Re: Windows is a mindset...
Windows is a network of systems. Trying to untangle them is very difficult - don't expect any license savings until the last windows requirement is gone. Staged migrations from windows do not provide a quick ROI.
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Canonical to Windows XP cliff-clingers: Ubuntu safety net's ready... now jump
Ancient 16m-yr-old beastie caught riding on much bigger flying mount
Valve's Half-Life
Microsoft Surface: Designed to win, priced to fail
Tuesday 16th October 2012 22:34 GMT
Re: What's wrong with Pages, Numbers and Keynote?
> The Office market wants a full fat Office and is prepared to pay for it
True. Sadly, they won't get full fat office on MS' tablet either. I see disappointment there and that will probably hurt MS more. They should have released a very hobbled version of office for ipad to get people used to a reduced feature set and upped the capabilities for their own tablet.
Microsoft launches ad-funded Xbox Music audio streaming
Windows 8 ads hit US screens: Death Metal, exploding laptops
Femto fail: Vodafone's Sure Signal gets a bit shaky again
13-inch 'Retina Display' MacBook Pro to uncloak next Tuesday?
Monday 15th October 2012 23:55 GMT 
Too many dongles.
Mac's have gone from an "all-in-one" to "lots of adapters needed."
It isn't the cost (galling though that is), its the fact that now you need a laptop bag instead of just picking up the computer and going. Going on holiday and want to use it to watch films? Pack your DVD drive and USB adapter and HDMI adapter, you external drive of films (because they don't fit on the little internal one)...
If it was "better" (such as flash replacing floppy) I'd understand it, but it isn't. If it was just an ultraportable Air, I'd understand it, but it isn't.
I know, its off topic regarding the 13" possibility, but I need to express my disgust.
Protestors target Google over that video
Hands on with BB10: Strokey dokey
Sunday 14th October 2012 23:40 GMT
Re: So just like the MeeGo OS on the N9
Locked down is fine when you can split the phone between personal and business. I don't want the IT dept hassling me because I put vlc-remote on the phone, but neither do I want them to stop me doing it.
It seems that innovation isn't dead after all and it isn't all about the apps.
Good luck to BB with this one, even if some of their new features aren't new anymore. :)
The question is, can I have two sim cards as well?
Samsung shoots Galaxy S III with shrink ray, unveils 4in Mini
Unrootable: Mash these bits together to get a CLASSIFIED spyphone
Sunday 14th October 2012 22:35 GMT 
Too hard
What you really want is a phone with a fingerprint and retina scan camera that works as a dumb terminal as long as it can is able to scan your retina, while you are holding your thumb on the scanner and you have entered a passphrase (to allow duress flagging). And you'll need a sealed unit with all sorts of electronic checks to make sure that the electrical properties of the screen haven't changed (someone mirroring the screen to a remote device) etc.
In short, mobile comms is very difficult to secure. Much easier to get someone to meet you at the bottom of the 99 Steps.
Why is solid-state storage so flimsy?
Saturday 13th October 2012 11:35 GMT
Re: Mixed strategy is best
SSD for the OS only seems to be a good idea to me, though you have to be careful about the default locations of mysql databases.
I have a host which dual-boots windows (for games) and linux (for everthing else) and SSD would be great for that. While some games could benefit from a disk speed increase, I suspect its nothing that a decent raid5 disc array couldn't sort out for me.
German ebook firm aims low with cheap 'n' simple €10 ereader
Office for Android and iOS to ship by March 2013?
Linux on ARM breakthrough to take away Torvalds' arse pain
Thursday 11th October 2012 06:44 GMT
Re: Torvalds' petulance and immaturity is the best advert for Windows that Microsoft could want
Linus does Linux because Linus enjoys doing Linux. Windows sales are not relevant to him.
I saw Windows for sale in an Office shop the other day - $445 (cough, splutter), and not a bit of interesting character either!
RSA boss demands revamp of outdated privacy, security regs
Thursday 11th October 2012 06:33 GMT
Re: I hear complaints...
One way to "do it different" is to stop the plethora of protocols talking between third parties for so many reasons.
Dead-dropping data makes it easier to check and takes out dodgy^H^H^H^Huntested proprietary protocols.
Not a panacea, but a step in the right direction. This is where things like PCIDSS fail. As long as you don't control the product, you're "allowed" not to look inside the protocol.
HP: PC industry has forgotten how to innovate
Wednesday 10th October 2012 09:32 GMT
Innovation is possible
How about a cpu which can mostly power down or switch to a low power core to run a desktop in file-server mode with graphics off and just enough power to run disks and network? You could run your main disk access through an onboard ARM mini-server and present disk to host and network as iscsi.
You could have a monitor which does dual vertical A4 pages at a reasonable size.
You could put a tablet OS in monitors.
You could put voip/dect in your screens which doesn't need a full pc to work.
Hi-def, long (100m) range optical video links for PC-TV integration / Lightpeak.
etc.
View 21 IPTV Freeview+HD DVR review
Wednesday 10th October 2012 08:41 GMT
Re: still think a windows media centre is a better choice
Indeed, a proper computer pwns all.
However, does anyone know of a video card with an RF out so you can pump a full HD video output signal down a bit of coax to the TV's normal aerial connector? HDMI is too short when you have noisy disk arrays or an ugly case.
British Library tracks rise and fall of file formats
Unisys pumps up ClearPath mainframes with Xeon E5s
Wednesday 10th October 2012 08:14 GMT
Cheaper, but better?
