The only reason I haven't dumped it completely yet is because there are some useful add-ons that aren't available for Chrome...
Don't worry, they work hard on phasing out XUL add-ons with version 57 at the end of 2017, so that they will have just as few add-on choices as chrome.
From my experience I suspect the problem doesn't start with "The code being pushed into production" in wrong way, the problem starts with *Users* sending un-coordinated bug reports and feature request directly to the developers.
Without some program/feature person "In charge" on the user side it feels pretty hopeless.
The only solution I have come up with for me: Make sure that management KNOWS that without proper procedures in place the is an increased risk of bugs slipping through that might affect production code. It works pretty well so war. We have a few cases of bugs that affect production for a few hours each year, but as long as management understands they lose $X to bugs because they don't want to pay $Y for propper QA procedures, and it's *Their* decision to implement better QA when the cost of bugs increases too much for their tates, and don't blame the developers for it, then it works pretty OK.
I also still miss the thermostat and fan-switch for the air conditioning in my office. Instead of having to touch it maybe 2-3 times a year when the season changes, I now have to fiddle with an annoying touch screen multiple times a day to keep the temperature at least somewhat comfortable.
.... a kitchen sink into the core, they could have instead done a *sane* way to include additional modules.
Perl and Python for example have no problem loading user-specific or script-specific modules, not like the "system wide or nothing" approach of PHP. ( which of course doesn't work with shared hosting. )
One of the main points of Pale Moon was that it was for people who NOT wanted Australis. And since the fork most of Pale Moon was completely rewritten anyway (Including dropping Gecko as a rendering engine, and replacing it with the self written Goanna.), so "re-forking" from a newer Firefox version would be pretty pointless.
Also, the new version 27.1.0 includes a completete rewrite of multimedia handling, that passes it of to ffmpeg directly in Linux. Which is really great for HTML5 video, since everything that is supported by ffmpeg *just works* out of the box.
He. We just found the cause yesterday. It definitely was obscure.
- The "base image" for the servers was installed by a Microsoft Consultant. - Somehow the DVD install image he downloaded from the Microsoft website was broken (despite the MD5 hash matching, so the the image on the MS Web site bus have been broken when he downloaded it) - The install process didn't throw any warnings that things were missing either - Nor did the event log or anything else catch that small parts of the 32bit subsystem were "just not there" in the OS.
As for the "Wait between updates": All the "real" servers are updated and current. Just these "user desktop" servers (which are provisioned and booted into "clean images" for every user that logs on so malware is not really an issue) are so much behind, because we had to cancel the 2008 update, and had to cancel the 2012 update, and now are in the "last straw" try to go to 2016, because with every try we run into things that "just don't work" any more, either technically or for the users.
Luckily I'm the ONE Linux / Database guy, but when I compare my two to three week update test and work each year for Linux with the two or three month update test each year the THREE Windows guys are doing, I'm really sorry for them. (Especially when their "upgrade weekend" consist of continuous work while my "upgrade weekend" consist of watching movies and having an eye on the script outputs.)
The funny thing is, that we are still on Windows Server 2003 in our company (We run not a single PC, just Linux thin clients that connect to Windows Terminalservers when they need a "Windows-ey" Desktop). We abandoned the move to Server 2008 a few years back, and now are trying to move to Server 2016. The main problems we are running into are compatibility problems between MS products. From what I have experienced there is that it seems Windows stability and comparability is becoming worse.
For example, one problem we are having is that about 50% of the 32bit applications we need don't seem to do name resolution for some obscure reason. Ping works flawlessly, nslookup shows everything in order, 64bit programs don't have any problems, but about a dozen 32bit applications throw "host not found" errors for an unknown reason when they try to connect to their databases / applications servers / etc... using host names. When we replace the hostnames in the configuration with IPs it works.
In my opinion everything before Windows 2000 was not good enough for a corporate environment, Windows 2000 was pretty decent (With the NT Kernel and the "W95 Desktop" experience), and Windows 2003 / 2008 was the peak of Windows Desktops for corporations. (Which would roughly equate to Windows 7 for Workstations)
Which is really a shame. There is nothing that would I like better than have decent current versions of both Windows and Linux.
With all the data Goggle has on moving vehicles, they probably know *that* Route A is faster than route B for a specific time of day, even though they probably don't know *why*
Every evening at around quitting time I go on Goggle maps to view the traffic data, and only leave work when I see that the congestion that is happening for around 1-2 hours around that time on my route home is gone for the day. Cuts my commute time by about 20-30%, and on some days I then leave work *before* the rush hour.
I think it "might scale back to sensible levels". ( When you look at the 1990s for example, how many people had PCs back then.)
In the private home: Perhaps 10-30% of the population? Geeks and professionals will still need PCs. People who only use the Internet, browse, shop and watch movies will probably no longer need a PC.
