She claimed well how is it that you re-install that OS each time an update comes and xorg breaks?
Because you're a moron? I haven't yet needed to reinstall my Linux system, neither for updates, nor the usual "registry slowdowns", that keeps plaguing Windows.
Originally it was a dual boot Linux / Windows 98, but I got rid of the Windows partition because I never used it. Just how many times would I have needed to reinstall Windows, if I have used that?
Since Windows 7 changes are virtualized for the registry if something unusual is detected hence the UAC prompt "Did this install properly"
For what average Mom, teenage girl, and Joe six do not care if it reliably unmount all file systems in 3 seconds. An SSD with sleep is good enough. People do not root their phones. Your comment on telemetry is incorrect. Most are bug and security fixes and MS has been doing anonymous telemetry and so does Firefox, Chrome, and most win32 apps for half a decade now. Security? Windows 7 has ASLR, DEP, and other techiques, that Linux is playing catch up on. As MS really did suck I give Bill Gates credit for the security memo. MS has a security buddy for each project and Windows 7 and later have kernel level sandboxing and other features.
They do not want Killustrator knock offs, drivers breaking due to the lack of an ABI due to ideological reasons from Stallman, and a really stale GUI of FVWM.
They want to turn their pc on and get to work, play a game of wow, print some photos from a vacation, and go over a presentation for next week at all while it works without change for year after year reliable and consistently. Shoot you saw the XP die hards crying. Linux changed its guis many times over the same time frame.
Windows works. Sorry MS won the war before Linux became popular and Steve Jobs even admitted Microsoft won and the Mac lost hence the push for ipods, then iphones later on.
FreeBSD and Linux appliance VM's I get from turnkey linux in a hypervisor are fine. Unless you like an unusal geeky project or want to play with node.js there is no reason to run it at home. It is a different tool for a different problem.
Yeah there is shitty stuff too. Don't see what your you're trying to say.
What do you want to make a bet that AC has an Android phone and typed that from Chrome:-)
Viruses and bsod are so last decade since Windows is NT based now. But I suppose if you have not run Windows since 1999 you think Win98SE which is a dos shell based is how the world still runs where people need to re-image every 6 months and crashes 3 times a day because that is what they remember.
You know, every time I try to seriously use Linux, I end up hitting a brick wall of some sort. A few years ago, it was a driver issue that accelerated my laptop's pointer to about 10x faster than I could control, and this was on the lowest setting. Could never figure it out after half a day's research and tinkering, and that was enough for me. Off it went.
My latest attempt was with Linux Mint (which I really like, btw) in a VM. The most up-to-date version w/ Cinnamon crashes immediately on startup, so I have to use an older version (not a confidence-inspiring start). Initially, my machine connected to my NAS share fine using Samba. Unfortunately, Mercurial can't actually seem to lock files (Windows and Mac have no issues), so I can't push patches to the NAS shared repository, which I use to sync my development machines. Setting up an actual web-based repository - the recommended approach - doesn't look trivial for a Linux noob. Then, my network connection to my NAS disappeared (maybe after an update? not sure), and it won't come back for anything. It's just gone, and a few hours of research and tinkering hasn't brought it back. I looked at trying an alternative protocol (NFS), but had no luck figuring out how to get that to work either. Very frustrating.
This is how my experience with Linux goes. Every few years I get a hankering to try it, get beaten back by glitches, and think "ok, maybe I'll try again in a few years."
Here here.
The rapid anti Windows 10/8 on slashdot has many users screaming the world is coming to an end and I am switching to LINUX!
In reality I experienced the opposite by 2011 and gave up. Back then Windows 7 was amazing and aero was everything I wished gnome 2 would turn into when gnome3 came out:-( At the time I never had the wildest claim that MS would ever release a bad GUI so Windows fanboy I became after years and years of anti MS hatred.
