But if Blackberry is moving to an OS they don't write, on hardware they don't design or build - is there any reason to buy their stuff any more?
As long as some of those outsourced OS they don't write on Hardware they don't design or build combos has a physical keyboard, count me in.
I have a friend who is daltonic, and is enthusiastic about the iPhone 7 because of the filters for the colour blind. I have a essential tremor, and I need a physical Keyboard, I do not care about brand or OS. Just about Phisical Keyboard, specs and Build Quality. And, so far, only blackberry makes those (other brands make physical keyboard phones, but the specs are krap).
The BB10 in my Q10 is cool, but I would actually preffer Android (chromecast app and some other apps not present in BBworld or amazon app store).
At the same time he was doing IPv4, CLNS/CLNP was using 20BYTE Addresses (variable lenght). And Xerox (which Cerf himself credits with inspiration to his project) was using 12Byte Addresses. So that excuse of "could not have done it" is Bollocks.
As for encryption, that's what optional headers are for! Should have defined two or three of those fron the start: Weak encription (to handle export/munitions restrictions of the time), strong encription (either for countries which are not under US influence, or when the exports/munition restrictions were lifted) and PKC encription (for the nascent field of public key crypto).
Besides, i am not sure what was his influence on the IPv6 designers, and their ill fated idea of removing the IP checksums...:-(
Remember, yahoo is selling the CORE ASSETS, but Yahoo (the company) will still exist, as a placeholder for Alibaba and YAhoo! Japan shares. So, is Yahoo (the company) that is still liable for the breach, not verizon. If push comes to shove, Yahoo can sign a MoU stating that is it, and not Verizon, the one who will carry all the brunt of the hack (lawsuits, fines, reparations, costs and any other thing derived from this hack).
The alibaba, yahoo japan and any other assets in this company shall be enough to cover that.
They will leave the terms of the sale as they are, but a an MoU saying that all costs (legal, fines, class actions, etc) and liabilities derived from THIS PARTICULAR BREACH will be borne by the Tracking company that will remain after the sale with Yahoo!'s holding of alibaba shares.
That way the negotiation shall proceed and the shareholders receive the cash part of the deal...
* The precedent: When Siemens was trying to get rid of their Telecoms Unit They first approached motorola about the Joint Venture. this would had been better, as there was very little product or geographic overlap. As part as their due diligence process, Motorola was told of ongoing corruption investigations in the larger Siemens (it was unclear at that time if the telecom unit was involved). Motorolla backed out.
Then Siemens approached Nokia, Quite bad, as there was a lot of overlap, both in product lines, and in Geography. Nokia accepted. They set a date. A few weeks before the date (IIRC it was near the MWC of '06) the corruption cases escalated, and the efective date of the JV was postponed, and rumour had it that the JV was falling appart. So, Siemens AG signed a MoU stating that any and all liabilities and fines derived from corruption cases from the telecom unit would be assumed by Siemens AG and not the JV.
Motorola should have done just that, would have been better for all involved!
In the end, there was no corruption on the Telecoms part (energy and transportation for sure, maybe others).
Printers and plotter (though this acquisition is about printers only), Yes, MULTIFUNCTIONAL printers for corporates, not sure (here in LatAm, canon and Xerox). What about printer rental?
Also, which region is your region? LatAm (that's were I am)? NAFTA? EMEA? APAC?
Most of HP Ink (pun intended, remember that the HP of Yore split into HP Enterprise for Big Iron and Services, and HP Inc for desktops and Printers, tickers: HPE and HPI) Laser printers, even from the begining of "Laser Time" time, use laser printing Engines from other manufacturers (In the begining, mostly Canon, nowadays, they use Samsumg Engines too). So HP gets the Laser engine from a 3rd party, slaps a Microcontroller, some plastic, writes a bloated driver, and of you go.
Samsung and Canon, on the other hand, do all that, but also make the laser engines...
Also, HP Ink is not Strong in Multifunctional Lasers for SOHO/Prosumer/Office/BigCorporates. And has no presence Whatsoever in the Copier business.
