Re: Moral police
Moral police & telegraph
WTF are you smoking ???? I need some of that for the mother in law!!!!!
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>But VMware can't match Microsoft for cloudy scale or reach
But VMware can't match Microsoft for cloudy scale and reach, it can easily match Microsoft for availabiltiy, though.
BTW, no Azure outage on January 1st this year ? Have they managed to hire someone who knows how to renew certificates ??????
I guess they developed a "point & click" certificate renewal app ...
Exactly, how do you "netsh winsock reset" from the gui, please? Ever since I switched to Windows 7+ I have to use that quite often ... when nslookup gives different results to my browsers, now why is that so ???? WTF????? Why do I need to RE-Fscking-BOOT every time I issue that ??? This system is not for production work.... thank <deity> for that.
And why, ohh why does Windows think my corporate VPN is a public network ? Why must I go through heaps to tell the bastard it is a private network????
@ Chika
Yes, it was way too personal.... just a rant from some stupid Linux user who is pissed off like never before. And, I knew this was gonna happen... I do not think he "really" deserves it, I guess RedHat have their part of blame, why, oh why does Microsoft not hire this dummy, I mean, they do collect 'em.
I never understood the added "benefit" of pulseaudio, it uses alsa while all, or most, audio software on Linux happily works with alsa AND without pulseaudio in-between!!! Why have another process in-between that distorts your sound ? I do not get it ... this time, even after ditching pulseaudio, audio would not work properly, that peed me off, massively - I thought Poettering had made the two dependent (not sure if that is the case) and I went viral!!!!
Note: the linux system in question is dead, I need to get a usb stick to fix it ... it was my production system, never dreamed of this happening ... anyway, one fuck up in 8 years is not that bad ... I have had to fix my Windows 8 Pro that I have since November several times, already ... I think systemd will kill Linux, so sad, they had it all, and fsck'ed up with some massive BS framework that breaks quite a few of my scripts ... just like when they switched from dash to bash, this time in proportions I cannot yet realize, the shell script change (bash to dash) gained 2 seconds boot time, on my system .... BASTARDS!!!!!!! I don't care about 2 seconds boot times, mates! It will take quite a "few" reboots to regain the time spent adapting my shell scripts for the change ...
Don't $POSIX_ME_HARDER!
>Also removed PulseAudio, another piece of Poetter.
I always rip pulseaudio out, it is #1 on my post-installation/post-upgrade check list, alsa has ALWAYS worked for me ... up until last week. Problem is, I am not sure what caused sound to fail on my system, the wheezy kernel driver worked great, jessie uses the same kernel, I think, 3.2. What I will try to do is convert all services to systemd and see if boot time improves, I doubt it. That install is going to fly off my system anyway, FreeBSD is on a few other of my systems, I really like it. I am intending to replace Debian with FreeBSD on my main workstation, here ... will have to port my build to FreeBSD, but it already supports darwin (OS X) so it should really be a big change.
>So will 2016 be the year of Linux on the desktop?
No! Die-hard Linux nerd here, check my other posts ...
Sooooo, I updated to jessie (Debian stable) over the holiday season and the fuck is not stable, my classic gnome has gone, replaced by some other junk, Gnome 3 is still a mess, pre-alpha quality, if you ask me, but who would.
I have systemd, they say improved boot time - I CALL BS - boot time has increased by about 50%, yes, I might need to "convert"all those services (built-in ones, of course) to use the new systemd, I thought Debian had done that for me?????
Sound is b0rken, for the first time since 2002 (for me at least). I compiled & installed the realtek driver, kernel panic, first since 2001 (again, for me, note that all previous kernel panics I have had were from kernels I compiled). This system (the hard drive image) has been running Linux almost flawlessly since 2007 on multiple systems throughout the years.
I have downloaded the FreeBSD ISO... ;-)
If I may ask, please remove the children from the room ... what comes next is far from pretty:
Ich hasse dich, Lennart Poettering, du SAU, verschwinde, hau ab, hätte deine Mutter abgetrieben, wärst du uns erspart geblieben!
Excuse my German ...
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Your description of iOS is faulty: It is NOT a hefty premium for a lifestyle accessory, it is the fastest platform out there, period, so "derserves" a premium. Not to say that it is leaky, just like WP and Android.
There is no secure phone OS anymore, since BB10 packed-in - it seems like you all want to share all your details with corps, faire enough. Thanks, I do not and will not have a choice, once my BB10 device dies ...
