Posts by TheVogon 3511 publicly visible posts • joined 17 Jan 2013
"To be honest, I cannot think of a single Linux distro that *doesn't* support centralised patching, since it's in the nature of the beast."
IF you mean set it and forget it, yes. But enterprises need centralised control for scheduled deployments of selected patches to specified machine groups, reporting, etc. etc.
"Sure! Its because corporates are obsessed with Outlook, Microsoft Office, and having support contracts in place for everything - even when they're paying through the nose to run in-house ops teams to support the software themselves."
Translation: Companies need products that actually work and that come with enterprise grade support.
"Yes. If you want exact outlook/exchange work-flow then you can simple use Office365 from any standard-compatible web browser.
Can't you?"
Yes, you can. But a) is a hopefully 99.9% availability good enough (not allowing for the internet) ?, and b) the web version does not provide the exact same performance and functional ability as a local full install of Office.
I'm not exactly a Linux fan, but I would suggest it is OK as a client OS if you are going to use it a) for web apps only or b) as an RDP / Citrix client to Windows Terminal Servers.
LOL, told you so.
So now there is no longer any doubt that Linux costs more (without even allowing for the 10+ years of still not finished migration and the many millions invested in Limux) AND that Open Office + Linux is a vastly inferior solution as judged by end users...
Not that anyone was migrating anyway.
"When we had to fix a laptop which went through Chinese customs, we discovered screws tightening the hard disk were damaged... a coincidence, surely ^^"
The US and UK do that sort of thing too - plug it in to another computer via a USB dongle, check it's got nothing interesting on - or image it for looking at later - then put it back...
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/oct/28/uk-police-terrorism-act-newsnight-journalist-secunder-kermani-laptop
"Reliable software wipeout of e.g. 1TB HDD would take about 12hours IIRC."
If you cared that much about security, it would be encrypted, and the first thing a wipe should hit is the boot info and the keys... Regardless of time once the wipe process is started on any OS I have seen that has a built in one (only mobile atm ?), you can't then load the OS even if you turn off / on.
By the way, for anyone that does care and uses Windows with encryption on a non domain joined version, please be aware that by default it backs up your BitLocker keys to OneDrive!
"But now the Microsoft shills will come and shout "secure software is unpossible!" - because they refused to believe they've been using shoddy quality low security poorly engineered software this whole time."
No, it's not "unpossible" - at least to a degree:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/white-hat-hacker-claims-windows-phone-is-the-most-secure-mobile-platform-495841.shtml
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Kaspersky-Says-Windows-Phone-Is-the-Most-Secure-Mobile-OS-483901.shtml
etc.
"currently we are only object storage. consider using a container (ie docker) to move across different provider ;-)"
No need really to do that if the solution supports the main VM image standards ( at least Hyper-V and VMWare) or can convert them.
But yes, Docker as an option does support Hyper-V Containers - which gives you proper isolation between your apps and is portable.
"We also know it's been warming since before the end of the last ice age and that we are definitely not to blame for almost all of that. Just saying."
Sure. At roughly 170th of the average speed of the more recent changes!
That the climate changes naturally isn't in doubt either. However when the climate has historically changed rapidly it has generally lead to mass extinctions. Personally I would rather humanity not eliminate itself from the gene pool....
"You disagreeing with something does not, nor ever will, make it fraudulent - nor will it make the opposite irrefutably true."
It's factually untrue. We know the planet is warming over a period of decades and we know we are at least significantly to blame. That isn't an opinion. That's a scientifically verified fact with overwhelming observable evidence to support it.
"the Daily Mail published an article by a climate science whistleblower from NOAA last week"
A good example of the fiction in question. See for instance https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/feb/05/mail-on-sunday-launches-the-first-salvo-in-the-latest-war-against-climate-scientists
"An example of technical superiority - Google runs a 2 petabit network core in their data centers. "
No they don't. The ENTIRE fabric of their network backbone has a 1 Petabit bi-directional throughput capability if you read and actually understood the document that you linked to! (So enough to support ~ 100,000 servers with single 10Gbits connections. Microsoft's Xbox Live infrastructure alone beats that hands down, let alone the rest of Azure...
