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Basically what I wonder is if although the units are locked down to a specific IP is the software used to do the uploading?
If not, you can use arp to give the machines a new IP against their MAC addresses. Then run multiple instances of the install software and point at each IP.

https://technet.microsoft.com/...

They are trying to sell the MS Surface Hub - https://www.microsoft.com/micr...

I'll stick to the whiteboard for now.

[...] like art and music in school. If Microsoft has its way, they would only learn Powerpoint.

Well obviously! You certainly don't need to learn music any more: http://research.microsoft.com/...
Just listen to some of these creative, inspired and varied songs: http://research.microsoft.com/...

[...] like art and music in school. If Microsoft has its way, they would only learn Powerpoint.

Well obviously! You certainly don't need to learn music any more: http://research.microsoft.com/...
Just listen to some of these creative, inspired and varied songs: http://research.microsoft.com/...

You can already do that with the CLR.

putting saran wrap in space

They ended up putting it on people's windows boxen instead.

Hadoop was created in 2005 and named after a toy elephant. It was an open source implementation of some shit Google wrote some papers on.
The "Apache Hadoop" branded package hit RTM in 2011. Apache only got involved because of all the retards mindlessly jumping onto it. Those retards jumped onto it because they were told it was based on Google's work.

As for datasets being too big for RDBMS engines to handle, WTF are you talking about? MS SQL can handle all the data you throw at it and has complete clustering capabilities. If your database is designed properly there's no problem. Oracle is the same.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-...

For SQL Server 2014, individual files are limited to a mere 16 TB, and you can have only 32,767 filegroups per database.
The maximum size of a single database is 524,272 TB, and you can have 32,767 databases per instance, and you can have 50 instances per server.
The number of rows per table is limited only by available storage. The max size of any in-page row is 8,060 bytes, with anything larger being moved off-row and the row maintaining a pointer.

Please tell me what sort of dataset exceeds the 800 YB maximum you get from SQL Server 2014.

The Nokia 108 has a 31 day standby time and costs $16.

Changing the desktop wallpaper is "hacking."

It is if you're using Windows 7 Starter edition.

Seriously, who's the idiot who came up with that lame idea?

Because you opted into it and have no idea how to administer Windows systems? -

https://technet.microsoft.com/...

The bloody verbosity of the platform (it really is a platform - not a language) was the worst part

A few things-- the language has a large number of shortcuts, like "fl" instead of "format-list" or "?" instead of "where-object" or "%" instead of "foreach". But the verbosity of it is not really a bad thing, as it makes the resulting code at least somewhat self-documenting; its crystal clear what each command will do most of the time.

An IDE was necessary so you could scroll through the list of available functions to find the one you were looking for as they were generally not that obvious

This is what tab-completion or get-member or even "get-help [command] -examples" is for.

A quick for loop to rename files? Definitely bash. Holy cow is that a pain in Powershell.

$date = get-date -format yyyyMMdd
get-childitem -filter *.txt | foreach {rename-item $_.fullname "$date_$($_.name)"}

Really not that painful.

You mention usefulness- the usefulness as you said is that its a platform supported by an incredible number of vendors. Just about every piece of infrastructure I've come across has vendor-provided powershell integration; the ability to take output from a get-VM command and pass it into a storage provisioning command makes a number of tasks incredibly easy.

Lastly, I would say: man pages.

get-help is your friend, and is far superior to man with the -detailed or -examples switches. Not sure where you're getting the "1.7GB", but this page indicates that the size is more like 9KB.

Having not learned from previous experience good ol Messysoft still had rollover issues in IIS 7.0:
FIX: The IIS 7.0 performance counters stop updating after a Windows Vista system or a Windows Server 2008 system runs continuously for 30 to 45 days
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/957448

Of all the commercial input systems I've used, Graffiti seems like it might be the most suited to such tiny surfaces.

I do believe Microsoft Research is attempting to do something very Graffiti-like with Android wear. I don't know how useful it is.

The version of Windows was Windows 95, and the number of days was 49.7.

https://support.microsoft.com/...

