Remember Skype, the once popular phone software? I used it a lot when we were traveling in South America, and international calls were insanely expensive. But I stopped using it when it was acquired by Microsoft, and they switched from a P2P model to centralized servers. From what I could observe, it gradually worsened from… Continue reading Running hostile software in a container
Tag: Windows
Verifying downloads
Last week I stumbled across a post from last year, where somebody described how it was impossible to download an important infrastructure program securely on Windows. My first reaction was of course to pity the poor souls that are still stuck with Windows. How easy is it to just type apt-get install and have all… Continue reading Verifying downloads
The crapware platform
I complained many times that there is no standard package manager on Windows, and that installations and especially upgrading software on that platform is an unholy mess. On my office computer there are probably close to ten different mechanisms present to keep different software packages up to date. Some lurk in the system tray, and… Continue reading The crapware platform
cmake with MSVC
I have used cmake for a couple of years with my hobby projects, and I love it. It is a cross platform meta build system. Like with Qt, people tend to first think that “cross platform” is the main feature. But like with Qt it’s actually one great feature amongst many others. It brings so… Continue reading cmake with MSVC
Is Windows 7 based on MS DOS?
Yesterday I copied an InstallAware Project on the Jenkins continuous integration server. The copy always failed to build while the original succeeded. They were really the same at this point, so WTF!!! In the InstallAware forum I found out that the path name was getting too long. Well, yes, the name of the copied jenkins… Continue reading Is Windows 7 based on MS DOS?