Devops has it's place for in house development where produciton and infrastructure are linked. There it is an effective and efficient way to go from Dev to test and into production.
What does my head in is the number of vendors that we see that try to bring their devops mentaility in house for the applications that they provide. They expect that we have to mirror their development environment which is often an untested disaster over and over again.
I purchased the last version of IntelliJ Idea and would upgrade if I see significant incentives in the product to do so. At the moment they seem to be throwing a lot of effort into releasing new products rather than working on existing products.
I can see an advantage for someone who wants the entire suite of products as long as new products are constantly added but not so much for someone who just wants Idea. With a subscription they have no incentive to make a product better as they have you hooked into using that product, if you want to keep using it you need to keep up the subscription.
Personally I can see myself going in other directions for what I want to do now that this has come in.
The real questions that needs to be answered is what the support lifecycle for Windows 10 is. With Windows 7 we are right to 2020, with Windows 8.1 it is good until 2023... with Windows 10.. well there is just a bunch of talk about software as a service and nothing at all about the length of support.
Personally I still like KDE's way of thinking about things, that you are far better off creating multiple workspaces all based on a common desktop environment that suit different types of hardware (Desktop, Netbook and future touch interfaces) rather than creating a monolithic interface that tries to bridge across all types of hardware it might be used on.
In any case anything is better than Unity and they both beat the rubbish Windows 8 interface.
As an avid player I fully support them doing this kind of thing as one of the many things that they can do, such as doing mass bans on hacking accounts. Cheating really does put doubt into the game at times.
And... in the next version they need to redesign the program so that information about what the other player is doing is not sent to your computer. I know some of the MOBA's do this and thus avoid this kind of cheat in their game. It would also allow them to offer a free game. The main problem now with offering a free option on ladder at least is that everyone will use hacks without worrying whether their account will be blocked.
It is actually an interesting concept. Many Libraries that I am involved with in a support role are struggling to find a place in a modern world where the majority of people have the information that they need at their finger tips. People just do not visit Libraries in the way they used to.
They are often now becoming a community service operation for the disadvantaged and often have more people using the internet than people actually borrowing books but even then the level of visitation makes it hard to justify them staying open.
In the past many think that Dinosaurs were most closely related to reptiles but we now know that Dinosaurs are most closely related to birds and thus may have the colour variations that one sees in birds rather than the colour variation seen in Lizards.
Having used it in the past it was a very nice product but I did find it a bit frustrating at times with it's crashes and bugs right in the middle of a project.
It's clear over the next few years that Microsoft is aiming to design a single UI across all of it's platforms from Phone, to Desktops, to tablets, to TV. They want it to all be the same experience.
Microsoft is delusional, in the past Microsoft tried to force a desktop interface onto a mobile device and it was painful, now they are trying to put a mobile device interface onto a desktop computer and that is painful again.
Will they ever learn?
I have been using Windows 8 as an experiment for a few months now. It is workable if you put classic shell on but if I had Windows 7 I would just stick with that.
Considering 6.1 has been out for some time this is a bit of a non event, most people using CentOs have moved on.
What I saw was a bunch of developers spending a lot of time being defensive of why it was taking so long, promising it was just around the corner and letting the dates constantly slip.
CentOS is basically a dead project to the majority of people who have moved on to more responsive distributions.
I still have to wonder when some of these developers didn't get paid off for doing what they did - the way it happened just didn't seem right, there is a pretty fishy smell about this one.
When I look at the design, its lack of stability and a rider sitting above the fan, only one thing comes to mind - what a perfect candidate for the darwin awards.
But if you are then the company is doing itself a dis service if it is allowing you into a position where you think you are indispensible. Many information hiding IT people do try to do it though - or at least get into their heads that they are.
The people who put forward the ideas and the risk get the equity, you just get your contract rates no matter how the company goes good or bad.
I think that what is being said is that the variety of units has had to be dulled down in competitive games. I have heard people say that this makes it easier to watch but there is still a lot of complexity in the game with three races and all their differences.
If you want to try out all sorts of units, there are a ton of custom games where you can use every unit available.
For me, the game is the best in many years and has been keeping me going for 8 months now - there are all sorts of different things to do from ladder, custom games and private matches between friends.
Brilliant game, brilliant design and a great deal of fun for me..
One of the biggest problems I have ever run into is the Manager who came from a technical background and tries to retain some kind of technical information lead over the staff. Often they can't be across day to day things so they become an information hider or feel threatened by technical staff around them.
