No but drinking from the annual MS BUILD conference is a press worthy IT event and yes they do PR. Get over it as it ends tomorrow anyway.
During LinuxWorld or a Redhat conference you will see... shock Linux and FOSS stuff.
If the other tech sites like Neowin.net and arstechnica.com get the scope 1st subscribers will go there instead so yes.
FYI if you really hate MS and want to hear no news of it go into your login profile and edit the stories out. VIOLA no MS or Windows news. Slashcode is customizable for the user.
Believe it or not, many here do work in the Microsoft "ecosystem" and so are interested in these things. Also, the non-Microsoft stories far out number the Microsoft stories.
Dude VS 2015 is the most multiplatform version ever. No I am not paid by MS.
After Gates and Balmer, MS has made Android SDK and emulators, ported Clang to Windows, added GIT and git hub, adding Mac OSX and Linux to VS online, added support for making Xaramin and mono apps, made CentOS and Ubuntu virtual machines for Azure, open sourced and ported Powershell to Linux, made MS code editor and ported it to Linux and MacOSX, open sourced their.NET compiler and frameworks, made VS 2015 for free aka community edition which is not crippled!
Oh and ubuntu is going to run with bash on Windows 10 with apt-get. Oh and SQL Server is on Linux now too!
No folks you did not misread what I wrote.
Linux FOSS is not an OS but a religion for many on here. If you have strong blinders on how is anyone different from a creationist denying evolution?
I am not paid or a troll but if I had to choose between Oracle and MS, I would pick MS in 2015. Something unthinkable in 2001 when I too believed in the theology of free software liberation and wanted MS to die. But, like IBM things changed with competition and I grew up too.
MS may not have historically made the best operating systems. But, their business software is very strong. I see Visual Studio as being more open and better in recent releases
Talks cheap, till you have pay for it. If the machines existed today, they'd be purchased; regardless of the minimum wage. Those machines that do exist are being purchased, today. And it's OK for Papa Johns to get his panties in a twist.
They already exist for Red Robbin. Unless it is an old location I won't go as their fries are now frozen and the patties are thrown into a toaster and no longer custom cooked on the grill the way you like it.
The reason is up front costs. Share holders love no variation in costs or profits. Just a smooth ride always going up 10% a year for infinity. So to spend $60,000 in robots to save $180,000 in 5 years is not feasible. Now it is to spend $60,000 to save $390,000 in 5 years! At that rate a 10 year 5% interest loan for $390,000 is cheaper than to pay the employees.
For quarterly results and monthly profits accountants always look at the monthly costs even if they can save more long term. Stupid, but hey automated computer programs determine the share price now:-)
I don't know about anyone else, but if I go to a real sit-down restaurant, I want an actual human server, not a robot or some other form of 'automation', and I sure as heck don't want a robot or some automation preparing my food, either. If that was my only other choice then I'd just as soon stay home and cook my own food.
I used to be a fan of Red Robbin. One day a manager told me how excited he was he was moving to a new location where he could cut staff by 50%. The burgers were dry I noticed.
It turns out they bought a toaster oven and just throw the patties in where they are under a heat lamp. No fry cook needed. Can I custom order a burger with medium or medium rare? Nope. Only 1 guy in the kitchen. Everything is now frozen or pre-made and the patties get thrown into a toaster every 5 minutes and are grabbed. Instant savings!
It is not just the wait staff that are automated. McDonalds would love to have robots do all the work in the bank. They will in California soon!
I completely agree with the statement that Win10 is not enterprise ready. Hell, the GPOs for Win10 haven't even been out for more than a few months and some of them don't even work still.
However, the bit about Win10 being worse than Win98 is pretty funny. At least Windows 10 has USB support out of the box;)
Every major Windows release has had a period of several months where drivers are not 100% and application makers need to update their code to work properly.
In a year or two I expect Win10 will be the new Win7 in the enterprise.
Windows 98SE had some bugs but WORKED.
Windows 7 worked great. Windows 2000 worked great. Windows XP mostly were great but with some glitches until SP 2 here and there and some app compatibilities.
Windows 10... it is still changing. Just look at the control panel vs pc settings. Things vanish from the start menu. Windows Update breaks. Corruption which SFC and DISM can not fix. Windows U pdates that break the system. NFS not keeping persistent connections. EDGE crashing worse than IE 6 back in the day.
