Those like my employer where my present location has 1100 seats. I can't go around installing printer drivers all day or close the company down because we had to move a copier and the installed print driver only works for a specific port.
Reinstalling the driver 1100 times is not an option!
If you use a type 1 hypervisor like Hyper-V for the pro versions of Windows it will use hardware directly unlike the crappy VMware Workstation and virtualbox
Still the professional editions of Windows come with Hyper-V these days so why bother? This would be useful in the Windows 7 days for those non administrators who didn't want to shell big bucks for VMWare workstation. Of course for a few dollars a month you can get Azure or Amazon E3 clouds
These aren't POSIX API calls in legal but not spirit of interoperability. This is the full APIs and libraries of Ubuntu.
My hunch is since Bill Gates left MS is still scared of the web and now the threat of mobile and clouds.
What MS is doing under the new CEO is throwing in the towel of compatibility games of the 1990s and targeting hipsters with VS 2015 supporting Android, Linux, and open standards web development. No you did not misread that. MS has their own flavor of Freebsd 10.3 for Azure and full Linux support. MS has SQL server for Linux in development.
MS code uses node.js and runs on Linux and the move to bring Ubuntu to Windows is to target these developers and get a piece of the pie.
Odd today indeed! But benefits consumers as we win. I BM was the same before they lost.
Did you cry that XP didn't run on your 9 year old 486 in 2001 or Windows 95 won't run on your 9 year old 8086 IBM XT with 1 meg of ram? It happens. If you're on slashdot you are probably a geek who runs alternative OSes anyway. Run freebsd or get with the times?
Seriously I and I am sure many others are sick of the whining here.
I am not a troll but I am asking a serious question. What can Init do that SystemD can't? Explain?
Servers and my Vm's use SystemD just fine without issue. I watched youtube videos and SystemD can do everything init can and can write logs in txt, is editable, and from the looks of it an improvement over init as it is event driven without long scripts.
Java is COBOL 2.0. An object oriented 1990s version of its ancient cousin for running bloated complex legacy middleware on legacy systems or vms. As far as I am concerned it is just maintenance mode.
Microsoft won fair and square with.NET as much as I HATE typing this. Sun blew it! Oracle put the nails in the coffin.
If Sun got rid of AWT and Swing GUI libraries, made native compiled code executables for platforms and updated it's features with things like generics and a linq equivalent it could compete with C#, Python, and other languages.
I guess open source challenged it too for smaller projects as Ruby on rails, JavaScript based technologies like node.js, and Python matured while it choked. As far as I am concerned it is dead for new projects
Because at work the client and my coworkers will complain their Cisco secured mail which requires TLS 1.0 turned on!... will not work without java and javascript with insecure encryption enabled for security apparently.
Shit enterprise IT is always way behind since the turn of the century and hasn't been an innovator of newer stuff since the.com crash which now views IT as a cost and not an asset.
We can't update at work. This would require software to be updated that requires a monthly subscription of over $1000 a month! Why? So audio will work now in which flash version 16 works just fine?! Oh you say record in HTML 5?
OOps. Not happening as our clients still use IE 6 and they pay our bills. We use a website through server 2003 for all critical data which is HIPPA (facepalm) and the site will work up to IE 8 through quirks mode in 1999 IE 5.5 mode to display the flash training material which won't work with audio in any version above flash 16.
If you say something to the customer you will be fired at work. You are not authorized as IT and your boss and his boss is not authorized either and needs VP approval for a request like that to update. Also they can go to a competitor if we do not comply and we can't ahve that happening.
So yes your own pc is one thing but at work we have lots and lots of things that will never be ported thanks to Adobe greed with renting software and lots of things that need to be re-encoded or can't ever be re-encoded for compatibility.
The training department in HR uses an older verson of Adobe Captivate for their presentations and audio won't work with any newer version. Since Adobe only rents software I can't justify the $750 a month it will cost for all 3 users to update! Thanks adobe
So I will be fired or written up if we get any ransomware, but I can't use newer software. What a joy!
