Also I will add Windows can serve 50 websites just fine with high uptime if you are a competent system administrator who knows PowerShell direct, dsc, IIS, and good Windows Server administration skills. Azure is a good example.
Updates break Linux as well if not more because it lacks a stable ABI due to theological reasons of RMS like any other os. Xorg and video drivers are classic examples.
Not to sound like an ass but I will quote/paraphrase something I read on similar topic on theregister.co.uk this morning.
He said um what do you guys do all day on your computers that run Linux? Do you all just browse the web and do nothing else but pretend to be important with no other apps?
Do you all run 90% of your work in virtual machines where you run Windows anyway?
He went on saying he uses music production software and hardware and something called DAW. The free software is horrible and is no substitute or doesn't meet his needs. Sorry LibreOffice, the gimp, and Killustrator are no substitutes for Word, Excel, Adobe Photoshop, or Adobe illustrator. No can-do. If your resume is misformatted because LibreOffice can't be bug to bug compatible with your tables it goes into the trash.
So the argument is moot as not everyone becomes a Unix system administrator when they grow up. Besides web browsing what can you do with Unix? No serving doesn't count either for mere mortals so don't give me that?
I hate to tell you this but build 1607 anniversary update is already CBB grade with enterprises running it as you read this.... Complete with their IT techs getting calls this weekend on why the director's laptop stopped working after an update.
I have a fresh rebuild right now in my living room. I am seriously contemplating not going thru on Windows 10 and using an older saved acronis 8.1 image for the same cpu/ motherboard? I cannot guarantee it will just work until redstone2 comes out next April when 1607 goes into just security update mode? This is ridiculous
The issue is not ipv4. It's the corrupted windsock catalog. Ipv6 is impacted as well. The solution is to reset it with nutshell from an elevated command prompt or PowerShell:
netsh winsock reset catalog netsh int ipv4 reset reset.log
Or use an older more reliable OS until MS hires a QA team again and stop relying on Joe Six packs as their QA team
Some users report typing: netsh winsock reset catalog netsh int ipv4 reset reset.log
Has repaired their TCP/IP stack.
Unrelated, I just woke up after I rebuilt a computer last night. I am greeted with a Windows 10 setup screen. I also have an older saved Windows 8.1 acronis image for same cpu and motherboard. I was just wondering if I should bite the bullet and go Windows 10 as I work in IT and need to know it...
However this story scared me and got me wondering if that is really a good idea? What do you all think? Hmm
That is there is money to be made selling software and services. Who makes money with console hardware these days?
If I were Nintendo I would make my tools available for Sony and MS and a lite mobile version in a licensing agreement. I would use my games ported as leverage to convince a sharing with Sony and Microsoft to sell Nintendo APIs on their stores and tools.
Who here would buy MarioKart for their ps4 or phone if it were available?
Actually under XP where people logged in as a real local admin it was worse as VBScript could be run without any execution policy right from IE 6!
A good NT system administrator would create a GPO to block this in IE.... however really horrible CRM apps at work required this functionality to run! So full scriptkiddies away. These insecure apps are the reason Windows 7 was avoided for so many years at these companies who kicked and cried to leave these IE 6 apps behind.
Powershell is a big improvement over vbscript that I can not even start to say how.
Users have not run as an admin since Windows XP. The administrator local group from Vista on is really a user group with a UAC token to run admin tasks ala Sudo style.
The user would have to manually run it or if the hacker can change the execution policy to run code in powershell then he/she already has 0wned the PC in question.
So your question was the default installation. Windows actually does have an admin account and a service account to do tasks but it is not logable and setting a user profile is disabled with this by default. YOu can not log in as admin like you could in XP. Yes hackers find overflows or try to trip a process that uses the admin or service account like Adobe flash.
But malware writers won't be making bad powershell scripts as by default they can't be run and no one knows what they are besides system administrators. It won't ever be a target.
WHen you run powershell as an admin it can do bad things. Who would have thought? I wonder if Linux is vulnerable if someone is logged in as root?
Powershell is not enabled with an execution policy by default. It has to be enabled and most people do not even know what it is so this is no threat? At work we have a GPO that blocks powershell for any non AD admin.
