That window itself is the prompt. Windows 10 informs in a notification about new updates being available and then that particular window shows up. It does not allow to completely skip updates, but it always asks what to do, so updates don't happen behind your back.
A great part of the Internet is woven together by those turquoise boxes. They form a vulnerable part of the infrastructure. I find it strange that open source tinfoil hatters have not criticized more the fact that all of that gear runs proprietary code. All of the boxes could have a backdoor that allows a government surveillance organization to connect and change settings or to wiretap passing traffic. Why do not these discussions usually come up?
Haven't heard the word "shill" used that much lately in Slashdot.:) There was an era where everyone was suspected to be a Microsoft shill or some kind of astroturfer.
Rather than fiddling with keys and password recoveries, we have just installed Linux Mint.
No complains or further questions. People use computer for browsing mostly.
If you guide them through the narrow path to only start up a web browser, then I guess it stays in one piece for some time.
However, generally my Linux experience consists of swimming in a sea of "Sorry, something went wrong" error messages and manually fixing various glitches. Makes me much more angry than Windows.
You are free to use Hurd to run any application you like with whatever hardware you like. You just have to extend it some, either by writing the software yourself, hiring somebody or somebodies to do it for you, or otherwise inducing other people to do it. Nobody can legally stop you.
Why on earth? It would require investing millions of dollars and years of time. Do you have any sense about what is practical and what is not? I can run Windows 10 right now, and it works perfectly.
Of course I changed the meaning, but I don't see it being a problem. "Many kinds of freedom" as I wrote the topic, that's my point. Freedom to use every hardware component to their fullest potential. Freedom to choose from a large selection of applications. Those things certainly make me more free, and are important practical values.
FOSS is not a garden party or cake sale where anyone can volunteer just like that. Features that seem relatively simple to the end user can hide tens or hundreds of thousands of lines of code behind them.
It does not make sense for the rm command to render 3D fractals.
I mean, what if I had a car into which I put a "free" operating system. Then I suddenly couldn't switch to the highest gear, and the high beam lights wouldn't work, and the stereo would randomly not power up properly. Surely it does make sense for my car to do those things? Surely using this "free" OS would limit my freedom of using the car in the way that I want, and in the way that it is originally designed?
Linux started to skyrocket when large companies like Red Hat, HP, IBM and Novell picked it up.
Here's the secret: when you have a big of team full-time engineers working on something, the speed of development will quickly accelerate to completely new levels.:)
Well, we can speculate that. However, without the Microsoft deal Nokia would have suffered an even worse faith. Looking at the grim situation of the company, it was a reasonable option to choose.
Let me add that labour unions have a huge power in Finland and have become a major roadblock when the country has recently tried to rearrange things to make the labour market more dynamic. The labour unions have a strong grip on their current benefits which they have acquired over the years. It's like a ship is sinking but on board some guys don't want to throw their superfluous goods into the ocean to prevent the doom.
The Scandinavian countries are quite pragmatic when it comes to solving problems. Sweden did a turn towards the right in 2006 which served them very well. Finland will do something similar.
See, Finland is not that pragmatic. That's the main problem actually. The country has failed to perform the necessary agile moves, the ones that neighboring countries like Sweden and Estonia have done. We Finns just stand with mouth open and mittens in our hands, stare into the horizon and say "Gee, I guess we could do something about the problems. But not right now. And there are many regulations preventing change anyway, and we cannot quickly change those regulations either." There is a lot of the classic 1970s conservative old world stiffness still present. However, right now a lot of confidence has been placed on PM Sipilä and his government, so we'll see.
Not really. I would say that Microsoft failed to save Nokia. Nokia was in deep trouble already when the Microsoft deal was made.
What actually killed Nokia was sticking with the Symbian operating system for too long. It was extremely buggy, laggy, ugly and a pain for developers.
Just dig up an old Series 40 or Series 60 phone, or watch some videos of them in YouTube. You will be reminded how crusty the user experience was. It was easy for Google and Apple to realize that all this could be done better. Nokia had Maemo and MeeGo in the skunkworks as well, but they didn't go big with them.
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That window itself is the prompt. Windows 10 informs in a notification about new updates being available and then that particular window shows up. It does not allow to completely skip updates, but it always asks what to do, so updates don't happen behind your back.
A great part of the Internet is woven together by those turquoise boxes. They form a vulnerable part of the infrastructure. I find it strange that open source tinfoil hatters have not criticized more the fact that all of that gear runs proprietary code. All of the boxes could have a backdoor that allows a government surveillance organization to connect and change settings or to wiretap passing traffic. Why do not these discussions usually come up?