These are not driver issues but a shift to Firefox style agile development which is hostile to the user but great for project managers. In my opinion, Windows 10 should have not been released until Redstone later this year. It is a beta
Windows 10 makes Vista the grandchild of stability.
I write pro MS comments here since 2011 when I gave up on Unix on the desktop these days from my past. However, I still use Windows 8.1 with a start menu replacement due to so many problems I wrote here listing my compliants.
Folks Windows has improved tremendously and is no longer the POS of win98... with the exception of 10.
SAP, Oracle, and many products do not work right yet and HP printers will get constant disconnects with NFS so IT IS NOT ENTERPRISE READY.
Personally, I do not see the pint of this in 2016. If you need Linux or better yet if you need Windows use a VM. SSD's and ram are cheap and Windows 8.1 and later come with Hyper-V and Virtualbox is available too for Linux. Run the OS for hte job you need. Windows Powershell deals with objects and would be better than Bash in an win32 environment. Apple is at least based on Unix. So if you love Bash and mysql fire up a VM. I have like a dozen on my pc at home.
I have never in my years used Cygwin or Wine. Run the right OS for it's intended purpose and use a VM for anything else. To me both are not worth the effort.
Why bother with outdated and buggy Cytgwin when you can run the real thing. If you are stuck using Windows at work or need it for work at home and use Windows as a client OS enable Hyper-V as it is a type 1 hypervisor free with the professional edition.
Infact, this is the only reason I ditched 7 for 8.1 with a start menu replacement and Hyper-V as VMWare Workstation is no longer made and does suck.
I use pfsense and have several virtual switches in a VM. I have a GNFS 3 virtual cisco router, Linux Mint 17, FreeBSD 10.2, a ton of virtual domains and other Windows Servers.I use powershell on my windows box and use bash natively on the guest operating systems. Visual Studio too has GIT and ODBC hive support in 2015 community edition so you can remote into your virtual boxes and use Windows strength for great client side apps and use Linux strength as great server apps on the backend if you write code.
This would have been cool 10 years ago before SSD's and cheap ram with lots of cores and hyperthreading was normal. But not today in 2015.
I just downgraded to a 2 meg connection for $80 a month so I won't go over the cap with Comcast which was 30 megs. I have no choice in the matter and feel that is a good deal if AT&T won't do caps. 10 megs if fine. DSL is fine for streaming and more appropriate for geeks who do 100 gig caps easily each month. Cable operators are jerks in the matter where they sell LOOK 100 megs... only 2 gig cap and $10 for each other gig in very small print.
I know the European readers are shocked and or laughing in disbelief at my comment but welcome to America.
It is amazing it has moved so much and yet we survived in the past 6,000 years!
I wonder if helped caused Noah's flood with all the moisture coming out and turned several people into sulfur salts at the dead sea as described by the book of genesis!
In the crash of 2008, quite a few very good people were thrown out on the street. And many are grateful to get a job. I'm getting people who used to be paid $80K/year for $65K. New grads for less than $40K.
Many unemployed IT workers and developers have never recovered because of the asinine hiring practices of people. My neighbor, who was also a developer, was shit canned because the new 20 something who came in to run the place told him that he was too old to know anything and he didn't have a degree from Stanford - as far as he was concerned, no Stanford degree == you're stupid. And even though age discrimination is illegal, just try to prove it. "You don't have the skills." goes a long way.
I had a discussion with recruiter recently who bitched and moaned how they have to get into these bidding wars for new CS grads. I was incredulous. I told her that I don't see that at my local university. She said that she only recruits from top schools. Which to her, GA Tech is a top school.
So, you have one guy who thinks Stanford is it and some other person who thinks GA Tech is it.
In the meantime, they bitch how there aren't enough "good" people when the reality is that they are just snobs.
Gimme a hard working sharp kid who went to state and I get a value with no bullshit ego crap. I get kids from state who commuted to school, have no student loans. Are ambitious, creative and smart - but they just don't have the name recognition of a good school. They work harder to overcome the prejudice.
tl;dr: the IT employment practices are fucking retarded.