In the workplace: Before the PC most "screen and keyboard" type workstations where dumb terminals. Then there was the PC-wave, but now they have gone back to somewhat-dumb terminals. In our company we used to have ~300PCs 10 Years ago, now we have about 20 PCs and 1000 Terminals. (Which of course could still be classified as small PCs without much storage running Linux, but you can't really install much on them besides client programs to connect to servers)
Just more editorial bias. The thought is that embedded wifi will only ever be a security risk, and could never possibly be of use to anyone.
Well, if WiFi is of use to anyone, they could perfectly well sell Friges which have a WiFi option. That is no reason to *force* the cost and security risk of wifi onto everyone who doesn't want it.
I wonder if have any idea in their deranged mind to *lower* the cost of the fridge, but require a monthly subscription for it to work. Which would open up an opportunity for black-marked "DRM-Removed" household appliances....... "Download 12 month of refrigeration from piratebay!!!"
Heck, even in my man cave the most compelling feature is that I can slouch on the couch in every possible direction. Which would make any Stereoscopic-Fake-3D technology of today useless.
Well, they now will just leave the cars parked on the charging pad while the next guy waits in line, so not much of an improvement there. And I guess adding more charging pads will be more expensive that adding more charging outlets.
The "special thing" here is that they were bought *after* they were recovered by the police. At that point they presumable ceased to be stolen goods. Or else you would never be able to sell anything that was once stolen from you, recovered by police, and returned to you.
The real question here is why the police never returned the bag to NASA (or the museum it was stolen from). When they find some random jewellery they compare it to stuff that has been reported stolen, why didn't they do that in case of the bag? Was the theft never reported? But even then, with a "moon rock sample bag" found in a thieves den NASA would have been pretty much the first choice of contact to inquire about it.
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Well, *ultimately* coal is also the same energy source, sunlight captured by ancient forest that turned into coal
The only reason I haven't dumped it completely yet is because there are some useful add-ons that aren't available for Chrome...
Don't worry, they work hard on phasing out XUL add-ons with version 57 at the end of 2017, so that they will have just as few add-on choices as chrome.
From my experience I suspect the problem doesn't start with "The code being pushed into production" in wrong way, the problem starts with *Users* sending un-coordinated bug reports and feature request directly to the developers.
Without some program/feature person "In charge" on the user side it feels pretty hopeless.
The only solution I have come up with for me: Make sure that management KNOWS that without proper procedures in place the is an increased risk of bugs slipping through that might affect production code. It works pretty well so war. We have a few cases of bugs that affect production for a few hours each year, but as long as management understands they lose $X to bugs because they don't want to pay $Y for propper QA procedures, and it's *Their* decision to implement better QA when the cost of bugs increases too much for their tates, and don't blame the developers for it, then it works pretty OK.
I'll raise you three Userfriendlies
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I also still miss the thermostat and fan-switch for the air conditioning in my office. Instead of having to touch it maybe 2-3 times a year when the season changes, I now have to fiddle with an annoying touch screen multiple times a day to keep the temperature at least somewhat comfortable.
That's why I would probably say "Make sure your student brings the f***ing book to class." in style.
Well, at least those two are way south and have beaches with sharks, which Austria hasn't ;-P
... be it on an optical disk or another storage medium, I first add ~25% error correction data with http://www.dvdisaster.com/en/i....
So far I have only needed it once, when I wheeled over a DVD with my office chair, when it was enough to recover the data.
.... a kitchen sink into the core, they could have instead done a *sane* way to include additional modules.
Perl and Python for example have no problem loading user-specific or script-specific modules, not like the "system wide or nothing" approach of PHP. ( which of course doesn't work with shared hosting. )
One of the main points of Pale Moon was that it was for people who NOT wanted Australis. And since the fork most of Pale Moon was completely rewritten anyway (Including dropping Gecko as a rendering engine, and replacing it with the self written Goanna.), so "re-forking" from a newer Firefox version would be pretty pointless.
Also, the new version 27.1.0 includes a completete rewrite of multimedia handling, that passes it of to ffmpeg directly in Linux. Which is really great for HTML5 video, since everything that is supported by ffmpeg *just works* out of the box.
Finally a windows machine, where the bugs will not make it suck....
He. We just found the cause yesterday. It definitely was obscure.
- The "base image" for the servers was installed by a Microsoft Consultant.
- Somehow the DVD install image he downloaded from the Microsoft website was broken (despite the MD5 hash matching, so the the image on the MS Web site bus have been broken when he downloaded it)
- The install process didn't throw any warnings that things were missing either
- Nor did the event log or anything else catch that small parts of the 32bit subsystem were "just not there" in the OS.