What the changed me was my exwife. She said get this garbage off your system and go get a better job. I said excuse me?? She said her Vista works just fine but funny how I can't ever get Linux to just work. I went on saying WINDOWS SUX LINUX RUX etc etc. She claimed well how is it that you re-install that OS each time an update comes and xorg breaks? How about that time you tried to get ngnix working and forget how to fix it? Sigh
She was right. I was a freebsd fan at 1st and felt Linux to be more grown than designed and after 10 years gave up on Linux.
Folks I know this is a pro Linux website and I am serious not a troll as I read my posts from 2002 threatening to leave IT forever if Windows Server takes:-)... but, let's face it. Why do people need to be liberated? Windows most of the time is reliable and works thanks to NT/XP replacing 98. The 1990s are long long over and MS is not based on DOS anymore people! If you haven't ran Windows in 15 years this maybe surprising but for gamers like my exwife she wants ventrillo and World of warcraft to always work and not have an update break something or use a hack in WINE.
The only arguments I hear is spyware (but you all run smart TV's and use Android phones and Chrome) , reliability (Windows is more reliable on the desktop for about 10 years now), GUI (Windows 10 is fine and it is fear of change and familiarity). It is the same start menu but the icons now are more animated. OMG END OF THE WORLD. So take the tiles off and bam you got XP style start menu again.
I love FreeBSD and yes Linux. No really it has it's use as VM for development work and for certain servers. But I hate it on the desktop. I prefer Windows or MacOSX for the desktop and Unix for the Vm's. Let's face it who the hell wants to replace Excel, Witchers 3, and Photoshop for OpenOffice, TuxRacer, and the Gimp or kIllustrator? You love screwdrivers and that is fine. But hammers are needed too
I purposefully bought a dumb ons for my Ruko3. Smart TVs are stupid regardless of spying due to obsolescence and being locked in with a TV vendor who has a financial interest to have you buy another TV every year to get Android updates.
No thanks. When my Roku3 goes obsolete I'll just buy a new one. Not throw the whole thing out. Idiots.
FYI I almost dove Mac headfirst in 2010. Why not? Same issue. Video card is obsolete? Throw out $2000 machine and buy a new Mac! Uhm no
I hope you don't do any banking on your system. I use gwx control panel so I can still get my security updates without the nagware.
FYI Windows 10 is a little buggy but won't be bad once 10.1 Redstone comes out this summer to fix more of the bugs. MS has no plans for Windows 11 and want it macosx like with.1 updates each year. You're going to use it eventually whether you like it or not. Might as well go with Redstone while it is still free.
I like last.fm and crackle while I work and it's where the future is heading. Windows 7 is only a few years towards EOL.
XP and Vista were buggy too when new. Eventually they morphed to XP sp2 and 7 which were most solid ever
Great so you want Evangelical Christians who are the most active voting block to vote for supreme court nominees? You think it is bad now it will get worse as the GOP primaries for half of the government caters to this crowd.
There is a reason they are not elected and my evidence is they are the only branch of government left operational
The downside here is that means you can't just get rid of CPU intensive ads by disabling Flash.
Like the HTML5 video tag, that was supposed to free us from evil Flash, but just brought forth the unblockable autoplaying autoloading multimegabyte video ad, this isn't as great a piece of news as it might seem...
Guess I got to stick with obsolete IE. With corporate IE I do not have to worry about HTML 5 support:-)
But seriously why can't an adblocker block it? They can do domain checks on hte video links for cross site or not execute them if they are run from a javascript. Yes this will block fine content working today but it can be done.
What will your kids being doing with that business degree? It will be a lousy $15/hr job living with you as you can't survive on that being an assistant manager at the local grocery store.
IT pays more than anything. Face it times have changed. In the old days a bachelors degree meant senior level management jobs making 70k fresh out of school when adjusted for inflation. Today a business or economics degree means being a secretary or answering phones at a real estate office somewhere oh the boss wanted his decafee with Soy Latte. Get it right next time ok?
I am just now a tech who does some AD work because some idiot on Slashdot 10 years ago said to not major in IT. DUH! My buddies who did are rich and own homes and I am in a crappy studio apartment but am happy as I make more in my office sadly except for the directory and 3 managers.
