Windows
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- Tools are easy now, data is hard; Background culture; Tingly is a decision I have to live with; Uniqueness Index … Tech people dream about this kind of stuff; one example is the WinFS days of Microsoft Longhorn, when they thought the great follow-up act after Windows XP …
- Somebody Else’s Cloud … My Documents so went to see if I could grab a screenshot from Windows or whatever and I see that it’s not My Computer anymore (am I …
- Do Not Reply Stickers; Computers were a Bad Idea; Two Things About Startups; and more tidbits … That implementation means that Windows gets super confused if a thing instead of advertising itself as one thing, ends up advertising itself as a gazillion things (technical term …
- It's the Unique Integration of the Hardware, the Silicon, and the Software, Stupid … It's not for the minimal uplift and slightly-to-a-lot-less-work to port a Windows game to the Mac. It's actually, long-term, for …
- I too aspire for my memory to be safe … sun is fighting a valiant effort to struggle through and past the window, the window screen, and what I would like to call an almost artisanal and hand …
- Marks on Flat Planes … the fundamentals they've landed on (for now) are (1) a shared space; (2) windows; and (3) volumes. Windows are the concession for dealing with information-worker-working …
- Good Enough … The example I've given to advocates is that enough of them are old enough to remember that in the 90s, you could easily switch Windows into Spanish …
- What It Is Like To Be A Certain Kind Of Person … The characters are geeks and nerds and talk in top 10 lists and they email each other, there's a Windows app called WinQuote that would let people …
- What it means to be PlayStation with Netflix in the room; What's Simlish for Metaverse? … But, you know, as Microsoft is somewhat shy to point out, your Xbox Series X|S can pretty much run Windows apps without much tweaking. PlayStation tried to …
- Google Stadia, or, Winning at Videogames … They'd probably like to make PCs that can play games cheaper, so the Steam Deck is super interesting because it doesn't run Windows and they kind …
- Bits and pieces … from the tech industry and all the rules have been thrown out the window. I mean, jesus christ, HBO/Discovery are going to do something about their male …
- Oxo Grips for Software and Vexatious Litigation … the Valve Steam Deck is actually a Padd , see it "in a triple head Windows 10 configuration, reviewing my taxes, looking at spread sheets and burning a DVD …
- Oh No, We Didn't Have A Decision Maker, Now We Have A Decision Maker … 1.0 Some things that caught my attention This one happened to be at the top of my attention stack as I'm looking at the text window …
- How Much Should You Own, Anyway? … The Calls Keep Coming From Inside The House And The Duty Never Stops only for XBox and Windows platforms were nil, because of course you'd always be …
- "We Really Didn't Expect This To Work" … look, there's this amazing quote at the end: "Yes, we're aware that Windows and Linux AArch64 devices existed before the M1. There was no allure to …
- Irritated About Content Moderation; A Few Small Things … One of the results was Windows Vista's UAC ( User Account Control ), which was a combination of isolating processes so they couldn't mess with each other, as …
- Get a cozy Data Tiny House, Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive People … The Cozily compatible, from the 80s to the 2020s uses a Windows 3.1 BMP tiled background wallpaper, and makes references to 80s/early 90s databases as well …
- Three Things … I think I remember that SpaceX uses its own, home-grown, Windows-based Enterprise Resource Planning system rather than use something like SAP or Oracle. SpaceX is designing …
- Snow Crash Ch13, Part 2; Everything Is Political … Earth! Microsoft Windows came out in 1985 and I can’t remember when the whole trademarking issues about just owning the word Windows happened. But having dumb generic …
- The extra bit … Is your WebEx working? No? Ugh, I wish we could use Zoom” and Windows Update notifications is *hilarious* to me. Government is hard: There’s a good Code …
- Tireless five year olds … PloS one , 8(7):e68400, 2013 and, I shit you not, the fucking Broken Windows citation: J. Q. Wilson and G. L. Kelling. Broken windows. Atlantic monthly , 249 …
- Snow Crashing … sense because of the Hypercard reference, right? This is all about the Mac: Windows 3.1 doesn’t even exist yet and the contemporary Mac OS is System …
- Probably Not Gutless … ONE THING that is interesting though is that I remembered SpaceX and Tesla run a custom-built Windows-based ERP following the general principle that for some things …
- Acquisition and ingest mode, dial for a wide spread … good sign. * Someone archived a difficult-to-find paper on the design of Windows 95's interface . I am a sucker for the thinking behind interfaces. * Typeset in …
- Nobody expects the hiatus newsletter … the cloud service is view-only if you’re not running Windows. The question as to whether it’s a good idea (I mean, you can certainly *do …
- The City Was Connected … Some joker had leaked another cache of NSA zero-day's for Windows Embedded last month and the lights had been useless ever since. At least the kids …
- Things That Have Caught My Attention … databases running on mainframes talking to Visual Basic 6-era fat clients on Windows computers) to something that we would call "modern", ie: all of the GDS and …
