Fill1200's comments

On: The Zoom installer let a researcher hack his way to root access on macOS

[Fill1200]

Skype was originally built on P2P, so it couldn't work in a group chat and bad for mobile phones. That's the reason Skype fell behind other chat apps.

On: How UTF-8 Works

[Fill1200]

I have a MySQL database, which has large amount of Japanese text data. When I convert it from UTF8 to UTF16, it reduces certainly disk space.

On: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

[Fill1200]

I want Mercurial and Subversion in GitHub.

[stephenr → Fill1200]

Why not just use a service that supports them?

[ergo14 → Fill1200]

Use RhodeCode then - but it is a self-hosted solution.

On: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks

[Fill1200]

Google and Facebook don't use Git. Microsoft really loves Git and GitHub.

On: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks

[Fill1200]

Paid plans of GH are too expensive.

On: Microsoft built its own custom Linux kernel for its new IoT service

[Fill1200]

Enterprise edition is almost the same as Pro. I use it as a labo PC for free. After expire, I reinstall.

[Incambino → Fill1200]

Enterprise LTSB is not however, it doesn't have the Store, Windows Apps or Cortana and doesn't receive feature updates only security ones.

I use a license key from work for my home PCs and it's lovely.

[EvanAnderson → Incambino]

That's not a tenable option for "regular people".

On: NirSoft Freeware (2008)

[Fill1200]

Notepad will be tabbed soon by Windows Sets. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/11/tabs-come-to-every-w...