It is comical to think that IT departments can "pick and choose" which patches to install. They aren't qualified to know which are important or not. I know a lot of corporate IT does this: they select only selected patches that they have supposedly "tested".
Ok explain how you can secure 5,000 machines where a single infection with ransomwaqre can get you reprimanded AND not have anything break?
This was covered here last year. A Chrome engineer found it! The theory is the NSA did it to track terrorists as they would use the wifi on air to communicate to other terrorists
It has too many colors and skumorphism with 3d icons showing what the computer can do with even file menus!! eww like soo last decade.
I want a cell phone interface. It needs to be like 1990 to be more modern with no multitasking and complete flat with low colors and blinding white in the background. Man, we just want to consume content and nothing elzse. These things like options are for old people. Why can't there be decisions made for us with humburger menus like our phones to emulate 5 inch screens.
Man unhip and these things called desktops are so old school for old people who think you need to write scripts and thing and stuff. Guess they haven't discovered the app store to solve every problem
The only way to do this is spearfish style from Lennovo which means inserting a forged SSL certificate by the firewall to inspect the traffic. Corporations do this to spy on their employees and so do airlines wifi which replace signed websites with their own certificate.
But I think it is obvious here why this is not a good idea.
I have deferred updates on and windows 8 style warnings and times for updates. I do not have this problem.
The user with the medical equipment on a home edition is an idiot and is breaking the law as you need to pay for FDA certification. He should still be using XP service pack 2 or something for the scanners
For one the games on PC are really optimized for the xbone and will run like crap. Example? The shadow of mordor requires 4 to really 8 gigs of video ram to run well?? That is because the consoles have shared memory.
Batman Arkham nights could slow a $2000 PC easily to a crawl because it optimized for a console and an Indian third party did the PC port. It was so horrible it was pulled from the market. I heard it came back recently.
Also you are comparing 2016 specs and not 2013 specs so that is not fair since the current consoles are near EOL.
Go Google YouTube videos on this? The console smoke checks the pcs if you go under $500.
No one cares about the PC anymore sadly and publishers obsess over piracy and market share.
Comparing ESX to VMware Workstation is like comparing Red Hat Enterprise Linux to Knoppix. VMware Workstation was basically a get-mindshare product for them, that most people used for free and which they never cared too much about.
More like Minux to Gnu/Linux. Not in the same league and a different product. VMWare Workstation is quite expensive and no longer supported by Dell from what I read since Hyper-V is now available for free with Windows 8-10 pro/enterprise.
I don't know about the ESX version, but in my opinion, VMWare Workstation is a heap of steaming crap. We see VMs that slow down, even though the slow VM is the single VM that is busy on the host. Frequent re-starts appear to be the only solution to this.
We tried a shared filesystem (shared between the host and other guests) and performance was terrible.
Well try running a whole enterprise with clustering, eSAN storage, virtual switching, failovers, cloud integration for backups, expiring VM's, auditing for infosec, ability to move the VM's anywhere, and command line tools to automate tens of thousands of virtual servers all on virtualbox and let me see how far you get?
FYI Vmware workstation is their obsolete product they made in 1998 which is a type 2 hypervisor. ESX is a type 1 which means no special messy drivers to translate things back and forth. The guests can talk to the hardware directly in a type 1 which means no slow down unless hardware is overloaded. ESX is a totally different product!
The only thing that may even kind of come close is Hyper-V on Windows which is a type-1. If you have the pro version of 8 - 10 you can enable it and play with it and see how much better it is compared to VirtualBox and Vmware workstation? But last I saw checkpoints were not production ready??? What?! Seriously? I use them at home but with checkpoints and until MS can guarantee I can do a checkpoint what choice do I have at work but to use ESX to manage virtually everything that is not tied down to solo host servers.
Windows 7/OpenBSD/MacOSX/Server 2008 R2 and later use virtual ram addresses that are scrambled to prevent this and injections. This is one of the oldest cracker techniques in the book after buffer overflows. Linux doesn't have this?
It most certainly is an IT and business process failure. No redundancy? If system is too old to be clustered then I disagree with grandparent if it ain't broke don't fix it. Problem is it is!
