We got DDOS'd a while ago in our data centre. It turns out an ex employee we let go (performance related) paid (yes, actually paid) some people in German (we're in Australia) to fire off a DDOS against our servers from where ever their bots were.. Our upstream net provider blocked it for us. Yes: 1000's of IPs - because they used ICMP flooding - so they blocked ICMP traffic to us, upstream. Something we couldn't do ourselves but the ISP could do for us.
So it's not such a stupid suggestion at all. Of course, had they all launched port 80 TCP connections against us, yes, we would have been in serious trouble but I suppose we could have asked them to block non-Australian traffic for the day or until it stopped - overseas traffic is really not a big deal for us.
And for the record, the guy who kicked the whole thing off, we didn't bother to press charges, even though he bragged about it on Facebook (without first unfriending me, the idiot) because, thanks to the ISP, his efforts largely failed and we got some revenge when he tried to use us as a reference (and we were his only employers, so far).
A very good move. Our company had a blanket "no Linksys" rule - because everything they made was utter junk. We initially started out buying a fair amount of their smart switches, because the price was so compelling. However they failed so frequently, we actually had to issue an edict that no more Linksys products were allowed to be purchased.
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Well, you can but the provisioning time for the new instance is ridiculous.
I agree with the AC who said this is already too much. I work in IT and I don't think what you've said here is hard - but the guy sitting next to me, who also works in IT is frikkin terrified of a command line and if *anything* requires one, he won't/can't do it. It doesn't matter that it's easy and one command - you've already lost him at "open terminal".
That said, most users of PCs buy one pre-made, either from a manufacturer or PC shop. Gamers, however, like to upgrade their own kit. It's been my personal and anecdotal experience that most gamers known very little about operating systems and PCs in general and just like to play games. People (like myself and I suspect you, as well) who derive enjoyment from the computer itself, rather than the games it's playing, are a different breed. Most if not all of the people I know who are "gamers" can barely install the new video card themselves, let alone the drivers, if there's not a wizard doing the install work for them. This is why their computers are gummed up with so much crap - they let automated processes do everything for them.
I know to some I am selling people short but I'm just talking about personal experience.
Maybe if Linux had more driver install wizards for users and less HOWTOs more people would game on it - but the reality is, it's an uphill battle. Gaming on Windows is "good enough" - it's hard to dislodge an incumbent when the majority of end users are actually pretty happy with it and don't really feel any desire to change.
That's MSE with centrally managed enterprise control (formally known as ForeFront) and it's in use by a large number of organisations of substantial size (primarily because you "get it" along with other Microsoft products in your MS enterprise agreement).
Yeah Intel might lose a lot of sales of chips (but not a staggeringly large amount - Windows still accounts for 92% of the DESKTOP market (the oft floated 7x% that Windows has dropped to includes smartphones), so we're only talking about a small number of PCs collectively. Sure it won't be good for Intel but it's not devastating.
You know who should be worried? ARM. Why? Ask Motorola and Samsung how much Apple is paying for the patents of theirs they are using? Coz from what I read, it's $0 because Apple "hasn't settled on a price with them yet". That's like me walking into a shop and stealing a bunch of things because I haven't settled on a price yet. Apple has no intention of paying Motorola -ever- for the FRAND patented items they're using. They will almost certainly do the same thing to ARM.
Oh good! It's the Year Of The Linux Desktop all over again!
Or rather, here we see Valve trashing Windows 8 but not genuinely because it's worse than Windows 7 for games (because it's not, as it basically supports everything Windows 7 did) - but because it challenges Steam's revenue stream. Windows 8 has it's own app deployment store which could theoretically challenge Steam as a method for emptying people's bank accounts. That's what this is about - money, not platforms and how good they are or aren't. In any case, Windows 8 is no more open or closed than Windows 7 - there's nothing seeming to stop me running Steam on my copy, anyway.