For HP this deal means: 1.) Get rid of a competitor, actually, they probably got Samsung because it was the weaker of the lot, or for the other reasons detailed here. No worries, we still have Brother, Lexmark, Canon, Xerox,... even Dell
2.) Verticaly integrate the Laser Engine into the production, with the associate cost savings. Sorry for Canon, no more HP bussiness for them in the medium term... (contracts will not be renewed, or renewed in shorter terms than without this deal, new products will be based mostly on Samsung Laser tech).
3.) In the medium term, deny other competitors (Dell, for example) of Said engines (Dell uses Samsung laser engines on many of their house brand lasers printers) or, having competitors using their engines to actually put money on HP's Pocket. Again, most likely contracts will not be renewed, or will be renewed on shorter and/or more expensive terms. If I were Dell, I'd rush to Canon's HQ and invite them some niguiri and Sake to, you know, discuss things.
4.) While the product overlap is Huuuuuge, the Market overlap is not, both Geographicaly (think, for example APAC, not only US) and client wise (enterprise vs consumer vs prosumer/soho). That means that HP Ink printers can reach places were samsung is strong, and Samsung printers can reach places where HP Ink is strong.
5.) Cross selling (Mr 500 employee office, here are your printers, can I interest you in some workstations/desktops/laptops? Mr. 800 employee office, here are your Workstations/desktops/Laptops, can I interest you in some printers to go with them?)
7.) A nice throve of patents with which to defend from (don't even think on suing me, I have my patent's and Samsung's), or harass (hey, Sign this cross-pattent agreement with me, or we'll sue), or even get royalties money from competitors.
I will apply all the patches that the vendor supplies in an automated way where possible and where not, as soon as is practical. While it is true that a vendor could screw up a patch, it is also true that my hard drive could die, malware could get on my system, an other hardware or software problem could corrupt my data, or I could just screw up and delete data myself.
To protect myself from any of these occurrences, I keep regular backups. I take these backups at a frequency similar to the amount of data I am willing to lose in the event of any failure (including "evil" actions on behalf of my OS vendor.) For me the frequency of backups is generally daily.
Note that I use the term OS vendor instead of Microsoft here, this because I run several computers with several operating systems (Microsoft, Linux(s), others) and I have had them all screw up a patch.
Since I have chosen not to write or personally review the source code for all the software I use (because I don't have that kind of time), I choose to outsource that work to several vendors, one of which is Microsoft. Yes, there are risks to running software from Microsoft (or any other vendor), Microsoft may not have my best interests in mind. However their software meets my needs and I have made the calculation that the value the software provides outweighs the risks.
AMEN Nkwe!
Security only for servers, with one or two full rollups per year (in low demand periods, with full en-garde vendor support).
And full rollups monthly for desktops, but in waves, over one or two weeks, starting with less critical groups, and moving onwards in the criticality (Or, artenatively, with canaries in each and every group, and moving onwards to the rest of the respective teams).
And all this backed up (pun intended) with full backups (Baremetal recovery ones right before 'em patches)
HP got Digital Equipment Corporation and Tandem Computers (via Compaq), and now Silicon Graphics as well (yes, yes, we know, SGI went Kaput and was acquired by rackspace...).
MacBook air 13" Early 2015. External monitor 20"Dell 2011 pivoting. The laptopm monitor is used as a dashboard of sorts. (Activity monitor, terminal, Transmission, System Preferences, alternate browser...)
Main browser Firefox with uBlock, PrivacyBadger, NoSquint, VideoDownloadHelper, and https everywhere.
Alternate browser Chrome, with only chromecast plugins
Main productivity suite office365 (used and still have LibreOffice, but my current work needs full office compatibility, especial powerpoint).
Thunderbird ONLY to sabe email in elm format fso I can put as attachements in other emails.
Steam (of course).
seldomly used Bootcamp with Windows 10, for Project, visio, and some windows only games.
So far so standard. The intersting part is the NAS/san Synology DS1515+ . For a pure storage point of view, a drobo would have been better, but the Sylology is certified for the most importan hypervisors, and has iSCSI san capability. And in my current line of work (instructor for Huaweis Storage/Server/Clouds) being able to practice in your own lab is with this is important
I am guessing the Hindustanis will not complain so loudly, if at all...
