Tax-deductions for donations to ~10% of the GDP? That just means the rest of us have to pay more taxes. Absurd.
Look! The government hates Christians and is creating a war on CHristianity look??! Vote for me NOW to put an end to this and put Christ and God We Trust back and vote out all the RINOs and communists and I promise I will put the church back in power etc...
Yes my post sounded absurd based in sarcasm but these voters are very very powerful with lots of money which will do more harm than good if you try to tax them. In the end you get the gooks and extremists in government as yes these people will actually belief and reaffirm their beliefs that a war in CHristianity will start and God will punish them if they do not vote these people out.
Long term Hairy that is not a good solution as 78.1 also will be updated the same way. Eventually Windows 7 will go EOL in a few 3 short years.
AMD/Intel will only work with Windows 10 in the newer chips coming out and the world moves on. Of course you can help upgrade which makes you more money at your shop:-)
I think Linux LTS might be the only way to go or a Mac if the user really needs Adobe, auto cad, or Office which is what is tying them to win32. I hope MS does improve QA as they desperately need it. I am on the MCSE path again so I need to be in Microsoft land as my job and employers expect me to be a AD/Azure expert. But not every user knows how to configure KMS/Qemu virutalization and it is silly that geeks here say that users would prefer this.... but my point hairy if theri system bricks with a bad driver update every other month they may reconsider this crazy approach so they have a working system on older hardware or go all Mac.
Right but it still is 4 to 8 months of support as cumulative updates break apps!
So unless I want to rent my computer for the enterprise edition is there really 10 years of support... As in just security fixes or bug fixes and not feature updates or mini platform changes? Is the LTSB really 10 years or will new things break shit all the time?
Ok explain the next October update for server 2012 R2 is all or nothing which breaks apps as it includes +110 other updates just to fix one security whole?
Nope Windows 10 is supported for 6 months. Then you need bi annual update. 9 months for the pro version if you choose to defer updates on the CBB business update channel.
Afterwards you are not supported and shit will break if you do update. I ll take Linux Ubuntu LTS thank you very much... If I didn't have a need for Windows software sigh
Hairy I friended you because I agree with 80% of your rants. I used to agree with Linux too with no ABI meaning breaks with updates.
However, Windows 10 is proving us wrong. Next month all versions of Windows both server and desktop will be one cumulative patch?! Also, I am very close to downgrading back to Windows 8.1. Windows 10 breaks ALOT. More than Linux now.
This past month I have seen PowerShell DSC, nested Hyper-V virtualization, update at a later time, and AMD Crimson drivers all break with updates. Thank God I bought the pro to differ updates ( it was off which is my fault). But if I have one and I mean one showstopper I am going back and will migrate to the crappy and no longer made VMware workstation I under 8.1
Ubuntu LTS hopefully shouldn't have these surprises and I may go there if kms/qemu supports nested virtualization for my mcse labs
What many non support/admin IT types do not realize is we are responsible for security. I've seen write-ups hit those whose IE 6 systems allowed ransomware. Oddly the one doing the write-up denied the request to update.
So damned if you do damned if you don't hence why we hate not forced updates, but rather the security patch is the new agile release etc. I left Mozilla Firefox after 4.0 for this reason and downgraded my office to IE.
With Windows 10 and soon server 2k12 and Windows 7 being only cumulative I may change careers! Kernel 2.6 needs 10 years support too!
How in hell do I avoid shell shock, ransomware, but still no releases bringing in bugs all at the same time??
I own a Seagate drive which still works. Reason being is it is for storage and not booting or running apps. I read files every once and a while for linked folders for my Vm's which never stresses it that keeps it alive.
The only people who use mechanical disks or for storage. Not running apps or booting here in 2016 so I think they are irrelevant
Funny how I and all of IT here own them. Many former clients buy them for executives too.
Really? Yes this is an anti ms site but the surface makes MS billions in revenue and is a top generator of income behind Azure and office. The large surface hub sold out within 1 week and MS has tons of back orders.
Keep dreaming.
Oh and they make great Ubuntu tablets too I may add so this is not a pro MS troll as I dual boot mine
As a tax payer I do not want to pay for an entitled American who thinks he is worth 6 figures when someone else can do it cheaper and still get the job done
I said USB 3 is a wrapper for USB 2. Have fun with your BSOD with the intel drivers with NVMe are known to have under 7.