This is from the website's TOS, which happens to be the TOS for Azure as well:

"Microsoft does not claim ownership of any materials you provide to Microsoft (including feedback and suggestions) or post, upload, input, or submit to any Website Services for review by the general public, or by the members of any public or private community (collectively "Submissions"). However, by posting, uploading, inputting, providing, or submitting your Submission, you are granting Microsoft, its affiliated companies, and necessary sublicensees permission to use your Submission in connection with the operation of their Internet businesses (including, without limitation, all Microsoft services), including, without limitation, the license rights to: copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, translate, and reformat your Submission; to publish your name in connection with your Submission; and to sublicense such rights to any supplier of the Website Services."

So, how are you, future microsoft's advertisement stars?

As a sidenote, there exists a somewhat famous bug in Windows 95 and 98 (later patched) that caused these operating systems to stop functioning after 49.7 days of uptime.

Which is apparently what Windows does:

https://www.ctm-it.com/it-supp...

You'd think they would have learned since Windows 95/98 did the same thing.

https://support.microsoft.com/...

But hey, at least it goes 10 times as long now.

At least that's better than Window 98 crashing after 7 weeks! (because 1ms instead of 10ms)

The standard rules are set out here: https://support.microsoft.com/...

A special customer like .gov.uk may have had a special contract.

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they're probably talking about wanting to run Android/iOS apps on Windows 10 phones.

Are you sure about that? I have only seen Windows phones, and not owned one but as an owner of a Windows 8 tablet, the desktop OS looks a lot like a portable device and vice versa. In fact, it seems they have been planning convergence for some time. Windows 10 might be the OS where the differences between mobile and desktop are only in the relevent aspects of the UI.

As for AWS vs Azure performance, I'm not sure how you were testing but based on your "expert" opinions which are sorely misinformed, I'm guessing you did something really boneheaded. A P3 instance is set to give a minimum of 735 IOPS every second. So if you were getting less than one, I'd say that was a problem with the user. We use Azure to run our production sites and haven't seen anything of the sort you describe.

On Azure, SQL databases can be connected to from anywhere, any IP. There is no firewall at all.

Uh, no. You have to explicitly allow IPs in. Here's a link to "Azure SQL Database Firewall": https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-...
If you don't understand firewalls, there is a pretty picture if you scroll down. The first step "SQL Database Firewell" is a server-level IP firewall. Yes, the configuration is stored in the database, but that has very little meaning, it could have been stored in a .CFG file just as easily. Unless you are about to say that IPTABLES is insecure because it needs access to the filesystem to read it's .cfg file too. The filtering isn't done in SQL, ROFLMAO.

I've never tried a D14 VM with enterprise installed, but if you were getting poor performance, I'm guessing you did something extremely boneheaded like try to put the database on a remote drive instead of the local SSD.

Well, sure, but here's a question for you:

What was the first version of Internet Explorer that included it?

Because the IE XMLHttpRequest documentation doesn't list it as a member. (I think that's the most recent documentation, but with MSDN, who even knows.)

And their example uses oReq.readyState == 4 /* complete */.

Then again, who knows when that page was last updated, and the standards they link to do include DONE. (And I checked: IE 11, at least, has it.)

My attacker is very regular. He kicks my canary machine down every 49.7 days.

Get Windows 3.11 then. It's still on MSDN!
Don't forget DOS 6.22 to go with it.
Relive the wonders of AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS hell.

Opera 3 works as a browser.

Get Windows 3.11 then. It's still on MSDN!
Don't forget DOS 6.22 to go with it.
Relive the wonders of AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS hell.

Opera 3 works as a browser.

AWS had some new machine learning algorithm added a month ago; Azure doesn't have that.

Incorrect. http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/machine-learning/

The "Winqual" certification for the Games for Windows logo can be fairly expensive. It also imposes rules on your game design, such as not being allowed to make the visible portion of the world 4:3 in shape ("The game must not stretch pixels or center a 4:3 render window"), which can make ports of classic games with naturally 4:3 playfields impossible. In addition, a game cannot use more than half the system's resources because it "must run in a new user session when it is already running in another session."

The PC CD-ROM SOFTWARE logo and its DVD successor can be used without needing to submit your game to this certification program.

"Not entirely true."

Oh, no. I assure you. It is entirely true. You are applying updates that weren't designed for the OS you are running, and you use a kludge to do it. That in no way suggests that Microsoft didn't EOL XP last year. I assure you. They did. If you don't believe me, maybe you'll believe them?