WP will not survive 2017, 100% sure, I doubt it will be around in January 2017. I hereby declare that I will donate 50 euro to FSF if Windows Phone survives January 2017, and 100 if it survives December 2017. The donations will be made in the name of the RegisterComment@rds ... please do remind me, should I forget (I won't)!
PS: "Survives" meaning Microsoft has not announced it will stop development on the platform.
PPS: Can the register do something, here, for visibility ?
>and will get security updates
No, it won't, well it will, but not for very long. Once they can Windows Phone 10, which might even happen before the end of this year, who knows - knowing MS, they will stop all dev immediately, thank the early adopters for the cash.
Ok, I have meddled with "sc" since Windows NT4 on almost all Windows NT releases since (NT4, 2000, XP, 2003, 2008 ...) and Windows 10 needed 3 reboots to delete and recreate a service, never seen that happen before. I stopped a service, waited a while and, since Windows 10 was soo slow, I ended up killing the process (after about 1 minute waiting)..., once the process was killed, I deleted the service, that was one reboot to get the state from "Stopping" to "", after the first reboot, the service framework was completely pants, sc was not functionning at all!!!!! , another reboot allowed me to re-create this service but not start it ???!???, a third reboot and the service started automatically, can be stopped, started, and restarted, now ... go figure.
Redmond, we have a problem with the services framework ...
Nuff said.
Gimme FreeBSD 4 anytime other this junk (current version is also 10, BTW).
>Realistically that is a sensible decision, Windows 10 is better than 7, but not to the extent that it worth the upheaval for a non techie user. They also don't trust that it won't be a POS like 8. (Obviously Windows 8 users are jumping at the chance to change.)
WTF ???? Ok, maybe, we have a different view on what is bad in Windows 8, maybe. Ok, tell me, what is better in Windows 10 than in Windows 8 ? The TKFM BS is stil there, except that it is no longer puked over the entire screen, it is in some tiny start-like menu (you can only put, what, 10 apps in there before it gets crowded), in Windows 8, when you searched for an app (down arrow in TKFM) you have a list, in 10 if you have many installed apps, you scroll past clock.exe, calc.exe (the two most interesting built-in Windows apps according to Apple (LOL), but I disgress) etc, etc, etc, in Windows 8, they were puked all over the screen, no scrolling, better ? Yes, I have to admit.
In Windows7, you had to scroll as well... in Windows XP, 2000 etc, they were puked all over the screen, great, choose what you want! In Windows 2000 and XP, you could organize the shortcuts in "folders", in 7,8, & 10 you can forget about that.
7, 8, and 10 suck, the latter more than the other two, imho.
>Frankly, if you chance to meet anyone from Microsoft who is associated with Windows 10 Update, be kind to them and follow the same bait-and-switch mode of social interaction he is clearly comfortable with. So ask them if they would like a drink, and if they say yes, punch them in the fucking face.
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I have not laughed out this loud in years!!!!
>We're not writing for average users. ZDNet and Gizmodo are that way
Yes, and they swore Windows Me was great, Vista was the best Windows ever, 8 was a winning horse, 8.1 a welcome update, and 10 the ultimate Windows experience ...
I personally think Windows 10 is WORSE than Windows 8.1 ... qua ui.
>I think the first twinkle of change began with Win2k. At least when it crashed, I could restart the explorer process. Woo hoo! Then XP came along, and I was actually very impressed with it’s multiple display capabilities. I became a sysadmin shortly after that. It was then that my eyes began to open. You’ll never really fully understand the power and flexibility of the MS platform until you’ve played with Group Policy Management in a domain environment. It’s only then that the tip of the iceberg reveals itself to you, and you begin to understand the point of the registry, and what all these “useless” services running in the background are for that you keep disabling.
UNIX has had GPO-like functionality since the dawn of time, before Windows had TCP/IP. Not only that, but you can control anything, any piece of software written to run on the platform. AND, you can do one thing GPO cannot, and that is control configuration files. Remember, on UNIX, everything is a file. You can configure push/pull, shit, you can even version control your settings!!!!! Diff, patch,merge, how do you do that in the wonderful world of GPO ?
Now you have puppet, and that is not even the same league as GPO, because it supports WAYYYYYY more features for Windows clients than GPO, supports "almost" anything out there - go look at the modules. https://forge.puppetlabs.com/
>Even back then, it began to dawn on me that as long as you worked professionally, the MS stack was the least of your worries. The first warning shot was Firefox. Yes, when you compared them on a technical level at that time, Firefox was faster, more secure, and had more features. What it didn’t have was central management. You couldn’t even define the home page centrally, let alone restrict what plugins it could use, and this factor proved more important than any other, especially when you had over a thousand school kids hammering away at your security, visiting dodgy sites.