It may not be 1999 anymore, but it is not 2008 anymore either. No one cares where you went to school unless it is your 1st job. If you suck on your resume a degree from harvard won't save you. If you rock on your resume with 7 years experience showing more responsibility any degree will help and sometimes an employer will ignore the degree requirements.
Sounds to me from your post you are new. Yes, it sucks in the real world but realize who you are. You are a kid with no real world experience so your first job if you made the mistake of not interning is to start help desk and at the bottom until you get your certs and some recommendations and experience. Then move on to the next big thing. But you can't move up until you are over qualified at the job you currently have.
No one will TOUCH a non Intel cpu for a server. Too much risk and a reputation of unreliable for many PHB who remember some of the shitty VIA and nforce chipsets of athlonXP's last decade. Windows Server and Linux are well supported with Intel cpus and chipsets.
My point was a fast CPU that is about as fast as 2014 won't cut it for OEM sales if it doesn't support thunderbolt 3 aka USB type c, insane power efficiency, and SOI silicon on a chip features to cut down on size for tablet use.
The MS surface is very popular and hot now outside of what is said on slashdot and executives want small, light, and power efficient yet fast. Can AMD deliver? The Xeon for servers is a class on it's own and I do not think AMD has a chance unless they sell some desktop cpus for many years and have some whitepapers and other people testing out things before they trust it in the datacenter.
They don't suck that bad. 40% bump will bring them within 2013/2014 haswell i5 46xxx and 47xxx territory. What Skylake has over haswell is integrated wifi, usb type c/thunderbolt3, and compared to AMD raid intel rst and insane power efficiency.
If AMD can't offer this it is dead and obsolete as OEMs are busy targetting the surface making tablets and hybrids with all these features and 10 hour battery life.
If I read advice here from 2005 most Slashdoters thought there would be 0 IT jobs here by now.
Guess what? We are still employed and get paid alot!
The only jobs are non important entry level work. Any Indian who knows his shit is here on h1b1 visa making the same. Yes same as senior engineer because of his skillset.
Once you pull in 3 years you go visa and work 2 more. After 5 you are no longer cheap.
Employers found a steal in 1999 but that went away in 2016. The cheap talented worker is rare indeed.
Still it is good to use a standards compliant api and c++ that is not tied too heavy on one product.
In other news But the big elephant in the room is the switch to VC2015 means the death of XP and Vista.
Is Chrome dropping support for XP finally? Will these users get ransomware from using an unpatched and unsupported browser now if Chromium (the foundation of Chrome) is not compatible?
Online is not an ideal or feature complete way to do office full time. It is a great tool to view and do a few edits on another pc but that is about it. Now if Office 2016 supports Windows 10 better then maybe Redmond can be a great killer.
I think this one may finally be the Windows 10 killer. With all the Office functionality, modern web browsers, professional programming tools combined with ease of use and great hardware compatibility there's really no reason not to make the jump. There's probably some concern in Redmond this morning.
And probably twice as stable too:-)
Oddly I tried WIndows 10 for the last time earlier this week. VIsual Studio couldn't install any phone or Android SDKs in hyper-v and the icons are not even in the taskbar. Windows 8.1 with a start menu program it is unfortunately. Sigh... there is no way it will be ready this Summer when the free cutoff is.
But in a more serious note
Serious linux fans but NO.
We had 15 years. No apps, with the exception of 10 it just works and continues to work, comes with pc, our jobs require profeciency in that platform, and for a non programmer (Even programmer) lots and lots of world class apps. Office, Adobe suite, pro engineer, skype, GPO objects, active directory, and Visual Studio which includes Gnome and Android app development (no you did not misread that). Oh, for my Hyper-V as it is a type-1 hypervisor unlike the now defunct VMWare workstation which is no longer supported and the aging Oracle Virtualbox. I run my Unix vm's under that which Liinux and FreeBSD have Hyper-V guest services packages.
Slashdot Mirror
There sure is
No but drinking from the annual MS BUILD conference is a press worthy IT event and yes they do PR. Get over it as it ends tomorrow anyway.
During LinuxWorld or a Redhat conference you will see ... shock Linux and FOSS stuff.
If the other tech sites like Neowin.net and arstechnica.com get the scope 1st subscribers will go there instead so yes.
FYI if you really hate MS and want to hear no news of it go into your login profile and edit the stories out. VIOLA no MS or Windows news. Slashcode is customizable for the user.