"They invented all of the tech, right through the networking custom protocol."
Microsoft built everything on NVGRE, so it works with standard industry leading switches...
" One of the reasons why their performance is outstanding."
But it isn't - If you look at cloud benchmarks, they lag behind Microsoft (fastest) and Amazon (mostly next fastest) on storage and cloud network benchmarks. Microsoft do use some custom hardware though: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/06/18/windows_server_2016_to_inherit_azures_load_balancer_data_plane/
"Yeah, you aren't hearing anything about leading tech companies signing major deals to move to Google Cloud Platform this week.... "
That's one company. Not companies. And it's pretty rare that I see anything about anyone using Google cloud.
" large number of the top tech firms are on GCP."
Not as many as are on Azure or on AWS. And of course when you look at non tech firms then the gap is vast. Microsoft / Amazon need a telescope to see Google in the distance behind them.
MS did a very smart move with this. The SQL server implementation for Linux lacks all the enterprise features like HA and replication, also .NET compatibility and certain types of stored procedures are not supported on Linux,"
Yep, this is just a fob to keep developers that prefer to use Open Source tools / environments happy and stop them playing with other database options in development. When you want security / availability / performance features suitable for production, you will have to put it on Windows Server - and production systems are where the money is...
"No, what I want is an ssh server for Windows, that will drop me into Powershell when I login."
Why would you want to use such an archaic and complex method to get to Powershell? Just use Powershell Remoting - no need to worry about client certificates, etc.
See https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff700227.aspx
"2) Win10 whores you to advertisers"
Nope - it "whores" you to Microsoft - not so much to advertisers - that's Slurp's Chrome OS / browser you must be thinking of. The corporate versions of Windows 10 also have most of the telemetry disabled.
"and any three-letter agency who asks."
Just like all other corporate software / service vendors then...
"why not just run Ubuntu and put Windows in the virtual machine?"
Because it likely works better to run Windows as the base OS and run Linux as a VM - Hyper-V generally outperforms open source Hypervisor options out of the box - and driver support and performance is usually better for Windows...
"At the very least it meant that SQL Server had a cost above and beyond the financial."
You mean "costs" such as SQL + Windows Server having the lowest combined database + OS security vulnerability total for every single year for the last decade versus any other commercial OS + database vendor combination?
That's probably largely due to this issue:
http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2016/12/intel-working-fix-virgin-media-superhub-3-router-latency-bug.html
[mod note – that site links to our article on the issue here]
"What's more, Google's G Suite for Education has been widely adopted by many school districts."
No it hasn't. It's hardly used by anyone outside of a few school districts in the colonies. The link is to a 2 years old article, which says "Assuming the growth rate of 41% from 2010-2015 continues over the next five years" - which so far it hasn't.
Office 365 for education (free) has pretty much wiped the floor with Google Apps - and that was already the case back in 2015 too. See for instance http://www.bitglass.com/press-releases/bitglass-report-microsoft-office-365-surges-ahead-of-google-apps
"The ransomware is operating at the Firmware level, rewriting your bios, typically a VIA chip on your motherboard"
No it isn't. The only malware that generally does that is government issued.
This is just Ransomware that is likely being spread by hackers manually once they have a foothold in a network from careless admins, and have captured some admin credentials....
"Productivity is not GDP per head it's GDP per hour worked."
Erm no it isn't. Local policies and employee preference can influence hours worked so it's a meaningless figure. What really matters to GDP is how much each person produces. So for instance France has an incredibly short working week so per hour makes more, but in terms of actually producing stuff per employee lags behind us...Ditto the USA - long hours and short holidays mean less per hour, but high per person GDP.
You must be either American or you just got out of a Delorian?
That the planet is warming due to human influence hasn't been in any doubt for well over a decade now. Yes it changes naturally too, but usually at a MUCH slower rate.
As to not going up, lol, just see for instance http://woodfortrees.org/plot/hadcrut4gl/mean:50
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