TFA is a little vague; but if it is implemented the way that Software Restriction Policies currently are; I'd be all for it(and I say that as a smirking, linux using, tinfoil-hatted paranoiac.)

Cryptographic verification and whitelisting are enormously powerful techniques, and (aside from being able to take advantage of them), they are simply too useful to forbid successfully. What matters, and makes the difference between a fortress and a prison, is who gets to put something on the whitelist.

If you can whitelist something(either by signing it yourself, adding the cert of the person who signed it to the trusted list or both), it's a fortress. If the whitelist is what the vendor says it is, it's a prison. Same deal with 'secure boot'. If I can re-key it, it's a valuable tool. If I can't, it's a device that I'll never be more than a peon on.

So this feature has been around in some form or another since at least 2003. See https://technet.microsoft.com/... for how to implement it 12 years ago. It included the ability to make generate a hash for an executable, so if you needed people to run foobar.exe version 1.1.1.1, you generated the hash and then people could not run 1.1.1.0 or 1.1.1.2. You could also do certificates from trusted publishers, etc. It looks like there are a few new features, including virtualization options, but this is really just a rebranding of an existing feature to make it more prominent for the end user. Something all corporations do.

User Account Control (UAC) helps defend your PC against hackers and malicious software. Any time a program wants to make a major change to your computer, UAC lets you know and asks for permission.

This new "feature" looks like yet another security prompt that the user is going to click through.

It only takes a queue depth of 2 or 3 for maximum linear throughput.

I haven't any idea why you are so up voted, because your flat out wrong, 5 minutes with a benchmark like ATTO allows you to see the performance with small sequential IO and queue depth. Another benchmark showing ATTO sequential IO's for small transfers

And, your sort of right the OS will do a certain amount of prefech/etc but that doesn't help when things are fragmented or the application/whatever is requesting things in a pattern that isn't easily predictable (say booting without a readyboot optimized system).

Try it out yourself, get the old sysinternals Disk Monitor and watch the size size attribute. Its in 512 byte sectors, and on my machine probably 1/3rd of the IO's are listed as "8". AKA 4k. Heck the example screenshot on the listed page is all 8 except for one 16.

So, yes small IO transfers are still an issue, and will be until we get OS's that can solve the hard problem of consolidating unpredictable IO streams. Heck a lot of people turn superfetch off because it slows things down. AKA aggressive prefetch isn't necessarily faster.

Streets & Trips all the way. No need for a 10 ton web browser and shitloads of raster images.

Streets & Trips, hmmm... never heard of that. Let me google that:

Microsoft Streets & Trips
https://www.microsoft.com/stre...
Microsoft Corporation
Microsoft Streets & Trips has been discontinued. We so appreciate the support of our dedicated users over the years. "The success of these products would ...

Any other suggestions? because the new google maps does well and truly blow

Apparently you don't know much actual history. In 1900 Latin America was much wealthier per capita then much of Europe. Chile for example, was 16th on this list beating Norway. Argentina was particularly wealthy because in 1900 they all ate meat, and since most of the world hadn't industrialized eating meat made them one of the wealthier states in the world.

According to the University of Gronigen in 1900 Chile, Columbia, Argentina, and Venezuela were all above $2k per capita. Nobody in Eastern Europe was at $2k. In the West Finland, those poor Norwegians, Greece, Spain, Portugal and Italy were all well below $2k. The total regional income (which is biased towards low numbers because there are a lot of poor states in the Caribbean and Central America) of $1.1-$1.2k is above Yugoslavia and Albania, and comparable to the Bulgarians, Greeks and Portuguese.

So yes, the numbers indicate that in 1900 Latin America was richer per capita then much of Europe.

The alliance's website is:
http://advertise.bingads.micro...

I tried to link in-post, but apparently my HTML skills are rusty.

See subject, & this buddy -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comme...

I noted it YEARS ago in 2005 (for performance purposes) -> http://linux.slashdot.org/comm...

(Except I said it was something Linux did instead, since distros ship w/ "everything under the sun" in a post I did in 2005 in fact, showing what Linux copied from Windows (being fair, I noted what MS copied from Open SORES in Apache too)).

APK

P.S.=> What I didn't LIKE was how this article *TRIED* to make it sound as if this is NOT patched too, & it was yesterday on "MS Patch Tuesday" -> https://www.microsoft.com/en-u...

