Posts by Hans 1 3797 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Aug 2009
>30 year useful life; 300 year useless after-life
30 year useful life; 300 MILLION year useless after-life
FTFY
Considering the stuff needs to be disposed off properly, and needs constant attention, you would not want anybody to pinch any, it costs more than hiring 20 million bicycle riders paying each the salary of Mr Bill Gates for 100 years producing more leccy ... until we find a proper energy solution....
>unelected police authorities.
What is this idiocy of elected police ? Look at the US, all the sharriffs are elected, bloody nightmare. You want professionally qualified personnel, who have gone through extensive screening, training, and who are not geographically bound to some place to join the police force ... not some "too thick to find a job so becomes politician" sharriff with a wet dream of 'Murica in the 1830's.
>None of the alternatives that I've tried performed anywhere as good as VMware Workstation.
What do you mean, performance-wise ? If you are into games, I am sure the hardware acceleration in VMWare is better than VirtualBox, apart from that, I see no difference in performance, really ... i7 (6core), 24Gb Ram, dual 500Gb SSD's.
>Indeed how come the land of rampant capitalism has allowed so much pigopolist behaviour whilst here in Blighty its not perfect but we seem to be able to get Phone TV and Broadband for about 50% of what it costs in the States, and probably 50% faster too.
I would say the UK has a "slightly denser" population and on the country side in the UK, you have the same issues.
Don't we love the telcos complaining .... after all it is much better to have <n> parallel backbones in the state, one for each telco, so much cheaper to maintain.... That is what we have in France, they are fighting to bring fiber to the masses, depending on where you live, if you want fiber, you have to go with one, no competition, until the others make it to your doorstep. In the end, they'll pay for over-capacity in densely populated areas and have no cash left to deploy in the less densely populated areas.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/nhs/12064455/NHS-hit-by-nurses-pay-scandal.html
I am pretty sure they are billing O2 or whoever in excess when they hire temps, from another crapita-owned agency.
There has to be reason why they are doing this.
Then again, as long as they fleece the private sector, I do not really care that much, not my moneys, but how can they be stopped from fleecing the public sector is the real question ...
No, they guarantee 100%, as in, at any given time, at least one of their services will be available ... Word 360, Excel 360, Outlook.com ... just don't expect all services to be available all the time ...
We have had successive years of expired certificates, they finally managed to hire somebody with enough brains to renew them on time (third time^H^H^H^Hyear lucky?) and now this ...
I used to use IMAP on Exchange 2010, however, every other week, the Windows service needed to be restarted as it became unresponsive. You could even render it unresponsive (as in crash) by moving a "lot of" mail around in your mailbox, like 1000 emails.
IT got fed up and told me to use webmail instead ...
>They've been building virtual Anderson shelters as part of a WWII project. They talk about what would've been in them, location away from the house, the visibility from the air, how many people would need to fit inside etc. and most importantly he's enthusiastic about the project and really learning the subject.
WTF???? No, seriously, WTF?
WWII is a subject that needs to be discussed, absolutely, the Nazis were evil beyond belief, certainly, but teaching kids how to build Anderson shelters in Minecraft?? Must be the UK (severely brain-dead, nostalgic of when Britain was more than a handful of islands), next, they'll be learning how to create the Waterloo battle field in Minecraft, or Agincourt? That is history, what's the use of an Anderson shelter when you have nuclear warfare ?
Of course, at least no time wasted learning useless crap like grammar, or proper reading ...
>"I hate how children will leave school, with a microsoft cloud account by default... which presumably will start asking for cash somewhere down the line, or face their childhood classroom experiences and work... wiped."
Same here ...
France has just sold data of all French pupils to Microsoft in exchange for a € 12 Million from Microsoft. The initial, official report suggested France paid Microsoft €24 million for the service, the official report has been "amended", no moneys are mentioned anymore. Other reports suggest Microsoft paid France the money after SadNad paid a visit to Mr Hollande (French president, nothing to do with The Netherlands).
Note that French governmental bodies are required by law to call for tenders, however, this law does not apply when Microsoft in concerned ... This deal is for using "intelligent games" in classes, apparently, Minecraft. In the deal is also addiction to SharePoint, Office360, OneDrive (1Tb).
The French hospital fund also paid Microsoft 120 million over four years for licensing, again, without official, public call for tenders.
There is a "morality" document that Microsoft (main entity) signed, Microsoft may involve other Microsoft subsidiaries which are NOT REQUIRED to sign said document - it is written as such in the agreement. (just one of the flaws I saw while hovering over it until page 4).
I will, of course, send a registered letter to the local school authorities denying them the right to register any information regarding my offspring with private entities of any kind.
Note that the Linux package gcompris is developed (mainly) by French teachers.
Ok, but why did the judge obey to "police state" law iso of human rights law?
Human rights (as defined by the European Commission) have, in my silly mind, the upper hand whenever they contradict the law of any country.
