My linux desktop is more expensive than any Mac Desktop, but that's besides the point and irrelevant. OSX offers a more fully featured, tested and fully supported software that makes it easy and convenient for developers and not a broken desktop which requires massive research in reading the forums, patch notes, and bug reports to fix trivial issues that shouldn't exist in the first place.
As I write this, 4k support is still broken. Displayport audio doesn't even work for my system (Works great in Windows). And as of now, I have to downgrade my drivers to 352.63 because the recent Nvidia drivers completely break anything connected to a 4k screen for me. Hell, 4k support has been broken since 2012 with both Nvidia and Xorg. Xorg still hasn't even found a solution for MST displayport without doing some hackish thing to get it to look right while Nvidia even acknowledging the issue way back years ago. Meanwhile, load up Windows, all is good.
And then SLI? Don't even need to go there, still broken as hell and everyone knows it.
I doubt the control system is a toy. Hubbell, for example, is no small crappy company, in the US and they make commercial devices that work unencrypted on Modbus over TCP. Many of the lighting control protocols are unencrypted and unsecured, as an industry standard! In fact, many manufacturers do the same, not just Hubbell.
Many of these protocols come from a long history in industrial automation where every source was basically "Trusted". It's going to take years for it to change, as Allen Bradley, Siemens and many others don't want to change until more machines are hacked and people complain. There are some voices of complaints about these protocols regarding security, but not much, since anyone in this industry really doesn't care. They pretty much leave it to the person engineering or designing the system as a whole to think about security and thus you get a system as TFA.
And for some reason, I don't think we'll see change soon as Siemens is now pushing unsecured IoT devices big time, because for some reason, I need to control my industrial machine from the beach.
It already is cheaper and reliable, using just regular light switches. There are plenty of lighting control systems built for this purpose for hotels. This was just someone in management who thought it would be a cool idea to replace the light switches and whatever else with tablets, since those lighting controls have modbus TCP or Ethernet/IP where you can control it all from your computer. I mean, it's a cool idea, but needs more thought put into it for just serving as a light switch.
And in most cases, this person could have hacked the lights in every room whether it was a regular light switch or a tablet, it wouldn't matter. I find a lot of hotels run their whole control system on the same LAN network. Every hotel I've been so far, I've found the lighting control system on the network, unsecured, default password (Hell, I find the security camera DVR's too!). A lot of the installers of these systems are general contractors and electrical contractors who don't know a thing about network security to even care. In fact, I find a lot of these contractors will ask them to open a port in their firewall and I can access these systems from outside! The management sees it work, they don't care about anything else.
And by the way, these lighting control systems are now a requirement in certain states like California and a lot of countries, such as England.
This is actually in response to the market demand. The properly more engineered solutions do not exist and require far more engineering. There is a demand for more high tech solutions and there is a serious lack of products to meet those demands. And since no one wants to pay for any engineering anymore or "team of engineers" and idiotic management that pushes their vendors to the limits, you get stuff like this.
And by the way, I've used tablets to build HMI screens in industrial areas that work great (Both stripped down Android or linux if I can get it on there), but I can tell you that it sure isn't insecure as this system is. This system could have easily been secured since Android offers you a lot of tools to do it.
Considering that BBC's ratings went down the tubes completely, the government still insists that you must pay this tax to fund BBC regardless if you watch it or not. That's what makes it so ridiculous. Ever since the Top Gear fiasco and BBC's strive for political correctness in shows, their ratings have dropped to rock bottom. It's a subscription fee that you're forced to pay whether you like it or not. They'll make you pay for it regardless if you have a TV or not. And now that their ad funding and American subscribers are dumping them left and right, they insist on forcing the British citizen to pay for their mistakes and rescue them by any means possible.
Most of these visa programs have ended up in complete failure for a lot of companies that don't realize the long term affects of this. Some I've had the pleasure seeing fall apart because the people they brought in ended up opening a competing company in their home country, taking all their clients with them. While you get that lower cost savings when hiring these people from the visa program, the end result is that the knowledge these people gained ends up going home with them and not stay with us to teach others here (And of course that cost is not included anywhere). The lack of skilled workers is because of this visa program and what it does.
Your problem is running a home file server with nvidia drivers. Nvidia issues have been well know for hosing systems during upgrades. Ubuntu used to handle these upgrade quirks with Nvidia pretty damn well compared to other distros, considering...
And if it's a server, why do you need the nvidia display driver? It's not like you're running 3d programs on it.
That sounds a bit silly. I use Arch with of course the latest and greatest, but KDE has been pretty much rock stable. I never had this problem. What I do have a problem with is proprietary video drivers that have annoying issues.
You can use Baidu to actually search for plans all over China that was stolen over the years. It's all out in the open. Proprietary stuff, code, designs, it makes me laugh.
If that's the case, then that means Microsoft is going down if they completely lost control of their management for doing intentional mistakes like this.
There are certain applications that run like crap in the VM. Have you tried Autocad? Solidworks? Both will run like crap and doesn't matter if you have the latest and greatest in hardware. Running it on a laptop just makes things worse.
The thing is, even if you buy the more expensive gear, they would still install it so and so that it would get compromised regardless. The people installing these things have no clue what they're doing. IoT stuff is perfectly fine if the system is designed to keep it secure.
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Not holding my breath. Codeweavers has been pretty disappointing before, why should this be any different?
You must live inside a glass shell if you think that's the case.
My linux desktop is more expensive than any Mac Desktop, but that's besides the point and irrelevant. OSX offers a more fully featured, tested and fully supported software that makes it easy and convenient for developers and not a broken desktop which requires massive research in reading the forums, patch notes, and bug reports to fix trivial issues that shouldn't exist in the first place.
