I think you mean that other people aren't driven by ideology and use the best tool to get the fucking job done in a timely manner. Whether that is Microsoft/open source or whatever.
AD is basically LDAP + DNS + Kerberos, but don't let facts get in the way of a good rant. I hate Microsoft as much as the next guy, but as far as distributed authentication and configuration goes, the Linux / Free Unix world is now several decades behind. Yes, you can build your own distributed LDAP configuration store. Or you can point and click your way to having one up and running in half an hour.
I figured out how to configure apache to do what I wanted back in the day in an afternoon. The IIS configuration UI is a piece of shit, and has gradually become less usable in more recent versions.
Unless you have an extremely popular website, comparing nginx vs. apache performance is a bit pointless as any hardware these days (even consumer grade) is more likely limited by its storage subsystem and database back end.
The big reason I avoid.0 releases in FreeBSD is not due to stability or bugs, but due to support time-frame..0 is not supported anywhere near as long as.1.
By what metric? In terms of UI responsiveness, it doesn't even rate. It still has a single-threaded UI which still shits the bed if any one of your tabs have a javascript page go off the rails. I can't stand using it purely for that reason and if I could be bothered looking for plugins to replace downloadhelper on chrome or safari (or even IE) i'd ditch it entirely in a heartbeat and never look back. And I say that as someone who was a massive fan back in the 0.5 days.
I suspect far more browsing happens on tablets, and the iPad is still the dominant tablet, and far nicer to browse on than either an Android or Windows tablet purely due to the 4:3 aspect ratio. 16x9 in a tablet just feels awkward in portrait, and in landscape doesn't feel like it has enough vertical space.
iphones, or more likely, iPads (or other tablets). If i'm just browsing stuff at home, I won't bother using a PC. It will be the iPad in the kitchen eating breakfast, when I wake up in the morning checking the news before I wake up properly, etc. The only time I'm browsing on a PC is typically when I have a lot of typing to do, e.g., forum trolling or actual work.
Uh... if you use Windows (and the majority of the world currently does, for better or worse), IE9 onwards is now good enough that bothering to install Chrome or Firefox is a waste of time and bandwidth. And that's not shilling, for the average person that's fact. MS has upped their game, it's about time Firefox got with the program and enabled process-per-tab so that the entire UI doesn't lock up and die in the corner when one poorly coded javascript page shits the bed.
I periodically check out Firefox from time to time since 2.x (previously, I was a user since about 0.5), and my original reason for ditching it around 3.x was the UI lock up problem. It's still there, 6-7 years later.
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where is the HTTPS terminated and who holds the keys?
Because everybody has 400 million users in their environment....
I think you mean that other people aren't driven by ideology and use the best tool to get the fucking job done in a timely manner. Whether that is Microsoft/open source or whatever.
AD is basically LDAP + DNS + Kerberos, but don't let facts get in the way of a good rant. I hate Microsoft as much as the next guy, but as far as distributed authentication and configuration goes, the Linux / Free Unix world is now several decades behind. Yes, you can build your own distributed LDAP configuration store. Or you can point and click your way to having one up and running in half an hour.
I figured out how to configure apache to do what I wanted back in the day in an afternoon. The IIS configuration UI is a piece of shit, and has gradually become less usable in more recent versions.
Unless you have an extremely popular website, comparing nginx vs. apache performance is a bit pointless as any hardware these days (even consumer grade) is more likely limited by its storage subsystem and database back end.
have you heard of server core?
for most people, the "site" is the entire point of running the service. so compromising the site is almost as bad as compromising the host.
...when you need several IIS instances to do the job of one apache instance, it doesn't surprise me.
I can buy more RAM. I can't buy process-per-tab for Firefox.
When? Until Firefox gets that, it's not getting a place back on my desktop.
If you think Microsoft is going anywhere in a hurry, you're delusional.
The big reason I avoid .0 releases in FreeBSD is not due to stability or bugs, but due to support time-frame. .0 is not supported anywhere near as long as .1.
Safari on mac is pretty decent. It hasn't been available for Windows for quite some time now.
By what metric? In terms of UI responsiveness, it doesn't even rate. It still has a single-threaded UI which still shits the bed if any one of your tabs have a javascript page go off the rails. I can't stand using it purely for that reason and if I could be bothered looking for plugins to replace downloadhelper on chrome or safari (or even IE) i'd ditch it entirely in a heartbeat and never look back. And I say that as someone who was a massive fan back in the 0.5 days.
Vista shipped with IE7. Win7 shipped with IE8. Try again.
It's also the default browser on Surface, and I'm pretty sure the sold at least 3 of those.
Earlier than that. IE3 and 4 were generally better than Netscape - similar speed, more stable, pre-installed.
Also, there are plenty of iPod, iPhone and iPad toting Windows users out there.
I suspect far more browsing happens on tablets, and the iPad is still the dominant tablet, and far nicer to browse on than either an Android or Windows tablet purely due to the 4:3 aspect ratio. 16x9 in a tablet just feels awkward in portrait, and in landscape doesn't feel like it has enough vertical space.
I suspect ars gets a few hits from people at work, who's SOE may mandate IE.
iphones, or more likely, iPads (or other tablets). If i'm just browsing stuff at home, I won't bother using a PC. It will be the iPad in the kitchen eating breakfast, when I wake up in the morning checking the news before I wake up properly, etc. The only time I'm browsing on a PC is typically when I have a lot of typing to do, e.g., forum trolling or actual work.
Your windows install is broken.
Uh... if you use Windows (and the majority of the world currently does, for better or worse), IE9 onwards is now good enough that bothering to install Chrome or Firefox is a waste of time and bandwidth. And that's not shilling, for the average person that's fact. MS has upped their game, it's about time Firefox got with the program and enabled process-per-tab so that the entire UI doesn't lock up and die in the corner when one poorly coded javascript page shits the bed.
I periodically check out Firefox from time to time since 2.x (previously, I was a user since about 0.5), and my original reason for ditching it around 3.x was the UI lock up problem. It's still there, 6-7 years later.
Actually given that Safari is no longer available for Windows (and hasn't been now for some time), the 3.8% share it has is pretty impressive.