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@scottalanmiller said in Why are Windows Management GUI Elements So Tiny?:

@Dashrender said in Why are Windows Management GUI Elements So Tiny?:

@scottalanmiller said in Why are Windows Management GUI Elements So Tiny?:

@WrCombs said in Why are Windows Management GUI Elements So Tiny?:

I was actually just talking about this with some coworkers of mine.

If you ever work with any other system, then work with Windows, it's shocking how silly and ridiculous it is. You can't "see" anything. It's like they wanted to mock people for choosing the GUI.

I love how you frequently go to this - they must want to mock people..

Because it's one of the few logical, and consistent potential reasonings. Why do you find it strange, when it's way more viable and logical than thinking Microsoft is just bad at what they do?

Sure - they might just be bad at what they do. But that doesn't mean they are purposefully mocking people.

@scottalanmiller is giving them more credit than you are. He's assuming they are competent at least. Which one could only logically reason that they are having a good joke on us.

@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

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@aaronstuder said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Will anyone be using CentOS 8, or will every just keep using Fedora?

I'll still prefer Fedora, and use CentOS as needed. It's still better than Ubuntu, and I still use Ubuntu, even tho I throw up a little every time I install it.

You could always use Debian or an derivative of Ubuntu.

I always try Debian before Ubuntu. That was not an exhaustive list of distributions I use.

@aaronstuder said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Will anyone be using CentOS 8, or will every just keep using Fedora?

I'll still prefer Fedora, and use CentOS as needed. It's still better than Ubuntu, and I still use Ubuntu, even tho I throw up a little every time I install it.

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Looking at the weather report. The drive home looks to be more interesting than I'd like today.

@Donahue said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I just got my new host from xByte.

Specs for all us hardware nerds?

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Anyone else have a problem with that one coworker who wears WAY too much perfume? Like, so much that even if it smelled good (which it most certainly does not) it would be too much? I'm waiting for the owner to get off the phone so I can ask him about our scent wearing policy (IIRC it says basically don't wear any). I seriously just had to walk out in the hall so I wouldn't barf. And clearly coughing and choking when the woman walks near is not enough of a hint.

I don't like how the deodorant I use smells, but the wife liked it. When wearing it, you don't notice the smell..... which leads to people using WAY to much of anything that smells.

@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Linux Deepin 15.8
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/11/linux-deepin-15-8-release-improvements

That does look nice.

@Donahue said in SQL security over the LAN:

so more digging. I have found both the SA password and my application password being passed encrypted, I did not find any clear text versions of those. Man, there is a lot of extra junk that goes over the wire. Simple actions in the application generate a lot of requests to SQL, for stuff that isnt even related to the request. Other times, it get a lot of data that may be too much from a security standpoint. When I open one of my timecards, it pulls a list of every employee for example. It probably does this to cache it or something, but that seems unnecessary.

I tried several things to try and see if I could gain confidential information based just on what was already traveling over the wire. There is some good news and bad news. The good news seems to be that it appears like all numeric or date type fields are obscured or encrypted in some way. I see a lot of "dummyTS" and "dummy textptr" where the results from those columns should be. This means that when I look up things like payroll, I cannot see actual amounts. But the bad news is that all string types look to be sent in the clear, so with the payroll example, I would be able to see if someone had to pay child support, just not how much. It got worse when I checked my employee record. I can see basically all of my personal information include SSN and full bank details because we use optional direct deposit.

Wow, that's still so very not good.

Is anyone really surprised that they're incompetent writing SQL Queries as well?

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