Did you seriously just ask why I am concerned about a process I didn't want to run and I didn't ask to run and isn't vital to the system?
Not only did I ask exactly that, I also eluded that the second half of your sentence is false.
Other than the fact that just this March, a Windows update caused the Store app to run at high CPU for some users [microsoft.com]?
Oh noes, a bug!
It's not like Windows updates are getting better and have fewer issues. MS has had to pull updates 3 times in October alone.
This I fully agree with. Windows updates currently set the standard for what it means to be a bucket of shit. However this has nothing to do with what we are discussing right now.
So back to the original question, why are you afraid of the number of processes you are running, and doubly so if you don't understand them and they are part of the default system configuration anyway? OMG My Linux box has a process called "deferwq" Quick we need to stop it because I don't know what it does nor did I explicitly start it! It's a quite a silly approach to managing the system.
Now if the process is a new process that didn't exist before, or wasn't signed with MS's cert then you probably have good reason to wonder, then I'd probably be looking into it for fear of a virus. But as it is it looks like you're not trusting of your OS, so why are you running it?
Now explain what that nonsense means in the context of national percentage of CO2 annual emissions reduction.
Easy. Look at pollution per-capita and do your part for the world without shitting on others who are less fortunate than you.
And yes I am judgmental, a lot of people are. We are judging the USA for your cavalier attitude constantly. Worried about your quality of life going down? Don't. Just look across the Atlantic to see how your quality of life actually could still improve while your emissions could plummet.
Stop blaming China and India, two countries which per-capita are a small fraction of the problem, and yet together are investing almost an order of magnitude more into solving the problem than the pathetic contribution the USA is making.
What part of our connected online world where multiple applications access the same information often through a cloud (kind of like this service here) would imply that security certificates should not be system wide?
Yet, rather than spending the time talking and getting to know one another...the were on their fscking phones texting and doing social media. I swear I never observed hardly a second when they both had their phones down and actually conversed and interacted with one another.
What are you talking about. They were probably talking to each other on facebook.
I disagree. I actually quite like the quality of the artwork in the Netflix ones. The big problem with the Netflix ones is that more often than not the story is absolute garbage.
I use both the Windows Store and the Calculator. Yet neither are in my currently running processes list. Now what I did find is last time I updated a program the Store process popped up in the background and then suspended itself using no CPU and no memory. No surprise there since the program is used for tracking licenses, but it was gone again next reboot. It does appear whenever any program from the Windows store is run, and then promptly suspends itself making it in effect irrelevant.
So why are you so worried about a suspended process that uses almost no RAM (all of which is marked for unloading if your system runs low) and uses zero CPU cycles and ultimately serves a functional purpose for your OS?
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What has any of that got to do with back end servers supporting cloud infrastructure? The question is not "can it run on ARM?" You have correctly identified that yes a lot of code being churned out today is CPU agnostic. The question is: "Does it make sense to run it on ARM?" That question at the moment is overwhelmingly no for the vast majority of workloads we throw at processors unless the workload in question requires the processor to sit idle and save power for a considerable amount of time.
If you suitably schedule your client workloads to keep your processors busy then performance is king. There's several test results on the net from companies which have put some ARM cores through their paces which show this. e.g. if you hit an nginx server with an x86 CPU once the ARM core performs about 20% worse while consuming 50% of the power. Sounds good right? Open an SSL session to that same server (nginx consumes significantly more CPU cycles for this obviously) and the ARM core performs about 80% worse while consuming 70% of the power, i.e. it hits its TPD limit and sits there for longer computing.
If your CPU isn't doing much, ARM may make sense financially. Keep your CPUs busy and the performance / $ equation changes quite a bit. God help you if you need to run an AVX accelerated load on an ARM.
I don't get what this article is trying to say. TSMC is about to dethrone Intel... how?
You can start by reading past the headline and into the summary. But here's a quick rundown: Intel is the producer of a CPU in a market that has been trending down for something like 18 quarters in a row. TSMC is the fabricator of 3rd party designs that dominate all the markets that are trending up.
Why do you think Intel was so desperate to get into mobile? Or why do you think they are about to try their hand at a GPU? They know they ultimately are sitting on a single business highly dependent on sales of PCs and are desperate to get into alternatives.
TSMC is the fab for those alternatives. Windows 10 on ARM? Well now along with craptacular PC sales you also have to deal with an additional competitor.
As for the actual dethroning: Intel used to be 2 years ahead of all competing fabs in terms of technology. This year TSMC beat Intel to the "7nm" (equivalent of Intel's 10nm in marketing terms). Intel has technologically been dethroned, it's all they can do to hang on to their market as well.