Name one profession that is not being killed by H 1B1 visas and automation? Factory workers? Accountants? HR? Accounting or book keeping is GONE. It has been replaced by quickbooks and Excel macros with some Indians doing the finance part. HR is done by Taleo now. The website picks candidates so HR doesn't have to (yes I know it was designed for this but money talks man).
Really there is nothing we can do but adapt and IT is the best place to be as not everyone can do some of the jobs we do. Most people with simple basic intelligence can do 85% of the rest of the white collar jobs. So why should they pay more for an American or human to do them? $15/hr is the best you can get which is minimium wage historically for college grads
SSH and docker support will get the MBA types who fear change and spending cash to consider Server 2016.
I would rather MS innovate than to just EOL good products instead.
SSH support will go everywhere including the MMC SNMP tools and not just powershell for remote work. FOr any organization with security in mind this will be a HUGE reason to upgrade. Sadly, since Server 2016 is already in preview 4 I doubt this will see hte light of day on that release. It will be 2018 with Server 2016 R2 before we see SSH everywhere undearneath including AD authentication.
The reason for these connections were if you go to PC Settings there are options to sync up favorites, tiles, apps, email, office 365 stuff, azure settings, wallpaper, etc. The guy in the article then dropped all connections on his router and tried to log in as a new user which ran the OOBE out of box experience and which looked for all these things on the profile.
Scary as it sounds I did find it useful on my Surface with my Office365 and work account. I got all my stuff synced up with my desktop and OneDrive as just a regular user.
Now imagine what Joe Six pack owned in 2006? Probably a 1 core Pentium 4 with 512 megs of ram. Maybe a geek would own 1 gig and an athlonxp for a high end system middle 2000s as that is what I owned. I was helping an exgf reimage her laptop yesterday which was an AMD a4 1250 APU ssslllloooowww 1 gig netbook 1/3 the speed of an atom.
No kidding. But here is the kicker I sent to cpuboss.com to see how slow that thing was if 3 of them are as fast as a cell phone. The Pentium IV was slower. Literally opening a webpage took 100 cpu and 20 seconds to load if it had ajax. Outlook com is what slowed it.
That my friend was what people experienced Vista on??! Also the kernels got smaller and lighter since. 7 to 8 ran better.
Needless to say I put gwx control panel to block 10 and put 8.1 with classic start. I told her not to upgrade as her identity was stolen once and 10 was more bloated for such limited hardware.
Windows 7 was a much better OS and could sleep properly with only using 2 gigs instead of 4.
That seems to miss a large part of the point of these containers. Of course to support this sort of strategy, Windows would have to do a whole lot of kernel work, and they probably don't have the stomach to muck with their kernel that much.
Since you're a Windows user/admin, Docker will do nothing for you. It is Linux Containers with additional development. It's not a full virtual machine, it's a virtual userspace running on top of a Linux kernel. It allows you to virtualize your Linux-based application (Even requiring other virtual containers so you always know what version of XYZ you're running), but it won't do anything for Windows.
In addition to docker MS has Winmin for tiny hardened Windows containers that can run in hyper-V too. SSH is coming to server 2016 R2 as well inside powershell. MS has really improved their server offerings from the NT days
Im not a developer, but i think its like install shield for windows. Creates application packages or something. Still the summary should really give a brief definition.
Not only that it makes virtualizing so much easier. Server 2016 supports docker in Hyper-V as a way to move containers and start and close them in ways that are more manageable than static images that you can not shut off or move during production without modifying the guest OS. Also it opens the possibilities of hardned ultra secure containers too that are hard to hack that do just one thing.
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Because you're a moron? I haven't yet needed to reinstall my Linux system, neither for updates, nor the usual "registry slowdowns", that keeps plaguing Windows.
Originally it was a dual boot Linux / Windows 98, but I got rid of the Windows partition because I never used it. Just how many times would I have needed to reinstall Windows, if I have used that?
