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Re: New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft

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Post by yellowbeard »

superuser2 wrote: post #473
pcunite wrote: post #363

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Exactly this ... outside of ThinkPad, many Windows hardware options have been pretty embarrassing.

ThinkPad is pretty embarrassing; you're supporting a company that decided to MITM all its users traffic to inject advertising using factory-installed malware by trusting the same certificate, whose private key can be extracted from any Lenovo product and trivially used to MITM all the others. Lenovo needs to fail hard and fast. I recognize we'll probably never get those responsible into prison, but at least we can ma…

> all its users traffic

It was only a subset of their customers, and none of the ThinkPad models.

https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/superfish

Re: New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft

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Post by ckozlowski »

dpark wrote: post #582
ckozlowski wrote: post #467

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd agree it's a bit more to type out, but it does seem to make more sense from a readability perspective. And for those of us who didn't grow up with the UNIX shell to understand the reasons why things were kept so short, it's a bit easier to digest. (I do appreciate why bash is so short and succulent. =) But really, taking the above into consideration, the might in powershell comes not from the terms used, in my op…

> but it does seem to make more sense from a readability perspective Not really, as everything is given an unreadable alias anyway, and many are given multiple aliases: Copy-Item -> copy,cp,cpi. So there are just more names to learn.

You don't have to use the aliases though, and they don't tab complete (only the full name does)

Personally, I never use them. I saw them more as a help for people coming over from bash.

Re: New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft

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Post by fsloth »

mtgx wrote: post #548
superuser2 wrote: post #473

Earlier quoted context omitted.

ThinkPad is pretty embarrassing; you're supporting a company that decided to MITM all its users traffic to inject advertising using factory-installed malware by trusting the same certificate, whose private key can be extracted from any Lenovo product and trivially used to MITM all the others. Lenovo needs to fail hard and fast. I recognize we'll probably never get those responsible into prison, but at least we can ma…

And you think Microsoft didn't make its Surfacebook NSA-friendly, after all the Microsoft/NSA partnerships that have been reported so far?

Hijackability is probably a feature of most consumer grade devices - accidental or not. What Lenovo did was a specific attack that enabled them blatantly to inject their own content and also did so crappily that it opened a whole back door. It's not like I expect my outdoor to be burglar proof. I do expect, however, for my door manufacturer not to give out keys and assist the tupperware sales reps to help themselves in to my living room.

Re: New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft

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Post by scholia »

Someone1234 wrote: post #92
aleem wrote: post #54

I have been skeptical after a lot of Microsoft misses but the Surface Book Pro might just put Microsoft on the high road. Splitting up the hardware breaks new ground. If I understood it correctly, the GPU is in the keyboard which you can attach to get more power. In detached mode the screen itself has an i7 processor that's plenty powerful. So they managed to let you hot-plug the GPU while the OS is running?

> I have been skeptical after a lot of Microsoft misses The Surface 3 and Surface Pro 3 weren't misses. They were extremely well received and fairly successful products.

Indeed, nobody makes knock-offs of unsuccessful products....

Re: New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft

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Post by rimantas »

rebootthesystem wrote: post #131

THAT is what I've been waiting for, on all fronts. On top of everything else, run Ubuntu VM's on the phone (if and when possible), Surface 4 and Surface Book and you now have the best of both worlds. We run various Windows-native engineering tools (CAD, CAM, EDA, FEA, etc.) yet do a lot of software development under Linux (by running VM's on all of our Windows desktops and laptops). I can imagine popping an SD card i…

  > Not upgrading to any of your new closed hardware and OS's.
I've missed the part whre Windows was announced open source. Can you give me a link?

Re: New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft

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Post by pearjuice »

aresant wrote: post #366

Wow, this page is a mess - here's an element based breakdown of the switching elements in their presentation: MSFT: - nav 1 - nav 2 - header with what sounds like a call to action, but no button to buy? - hero image with text overlaid that has terrible contrast nobody will read - inter-page menus with some insane zooming function that scared my browser - another hero image - 3 columns - maybe buttons? no not clickabl…

You give all this solid critique but didn't consider that maybe some assets (CSS, JavaScript) were not getting properly included/cached/invalidated? That shit happens to even companies at the scale of Microsoft. But rather than waiting a few minutes and see whether it is fixed you immediately scream "IT'S NOT WORKING! LOOKS HORRIBLE! LOL MICROSOFT! APPLE DOES IT BETTER". You are like a stereotype head-of-QA. ;)

Re: New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft

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Post by exelius »

Karunamon wrote: post #441
niels_olson wrote: post #410

Earlier quoted context omitted.

will I need a CAL to SSH in?

..what's sad is that this is a completely legitimate question :(

I thought MS had mostly done away with CALs? I haven't been in an environment without Enterprise Software Assurance for a while, but I thought they were actively moving even their SMB customers over to SA licensing as well. No idea how far their plans got though...

Re: New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft

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Post by dreamfactory2 »

freehunter wrote: post #567
gcb0 wrote: post #476

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i'd take the rubber coated ones over the cold and sharp metal ones you call 'cool' any time. but i guess everyone in SF just use macbooks on their desks at all times.

As a traveling consultant, the durability of the Thinkpad design is nice, but holy hell does it suck to carry through an airport, or to shove under the seat in front of you. I've had to switch to a backpack for my laptop, since a normal bag puts too much weight on one side of my body. A backpack is so much less professional than a laptop bag. And then I drop it from a table onto a cement floor and the body cracks and…

> A backpack is so much less professional than a laptop bag

I wouldn't worry too much about that, backpacks are standard issue for big 5 consultants

Re: New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft

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Post by bherms »

aresant wrote: post #366

Wow, this page is a mess - here's an element based breakdown of the switching elements in their presentation: MSFT: - nav 1 - nav 2 - header with what sounds like a call to action, but no button to buy? - hero image with text overlaid that has terrible contrast nobody will read - inter-page menus with some insane zooming function that scared my browser - another hero image - 3 columns - maybe buttons? no not clickabl…

Looks like a doge meme

Re: New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft

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Post by spyder »

codeulike wrote: post #46

The Lumia 950 docked into a screen and keyboard was pretty interesting

But the thing I don't understand is why they don't make it possible to run a full Windows on phones that already has the Intel Atom quad-core CPU which can run full Windows in tablets with good performance. For example the ASUS Zenfone 2 not only has the Intel CPU but 4GB RAM too. It could be just a question of having Windows drivers for the components like the PowerVR GPU.
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