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by gouranga 14y ago
Doesn't surprise me. Certificate signing is only as good as the weakest points which are 1) humans, 2) code, 3) maths respectively. You can't trust (1), ever. (2) is flawed by the fact that (1) made it. (3) is pretty good but relies on a fe
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by gouranga 14y ago
Microsoft have pretty much bought up Nokia. rubs his Lumia 710 affectionately
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by gouranga 14y ago
For reference, it absolutely fucking sucks under virtualization.
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by gouranga 14y ago
For reference as the parent of your comment, I agree 100% I do however see disparity with general opinion and what is right, which is slightly worrying, hence the original point.
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by gouranga 14y ago
Like iOS. Why the shock headline?
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by gouranga 14y ago
At which point I show the next person how I learned it. It's called training. The best way to do this is documentation. Usability nazis want people to be able to ride a bike after 5 seconds. They devalue learning and understanding most if t
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by gouranga 14y ago
Net has holes. Assumption valid!
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by gouranga 14y ago
The thing is that most open source software was designed for use by engineers for engineers and doesn't have a success criteria other than 'makes problem disappear'. formal usability testing is irrelevant on such things so stop muscling in
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by gouranga 14y ago
if he's partially responsible for the current Ubuntu desktop and the current Firefox, I stand by my comments. Change over substance.
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by gouranga 14y ago
Someone's got to keep them on their toes!
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by gouranga 14y ago
You miss the point: success in the traditional form at least is 100% irrelevant. Consider Linux, tex, emacs, vim, apache, mutt, x, postfix. All successful, yet no traditional form of usability.
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by gouranga 14y ago
Open source projects are inhospitable to designers because they come in and arrogantly blast their opinion into an establishment. The establishment knows its userbase better than a designer will. The designers then crawl off and blog whinge
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by gouranga 14y ago
There is no perfect judge of usability, even from supposed experts (an arrogant title which noone should hold). The gatekeeper is entitled to his or her opinions. If you don't like them, fork it.
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by gouranga 14y ago
Thanks correction appreciated. 12 hours of solid pc usage melted my brain. Should have read 2008!
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by gouranga 14y ago
Hmm all that gallium, arsenic, toxic plastic and other joys rotting in a river. Fun eh? This is what happens when designers get hold of science...
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by gouranga 14y ago
Sorry for the rant but posts like this piss me right off. Usability seems to mean low entry barrier and pretty looking these days rather than functionally elegant, normalised and reusable. Usability now means giving dumb people pretty looki
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by gouranga 14y ago
I think you are right. Microsoft seem to occupy the land of the damned if you do and damned if you don't. If this was apple, I get the feeling that people would be gushing all over it.
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by gouranga 14y ago
Ok I've actually sat down for 12 hours with Windows 8 now both on a 1998 ThinkPad T61 and a 2011 Sony VPCJ1 multitouch desktop. Firstly some background - I've been using Windows since 1992. I've spent 15 years now developing software on the
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by gouranga 14y ago
Erm they ported BSD to Acorn machines (RiscIX). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC_iX
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by gouranga 14y ago
Ah barrage balloons! Hours of fun. I preferred Interdictor 2: http://www.apdl.co.uk/riscworld/volume3/issue6/disc/index.ht...
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by gouranga 14y ago
The did crash - quite regularly, but it was usually user error :) They did also have viruses, but they were usually funny and harmless. However, business wasn't using IBM PCs in the UK at the time. They didn't get a look in - pretty much ev
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by gouranga 14y ago
Actually, it died not because of Sugar (who didn't produce a product that was even considerable), but RM PLC who chucked out a load of cheap, unrelaible pile of shite clone PCs and took the contract away from Acorn basically through lying,
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by gouranga 14y ago
Thanks for the nostalgia trip. Mine was similar upto the iBook and I had a couple of RiscPCs... I actually lived down the road from the Beebug store in St Albans in the 1980s. I remember getting a demonstration of Econet and SJR MDFS back
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by gouranga 14y ago
I haven't spotted one yet... I'm choosing the platform I'm going to bet my paycheque on for the next 10 years. I have no problem with Metro (I use a Windows Phone and rather like it) and I know the Windows desktop is not going away but the
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by gouranga 14y ago
It's pretty negligible. I genuinely can't tell the difference between NTFS and ext3 at least performance-wise. However, the locking semantics on NTFS are shitty unless you know what you are doing (i.e. use KTM/Transactional NTFS) which som
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by gouranga 14y ago
Isn't that a form of defragmenting? It also contradicts the point that it is unecessary to defragment the volume.
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by gouranga 14y ago
I'm the GP. I live in London, UK. I know literally noone who wouldn't think it's funny round here. People have a right to free speech, which neatly supports people having a right to be offended too but cannot do diddly to prevent saying it
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by gouranga 14y ago
For the next 10 years or so... My mind is not finite - don't want to waste my grey matter on crap. The release preview is good enough to make a decision and avoid the massive job shift fallout when it hits RTM. I've been in the industry for
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by gouranga 14y ago
It does support the full experience. Look up Sony vpcj1.
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by gouranga 14y ago
I could imagine that in redneck country. I always call mine something rude. It seems to effectively stop people trying to connect to it. Security by lack of obscurity. Currently it's iloveanal

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