Gambling is a chance to win back more money than you spent on the gamble, which is impossible to do when the money is converted into a loot box that is guaranteed not to contain more money than you spent on the box in the first place.
Ahhh but is it? Your fault is assuming that all items have no value. Your fault is also assuming that items which can be bought and sold are rigged to have lower value then the cost of the box. Depending on which game you play either or both of the assumptions are false.
The vast majority of running services are manually triggered. Just because the user doesn't explicitly start something doesn't mean they aren't needed by something.
As for moving the settings back... I don't care what they do as long as they all end up in the same place. Going to two different places is a pain in the arse. e.g. How come you can add and administer all bluetooth devices from the Bluetooth settings page but you can't connect to a bluetooth access point from there and instead need to open up Devices and Printers. That sort of thing gives me the shits.
Just what is it specifically that you need Classic Shell for? I'm curious. Personally I disable all that tile shit and then the Start Menu becomes very close to the traditional start menu found in Windows 7 and just turns into a list of programs with a link to documents, pictures and settings.
No you have this completely wrong. Their solution is to fix the problems in the patch (data deletion is fixed, iCloud issue fixed, Intel driver fixed, F5 VPN and Trend Micro issues are ongoing) while a different team is working on "improvements" for the next version.
If MS stopped all development to fix bugs we'd still be using Windows 95.
Not OP but.... Errr. Yeah always finds it. 100% of the time.
Try the same search for "Windows Update".
Again, finds it 100% of the time I've done it even though the windows you're trying to get to is called "Check for Updates" though the windows link to "Windows Update Settings" brings you to the same window curiously enough, but that's not a start menu issue.
... not consistently.
It's strange you have a consistency problem. I agree sometimes it doesn't find programs, but it will consistently not find those programs.
Hell, with tab-completion I can get into c:\progra~1\micros~1\office ##\winword.exe faster than it can be searched on the Start Menu.
There is something very wrong with your computer.
There's a lot to hate about the Windows 10 start menu, but the actual search component has remained largely unchanged and quite useful since a few service packs into Vista. Instead, complain about the tiles. That complaint I can get behind.
"Limitations"... I'd be with you if those "lesser used utilities" didn't amount to superfluous garbage, links to websites or text files, the help file, etc. I can't say I'm upset about the loss of this. These really ARE things that should exist from within the application itself.
Out of the box yes, fortunately it's not difficult to just disable those shitty tile things and make the start menu functionally no different than the one from Windows 7. I've defended Microsoft here a few times, but really the only thing defensible on this start menu is the ability to turn the useless shit off.
The standard of living in the USA is not appreciably higher than most EU nations, and actually significantly lower than many. Yet you still manage to outdo them in all forms of energy consumption measurements per capita, per household, per km driven, per kWh produced, etc.
No one hates the USA for your standard of living. That's one of the reasons migrants want to go there. You're hated for many other reasons and one of them is a superior attitude that ignores many of the realities of your life, a prime example being that standard of living some how explains your wasteful energy consumption.
Why does any app have the right, or the need, to install a root certificate?
Ask your browser. Ask the Java installer.
I don't understand what your fuss is about. The whole point of software is to be functional and part of being functional is using APIs in the system in the way they are intended. It's not like this happens by magic, you need to elevated privileges to access this.
The entire point of 'APPS' are to sandbox stuff so the rest of the system is not compromised by a bad app. Android manages to fail in some ways with actual vulns where a evil app can send malformed messages to other apps etc. However by and large the permissions model works for single user devices.
The permission model works for a given purpose of a basic toy app. This isn't a basic toy app and it would be physically impossible for this "app" to work on Android without rooting the phone.
While what you say is very true it still comes down to the basic tenant of security by reduced functionality.
Serious question for MS why in the world can an app modify the system trusted roots?
The "app" in particular is a management "app" for controlling and deploying headsets throughout the organisation and managing the devices they are connected to. I have a far more serious question. Why are you talking about "apps"? The advisory itself calls it "Software". Most of the article calls it an "application". The link to the update is a downloadable setup file from Sennheiser's website just like any proper software and will require administrator privileges to run.
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Did you seriously just ask why I am concerned about a process I didn't want to run and I didn't ask to run and isn't vital to the system?
Not only did I ask exactly that, I also eluded that the second half of your sentence is false.
Other than the fact that just this March, a Windows update caused the Store app to run at high CPU for some users [microsoft.com]?
Oh noes, a bug!
It's not like Windows updates are getting better and have fewer issues. MS has had to pull updates 3 times in October alone.
This I fully agree with. Windows updates currently set the standard for what it means to be a bucket of shit. However this has nothing to do with what we are discussing right now.
