I doubt either Apple or Microsoft either paid for, or were even aware of this Slashdot "article". I'd say it's infinitely more likely Slashdot simply know starting a holy war people Apple and Microsoft fans (or Microsoft fans and anti-Microsoft or Apple fans and anyone) just guarantees clicks. Look at the articles on the main page - this one far and away has the most comments.
This is about ad revenue through clicks, from the Zealots that are guaranteed to comment below - not direct paid product endorsement.
Hyper-V on Windows 7 is a very different beast, as it was version 2. It was by no means a seriously powerful tool. Hyper-V 3 is a different story. It's significantly more powerful and feature rich. Which is why, and I'll help you with the comprehension on this one, I said " having a very powerful Hypervisor built in". See those key words, there, "champ"?
Ha! She was probably very pretty about 30 years ago - and her boss is also a later-middle aged woman, so I think that's... improbable. So far as I can tell, her job description is 100% to shield her boss from having to deal with anyone (she's a P.A.). And she's very good at it - if you even meander slightly near her boss's door, she'll just about spear tackle you to stop you going in there and she's no different when it comes to phones or other forms of shielding her boss from annoyances. But when it comes to anything else, I think she really just makes busy work to keep herself amused, as her boss spends about 50% of the year out of the country, anyway.
I know someone who personally accounts for 4 of those installations. On the same computer. Because she's fallen for the same frikkin scam four times. Every time I ask her "why did you open an email claiming to be from the IRS, when we don't have an IRS in Australia", she tells me "because it sounded real". You should see the grammar in these scam emails, too: they're written like "please effective the transactionments with the rapid or we can has your cheeseburgers". Yet she's still fallen for it. Four. Times.
No, Cortana is not available in Canada because Microsoft enjoys giving a massive middle finger to anyone who's not an American. Trust me. I have a Windows Phone and a Surface Pro 3. I couldn't be more in the "Microsoft Ecosystem" if I tried. But I'm not an American - I'm an Australian (and English is the language here). Despite Cortana being the selling point for WPh for years, they still don't have support for it in Australia (they recently offered "alpha" support on the phone only and it's missing most features) and you can't get Cortana on Windows 10, either. I routinely get emails from Microsoft about sales or deals in the "Windows Store" that only apply to Americans (so I can't get the discounts or free offers), despite the fact they can clearly see from the information they have on me that I am not an American. It's just one, never ending middle finger from them, and it's the #1 reason I doubt my next phone will be Windows based.
Maybe someone at Microsoft should look around the WPh sales and realise that the vast majority of Windows Phones in the world are actually not in the USA and start offering support to the people who actually did buy their products??
Considering Cortana is the #1 selling point - you think they'd put some effort into making it work for the 95.71% of the planet who doesn't live in America.
*Windows 8* was a significant upgrade over Windows 7 - and Windows 10 more so. However, if you only care about start menus and icons, then, no, there's nothing to see here.
I don't recall, however, Windows 7 having native NIC teaming built in, including on dissimilar connection types (i.e. natively team wifi and NIC). I don't recall Windows 7 having a very powerful Hypervisor built in, natively. I don't recall Windows 7 having SMB3. I don't recall Windows 7 having native support for software defined storage and software defined networks. I don't recall Windows 7 supported RFS. The list goes on, and on.
But no, clearly Windows 10 is a very small upgrade over Windows 7.... if the only thing you ever look at is the f*cking start menu. I thought this was supposed to be a tech site? Where people discussed the real technology in things - not just how shiny they are? Did I wind up a Daring Fireball, by mistake??
Accounts payable / data entry people most definitely use it. However, logically, of course the amount of times they press it is small - it *should* be small numbers of times they press it. That's the whole point of the capslock - you only need to press it occasionally to change your case.
So a data entry person may push it once - enter 2000 characters into a system that all need to be in upper case (and this is ludicrously common in various ERP or accounting systems), then push it again. For that person, capslock was invaluable - but for some half thought out metrics gathering muppets, they see capslock as hardly being used. I can't believe someone even needs to point this out...
We store and backup about this much data (a little more), although spread across a variety of machines. All in all, though, the data is primary virtual hard drives (we run a private cloud environment).
Storing it on disk is easy enough - and cheap enough, that it's little concern. Amazon, Azure, etc. are *insanely* expensive for this task, month by month, compared to self owned disks.