I will live in this decade thanks and enjoy better performance with something designed to be more module with battery life. Since Windows RT forced the kernel to be less dependent on PCI buses it makes it easier to make drivers for. It has a whole device API for thiings like NFC, 3d printers, or any device that is lacking under 7,
It is not supported. WIndows 7 relies on third party drivers which then are a wrapper for USB 2. NVMe BSOD often because it is not native as the ancient Windows 7 kernel does not support it directly and intel uses a utility to offer it.
With WIndows 8.1 and later it is installed automatically and just works without wrappers and work arounds.
Furthermore, Windows 7 or 8 out of the box CANNOT recognize these new chipsets and CANNOT refuse to install because of them.
This is just plain wrong. You could very easily make an OS that uses a whitelist of CPUID responses and PCI probe responses and refuses to install/boot on anything else. CPUs provide features for detecting/identifying generations, it would be easy enough to abuse this to make an OS refuse to install/boot on a chip that was released after it.
I'm not saying any mainstream OS does this, just that it's by no means impossible, and pretending that it's impossible just makes you look uninformed/ignorant.
Come on man. No graphics, Intel RST, wifi, USB 3, type C, NVMe, etc. This is not a simple fix man.
Running a 7 year old OS on new hardware is weird to say the least and is like trying to Install Windows 3.11 on a pentium III. Sure you might get some of it to work but forget it being usable!
Many proficient users say they run a 6 year old OS with a smile and brag how they disable updates on their 7 systems then cry FOUL when they can't run a 7 year old OS on a new system!
So it is not the user base. It was change is scary and people will consider an icon color change as a showstopper and an unworkable OS because it is scary.
When will people wake up and say they had enough? Enough of the soo outdated file menus and high color gradients for old people who don't have touch screens and cell phones on their monitors? Enough of no app stores. Enough of too many options and not someone who can make decisions for you on how you use your system?
If only people learned Windows and saw there is an alternative to Linux.
The year of the Windows desktop is almost here where you do not have these rootkit problems.... Oh wait!?
Yeah like a nice mcse in mouse click systems engineering. Haha that is a joke in certification and something to be ashamed of getting outside HR as managers filter those out.
CCNA are even worse. Do they even know what a vlan is?
Flash doesn't work on phone or Android which is where the market is heading. HTML 5 and now AMD and intel accelerated VP 9 and h.265 support means better battery life and performance.
You are a fellow IT geek who supports desktop users like myself and we both seen what a nightmare plugins like Java and Flash can be when never updated with drive thru installs.
The problem I do not like about flash is it is an executable. Flashscript was used so people could make IE 6 look cutting edge as a workaround for corporate clients and grandma last decade. It is not sandboxed unless my knowledge is outdated?
Flash was awesome back in the day and saved us from MS attempt at using.WMV files to monopolize the internet and force us to stay on IE. It became codec indepedent but those days 15 years ago are over with. It is time to move forward. Yes DRM is not going away. Without DRM products won't be made. Why do you think the PC is dying as a game platform? Piracy! Steam is saving it somewhat thanks to it's own DRM. But if people steal you work why bother?
Of course some asshole needs IE 6 support because he doesn't want to offend the director of IT who purchased that ERP app that only works with IE 6 because that developer has another client which has to use IE 6 because of an app another customer uses etc.
IE 6 and 8 are like herpes. The gift that keeps on giving as one when customer has it their suppliers, users, and developers demand IE 6 which in turns others and so on.
So what do you do if your clients want the latest features, multimedia activity, and gorgeous graphics but it needs to work on IE 6? The answer is flash! It just works and actionscript is alot less flakly than IE 6 javascript and CSS.
So in order to save egg on our customers faces and tell them their systems are out of date and suck we NEED FLASH and JAVA on the web... for credit card processing and HIPPA medical transactions too.... face palm.
Yes it is a big problem and until we can get RDP in HTML 5 we will still use IE 6 at work since these systems are too important to ever be updated
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Tax-deductions for donations to ~10% of the GDP? That just means the rest of us have to pay more taxes. Absurd.
Look! The government hates Christians and is creating a war on CHristianity look??! Vote for me NOW to put an end to this and put Christ and God We Trust back and vote out all the RINOs and communists and I promise I will put the church back in power etc ...
Yes my post sounded absurd based in sarcasm but these voters are very very powerful with lots of money which will do more harm than good if you try to tax them. In the end you get the gooks and extremists in government as yes these people will actually belief and reaffirm their beliefs that a war in CHristianity will start and God will punish them if they do not vote these people out.