My Nvidia 770 gtx was solid. AMD is a nightmare of never ending driver problems. I have owned ATI 5750, 7850, and now an Rx 470. Drivers break is a fact of life and you need certain ones that never change for a stable system.
Yes, I reimaged my computer so it's not my system.
Looks like I got a -1 and hey it worked on my computer there you must be stupid replies from the ATI fanboys.
Just last night I downgraded my driver's due to a black screen freeze after a sleep. This is for a new card too.
Their drivers are crap and sooo horrible that you cannot even upgrade their drivers. It will bsod. If you need to update your drivers you go to the internet on some questionable websites to download a 3rd party utility called DU written by some guy to uninstall the old driver first.
Yep AMD is so crappy you cannot even remove the drivers under add or remove programs?!
I wish I paid for the Nvidia premium tax so I could get something that worked! When was the last time you heard of an Nvidia crash? Never.
If this auto update breaks my computer every week I will certainly buy Nvidia and put AMD in my do not buy list
Nevermind that their entire success is dependent upon everyone from the mailroom employees to the sales staff... I don't quite understand how people at the top lose sight of this all the time. If, tomorrow, every one of their employees quit, the CEO would be SOL...
People are the foundation everybody's business. You may be the head, but that only means you are standing on the shoulders of everyone else.
1st day at Finance 101 in college. What is the job of a company? a. make money b. make great products c. Raise the share price.
This was on the final exam too and no I am not exgerating as the most important lesson of finance. The answer is.... C RAISE THE SHARE PRICE! bing bing bing
Nothing else. CEO's are accountants whose job is to raise the share price at any cost by doing liquidity, raiding assets, and taking on unneccesary debts to get hte perfect debt/assets ratio and liquidity ratio to meet Wall Street expectations.
They get a big bonus by hoarding and using innovative thoughts on doing strange things to make Excel look good.
That is what CEO's today do. They do not guide the company and this all started during the Reagan years with Jack Welsh at GE. He regretted saying this, but it is true the accountant, not the engineer nor salesperson gets the top position usually picked by the top banks out there.
You see CEOs actually provide value. They are thought leaders! Only they can provide ideas or sometimes managers. Employees are black boxes which cannot provide value at all or come up with ideas!
We need more thought leaders and less products and services
So they are including Jails. Actually in 2016 I do think paravirtualization is quite handy for desktop use for all apps. Not just for FreeBSD, but for Linux, MacOSX, and even Windows.
I disagree with the privacy and article. MS got a well deserved bad wrap with IE 6 and never quite recovered when it came to security.
I'm not sure if that's a serious question or an attempt to troll, but regardless...
Speed is not why you should want (or not) systemd. It's Linux. How often do you expect to reboot the thing, anyway?
In the spirit of "Do one thing and do it well", systemd's goal is "manage services and dependencies". To that end, the only real interaction you normally have with systemd is to start or stop a service, and view the associated logs if some service is misbehaving. In my opinion, them, I don't really see the point in changing one's distro (including support lifecycles, development trust, and organization philosophy) just to swap out init. It's just not that big a deal.
It most certainly is if you manage servers!
Most performance evaluations include an uptime requirement. Most businesses it is 99.97% uptime while some Slashdot readers it might be as high as 99.99% or 99.9999% if they work at Amazon or a Wall Street trading firm where any downtime costs millions a minute.
If servers randomly do things behind your back or you restart one during a standard change and it doesn't come back up and your change window is between 1am - 3am (like my employer) you can be in hot water if you can't get it back up if something weird happens during a patch or other activity. SystemD's benefit is it's downfall which is that is event driven. Let's say theoretically you can have SystemD launch tasks or do something in the event your network is hacked or if one of the NIC teaming cards fail. That sounds cool. Problem is if it fails and does something that crashes it.
I am learning FreeBSD now more after I stopped touching it in awhile. Sometimes boring but predictable non event oriented boot only procedures are bah but predictable and nice. You know what you are going to get. It's in that ugly RC script hack but hey you can debug it!
Less hours and more free time drastically reduces the value of your labor. Since MBA cost accountants figure overhead as fixed + variable costs it makes sense to fire you and overwork the other guy.