Believe it or not, many here do work in the Microsoft "ecosystem" and so are interested in these things. Also, the non-Microsoft stories far out number the Microsoft stories.
Dude VS 2015 is the most multiplatform version ever. No I am not paid by MS.
After Gates and Balmer, MS has made Android SDK and emulators, ported Clang to Windows, added GIT and git hub, adding Mac OSX and Linux to VS online, added support for making Xaramin and mono apps, made CentOS and Ubuntu virtual machines for Azure, open sourced and ported Powershell to Linux, made MS code editor and ported it to Linux and MacOSX, open sourced their .NET compiler and frameworks, made VS 2015 for free aka community edition which is not crippled!
Oh and ubuntu is going to run with bash on Windows 10 with apt-get. Oh and SQL Server is on Linux now too!
No folks you did not misread what I wrote.
Linux FOSS is not an OS but a religion for many on here. If you have strong blinders on how is anyone different from a creationist denying evolution?
I am not paid or a troll but if I had to choose between Oracle and MS, I would pick MS in 2015. Something unthinkable in 2001 when I too believed in the theology of free software liberation and wanted MS to die. But, like IBM things changed with competition and I grew up too.
MS may not have historically made the best operating systems. But, their business software is very strong. I see Visual Studio as being more open and better in recent releases
Talks cheap, till you have pay for it. If the machines existed today, they'd be purchased; regardless of the minimum wage. Those machines that do exist are being purchased, today. And it's OK for Papa Johns to get his panties in a twist.
They already exist for Red Robbin. Unless it is an old location I won't go as their fries are now frozen and the patties are thrown into a toaster and no longer custom cooked on the grill the way you like it.
The reason is up front costs. Share holders love no variation in costs or profits. Just a smooth ride always going up 10% a year for infinity. So to spend $60,000 in robots to save $180,000 in 5 years is not feasible. Now it is to spend $60,000 to save $390,000 in 5 years! At that rate a 10 year 5% interest loan for $390,000 is cheaper than to pay the employees.
For quarterly results and monthly profits accountants always look at the monthly costs even if they can save more long term. Stupid, but hey automated computer programs determine the share price now :-)
I don't know about anyone else, but if I go to a real sit-down restaurant, I want an actual human server, not a robot or some other form of 'automation', and I sure as heck don't want a robot or some automation preparing my food, either. If that was my only other choice then I'd just as soon stay home and cook my own food.
I used to be a fan of Red Robbin. One day a manager told me how excited he was he was moving to a new location where he could cut staff by 50%. The burgers were dry I noticed.
It turns out they bought a toaster oven and just throw the patties in where they are under a heat lamp. No fry cook needed. Can I custom order a burger with medium or medium rare? Nope. Only 1 guy in the kitchen. Everything is now frozen or pre-made and the patties get thrown into a toaster every 5 minutes and are grabbed. Instant savings!
It is not just the wait staff that are automated. McDonalds would love to have robots do all the work in the bank. They will in California soon!
I completely agree with the statement that Win10 is not enterprise ready. Hell, the GPOs for Win10 haven't even been out for more than a few months and some of them don't even work still.
However, the bit about Win10 being worse than Win98 is pretty funny. At least Windows 10 has USB support out of the box ;)
Every major Windows release has had a period of several months where drivers are not 100% and application makers need to update their code to work properly.
In a year or two I expect Win10 will be the new Win7 in the enterprise.
Windows 98SE had some bugs but WORKED.
Windows 7 worked great. Windows 2000 worked great. Windows XP mostly were great but with some glitches until SP 2 here and there and some app compatibilities.
Windows 10 ... it is still changing. Just look at the control panel vs pc settings. Things vanish from the start menu. Windows Update breaks. Corruption which SFC and DISM can not fix. Windows U pdates that break the system. NFS not keeping persistent connections. EDGE crashing worse than IE 6 back in the day.
These are not driver issues but a shift to Firefox style agile development which is hostile to the user but great for project managers. In my opinion, Windows 10 should have not been released until Redstone later this year. It is a beta
Windows 10 makes Vista the grandchild of stability.
