

A single one-off XP security update that you have to manually install and won't automatically roll out if you have automatic updates turned on
Yep
That's attention

XP was probably my least hated windows version (besides maybe 2K in its prime), but those days are long gone and no meaningful work has gone into XP in years.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: May 15 2019, 09:58

A single one-off XP security update that you have to manually install and won't automatically roll out if you have automatic updates turned on
Yep
That's attention.

???

So apparently Intel CPU's have more vulnerabilities.

[cpu.fail] https://cpu.fail/

So apparently Intel CPU's have more vulnerabilities.

[cpu.fail] https://cpu.fail/

Vuln branding is a disease that has to die.
[holeybeep.ninja] https://holeybeep.ninja/

That said, lol, Intel

I just wish that someone could make reliable exploits to root bootloader locked android phones using one of these types of vulns.
Pipe dream, I know, due to how many different phones are out there, or bootloaders for that matter.

The one thing we all should learn from this is that no one is safe, ever. By being smart, you can sidestep most but not all vulnerabilities though. So limit your risk where you can.

[www.tech-critter.com] KLEVV CRAS C700 RGB SSD teased ahead of Computex 2019

That's one fugly SSD.

[www.tech-critter.com] KLEVV CRAS C700 RGB SSD teased ahead of Computex 2019

That's one fugly SSD.

LED's can make anything fugly

???

I was referring to this, which is what I thought you were referring to when you mentioned M$ paying attention to Win32. As in literal 32-bit windows sans metro crap. The best version of which was XP.
[www.theverge.com] https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/14/18623565...ecurity-patches
[www.catalog.update.microsoft.com] (MS Update link)


If not this, what was it? I don't use windows anymore so I'm out of the loop a bit.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: May 16 2019, 08:18

If not this, what was it? I don't use windows anymore so I'm out of the loop a bit.

I was actually referring to M$ throwing in the towel on UWP. Feature gap between Win32 & UWP will be closed and no more fear regarding M$ controlling the app distribution channel via their app store.

I was actually referring to M$ throwing in the towel on UWP. Feature gap between Win32 & UWP will be closed and no more fear regarding M$ controlling the app distribution channel via their app store.

Ohh, OK.
Yeah UWP is garbage, especially because of the centralized walled garden approach.

Gigabyte has released BIOS for "full support" for Ryzen 2 CPUs. Still no word on enabling PCIe 4.0 support on the first PCIe slot yet.

Thinking about switching a project from libsodium to openssl.

This post has been edited by kuaixiaz: May 19 2019, 04:56

At the rumored price of $499, there's little incentive for me to upgrade from Polaris. If it was around $300, I might consider it.