Enjoy
this was my comment in 2009:
"Lets only hope That RedHat, Suse and the FSF come up with similar programs, both in breadth and # of persons reached.
That way, the computer Illiterate can choose what technology to learn, and are armed and ready when the ceconomy picks up in three years time...
And let's also hope that Microsoft, RedHat, Suse, the FSF, Cisco, Juniper, IBM, Oracle, Sun and the gang rememeber that this is a GLOBAL crisis, and launch similar programs worldwide....
Bridging the "digital divide" will only be good for America and for the World
As I have said in prevoius posts, Do a full backup of your system that allows Bare-Metal recovery. Then do an In-Place update to Win10. Now your machine's "fingerprint" is in Microsoft's database.
Restore your previous OS. Voila! Free upgrade, and you can keep using your older OS.
But, while I am no expert in accesability, none of the problems that NVDA lists are unsurmountable, as there are workarounds.
EDGE BROWSER: InternetExplorer 11 is still included and installed in Windows10, is just not the default. Just make Explorer the default and bury EDGE as deep as you can (without uninstalling), and instruct your user to use it. Or, install an alternate browser that is compatible with NVDA. Once NVDA solves the EDGE problem, use it if you want/need.
Windows Store APPs: DO not install any, hide the pre-installed ones, install suitable replacements. Instruct your user to NOT use the Windows Store until NVDA fixes the problem.
PDF Reading: Is a special case of the former, as in Windows10, the default PDF reader is a Windows Store APP. Just install Adobe Acrobat Reader, change the defaults and bury the default reader as much as you can (without uninstalling).
I liked it better when I had to move a jumper before I could flash the BIOS in a machine. That was really quite secure against post-shipment BIOS modification.
Of course, I also can't think of the last time I flashed the BIOS in any of my systems, which makes me wonder why the hell we ever got away from ROMs in the first place...
Dear guys:
You seem to not realize how servers and cloud influence general computing. Intel, RedHat and many other companies do make the bulk of their income and profits from servers, therefore, servers are first, second and third.
That's why you got UEFI in the first place, and that's why UEFI has provisions for: - Remote connections. - Ethernet boot. - etc.
Jumper to change the FIRMWARE? Yeah, like that's going to work when your server count is in the couple of thousands... (also, not for a desktop/laptop fleet, but that's a different story).
sytemd is another example. Does anyone really believes that "RedHat is shoving the desktop down our throats"?
- You need to boot faster your cloud servers for elasticty's sake. - Also, you need to boot faster if your preferred remedy for failures is to freze the VM for latter analisys, and spin up another instance. - You need to shotdown machines fast when the work peak is over, in order to release resources fast, and not to overcharge the customer (if on public cloud). - If your servers/virtual machines are controlled by another machine and not by a human, what do you preffer, configure a centralized repository of values via an API (like on VMS and 'gulp' Windows' registry*)? Or having to parse a rag-tag fleee of config files, each with "a slightly different syntax"**?
I guess you can see the drift from here...
* I am not saying that the IMPLEMENTATION of the Windows Registry is right. What I am saying is that the IDEA of a Centralized Repository Of System Configuration Info Accessible Trough An API is good. Again, see VMS.
** Even though for us humans the syntax of most config files seems the same, for other machines one config file is ussaly completely different from the other...
Also, bear in mind that with Azure*, you can make a private or Hybrid cloud that works, acts, is controlled and is programmed exactly the same way as a public one.
If you use AWS for your public cloud needs, and want to also deploy private/hybrid cloud, you need to handle those in a totaly different way at all levels...
* Also with OpenStack, but OpenStack is WAY HARDER than Azure.
Put a DIP switch in the car. On position, Save driver at all cost, OFF position, minimize casualties, even if that means sacrificing the drivers. Default it to OFF.