As I write this, 4k support is still broken. Displayport audio doesn't even work for my system (Works great in Windows). And as of now, I have to downgrade my drivers to 352.63 because the recent Nvidia drivers completely break anything connected to a 4k screen for me. Hell, 4k support has been broken since 2012 with both Nvidia and Xorg. Xorg still hasn't even found a solution for MST displayport without doing some hackish thing to get it to look right while Nvidia even acknowledging the issue way back years ago. Meanwhile, load up Windows, all is good.
And then SLI? Don't even need to go there, still broken as hell and everyone knows it.
If the contractor is going to install this lighting control device with the default password anyways and on the same LAN network, what's the point?
Lots of "Industry Standard" stuff that is just not right with the times and plenty of those people will argue against changing.
It's true. Anyone that works in industrial automation can attest how crappy everything is regarding security.
We don't have to imagine it, it's already going to happen, really soon! You know it will.
I doubt the control system is a toy. Hubbell, for example, is no small crappy company, in the US and they make commercial devices that work unencrypted on Modbus over TCP. Many of the lighting control protocols are unencrypted and unsecured, as an industry standard! In fact, many manufacturers do the same, not just Hubbell.
http://www.hubbell-automation....
Many of these protocols come from a long history in industrial automation where every source was basically "Trusted". It's going to take years for it to change, as Allen Bradley, Siemens and many others don't want to change until more machines are hacked and people complain. There are some voices of complaints about these protocols regarding security, but not much, since anyone in this industry really doesn't care. They pretty much leave it to the person engineering or designing the system as a whole to think about security and thus you get a system as TFA.
And for some reason, I don't think we'll see change soon as Siemens is now pushing unsecured IoT devices big time, because for some reason, I need to control my industrial machine from the beach.
It already is cheaper and reliable, using just regular light switches. There are plenty of lighting control systems built for this purpose for hotels. This was just someone in management who thought it would be a cool idea to replace the light switches and whatever else with tablets, since those lighting controls have modbus TCP or Ethernet/IP where you can control it all from your computer. I mean, it's a cool idea, but needs more thought put into it for just serving as a light switch.
And in most cases, this person could have hacked the lights in every room whether it was a regular light switch or a tablet, it wouldn't matter. I find a lot of hotels run their whole control system on the same LAN network. Every hotel I've been so far, I've found the lighting control system on the network, unsecured, default password (Hell, I find the security camera DVR's too!). A lot of the installers of these systems are general contractors and electrical contractors who don't know a thing about network security to even care. In fact, I find a lot of these contractors will ask them to open a port in their firewall and I can access these systems from outside! The management sees it work, they don't care about anything else.
And by the way, these lighting control systems are now a requirement in certain states like California and a lot of countries, such as England.
This is actually in response to the market demand. The properly more engineered solutions do not exist and require far more engineering. There is a demand for more high tech solutions and there is a serious lack of products to meet those demands. And since no one wants to pay for any engineering anymore or "team of engineers" and idiotic management that pushes their vendors to the limits, you get stuff like this.
And by the way, I've used tablets to build HMI screens in industrial areas that work great (Both stripped down Android or linux if I can get it on there), but I can tell you that it sure isn't insecure as this system is. This system could have easily been secured since Android offers you a lot of tools to do it.
Considering that BBC's ratings went down the tubes completely, the government still insists that you must pay this tax to fund BBC regardless if you watch it or not. That's what makes it so ridiculous. Ever since the Top Gear fiasco and BBC's strive for political correctness in shows, their ratings have dropped to rock bottom. It's a subscription fee that you're forced to pay whether you like it or not. They'll make you pay for it regardless if you have a TV or not. And now that their ad funding and American subscribers are dumping them left and right, they insist on forcing the British citizen to pay for their mistakes and rescue them by any means possible.
If $300k puts me in the top 1% then we have bigger problems than we thought.
Most of these visa programs have ended up in complete failure for a lot of companies that don't realize the long term affects of this. Some I've had the pleasure seeing fall apart because the people they brought in ended up opening a competing company in their home country, taking all their clients with them. While you get that lower cost savings when hiring these people from the visa program, the end result is that the knowledge these people gained ends up going home with them and not stay with us to teach others here (And of course that cost is not included anywhere). The lack of skilled workers is because of this visa program and what it does.
What?
Your problem is running a home file server with nvidia drivers. Nvidia issues have been well know for hosing systems during upgrades. Ubuntu used to handle these upgrade quirks with Nvidia pretty damn well compared to other distros, considering...
And if it's a server, why do you need the nvidia display driver? It's not like you're running 3d programs on it.
That sounds a bit silly. I use Arch with of course the latest and greatest, but KDE has been pretty much rock stable. I never had this problem. What I do have a problem with is proprietary video drivers that have annoying issues.
Last I heard, Ubuntu 15.10 is their latest stable release, not bleeding edge code or some unstable branch. Ubuntu 16.04 is their unstable branch.
Their console. Steam has been pushing Vulkan a lot.
You can use Baidu to actually search for plans all over China that was stolen over the years. It's all out in the open. Proprietary stuff, code, designs, it makes me laugh.
If that's the case, then that means Microsoft is going down if they completely lost control of their management for doing intentional mistakes like this.
There are certain applications that run like crap in the VM. Have you tried Autocad? Solidworks? Both will run like crap and doesn't matter if you have the latest and greatest in hardware. Running it on a laptop just makes things worse.
He already explained why he won't run linux, because certain things don't run in linux and I can relate.
A lot of the more expensive stuff is rebranded Chinese made cheap stuff.
The thing is, even if you buy the more expensive gear, they would still install it so and so that it would get compromised regardless. The people installing these things have no clue what they're doing. IoT stuff is perfectly fine if the system is designed to keep it secure.