In the Southern US people actually believe this
Long term Hairy that is not a good solution as 78.1 also will be updated the same way. Eventually Windows 7 will go EOL in a few 3 short years.
AMD/Intel will only work with Windows 10 in the newer chips coming out and the world moves on. Of course you can help upgrade which makes you more money at your shop :-)
I think Linux LTS might be the only way to go or a Mac if the user really needs Adobe, auto cad, or Office which is what is tying them to win32. I hope MS does improve QA as they desperately need it. I am on the MCSE path again so I need to be in Microsoft land as my job and employers expect me to be a AD/Azure expert. But not every user knows how to configure KMS/Qemu virutalization and it is silly that geeks here say that users would prefer this .... but my point hairy if theri system bricks with a bad driver update every other month they may reconsider this crazy approach so they have a working system on older hardware or go all Mac.
Go read comments from angry 1080 founders edition users who can only get 30 fps at 4k? They blame the game for being poorly written
Right but it still is 4 to 8 months of support as cumulative updates break apps!
So unless I want to rent my computer for the enterprise edition is there really 10 years of support ... As in just security fixes or bug fixes and not feature updates or mini platform changes? Is the LTSB really 10 years or will new things break shit all the time?
Ok explain the next October update for server 2012 R2 is all or nothing which breaks apps as it includes +110 other updates just to fix one security whole?
No you can't pick and choose hence cumulative
Nope Windows 10 is supported for 6 months. Then you need bi annual update. 9 months for the pro version if you choose to defer updates on the CBB business update channel.
Afterwards you are not supported and shit will break if you do update. I ll take Linux Ubuntu LTS thank you very much ... If I didn't have a need for Windows software sigh
Hairy I friended you because I agree with 80% of your rants. I used to agree with Linux too with no ABI meaning breaks with updates.
However, Windows 10 is proving us wrong. Next month all versions of Windows both server and desktop will be one cumulative patch?! Also, I am very close to downgrading back to Windows 8.1. Windows 10 breaks ALOT. More than Linux now.
This past month I have seen PowerShell DSC, nested Hyper-V virtualization, update at a later time, and AMD Crimson drivers all break with updates. Thank God I bought the pro to differ updates ( it was off which is my fault). But if I have one and I mean one showstopper I am going back and will migrate to the crappy and no longer made VMware workstation I under 8.1
Ubuntu LTS hopefully shouldn't have these surprises and I may go there if kms/qemu supports nested virtualization for my mcse labs
What many non support/admin IT types do not realize is we are responsible for security. I've seen write-ups hit those whose IE 6 systems allowed ransomware. Oddly the one doing the write-up denied the request to update.
So damned if you do damned if you don't hence why we hate not forced updates, but rather the security patch is the new agile release etc. I left Mozilla Firefox after 4.0 for this reason and downgraded my office to IE.
With Windows 10 and soon server 2k12 and Windows 7 being only cumulative I may change careers! Kernel 2.6 needs 10 years support too!
How in hell do I avoid shell shock, ransomware, but still no releases bringing in bugs all at the same time??
This is bs and very disrespectful to the users.
It is 2016. Who uses mechanical disks anymore?
I own a Seagate drive which still works. Reason being is it is for storage and not booting or running apps. I read files every once and a while for linked folders for my Vm's which never stresses it that keeps it alive.
The only people who use mechanical disks or for storage. Not running apps or booting here in 2016 so I think they are irrelevant
Bahaha
Funny how I and all of IT here own them. Many former clients buy them for executives too.
Really? Yes this is an anti ms site but the surface makes MS billions in revenue and is a top generator of income behind Azure and office. The large surface hub sold out within 1 week and MS has tons of back orders.
Keep dreaming.
Oh and they make great Ubuntu tablets too I may add so this is not a pro MS troll as I dual boot mine
As a tax payer I do not want to pay for an entitled American who thinks he is worth 6 figures when someone else can do it cheaper and still get the job done
I said USB 3 is a wrapper for USB 2. Have fun with your BSOD with the intel drivers with NVMe are known to have under 7.