So back to the original question, why are you afraid of the number of processes you are running, and doubly so if you don't understand them and they are part of the default system configuration anyway? OMG My Linux box has a process called "deferwq" Quick we need to stop it because I don't know what it does nor did I explicitly start it! It's a quite a silly approach to managing the system.
Now if the process is a new process that didn't exist before, or wasn't signed with MS's cert then you probably have good reason to wonder, then I'd probably be looking into it for fear of a virus. But as it is it looks like you're not trusting of your OS, so why are you running it?
Now explain what that nonsense means in the context of national percentage of CO2 annual emissions reduction.
Easy. Look at pollution per-capita and do your part for the world without shitting on others who are less fortunate than you.
And yes I am judgmental, a lot of people are. We are judging the USA for your cavalier attitude constantly. Worried about your quality of life going down? Don't. Just look across the Atlantic to see how your quality of life actually could still improve while your emissions could plummet.
Stop blaming China and India, two countries which per-capita are a small fraction of the problem, and yet together are investing almost an order of magnitude more into solving the problem than the pathetic contribution the USA is making.
What part of our connected online world where multiple applications access the same information often through a cloud (kind of like this service here) would imply that security certificates should not be system wide?
Table turnover is one of the key metrics for profitability.
No 1 reason why the American dining experience is utterly crap.
Yet, rather than spending the time talking and getting to know one another...the were on their fscking phones texting and doing social media. I swear I never observed hardly a second when they both had their phones down and actually conversed and interacted with one another.
What are you talking about. They were probably talking to each other on facebook.
I disagree. I actually quite like the quality of the artwork in the Netflix ones. The big problem with the Netflix ones is that more often than not the story is absolute garbage.
I use both the Windows Store and the Calculator. Yet neither are in my currently running processes list. Now what I did find is last time I updated a program the Store process popped up in the background and then suspended itself using no CPU and no memory. No surprise there since the program is used for tracking licenses, but it was gone again next reboot. It does appear whenever any program from the Windows store is run, and then promptly suspends itself making it in effect irrelevant.
So why are you so worried about a suspended process that uses almost no RAM (all of which is marked for unloading if your system runs low) and uses zero CPU cycles and ultimately serves a functional purpose for your OS?
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because it needs to.
Bingbingbing. You get a gold star. Now go look up what this "random" "app" actually does and things may start making far more sense to you.
In a perfect world, my operating system would manage the root CAs
For most browsers it does, none the less you need a way to install and uninstall certificates for specific purposes.
What has any of that got to do with back end servers supporting cloud infrastructure? The question is not "can it run on ARM?" You have correctly identified that yes a lot of code being churned out today is CPU agnostic. The question is: "Does it make sense to run it on ARM?" That question at the moment is overwhelmingly no for the vast majority of workloads we throw at processors unless the workload in question requires the processor to sit idle and save power for a considerable amount of time.
If you suitably schedule your client workloads to keep your processors busy then performance is king. There's several test results on the net from companies which have put some ARM cores through their paces which show this. e.g. if you hit an nginx server with an x86 CPU once the ARM core performs about 20% worse while consuming 50% of the power. Sounds good right? Open an SSL session to that same server (nginx consumes significantly more CPU cycles for this obviously) and the ARM core performs about 80% worse while consuming 70% of the power, i.e. it hits its TPD limit and sits there for longer computing.
If your CPU isn't doing much, ARM may make sense financially. Keep your CPUs busy and the performance / $ equation changes quite a bit. God help you if you need to run an AVX accelerated load on an ARM.
I don't get what this article is trying to say. TSMC is about to dethrone Intel ... how?
You can start by reading past the headline and into the summary. But here's a quick rundown:
Intel is the producer of a CPU in a market that has been trending down for something like 18 quarters in a row.
TSMC is the fabricator of 3rd party designs that dominate all the markets that are trending up.
Why do you think Intel was so desperate to get into mobile? Or why do you think they are about to try their hand at a GPU? They know they ultimately are sitting on a single business highly dependent on sales of PCs and are desperate to get into alternatives.
TSMC is the fab for those alternatives. Windows 10 on ARM? Well now along with craptacular PC sales you also have to deal with an additional competitor.
As for the actual dethroning: Intel used to be 2 years ahead of all competing fabs in terms of technology. This year TSMC beat Intel to the "7nm" (equivalent of Intel's 10nm in marketing terms). Intel has technologically been dethroned, it's all they can do to hang on to their market as well.
Yet of course, Apple Hating Slashdot won't make an Article out of THAT; nor even UPDATE the original Article...