... apk

It's on by default in 2008, 2008R2, Vista, 7. Quoth Enable Kernel Caching (IIS 7):

Note: By default, kernel caching is enabled in IIS 7.

See subject: It was out yesterday/"Patch Tuesday" -> https://www.microsoft.com/en-u... already...

It was done for speed/performance (used to be in usermode, iirc, sub/pre IIS6 - but to keep up with Apache, they copied them, & moved it to kernelmode - & yes, they did get MORE speed that way).

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In fact, I spoke about this, here on /., YEARS ago circa 2005 saying "MS COPIED LINUX" (when it's really apache) -> http://linux.slashdot.org/comm... WHILE I POINTED OUT THINGS Linux COPIED from MS as well!

"Ms did something that was copied from Linux too - that's moving IIS' http.sys into kernel mode/RPL0/Ring 0 operation, since it is faster for server-side webpage data caching... " - by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 27, 2005 @08:42AM (#13414756)

There ya go...

APK

P.S.=> This article makes it SOUND as if it's "just happened & wasn't patched" which is purest b.s. - again, I had this patch yesterday already ... apk

See subject: It was out yesterday/"Patch Tuesday" -> https://www.microsoft.com/en-u... already...

It was done for speed/performance (used to be in usermode, iirc, sub/pre IIS6 - but to keep up with Apache, they copied them, & moved it to kernelmode - & yes, they did get MORE speed that way).

APK

P.S.=> This article makes it SOUND as if it's "just happened & wasn't patched" which is purest b.s. - again, I had this patch yesterday already ... apk

See subject: It was out yesterday/"Patch Tuesday" -> https://www.microsoft.com/en-u... already... so the "Pro-*NIX" trolls so-called 'point' would be MOOT...

APK

P.S.=> This article makes it SOUND as if it's "just happened & wasn't patched" which is purest b.s. ... apk

See subject: Patch exists already https://www.microsoft.com/en-u... (I had it on Patch Tuesday yesterday).

(That's your "Incorrect")

Your "CORRECT" was what I alluded to (except I stated it was Linux doing it that way, when YOU are MORE CORRECT than I was, stating it's Apache) here -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comme...

* "Tit for tat", & that's that...

APK

P.S.=> I am GLAD I ran into your post - I assumed Linux was like Windows Server is, having it's OWN (literally it's own, not 3rd party app on distro media possibly, or rather, as you point out) webserver, when in reality, it's Apache - I did however correctly REMEMBER THE REASON WHY it was done: SPEED... apk

See subject: It's a fact, used to be in usermode (Linux does it the same in kernelmode too).

APK

P.S.=> Thank goodness there's a work-around https://technet.microsoft.com/... (disabling the caching shown there) AND also, A FIX EXISTS ALREADY https://www.microsoft.com/en-u... also ... apk

See subject: It's a fact, used to be in usermode (Linux does it the same in kernelmode too).

APK

P.S.=> Thank goodness there's a work-around https://technet.microsoft.com/... (disabling the caching shown there) AND also, A FIX EXISTS ALREADY https://www.microsoft.com/en-u... also ... apk

WHY is there a kernel mode driver for HTTP? That's literally begging for security holes.

The reasons are clearly described here

They left out: * To provide the NSA, agencies of other governments, and random hackers the ability to root your system.

WHY is there a kernel mode driver for HTTP? That's literally begging for security holes.

The reasons are clearly described here

In Windows Server 2003 and later versions, Http.sys is the kernel mode driver that handles HTTP requests.

WHY is there a kernel mode driver for HTTP? That's literally begging for security holes.

See subject: MS Update servers are hardcoded into the OS (unless someone can show me differently) as follows:

http://.update.microsoft.com/

https://.update.microsoft.com/

http://download.windowsupdate....

* Per the Windows HELP system itself, regarding "Windows Update error 80072efd"...

(Still - using WSUS or SMS possibly can 'override' that so you can 'mass deploy' updates to end point user desktop nodes for example, on an internal LAN).

APK

P.S.=> Oddly enough though? Another article MENTIONS hosts files interfering with it per "Windows Update error 80072ee7" so it *MAY* be possible to "override" those above with the WRONG IP Addresses - however, I am *FAIRLY CERTAIN* that's not the case (hence my initial reply regarding hosts affecting it adversely is not possible since MS bypasses hosts for Windows update, afaik)... apk