Notices tagged with windows

#ShowerThoughts we've pushed back against #SPOV (Single Points of Failure) in digital technology for years, and won:
* we defeated mainframes with personal computers and #InternetProtocols (TCP/IP)
* we defeated the #IBM monopoly on the PC with Windows-compatible generics
* we defeated #AOL and #Compuserve with the web protocols
* we defeated the #Windows monopoly with the #Linux kernel, which enabled OS diversity on user devices (#GNU, #Android, #Sailfish, and more)

#x86 processors are next.

I'm live streaming 📡 shortly! Updates and new features for Quickemu project, a simple frontend to #QEMU, and some live Bash scripting to try and add #Windows support. Join me! https://youtu.be/j0PBUlUduEU

Next time some #Windows fan tries to tell you GNU/Linux is too complicated for average users (despite having never used it themselves), show them this:
https://invidio.us/watch?v=ltE_ekc8kE8

Multipass 1.0 – A mini-cloud on your Mac or #Windows workstation https://multipass.run/

Did you know 💡 that you can run #Linux 🐧 #Snap packages 📦 in #WSL2 on #Windows? I've done a lot of hard work 👷♀️ enabling support. I've been documenting ✍ on the #Snapcraft Forum at https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/snapd-on-wsl2-insiders-only-for-now/13033 I want to make this easier via a click-n-go system 🔜 #insiders

RT @NicoSchottelius@twitter.com

Good news for #Linux users: with #UEFI and (some?) @Dell@twitter.com devices you can update your BIOS by just copying the evil .exe file into the EFI partition and select it for upgrade on reboot. Nice, no #Windows required anymore. Tested on Latitude 5285.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/NicoSchottelius/status/1138729168244543489

Wow, good thing I never got around to publishing any Windows apps that use WinJS. Microsoft stoped working on it and deleted all the documentation: https://github.com/winjs/winjs

WinJS was kind of like Electron (desktop apps using web technologies), but you could use native Windows 10 UI elements, so WinJS apps fit right in with other Metro/Modern Windows apps.

I played around with it a lot, it was a cool concept, but the documentation was terrible. #dev #windows

Seriously, what the heck, #Microsoft #Windows? First you tell me you can't access the drive letter, and then when I map it you tell me it's there already? You suck at #accessPrivileges.

Final solution: unmap the drive letter, and then in the #MSDosBatch script first map it, then unmap it when done.

Holy moly, Gates et al, did you have to make your system contradict itself? - 4/4

What the heck are you doing, #Microsoft #Windows?

At my wit's end, I have an idea. Maybe I can have the #MSDosBatch script create the drive letter so it will be available during the #ScheduledTask session? Yes, I can! With the #NetUse command.

On first try: fail! Drive letter already is mapped - 3/4

#TodayILearned: #Microsoft #Windows is terrible at #accessPrivileges.

I've got a #ScheduledTask that runs as a network user. I've done this a million times and I know how to get Windows to accept it.

This time, I need that task to run a #DosBatch script. It runs statements invoking #java and #DOS commands.

One of those is #MOVE. It only works on local disks, including mapped drive letters. It does not speak #UNC.

So I map a drive. I assign privileges to that network user - 1/4