As our hypervisors are all Microsoft (Hyper-V - and yes, I know this is Slashdot and I just said I use a Microsoft product but it's easily the most economical approach, when 99% of your clients need Windows licensing), we use Windows Server 2012 R2 native tiered storage pools on a mix of SATA HDD and SSD to achieve the storage, generally spread across a group of Supermicro servers with large numbers of disk bays - effectively software defined storage.
For backup, we use the highly dense 1RU servers, with 12 bays (Supermicro again), with commodity 6 or 8TB SATA disks. Each RU can get near to 100TB of storage (raw) and they don't use much kW - and they cost hardly anything. Backups are performed using Microsoft DPM 2012 R2, as well, because, again, cheapest option and so far, 0 problems.
The biggest issue I have is airwalled backups - those are hard to manage, for low dollars, for this kind of setup. So I've resorted to having a few more backup machines and manually swapping the network cable from one group, to the next, as the equivalent of swapping tapes.
I too am worried that once again, marketing has trumped engineering, at Microsoft.
I tried the preview on my Surface Pro 3 - a Microsoft device (albeit one they warn isn't 100% ready for use with the preview) and it was unusable. I mean, I got a feel for what they were going for - I could understand the OS and see some benefits - but it was far too buggy to function. I don't see how they could go from that to ready to release OS in just 6 weeks (from when I last tried it).
I feel like someone at Microsoft is rushing them towards an artificial and arbitrary deadline, when there's no real reason to do so.
Windows is still selling well on the PC. It still has over 90% of the PC market and they're releasing Windows 10 as a *free upgrade* of your OS, so it's very unlikely to drive new PC sales - it will just be inplace upgrades. Yet they're charging full steam ahead with a product that no one feels is ready. This is just stupid. It's Vista all over again. Vista, at it's core, became Windows 7 (as we all know), which was a pretty decent OS but Microsoft's marketing dept pushed them to put Vista out early. Windows 7 is basically Vista, done right and finished. I feel like Windows 10 is heading down the same path.
They really need this to work, too - so I don't see a solid reason for rushing it.
The only reason I can think of is they want to bring developers back to developing for Windows 10, to help drive adoption of Windows Mobile apps - but here's the odd bit - they're not releasing Windows 10 for Phones in July - just PCs... so I'm stumped. It just seems like bad decisions all round.
Oh this is mindblowing. Who writes software that just asks a remote server for a file, then blindly executes that file with system privileges, but doesn't put any checks and balances in place to make sure it's really the remote server and the file is legit? It's not even HTTPS for goodness sakes (not that that would make much difference).
Samsung seems to still be a manufacturer at heart and like all manufacturers, they just don't get software security.Not even a little bit.
Where if it doesn't involve a shovel and a hole in the ground, we're not interested!
We have absolutely no future proofing of our economy or concept of sustainability. Everyone is 100% focused on digging up iron ore and *nothing else matters*. If the iron ore price tanks (and it has) - we just lay people off and dig more up!
Not to be the typical IT person who only focuses on IT but I've never understood our national refusal to consider the Internet as a viable business location - it's still viewed by politicians as kind of a toy for residentials only and a place where piracy happens. We have a completely stable country, politically and geographically. We don't get tornadoes. We don't get earthquakes. We don't get wars. We have huge tracks of unused land, that has ample sunlight, low temperatures and massive amounts of wind and tide (the entire southern coastline). We could have the best datacentres in the world - and anyone who thinks there's no money in the cloud isn't paying attention. But there's zero will to even consider it because it's not about digging up rocks and paying China to smash them up for us.
Yeah sadly, there's heaps of them. People who connect their Windows machine to the internet by establishing the PPPoE session from the machine, for one. People who rent a VM from a cloud provider and just get a straight up Windows box with no firewall, for two. If you think there's not a lot of those, believe me, there are. We run a cloud computing company and we frequently (ok, by frequently I mean a few times a year, I suppose - but we're just one company) get requests for people to have a Windows box with no firewall (other than the Windows one) because "it gets in the way", etc.
As a service provider, I am not sure how to handle this because, technically, it's "their server". I mean, I can provide them all the advice I want but making them listen is another thing altogether.
In one case, I showed the guy that I could map a drive to his server, over the public internet and that he needed to deny all ports other than the one he needed open (443) but it's like speaking to a child. They don't understand why it's a problem and they just want what they think they want and they want it, now.