During the recession everyone worked 70 to 80 hours a week or 0. You just have one guy do the work of the laid off one or get rid of the secretaries and assistants or lead scouts and place the burden on the other guy... And still expect same numbers.
Come on! Grandma tested it. Look Facebook loads just fine on her Acer. Go release server 2016 as we had 2 million testers and no telemetry of a single NIC teaming failure!
I know MS is bashed here often but server 2008 r2 thru 2012 r2 are actually Ok and.... RELIABLE. Yes you heard that. But without a QA department I do not know what to do when Server 2012 R2 goes EOL?
I hate being those old whippersnappers afraid of change that scatter the IT community, but with more Oracle like per core licensing of 2016 and this shitware with 10 I am afraid to move forward. If Windows 8.1 had a start menu for my users I wouldn't mind upgrading 7 to that when EOL hits soon.
But I will be fired if I deploy 10 or server in it's current state. I cannot have only 3 months to stop a feature update that breaks something??!! Worse cumulative security updates means I can't ever run legacy software and stay secure?? If one bad update from 2014 breaks a website ActiveX control I cannot have a cumulative update as it will break that control etc.
Time to think long and hard about my career as I will be fired anyway when I can't meet my 97.97% uptime required by my annual performance evaluation. Thanks Microsoft
No it's identical except for some tuning and server manager. Don't believe me Google turning NT 4 workstation into NT server by 2 registry changes. Or maybe that was Windows 2000.
Hyper-V has been part of Windows desktop since 8.0. Same core and everything from server. Only difference is lack of clustering, replica, and nic teaming.
Just enable it under add or remove windows features if you don't want to pay for VMware workstation?
I use it because VMware workstation sucks majorly on my Windows 8.1 desktop
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Also I will add Windows can serve 50 websites just fine with high uptime if you are a competent system administrator who knows PowerShell direct, dsc, IIS, and good Windows Server administration skills. Azure is a good example.
Updates break Linux as well if not more because it lacks a stable ABI due to theological reasons of RMS like any other os. Xorg and video drivers are classic examples.
Not to sound like an ass but I will quote/paraphrase something I read on similar topic on theregister.co.uk this morning.
He said um what do you guys do all day on your computers that run Linux? Do you all just browse the web and do nothing else but pretend to be important with no other apps?
Do you all run 90% of your work in virtual machines where you run Windows anyway?
He went on saying he uses music production software and hardware and something called DAW. The free software is horrible and is no substitute or doesn't meet his needs.
Sorry LibreOffice, the gimp, and Killustrator are no substitutes for Word, Excel, Adobe Photoshop, or Adobe illustrator. No can-do. If your resume is misformatted because LibreOffice can't be bug to bug compatible with your tables it goes into the trash.
So the argument is moot as not everyone becomes a Unix system administrator when they grow up. Besides web browsing what can you do with Unix? No serving doesn't count either for mere mortals so don't give me that?
I hate to tell you this but build 1607 anniversary update is already CBB grade with enterprises running it as you read this .... Complete with their IT techs getting calls this weekend on why the director's laptop stopped working after an update.
I have a fresh rebuild right now in my living room. I am seriously contemplating not going thru on Windows 10 and using an older saved acronis 8.1 image for the same cpu/ motherboard? I cannot guarantee it will just work until redstone2 comes out next April when 1607 goes into just security update mode? This is ridiculous
The issue is not ipv4. It's the corrupted windsock catalog. Ipv6 is impacted as well. The solution is to reset it with nutshell from an elevated command prompt or PowerShell:
netsh winsock reset catalog
netsh int ipv4 reset reset.log
Or use an older more reliable OS until MS hires a QA team again and stop relying on Joe Six packs as their QA team
The Register has the scoop on it.
Some users report typing:
netsh winsock reset catalog
netsh int ipv4 reset reset.log
Has repaired their TCP/IP stack.
Unrelated, I just woke up after I rebuilt a computer last night. I am greeted with a Windows 10 setup screen. I also have an older saved Windows 8.1 acronis image for same cpu and motherboard. I was just wondering if I should bite the bullet and go Windows 10 as I work in IT and need to know it ...