As for the "Wait between updates": All the "real" servers are updated and current. Just these "user desktop" servers (which are provisioned and booted into "clean images" for every user that logs on so malware is not really an issue) are so much behind, because we had to cancel the 2008 update, and had to cancel the 2012 update, and now are in the "last straw" try to go to 2016, because with every try we run into things that "just don't work" any more, either technically or for the users.
Luckily I'm the ONE Linux / Database guy, but when I compare my two to three week update test and work each year for Linux with the two or three month update test each year the THREE Windows guys are doing, I'm really sorry for them. (Especially when their "upgrade weekend" consist of continuous work while my "upgrade weekend" consist of watching movies and having an eye on the script outputs.)
The funny thing is, that we are still on Windows Server 2003 in our company (We run not a single PC, just Linux thin clients that connect to Windows Terminalservers when they need a "Windows-ey" Desktop). We abandoned the move to Server 2008 a few years back, and now are trying to move to Server 2016. The main problems we are running into are compatibility problems between MS products. From what I have experienced there is that it seems Windows stability and comparability is becoming worse.
For example, one problem we are having is that about 50% of the 32bit applications we need don't seem to do name resolution for some obscure reason. Ping works flawlessly, nslookup shows everything in order, 64bit programs don't have any problems, but about a dozen 32bit applications throw "host not found" errors for an unknown reason when they try to connect to their databases / applications servers / etc... using host names. When we replace the hostnames in the configuration with IPs it works.
In my opinion everything before Windows 2000 was not good enough for a corporate environment, Windows 2000 was pretty decent (With the NT Kernel and the "W95 Desktop" experience), and Windows 2003 / 2008 was the peak of Windows Desktops for corporations. (Which would roughly equate to Windows 7 for Workstations)
Which is really a shame. There is nothing that would I like better than have decent current versions of both Windows and Linux.
With all the data Goggle has on moving vehicles, they probably know *that* Route A is faster than route B for a specific time of day, even though they probably don't know *why*
Every evening at around quitting time I go on Goggle maps to view the traffic data, and only leave work when I see that the congestion that is happening for around 1-2 hours around that time on my route home is gone for the day. Cuts my commute time by about 20-30%, and on some days I then leave work *before* the rush hour.
Don't trust the cloud as the only place you store your work.
I think it "might scale back to sensible levels". ( When you look at the 1990s for example, how many people had PCs back then.)
In the private home: Perhaps 10-30% of the population?
Geeks and professionals will still need PCs. People who only use the Internet, browse, shop and watch movies will probably no longer need a PC.
In the workplace:
Before the PC most "screen and keyboard" type workstations where dumb terminals. Then there was the PC-wave, but now they have gone back to somewhat-dumb terminals. In our company we used to have ~300PCs 10 Years ago, now we have about 20 PCs and 1000 Terminals. (Which of course could still be classified as small PCs without much storage running Linux, but you can't really install much on them besides client programs to connect to servers)
So he also transported enough GPS satellites back in time, for his GPS to work? ;-)
... that has worked on hundred of industrial robots, I have never seen one without an "emergency stop" button. (or even multiple ones)
( But of course "Kill Switch" sounds cooler, so people without any technical knowledge would probably prefer that terminology. )
Just more editorial bias. The thought is that embedded wifi will only ever be a security risk, and could never possibly be of use to anyone.
Well, if WiFi is of use to anyone, they could perfectly well sell Friges which have a WiFi option. That is no reason to *force* the cost and security risk of wifi onto everyone who doesn't want it.
I wonder if have any idea in their deranged mind to *lower* the cost of the fridge, but require a monthly subscription for it to work.
Which would open up an opportunity for black-marked "DRM-Removed" household appliances....... "Download 12 month of refrigeration from piratebay!!!"
Heck, even in my man cave the most compelling feature is that I can slouch on the couch in every possible direction. Which would make any Stereoscopic-Fake-3D technology of today useless.
Maybe thermal feedback is the next big thing after tactile feedback. They just have to synch the explosions on-screen to the explosion of the phone.
Well, they now will just leave the cars parked on the charging pad while the next guy waits in line, so not much of an improvement there. And I guess adding more charging pads will be more expensive that adding more charging outlets.
The "special thing" here is that they were bought *after* they were recovered by the police. At that point they presumable ceased to be stolen goods. Or else you would never be able to sell anything that was once stolen from you, recovered by police, and returned to you.
The real question here is why the police never returned the bag to NASA (or the museum it was stolen from). When they find some random jewellery they compare it to stuff that has been reported stolen, why didn't they do that in case of the bag? Was the theft never reported? But even then, with a "moon rock sample bag" found in a thieves den NASA would have been pretty much the first choice of contact to inquire about it.
But is it going to be the original Wendelstein 7-X model or a cheap Chinese knock-off?