Again, you cannot control Firefox out-of-the-box with GPO because GPO cannot control configuration files. You can hack Firefox pretty easily so it reads stuff like site whitelists, homepage, etc from the registry, even use the IE whitelist, homepage, disable individual plugins or disable all plugins altogether. etc it is pretty easy, if you know JavaScript.
Firefox was designed for UNIX.
>Historically, Unix may have been a superior network platform, and hence the various ‘nix flavours had a technical advantage, but this means diddly squat in the real world. Where is Samsung’s version of WSUS, to alert me that the smart TV hanging in the foyer is unpatched, and could pwn my network at any minute? Or the HP printers? Or the Canon Scanners? Or the Linksys access point the sales team bought with their own budget?
Who in their right mind plugs a smartTV into their network???? As for printer and scanners, in UNIX, the printer driver is a ppd file, no 500Mb download that takes 3 reboots to install. SANE does a pretty good job at detecting scanners, from my experience at least. Besides, on UNIX, when you use the repos, which you do 99% of the time, ALL SOFTWARE IS KEPT UP-TO-DATE, and Linux 4.x means that you no longer need to reboot, even when you update the kernel.
In UNIX, what would be considered server software is available in the repos, comprised in your support contract, if you need one, such as databases, diverse servers (mail,) ... you can even have all Linux/FreeBSD boxes use your own repository, an intern can set that up in 5 minutes (not including download time, largely depends on which software you want in your repo).
Now, go back to your crayola, please.
>Microsoft's own security products are better. And free.
Check Windows Defender is up-to-date, that you have the latest malware removal tool from windows update. Ok, go and download VLC, OpenOffice, or Word Viewer, for example, from the advertised link in google, so from softpedia, 01net or whatever, install it, notice it also installs boxore and bunch of other crap (without informing the user), see how boxore installs plenty more BS, all while Windows Defender is scanning the hard drive, it finds nothing.
Boxore has been around at the very least for 2 years, all major anti-virus products detect and remove it, except Windows Defender - or whatever it is called in your version of Windows.
This is just one example, I have not personally been infected by boxore, just had to fix a handful of computers that were, all had fully updated Windows Defender, the first was two years ago, the last was 2 weeks ago. I always download software from the actual website, not via other services - so I have never personally encountered this.
The instructions provided are based on accounts of victims.
>is written by the new incumbent minister for work and pensions's cousin's company.
in France, they are shameless enough to choose the brother's company, see de Robien (speed cameras), Guillaume Sarkozy (extensive reductions in public healthcare, picked up by private) ... I could go on ...
>That's a bit of a harsh generalisation considering the majority of people didn't vote Tory. On the other hand, would Labour have been any different?
That's a bit of a harsh generalisation considering the majority of people didn't vote Tory. On the other hand, would any other have been any different?
Fixed that!
That is the problem. Private companies that work for the government know that the government has an unlimited amount of cash. Once you get the gov to sign something, you have them by the balls, over-budget is common place because the gov has no alternative than to pay.
In Marseille they made a public offer for a tunnel, they chose the cheapest offer, they have to by law ... half way through the digging, the private company stopped claiming the soil was not what they had originally expected, too rocky. In the end, Marseille city paid three to four times the original quote to get the tunnel finished off.
The current president of the Bouches du Rhone department is currently under investigation, he hired the company of his brother's to create a dump for the city (cost: 400k), the company sub-contracted, the subcontractor subcontracted another which for 20k built the dump. Obviously, the president in question "refutes" any wrongdoing, does not want to resign...
>Microsoft Security Essentials and Windows Defender are actually pretty good
You must be kidding ? Seriously, YOU MUST BE KIDDING!
Malware dances around that crap! I have had multiple computers that I had to fix, up-to-date with latest malware removal tools, defender had latest definitions, however, boxore and a bunch of other malware was happily doing its work.Worst thing is, I found the exact same malware on different machines, 6 months apart. So they are not even updating their definitions!!!! Waste of CPU time.
OpenOffice/LibreOffice have way more developers than MS Office, besides, it supports many more languages in its macro-framework, for example. OpenOffice/LibreOffice has way more features, like DocBook support, SVG support, stuff like that ... MS Office has way more testers, though ... I grant you that.
I don't know joomla, or better, have never used it, but it does sound really atrocious, maybe they could do with some help, then, from somebody with the know-how, maybe you, Displacement Activity?