- That Is Interesting, Isn't It? … 1.0 Customer Support, How May I Help You? My wife was helping her dad with a tech question (the broad strokes are a Windows 7 laptop, an …
- Funny, I've always believed that the world is what we make of it … Microsoft used to (and maybe still does?) have warring factions between Office and Windows and Server and so-on. Apple has one Software Engineering function that does everything …
- Portions Of This Consciousness Are Copyright … 2] Developers can run Bash Shell and user-mode Ubuntu Linux binaries on Windows 10 - Scott Hanselman 1.0 Portions Of This Consciousness Are Copyright Artificial Intelligence[citation …
- GUT; Sixteen Theses … I *think* he's saying that "mobile" means iOS/Android and that PC means OS X/Windows and that "mobile" will beat "PC". Which, duh, because many smaller …
- Sequencing; Spectrum … To the right, there is a silver Apple MacBook Pro. > examine black Gateway laptop The black Gateway laptop looks like it is running Windows 7. It is covered …
- Bob Rife Is Real; Digital Secure Confusion … answering frequently asked questions HSBC! Here's another one: "Can I use my Windows Phone® as my Digital Secure Key?" to which the answer is not "No," but …
- Typing, Continued … at this moment I am Thinking About How You Get From A Pre-Windows-95 Era Mainframe Application to Something That Is A Bit More Reasonable. I think …
- Episode Two Hundred and Eight: … If you're going to choose a word that probably *can't* be trademarked, like "Paper" or "Layout" or, god forbid, Windows[2], then yes, you can and …
- Noticings; Insecure; No Jobs But What We Make … Throw a couple of Windows exploits through emails to account managers, sit back, and Bob's pretty much your corporate intelligence officer based in China. [1] http://tinyletter …
- We Will Sell it To You Wholesale … being tired of possibilities when instead we want delivery? My ex-employer launched Windows 95, but I'm not sure if they came up with the "Where do …
- Depth, Not Breadth … application on *really* works on Firefox, nevermind Safari or Chrome, and that *really* Windows is probably better, and once the issue has been escalated to IT, hopefully it …
- The Only Medium; Watching You; Smart Cities … still freaking out about the stupendous innovation of Windows 95, they were starting to come to grips with Windows 98 and the horror of ME hadn't yet …
- Transparency Through Bot; Mundane Fictional Spytech; The Horizontal Arcology … It's a bit like seeing the Windows splashscreen pop up in True Lies or, as one of my friends pointed out, the progression in tech from the …
- Probationary Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.; The Blog Unbundled; A World of Connected Objects … One of the screens had a LogMeIn Hamachi prompt and an explorer window open showing stuff like IronManHandv3.exe and for a moment I wasn't *entirely* sure …
- Clarity; The Customer … There's a clarity in the work of the Government Digital Service where they're able to tape a sign to the window and say "these are our …
- Dangerous; Not Trying Is A Signal (2); What's Mine; Laundry … of which because it's going to require me to set up a Windows install somewhere. But, damn. I have friends who have, who've gushed about how …
- The Internet of Safety; Invisible Technology; Like A Dog Whistle; Odds … For example, he'd compare iOS device shipments against Windows PC shipments and have to explain that, whilst they were *unfair* in terms of iOS devices being a …
- Recall; ATMs; … auto-updating mechanisms that help devices mitigate against zero-day attacks. And thus: Windows Automatic Update, OS X and iOS over-the-air updates and so on. But …
- Kill Hollywood, Still; Sandwiches; Apple and Samsung, Still; A Weak Signal … News that Windows Phone 8.1 works with Apple's Passbook passes[1], of which I'm not even sure if Apple's Passbook specs are open-as …
- Sharing Heartbleed; A Weakness of the Heart; Zero-Day … It wasn't about Heartbleed, but it was about Windows XP being EOLed. So there's that, I guess. (I explained that he needn't worry - his laptop …
- Cities; Snow Crashing 5; More Television … 3.0 The Naming Of Things So Cortana is the name of the assistant built into Windows Phone[1]. We've all been there: the codename that stuck …
- Station Ident; Snow Crashing 2; Computers, AMIRITE?; A Book on your Face … I mean, you're not doing the whole Windows era of Function-7 to turn on the external display and then maybe Fn-8 to turn off mirroring …
- Literal Tone Of Voice, Presence, Networks, Applescript … Time was, you'd kind of laugh about Brian Eno designing the aural identity for Microsoft Windows, but, here are the super dumb things that I put to …
- The Job To Be Done, The Ethics, The Good and The Practice … And instead Windows get, well, Windows MovieMaker, Windows Photo, and Windows Media Player. Let me put it this way, and I realise that this is more of a …
- Attention, Star Trek and Cars … I mean, definitely not Metro-y, definitely not prehistoric Windows Phone and definitely, not, well, anything else. It's interesting. Cars are a whole area of consumer electronics …
- The Cult of Making, Shooting Fish In Jean Michel Jarre's Barrel … I would spend one summer with a schoolfriend setting up all of our school's Windows 95 computers with TCP/IP and hacking together an intranet running on …