On a somewhat-unrelated note, it still blows my mind when enterprise level IT still has users with full admin rights over the local workstation, as those machines constantly and continually get infected and reinfected through the ignorance of the users. Sure, it means that a user can add a local device more complicate than a printer without calling the helpdesk, but it also means that any piece of unauthorized software, whether the user intended to install it or not, or whether it's benign or malicious, gets on to the computer. When the IT department sets up the computers and privileges properly, and if the OS doesn't have local root exploits so large one can drive a Mack truck through, the user can do a lot less damage.
That's funny because the only cases of malware being placed on computers where I work was done by the IT people themselves. None of us "plebes" have ever done so.
No, the evidence for it being peer-to-peer is actually learning something about the technology instead or relying on some stupid article written by an idiotic FUDster. Now, authentication is done via a central server but all of the voice chat, etc is done via a peer-to-peer model using super nodes. A 3 second google search would have explained all this to you.
However, in a desktop environment windows OS (in comparison to linux) can barely handle 2 weeks of uptime without a guarantee that a driver will have an issue when waking from sleep, or that a driver will become unresponsive spontaneously and corrupt itself until said service related to the driver is restarted.
And yet somehow I have magic desktops/laptops that have had months and months of uptime on both XP and Win7 without any such issues.
The acquisition is so recent, I don't think anybody other than high ranked executives could have put their nose in Skype business, so I don't think Microsoft developpers could have caused such a mess.
What acquisition? Microsoft is still awaiting FTC approval before anything can actually happen. Microsoft only AGREED to acquire Skype at this point.
And it's even more ridiculous when Microsoft hasn't even acquired Skype yet since they are still awaiting FTC approval. The article writer is a FUDster.
For what? Being completely wrong? Skype is peer-to-peer.
Unlike other VoIP services, Skype is a peer-to-peer system rather than a client–server system, and makes use of background processing on computers running Skype software; the original name proposed – Sky peer-to-peer – reflects this.
It is impossible since the acquisition hasn't even happened yet. They haven't even gotten regulatory approval yet. If you truly think that such a huge acquisition like this happens in 16 days then you're an idiot.
And the fact is that Skype has run flawlessly for at least seven years (according to the article) without a hiccup
Well if that's what the article is saying it's lying:
On 16 August 2007, Skype became unavailable to a majority of its users. Millions of users were requesting to log-in at the same time following a routine Windows update and this flooded the peer-to-peer system. The event lasted for about two days.
On 22 December 2010, it was reported that Skype experienced an outage estimated to represent 8 million foregone calls.
and as soon as M$ gets it, they break it.
Except for the fact that Microsoft hasn't even acquired it yet? It takes far more than 16 days for an acquisition to go through.
The source code was released under the Microsoft Reference License (Ms-RL).
Though the Ms-RL is the Microsoft Reciprocal License so I don't know if one or the other is a typo since the Microsoft Reference License is the Ms-RSL.
Because it's claimed that systemd will provide "better user experience" as espoused here. I don't really buy most of the arguments like since many them don't seem to be things that should require a dependency on an init system to fix.
But, no matter, he'll have been replaced at the IMF even before a pre-trial hearing, so the goal will have been met and it doesn't matter what the judicial outcome is.
Yeah, the world is really going to be shedding lots of tears for a guy with a long history of sexual assault charges.
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Because the stuff might have been classified and/or they felt there was no need to keep the machines?
On a somewhat-unrelated note, it still blows my mind when enterprise level IT still has users with full admin rights over the local workstation, as those machines constantly and continually get infected and reinfected through the ignorance of the users. Sure, it means that a user can add a local device more complicate than a printer without calling the helpdesk, but it also means that any piece of unauthorized software, whether the user intended to install it or not, or whether it's benign or malicious, gets on to the computer. When the IT department sets up the computers and privileges properly, and if the OS doesn't have local root exploits so large one can drive a Mack truck through, the user can do a lot less damage.
That's funny because the only cases of malware being placed on computers where I work was done by the IT people themselves. None of us "plebes" have ever done so.
then who made the decision regarding asterisk? Hint: Microsoft.