I write pro MS comments here since 2011 when I gave up on Unix on the desktop these days from my past. However, I still use Windows 8.1 with a start menu replacement due to so many problems I wrote here listing my compliants.
Folks Windows has improved tremendously and is no longer the POS of win98 ... with the exception of 10.
SAP, Oracle, and many products do not work right yet and HP printers will get constant disconnects with NFS so IT IS NOT ENTERPRISE READY.
Personally, I do not see the pint of this in 2016. If you need Linux or better yet if you need Windows use a VM. SSD's and ram are cheap and Windows 8.1 and later come with Hyper-V and Virtualbox is available too for Linux. Run the OS for hte job you need. Windows Powershell deals with objects and would be better than Bash in an win32 environment. Apple is at least based on Unix. So if you love Bash and mysql fire up a VM. I have like a dozen on my pc at home.
I have never in my years used Cygwin or Wine. Run the right OS for it's intended purpose and use a VM for anything else. To me both are not worth the effort.
Why bother with outdated and buggy Cytgwin when you can run the real thing. If you are stuck using Windows at work or need it for work at home and use Windows as a client OS enable Hyper-V as it is a type 1 hypervisor free with the professional edition.
Infact, this is the only reason I ditched 7 for 8.1 with a start menu replacement and Hyper-V as VMWare Workstation is no longer made and does suck.
I use pfsense and have several virtual switches in a VM. I have a GNFS 3 virtual cisco router, Linux Mint 17, FreeBSD 10.2, a ton of virtual domains and other Windows Servers.I use powershell on my windows box and use bash natively on the guest operating systems. Visual Studio too has GIT and ODBC hive support in 2015 community edition so you can remote into your virtual boxes and use Windows strength for great client side apps and use Linux strength as great server apps on the backend if you write code.
This would have been cool 10 years ago before SSD's and cheap ram with lots of cores and hyperthreading was normal. But not today in 2015.
Why?
You get the compatibility of Linux apps with the world class stability and reliability of Windows 10. Who could want anything more??
MS Hyper-V team is working on porting the Linux drive for the guest services to be compatible with the latest version.
I just downgraded to a 2 meg connection for $80 a month so I won't go over the cap with Comcast which was 30 megs. I have no choice in the matter and feel that is a good deal if AT&T won't do caps. 10 megs if fine. DSL is fine for streaming and more appropriate for geeks who do 100 gig caps easily each month. Cable operators are jerks in the matter where they sell LOOK 100 megs ... only 2 gig cap and $10 for each other gig in very small print.
I know the European readers are shocked and or laughing in disbelief at my comment but welcome to America.
I switched to qtbittorent. Free and opensouce and light since utorrent went the bad way
Wasn't this the one with the bitcoin miner where you pay the electric bill for someone elses coins?
But only node.js can be a total rockstar language man
It is amazing it has moved so much and yet we survived in the past 6,000 years!
I wonder if helped caused Noah's flood with all the moisture coming out and turned several people into sulfur salts at the dead sea as described by the book of genesis!
When people here filesystem they think of a disk file system.
Maybe calling it Orange Clustering System might be a more descriptive name?
The cheap talented worker is rare indeed.
They're easy to get.
In the crash of 2008, quite a few very good people were thrown out on the street. And many are grateful to get a job. I'm getting people who used to be paid $80K/year for $65K. New grads for less than $40K.
Many unemployed IT workers and developers have never recovered because of the asinine hiring practices of people. My neighbor, who was also a developer, was shit canned because the new 20 something who came in to run the place told him that he was too old to know anything and he didn't have a degree from Stanford - as far as he was concerned, no Stanford degree == you're stupid. And even though age discrimination is illegal, just try to prove it. "You don't have the skills." goes a long way.
I had a discussion with recruiter recently who bitched and moaned how they have to get into these bidding wars for new CS grads. I was incredulous. I told her that I don't see that at my local university. She said that she only recruits from top schools. Which to her, GA Tech is a top school.
So, you have one guy who thinks Stanford is it and some other person who thinks GA Tech is it.
In the meantime, they bitch how there aren't enough "good" people when the reality is that they are just snobs.
Gimme a hard working sharp kid who went to state and I get a value with no bullshit ego crap. I get kids from state who commuted to school, have no student loans. Are ambitious, creative and smart - but they just don't have the name recognition of a good school. They work harder to overcome the prejudice.
tl;dr: the IT employment practices are fucking retarded.
