Where’s the Linux? Is this “Windows Bad” memes?

Saw one earlier today where the “community support” person opened with “please make sure you have applied all Windows updates”. Given that it was a web page issue and I was on my phone I didn’t mark this reply as helpful.

Thanks!

errr… what am I looking at here?

No clear line, but to me a script is tying together other programs that you run, those programs themselves are the programs. I guess it’s a matter of how complex the logic is too.

Yep, in my mind piping together other commands is scripting not programming, exactly what shell scripts are for!

Wouldn’t something interpreted like python be a better solution?

Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should

Shell is great, but if you’re using it as a programming language then you’re going to have a bad time. It’s great for scripting, but if you find yourself actually programming in it then save yourself the headache and use an actual language!

ACE on a WiiU is just as easy, at least with the Wii you had to use a game!

You’re right, I must have been thinking of something else. Happily I can’t find any chatter about actual malware in QR codes (it’s all redirecting to malicious websites), though obviously there’s always the possibility of a new exploit being discovered.

This was a few years ago (so I hope there have been patches since then) but I watched a video which was trying to make an entire game within a QR code: they don’t have to just be links, they can be binaries that some devices will immediately run without question!

Can’t believe they missed out on the glorious days where to make your product sound futuristic you just stuck the number 2000 somewhere in its name

Wasn’t 98 the precursor to ME? I thought 2000 was the server version (or something like that)?

Yeah, I’d say it’s the best least horrible it’s ever been

Being a software developer but your work laptop is a Windows machine?

That’s been the case for a long time, this xkcd is at least a decade old!

Oh yeah I do remember that one

I foolishly did that right away so I must have never seen the extra nagging

Was 10 actually alright early on in its life, or was I just unaware? I don’t remember any of the advertising and spyware crap back when I first upgraded from 7.