I will live in this decade thanks and enjoy better performance with something designed to be more module with battery life. Since Windows RT forced the kernel to be less dependent on PCI buses it makes it easier to make drivers for. It has a whole device API for thiings like NFC, 3d printers, or any device that is lacking under 7,
Yeah there is
It is not supported. WIndows 7 relies on third party drivers which then are a wrapper for USB 2. NVMe BSOD often because it is not native as the ancient Windows 7 kernel does not support it directly and intel uses a utility to offer it.
With WIndows 8.1 and later it is installed automatically and just works without wrappers and work arounds.
Try running MACOSX 2009 era Snow Leopard on a brand new Mac .... what? HOW COULD APPLe not support that? Greedy bastards.
At least you can run Linux kernel 2.6 Redhat 6 ... oh yeah same thing
Windows 7 IS NOT a modern OS.
This is just plain wrong. You could very easily make an OS that uses a whitelist of CPUID responses and PCI probe responses and refuses to install/boot on anything else. CPUs provide features for detecting/identifying generations, it would be easy enough to abuse this to make an OS refuse to install/boot on a chip that was released after it.
I'm not saying any mainstream OS does this, just that it's by no means impossible, and pretending that it's impossible just makes you look uninformed/ignorant.
Come on man. No graphics, Intel RST, wifi, USB 3, type C, NVMe, etc. This is not a simple fix man.
Running a 7 year old OS on new hardware is weird to say the least and is like trying to Install Windows 3.11 on a pentium III. Sure you might get some of it to work but forget it being usable!
Many proficient users say they run a 6 year old OS with a smile and brag how they disable updates on their 7 systems then cry FOUL when they can't run a 7 year old OS on a new system!
So it is not the user base. It was change is scary and people will consider an icon color change as a showstopper and an unworkable OS because it is scary.
When will people wake up and say they had enough? Enough of the soo outdated file menus and high color gradients for old people who don't have touch screens and cell phones on their monitors? Enough of no app stores. Enough of too many options and not someone who can make decisions for you on how you use your system?
If only people learned Windows and saw there is an alternative to Linux.
The year of the Windows desktop is almost here where you do not have these rootkit problems .... Oh wait!?
Yeah like a nice mcse in mouse click systems engineering. Haha that is a joke in certification and something to be ashamed of getting outside HR as managers filter those out.
CCNA are even worse. Do they even know what a vlan is?
Certs therefore are not the reason either
Also in 5 years everyone will have data caps whether we like it or not as their is too much money to be made. So this is important to us too.
Unless we live in these so called civilized counties that are not bought out that I hear about
Flash doesn't work on phone or Android which is where the market is heading. HTML 5 and now AMD and intel accelerated VP 9 and h.265 support means better battery life and performance.
You are a fellow IT geek who supports desktop users like myself and we both seen what a nightmare plugins like Java and Flash can be when never updated with drive thru installs.
The problem I do not like about flash is it is an executable. Flashscript was used so people could make IE 6 look cutting edge as a workaround for corporate clients and grandma last decade. It is not sandboxed unless my knowledge is outdated?
Flash was awesome back in the day and saved us from MS attempt at using .WMV files to monopolize the internet and force us to stay on IE. It became codec indepedent but those days 15 years ago are over with. It is time to move forward. Yes DRM is not going away. Without DRM products won't be made. Why do you think the PC is dying as a game platform? Piracy! Steam is saving it somewhat thanks to it's own DRM. But if people steal you work why bother?
VMWare and ADP are corporate oriented.
Of course some asshole needs IE 6 support because he doesn't want to offend the director of IT who purchased that ERP app that only works with IE 6 because that developer has another client which has to use IE 6 because of an app another customer uses etc.
IE 6 and 8 are like herpes. The gift that keeps on giving as one when customer has it their suppliers, users, and developers demand IE 6 which in turns others and so on.
So what do you do if your clients want the latest features, multimedia activity, and gorgeous graphics but it needs to work on IE 6? The answer is flash! It just works and actionscript is alot less flakly than IE 6 javascript and CSS.
So in order to save egg on our customers faces and tell them their systems are out of date and suck we NEED FLASH and JAVA on the web ... for credit card processing and HIPPA medical transactions too .... face palm.
Yes it is a big problem and until we can get RDP in HTML 5 we will still use IE 6 at work since these systems are too important to ever be updated
I just got a notification on my 10 surface last night Chrome used 30% of the battery usage. The second closest was only 22%
Chrome is a battery and CPU hog on mobile too.
This and the merging of thunderbolt with USB type c means you can have external video cards you can plug into a monitor all from the USB port.