{"id":235,"date":"2010-08-27T21:11:50","date_gmt":"2010-08-27T20:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/?p=235"},"modified":"2026-01-26T12:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T11:14:11","slug":"a-very-cold-hotfix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/2010\/08\/27\/a-very-cold-hotfix\/","title":{"rendered":"A very cold Hotfix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently upgraded from the old Nokia Suite to the Ovi-branded version. In other word, I replaced one piece of sh***y bloatware with another.<\/p>\n<p>But one thing is interesting: When using USB-based tethering, I get the following notice:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/hotfix-needed.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"hotfix-needed\" width=\"301\" height=\"285\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-238\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Well, if they think it makes the bloatware work better, ok. Then I took a closer look:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Article ID: 925681 &#8211; Last Review: December 8, 2009 &#8211; Revision: 3.0<\/p>\n<p>When you try to download a file from the Internet by using Windows Internet Explorer in a Windows operating system, the download stops responding and then times out. The problem occurs when you use a USB modem that has a data transfer speed that is faster than or equal to 240 kilobits per second (Kbps).\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just look at that date. Microsoft found a problem that affects a good part of their customers (USB-based 3G modems are quite common these days), managed to cook up a solution, and seven months later it still wasn&#8217;t folded into the monthly updates and is still sold as a &#8220;hotfix&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry, this fix isn&#8217;t &#8220;hot&#8221; any more. It&#8217;s cold and very much over-due.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently upgraded from the old Nokia Suite to the Ovi-branded version. In other word, I replaced one piece of sh***y bloatware with another. But one thing is interesting: When using USB-based tethering, I get the following notice: Well, if they think it makes the bloatware work better, ok. Then I took a closer look: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pet-peeves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":919,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions\/919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}