Notices tagged with windows

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

...and the rather, delicious irony is that he is quite obsessed about security and the transition to the Cloud. If we were allowed to configure the networking properly, we wouldn't need this #Windows Jump Machine'.

Also, he sends me RDP shortcuts 'for your desktop' and assumes the use of Putty generated keys when I am using Remmina and openssh from Arch.

When @Microsoft@twitter.activitypub.actor says it “loves @Linux@twitter.activitypub.actor it means to say #Microsoft loves @Windows@twitter.activitypub.actor, but nowadays M$ calls #Windows "#Linux"... it’s all about leveraging Linux(#Android) to spread Windows. How is that #love of Linux?

http://techrights.org/2019/03/12/microsoft-foxconn/

Hey, #Microsoft: every time I'm in #Windows folder security settings, and I cancel out of your annoying little request to enter network credentials (because I want to choose a local security group or user), your OS hides all its security settings dialogs behind other Explorer windows. Could you, like, not? #Annoying #Usability #UX #MSWindows
#Windows2019Server

RT @pierceng@twitter.com Building OpenSmalltalk VM on Windows 7 https://t.co/1jM7fH44KN #pharo #smalltalk #windows

Hey #Windows 10 users, we need some advice on debugging some weird behavior: https://talkgroup.xyz/t/help-me-with-my-windows-10-work-workstation/2625?u=maiki

Rebooting resets default app permissions for image viewer and browser. What's up with that? ^_^

I wonder whether this behavior is particular to #Windows, or whether the #Linux instances suffer a similar fate?

How to make a #Windows #ScheduledTask run at a higher #CPU speed without altering your code:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/taskschd/tasksettings-priority

@succfemboi If someone contributes support for it, sure!

So far, we decided to focus on #Flatpak for #Linux desktop, #Docker for servers, #Debian debs and #Homebrew for #MacOS to catch as many people as possible with least effort required.

If someone adds support for #Windows, we would highly appreciate this, too!