You are in the European Union, you apply what the European Union, for the good of all inhabitants, declares ... if some pesky borough law, county law, country law, state law of a union member state contradicts European Union law, tough, European law should win, always.
European laws were drafted with not only Britons, but French, Belgians, Spaniards, and Germans (among many others), they certainly have more sense than the bigoted Britons' law who live on their silly little Islands, auto-declared world empire ....
Yours truly,
Your silly little Briton living on the continent.
Well, I would not dare guess how long it would take.
The main problem many here do not realize is that Voyager used the attraction from planets it passed to speed up. Given this planet's "theoretical" trajectory, there will be no other planets far and wide to be used as "thrusters" which means it will take considerably longer to get there ... much, much, much more than 60 years (approximate time it would take Voyager to reach the "distance").
>Quite a few vendors have done that (MS$ included).
No, MS sales droids are a little "more virtuous", they throw in $500 000 cloud services, let the customer know saying this is in order to get the $3 000 000 discount, and don't pocket the accelerator (afaik). For each of these deals, one should take discount+gratuitous cloud services ($3 500 000 in this case) off of MS' official cloud revenue.
Another dirty trick MS is doing is counting MS Office revenue as cloud revenue.
So slightly unfair, here, to single-out Oracle here as selling "vapour" when Microsoft is doing exactly the same thing.The only real cloud business is Amazon, at the moment.
>That's why Microsoft is selling these puppies - because they can be managed centrally using existing infrastructure and compatible with legacy enterprise software.
If your legacy enterprise software wants ie6, then NO, YOU CANNOT.
OS X, FreeBSD, and Linux can be managed from AD, and ... System Center Configuration Manager supports Windows, iOS, and OS X.
Then again, if you wanted to manage your Windows Servers and Workstations properly, you would be running puppet anyway.
>*NIX doesn't as yet have anything to match PowerShell for processing data AFAIK. Like a *NIX shell but much more powerful and fully object orientated.
The command line interface on Windows is a 30 year old joke.
The sta/mta appartment model is a bloody mess.
PowerShell remoting is nice, but a bitch to setup "properly".
Wake me up when it has a proper regex implementation.
I like PowerShell, ssh'd-in from a *NIX box, but the interpreter has "a lot of" room for improvement.
>I have to say though, I'd never import a laptop (or buy a Macbook) purely because I don't want to have to dick around with a US keyboard layout.
I am used to the US International keyboard, I can get along with the UK, French (AZERTY!!!), and German (QUERTZ) keyboards, no problem ... just need some time to adapt, somewhat, counted in mere minutes. I do not look at the keyboard and when I switch, I tend to hit backspace every second or third letter I type for ~5 minutes, that is it ... after that I type away as if nothing happened.
I started on a UK keyboard, then got a German, learned typewriting on the French keyboard at uni and started to work on a US international keyboard at my second job.
Currently typing on an SGI keyboard (from an Octane), for those interested, US international, no Windows key. ;-)
^ That link is great, read it, do it ... I have witnessed the same problem over here - they all know how to start apps in OS X, Linux, and Windows, get on the webs, do some basic shit, the teen can search for computer parts, yet, fails miserably in searching through wikipedia, for example. If it is not in a google results page, it's inaccessible.
I have two pi's lying here that I have flashed multiple times, the teen could not care less ... guess what, no internet on his gaming rig today, if he wants internet, he will have to flash the pi, setup wifi, route traffic ... lets see what happens ... when he gets back from school.
Last week, I told him that if he managed to "hack" into the Wifi router and disable parental control I would not enable it again, I would have thought he would have attempted to get into there immediately, but .... sadly no.
Shit, in his position, I would have at least tried. The worst is, he can go onto my computer when, e.g., I go to the toilet (I do not always lock the screen, my bad), the password is in my password manager, if he is lucky, the browser session is still open ... but no :-(
>Acrobat has had redaction since Acrobat 8. While the UI to do this is certainly unintuitive, that doesn't make it any different to any other part of the Acrobat's UI, and the good news is in the next release they will almost certainly redesign it again to make a completely new type of unintuitive interface.
Which part of the Acrobat ui is intuitive ? I mean, EVEN SELECT & COPY is counter-intuitive!!!!!!!!!
Who in their right mind uses Adobe Acrobat ? I mean, SERIOUSLY ?
I was hired for consultancy by a client, I finished ahead of schedule and asked the customer what else was a pain ... I noticed they used Acrobat, got them an alternative for their workflow .... the costs saved by an hour's job covered the costs of my consultancy work, and several years of support for the software I was originally hired for. I also got rid of a Windows Server in the process ...
MS's & Adobe's MostHatedProfessional, I am!
>"...no noticeable drop in quality." What are you smoking?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/hbsworkingknowledge/2015/01/20/wikipedia-or-encyclopaedia-britannica-which-has-more-bias/
Now, what are YOU, as well as your 34 upvoters, smoking???
