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Linux and the BSD's will be ported, if it works out to be worthwhile ...
The thing that puzzles me is the architecture. You can reboot the CPU's without touching memory, great, but what does that mean ? A reboot becomes a sleep/wake cycle ? If so, why reboot in the first place ?
I do not get it ... :-(
Microsoft make a sane decision for once! Us freetards have been saying it for years^H^H^H^H^Hdecades, a system that has a gui is no "real" server.
I can understand the outrage, though, how are point and click experts gonna administrate this ? With Administrative Tools alone you cannot get it all done ... The server manager and wizards might help, but I guess it will become harder to install enterprise class software like Oracle Database or SAP - which is OK, Windows Server has never been an enterprise-worthy OS anyway.
Good move, Microsoft ... for once!
> SAP have had an OS X GUI for a few years
As well as various other UNIX-like operating systems ... however, they are inferior to Windows SAPGui in a number of areas, process chains springs to mind ... mainly because SAP built some "very good" process chain editor tool that requires the highly acclaimed ActiveX technology into SAPGui, which is only available on Windows.
So yes, most things can be done on Linux, Mac, Solaris Java-based SAPGui ... however, some things cannot.
>The sort of person that makes the decision what someone like you gets on their corporate desktop...
The Microsoft Certified Surface Expert, aka "Windows cleaner", makes no decisions ... those are made by Redmond on your behalf, so Microsoft Edge it will be.
Seriously, I don't trust those browser benchmarks, besides, depending on which benchmark, Chrome, Firefox, & Opera are faster ... cannot find the link, but it is on here somewhere.
Next we'll hear Windows is executing browser code in kernel land, to boost performance.
BTW, does Microsoft Edge come with IESHIMS.DLL ? There is completely unrelated software that depends on that DLL, most notably SAP JCo... not sure why ...
>You mean the Windows 10 preview (beta test software) has this tool to revert back to a working production version of the OS. There's no guarantee the final version will do so, since MS is trying to get all of their user base on Windows 10.
To be fair, the nagware explicitly says you can revert your system back ... that will probably mean a reinstall, though ... unless it takes an image of your old system and manages to save that to the partition it is currently cloning ... lol - downgrading is not that simple to get right, you know ... especially if you have installed software ...
So, yes, you can, but they'l make it hard and unstable ...
With all this NSA talk, and the fact the NSA can infect any Android, Windows Phone, or iOS device, it is only a matter of time before everybody realizes that BB is the only secure option.
Besides, big shops in Europe have already mandated BB10 and forbid BYOD - too many sensitive leaks.
The Windows update disaster will be even worse once they do away with patch Tuesday, since we will not have the benefit of having a large number of people testing the updates at a specific time in the month.
If you really wanna know why Windows Update sucks, ask a Brit, David Brooks, MS Senior Test Developer. He used to work for the X consortium on CDE before he went off to Redmond.
On his Linkedin page, you can see MS have a testing team in .... India^H^H^H^H^HChina.
Got more popcorn and a quite a few pints for this summer ... I'm loving it.
According to my nag screen, you can go back whenever you want ... I love it, they say the start menu is back and I am already an expert before it ships.
Right-clicking the nag screen does not allow a "fsck off and leave me alone" option, aka "exit".
The process you wanna kill is GWXUX.EXE, which lives in %windir%\System32\GWX.
Snapping four things max on my screen is not enough, I have an ultra, ultra-wide screen, often have 5 or 6 windows open at any given time (IDE, APP, terminal, email/browser, vm's ...). I have very good eye-sight, so the fonts I use are quite small ;-).
Yes, I am back on Windows for a short period of time, I hope...
The link on the reg article is dead, you might find this useful instead:
https://superfrink.net/athenaeum/www.securityoffice.net/mssecrets/hotmail.html
Not sure it is 100% accurate.
Don't you just love the "Strengths of Windows" section ...
1. is an utter lie, even back then, if you consider Linux a Unix system
2. Might have been true then, today, it's completely different
3. BS, how can I read the temperature, for example, on Windows ? Even back then, the guy who wrote that did not know about dmesg.
4. UNIX (FreeBSD and Linux) have better hardware support than windows
5. Is there a version of Windows in Esperanto ? Linux now has so many more translations than windows ... and I am sure FreeBSD just picks them up.
The patent claims Microsoft holds against Android vendors have for the most part prior art dating back to the 60's, 70's, and 80's ... they are bullying and Samsung managed to have them STFU - Samsung have an interest in other Android vendors paying the Microsoft bribe, though ... so non-disclosure agreement.
1. Sourceforge: Trojan Horse purveyor
2. Gimp: Nobody in their right mind wants version 2.7+ because they did away with the cool "Save" dialog. Now, you have to export a eg JPG image to JPG, FFS. The user base complains, the authors say "Expert users wanted that 'feature' because they kept losing image quality when saving images to compressed GIF." (read that one again, yes, "EXPERT USERS")
So both suck!
I was in Aldi the other day and got Bluetooth scales, because they were priced as much as ordinary scales and I needed some.