My post had nothing to do with FOSS vs Closed source development. (After all, Metafile Fiascos (afecting both), and Bugs in Windows Network Code abound). So, is not a criticisms of FOSS
My post had nothing to do with BaazarStyle development vs CathedralStyle development (after all, Microsoft, Sun and Google develop(ed) FOSS Cathedral Style, with bugs to spare). So, no critticism to Baazar.
If there is any criticism on my part in the post (and yes there is) is to this silly notion that " " 8. Given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix obvious to someone.
Or, less formally, ``Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.'' "
That having many eyes will by itself, almost like magic lead to bugs being FOUND AND PATCHED quickly.
As I said, one does not only need "Eyes". One needs QUALIFIED AND MOTIVATED EYES, along with adequated Q&A Process to tame the bugs.
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But if Blackberry is moving to an OS they don't write, on hardware they don't design or build - is there any reason to buy their stuff any more?
As long as some of those outsourced OS they don't write on Hardware they don't design or build combos has a physical keyboard, count me in.
I have a friend who is daltonic, and is enthusiastic about the iPhone 7 because of the filters for the colour blind. I have a essential tremor, and I need a physical Keyboard, I do not care about brand or OS. Just about Phisical Keyboard, specs and Build Quality. And, so far, only blackberry makes those (other brands make physical keyboard phones, but the specs are krap).
The BB10 in my Q10 is cool, but I would actually preffer Android (chromecast app and some other apps not present in BBworld or amazon app store).
For the Price of 10GB and 40GB, so I can get rid of those pesky (and expensive) Fibre Channel links to my storage!!!!
That has been in development for ages now...
Latency not whitstanding, that's what infiniband is for anyway!
At the same time he was doing IPv4, CLNS/CLNP was using 20BYTE Addresses (variable lenght). And Xerox (which Cerf himself credits with inspiration to his project) was using 12Byte Addresses. So that excuse of "could not have done it" is Bollocks.
As for encryption, that's what optional headers are for! Should have defined two or three of those fron the start: Weak encription (to handle export/munitions restrictions of the time), strong encription (either for countries which are not under US influence, or when the exports/munition restrictions were lifted) and PKC encription (for the nascent field of public key crypto).
Besides, i am not sure what was his influence on the IPv6 designers, and their ill fated idea of removing the IP checksums... :-(
Remember, yahoo is selling the CORE ASSETS, but Yahoo (the company) will still exist, as a placeholder for Alibaba and YAhoo! Japan shares. So, is Yahoo (the company) that is still liable for the breach, not verizon. If push comes to shove, Yahoo can sign a MoU stating that is it, and not Verizon, the one who will carry all the brunt of the hack (lawsuits, fines, reparations, costs and any other thing derived from this hack).
The alibaba, yahoo japan and any other assets in this company shall be enough to cover that.
Unless Verizoncan offer a metered plan with SIGNIFICANTTLY HUMONGUS savings compared to the unlimited competition, I'll choose unlimited any time.
Otherwise, the first time I slip up with an OTA update, the choice of a slightly more expensive unlimited plan will pay for itself.
Besides, peace of mind has no price.
Besides, is more easy to do our financial planning with a constant quantity than a variable one.
Besides, who knows what services can catch my eye tomorrow, either as a passing fad (leading to a couple of months spike) or as a daily driver...
This is easy to fix and there is Precedent*
They will leave the terms of the sale as they are, but a an MoU saying that all costs (legal, fines, class actions, etc) and liabilities derived from THIS PARTICULAR BREACH will be borne by the Tracking company that will remain after the sale with Yahoo!'s holding of alibaba shares.
That way the negotiation shall proceed and the shareholders receive the cash part of the deal...
* The precedent: When Siemens was trying to get rid of their Telecoms Unit They first approached motorola about the Joint Venture. this would had been better, as there was very little product or geographic overlap. As part as their due diligence process, Motorola was told of ongoing corruption investigations in the larger Siemens (it was unclear at that time if the telecom unit was involved). Motorolla backed out.