So I am not really sure how to handle this. Wherever I can, I don't give them the choice - I just enforce an upstream firewall but at the end of the day, if someone wants to pay money to own a VM and they're not (yet) causing any problems for anyone other than themselves...I can't be in business if I keep saying no to everyone. So yeah - there are plenty of Windows people out there who expose everything to the world.
I use a Zotac mini PC, mounted on the wall directly behind the TV itself. USB hub zip tied to the unit, with a 2TB 2.5" USB powered HDD, USB connection for the remote IR pickup and USB dual TV tuner. Runs Windows 8 media centre. Job done. No mess. Works perfectly. I use this model: http://www.zotac.com/products/...
Boots from off to fully functional in a few seconds (SSD OS drive). Self records series by itself, the kids can use it, the wife can use it, even the babysitter can use it. Plus it has full Windows, so I can use RDP to do work while the kids eat breakfast.
Indonesia is about to execute a bunch of people, including two Australians, which is big news in Australia. They use the firing squad approach, and in the executions they carried out in January, using some 20 people firing at once - some with blanks and some with real, so the people never know if they really killed someone or not. Even still - the death is by no means quick., the fastest death by firing squad was six minutes. Others took far longer to bleed out or have internal organ failure.
It's especially big news in Australia at the moment because the two Australians (charge: drug trafficking in 2005) to be executed any day now are generally regarded by all as fully remorseful and fully reformed - even by the people executing them. Which begs the question - what's the point of a prison system based on reform if you just kill people even if they actually do reform? The two in question are said to be so well regarded in the prison they're in that other inmates have volunteered to stand in for them an be executed in their place.
The real pity here is that they're going to be executed not because of their crimes but because Indonesia's government wants to show its people how they can stand up to international pressure (something the majority of Indonesians want to see them do). So basically, they're going to be killed for political purposes, not because of their crime. That's no reason to execute someone.
Don't get me wrong - I'm not in favour of drug traffickers - but their "victims" all chose to take drugs, too.Compare that to someone who actively was involved in the Bali terrorist bombings a few years ago - I'm talking physically carried the actual bombs to the actual night club where 202 people were killed and many more mained - not just someone peripherally involved - and that guy has been released from prison in Indonesia already. But foreign drug traffickers? No - they get killed.
I think that's overly cynical and not really fair. I believe it's a genuine desire to get it right. Even if you want to remain cynical, they have every economic reason to give people an OS they want.
Yeah, I sent them a tonne of feedback, while I tested Windows 10 - all of it bug reports but I tried to give them as much information as possible, with each bug I found.
As you can read through other people's bug reports, I noticed 90% of them are not in anyway helpful to the developers - statements like "It deosunt prnit" (with no further information as to what didn't print and on what hardware) or "why are you so dtoopid!" --- "useful information" to that effect.
It's frustrating reading because this is a chance for users of Windows to get the best possible outcome by making their voices heard - unfortunately the vast majority of people making noise should probably have stayed silent, which only increases the chances that genuine bugs and useful feedback will be lost in all that mess.
I'm currently forcing myself through Raising Steam at the moment. I honestly doubt Sir Terry even read this book. He may have provided a few snippets and some ideas but there's no way he wrote it, himself. It's definitely been ghost written. Characters are terribly out of character (Vetinari is just a ranting bully with no subtlety, and Moist is just... who knows?), the style is amateurish and not like any of his other works, multiple characters fly in, make a ridiculously preachy monologue, then fly out, never to be seen again (in fact, this happens dozens of times).
I'll always remember Sir Terry for his works - and Raising Steam clearly wasn't one of them.
Sure does. I've read every one of his books, more than once (except Raising Steam, which I'm currently reading for the first time and, frankly, I doubt he actually wrote that one).
His books retain a re-readability that's rare and always entertaining. I always looked forward to the next one. We all knew this was coming and I'm sure it's heartbreaking for his family but for his fans, this sure is a sad day.
Coz all my servers are production or purpose defined, and based on CentOS or VyOS. They all work. They all do their jobs - so I haven't had a compelling reason to upgrade. I did put one server briefly on CentOS 7.0 (Kernel 3.10 or something) and the client couldn't figure out how to use it, so I rolled it back.
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I doubt either Apple or Microsoft either paid for, or were even aware of this Slashdot "article". I'd say it's infinitely more likely Slashdot simply know starting a holy war people Apple and Microsoft fans (or Microsoft fans and anti-Microsoft or Apple fans and anyone) just guarantees clicks. Look at the articles on the main page - this one far and away has the most comments.