Of course, you can download an app, hook it up to the scales, and it works out your BMI, fat etc etc etc ... yes, it has a pair of sensors, you are supposed to use it barefoot.
Anyway, instead of storing the data on the phone, it stores the data in the cloud. WTF ? The manual reads: "The data is stored in the cloud in case you lose your phone." Apparently, they never heard of "backup".
So, dumb scales they will remain.
>"Zamora said apps should also be appropriately priced. One app should not be significantly more expensive than another than provides substantially identical functionality, for example."
If they follow their guidelines, they will have to boot a lot of apps ... even MS Office, since it is much more expensive than, say, Libre Office, yet offers little, if any, added value.
They should consider removing the store altogether ... much easier!
I am one, I like clicking on ads for companies or services which I truly dislike, such as Microsoft, or our competitors. I then know they pay google/theregister/whoever (depending on which site I am on).
So that is one of those.
PS: No I do not care about the actual ads.
"Plankton are much more than just food for the whales. Although tiny, these organisms are a vital part of the Earth's life support system, providing half of the oxygen generated each year on Earth by photosynthesis and lying at the base of marine food chains on which all other ocean life depends."
This was already known when I was in primary school, and I am reasonably old, have reached about "half-life".
@self
Ohh, I forgot, the young techies also are to blame ... a lot of them think that since they have their shiny diploma with good grades, they are god-like when it comes to technical design.
A bit like current IT developers ... 150Mb for a printer driver ... FFS!!!!! Shoot them, please!
>Its virtually impossible to do any complex project today without it turning into a massively over budget super late delivered clusterfsck (see the F35 and virtually ever other aircraft developed in the last two decades). This is doubly true if Boeing is involved (see over billion dollars wasted on virtual border fence Boeing pork).
That is mainly because the guyz in charge USED TO BE veteran techies, now, the guyz in charge are management school excrements with absolutely zarro clue of the technical side of things, or implications of their decisions.
As for the other numpties, the Airbus 320, 330, and 340's were not late.
I call BS on this, I think they just want to harvest phone numbers out of people - a way to identify you and better target their ads.
Their questions are rather silly, especially the family-related questions ... you would not want your wife/brother/sister/father to access your email account, would you ? City of birth is really silly, too many people know that. These, of course, make social engineering so much easier.
I think you should be able to ask your own questions, as for the mathematical "questions", those can be detected and vetoed.
I hate it when I cannot use spaces in passwords.
The worst website I have come across in recent years is www.apec.fr - THEY EMAIL YOUR PASSWORD TO YOU, IN 2015, HONEST!!!!!
Come on! Windows 1,2,3 were not thaaaat bad in that respect, XP was bad (needed 4 times more ram, exclusively to display a FisherPriceRipOff ui), Vista was worse ... what was it again ? 8 time more RAM (2Gb), high end graphics card, all to show less effects than OS X with 500Mb RAM and a TNT2. Now, Windows 10 IoT is so much worse than Vista in that respect, Windows is such untidy bloat that WIFI depends on some obscure subsystem that could not be squeezed into a 900MB image, go figure.
I have a 180Mb iso, Linux with KDE, browser, office suite, a bunch of servers ... you name it ... and ... WIFI support YAY! (all you need is a firmware for your WIFI card, should the ones in the iso not work for yours).
Well, things evolve on this planet ... according to the theory of evolution ... so do languages. And ... just like animals, they evolve differently on different islands.
Thou art mistaken!
I upvoted'th thou as I liked the sense of humour!
PS: I am British, I cannot stand how the USians pronounce to-may-doe, either ... sadly, we have to live with it!
kernel != OS
Besides, with flash prices being what they are, you can pretty cheaply get 1Gb flash these days, ram is more expensive, but even then, 8 or 16Mb would be more than enough for IoT, and that comes quite cheap.
A tailored Linux kernel would be much better, has much better support, been developed and gone through testing for 20+ years, and, best of all, drivers for chipsets are readily available. Not sure what the RAM requirements for systemd are, <joke>I guess at the least 2Gb</joke> ... but then again, who needs systemd when you do not need gnome.
>having sat for 6-months in Bosnian communication blackholes and wondered how the hell to get some entertainment going.
I hope you are not a French General ... like the guy who stood on a tank and said:"We will protect you!" to a bunch of Muslims, hours before Serbian forces deported and murdered 'em all. I heard he has now a hefty retirement plan ...
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Mozilla, I have had enough. I have been using Firefox/Pheonix on Windows/OS X/Linux for close to 15 years now, and, guess what, in FF37 I have experience the first stability issues. Yes, it is bloated crap, now, but until 37 it got the work done, now, not only does it hide the address bar (THE ONLY FSCK'ING USEFUL THING), since 36 iirc, in FF37, the thing hangs. in FF38 you add DRM ?
You know what? Byebye.
There is no excuse for DRM, if you think there is, be so kind, do us all a favor, leave the industry ... windows cleaners are needed in Hull.