Wrong. Skype made that decision months ago, but that was conveniently left out of that other article.
It doesn't take months or years for them to make heavy-handed management decisions that impact the company negatively.
Sure, if you ignore the fact that Microsoft doesn't even own Skype yet since it hasn't even gotten FTC approval.
No, the evidence for it being peer-to-peer is actually learning something about the technology instead or relying on some stupid article written by an idiotic FUDster. Now, authentication is done via a central server but all of the voice chat, etc is done via a peer-to-peer model using super nodes. A 3 second google search would have explained all this to you.
Because the authentication is done via a central server. Once you authenticate it's all peer-to-peer.
However, in a desktop environment windows OS (in comparison to linux) can barely handle 2 weeks of uptime without a guarantee that a driver will have an issue when waking from sleep, or that a driver will become unresponsive spontaneously and corrupt itself until said service related to the driver is restarted.
And yet somehow I have magic desktops/laptops that have had months and months of uptime on both XP and Win7 without any such issues.
The acquisition is so recent, I don't think anybody other than high ranked executives could have put their nose in Skype business, so I don't think Microsoft developpers could have caused such a mess.
What acquisition? Microsoft is still awaiting FTC approval before anything can actually happen. Microsoft only AGREED to acquire Skype at this point.
And it's even more ridiculous when Microsoft hasn't even acquired Skype yet since they are still awaiting FTC approval. The article writer is a FUDster.
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For what? Being completely wrong? Skype is peer-to-peer.
Unlike other VoIP services, Skype is a peer-to-peer system rather than a client–server system, and makes use of background processing on computers running Skype software; the original name proposed – Sky peer-to-peer – reflects this.
It is impossible since the acquisition hasn't even happened yet. They haven't even gotten regulatory approval yet. If you truly think that such a huge acquisition like this happens in 16 days then you're an idiot.
And the fact is that Skype has run flawlessly for at least seven years (according to the article) without a hiccup
Well if that's what the article is saying it's lying:
On 16 August 2007, Skype became unavailable to a majority of its users. Millions of users were requesting to log-in at the same time following a routine Windows update and this flooded the peer-to-peer system. The event lasted for about two days.
On 22 December 2010, it was reported that Skype experienced an outage estimated to represent 8 million foregone calls.
and as soon as M$ gets it, they break it.
Except for the fact that Microsoft hasn't even acquired it yet? It takes far more than 16 days for an acquisition to go through.
As opposed to a company who gets money from Google to make them the default search provider?
And when you block that the app is just going to crash. Have fun when most of those apps no longer work.
Because that makes the compression ratio of PNG go to shit.
Rob Malda's underwear drawer? *ducks*
I know people seem to like to bash Apple for DRM
And wrongly so since the music bought from iTunes hasn't had DRM in for more than 2 years now.
What the hell is with this obvious blog spam? This "benchmark" is even worse than the shit being pooped out by Phoronix.
more likely it is to make it clear what tab the info in the address bar belongs to.
How is that not clear? The URL bar always goes with the tab that is focused.
On a smart phone the URL bar is not using 50 pixels. It's maybe 10 pixels high.
It's right there in the article:
The source code was released under the Microsoft Reference License (Ms-RL).
Though the Ms-RL is the Microsoft Reciprocal License so I don't know if one or the other is a typo since the Microsoft Reference License is the Ms-RSL.
Microsoft has been open sourcing things for years now.
And all this is being done for what? To give me 50 pixels? Whoop-dee-doo.
Because it's claimed that systemd will provide "better user experience" as espoused here. I don't really buy most of the arguments like since many them don't seem to be things that should require a dependency on an init system to fix.
Plus, the maid saying "I didn't know who he was" is also laughable. If she didn't know he was full of money, she'd never had sued in the first place.
What do you mean sue? Sexual assault is a criminal charge.
But, no matter, he'll have been replaced at the IMF even before a pre-trial hearing, so the goal will have been met and it doesn't matter what the judicial outcome is.
Yeah, the world is really going to be shedding lots of tears for a guy with a long history of sexual assault charges.