Then Siemens approached Nokia, Quite bad, as there was a lot of overlap, both in product lines, and in Geography. Nokia accepted. They set a date. A few weeks before the date (IIRC it was near the MWC of '06) the corruption cases escalated, and the efective date of the JV was postponed, and rumour had it that the JV was falling appart. So, Siemens AG signed a MoU stating that any and all liabilities and fines derived from corruption cases from the telecom unit would be assumed by Siemens AG and not the JV.
Motorola should have done just that, would have been better for all involved!
In the end, there was no corruption on the Telecoms part (energy and transportation for sure, maybe others).
If anyone is anoyed by this "Breaking of source" change, feel free to fork the hell out of the project (is open source after all).
Me? I do not speak Swift yet, and for the looks of it, will wait until version 8 or so to start learning.
Printers and plotter (though this acquisition is about printers only), Yes, MULTIFUNCTIONAL printers for corporates, not sure (here in LatAm, canon and Xerox). What about printer rental?
Also, which region is your region? LatAm (that's were I am)? NAFTA? EMEA? APAC?
Most of HP Ink (pun intended, remember that the HP of Yore split into HP Enterprise for Big Iron and Services, and HP Inc for desktops and Printers, tickers: HPE and HPI) Laser printers, even from the begining of "Laser Time" time, use laser printing Engines from other manufacturers (In the begining, mostly Canon, nowadays, they use Samsumg Engines too). So HP gets the Laser engine from a 3rd party, slaps a Microcontroller, some plastic, writes a bloated driver, and of you go.
Samsung and Canon, on the other hand, do all that, but also make the laser engines...
Also, HP Ink is not Strong in Multifunctional Lasers for SOHO/Prosumer/Office/BigCorporates. And has no presence Whatsoever in the Copier business.
For HP this deal means: ... even Dell
1.) Get rid of a competitor, actually, they probably got Samsung because it was the weaker of the lot, or for the other reasons detailed here. No worries, we still have Brother, Lexmark, Canon, Xerox,
2.) Verticaly integrate the Laser Engine into the production, with the associate cost savings. Sorry for Canon, no more HP bussiness for them in the medium term... (contracts will not be renewed, or renewed in shorter terms than without this deal, new products will be based mostly on Samsung Laser tech).
3.) In the medium term, deny other competitors (Dell, for example) of Said engines (Dell uses Samsung laser engines on many of their house brand lasers printers) or, having competitors using their engines to actually put money on HP's Pocket. Again, most likely contracts will not be renewed, or will be renewed on shorter and/or more expensive terms. If I were Dell, I'd rush to Canon's HQ and invite them some niguiri and Sake to, you know, discuss things.
4.) While the product overlap is Huuuuuge, the Market overlap is not, both Geographicaly (think, for example APAC, not only US) and client wise (enterprise vs consumer vs prosumer/soho). That means that HP Ink printers can reach places were samsung is strong, and Samsung printers can reach places where HP Ink is strong.
5.) Cross selling (Mr 500 employee office, here are your printers, can I interest you in some workstations/desktops/laptops? Mr. 800 employee office, here are your Workstations/desktops/Laptops, can I interest you in some printers to go with them?)
6.) "Cost saving synergies" (i.e Layoffs/Pinkslips/Redundancies).
7.) A nice throve of patents with which to defend from (don't even think on suing me, I have my patent's and Samsung's), or harass (hey, Sign this cross-pattent agreement with me, or we'll sue), or even get royalties money from competitors.
8.) Get a presence in the copier business.
Now, is that worth $1.05*109?
Only time will tell.
I will apply all the patches that the vendor supplies in an automated way where possible and where not, as soon as is practical. While it is true that a vendor could screw up a patch, it is also true that my hard drive could die, malware could get on my system, an other hardware or software problem could corrupt my data, or I could just screw up and delete data myself.
To protect myself from any of these occurrences, I keep regular backups. I take these backups at a frequency similar to the amount of data I am willing to lose in the event of any failure (including "evil" actions on behalf of my OS vendor.) For me the frequency of backups is generally daily.
Note that I use the term OS vendor instead of Microsoft here, this because I run several computers with several operating systems (Microsoft, Linux(s), others) and I have had them all screw up a patch.