However this story scared me and got me wondering if that is really a good idea? What do you all think? Hmm
Pokémon Go showed something last summer.
That is there is money to be made selling software and services. Who makes money with console hardware these days?
If I were Nintendo I would make my tools available for Sony and MS and a lite mobile version in a licensing agreement. I would use my games ported as leverage to convince a sharing with Sony and Microsoft to sell Nintendo APIs on their stores and tools.
Who here would buy MarioKart for their ps4 or phone if it were available?
Actually under XP where people logged in as a real local admin it was worse as VBScript could be run without any execution policy right from IE 6!
A good NT system administrator would create a GPO to block this in IE .... however really horrible CRM apps at work required this functionality to run! So full scriptkiddies away. These insecure apps are the reason Windows 7 was avoided for so many years at these companies who kicked and cried to leave these IE 6 apps behind.
Powershell is a big improvement over vbscript that I can not even start to say how.
Users have not run as an admin since Windows XP. The administrator local group from Vista on is really a user group with a UAC token to run admin tasks ala Sudo style.
The user would have to manually run it or if the hacker can change the execution policy to run code in powershell then he/she already has 0wned the PC in question.
So your question was the default installation. Windows actually does have an admin account and a service account to do tasks but it is not logable and setting a user profile is disabled with this by default. YOu can not log in as admin like you could in XP. Yes hackers find overflows or try to trip a process that uses the admin or service account like Adobe flash.
But malware writers won't be making bad powershell scripts as by default they can't be run and no one knows what they are besides system administrators. It won't ever be a target.
WHen you run powershell as an admin it can do bad things. Who would have thought? I wonder if Linux is vulnerable if someone is logged in as root?
Powershell is not enabled with an execution policy by default. It has to be enabled and most people do not even know what it is so this is no threat? At work we have a GPO that blocks powershell for any non AD admin.
Bahaha
Go use Windows 10 and your opinion will rapidly change. Also video drivers run in ring 0 so yes they still can take down a system
Uh yeah Ok.
Also the 7890 uses the older better catalyst drivers
Yep made it all up.
My Nvidia 770 gtx was solid. AMD is a nightmare of never ending driver problems. I have owned ATI 5750, 7850, and now an Rx 470. Drivers break is a fact of life and you need certain ones that never change for a stable system.
Yes, I reimaged my computer so it's not my system.
Looks like I got a -1 and hey it worked on my computer there you must be stupid replies from the ATI fanboys.
I give AMD credit. At least they don't install a bloated appstore and cloud streaming service like Nvidia. But Nvidia actually works!
ATI catalyst has been replaced by Crimson. They auto update and break your system each update unless you turn it off manually.
Just last night I downgraded my driver's due to a black screen freeze after a sleep. This is for a new card too.
Their drivers are crap and sooo horrible that you cannot even upgrade their drivers. It will bsod. If you need to update your drivers you go to the internet on some questionable websites to download a 3rd party utility called DU written by some guy to uninstall the old driver first.
Yep AMD is so crappy you cannot even remove the drivers under add or remove programs?!
I wish I paid for the Nvidia premium tax so I could get something that worked! When was the last time you heard of an Nvidia crash? Never.
If this auto update breaks my computer every week I will certainly buy Nvidia and put AMD in my do not buy list
Nevermind that their entire success is dependent upon everyone from the mailroom employees to the sales staff... I don't quite understand how people at the top lose sight of this all the time. If, tomorrow, every one of their employees quit, the CEO would be SOL...
People are the foundation everybody's business. You may be the head, but that only means you are standing on the shoulders of everyone else.
1st day at Finance 101 in college. What is the job of a company?
a. make money
b. make great products
c. Raise the share price.
This was on the final exam too and no I am not exgerating as the most important lesson of finance. The answer is .... C RAISE THE SHARE PRICE! bing bing bing
Nothing else. CEO's are accountants whose job is to raise the share price at any cost by doing liquidity, raiding assets, and taking on unneccesary debts to get hte perfect debt/assets ratio and liquidity ratio to meet Wall Street expectations.
They get a big bonus by hoarding and using innovative thoughts on doing strange things to make Excel look good.
