Posts by John 104

@david 132.

You have to turn the service off to disable Defender....

Re: Alarmist scam

obviously these small organisms that left these deposits are the true culprits of climate change. They were taking oxygen from the air !

Re: Nice post, APIs will win

If management won't pay for infrastructure up front, the developers and biz owners will bypass them a swipe the credit card at AWS (just like w Salesforce, cut a deal w AWS), to gain access to most modern services w/o the deployment hassle

Fixed that for ya.

Re: That's it?

Or my HP Envy with an i7 skylake, 8GB DDR3L RAM and a Samsung SSD for $850 :)

Re: Thunderbird with Lightening

Vsio

When I installed O365 it wouldn't let me install my 2013 version of Visio. Said it wasn't compatible. After much tinkering and experimenting, I found that if I installed Visio and then installed 365 it would work. What a pain.

TBH, the only reason I use windows on my personal machine is for VPN to the office and Visio. The rest I can do on mint.

Email client? Meh. I use web mail and it isn't an issue.

I'm not so sure that your assessment of games is entirely true. More and more games are being made available for linux platforms. As Windoze continues to get worse and worse, I see this trend continuing.

Unfortunately, I am a windows sys admin and work in a windows shop. So its windoze all day during the work week.

Re: "stickers are being considered as a way to disguise Macs"

@stizzleswick

Not sure what you are getting at. I've seen the kit from Dell these days. Looks fantastic. Its a bit overpriced (why I went with HP), but you can't fault the design or materials. Makes the Apple kit look dated.

Re: Ah, Wales' answer to the 8 bit market

It was a KAYPRO for me. On a good day I can hit 90 wpm with a decent keyboard. 70 most others. :)

what???

Re: noooooo

No. He meant liquid crystal display displays.

Re: @Jimmy2Cows

@tealeaf

No, that isn't the problem. The problem is education. There are less black/women/minority applicants and employees because there are less educated people of this type. The why's and how's and political, socioeconomical reasons behind this are better discussed elsewhere.

The bottom line, as stated elsewhere in these comments is qualified applicants. I don't give a rats ass if you are black, white, yellow, purple or have 3 arms (might increase productivity now that I think of it). If you can do the job, you will be considered for employment - whatever the field. If not, not. Don't like it? Go get an education or learn a trade. Knowledge is just about free to acquire these days. It just takes time and dedication. So enough excuses! Get out there and make something of yourself. Or just keep playing gangsta poser.

Re: Not quite $0 per month ...

@rejkelie

Talk about over-provisioning. This isn't work.(read: enterprise SLAs and large storage trays).

Buy yourself a couple of internal 1TB drives, or larger if needed. $50 to $100 depending on what you get. Remember high performance is not needed here.

Set them up on two PCs as SMB3 shares. Copy your bits from your phone to one, mirror to the other.

Done.

Unless you are playing with JOBDs for shits and giggles, its just a waste of effort and money. And time.

Re: Underwhelmed?

@Wilkinson

Your pictures are obviously a hoax. There are no stars in the background. Clearly you made that in your garage to fool the world.

Joking aside, that is a kick ass photo!

Re: A false bottom in all this

@BinkTheHorse

Ah, but you see, there is a clear parallel. Containerization has been around since Tupperware. Why have a fridge full of fully cooked meals in tins and foil wrap when you can have your potatoes in one container, your chicken in another, and your veg in a third? Then when you want to eat one, you call on the fridge to serve up the correct appli-, er, I mean food, to you. The software industry is clearly infringing on Tupperware's 50 year's worth of prior art. They should sue.

Re: The Question Remains....

Legacy apps used to be the reason to keep with Windows. not so much any more. This will be the death of Windows in the enterprise. Give it 10 years and people will be saying, "remember when we used to run windows?"

Re: Already a jerk

Its pretty amazing. In the 80s the US Navy busted some chump for selling sub secrets to the Russians. the pay out was around $40K if I remember correctly. Staggeringly stupid. State governments have millions at their disposal and you ask for hundreds or thousands? Dumb ass.

@fnj

Of course they are meat on the table. They are intended to come in after air superiority has been established.

Re: Hardware RAID couldn't compete?

Software RAID has its place, we use it here at work. But if your host operating system eats it, you've lost your storage....

Testing

@Wild Bil

In my experience in a DevOps shop, there was less and less testing as the methodology "matured." If it worked on the dev's workstation, it must be good. Put it in production and suddenly there are all sorts of issues because the dev had x version of .Net installed, but production could only run y version for one reason or another, or the data set on the workstation was small, but the production set was 10 times larger, or more.

To me, this is the far swing of the pendulum. As stated above, customers value stability. Yes, they want all the new features, but bring the system down too often and they will look elsewhere for their needs...

Re: I have not down voted you

As others have noted here, there is far more abuse in the system than there should be. Hand up, not hand out as it was noted. If i hadn't had family, I would have gone to state and federal programs to get me going again. There are job centers everywhere in the states. You just have to be willing to go there. Might not be the dream job but it will be money on the table and that's a start. Housing assistance is harder to come by, I will admit, but it is there. There are ways.

I fully support programs to help people who are disabled. It happens. But I don't like the abuse by Joe construction worker who gets a twinge and defrauds the system.

I support programs to feed you when you are down and out. Used it myself. Gladly pay.

I support all of these things, in the name of bringing people back to happy, self sufficient tax payers. The problem is, there is no system in place for making it mandatory that you have a plan for getting off of assistance. If you are getting any sort of hand out because you are on hard times, there should be a comprehensive plan to get you working with a hard end date.