At home I use flashblock for Chrome and Adblock plus for Chrome and IE. Too bad I can't use it at work as my users are drooling idiots who will form a line at my office asking for why flash content won't work automatically and a funny little icon will apear that says click to play. Oh that is write our training links require IE 6 and IE 8 still
I wonder if snap is coming to Windows? It would be great to install snap packages regardless of OS since Ubuntu is coming to Windows 10 anniversary update
I am supporting Hillary not because I like her, but because I feel Trump is very dangerous! I would love to vote for Johnson if he becomes close in my state and campaign for him if it will make a difference. It is extremely hard to break the cycle but it has been done. When the Whigs disintegrate the radical unknown Republican party took over.
I think Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney, and others might support Johnson rather than Trump or Hillary. Especially if Sara Palin or Trump campaign against him for revenge.
Ross Perot came close in 1992 with 20% of the vote. This year is different and ripe for a new leader and party
No other time since the great depression and perhaps the 1850's did America become so disgusted with politics and the heads of both parties. The Whigs are turned into the Republican party is today when they splintered and got an unpopular leader. Hell, Republicans were a fringe party and even Lincoln admitted he was a Whig but turned to the new Republican party.
We have a dismal 15% approval rating of all parties and both houses. We have 2 terrible choices with Hillary or Trump. To top it off we have an angry conservative GOP base who HATES TRUMP and all he stands for. Romney is even considering supporting the Libertarian party but strongly disagrees on it's stance on drugs.
Most people do not know who Johnson is and independents who do like him, but worry he has no traction. If Romney and Paul Ryan endorse him that problem will go away.
Conservatives will fill at home most of the time with a Libertarian president. I think he maybe the next Ross Perot but we will see.
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Ha!
Told ya so. Let's see how secure your system stays
Those like my employer where my present location has 1100 seats. I can't go around installing printer drivers all day or close the company down because we had to move a copier and the installed print driver only works for a specific port.
Reinstalling the driver 1100 times is not an option!
Well I guess some folks here hate Windows soich that they fell running in played wine or a vm is superior to running if on Windows itself
If you use a type 1 hypervisor like Hyper-V for the pro versions of Windows it will use hardware directly unlike the crappy VMware Workstation and virtualbox
You are incompetent. IE 6 supports the proper box model
Still the professional editions of Windows come with Hyper-V these days so why bother? This would be useful in the Windows 7 days for those non administrators who didn't want to shell big bucks for VMWare workstation. Of course for a few dollars a month you can get Azure or Amazon E3 clouds
These aren't POSIX API calls in legal but not spirit of interoperability. This is the full APIs and libraries of Ubuntu.
My hunch is since Bill Gates left MS is still scared of the web and now the threat of mobile and clouds.
What MS is doing under the new CEO is throwing in the towel of compatibility games of the 1990s and targeting hipsters with VS 2015 supporting Android, Linux, and open standards web development. No you did not misread that. MS has their own flavor of Freebsd 10.3 for Azure and full Linux support. MS has SQL server for Linux in development.
MS code uses node.js and runs on Linux and the move to bring Ubuntu to Windows is to target these developers and get a piece of the pie.
Odd today indeed! But benefits consumers as we win. I BM was the same before they lost.
Hyper-V with nested vm support is cool too!
I disagree.
Did I mention my employment contract has overtime right including 4 hours of OT if I have to be called during the weekend?
Well in 2 years it will be nearly 10 years old!
Did you cry that XP didn't run on your 9 year old 486 in 2001 or Windows 95 won't run on your 9 year old 8086 IBM XT with 1 meg of ram? It happens. If you're on slashdot you are probably a geek who runs alternative OSes anyway. Run freebsd or get with the times?
Technology moves forward for the rest of us
Seriously I and I am sure many others are sick of the whining here.
I am not a troll but I am asking a serious question. What can Init do that SystemD can't? Explain?
Servers and my Vm's use SystemD just fine without issue. I watched youtube videos and SystemD can do everything init can and can write logs in txt, is editable, and from the looks of it an improvement over init as it is event driven without long scripts.
Doh!
Human Resources will not hire anyone with a gap in his or her employment history.
Only employed applicants with the right lingo for Taleo are interviewed. If no one still meets that? Then go overseas
Java is COBOL 2.0. An object oriented 1990s version of its ancient cousin for running bloated complex legacy middleware on legacy systems or vms. As far as I am concerned it is just maintenance mode.