You have to take the time to assess your needs properly. I agree, the marketing teams are useless buzzword repeaters.
You need to implement a system where your IT/Ops work in collaboration, you cannot automate everything just like that, contrary what the C-types think. Careful planning is key to this. YOU CANNOT CONTINUE WITHOUT AUTOMATION, the competition is already automating as many processes as possible! Once you automate properly, anything like monitoring processes is a thing of the past, the system monitors them according to YOUR specifications, if something goes amiss, the system notifies you, if you don't reply in a timely manner, the notification system escalates the problem, again, according to your specifications.
Imagine how many days are lost when you perform your quarter-close and Sarah the GL accountant is on sick leave ? You must have somebody in-house who can step in for her, right ? Probably not, but when most of Sarah's work is automated, and she only has to check the end results for her area, you can have another GL take a look and verify it for poor Sarah. Sarah will have more time, when she is not off sick, to provide financial controllers and C-types with even better, more recent data on short notice. Less noise in financial reports eases the work of the top brass ... these are just a few examples ...
Consider agile methodology, you could even rise up the ranks if you start small, in your team.
Besides, please, could you elaborate, why do you use a spreadsheet designed for number crunching for ticket/request/change management ????????????? <--- this is why I put the icon, it beggars belief!
No, Linux Mint isn’t switching to systemd immediately. The Linux Mint 17.x series and Linux Mint Debian Edition 2 will continue to use Upstart and SysV init, with systemd available as an option you can choose yourself. Linux Mint is giving systemd some time to mature before switching, but—with upstream projects and the Linux ecosystem as a whole moving towards systemd—Mint realizes it doesn’t have an option in the long term.
Source: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2921385/its-optional-for-now-but-linux-mint-expects-to-switch-to-systemd-next-year.html
>2) Microsoft SHOULD have to sell a paid for version WITHOUT ANY telemetry GUARANTEED to anyone who wants to pay. this way businesses can use 10 and still be compliant with any security or information regulations they have to comply with. I as a home user (W7 PRO) WOULD pay $€¢£¥₩₪฿₫₴₹ for a spyware free version of windows 10* (without the option of a telemetry free version then there is no "reasonable" option so an "informed choice" without being detrimental to the end user is not possible so the choice ceases to be fair due to the power and market dominance of the other party "Microsoft")
>4) back porting the telemetry included in windows 10 back in to windows 8.x and windows 7 as an "update" and making it "recommended" and being divisive about its description and scope.
You paid for 7/8, they installed it anyway, I doubt there will be a telemetry free W10 ... the only savior is the EU, but even then, I doubt they will react ... since MS is shooting itself in the head with this ... it is widely known that W10 is full of spyware, even outside tech circles ...
You need kernel 3.3 - does not even need grub, anymore! Why not just go FreeBSD or PCBSD (FreeBSD for the Desktop) 10.2?
>The way the big corporates see the world now is that there is 2 operating systems for PCs (microsoft or mac) and the hardware you buy determines which one you use.
Traditional, non-IT, big corps, yes, IT businesses know there is Linux, heck, they don't touch Windows with a barge-pole.
>Then there are 3 mobile operating systems with no great difference between the privacy aspects of any of them (that is: you have none)
Soooooo true.
cf title
Aircraft is plummeting, the co-pilot did not realize that you have to push the leaver down to gain lift, pulled the leaver all the way back, kept it there even when the pilot, coming back from rest with only seconds to diagnose the problem, attempted to take over the controls. Sad ending for all ...
@Thomas Kenyon
>Isn't RDP with no password the default configuration for Virtualboxes vrdp?
Are you nuts ?
https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch07.html
Or, for those who don't bother reading doc:
For each virtual machine that is remotely accessible via RDP, you can individually determine if and how client connections are authenticated. For this, use VBoxManage modifyvm command with the --vrdeauthtype option; see Section 8.8, “VBoxManage modifyvm” for a general introduction. Three methods of authentication are available:
The "null" method means that there is no authentication at all; any client can connect to the VRDP server and thus the virtual machine. This is, of course, very insecure and only to be recommended for private networks.
The "external" method provides external authentication through a special authentication library. VirtualBox ships with two such authentication libraries:
The default authentication library, VBoxAuth, authenticates against user credentials of the hosts. Depending on the host platform, this means:
On Linux hosts, VBoxAuth.so authenticates users against the host's PAM system.
On Windows hosts, VBoxAuth.dll authenticates users against the host's WinLogon system.
On Mac OS X hosts, VBoxAuth.dylib authenticates users against the host's directory service.[36]
In other words, the "external" method per default performs authentication with the user accounts that exist on the host system. Any user with valid authentication credentials is accepted, i.e. the username does not have to correspond to the user running the VM.
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