This is about ad revenue through clicks, from the Zealots that are guaranteed to comment below - not direct paid product endorsement.
Hyper-V on Windows 7 is a very different beast, as it was version 2. It was by no means a seriously powerful tool. Hyper-V 3 is a different story. It's significantly more powerful and feature rich. Which is why, and I'll help you with the comprehension on this one, I said " having a very powerful Hypervisor built in". See those key words, there, "champ"?
Ha! She was probably very pretty about 30 years ago - and her boss is also a later-middle aged woman, so I think that's... improbable. So far as I can tell, her job description is 100% to shield her boss from having to deal with anyone (she's a P.A.). And she's very good at it - if you even meander slightly near her boss's door, she'll just about spear tackle you to stop you going in there and she's no different when it comes to phones or other forms of shielding her boss from annoyances. But when it comes to anything else, I think she really just makes busy work to keep herself amused, as her boss spends about 50% of the year out of the country, anyway.
Yeah it's not a stupid idea, either. From what I can tell, her job description is mostly to make up work to do to keep herself busy.
I know someone who personally accounts for 4 of those installations. On the same computer. Because she's fallen for the same frikkin scam four times. Every time I ask her "why did you open an email claiming to be from the IRS, when we don't have an IRS in Australia", she tells me "because it sounded real". You should see the grammar in these scam emails, too: they're written like "please effective the transactionments with the rapid or we can has your cheeseburgers". Yet she's still fallen for it. Four. Times.
Fortunately, I back that site up effectively.
No, Cortana is not available in Canada because Microsoft enjoys giving a massive middle finger to anyone who's not an American. Trust me. I have a Windows Phone and a Surface Pro 3. I couldn't be more in the "Microsoft Ecosystem" if I tried. But I'm not an American - I'm an Australian (and English is the language here). Despite Cortana being the selling point for WPh for years, they still don't have support for it in Australia (they recently offered "alpha" support on the phone only and it's missing most features) and you can't get Cortana on Windows 10, either. I routinely get emails from Microsoft about sales or deals in the "Windows Store" that only apply to Americans (so I can't get the discounts or free offers), despite the fact they can clearly see from the information they have on me that I am not an American. It's just one, never ending middle finger from them, and it's the #1 reason I doubt my next phone will be Windows based.
Maybe someone at Microsoft should look around the WPh sales and realise that the vast majority of Windows Phones in the world are actually not in the USA and start offering support to the people who actually did buy their products??
Considering Cortana is the #1 selling point - you think they'd put some effort into making it work for the 95.71% of the planet who doesn't live in America.
*Windows 8* was a significant upgrade over Windows 7 - and Windows 10 more so. However, if you only care about start menus and icons, then, no, there's nothing to see here.
I don't recall, however, Windows 7 having native NIC teaming built in, including on dissimilar connection types (i.e. natively team wifi and NIC). I don't recall Windows 7 having a very powerful Hypervisor built in, natively. I don't recall Windows 7 having SMB3. I don't recall Windows 7 having native support for software defined storage and software defined networks. I don't recall Windows 7 supported RFS. The list goes on, and on.
But no, clearly Windows 10 is a very small upgrade over Windows 7.... if the only thing you ever look at is the f*cking start menu. I thought this was supposed to be a tech site? Where people discussed the real technology in things - not just how shiny they are? Did I wind up a Daring Fireball, by mistake??
Because not everyone is a developer?
Accounts payable / data entry people most definitely use it. However, logically, of course the amount of times they press it is small - it *should* be small numbers of times they press it. That's the whole point of the capslock - you only need to press it occasionally to change your case.
So a data entry person may push it once - enter 2000 characters into a system that all need to be in upper case (and this is ludicrously common in various ERP or accounting systems), then push it again. For that person, capslock was invaluable - but for some half thought out metrics gathering muppets, they see capslock as hardly being used. I can't believe someone even needs to point this out...
We store and backup about this much data (a little more), although spread across a variety of machines. All in all, though, the data is primary virtual hard drives (we run a private cloud environment).
Storing it on disk is easy enough - and cheap enough, that it's little concern. Amazon, Azure, etc. are *insanely* expensive for this task, month by month, compared to self owned disks.
