Posts by TheVogon

Re: The cloud strikes again

"which depend on the Internet to work at all."

Azure doesn't. There are numerous ways to access with a direct connection including via MegaPort and ExpressRoute.

Re: Blimey!

"Azure DNS, which currently is still in preview"

So a beta service meant for testing...

Re: "decided not to make this next-gen networking protocol backward-compatible?"

"Whatever happened to, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."

It got translated to English: "If it isn't broken, don't fix it."

"ain't" is slang, and "broke" as an adjective only means out of money...

Re: "but Android doesn't support that"

"Why the F*CK doesn't Windows support open file systems like ZFS, EXT, etc!?"

Because it doesn't need to and there is no requirement to as near zero removable devices are formatted in those file systems? The normal Windows options of FAT, FAT32, exFAT, UDF, NTFS and REFS are enough for most of us...

Re: Backward compatibility

"But it's OK. You can just proxy everything to get around that. As long as your protocol is supported by the proxy...."

But you don't need to proxy it. You can just route it with IPv6... IPv6 was built to reinstate end-to-end connectivity on the Internet and all connected networks.

""Can someone remind us again why the Internet Engineering Task Force decided not to make this next-gen networking protocol backward-compatible?""

Presumably because that would have been massively restrictive, and have meant lots of legacy baggage?

The move to IPv6 might be very slow, but it is starting to happen - and will likely accelerate with the widespread use of IoT - and the exhaustion of IPv4 addresses. Companies like Colt had an IPv6 backbone network several years ago...

IPv6 is at least partly backwards compatible in terms of you can easily gateway most IP traffic from one format to the other.

Re: "but Android doesn't support that"

"The horrible irony of Microsoft waiting on its own team to fix a networking bug aside"

But this is how it should happen!

Microsoft should use and "dogfood" test all these features - and take the pain of working out any bugs before expecting the rest of us to do it....

Re: In 500 Years...

"If you define "works" as doing what an Office package should do for about 95% of users, LibreOffice can comfortably claim that"

Working 95% of the time isn't good enough for most businesses. Hence presumably why adoption of Libre Office is still close to zero....

"Oh, and it works on a proper, official, arrived-at-through-real-consensus Open Standard rather than a bribed one that the company itself has trouble supporting"

Microsoft Office works far better than Libre Office in regards to ODF support. The Libre Office forums are full of issues with it's standards support...

"Bonus benefit: our staff can use it at home just as well - no license risks "

But many of your staff will already have MS Office or Office 365, so it then sucks when their files don't work properly, and features they used at home are not supported in the office.....

"We never say that until the patches are applied and the fallout evaluated."

We can as we test before deploying...

"but there are still some programs that don't work properly without higher acres permissions"

Lucky then that short cut properties include a selectable per program "Run as Administrator" option...

Re: Word?

"People still use Word in 2017"

Easier to ask who doesn't. It is pretty much a standard in the enterprise, and Microsoft are beating Google hands down for cloud versions too with Office 365. And It's a standard in most schools....

Re: In 500 Years...

"In the mean time I use LibreOffice."

Some of us need a version of Office that actually works...

Not to mention that full functionality of Libre Office requires Java installed - which is second only to Flash as a security hole...

Re: Just like Microsoft SQL

"Where the 'sa' god-mode account had a default blank password on install."

The sa account is disabled by the default install settings though. And when you enable it, by default your password policy is enforced which means that you can't set a blank password without deliberately overriding that.

(Using the current versions of Windows Server + SQL Server has given the lowest total CVE vulnerabilities of OS + Database software of any major competitor for every one of the last 10 years!)

Re: Rise of the sexbots?

"already burning holes in men’s pockets"

Maybe low friction pockets are required?

Re: Redmond's Windows Cloud?

"Isn't that Windows Cloud limited by the scalability of Windows Server?"

That's a pretty high limit. See https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server-docs/compute/hyper-v/plan/plan-for-hyper-v-scalability-in-windows-server-2016

"Or is Microsoft secretly running Linux on their Cloud

They certainly run Linux on their cloud (~30% of VMs). If you mean does their cloud run on Linux then that likely would limit scalability. There are plenty of benchmarks that show that Hyper-V outperforms say KVM.

"with their Linux switches"

The SAI API is, in principle, cross-platform, defined for both Windows and Linux, but much of the vendor switch hardware is supported best, or even exclusively, in Linux. Hence why Microsoft used Linux for network hardware.

Re: Stick with RAID and LTO instead.

"Any business relying on cloud services for data storage needs to have the management fired along with the tech guys"

Anyone with such outdated views would be lucky to get a job these days.

Public cloud is by far the cheapest and simplest way for most companies to get multi regional data fault tolerance. If your data access is highly critical and you don't trust one vendor, you can always choose to use 2 or more providers...

Re: Stick with RAID and LTO instead.

"Not always - not everybody can have the resources for RAID5/50/6/60"

If you can't afford 1 or 2 extra disks, then your problem is probably resources / budget not strategy.

"And there are other storage technologies that can be used in lieu of RAID5/50/6/60."

Not that are more efficient with the same level of protection. Generally the alternative is multiple copies of the data.

"I have the feeling that LTO will be making a comeback."

Cloud based solutions like StorSimple are more likely the future imo...

Re: there but for the grace of God...

"Explain!"

See for instance http://deliveryimages.acm.org/10.1145/1680000/1670144/leventhal1.png

Re: ROI

"Sure US government we can help you extradite the Nigerian criminal of your choice. We just need your bank account details and sort code...."

Re: More Magic Technology

How would such a device differentiate between naked flesh in say an orgy, and the acres of bare flesh in an average American's holiday photos?

Re: How can it not be gamed into saying something sexist, racist, whatever-ist?

"But you cannot just walk into the Jewish religion"

But it's still just a religion and not a race. Exclusivity does not equal ethnicity...

"It's both a religion and an ethnic identity"

You could often say that about Islam and Christianity too.

Re: How can it not be gamed into saying something sexist, racist, whatever-ist?

"Anti-semitic means anti-Jewish and anti-Arab. "

Technically yes, and indeed according to studies, Palestinians are apparently more Semitic than Israeli Jews - who are commonly European in genetic heritage.

However - in practice I have only ever seen it used to mean anti Jewish. As was the case in this bot instance. And as per the above, Jews are a religion not a race, so it wasn't racism. Just like say insulting Islam or Christianity wouldn't be racism.