Windows in a shuttle computer is the most disappointingly dumbass thing NASA has done yet. I say yet because if they’ll do something that dumb it clearly needs to have a glass ceiling.
Begging for a blue screen of literal death.
It’s probably not as bad as failing to check you’re operating within the range of component’s proven environmental test limits.
That said, I’d love to see the system test scenarios they use to determine how it performs during an unexpected attack from their own OS provider.
I’m sure it was nothing mission critical.
I hope.
One of them is Outlook from MS Office, the other is New Outlook (what used to be Outlook Express). The latter is a royal pain to fully disable, and once you’ve launched it, it takes over everything.
So what’s happening is they’re supposed to be using MS Office Outlook, but New Outlook is in the way. Hence the “neither one works” bit. I know how to solve this, have them give me a call.
They now call it Outlook Classic and it will disappear, only shitty New Outlook will stay. And yes, it’s a royal pain.
I don’t understand why isn’t it talked about more that the new outlook uploads your email account login passwords to microsoft, and accesses your emails through microsoft servers. a gaping violation of privacy and security
Its funny I’ve run into this same issue at work in addition to Microsoft asking for my SSO but then giving me some Outlook code as a two-factor verification that I’ve never once had work properly (the code never shows up in outlook on my work phone or PC and I always have to go to the “use other options” and do the SMS code.
Reloaded his profile. Fixed in minutes.
That’s not the permanent fix. It’ll happen again.
Only need to last 10 days
nasa is about to remote into the computer
I’ve dealt with slow RDP sessions while fixing servers in the past, but the lag on this connection must really suck.
At least while they’re in orbit you’d be looking at a few hundred ms of latency (due to satellite to ground station bounces). If they need to RDP while at the moon, it’s going to be a couple of seconds latency
Well it was nice knowing the crew… If they’re running windows they’re doomed.
“Houston, we have a Windows problem”
“Outlook is looking bleak, I’m seeing double.”
“Cannot open Windows in space.”
“Disk space issues.”
Can I ask why people still use dedicated email software? I’m sure there’s a reason. Maybe just familiarity, but I’ve never once opened my email inbox from anything other than a browser. It seems like a royal PITA.
I can see the use case for gmail at least. I tried to access web interface from India and it loaded like for 2 solid minutes before showing up completely unresponsive. I could have had it 10 times faster with a dedicated IMAP client.
It’s odd, since they used to have a rather nice HTML web interface specifically for low-peformance devices, but it’s since gone away.
Do they not have the thing you can click to go to that while you’re loading anymore? Wack
Familiarity, better integration in the desktop, generally many more options (including extensions) than web versions, UI better adapted to a desktop computer, better at managing multiple accounts, are my reasons. I like Betterbird personally.
I much prefer a client for usability reasons. My email provider has a poor web ui. I guess I’d need to change my email address to get round it. I tried the google web enail which was also bad. But google never care about UX. It also needed to refresh a web page on each click, where the client app is instant.
I can work offline.
People have their preferences for UI and UX. I use Aerc because I like modal editing (ie being able to write my emails in vim) and keyboard nav. Using a desktop email client rather than webmail client from a provider gives me that freedom.
Besides, I don’t actually have a webmail client I can use lol. I host my own email and host the IMAP server but I don’t host a web interface.
Ultimately Email is old technology, all the web frontends just get in the way more or less.
I use an email host that has roadmapped switching their frontend to one I don’t really like, so figured I’d get ahead of the curve and switch to a client that was open source and compatible with the typical standards — so I could learn it and never have to deal with another client again.
Ended up using Thunderbird, even for my old inboxes at the typical web companies
One client, all my emails in one spot, don’t have to deal with stupid UX changes being forced on users.
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