There is a book out there called if it ain't broke break it! The death of any incompetent company is the one who follows if it ain't broke don't fix it. Successful turnarounds are never from companies who fear change and only do what works. It is those who change mindsets and actions.
They are. Supercomputers do a check and both buy and sell a stock at the same time to set the price at high frequency volumes. What you think a person actually trades today?
Only 90 days count for the CEOs to beat the computer to get their bonus
Snap is an alternative package manager which is a container. It includes the APIs and dependencies making it more portable to use than.Deb's. I believe it is how WSL for Windows 10 got ported.
They can do it if you have the professional edition of Windows 8/10.
I use it because it is cheaper than VMWare workstation and it is a real type 1 hypervisor like VMWare ESX. Not a crappy one like VirtualPC (different product), Virtualobx, or VMware workstation.
That is one thing I wish Linux had as a host. ESX is not cheap nor free for real type1 with no obscure drivers as the guests can use the host hardware natively.
The grandparent stated they do 0 patching and testing and defended it.
Very different than applying only crucial updates and waiting a month to 6 weeks for misc security patches to verify they are not problematic. A competent system administrator checks weekly for security bulletins, does testing and pushes things out within a few weeks or right away if a big scare hits the news like shellshock or code red. Testing of course too.
My credit card data was stolen 3 times due to incompetent IT at Wendy's, Home Depot, and TigerDirect. Probably from the same folks who bash updates here with a smile.
Just like Linux you need to have special privileges to change anything important with the ACL lists of NTFS just like ext3.
I highly doubt malware will target this. I mean besides those using SQL insertion exploits for server databases no one targets Linux on the desktop. No one is going to be running a server with this anyway.
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It is comical to think that IT departments can "pick and choose" which patches to install. They aren't qualified to know which are important or not. I know a lot of corporate IT does this: they select only selected patches that they have supposedly "tested".
Ok explain how you can secure 5,000 machines where a single infection with ransomwaqre can get you reprimanded AND not have anything break?
This was covered here last year. A Chrome engineer found it! The theory is the NSA did it to track terrorists as they would use the wifi on air to communicate to other terrorists
United. Go look in Chrome under certificates? Surprise they are signed by the wifi company!
It has too many colors and skumorphism with 3d icons showing what the computer can do with even file menus!! eww like soo last decade.
I want a cell phone interface. It needs to be like 1990 to be more modern with no multitasking and complete flat with low colors and blinding white in the background. Man, we just want to consume content and nothing elzse. These things like options are for old people. Why can't there be decisions made for us with humburger menus like our phones to emulate 5 inch screens.
Man unhip and these things called desktops are so old school for old people who think you need to write scripts and thing and stuff. Guess they haven't discovered the app store to solve every problem
The only way to do this is spearfish style from Lennovo which means inserting a forged SSL certificate by the firewall to inspect the traffic. Corporations do this to spy on their employees and so do airlines wifi which replace signed websites with their own certificate.
But I think it is obvious here why this is not a good idea.
I am with the professional edition.
I have deferred updates on and windows 8 style warnings and times for updates. I do not have this problem.
The user with the medical equipment on a home edition is an idiot and is breaking the law as you need to pay for FDA certification. He should still be using XP service pack 2 or something for the scanners
Let the office machines run on a modern OS
Not to mention bash on Windows and half of Ubuntu!
Much larger game library too.
Developers love the console. DRM, same common hardware, can't pirate etc
Not true.
For one the games on PC are really optimized for the xbone and will run like crap. Example? The shadow of mordor requires 4 to really 8 gigs of video ram to run well?? That is because the consoles have shared memory.
Batman Arkham nights could slow a $2000 PC easily to a crawl because it optimized for a console and an Indian third party did the PC port. It was so horrible it was pulled from the market. I heard it came back recently.
Also you are comparing 2016 specs and not 2013 specs so that is not fair since the current consoles are near EOL.
Go Google YouTube videos on this? The console smoke checks the pcs if you go under $500.
No one cares about the PC anymore sadly and publishers obsess over piracy and market share.
Comparing ESX to VMware Workstation is like comparing Red Hat Enterprise Linux to Knoppix. VMware Workstation was basically a get-mindshare product for them, that most people used for free and which they never cared too much about.