Windows has inertia and incumbency behind it and this cannot be underestimated. Linux has, let's be generous and say a few million gamers, World Wide, absolute tops (wikipedia seems to think there's about 13 million Ubuntu installs, not all of which are game rigs by a long shot - Windows has like 1.5 billion installed systems). Which platform are gaming companies going to code for, first, do you think? *Even* if Valve makes games for Linux (and they probably will), what's the bet they will make more money on Windows for the next generation or two *at least* (if not forever - unless we include Android in the Linux camp). If you don't include mobile OSs and stick to desktops, Windows remains at about 92% of the install base (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows#Usage_share).
Not that I particularly care which platform "wins" - if games start coming out on Linux, I will happily use Linux to play the games I play (which admittedly, isn't a lot). I just cannot see the hundreds of millions of kid gamers out there switching to Linux on their gaming rigs (some of which are shared family PCs) and losing their back catalogue of games. A lot of these guys aren't as computer literate / adventurous as they like to think they are.
I purchased with my address spoofed as being in Russia and got a game from Steam for $17 AUD. In Australia, the game is $99 AUD.
Same game, same date, etc. It really pisses us off, down here...
It's only the purchase point that needed the IP in Russia, too. From then on, I could resume non spoofing to download it and play it. My address remained as being in Australia the whole time, too.
For the record, we get absolutely zero ad revenue at all for the site - it costs us money to host and do but we do it for fun and love of Android. It has one ad, for my own company, which I hardly pay myself to put there.
Because that's not entirely true. You're over simplifying the issue, as did I, presumably for the same reason: limited time and space to discuss. While you can type in the new start menu it a) takes you away from your current context by taking over the entire screen and b) (faaaaaaaaaar more importantly) it doesn't always search what I want it to search. Apps, config (settings), etc are *different* searches for no good reason.
On Win 7 (and indeed Vista) I could type "Outl" to start Outlook or I could type "folder o" to bring up folder options from the Control Panel. Not so in Win8. They're now searches that need to be run in different "spaces" (select in the top right while searching).
So, no, you cannot search the Start Menu the way you used to be able to. Yes, I can switch "spaces" easily once searched but it still takes a mouse click and that's annoying to me. My hands are on the keyboard typing, not the mouse, so I have lost efficiency by having to move my hand. This is a step back to me.
I was going to write I actually have come to like it but my fingers borked at it and I realised it's not true. I've been using it for weeks now at work and have come to peace with the UI. I have learned how to work my way around its nuisances without circumventing it entirely (I made a concious effort to work within the Windows 8 framework rather than just avoid it altogether as I figured I need to at least know how to use it).
In short, I hate not having a start menu and I hate note being able to just start typing an application name to find it and run it (I know I can press windows+f in Win 8 but it's no where near as easy).
However, I will say this. Windows 8 and more importantly Server 8 is fucking brilliant -under the hood-. The ability to natively team NICs, ReFS, the *enormous* improvement that is SMB3, better clustering, better management of machines from one location, storage spaces, the improvements in Hyper-V etc leave me stunned - compared to Server 2008 it's like comparing Windows 2000 and Windows 98. The underlying tech is miles in front of the old architecture. It's just such a pity they put this bloody interface on at the same time and made it compulsory because a lot of people are going to skip on Win8 and never notice how damn good the underneath tech actually is, this time around.
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We got DDOS'd a while ago in our data centre. It turns out an ex employee we let go (performance related) paid (yes, actually paid) some people in German (we're in Australia) to fire off a DDOS against our servers from where ever their bots were.. Our upstream net provider blocked it for us. Yes: 1000's of IPs - because they used ICMP flooding - so they blocked ICMP traffic to us, upstream. Something we couldn't do ourselves but the ISP could do for us.
So it's not such a stupid suggestion at all. Of course, had they all launched port 80 TCP connections against us, yes, we would have been in serious trouble but I suppose we could have asked them to block non-Australian traffic for the day or until it stopped - overseas traffic is really not a big deal for us.
And for the record, the guy who kicked the whole thing off, we didn't bother to press charges, even though he bragged about it on Facebook (without first unfriending me, the idiot) because, thanks to the ISP, his efforts largely failed and we got some revenge when he tried to use us as a reference (and we were his only employers, so far).