Since Windows 7 changes are virtualized for the registry if something unusual is detected hence the UAC prompt "Did this install properly"
For what average Mom, teenage girl, and Joe six do not care if it reliably unmount all file systems in 3 seconds. An SSD with sleep is good enough. People do not root their phones. Your comment on telemetry is incorrect. Most are bug and security fixes and MS has been doing anonymous telemetry and so does Firefox, Chrome, and most win32 apps for half a decade now. Security? Windows 7 has ASLR, DEP, and other techiques, that Linux is playing catch up on. As MS really did suck I give Bill Gates credit for the security memo. MS has a security buddy for each project and Windows 7 and later have kernel level sandboxing and other features.
They do not want Killustrator knock offs, drivers breaking due to the lack of an ABI due to ideological reasons from Stallman, and a really stale GUI of FVWM.
They want to turn their pc on and get to work, play a game of wow, print some photos from a vacation, and go over a presentation for next week at all while it works without change for year after year reliable and consistently. Shoot you saw the XP die hards crying. Linux changed its guis many times over the same time frame.
Windows works. Sorry MS won the war before Linux became popular and Steve Jobs even admitted Microsoft won and the Mac lost hence the push for ipods, then iphones later on.
FreeBSD and Linux appliance VM's I get from turnkey linux in a hypervisor are fine. Unless you like an unusal geeky project or want to play with node.js there is no reason to run it at home. It is a different tool for a different problem.
Yeah there is shitty stuff too. Don't see what your you're trying to say.
What do you want to make a bet that AC has an Android phone and typed that from Chrome :-)
Viruses and bsod are so last decade since Windows is NT based now. But I suppose if you have not run Windows since 1999 you think Win98SE which is a dos shell based is how the world still runs where people need to re-image every 6 months and crashes 3 times a day because that is what they remember.
You know, every time I try to seriously use Linux, I end up hitting a brick wall of some sort. A few years ago, it was a driver issue that accelerated my laptop's pointer to about 10x faster than I could control, and this was on the lowest setting. Could never figure it out after half a day's research and tinkering, and that was enough for me. Off it went.
My latest attempt was with Linux Mint (which I really like, btw) in a VM. The most up-to-date version w/ Cinnamon crashes immediately on startup, so I have to use an older version (not a confidence-inspiring start). Initially, my machine connected to my NAS share fine using Samba. Unfortunately, Mercurial can't actually seem to lock files (Windows and Mac have no issues), so I can't push patches to the NAS shared repository, which I use to sync my development machines. Setting up an actual web-based repository - the recommended approach - doesn't look trivial for a Linux noob. Then, my network connection to my NAS disappeared (maybe after an update? not sure), and it won't come back for anything. It's just gone, and a few hours of research and tinkering hasn't brought it back. I looked at trying an alternative protocol (NFS), but had no luck figuring out how to get that to work either. Very frustrating.
This is how my experience with Linux goes. Every few years I get a hankering to try it, get beaten back by glitches, and think "ok, maybe I'll try again in a few years."
Here here.
The rapid anti Windows 10/8 on slashdot has many users screaming the world is coming to an end and I am switching to LINUX!
In reality I experienced the opposite by 2011 and gave up. Back then Windows 7 was amazing and aero was everything I wished gnome 2 would turn into when gnome3 came out :-( At the time I never had the wildest claim that MS would ever release a bad GUI so Windows fanboy I became after years and years of anti MS hatred.
What the changed me was my exwife. She said get this garbage off your system and go get a better job. I said excuse me?? She said her Vista works just fine but funny how I can't ever get Linux to just work. I went on saying WINDOWS SUX LINUX RUX etc etc. She claimed well how is it that you re-install that OS each time an update comes and xorg breaks? How about that time you tried to get ngnix working and forget how to fix it? Sigh
She was right. I was a freebsd fan at 1st and felt Linux to be more grown than designed and after 10 years gave up on Linux.
