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Today one of my major programs at work went belly up because Flash is dead.
They used Flash? Seriously?
I understand Adobe pulling support, I understand Adobe waving it's arms for *years* saying "Hey! End of support coming up!"
What I *don't* understand is them placing a logic bomb inside Flash so it shuts down my browser.
*gggrrrr*
And what I *don't* understand is why our suppliers didn't fix this problem BEFORE IT BECAME A PROBLEM.
I *do* understand my work place using older software and hardware. There are still places where Windows XP is still being used - offline of course. We're still using a *lot* of Windows 7 - again, I understand because Windows 10 SUCKS. And it would probably break mission critical software. We're a broadcasting station - why would we want Candy Crush loaded up into our mission critical systems?
Sheeesh.
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They used Flash? Seriously?
I understand Adobe pulling support, I understand Adobe waving it's arms for *years* saying "Hey! End of support coming up!"
What I *don't* understand is them placing a logic bomb inside Flash so it shuts down my browser.
*gggrrrr*
And what I *don't* understand is why our suppliers didn't fix this problem BEFORE IT BECAME A PROBLEM.
I *do* understand my work place using older software and hardware. There are still places where Windows XP is still being used - offline of course. We're still using a *lot* of Windows 7 - again, I understand because Windows 10 SUCKS. And it would probably break mission critical software. We're a broadcasting station - why would we want Candy Crush loaded up into our mission critical systems?
Sheeesh.
-m
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I used to work at the back end of a Very Big Bank, taking credit card payments on debt.
A somewhat important thing, you'd think... but we used decades old machines running windows 95 [this was back when windows 7 just came out] Why? Because the terminal emulator software we used to talk to the 30 year old mainframe that ran accounts, would only run on Win95. at one point, I'm told, the i.T dept went skip diving behind the back of a place that was upgrading their machines, just so they could get enough usable parts to keep our machines going, as no-one was making them any more.
Yeah...
Flash probably died on your machines when they pulled support because a lot of back end stuff in Flash used to talk to their servers, which aren't there any more.
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*puts on snorkel and face mask*
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Considering I've built three computers from parts pulled from a skip, and half a workshop built from 'reclaimed' timber, yup.. nothing at all! One man's trash is another man's treasure.
Just you don't normally find bank employees doing it on company time. But with no other way of getting the parts...