Posts by TheVogon

Re: London time??

"Remove London from the UK, remove that particular problem."

But who will pay for your benefits then?

Re: No, pick me

"If all they needed was NAS why were they running a Windows server OS anyway?"

For starters lots of features not available on many other NAS solutions - like SMB 3, compression, dedupe, encryption, tiering, replication, DLP categorisation and selective rights management, active active clustering, etc, etc, etc...

Re: a ha ha ha ha ha :(

"True, but at least Linux will run on open architectures like OpenRISC, a platform that Windows will probably never colonise."

Only because there is no demand for it. OpenRISC doesn't really protect you from anything as there are so many other hardware and software dependencies involved.

Windows already supports Arm, IA-32 and x64 which are by far the largest current market segments. And Windows has previously supported Alpha, MIPS, Itanium and PowerPC, so additional processor support is not a problem if there was a need for it...

Re: Shafting people

"There's also a corresponding preview of System Center 2016 that includes – of all things – better management of Linux and LAMP software stacks, including Desired State Configuration (DSC) support and native SSH support."

"Of all things"?! People do still have legacy *nix stacks to manage you know....

Re: Stop moaning

"So you're happy if Microsoft fucks me over, as long as it makes life easy for you?"

I imagine that the popular vote from Joe Public would overwhelmingly endorse that view, yes.

What we also need to remember here is that Microsoft supposedly are not releasing any more Windows versions - and that updates will be on-going and incremental. Therefore if lots of people disable them, it might leave Microsoft with a fragmented user base and lots of compatibility issues.

If you are technically competent enough to be managing updates yourself on a consumer version of Windows 10 then it's not exactly much of a challenge to disable the relevant service. Anyone who can't manage that likely shouldn't be disabling them imo.

Yes there is a risk that Microsoft will bork something with an update, but System Recovery is pretty good these days and it's a task of minutes to roll your PC back if you ever needed to.

Re: Hidden Agenda or no Agenda

"You mean within the corporate world, not the unwashed masses that this wristjob is aimed at."

Also outside of the corporate world - there are tens of millions of home Office 365 and Outlook.com users too.

Re: Java question...

"Google doesn't use Microsoft ware for security reasons."

Yes I guess it's far too secure for them. For starters the NSA would be rather upset if Android handsets were no longer fully remotely ownable.

Re: Bringing Up The Rear

"Of course Windows users are over represented and Linux is under represented."

Any evidence of that? I would have though lots more Windows users would be running advert and script blockers due to the much larger number of advert nasties and browser toolbars targeted at the more prevalent platform...

Re: Reliable?

"Can anyone tell me when the Internet went from an interesting source of information and asynchronous communication to a reliable data link with a 24/7 SLA with all the parties between your company and Redmond?"

It didn't - but then you don't have to go via the Internet to reach Microsoft: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/expressroute/

And anyway, Exchange 2016 is usually an on premise solution. Are you thinking of Office 365?

Re: @JEDIDIAH - A solution for the wrong problem

"Because Gnu/Linux is a lot better operating system than Windows"

Not when it comes to having optimal performance graphics drivers apparently. Direct-X 12 has widened the gap recently as well. So if you want the optimal high end gaming platform, Windows 10 is the only option - for now at least.

"Linux is like a good scalpel"

Like a good scalpel that can only be used via a robot that only accepts instructions via complex and obscure text files...

Re: remotes

"ODF was invented in Libre/Openoffice"

Nope, OpenDocument is not the same as the older OpenOffice.org XML format and these formats are not directly compatible. ODF was actually developed by OASIS.

"It's MS'es implementation of it which is flakey."

Nope - MS have by far the best ODF implementation that is currently available - and it fully support the latest ODF version - even in Office 365. If you look through LO support forums and bug trackers you will see that there are loads of issues with it's implementation of ODF. For instance crashes saving a file that can be opened / saved in other Office packages.

Just a few examples:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/1292360

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/1412448

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/1072033

Also there are vast numbers of bugs when handling MS Office formats - that most businesses rely on.

Android - shortly to become the world's largest ever bot net!

"the US has two separate opportunities to get a copy of ever incoming and outgoing email."

It's at least 3 goes. Don't forget we also give them a direct slurp feed of all our telecoms and satellite links.

Probably our secret services want them to have a copy anyway so that they can "keep an eye" on things by proxy without breaking any British laws...Much like the Americans do with their citizens via GCHQ.

Re: How much airspace above your house is considered property?

"In the US, the limit is about 4-500 feet"

Nope - in the US it's 83 feet.

Re: Whack-A-Mole

"You don't even need to do that much. The old .se domain redirects automatically to one of the new ones anyway."

But several UK ISPs do block the HTTP address. For instance if you try on Virgin Media without an SSL connection you will get a blocked page....

You will note that that even if a redirect does work, it will usually switch you to an HTTPS connection for this reason.

"Google has never received a penny from me. Is that difficult to understand?"

Well yes, as even visiting Google.co.uk will give them revenue from your activity. Whilst it's possible you have never done that, it doesn't seem likely or credible...

Re: Hardly surprising

"Its the closest some of those nerdboys have ever come to sex."

There is a Linux version of Cortana now?

Re: Streaming high-end games to rendered on XBox One to laptops and tablets

"Why not just import the XBox One libraries into Windows 10 so you can run the games natively on you PC"

Mostly to prevent piracy I expect, but also there is quite a lot of custom on chip hardware in the Xbox One so it might not be that easy.

Re: neatly summarised in one image

"Where is it stated that the BitLocker recovery key is stored online ?"

See http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows-8/bitlocker-recovery-keys-faq

For non domain joined PCs using a Microsoft account, the BitLocker recovery key is stored online in OneDrive, which for most users is likely a good thing as encryption is now enabled by default.

"if somehow those keys were hacked and extracted - seems to be a high security risk."

Well they would also need physical access to your device to use them. And as a non Domain joined user then probably you wouldn't have required a PIN or enabled 2 factor authentication - so if they have your Microsoft account, they could login to your device anyway...

However if you have something that you really want to protect from the NSA, law enforcement, foreign governments, etc, then the keys can easily be viewed and deleted here:

https://onedrive.live.com/recoverykey

"Does everyone get an online account automatically with Windows 10 ?."

Nope - you can choose to use a local account or a domain account only if you want to.

Re: No Control of Updating

"Better check if you can boot your non-Windows OS."

No need to check, Microsoft mandated that being able disable secure boot is a requirement of it being able to run Windows (except for Windows RT).

Re: The politicians may love them, but ...

"merits, competencies"

Many of their candidates don't have any. - remember that they elected Bush!

(Well actually they elected Gore if the intent of the voters in Florida had mattered...)

Re: Tightwads

"funny how that works when there a few apps for users to leave open to drain the battery."

This was the case for both manufacturer testing without any apps running, and third party testing:

http://bgr.com/2014/08/25/android-vs-windows-phone-htc-one-m8/

Streaming games from Xbox One to PC works just fine at 1080p / 60fps too. Lag really isn't noticeable on a wired network at least. The Xbox One has full on chip hardware video encoders (unlike the PS4), so there is a minimal CPU / GFX / latency impact for streaming.

As the Xbox One is 4K capable in hardware, and as Microsoft are now apparently working on streaming from PC to Xbox One, hopefully greater than 1080p resolutions will be supported!