Since I have chosen not to write or personally review the source code for all the software I use (because I don't have that kind of time), I choose to outsource that work to several vendors, one of which is Microsoft. Yes, there are risks to running software from Microsoft (or any other vendor), Microsoft may not have my best interests in mind. However their software meets my needs and I have made the calculation that the value the software provides outweighs the risks.
AMEN Nkwe!
Security only for servers, with one or two full rollups per year (in low demand periods, with full en-garde vendor support).
And full rollups monthly for desktops, but in waves, over one or two weeks, starting with less critical groups, and moving onwards in the criticality (Or, artenatively, with canaries in each and every group, and moving onwards to the rest of the respective teams).
And all this backed up (pun intended) with full backups (Baremetal recovery ones right before 'em patches)
You mean like Print to PDF does in mac?
(And I guess there is some sort of out of the box equivalent in Windows 10)
when did Flower+Shift+3/4 or Shift/CTRL/ALT+PrtSCR became such a difficult task that we need a "Feature" in the Browser for ScreenShots?!?!?!?
Mozila, bloat with gusto!
... to die.
HP got Digital Equipment Corporation and Tandem Computers (via Compaq), and now Silicon Graphics as well (yes, yes, we know, SGI went Kaput and was acquired by rackspace...).
Should have bought SUN as well...
What's next? Cray?
MacBook air 13" Early 2015. External monitor 20"Dell 2011 pivoting. The laptopm monitor is used as a dashboard of sorts. (Activity monitor, terminal, Transmission, System Preferences, alternate browser...)
Main browser Firefox with uBlock, PrivacyBadger, NoSquint, VideoDownloadHelper, and https everywhere.
Alternate browser Chrome, with only chromecast plugins
Main productivity suite office365 (used and still have LibreOffice, but my current work needs full office compatibility, especial powerpoint).
Thunderbird ONLY to sabe email in elm format fso I can put as attachements in other emails.
Steam (of course).
seldomly used Bootcamp with Windows 10, for Project, visio, and some windows only games.
So far so standard. The intersting part is the NAS/san Synology DS1515+ . For a pure storage point of view, a drobo would have been better, but the Sylology is certified for the most importan hypervisors, and has iSCSI san capability. And in my current line of work (instructor for Huaweis Storage/Server/Clouds) being able to practice in your own lab is with this is important
He should try this service called "Backup your blog" Offered by blogger
more info here:
https://support.google.com/blogger/answer/41387?hl=en
There is a similar offering for his email. Is called Thunderbird...
In 2009, when microsoft did their "Elevate America" training FOR AMERICANS, the Slashdot Collective complained, loud and clear...
https://it.slashdot.org/story/09/02/23/220227/microsoft-unveils-elevate-america
I am guessing the Hindustanis will not complain so loudly, if at all...
Enjoy
this was my comment in 2009:
"Lets only hope That RedHat, Suse and the FSF come up with similar programs, both in breadth and # of persons reached.
That way, the computer Illiterate can choose what technology to learn, and are armed and ready when the ceconomy picks up in three years time...
And let's also hope that Microsoft, RedHat, Suse, the FSF, Cisco, Juniper, IBM, Oracle, Sun and the gang rememeber that this is a GLOBAL crisis, and launch similar programs worldwide....
Bridging the "digital divide" will only be good for America and for the World
Salud!"
For prices similar to Apples, and a frustation free experience.
Dumb article for sure.
+Voodoo was bough by HP and does not exist as a separate brand, but I do not know how are HP Ink's (pun intended) Gaming PCs marketed nowadays
As I have said in prevoius posts, Do a full backup of your system that allows Bare-Metal recovery. Then do an In-Place update to Win10. Now your machine's "fingerprint" is in Microsoft's database.
Restore your previous OS. Voila! Free upgrade, and you can keep using your older OS.
But, while I am no expert in accesability, none of the problems that NVDA lists are unsurmountable, as there are workarounds.
EDGE BROWSER: InternetExplorer 11 is still included and installed in Windows10, is just not the default. Just make Explorer the default and bury EDGE as deep as you can (without uninstalling), and instruct your user to use it. Or, install an alternate browser that is compatible with NVDA. Once NVDA solves the EDGE problem, use it if you want/need.
