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[pentode]

say it with me now...."you do NOT test in prod"

Re: testing in production... I once was tasked with doing a few server migrations for a Fortune 500 company that I'm sure I'm not supposed to name. They ran a content management system (Drupal) for all their sales, marketing, blogs, etc. on a single server. So not the end of the world if something screwed up- but they did screw up regularly because nobody could figure out how to use Drupal (who could blame them?). Oh, and they were paying 10 grand a month for hosting from some ultra-elite white glove hand-holding service who would come in and fix all the screw-ups. I moved the non mission critical stuff to Wordpress on AWS and gave them 3 servers, a production server, a staging server and a sandbox. They had to work really hard to mess up the production server after that.

Point of the story is exactly what @97RangerXLT said: say it with me now...."you do NOT test in prod" ... especially when you're pushing code out to 8 million machines.

 

[SenorNoob]

Not advocating for it or anything, but I don't get the hate on Windows 11. I've been using it since the Beta. It takes awhile to disable the ad BS but so does Windows 10. Otherwise virtually identical. For me at least 11 is faster. Except for some reason connecting to the network on power-up. IDK why I can open Chrome and get a message that I don't have an internet connection for about 10 seconds. I'm guessing it has something to with the way services start up. It doesn't bother me enough to really look into it.

 

[mikkelstuff]

Why I stick to linux, true Apple based but - the very reason I stay away from the cloud and keep my own backups.

 

[Roert42]

The only thing I can really complain about with windows 8.1 is I still can’t figure out how to completely disable automatic updates.

 

[JoshT]

Not advocating for it or anything, but I don't get the hate on Windows 11.

My only complaints about Windows 11 is how agressively Microsoft pushes it, their need to change things that worked perfectly fine, and the bing/cloud integration.

They have moved away from their forced upgrade compaign, though it never should have happened in the first place. You don;t just push out a complete OS replacement to people without first getting their consent.

They get people used to a certain way that their OS functions, then change fundamentals of how it works. That messes everyone up. By the time Windows 12 comes out people will be used to 11 and have the same complaints all over again. (On that note, wasn't 10 supposed to be the "last Windows OS".)

Don't force Bing and the Cloud on me. Five me the options to joint in, don't bake it in as part of the OS. At the very least, give me an easy (built-in) option to remove it.

Why I stick to linux, true Apple based but

You've got that backwards I think. Linux isn't Apple based. MacOS and iOS were both Unix based. Linux is also an evolution of Unix. They are kind of separate forks based on the same source.

 

[mikkelstuff]

What I meant is that Linux runs on my Apple computers as opposed to a Linux only machine, Silicon Graphics for example.

 

[MaicoDoug]

Machela, that's I'll say. She told me that her & a couple others manage it, that was 10 years ago. Interestingly she owns Benny Goodman's signature, the rights to ALL his recordings, the RCA ball that goes with it, also owns a 78 record lathe which she makes copies from Benny's masters.

Sold my cabin cruiser to her mourned in Matagorda harbor. She explained what she does for a living, her & about 2 dozen hackers around the world. Takes over fortune 500 companies' IT systems on any given Sunday (with their permission), and attempts to break in, which they always do. Then the IT system is stronger, easy to understand.

Now examples of not so "firm" firmware, I just can't fathom, but I'm a hardware guy, you can have all that keyboard stuff. All the uP junk that pollutes our world. Give me a break. Sorry, but having gone to high school with Steve Wozniak and growing up in Silicon Valley, it was a good living while it lasted. I stuck with the non - fab side of the technology. There were more ways to make a life than play with little transistors at Intel, IBM & AMD. Programming never interested me, however I have developed ladder logic control systems on paper basically to control instruments that needed launching from the R&D lab. Got to start somewhere, then handed it off to the programmers waiting to get it back for qualification & certification.

When I sold he my boat, she already had a pile of papers in her hand from everything I had posted in boat forums, saying " I know what you paid for it". Man she was a fire cracker, but I liked her and her husband who was into super cars and was from Germany. It's a small world.

 

[superj]

you are south of victoria?

 

[MaicoDoug]

Me, no, I'm located in Bryan-College Station about an hour NW of Houston. The boat (Matagorda harbour) is ESE of Victoria on the coast. Love that coast, especially the in shore surf & jetty fishing. Always come home with dinner.

It was hard to believe in the early days of SW deployment, there is always an update thank you, and then the thought of attacks, what? Why? No different than anything that is oversold, there are always shortcomings. Crazy to think that Google is always only one day away from complete collapse. Robots, mostly THEIR robots are always attacking security, so sad, but finally me,.. I am attempting to drift away from all of my "high tech" background. Since now I'm retired and hopefully soon will set up shop in southern Colorado with my Ranger along for the ride, well actually the other way around. Since I was involved in the very early full suspension and frameset prototyping, then fork design, proto development (real stuff) there is a soft spot for me to keep doing this sort of stuff, it's nerd like, especially when someone's life depends on your ability to fully complete any sort of failure analysis, not to mention introduce more lateral rigidity, and lightweight safer suspensions systems. The liability lawyers ended up with the biggest slice of that cake, but not from me.

So how does SW development and the ever present & ensuing attacks measure up with typical product liability? It's like big pharma, who must advertise their drugs to the masses only for one reason being ...to disclose their disclaimers.

 

[superj]

ohh, ok. i saw the matagorda bay and knew that was near me.

my family lived on lake livingston in the early 90s. i enjoyed fishing there more than here on the ocean. everything corrodes so badly here