Folks I know this is a pro Linux website and I am serious not a troll as I read my posts from 2002 threatening to leave IT forever if Windows Server takes :-) ... but, let's face it. Why do people need to be liberated? Windows most of the time is reliable and works thanks to NT/XP replacing 98. The 1990s are long long over and MS is not based on DOS anymore people! If you haven't ran Windows in 15 years this maybe surprising but for gamers like my exwife she wants ventrillo and World of warcraft to always work and not have an update break something or use a hack in WINE.
The only arguments I hear is spyware (but you all run smart TV's and use Android phones and Chrome) , reliability (Windows is more reliable on the desktop for about 10 years now), GUI (Windows 10 is fine and it is fear of change and familiarity). It is the same start menu but the icons now are more animated. OMG END OF THE WORLD. So take the tiles off and bam you got XP style start menu again.
I love FreeBSD and yes Linux. No really it has it's use as VM for development work and for certain servers. But I hate it on the desktop. I prefer Windows or MacOSX for the desktop and Unix for the Vm's. Let's face it who the hell wants to replace Excel, Witchers 3, and Photoshop for OpenOffice, TuxRacer, and the Gimp or kIllustrator? You love screwdrivers and that is fine. But hammers are needed too
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I purposefully bought a dumb ons for my Ruko3. Smart TVs are stupid regardless of spying due to obsolescence and being locked in with a TV vendor who has a financial interest to have you buy another TV every year to get Android updates.
No thanks. When my Roku3 goes obsolete I'll just buy a new one. Not throw the whole thing out. Idiots.
FYI I almost dove Mac headfirst in 2010. Why not? Same issue. Video card is obsolete? Throw out $2000 machine and buy a new Mac! Uhm no
I hope you don't do any banking on your system. I use gwx control panel so I can still get my security updates without the nagware.
FYI Windows 10 is a little buggy but won't be bad once 10.1 Redstone comes out this summer to fix more of the bugs. MS has no plans for Windows 11 and want it macosx like with .1 updates each year. You're going to use it eventually whether you like it or not. Might as well go with Redstone while it is still free.
I like last.fm and crackle while I work and it's where the future is heading. Windows 7 is only a few years towards EOL.
XP and Vista were buggy too when new. Eventually they morphed to XP sp2 and 7 which were most solid ever
Great so you want Evangelical Christians who are the most active voting block to vote for supreme court nominees? You think it is bad now it will get worse as the GOP primaries for half of the government caters to this crowd.
There is a reason they are not elected and my evidence is they are the only branch of government left operational
Erlang is the new rockstart technology reborn as Outlaw Techno Psychobith node.js and ruby on rails are sooo last decade man.
Employers never upgrade them until they stop working or when the ports randomly go out
The downside here is that means you can't just get rid of CPU intensive ads by disabling Flash.
Like the HTML5 video tag, that was supposed to free us from evil Flash, but just brought forth the unblockable autoplaying autoloading multimegabyte video ad, this isn't as great a piece of news as it might seem...
Guess I got to stick with obsolete IE. With corporate IE I do not have to worry about HTML 5 support :-)
But seriously why can't an adblocker block it? They can do domain checks on hte video links for cross site or not execute them if they are run from a javascript. Yes this will block fine content working today but it can be done.
Really??
What will your kids being doing with that business degree? It will be a lousy $15/hr job living with you as you can't survive on that being an assistant manager at the local grocery store.
IT pays more than anything. Face it times have changed. In the old days a bachelors degree meant senior level management jobs making 70k fresh out of school when adjusted for inflation. Today a business or economics degree means being a secretary or answering phones at a real estate office somewhere oh the boss wanted his decafee with Soy Latte. Get it right next time ok?
I am just now a tech who does some AD work because some idiot on Slashdot 10 years ago said to not major in IT. DUH! My buddies who did are rich and own homes and I am in a crappy studio apartment but am happy as I make more in my office sadly except for the directory and 3 managers.
Name one profession that is not being killed by H 1B1 visas and automation? Factory workers? Accountants? HR? Accounting or book keeping is GONE. It has been replaced by quickbooks and Excel macros with some Indians doing the finance part. HR is done by Taleo now. The website picks candidates so HR doesn't have to (yes I know it was designed for this but money talks man).