Windows Store APPs: DO not install any, hide the pre-installed ones, install suitable replacements. Instruct your user to NOT use the Windows Store until NVDA fixes the problem.
PDF Reading: Is a special case of the former, as in Windows10, the default PDF reader is a Windows Store APP. Just install Adobe Acrobat Reader, change the defaults and bury the default reader as much as you can (without uninstalling).
Best of luck
Yes, More bloat on the Browser and LESS functionality. From the summary:
Along with the new changes, Google has removed the ability to tweak settings for resolution, bitrate, and quality when casting a tab
I used to use the GoogleCast beta add-on, so I had even more finegrained control over parameters, including acceptable delay/jitter.
Not that is gone.
Kraptastic!
I liked it better when I had to move a jumper before I could flash the BIOS in a machine. That was really quite secure against post-shipment BIOS modification.
Of course, I also can't think of the last time I flashed the BIOS in any of my systems, which makes me wonder why the hell we ever got away from ROMs in the first place...
Dear guys:
You seem to not realize how servers and cloud influence general computing. Intel, RedHat and many other companies do make the bulk of their income and profits from servers, therefore, servers are first, second and third.
That's why you got UEFI in the first place, and that's why UEFI has provisions for:
- Remote connections.
- Ethernet boot.
- etc.
Jumper to change the FIRMWARE?
Yeah, like that's going to work when your server count is in the couple of thousands... (also, not for a desktop/laptop fleet, but that's a different story).
sytemd is another example. Does anyone really believes that "RedHat is shoving the desktop down our throats"?
- You need to boot faster your cloud servers for elasticty's sake.
- Also, you need to boot faster if your preferred remedy for failures is to freze the VM for latter analisys, and spin up another instance.
- You need to shotdown machines fast when the work peak is over, in order to release resources fast, and not to overcharge the customer (if on public cloud).
- If your servers/virtual machines are controlled by another machine and not by a human, what do you preffer, configure a centralized repository of values via an API (like on VMS and 'gulp' Windows' registry*)? Or having to parse a rag-tag fleee of config files, each with "a slightly different syntax"**?
I guess you can see the drift from here...
* I am not saying that the IMPLEMENTATION of the Windows Registry is right. What I am saying is that the IDEA of a Centralized Repository Of System Configuration Info Accessible Trough An API is good. Again, see VMS.
** Even though for us humans the syntax of most config files seems the same, for other machines one config file is ussaly completely different from the other...
Also, bear in mind that with Azure*, you can make a private or Hybrid cloud that works, acts, is controlled and is programmed exactly the same way as a public one.
If you use AWS for your public cloud needs, and want to also deploy private/hybrid cloud, you need to handle those in a totaly different way at all levels...
* Also with OpenStack, but OpenStack is WAY HARDER than Azure.
Put a DIP switch in the car. On position, Save driver at all cost, OFF position, minimize casualties, even if that means sacrificing the drivers. Default it to OFF.
Explain in the manual how to change it.
DO NOT LET THE DEALERSHIP CHANGE IT.
Enjoy safer streets
'Nuff Said!
The 1990's called, they want their joke back!
I feel I need to Clarify:
My post had nothing to do with FOSS vs Closed source development. (After all, Metafile Fiascos (afecting both), and Bugs in Windows Network Code abound).
So, is not a criticisms of FOSS
My post had nothing to do with BaazarStyle development vs CathedralStyle development (after all, Microsoft, Sun and Google develop(ed) FOSS Cathedral Style, with bugs to spare).
So, no critticism to Baazar.
If there is any criticism on my part in the post (and yes there is) is to this silly notion that " " 8. Given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix obvious to someone.
Or, less formally, ``Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.'' "
That having many eyes will by itself, almost like magic lead to bugs being FOUND AND PATCHED quickly.
As I said, one does not only need "Eyes". One needs QUALIFIED AND MOTIVATED EYES, along with adequated Q&A Process to tame the bugs.