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Microsoft begs you to stop using Internet Explorer
In a blog post, Microsoft senior cybersecurity architect Chris Jackson said continuing to use Internet Explorer is racking up companies a ton of "technical debt." Essentially, by continuing to use IE, organizations are creating additional costs down the line by selecting the easiest, most convenient solution now rather than the approach that is best for the long term. Jackson laid out a scenario in which a company, choosing the easiest possible route since Internet Explorer 6, goes to make a webpage today and ends up using a 1999 implementation of web standards by default.
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Wow! Look!! A stray meatball!! Let's interview it!
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday February 10 2019, @04:49AM (8 children)
I hear from Navy and the VA that DOS text-mode applications are still in-use (though you can still run them on a modern version of Windows).
No surprise about the XP on the subs, because new technologies when it comes to military gadgetry are a fuckhuge pain in the ass of expense and red-tape to qualify. There is a case with us now where we are going to modernize a certain test rig for a picky defense contractor. One of the rules for qualification is, no joke, if you move the test stand more than 4 feet is has to be re-qualified and re-certified. That applies even if you just want to move the setup for efficiency reasons without changing the setup itself. I hear that with the contractor in question re-qualification usually takes around 2 years.
I'm all about improvising and band-aid fixes, and it was really tough to get used to stonewalling band-aid fixes in favor of trying to convince management that an upgrade was instead needed (fortunately that wasn't my decision to make, but it is still painful having to let a problem, which could be fixed with a patch or a couple hours of code, fester on the floor to coerce management to make the necessary upgrade).
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 10 2019, @06:35AM (5 children)
One of the applications that we use at least once a day is text mode. Drives me bonkers because it requires the use of the function keys, so on our modern computers we have to hold down the FN button to use them. On top of that, for awhile, IT was replacing our machines with ones that had keyboards that only went up to F10. It took over a year to get that one straightened out until the head of the department finally had his computer replaced and suddenly understood our complaints when he couldn't use the application which required pressing F12.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by acid andy on Sunday February 10 2019, @01:11PM (2 children)
FFS, if such a simple concept takes direct experience for them to comprehend it, they shouldn't be in management. Unless of course, as is more likely, they only care about it when it annoys them directly. That kind of sociopathy is counter-productive of course, because the business is losing money while employees have to work around crap like that.
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday February 10 2019, @01:45PM
"Whenever we get a new computer, we have to wait six months for an expert to fly out from Washington, then another month for him to bless it."
-- Lt. Charles Russell "Russ" Crawford USN (Ret.)
While Dad was quite proud of his Top Secret Clearance, I am _dead_ _certain_ he was cleared to do Signals Intelligence work.
I'd rather not tell you more than what he _specifically_ told me one day, but I have really good reasons to believe he really did do SIGINT:
"Mike?"
"Yes, Dad?"
"Aboard submarines there are some black boxes."
(I have it on good authority that actually, they are grey.)
"And there are some quiet men who tend to those black boxes."
My father was a quiet man.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 10 2019, @08:27PM
He is an old-money political appointee. Other than being skilled at bullshitting and the ole' Wine and Dine, he can barely function. My desk partner literally had to show him how to unlock a car when the battery on his fob died, literally ever single virus breakout we've had starts with him, he routinely falls for phishing attempts, and he claims to be gluten-free, but has no problem eating the gluten-loaded wheat toast after using the "gluten-free" setting on the office toaster.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 10 2019, @06:02PM (1 child)
You could have simply looked up the alt code for the F12 key in the meantime.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 10 2019, @08:20PM
There isn't one. Modern computers don't emulate key presses anymore. Instead, the OS maps the sequence to the current code page, or it can be overridden by the target program (which is how Word has the same well-known sequences regardless of code page). The problem is that F12 doesn't exist as a sequence in the code page, and cannot be access by number.
(Score: 2, Funny) by pTamok on Sunday February 10 2019, @12:35PM
if you move the test stand more than 4 feet is has to be re-qualified and re-certified.
Hmm. Is there any rule against moving it in several 4-foot increments? Or is it more than 4-feet from a particular (fixed) location. If there is no rule against incremental movements, what is the minimum period of time between moves? What if you jack up the building it is in and move the building?
As it is (presumably) on the surface of the earth, unless it is precisely on the earth's axis of rotation, it is moving all the time at a tangential dependent on the distance from the earth's axis of rotation which could be quite large. Does that require continuous requalification and recertification?
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday February 10 2019, @01:13PM
"fuckhuge".
You Ethanol-fueled, are an Officer and a Gentleman.
May I offer you a reacharound?
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