Posts by TheVogon

Re: So on the 30th...

Microsoft already said they will be focusing on finishing Windows Mobile 10..

""Oh didn't you read your email? Microsoft do that sometimes because they dont cluster their hosts in the cloud""

Correct, so you build resilience without relying on local clustering.

See https://channel9.msdn.com/Series/FailSafe

"Great, means our VMs will be screwed for the rest of the week!"

You can decide to control the patch deployment and not just let it auto install!

Re: Well, okay...

"China wants to build a 200km-long undersea tunnel to America"

Makes sense seeing as they own much of it. Might as well make it easier to visit their investment...

Re: To everyone who's about to comment:

"Scientists are marvelling at a lemur with testicles so large that were a human chap to carry equivalent plums in his trouser department, they'd be the size of a couple of grapefruit."

What a load of bollocks. They obviously havnt seen http://assets.noisey.com/content-images/contentimage/no-slug/b6afea3169d545ae15a1d6aaeb718044.jpg (NSFW)

Re: Beckham who?

"In the US, probably 10% of the people know who David Beckham is."

I suspect it's a bit higher than that. He is the planet's most famous sportman - and played for a US football team.. Mind you, wasn't there a National Geographic survey that found that over 20% of Americans couldnt identify the USA on an Atlas?

Re: Is it an indication...

A rather wider ranging report in Science by "Twenty-two world-leading marine scientists" says:

"Scientists have warned that marine life will be irreversibly changed unless CO2 emissions are drastically cut.

Writing in Science, experts say the oceans are heating, losing oxygen and becoming more acidic because of CO2.

They warn that the 2C maximum temperature rise for climate change agreed by governments will not prevent dramatic impacts on ocean systems.

And they say the range of options is dwindling as the cost of those options is skyrocketing.

Twenty-two world-leading marine scientists have collaborated in the synthesis report in a special section of Science journal. They say the oceans are at parlous risk from the combination of threats related to CO2.

They believe politicians trying to solve climate change have paid far too little attention to the impacts of climate change on the oceans.

It is clear, they say, that CO2 from burning fossil fuels is changing the chemistry of the seas faster than at any time since a cataclysmic natural event known as the Great Dying 250 million years ago. "

See http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-33369024

"There are fundamental issues with IPv6 which is why adoption is so slow"

As in the IPSEC encryption is rather good and the NSA doesn't like it...

Re: Microsoft can see and store everything

"The reason Microsoft wants us to get Windows 10 is to steal all our data and secrets. They also wish to sell our data to the world."

I think you are confusing Microsoft with Google.

"Lazy buggers haven't update MSDN"

Probably they are all busy with that annual holiday they have in the US that celebrates colluding with the French and giving up speaking English...

Re: Microsoft big bang = big fail

"In my experience with windows 2012 servers on a virtual environment, it is bloody hard to make the time stay accurate +- a lot more than one lousy leap second!"

It's the same as under normal Windows exact that Hyper-V also gives you an additional option to set the time continuously on the VM from the host

"Especially if you have active directory which competes with a myriad of built in 'ms knows best' mechanisms all in competition to set the clock."

No, it's the exact same single method across all of Windows / AD - which is based on NTP 3 with some enhancements from NTP 4. It's not meant to be highly accurate

If you need really accurate time then NTP sucks. You might want to consider using PTP (Precision Time Protocol) - for which 3rd party implementation exist for Windows.

"A day later, they release build 10159 with 300 fixes."

Presumably none of which were considered sgnificant enough to stop releasing a new alpha build...

"They must have known about these issues in order to fix them so quickly,"

There will likely still be thousands of improvements and fixes in progress at this stage in the build process. This will ramp down as they approach RTM.

"and at least some of them must have been significant enough to justify releasing another build so soon."

No, the justification for releasing a new build is not problems with the previous one, but that the new build is ready for testing with no show stopping issues...Going forwards we may well commonly see daily builds released to Fast Ring testers...

Re: How Internet dependent has Windows become?

"It seems to me that Windows has become an OS that cannot be installed on a PC unless it has Internet access at the time of install - because half the OS must be downloaded and is not present on any installation media, and it requires the installer/user to enter an online account."

It seems you are wrong. The Windows 10 install works just fine with no internet access - and no online account will be required for the RTM version.

Re: Infrastructure readiness?

"Is the, particularly UK, broadband infrastructure going to have the capacity to upgrade all the qualifying Win 7 and the relatively few Win 8.1 machines to Windows 10?"

Probably. Microsoft has some neat peer to peer technology in that space:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/antonyleather/2015/03/16/windows-10-to-use-bittorrent-style-p2p-to-deliver-updates/

Presumably they have learnt something from the speed at which their latest ISOs are pirated....

Re: I'm actually curious

"Considering that the EU is supposed to be a free trade area"

Gibraltar isn't part of the EU customs union. Just like the Spanish equivalents - the Balearics...

