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Re:Jedi: We will continue to protest this politically corrupted contra... on Friday September 04, 2020 @07:02PM (#24379770)

This does seem questionable but the VA and DoD are Microsoft shops and imo AWS' offerings for Windows are a bit lacking...

Ask HN: What installer technology do you use

Posted by halcy0n on Friday January 05, 2018 @04:32PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I've recently been tasked with blowing up our desktop applications' old Windows installation method and rebuilding anew. We've dabbled with Install Shield and WIX. I've had minimal experience with Install Shield which was overwhelmingly negative but I am genuinely unsure if that was because I inherited this terrible homunculus or if Install Shield is just a nightmare.Is Install Shield worth...

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Re:Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years on Monday July 24, 2017 @07:39AM (#14837568)

There is a whole subculture of artists who use MS paint as a means to make a specific form of art. Also this actually saddens me that sure there could be other low budget tools but without one baked into the OS think about the kid bored in school who can no longer stumble into mspaint and start doodling in class.

Re:Why Criminals Target Patient Data on Friday April 28, 2017 @08:32AM (#14218850)

I actually got the article to load but it also alludes to some other study that says 88% again with no link to the source material.

Another "source" on that linked article just takes me to an email contact form.

While I do not agree that hospitals are lacking in their security practices and that most EHRs are archaic pieces of software with little concern for security I find a lot of what this article presents as word of mouth marketing garbage.

I also take issue with the fact that this article does not offer any solution to this problem other than 'get good scrub'