But if we didn't "hate" on Apple then you would be bored out of your mind and would leave. And we would miss you.
Gambling is a chance to win back more money than you spent on the gamble, which is impossible to do when the money is converted into a loot box that is guaranteed not to contain more money than you spent on the box in the first place.
Ahhh but is it? Your fault is assuming that all items have no value. Your fault is also assuming that items which can be bought and sold are rigged to have lower value then the cost of the box. Depending on which game you play either or both of the assumptions are false.
Doesn't the constant disappointment of loot boxes act as an early lesson that gambling kind of sucks and you can find way cooler uses for money?
If that were the case Casinos wouldn't exist.
The vast majority of running services are manually triggered. Just because the user doesn't explicitly start something doesn't mean they aren't needed by something.
As for moving the settings back... I don't care what they do as long as they all end up in the same place. Going to two different places is a pain in the arse. e.g. How come you can add and administer all bluetooth devices from the Bluetooth settings page but you can't connect to a bluetooth access point from there and instead need to open up Devices and Printers. That sort of thing gives me the shits.
Just what is it specifically that you need Classic Shell for? I'm curious. Personally I disable all that tile shit and then the Start Menu becomes very close to the traditional start menu found in Windows 7 and just turns into a list of programs with a link to documents, pictures and settings.
What is missing?
The start menu. It's right there in the title. They touched it, so it stands to reason that it didn't survive.
No you have this completely wrong. Their solution is to fix the problems in the patch (data deletion is fixed, iCloud issue fixed, Intel driver fixed, F5 VPN and Trend Micro issues are ongoing) while a different team is working on "improvements" for the next version.
If MS stopped all development to fix bugs we'd still be using Windows 95.
Doesn't always find it.
Not OP but .... Errr. Yeah always finds it. 100% of the time.
Try the same search for "Windows Update".
Again, finds it 100% of the time I've done it even though the windows you're trying to get to is called "Check for Updates" though the windows link to "Windows Update Settings" brings you to the same window curiously enough, but that's not a start menu issue.
... not consistently.
It's strange you have a consistency problem. I agree sometimes it doesn't find programs, but it will consistently not find those programs.
Hell, with tab-completion I can get into c:\progra~1\micros~1\office ##\winword.exe faster than it can be searched on the Start Menu.
There is something very wrong with your computer.
There's a lot to hate about the Windows 10 start menu, but the actual search component has remained largely unchanged and quite useful since a few service packs into Vista. Instead, complain about the tiles. That complaint I can get behind.
"Limitations" ... I'd be with you if those "lesser used utilities" didn't amount to superfluous garbage, links to websites or text files, the help file, etc. I can't say I'm upset about the loss of this. These really ARE things that should exist from within the application itself.
Out of the box yes, fortunately it's not difficult to just disable those shitty tile things and make the start menu functionally no different than the one from Windows 7. I've defended Microsoft here a few times, but really the only thing defensible on this start menu is the ability to turn the useless shit off.
to see how high our standard of living is
The standard of living in the USA is not appreciably higher than most EU nations, and actually significantly lower than many. Yet you still manage to outdo them in all forms of energy consumption measurements per capita, per household, per km driven, per kWh produced, etc.
No one hates the USA for your standard of living. That's one of the reasons migrants want to go there. You're hated for many other reasons and one of them is a superior attitude that ignores many of the realities of your life, a prime example being that standard of living some how explains your wasteful energy consumption.
Why does any app have the right, or the need, to install a root certificate?
Ask your browser.
Ask the Java installer.
I don't understand what your fuss is about. The whole point of software is to be functional and part of being functional is using APIs in the system in the way they are intended. It's not like this happens by magic, you need to elevated privileges to access this.
The entire point of 'APPS' are to sandbox stuff so the rest of the system is not compromised by a bad app. Android manages to fail in some ways with actual vulns where a evil app can send malformed messages to other apps etc. However by and large the permissions model works for single user devices.
The permission model works for a given purpose of a basic toy app. This isn't a basic toy app and it would be physically impossible for this "app" to work on Android without rooting the phone.
While what you say is very true it still comes down to the basic tenant of security by reduced functionality.
Serious question for MS why in the world can an app modify the system trusted roots?
The "app" in particular is a management "app" for controlling and deploying headsets throughout the organisation and managing the devices they are connected to. I have a far more serious question. Why are you talking about "apps"? The advisory itself calls it "Software". Most of the article calls it an "application". The link to the update is a downloadable setup file from Sennheiser's website just like any proper software and will require administrator privileges to run.
Oh noes an EULA for reading a security advisory. I notice you didn't have any problem accepting a EULA to make this post.