More like Minux to Gnu/Linux. Not in the same league and a different product. VMWare Workstation is quite expensive and no longer supported by Dell from what I read since Hyper-V is now available for free with Windows 8-10 pro/enterprise.
I don't know about the ESX version, but in my opinion, VMWare Workstation is a heap of steaming crap. We see VMs that slow down, even though the slow VM is the single VM that is busy on the host. Frequent re-starts appear to be the only solution to this.
We tried a shared filesystem (shared between the host and other guests) and performance was terrible.
Combined with VMWare firing the desktop developers, I cannot understand why anyone would pay for this.
Well try running a whole enterprise with clustering, eSAN storage, virtual switching, failovers, cloud integration for backups, expiring VM's, auditing for infosec, ability to move the VM's anywhere, and command line tools to automate tens of thousands of virtual servers all on virtualbox and let me see how far you get?
FYI Vmware workstation is their obsolete product they made in 1998 which is a type 2 hypervisor. ESX is a type 1 which means no special messy drivers to translate things back and forth. The guests can talk to the hardware directly in a type 1 which means no slow down unless hardware is overloaded. ESX is a totally different product!
The only thing that may even kind of come close is Hyper-V on Windows which is a type-1. If you have the pro version of 8 - 10 you can enable it and play with it and see how much better it is compared to VirtualBox and Vmware workstation? But last I saw checkpoints were not production ready??? What?! Seriously? I use them at home but with checkpoints and until MS can guarantee I can do a checkpoint what choice do I have at work but to use ESX to manage virtually everything that is not tied down to solo host servers.
You forgot the $799 per core SCO licensing in your email
Windows 7/OpenBSD/MacOSX/Server 2008 R2 and later use virtual ram addresses that are scrambled to prevent this and injections. This is one of the oldest cracker techniques in the book after buffer overflows. Linux doesn't have this?
So you don't like kittens??
You cruel heartless bastard! We have a term for you all. You are called Ed users. Even Vi users like Kittens, but maybe not cats
It most certainly is an IT and business process failure. No redundancy? If system is too old to be clustered then I disagree with grandparent if it ain't broke don't fix it. Problem is it is!
There is a book out there called if it ain't broke break it! The death of any incompetent company is the one who follows if it ain't broke don't fix it. Successful turnarounds are never from companies who fear change and only do what works. It is those who change mindsets and actions.
Or you fire the IT guy and put the blame on him. Our former company cut back and demanded a 99.7% uptime to a 100% after a budget cut even.
IT is a cost center which yields 0 return on investment compared to planes
LOL
They are. Supercomputers do a check and both buy and sell a stock at the same time to set the price at high frequency volumes. What you think a person actually trades today?
Only 90 days count for the CEOs to beat the computer to get their bonus
Snap is an alternative package manager which is a container. It includes the APIs and dependencies making it more portable to use than .Deb's. I believe it is how WSL for Windows 10 got ported.
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Change happens and life continues just fine. You can still continue to use what works
They can do it if you have the professional edition of Windows 8/10.
I use it because it is cheaper than VMWare workstation and it is a real type 1 hypervisor like VMWare ESX. Not a crappy one like VirtualPC (different product), Virtualobx, or VMware workstation.
That is one thing I wish Linux had as a host. ESX is not cheap nor free for real type1 with no obscure drivers as the guests can use the host hardware natively.
Dude WSL is no way NEAR server grade stability.
If you have a MS lacky CIO you run these in Hyper-V oin a VM and run the OS host natively than use a hack like this.
The grandparent stated they do 0 patching and testing and defended it.
Very different than applying only crucial updates and waiting a month to 6 weeks for misc security patches to verify they are not problematic. A competent system administrator checks weekly for security bulletins, does testing and pushes things out within a few weeks or right away if a big scare hits the news like shellshock or code red. Testing of course too.
My credit card data was stolen 3 times due to incompetent IT at Wendy's, Home Depot, and TigerDirect. Probably from the same folks who bash updates here with a smile.
They have a hypervisor. It is called Hyper-V if you care and supported Ubuntu for awhile now.
Just like Linux you need to have special privileges to change anything important with the ACL lists of NTFS just like ext3.
I highly doubt malware will target this. I mean besides those using SQL insertion exploits for server databases no one targets Linux on the desktop. No one is going to be running a server with this anyway.