"Nokia has never been successful in N. America "

Nokia ARE successful in North America. They have made substantial LTE network sales in the last couple of years.

http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/nokias-sales-jump-q4-thanks-booming-north-american-networks-biz/2015-01-29

Re: Actually

"Just off the top of my head, this would be trivial to circumvent by encrypting the content and sending on port 221."

Why would anyone have port 221 open on a firewall?

"How would you distinguish this from normal SSL traffic?"

By the port number?

Re: Uh huh...

"At date with release about a month away"

? October / November is a fair bit longer than a month away...

Re: "fair use rights s"?

"Anyway, there's nothing in the article that suggests that Greenwald's blog is covered by any UK jurisdiction."

I can read it in the UK, therefore it's covered by UK law regardless of where the content is actually hosted. There have been lots of previous UK defamation, etc. cases versus non UK parties to back that up.

Re: Prudish much?

Just remember why VHS succeeded... I think we can conclude that Oculus will likely be the new Betamax!

Re: So Download Festival are trying to go bankrupt?

"The RFID system was only announced *after* the tickets had already gone on sale.

I'm more than a little ticked off about it all."

I think you might need to encourage lots of your fellow festival goers to go play with a Tesla Coil. That should do the job....

Re: If it was truly firmware?

"I have this group of EMC Vx arrays over here - lets see... 2400 spindles. You want to come update that firmware?"

If you have a support contract, just phone EMC support, they will connect at an agreed time and update your firmware. It can all be done online.

Or if you don't have full support then doing it yourself is easy. See https://community.emc.com/docs/DOC-40251 for how long it takes...

(As someone experienced with Vmax and VNX)

Re: Oh god

"tell the mad bitch to go away"

Fleecing the gullible without even requiring a religious context suggests a sane person to me...

Re: Have you tested this theory?

"Increasing the pressure will decrease d"

No - no it wont. Capacitors for power supplies are generally solid or liquid filled, so not compressible except at extreme pressures. Merely immersing them in low levels of liquid is going to make no measurable difference

"have not tested there components"

their

Re: Growing up is tough

""A gui as one of the default options is absolutely required for the SMB Space", says one user in the comments here.""

I'm sure even SMBs can learn one command line entry to install the GUI...This is a non issue

Re: How many of you Windows user will be...

"To be fair I'm pretty sure it's a major deal for Microsoft and shareholders are going to take some convincing."

It really isn't. Consumer OS sales are worth much less than business ones - and most are heavily subsidised OEM versions anyway. Microsoft will likely only need to sell a single Office 365 or OneDrive subscription, a few Windows Store apps, or have you use Bing (even via Cortana) for a few years on each PC to make more money than a home license would have cost...

"simply because it doesn't exist - there is no credible science to show that it exists"

97% of climate scientists and the overwhelming majority of scientific papers on the subject would disagree with you.

"Warmist predictions have been wrong the whole of my life and they continue to be wrong year after year"

Well no, it is certainly getting warmer unless you cherry pick specific time ranges of sub 20 years. The ice keeps melting. Sea levels keep rising. Temperature records keep getting broken. We are currently on target to beat 2014 - which was the warmest on record as defined by NOAA, UK Met Office and several others. Some previously forecast possibilities might have not yet occurred, but there a) no scientific doubt that the planet is warming at a historically very fast rate, and b) no scientific doubt that manmade emissions of CO2 are at least significantly to blame and highly likely are the primary cause.

"Show me anything that credibly even approaches real scientific consensus on the issue"

That say every scientific representative to the UN from every single country on the planet agrees with points a) and b) above?

"No significant change at all in fact"

Actually lots of significant change. For instance the Arctic has warmed by several degrees. Major permanent ice sheets have thinned significantly. Vast areas of permafrost are starting to thaw. Many glaciers have retreated, etc. etc.

Bearing in mind that all of the above has overwhelming observable evidence, I can only assume you are trolling - or are very outdated or poorly informed in your information - your position isn't even remotely supportable, and hasn't been for at least a decade.

Re: Ah, yes. "Capitalism"

"their enormous net worth will more than cover your medical bills"

What medical bills? Health care is free in all civilised first world countries...

Quite correct, but many of us have Windows OSs that are already individually licenced, or legacy *NIX OSs that we want to virtualise...

And even if you to buy need DataCentre Edition licences, it still makes more sense to run Hyper-V Server for reasons b) and c).

Re: Am I the only one

"want to watch City v United 3pm on a Saturday? Go the game. Can't? MediumWave radio it is!"

ALL Premier League matches are televised. Just not in the UK...

"does anybody know the difference between "pre-announced plans" as the article states, and the good old fashioned "announced plans"?"

"Pre-announced" generally means that you give an outline warning in advance of the details.

Re: Picture Grr!

Glad I use IE + a Tracking Protection List to block this sort of crap.

Cant see that this is particularly news worthy for a browser like Chrome that's basically adware by design though.