You could contribute some documentation, for example.
Incompatible upgrades ? Sounds like they have hired some of the Gnome 3 bastards, that does!
>THE BEST SOFTWARE IN THE WORLD IS THE SOFTWARE YOU KNOW BEST
Until the smart asses come along and change the "Save" dialog. When you inquire as to "why" they changed it, they reply "Because power users did not know that saving an image to compressed GIF actually causes data loss." By no means do I consider myself a gimp power user, but #!$@!!
That is why I stick with 2.6, does what I need AND has a "proper" Save dialog.
NB: I work on something like 20 images at a time: open image, little touch-up here, little touch-up there, Ctrl+s, Alt+F4, on to next image.
With the new save dialog (I think in 2.8+), I have to click through the menu, confirm I want to overwrite a file and when I accidentally hit Ctrl+S, I have native GIMP images lying around, which are utterly useless to me.
>No - they can't. Physical access to the unit doesn't provide access to the OS - even with diagnostics access.
Oh, come on ... Some bloke managed to rip off a piece of plastic and access a CD-ROM drive, put a CD with malware on it, autorun and 0pla, 0wned. Others have been 0wned via USB as well ... It has happened, not all ATM's are locked-down ... I have seen, and others have reported here, that some ATM's run Windows XP Pro, I have seen BSOD's on several which confirm that - I doubt a dumbed-down XPE system has "Windows XP Professional" printed on the BSOD, right ?
The numbers are sheer non-sense. Sometimes, a single CVE is created for multiple issues, just search for "multiple vulnerabilities" or click the link below to find out the extent of this issue.
https://www.cvedetails.com/google-search-results.php?q=multiple+vulnerabilities&sa=Search
This means that any information about count or average severity is just unreliable. Move on, nothing to see here...
Quite spot on, but I have trouble understanding the hype around "watches", "chronographs" or whatever they call 19th century tech these days, to start off with ... I was given one 6 years ago, have worn the thing probably a week ... I happen to have a phone in my pocket I pull out like a cowboy a colt when I need info (internet, maps, time ...), no need to have some "fashion" accessory on my wrist.
They started making bigger watches for the elderly and for some obscure reason I cannot understand, these watches "Made for the sight-impaired" sold in millions, you see them on wrists all over the nation ... I guess they attract the "sense-impaired" as well ...
Seeing this, Apple & co thought that that would be a new market, since these cretins spend hundreds (severe cases even spend thousands) on an imprecise time-telling-device, why not get them one that displays internet time, have them pay a fortune, and laughing all the way to the bank, just like the Swiss.
>If a piece of software has had 5+ critical vulnerabilities in a calendar year, then it's time to halt development for a security architecture review.
Windows development would halt, then, in January of each year until June or July ...
For the Linux kernel it is different, because, well, the Linux kernel is 99% drivers, most of which are compiled into kernel modules in most distributions. When a flaw in Windows affects 100% of the Windows customer base, a flaw in a driver in Linux kernel might affect 0.0001%. I am pretty sure that security issues found in drivers in Windows are reported against the hardware manufacturer who wrote the driver, not Microsoft ...
And Linux supports all hardware supported by Windows 95+, a number of drivers from the Windows 3.x days have been deprecated in Linux. Windows 7 had deprecated drivers from Windows XP era ... my Chinese noname webcam no longer worked on Windows 7....
Oh, and Edge had its first critical flaw in September 2015, +/- a month after release. Note that Edge was written by the SAME NUMPTIES who designed/developed flash ... ;-)
Upvoted! Thanks for taking the time to respond so fully.
>That leads me to the other possible interpretation. That in attempting to put my biases aside and analyse things objectively I somehow wrote statements that were too pro-Microsoft. To be honest, having looked back over the article, I am not sure what those might, be...but I accept that maybe some might find such things.
Spot on!
Note that I am past hate, I see Microsoft as a kind of crack dealer. The worst thing is, I do not think their solutions are that great (to be polite) or worth it. There are better alternatives out there that would not be anywhere if they were not better and/or cheaper than Microsoft's equivalent.
There is a reason why Linux/Unix admins get way better pay than Windows admins.
@Trevor
Upvoted and I must admit that you do, in fact, sometimes, put your biases too far to one side. That is why, when I read some of the sentences in your articles, I, too, have the impression you are a Microsoft shill.