Your software might be great, but what if HP comes along and lashes x86 hardware together with the same IOPS? You no longer have the skills to design new cpus that are better than what HP can put together. You're on a more even playing field, with only the interconnects and software to differentiate.
STONEHENGE: Attack of the RAYGUN HISTORIANS
'It's not a post-PC world: Just a post Windows one, maybe'
Tuesday 9th October 2012 23:32 GMT
Re: @Mad Chaz - I don't quite understand
Steam doesn't need a locked down platform, it operates quite well on Windows and Mac; there's no reason it should do worse on Linux.
Valve's problem is that Apple and MS seem to be moving more to a closed model. Valve don't want that and neither do the other game vendors since they have no intention of coughing up 30% to Apple or MS in order to sell on their respective platforms. Given the home-market target of gaming it makes sense for Valve to go linux and provide a distro/app delivery service. The home market is less demanding and lock-in via complexity is less of an issue, as Apple are currently showing MS in the upper end of the home market.
The game vendors don't need linux to be a resounding success, just enough of a threat that MS won't be willing to annoy customers with a locked-down environment.
New Zealand issues Hobbit money
Huawei says US probe had 'predetermined outcome'
Tuesday 9th October 2012 22:54 GMT
Re: Router Genuine Advantage update check?
> "their equipment sends unauthorized amounts of data to China late at night."
Let me get this straight, they authorised 10k of data to be sent but not 15k?
If your routers have internet access, your firewall admins need to be fired. Either you want and accept support, or you turn it off. You don't have one password across all platforms, right? You do use centralised authentication and avoid putting passwords on individual routers, right? All router data transfers go via a server where you examine the content, right?
Some people think "protectionism" is referring back to older practices of official state policy rather than tossing favours to large corporate buddies.
AMD unveils 'sweet spot' processor for 'sexy' tablets
Tuesday 9th October 2012 06:03 GMT
Re: Seems like a nice APU
Who cares about the OS? If AMD can break the barrier between dedicated proprietary tablet hardware and x86 then good for them. Perhaps someone can then contribute some power-saving software tech back into the desktop linux kernel rather than hiding it in proprietary systems, all the better.
Let's hope its a bit more price-competitive than atom in the consumer market.
40,000 sign petition to oust Rep. Paul 'pit of hell' Broun
Tuesday 9th October 2012 00:42 GMT 
Chronicles & Psalms
No-one has ever seen a metaphor in a song before?
Literalism is a larger problem than I thought.
However, my experience with the US university system is that the correct answer is the one which matches the wording in the textbook. Any thought at all is discouraged. That was in a Comp-Sci degree, so its probably a cultural rather than religious problem.
Crazed Microsoft robot accuses BBC kids' channel of Win8 piracy
Rapper rips up Microsoft's Atlanta store during performance
Brighton marathon munchers banned from all-you-can-eat diner
Thursday 4th October 2012 03:07 GMT
Re: "Knowing the average rugby player"
What's wrong with water?
This does sound like Tesco complaining that some people come in and only buy bread and milk (loss leaders), or Ryan Air complaining that you always check-in online and only bring hand luggage.
If you don't want to to sell something, don't sell it. Don't have a sale and complain that people only bought items on sale.
ScanJet sings number one hit
Paul Allen: Windows 8 'promising' yet 'puzzling'
Thursday 4th October 2012 02:40 GMT
Re: Based on....
> now -> touch -> glasses -> natural language
Haha! Natural language is works using a massive amount of heuristics (aka guessing) which is pretty much the last thing you want from a computer when you are ordering some new servers.
This is why written language is normally more formal and we usually even ditch that and use forms and codes with very precise meanings.
Thursday 4th October 2012 02:35 GMT
Re: Its a new paradigm
> "Windows is priced correctly, and not all that bad"
> Wow, there's a ringing endorsement if I ever heard one. Have Microsoft PR been in touch for their new ad campaign?
I think they used it for the Vista, "I'm too much of a loser to afford a mac" adverts. I don't agree with the sentiment, but that seemed to be what the adverts were trying to say.
New study: 'Fraud behind two-thirds of pulled medical papers'
Conroy wants telcos to wear undies on heads
AMD launches Android app store for Windows PCs
Eric Schmidt: Ha ha, NO Google maps app for iPhone 5
Wednesday 26th September 2012 06:35 GMT
Re: Smart move by Google.
Given that google knew this was coming, they should have pulled *all* there apps from ios6 and run a huge advertising campaign. Or got Samsung to run one for them.
You want to compete against your suppliers? Fine, do all your own work.
You want to access youtube from ios6? Here, have a flash copy of the video... ;)
W3C reveals plan to finish HTML5 and HTML 5.1
French Skyper freed after accidentally hacking bank's phone system
Inphi: Don't skimp on memory for those virty servers
Monday 24th September 2012 10:22 GMT
Oh dear
Virtualised database servers?
Don't really want that, as the license & support costs of multiple servers will eat through any savings on idle CPUs & electricity.
Surely you'd just put multiple db's on the server without virtualisation (or with just one VM, for hardware independence).
While it might be fun to stack'em high, watching them fall is less amusing. If you have lots of virtualised systems it makes sense to spread them out over more, cheaper systems. It also allows 1-many failover which means you have better utilisation than a mirrored pair with 50% idle.
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