A very good move. Our company had a blanket "no Linksys" rule - because everything they made was utter junk. We initially started out buying a fair amount of their smart switches, because the price was so compelling. However they failed so frequently, we actually had to issue an edict that no more Linksys products were allowed to be purchased.
Well, you can but the provisioning time for the new instance is ridiculous.
It's a built in tick box in the first screen settings of the default browser. It's hardly a secret.
2 scenes actually (and a deleted 3rd). Not much of a role, though.
Oh, that was good. Very good.
Very true. Turns out while iTunes has the largest number of apps (thought Google Play is almost caught up now), no one downloads the vast, vast majority of them: http://www.androidanalyse.com/most-ipad-apps-have-never-been-downloaded/
I agree with the AC who said this is already too much. I work in IT and I don't think what you've said here is hard - but the guy sitting next to me, who also works in IT is frikkin terrified of a command line and if *anything* requires one, he won't/can't do it. It doesn't matter that it's easy and one command - you've already lost him at "open terminal".
That said, most users of PCs buy one pre-made, either from a manufacturer or PC shop. Gamers, however, like to upgrade their own kit. It's been my personal and anecdotal experience that most gamers known very little about operating systems and PCs in general and just like to play games. People (like myself and I suspect you, as well) who derive enjoyment from the computer itself, rather than the games it's playing, are a different breed. Most if not all of the people I know who are "gamers" can barely install the new video card themselves, let alone the drivers, if there's not a wizard doing the install work for them. This is why their computers are gummed up with so much crap - they let automated processes do everything for them.
I know to some I am selling people short but I'm just talking about personal experience.
Maybe if Linux had more driver install wizards for users and less HOWTOs more people would game on it - but the reality is, it's an uphill battle. Gaming on Windows is "good enough" - it's hard to dislodge an incumbent when the majority of end users are actually pretty happy with it and don't really feel any desire to change.
So that's like, what... 30 bucks or there abouts?
So what is this?
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/system-center/endpoint-protection-2012.aspx - System Center Endpoint Protection
That's MSE with centrally managed enterprise control (formally known as ForeFront) and it's in use by a large number of organisations of substantial size (primarily because you "get it" along with other Microsoft products in your MS enterprise agreement).
Yeah Intel might lose a lot of sales of chips (but not a staggeringly large amount - Windows still accounts for 92% of the DESKTOP market (the oft floated 7x% that Windows has dropped to includes smartphones), so we're only talking about a small number of PCs collectively. Sure it won't be good for Intel but it's not devastating.
You know who should be worried? ARM. Why? Ask Motorola and Samsung how much Apple is paying for the patents of theirs they are using? Coz from what I read, it's $0 because Apple "hasn't settled on a price with them yet". That's like me walking into a shop and stealing a bunch of things because I haven't settled on a price yet. Apple has no intention of paying Motorola -ever- for the FRAND patented items they're using. They will almost certainly do the same thing to ARM.
Nope.
Negotiations with a lightsaber!
And that is probably exactly the plan (I have heard they're looking into hardware).
I suspect you've just hit the nail on the head.
Oh good! It's the Year Of The Linux Desktop all over again!
Or rather, here we see Valve trashing Windows 8 but not genuinely because it's worse than Windows 7 for games (because it's not, as it basically supports everything Windows 7 did) - but because it challenges Steam's revenue stream. Windows 8 has it's own app deployment store which could theoretically challenge Steam as a method for emptying people's bank accounts. That's what this is about - money, not platforms and how good they are or aren't. In any case, Windows 8 is no more open or closed than Windows 7 - there's nothing seeming to stop me running Steam on my copy, anyway.