In IT, information hiders in a team are pain, when they are the manager they are a nightmare. The best managers I have had were people managers who used to team and what it achieved to make themselves look good. In some ways, they best managers are those that accept that they might not be as technical as some staff, get over it and get on with managing the team.
It started as a nice feel open source project. There was available paid support if you wanted/needed it. Then it went to a dual release of an enterprise version and a "community version" with all sorts of promises that nothing would change. The level of marketing then also seemed to go into over drive - to get the enterprise version.
It then became obvious that the community version, is full of bugs, gets no bug fixes and is released only once a year.
It has gone from a good, usable open source product to a really cranked up commercial product. It's open source true but this is more a marketing tool than a reality of an open project where everyone can contribute.
You should consider sticking with what you have or looking for other alternatives to Trend whether they do things like this or not. I have used both, Symantec in a previous job and now Trend in a new job. Virus protection in a corporate environment in a necessary evil - and Symantec's Corporate product is far better than the Trend rubbish.
Trends latest Client Server product is a major memory hog and its web based administration tools can only be described as slow and painful.
Trend acknowledges their problems with excessive memory usage and their answer is that you should install more memory on your computers and that they are looking at fixing the problems in the future.
This patent case only enforces how hard I will push to change to another product when these licenses expire.
They reality is that it is a law but not really enforced. It is more like a reminder that you should vote or are expected to vote.
All one has to do is turn up at an election booth and get your named ticked off. If you don't turn up they send you a polite please explain in the mail. You can respond to this with any excuse you want and it is immediately accepted, no questions asked.
In the end, if you don't respond they can send you a minimal ($10 fine).
Nobody ever actually gets fined for not voting.
To me, I would rather live in a democratic country, something with a decent electoral system where I can throw in a vote for a minor party as a message without throwing my vote that might count away.
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Devops has it's place for in house development where produciton and infrastructure are linked. There it is an effective and efficient way to go from Dev to test and into production.
What does my head in is the number of vendors that we see that try to bring their devops mentaility in house for the applications that they provide. They expect that we have to mirror their development environment which is often an untested disaster over and over again.
I purchased the last version of IntelliJ Idea and would upgrade if I see significant incentives in the product to do so. At the moment they seem to be throwing a lot of effort into releasing new products rather than working on existing products.
I can see an advantage for someone who wants the entire suite of products as long as new products are constantly added but not so much for someone who just wants Idea. With a subscription they have no incentive to make a product better as they have you hooked into using that product, if you want to keep using it you need to keep up the subscription.
Personally I can see myself going in other directions for what I want to do now that this has come in.
The real questions that needs to be answered is what the support lifecycle for Windows 10 is. With Windows 7 we are right to 2020, with Windows 8.1 it is good until 2023 ... with Windows 10 .. well there is just a bunch of talk about software as a service and nothing at all about the length of support.
Personally I still like KDE's way of thinking about things, that you are far better off creating multiple workspaces all based on a common desktop environment that suit different types of hardware (Desktop, Netbook and future touch interfaces) rather than creating a monolithic interface that tries to bridge across all types of hardware it might be used on.
In any case anything is better than Unity and they both beat the rubbish Windows 8 interface.
As an avid player I fully support them doing this kind of thing as one of the many things that they can do, such as doing mass bans on hacking accounts. Cheating really does put doubt into the game at times.
And ... in the next version they need to redesign the program so that information about what the other player is doing is not sent to your computer. I know some of the MOBA's do this and thus avoid this kind of cheat in their game. It would also allow them to offer a free game. The main problem now with offering a free option on ladder at least is that everyone will use hacks without worrying whether their account will be blocked.
I wonder if this is going to be one of the first big exploits that will affect Windows XP and leave the masses of users still using it vulnerable.
This only refers to updates to their AV and Anti Malware products, the OS update will still stop on that date.
It is a good excuse to get Management that might have been dragging their tails up update to something more modern.
It is actually an interesting concept. Many Libraries that I am involved with in a support role are struggling to find a place in a modern world where the majority of people have the information that they need at their finger tips. People just do not visit Libraries in the way they used to.
They are often now becoming a community service operation for the disadvantaged and often have more people using the internet than people actually borrowing books but even then the level of visitation makes it hard to justify them staying open.
Man .. I could have done with the last week, they were trying to get a catheter in and had six goes at finding a suitable vein.
Ended up being done by the main anesthetist who did a local and went in deep.
Many times when giving blood they have to have a couple of goes, it can be a pain.
http://www.aimp2.us/
Been using it for a while. It is like WinAmp without the crud.