As our hypervisors are all Microsoft (Hyper-V - and yes, I know this is Slashdot and I just said I use a Microsoft product but it's easily the most economical approach, when 99% of your clients need Windows licensing), we use Windows Server 2012 R2 native tiered storage pools on a mix of SATA HDD and SSD to achieve the storage, generally spread across a group of Supermicro servers with large numbers of disk bays - effectively software defined storage.
For backup, we use the highly dense 1RU servers, with 12 bays (Supermicro again), with commodity 6 or 8TB SATA disks. Each RU can get near to 100TB of storage (raw) and they don't use much kW - and they cost hardly anything. Backups are performed using Microsoft DPM 2012 R2, as well, because, again, cheapest option and so far, 0 problems.
The biggest issue I have is airwalled backups - those are hard to manage, for low dollars, for this kind of setup. So I've resorted to having a few more backup machines and manually swapping the network cable from one group, to the next, as the equivalent of swapping tapes.
I too am worried that once again, marketing has trumped engineering, at Microsoft.
I tried the preview on my Surface Pro 3 - a Microsoft device (albeit one they warn isn't 100% ready for use with the preview) and it was unusable. I mean, I got a feel for what they were going for - I could understand the OS and see some benefits - but it was far too buggy to function. I don't see how they could go from that to ready to release OS in just 6 weeks (from when I last tried it).
I feel like someone at Microsoft is rushing them towards an artificial and arbitrary deadline, when there's no real reason to do so.
Windows is still selling well on the PC. It still has over 90% of the PC market and they're releasing Windows 10 as a *free upgrade* of your OS, so it's very unlikely to drive new PC sales - it will just be inplace upgrades. Yet they're charging full steam ahead with a product that no one feels is ready. This is just stupid. It's Vista all over again. Vista, at it's core, became Windows 7 (as we all know), which was a pretty decent OS but Microsoft's marketing dept pushed them to put Vista out early. Windows 7 is basically Vista, done right and finished. I feel like Windows 10 is heading down the same path.
They really need this to work, too - so I don't see a solid reason for rushing it.
The only reason I can think of is they want to bring developers back to developing for Windows 10, to help drive adoption of Windows Mobile apps - but here's the odd bit - they're not releasing Windows 10 for Phones in July - just PCs... so I'm stumped. It just seems like bad decisions all round.
Science, you let me down!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=eOH15_pqWZ4
Oh this is mindblowing. Who writes software that just asks a remote server for a file, then blindly executes that file with system privileges, but doesn't put any checks and balances in place to make sure it's really the remote server and the file is legit? It's not even HTTPS for goodness sakes (not that that would make much difference).
Samsung seems to still be a manufacturer at heart and like all manufacturers, they just don't get software security.Not even a little bit.
With all that power, we'd finally be able to run some kind of spell checker. You know.... in the time "betwen" posting articles,
Where if it doesn't involve a shovel and a hole in the ground, we're not interested!
We have absolutely no future proofing of our economy or concept of sustainability. Everyone is 100% focused on digging up iron ore and *nothing else matters*. If the iron ore price tanks (and it has) - we just lay people off and dig more up!
Not to be the typical IT person who only focuses on IT but I've never understood our national refusal to consider the Internet as a viable business location - it's still viewed by politicians as kind of a toy for residentials only and a place where piracy happens. We have a completely stable country, politically and geographically. We don't get tornadoes. We don't get earthquakes. We don't get wars. We have huge tracks of unused land, that has ample sunlight, low temperatures and massive amounts of wind and tide (the entire southern coastline). We could have the best datacentres in the world - and anyone who thinks there's no money in the cloud isn't paying attention. But there's zero will to even consider it because it's not about digging up rocks and paying China to smash them up for us.
Yeah sadly, there's heaps of them. People who connect their Windows machine to the internet by establishing the PPPoE session from the machine, for one. People who rent a VM from a cloud provider and just get a straight up Windows box with no firewall, for two. If you think there's not a lot of those, believe me, there are. We run a cloud computing company and we frequently (ok, by frequently I mean a few times a year, I suppose - but we're just one company) get requests for people to have a Windows box with no firewall (other than the Windows one) because "it gets in the way", etc.
As a service provider, I am not sure how to handle this because, technically, it's "their server". I mean, I can provide them all the advice I want but making them listen is another thing altogether.
In one case, I showed the guy that I could map a drive to his server, over the public internet and that he needed to deny all ports other than the one he needed open (443) but it's like speaking to a child. They don't understand why it's a problem and they just want what they think they want and they want it, now.