Haven't heard the word "shill" used that much lately in Slashdot. :) There was an era where everyone was suspected to be a Microsoft shill or some kind of astroturfer.
What? You can easily disable updates in legitimate version of Windows 7.
"Close laptop, go to bed. Get up in the morning, laptop has installed updates and rebooted, wants your permission to continue"
Windows 10 will always ask when you want to restart.
You can also go to Advanced Power Settings and disable scheduled timers if you don't want to wake up your laptop to install updates.
Rather than fiddling with keys and password recoveries, we have just installed Linux Mint.
No complains or further questions. People use computer for browsing mostly.
If you guide them through the narrow path to only start up a web browser, then I guess it stays in one piece for some time.
However, generally my Linux experience consists of swimming in a sea of "Sorry, something went wrong" error messages and manually fixing various glitches. Makes me much more angry than Windows.
You are overreacting.
You are free to use Hurd to run any application you like with whatever hardware you like. You just have to extend it some, either by writing the software yourself, hiring somebody or somebodies to do it for you, or otherwise inducing other people to do it. Nobody can legally stop you.
Why on earth? It would require investing millions of dollars and years of time. Do you have any sense about what is practical and what is not? I can run Windows 10 right now, and it works perfectly.
Yeah, but couldn't an userspace app also use it to gain root access and do weird shit?
What devices are affected?
Is this something actually dangerous, or something that only a security researcher can exploit in theoretical conditions?
People should stop calling it "UEFI/BIOS".
It takes too much of my time.
Quite professional Japanese video production setup they have in that link. *sips coffee*
Of course I changed the meaning, but I don't see it being a problem. "Many kinds of freedom" as I wrote the topic, that's my point. Freedom to use every hardware component to their fullest potential. Freedom to choose from a large selection of applications. Those things certainly make me more free, and are important practical values.
FOSS is not a garden party or cake sale where anyone can volunteer just like that. Features that seem relatively simple to the end user can hide tens or hundreds of thousands of lines of code behind them.
It does not make sense for the rm command to render 3D fractals.
I mean, what if I had a car into which I put a "free" operating system. Then I suddenly couldn't switch to the highest gear, and the high beam lights wouldn't work, and the stereo would randomly not power up properly. Surely it does make sense for my car to do those things? Surely using this "free" OS would limit my freedom of using the car in the way that I want, and in the way that it is originally designed?
Linux started to skyrocket when large companies like Red Hat, HP, IBM and Novell picked it up.
Here's the secret: when you have a big of team full-time engineers working on something, the speed of development will quickly accelerate to completely new levels. :)
In a way Hurd is not free software because it does not allow me to freely unleash all potential of my PC. I am restricted with digital handcuffs.
True. Even Linux is already having a lot of problems with keeping up with functionality.
You can say goodbye to all cool Japanese snacks, as we cannot print their names properly.
That's a good point of course. Nokia's dumbphone business was still quite feasible, but making dumbphones didn't suit Microsoft's business profile.
Well, we can speculate that. However, without the Microsoft deal Nokia would have suffered an even worse faith. Looking at the grim situation of the company, it was a reasonable option to choose.
Let me add that labour unions have a huge power in Finland and have become a major roadblock when the country has recently tried to rearrange things to make the labour market more dynamic. The labour unions have a strong grip on their current benefits which they have acquired over the years. It's like a ship is sinking but on board some guys don't want to throw their superfluous goods into the ocean to prevent the doom.
The Scandinavian countries are quite pragmatic when it comes to solving problems. Sweden did a turn towards the right in 2006 which served them very well. Finland will do something similar.
See, Finland is not that pragmatic. That's the main problem actually. The country has failed to perform the necessary agile moves, the ones that neighboring countries like Sweden and Estonia have done. We Finns just stand with mouth open and mittens in our hands, stare into the horizon and say "Gee, I guess we could do something about the problems. But not right now. And there are many regulations preventing change anyway, and we cannot quickly change those regulations either." There is a lot of the classic 1970s conservative old world stiffness still present. However, right now a lot of confidence has been placed on PM Sipilä and his government, so we'll see.
Cuz Microsoft killed it.
Not really. I would say that Microsoft failed to save Nokia. Nokia was in deep trouble already when the Microsoft deal was made.
What actually killed Nokia was sticking with the Symbian operating system for too long. It was extremely buggy, laggy, ugly and a pain for developers.
Just dig up an old Series 40 or Series 60 phone, or watch some videos of them in YouTube. You will be reminded how crusty the user experience was. It was easy for Google and Apple to realize that all this could be done better. Nokia had Maemo and MeeGo in the skunkworks as well, but they didn't go big with them.