Windows has inertia and incumbency behind it and this cannot be underestimated. Linux has, let's be generous and say a few million gamers, World Wide, absolute tops (wikipedia seems to think there's about 13 million Ubuntu installs, not all of which are game rigs by a long shot - Windows has like 1.5 billion installed systems). Which platform are gaming companies going to code for, first, do you think? *Even* if Valve makes games for Linux (and they probably will), what's the bet they will make more money on Windows for the next generation or two *at least* (if not forever - unless we include Android in the Linux camp). If you don't include mobile OSs and stick to desktops, Windows remains at about 92% of the install base (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows#Usage_share).
Not that I particularly care which platform "wins" - if games start coming out on Linux, I will happily use Linux to play the games I play (which admittedly, isn't a lot). I just cannot see the hundreds of millions of kid gamers out there switching to Linux on their gaming rigs (some of which are shared family PCs) and losing their back catalogue of games. A lot of these guys aren't as computer literate / adventurous as they like to think they are.
I get where you're coming from - but you don't get where *we're* coming from.
A recent study in Australia found it's cheaper to fly to the USA ***TWICE*** and buy software than it is to buy it here.
http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/downloads-its-cheaper-to-pay-a-wage-fly-to-the-us-and-back-twice-20120718-229in.html
And that includes paying someone's wage (btw: the Age is a serious / reputable newspaper here).
For example, Microsoft Visual Studio is $8500 (that's EIGHT AND A HALF THOUSAND DOLLARS) cheaper in the USA than Australia.
This isn't bitching about a one just and true price - we are seriously being price gauged down here.
I purchased with my address spoofed as being in Russia and got a game from Steam for $17 AUD. In Australia, the game is $99 AUD.
Same game, same date, etc. It really pisses us off, down here...
It's only the purchase point that needed the IP in Russia, too. From then on, I could resume non spoofing to download it and play it. My address remained as being in Australia the whole time, too.
No, that would be the Apple way... In their case we're just holding the data centre wrong.
And I am quite sure you will... :P
Thanks for the summary.
For the record, we get absolutely zero ad revenue at all for the site - it costs us money to host and do but we do it for fun and love of Android. It has one ad, for my own company, which I hardly pay myself to put there.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Message_Block#SMB_3.0
Because that's not entirely true. You're over simplifying the issue, as did I, presumably for the same reason: limited time and space to discuss. While you can type in the new start menu it a) takes you away from your current context by taking over the entire screen and b) (faaaaaaaaaar more importantly) it doesn't always search what I want it to search. Apps, config (settings), etc are *different* searches for no good reason.
On Win 7 (and indeed Vista) I could type "Outl" to start Outlook or I could type "folder o" to bring up folder options from the Control Panel. Not so in Win8. They're now searches that need to be run in different "spaces" (select in the top right while searching).
So, no, you cannot search the Start Menu the way you used to be able to. Yes, I can switch "spaces" easily once searched but it still takes a mouse click and that's annoying to me. My hands are on the keyboard typing, not the mouse, so I have lost efficiency by having to move my hand. This is a step back to me.
I was going to write I actually have come to like it but my fingers borked at it and I realised it's not true. I've been using it for weeks now at work and have come to peace with the UI. I have learned how to work my way around its nuisances without circumventing it entirely (I made a concious effort to work within the Windows 8 framework rather than just avoid it altogether as I figured I need to at least know how to use it).
In short, I hate not having a start menu and I hate note being able to just start typing an application name to find it and run it (I know I can press windows+f in Win 8 but it's no where near as easy).
However, I will say this. Windows 8 and more importantly Server 8 is fucking brilliant -under the hood-. The ability to natively team NICs, ReFS, the *enormous* improvement that is SMB3, better clustering, better management of machines from one location, storage spaces, the improvements in Hyper-V etc leave me stunned - compared to Server 2008 it's like comparing Windows 2000 and Windows 98. The underlying tech is miles in front of the old architecture. It's just such a pity they put this bloody interface on at the same time and made it compulsory because a lot of people are going to skip on Win8 and never notice how damn good the underneath tech actually is, this time around.
Anything Android can in terms of customisation?
Are you drunking heavily today? So you can do this with your iPhone? I think not. Customising an iPhone means buying a new case.