Linux Envy? Package manager for Windows is available

[Tony1044]

Windows Package Manager Preview

We are thrilled to announce the Windows Package Manager preview! If you’re already familiar with what a package manager is, feel free to skip this paragraph. If you’re still reading, you’re going to love this! A package manager is designed to help you save time and frustration.

devblogs.microsoft.com

Install applications etc via a command line.

 

[SpyderTracks]

Windows Package Manager Preview

We are thrilled to announce the Windows Package Manager preview! If you’re already familiar with what a package manager is, feel free to skip this paragraph. If you’re still reading, you’re going to love this! A package manager is designed to help you save time and frustration.

devblogs.microsoft.com

Install applications etc via a command line.

Now that’s interesting! And only 20 years too late!

 

[Stephen M]

At least they do not appear to be charging for it. Apple have just re-invented the wheel and are charging the earth for a few old sofa castors: https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MX572ZM/A/apple-mac-pro-wheels-kit

 

[SpyderTracks]

At least they do not appear to be charging for it. Apple have just re-invented the wheel and are charging the earth for a few old sofa castors: https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MX572ZM/A/apple-mac-pro-wheels-kit

God knows what Apple was thinking on that one, I’m sure they had some reason for it that we’re missing, but yeah, just can’t imagine who on earth would buy them! They don’t even have brakes so the Mac just rolls around by itself, no joke!

 

[Tony1044]

At least they do not appear to be charging for it. Apple have just re-invented the wheel and are charging the earth for a few old sofa castors: https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MX572ZM/A/apple-mac-pro-wheels-kit

One of the funniest things I saw was a spoof advert when Apple announced iCloud. Interviews with Apple fans asking for an "Aloominum" box. "But it's in the cloud!" "That's fine but I want a shiny box"

 

[Stephen M]

God knows what Apple was thinking on that one, I’m sure they had some reason for it that we’re missing, but yeah, just can’t imagine who on earth would buy them! They don’t even have brakes so the Mac just rolls around by itself, no joke!

I think leaving the brakes off was probably a good idea. The heat from the friction of the brakes could cause sever thermal problems so you would need to under-volt when they were in use.

 

[SpyderTracks]

I think leaving the brakes off was probably a good idea. The heat from the friction of the brakes could cause sever thermal problems so you would need to under-volt when they were in use.

Quick!!! Repaste!!!

 

[Stephen M]

I am getting visions of a Formula One type pit stop at an Apple convention.

 

[ubuysa]

I am getting visions of a Formula One type pit stop at an Apple convention.

Well now.... Red Bull hold the record for the fastest in-race put stop at 1.91 seconds, blink and you missed it!

 

[Tony1044]

I believe they beat their own time last year? Something like 1.8 seconds.

Which is truly unbelievable (in both cases!)

Edit: A quick Google came back with 1.82s at last years Monaco GP. My mind is genuinely boggled at that!

Edit 2: I do miss the F1 days of Prost, Senna, Mansell and Patressi et al. Racing when they were not only allowed, but fully expected to go wheel to wheel racing and bumps and knocks were just a part of it. These days it feels as though it's been sanitised to the point it's no longer actual racing.