Great article, although I think MS is already dead, the WinPhone demise came earlier than expected. Windows 10 is avoided with fear left, right and center - ordinary people think it is windows 8+ ... Cloud means the client no longer matters, which means Windows is as good as dead - it is more expensive than the competition. Macros are dying in Office and, once they are removed from the Windows version, the office suite will no longer matter.
I think Governments will dish Office because it cannot handle ODF (standard document file type) properly, it cannot even handle DOC/PPT/... etc (including X versions) properly, when the files were created with a previous version.
Look at the recent deal between the French government and Microsoft, it is creating uproar in France (selling^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hdonating data of all French school children + moneys for the service)!
>>"UAT tested which you cannot claim Microsoft do"
>I'm not sure about that. W10 has millions of beta testers who get to test all the upgrades before they're pushed out to enterprise customers.
How is that any different to the billions of other people who were testing the patches by updating early up until now? Also, do home users have domains or corporate kit, guess not.
I keep hearing here that vmware has good management tools ... I have used vcenter fat client, the ui is atrocious! The web app is worse, it wants some "Adobe Flash" thingy, no idea what that is. Ok, it is 5.1, maybe time to upgrade to 6, but if the comment@rd above is to be believed, I guess I will have to wait for 6 to stabilize ...
Gimme puppet, ansible, or vagrant over vcenter .... anytime, in combination with your hypervisor of choice, even VirtualBox headless ...
>The UK power plug/socket is the safest system in the world with the shutters and tolerances to make sure the bits that bite are safely connected.
Type E and F are just as safe, the fuse is ueless in today's installations, the UK plug is way too big, the holes are way too wide, that is why you really needed a shutter safety system in the first place. The current sockets in EU have a shutter system as well that is not as easily fooled as the UK one (screwdriver in earth, live current wide open). Type F allows you to plug it in upside-down as well, handy, sometimes. The safety feature of the pins being "insulated" is not properly enforced, I have seen plugs that did not have that insulation!!! The grove in the type E and F sockets mean there is no need to insulate the pins, safer. The wall switch is handy, I grant you that, and you can get type F wall sockets with a switch, in a DIY store ...
Just my two cents ...
The Brit that lives on the continent. (Seen and used both systems)
I was working next to a colleague who was trying to install Oracle onto a Solaris box. He had inserted CD1 about an hour ago and was bitching, quietly, in his corner, typing stuff into a terminal, looking at man pages, and typing some more. I asked if I could help but he just turned me the cold shoulder. After what was probably another hour, I asked him again and he gave in and explained: "I cannot get CD1 out! The button doesn't work, I have unmounted the drive ...". I asked if he had tried "eject" on the command line, seconds later, the CD tray came out ...
>just imagine the amount of freeplay you could have on Coruscant
GTA V in tens of Gb's, the map is quite big, granted, but you would need a map 10 000 times bigger to get anything close for Coruscant. Besides, in GTA V, a lot of the buildings are similar if not the same, scattered around ...
Arles, France, went that way as well ... there are quite a few more:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_adopters
Apparently, Linux ousted "Windows for Warships" in the Navy! In the Navy, you get to sail the seven seas... sorry, Xmas hang-over ....
That wikipedia list is "very" incomplete, judging by http://www.openmairie.org, there are MANY more in France ...
>Then perhaps SAP could employ one or two people who understand human-machine interfaces, and fix some of the other glaring idiocies that burn thousands of person-hours every day.
Nobody understands human-machine interfaces anymore ... look at Windows 8+, Gnome 3+ ... you name it. SAPUi never cut it ... but the NetWeaver web ui is usable.
@Charles9
You do not get the point ... Who in their right mind trusts software which processes lottery results ? Same for the online casino sites ? If you trust that shit, you should be removed from any IT-related work.
1. Lottery/casino's PRIME goal, like ANY OTHER company, is to make AS MUCH money AS POSSIBLE!
2. Employees of lottery/casino company write the software to achieve 1.
Feel free to replace "lottery/casino company" with "governing political party", "MUCH" with "many", and "money" with "votes".
D'oh!
>There is a CRO (or equivalent) number for everyone, where even school reports are kept, so they start on you early.
Considering that they have infiltrated all political parties en masse, that they choose the runners for elections, that they know who supports who in a given party, they might even rig the internal elections ... police state.
All this explains the completely absurd policies our governments have implemented over the years, why public spending keeps growing exponentially, while our governments keep blaming the welfare state for the national debt - even though welfare-related spending does not grow in any significant way, compared to public spend.
Note that France just sold the data of all French school children to Microsoft, well, not exactly "sold", THEY PAY Microsoft for the "service" ...