Microsoft won fair and square with .NET as much as I HATE typing this. Sun blew it! Oracle put the nails in the coffin.
If Sun got rid of AWT and Swing GUI libraries, made native compiled code executables for platforms and updated it's features with things like generics and a linq equivalent it could compete with C#, Python, and other languages.
I guess open source challenged it too for smaller projects as Ruby on rails, JavaScript based technologies like node.js, and Python matured while it choked. As far as I am concerned it is dead for new projects
Never estimate the fear of change? Go research any XP story from 2014 here?
+5 WindowsXp BEST OS BEATS linux... 7 looks funny etc.
My favorite was about security being better on XP.
It is not the same one from 2005. The new one is also hackable and open and can even do vlans
Too bad they won't fit in 784k of ram
It only runs at 1.7ghz. My Pentium IV running XP runs at 4 GHz! Just ask any Joe Six pack who bought them over an AMD?
Because at work the client and my coworkers will complain their Cisco secured mail which requires TLS 1.0 turned on! ... will not work without java and javascript with insecure encryption enabled for security apparently.
Did you read the part about work??
Shit enterprise IT is always way behind since the turn of the century and hasn't been an innovator of newer stuff since the .com crash which now views IT as a cost and not an asset.
We can't update at work. This would require software to be updated that requires a monthly subscription of over $1000 a month! Why? So audio will work now in which flash version 16 works just fine?! Oh you say record in HTML 5?
OOps. Not happening as our clients still use IE 6 and they pay our bills. We use a website through server 2003 for all critical data which is HIPPA (facepalm) and the site will work up to IE 8 through quirks mode in 1999 IE 5.5 mode to display the flash training material which won't work with audio in any version above flash 16.
If you say something to the customer you will be fired at work. You are not authorized as IT and your boss and his boss is not authorized either and needs VP approval for a request like that to update. Also they can go to a competitor if we do not comply and we can't ahve that happening.
So yes your own pc is one thing but at work we have lots and lots of things that will never be ported thanks to Adobe greed with renting software and lots of things that need to be re-encoded or can't ever be re-encoded for compatibility.
The training department in HR uses an older verson of Adobe Captivate for their presentations and audio won't work with any newer version. Since Adobe only rents software I can't justify the $750 a month it will cost for all 3 users to update! Thanks adobe
So I will be fired or written up if we get any ransomware, but I can't use newer software. What a joy!
At home I use flashblock for Chrome and Adblock plus for Chrome and IE. Too bad I can't use it at work as my users are drooling idiots who will form a line at my office asking for why flash content won't work automatically and a funny little icon will apear that says click to play. Oh that is write our training links require IE 6 and IE 8 still
I wonder if snap is coming to Windows? It would be great to install snap packages regardless of OS since Ubuntu is coming to Windows 10 anniversary update
I am supporting Hillary not because I like her, but because I feel Trump is very dangerous! I would love to vote for Johnson if he becomes close in my state and campaign for him if it will make a difference. It is extremely hard to break the cycle but it has been done. When the Whigs disintegrate the radical unknown Republican party took over.
I think Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney, and others might support Johnson rather than Trump or Hillary. Especially if Sara Palin or Trump campaign against him for revenge.
Ross Perot came close in 1992 with 20% of the vote. This year is different and ripe for a new leader and party
No other time since the great depression and perhaps the 1850's did America become so disgusted with politics and the heads of both parties. The Whigs are turned into the Republican party is today when they splintered and got an unpopular leader. Hell, Republicans were a fringe party and even Lincoln admitted he was a Whig but turned to the new Republican party.
We have a dismal 15% approval rating of all parties and both houses. We have 2 terrible choices with Hillary or Trump. To top it off we have an angry conservative GOP base who HATES TRUMP and all he stands for. Romney is even considering supporting the Libertarian party but strongly disagrees on it's stance on drugs.
Most people do not know who Johnson is and independents who do like him, but worry he has no traction. If Romney and Paul Ryan endorse him that problem will go away.
Conservatives will fill at home most of the time with a Libertarian president. I think he maybe the next Ross Perot but we will see.
Well you could always renegotiate the deal?
Well I would rather have the rich waste it than have the grandparent listen to this