It may not be 1999 anymore, but it is not 2008 anymore either. No one cares where you went to school unless it is your 1st job. If you suck on your resume a degree from harvard won't save you. If you rock on your resume with 7 years experience showing more responsibility any degree will help and sometimes an employer will ignore the degree requirements.
Sounds to me from your post you are new. Yes, it sucks in the real world but realize who you are. You are a kid with no real world experience so your first job if you made the mistake of not interning is to start help desk and at the bottom until you get your certs and some recommendations and experience. Then move on to the next big thing. But you can't move up until you are over qualified at the job you currently have.
Disney kept their senior IT staff.
No one will TOUCH a non Intel cpu for a server. Too much risk and a reputation of unreliable for many PHB who remember some of the shitty VIA and nforce chipsets of athlonXP's last decade. Windows Server and Linux are well supported with Intel cpus and chipsets.
My point was a fast CPU that is about as fast as 2014 won't cut it for OEM sales if it doesn't support thunderbolt 3 aka USB type c, insane power efficiency, and SOI silicon on a chip features to cut down on size for tablet use.
The MS surface is very popular and hot now outside of what is said on slashdot and executives want small, light, and power efficient yet fast. Can AMD deliver? The Xeon for servers is a class on it's own and I do not think AMD has a chance unless they sell some desktop cpus for many years and have some whitepapers and other people testing out things before they trust it in the datacenter.
They don't suck that bad. 40% bump will bring them within 2013/2014 haswell i5 46xxx and 47xxx territory. What Skylake has over haswell is integrated wifi, usb type c/thunderbolt3, and compared to AMD raid intel rst and insane power efficiency.
If AMD can't offer this it is dead and obsolete as OEMs are busy targetting the surface making tablets and hybrids with all these features and 10 hour battery life.
No one cares about the geek gamers rig.
But but look at the excel spreadsheet! Half the costs??!
If I read advice here from 2005 most Slashdoters thought there would be 0 IT jobs here by now.
Guess what? We are still employed and get paid alot!
The only jobs are non important entry level work. Any Indian who knows his shit is here on h1b1 visa making the same. Yes same as senior engineer because of his skillset.
Once you pull in 3 years you go visa and work 2 more. After 5 you are no longer cheap.
Employers found a steal in 1999 but that went away in 2016. The cheap talented worker is rare indeed.
If an opensource developer must target Windows he or she can use clang with VS 2015 community edition just fine or vim?
Still it is good to use a standards compliant api and c++ that is not tied too heavy on one product.
In other news
But the big elephant in the room is the switch to VC2015 means the death of XP and Vista.
Is Chrome dropping support for XP finally? Will these users get ransomware from using an unpatched and unsupported browser now if Chromium (the foundation of Chrome) is not compatible?
Online is not an ideal or feature complete way to do office full time. It is a great tool to view and do a few edits on another pc but that is about it. Now if Office 2016 supports Windows 10 better then maybe Redmond can be a great killer.
I think this one may finally be the Windows 10 killer. With all the Office functionality, modern web browsers, professional programming tools combined with ease of use and great hardware compatibility there's really no reason not to make the jump. There's probably some concern in Redmond this morning.
And probably twice as stable too :-)
Oddly I tried WIndows 10 for the last time earlier this week. VIsual Studio couldn't install any phone or Android SDKs in hyper-v and the icons are not even in the taskbar. Windows 8.1 with a start menu program it is unfortunately. Sigh ... there is no way it will be ready this Summer when the free cutoff is.
But in a more serious note
Serious linux fans but NO.
We had 15 years. No apps, with the exception of 10 it just works and continues to work, comes with pc, our jobs require profeciency in that platform, and for a non programmer (Even programmer) lots and lots of world class apps. Office, Adobe suite, pro engineer, skype, GPO objects, active directory, and Visual Studio which includes Gnome and Android app development (no you did not misread that). Oh, for my Hyper-V as it is a type-1 hypervisor unlike the now defunct VMWare workstation which is no longer supported and the aging Oracle Virtualbox. I run my Unix vm's under that which Liinux and FreeBSD have Hyper-V guest services packages.
I plan to run Ubuntu this way.