So I am not really sure how to handle this. Wherever I can, I don't give them the choice - I just enforce an upstream firewall but at the end of the day, if someone wants to pay money to own a VM and they're not (yet) causing any problems for anyone other than themselves...I can't be in business if I keep saying no to everyone. So yeah - there are plenty of Windows people out there who expose everything to the world.
Forget those 0 day attacks you've heard so much about. the 6575 day attacks are the real problem!
I thought the same thing. This seems like yesteryears news? It's still a real issue, sure - but it's certainly not "new".
I use a Zotac mini PC, mounted on the wall directly behind the TV itself. USB hub zip tied to the unit, with a 2TB 2.5" USB powered HDD, USB connection for the remote IR pickup and USB dual TV tuner. Runs Windows 8 media centre. Job done. No mess. Works perfectly. I use this model: http://www.zotac.com/products/...
Boots from off to fully functional in a few seconds (SSD OS drive). Self records series by itself, the kids can use it, the wife can use it, even the babysitter can use it. Plus it has full Windows, so I can use RDP to do work while the kids eat breakfast.
Indonesia is about to execute a bunch of people, including two Australians, which is big news in Australia. They use the firing squad approach, and in the executions they carried out in January, using some 20 people firing at once - some with blanks and some with real, so the people never know if they really killed someone or not. Even still - the death is by no means quick., the fastest death by firing squad was six minutes. Others took far longer to bleed out or have internal organ failure.
It's especially big news in Australia at the moment because the two Australians (charge: drug trafficking in 2005) to be executed any day now are generally regarded by all as fully remorseful and fully reformed - even by the people executing them. Which begs the question - what's the point of a prison system based on reform if you just kill people even if they actually do reform? The two in question are said to be so well regarded in the prison they're in that other inmates have volunteered to stand in for them an be executed in their place.
The real pity here is that they're going to be executed not because of their crimes but because Indonesia's government wants to show its people how they can stand up to international pressure (something the majority of Indonesians want to see them do). So basically, they're going to be killed for political purposes, not because of their crime. That's no reason to execute someone.
Don't get me wrong - I'm not in favour of drug traffickers - but their "victims" all chose to take drugs, too.Compare that to someone who actively was involved in the Bali terrorist bombings a few years ago - I'm talking physically carried the actual bombs to the actual night club where 202 people were killed and many more mained - not just someone peripherally involved - and that guy has been released from prison in Indonesia already. But foreign drug traffickers? No - they get killed.
I think that's overly cynical and not really fair. I believe it's a genuine desire to get it right. Even if you want to remain cynical, they have every economic reason to give people an OS they want.
Yeah, I sent them a tonne of feedback, while I tested Windows 10 - all of it bug reports but I tried to give them as much information as possible, with each bug I found.
As you can read through other people's bug reports, I noticed 90% of them are not in anyway helpful to the developers - statements like "It deosunt prnit" (with no further information as to what didn't print and on what hardware) or "why are you so dtoopid!" --- "useful information" to that effect.
It's frustrating reading because this is a chance for users of Windows to get the best possible outcome by making their voices heard - unfortunately the vast majority of people making noise should probably have stayed silent, which only increases the chances that genuine bugs and useful feedback will be lost in all that mess.
Actually I shall Wear Midnight was excellent, I thought. Snuff was also very good.
I'm currently forcing myself through Raising Steam at the moment. I honestly doubt Sir Terry even read this book. He may have provided a few snippets and some ideas but there's no way he wrote it, himself. It's definitely been ghost written. Characters are terribly out of character (Vetinari is just a ranting bully with no subtlety, and Moist is just... who knows?), the style is amateurish and not like any of his other works, multiple characters fly in, make a ridiculously preachy monologue, then fly out, never to be seen again (in fact, this happens dozens of times).
I'll always remember Sir Terry for his works - and Raising Steam clearly wasn't one of them.
Sure does. I've read every one of his books, more than once (except Raising Steam, which I'm currently reading for the first time and, frankly, I doubt he actually wrote that one).
His books retain a re-readability that's rare and always entertaining. I always looked forward to the next one. We all knew this was coming and I'm sure it's heartbreaking for his family but for his fans, this sure is a sad day.
Coz all my servers are production or purpose defined, and based on CentOS or VyOS. They all work. They all do their jobs - so I haven't had a compelling reason to upgrade. I did put one server briefly on CentOS 7.0 (Kernel 3.10 or something) and the client couldn't figure out how to use it, so I rolled it back.