That is what CEO's today do. They do not guide the company and this all started during the Reagan years with Jack Welsh at GE. He regretted saying this, but it is true the accountant, not the engineer nor salesperson gets the top position usually picked by the top banks out there.
Expand in India and that won't be a problem
That's different ...
You see CEOs actually provide value. They are thought leaders! Only they can provide ideas or sometimes managers. Employees are black boxes which cannot provide value at all or come up with ideas!
We need more thought leaders and less products and services
So they are including Jails. Actually in 2016 I do think paravirtualization is quite handy for desktop use for all apps. Not just for FreeBSD, but for Linux, MacOSX, and even Windows.
I disagree with the privacy and article. MS got a well deserved bad wrap with IE 6 and never quite recovered when it came to security.
Yep dtrace, jails, high uptime, and ZFS oh and init have no appeal at all!
I'm not sure if that's a serious question or an attempt to troll, but regardless...
Speed is not why you should want (or not) systemd. It's Linux. How often do you expect to reboot the thing, anyway?
In the spirit of "Do one thing and do it well", systemd's goal is "manage services and dependencies". To that end, the only real interaction you normally have with systemd is to start or stop a service, and view the associated logs if some service is misbehaving. In my opinion, them, I don't really see the point in changing one's distro (including support lifecycles, development trust, and organization philosophy) just to swap out init. It's just not that big a deal.
It most certainly is if you manage servers!
Most performance evaluations include an uptime requirement. Most businesses it is 99.97% uptime while some Slashdot readers it might be as high as 99.99% or 99.9999% if they work at Amazon or a Wall Street trading firm where any downtime costs millions a minute.
If servers randomly do things behind your back or you restart one during a standard change and it doesn't come back up and your change window is between 1am - 3am (like my employer) you can be in hot water if you can't get it back up if something weird happens during a patch or other activity. SystemD's benefit is it's downfall which is that is event driven. Let's say theoretically you can have SystemD launch tasks or do something in the event your network is hacked or if one of the NIC teaming cards fail. That sounds cool. Problem is if it fails and does something that crashes it.
I am learning FreeBSD now more after I stopped touching it in awhile. Sometimes boring but predictable non event oriented boot only procedures are bah but predictable and nice. You know what you are going to get. It's in that ugly RC script hack but hey you can debug it!
Less hours and more free time drastically reduces the value of your labor. Since MBA cost accountants figure overhead as fixed + variable costs it makes sense to fire you and overwork the other guy.
During the recession everyone worked 70 to 80 hours a week or 0. You just have one guy do the work of the laid off one or get rid of the secretaries and assistants or lead scouts and place the burden on the other guy ... And still expect same numbers.
Time is never reduced ever
Come on! Grandma tested it. Look Facebook loads just fine on her Acer. Go release server 2016 as we had 2 million testers and no telemetry of a single NIC teaming failure!
I know MS is bashed here often but server 2008 r2 thru 2012 r2 are actually Ok and .... RELIABLE. Yes you heard that. But without a QA department I do not know what to do when Server 2012 R2 goes EOL?
I hate being those old whippersnappers afraid of change that scatter the IT community, but with more Oracle like per core licensing of 2016 and this shitware with 10 I am afraid to move forward. If Windows 8.1 had a start menu for my users I wouldn't mind upgrading 7 to that when EOL hits soon.
But I will be fired if I deploy 10 or server in it's current state. I cannot have only 3 months to stop a feature update that breaks something??!! Worse cumulative security updates means I can't ever run legacy software and stay secure?? If one bad update from 2014 breaks a website ActiveX control I cannot have a cumulative update as it will break that control etc.
Time to think long and hard about my career as I will be fired anyway when I can't meet my 97.97% uptime required by my annual performance evaluation. Thanks Microsoft
No it's identical except for some tuning and server manager. Don't believe me Google turning NT 4 workstation into NT server by 2 registry changes. Or maybe that was Windows 2000.
Hyper-V has been part of Windows desktop since 8.0. Same core and everything from server. Only difference is lack of clustering, replica, and nic teaming.
Just enable it under add or remove windows features if you don't want to pay for VMware workstation?
I use it because VMware workstation sucks majorly on my Windows 8.1 desktop