Really there is nothing we can do but adapt and IT is the best place to be as not everyone can do some of the jobs we do. Most people with simple basic intelligence can do 85% of the rest of the white collar jobs. So why should they pay more for an American or human to do them? $15/hr is the best you can get which is minimium wage historically for college grads
Sure if you buy an expensive RDMS you don't need they will fix their own products
It is $6,500 plus per core cpu costs for VMWare. Hyper-V comes free with the server license
SSH and docker support will get the MBA types who fear change and spending cash to consider Server 2016.
I would rather MS innovate than to just EOL good products instead.
SSH support will go everywhere including the MMC SNMP tools and not just powershell for remote work. FOr any organization with security in mind this will be a HUGE reason to upgrade. Sadly, since Server 2016 is already in preview 4 I doubt this will see hte light of day on that release. It will be 2018 with Server 2016 R2 before we see SSH everywhere undearneath including AD authentication.
But I can hope it will be part of Server 2016.
Download a copy of virtualbox.
You don't own a smartphone do you?
The enterprise edition of 10 doesn't do this.
The reason for these connections were if you go to PC Settings there are options to sync up favorites, tiles, apps, email, office 365 stuff, azure settings, wallpaper, etc. The guy in the article then dropped all connections on his router and tried to log in as a new user which ran the OOBE out of box experience and which looked for all these things on the profile.
Scary as it sounds I did find it useful on my Surface with my Office365 and work account. I got all my stuff synced up with my desktop and OneDrive as just a regular user.
Alright let's stop and just look what you wrote?
Now imagine what Joe Six pack owned in 2006? Probably a 1 core Pentium 4 with 512 megs of ram. Maybe a geek would own 1 gig and an athlonxp for a high end system middle 2000s as that is what I owned. I was helping an exgf reimage her laptop yesterday which was an AMD a4 1250 APU ssslllloooowww 1 gig netbook 1/3 the speed of an atom.
No kidding. But here is the kicker I sent to cpuboss.com to see how slow that thing was if 3 of them are as fast as a cell phone. The Pentium IV was slower. Literally opening a webpage took 100 cpu and 20 seconds to load if it had ajax. Outlook com is what slowed it.
That my friend was what people experienced Vista on??! Also the kernels got smaller and lighter since. 7 to 8 ran better.
Needless to say I put gwx control panel to block 10 and put 8.1 with classic start. I told her not to upgrade as her identity was stolen once and 10 was more bloated for such limited hardware.
Windows 7 was a much better OS and could sleep properly with only using 2 gigs instead of 4.
There are many disadvantages to docker
Server 2016 is going per core licencing which means less cores overclocked
that can run in hyper-V too
That seems to miss a large part of the point of these containers. Of course to support this sort of strategy, Windows would have to do a whole lot of kernel work, and they probably don't have the stomach to muck with their kernel that much.
Actually MS really has been slimming the kernel down to make it more mobile friendly. Here are the containers link?
My bad it is called nano server.
Since you're a Windows user/admin, Docker will do nothing for you. It is Linux Containers with additional development. It's not a full virtual machine, it's a virtual userspace running on top of a Linux kernel. It allows you to virtualize your Linux-based application (Even requiring other virtual containers so you always know what version of XYZ you're running), but it won't do anything for Windows.
In addition to docker MS has Winmin for tiny hardened Windows containers that can run in hyper-V too. SSH is coming to server 2016 R2 as well inside powershell. MS has really improved their server offerings from the NT days
Im not a developer, but i think its like install shield for windows. Creates application packages or something. Still the summary should really give a brief definition.
Not only that it makes virtualizing so much easier. Server 2016 supports docker in Hyper-V as a way to move containers and start and close them in ways that are more manageable than static images that you can not shut off or move during production without modifying the guest OS. Also it opens the possibilities of hardned ultra secure containers too that are hard to hack that do just one thing.