Seems to have worked before
Would have made just a good of a story.
Nobody actually drinks fosters ... but the rest is kinda accurate.
Most are worried about the recent budget and the up coming election in September to even notice this.
At least we have a decent electoral system.
In the past many think that Dinosaurs were most closely related to reptiles but we now know that Dinosaurs are most closely related to birds and thus may have the colour variations that one sees in birds rather than the colour variation seen in Lizards.
.. and didn't introduce new ones.
Having used it in the past it was a very nice product but I did find it a bit frustrating at times with it's crashes and bugs right in the middle of a project.
Might have to fire it up again and have a look.
It's clear over the next few years that Microsoft is aiming to design a single UI across all of it's platforms from Phone, to Desktops, to tablets, to TV. They want it to all be the same experience.
Microsoft is delusional, in the past Microsoft tried to force a desktop interface onto a mobile device and it was painful, now they are trying to put a mobile device interface onto a desktop computer and that is painful again.
Will they ever learn?
I have been using Windows 8 as an experiment for a few months now. It is workable if you put classic shell on but if I had Windows 7 I would just stick with that.
Even though they removed the Javascript, It is still effectively hidden on most monitors.
Considering 6.1 has been out for some time this is a bit of a non event, most people using CentOs have moved on.
What I saw was a bunch of developers spending a lot of time being defensive of why it was taking so long, promising it was just around the corner and letting the dates constantly slip.
CentOS is basically a dead project to the majority of people who have moved on to more responsive distributions.
I still have to wonder when some of these developers didn't get paid off for doing what they did - the way it happened just didn't seem right, there is a pretty fishy smell about this one.
When I look at the design, its lack of stability and a rider sitting above the fan, only one thing comes to mind - what a perfect candidate for the darwin awards.
But if you are then the company is doing itself a dis service if it is allowing you into a position where you think you are indispensible. Many information hiding IT people do try to do it though - or at least get into their heads that they are.
The people who put forward the ideas and the risk get the equity, you just get your contract rates no matter how the company goes good or bad.
I think that what is being said is that the variety of units has had to be dulled down in competitive games. I have heard people say that this makes it easier to watch but there is still a lot of complexity in the game with three races and all their differences.
If you want to try out all sorts of units, there are a ton of custom games where you can use every unit available.
For me, the game is the best in many years and has been keeping me going for 8 months now - there are all sorts of different things to do from ladder, custom games and private matches between friends.
Brilliant game, brilliant design and a great deal of fun for me..
One of the biggest problems I have ever run into is the Manager who came from a technical background and tries to retain some kind of technical information lead over the staff. Often they can't be across day to day things so they become an information hider or feel threatened by technical staff around them.
In IT, information hiders in a team are pain, when they are the manager they are a nightmare. The best managers I have had were people managers who used to team and what it achieved to make themselves look good. In some ways, they best managers are those that accept that they might not be as technical as some staff, get over it and get on with managing the team.
Liferay is another product like this.
It started as a nice feel open source project. There was available paid support if you wanted/needed it. Then it went to a dual release of an enterprise version and a "community version" with all sorts of promises that nothing would change. The level of marketing then also seemed to go into over drive - to get the enterprise version.
It then became obvious that the community version, is full of bugs, gets no bug fixes and is released only once a year.
It has gone from a good, usable open source product to a really cranked up commercial product. It's open source true but this is more a marketing tool than a reality of an open project where everyone can contribute.
You should consider sticking with what you have or looking for other alternatives to Trend whether they do things like this or not. I have used both, Symantec in a previous job and now Trend in a new job. Virus protection in a corporate environment in a necessary evil - and Symantec's Corporate product is far better than the Trend rubbish.
Trends latest Client Server product is a major memory hog and its web based administration tools can only be described as slow and painful.
Trend acknowledges their problems with excessive memory usage and their answer is that you should install more memory on your computers and that they are looking at fixing the problems in the future.
This patent case only enforces how hard I will push to change to another product when these licenses expire.
They reality is that it is a law but not really enforced. It is more like a reminder that you should vote or are expected to vote.
All one has to do is turn up at an election booth and get your named ticked off. If you don't turn up they send you a polite please explain in the mail. You can respond to this with any excuse you want and it is immediately accepted, no questions asked.
In the end, if you don't respond they can send you a minimal ($10 fine).
Nobody ever actually gets fined for not voting.
To me, I would rather live in a democratic country, something with a decent electoral system where I can throw in a vote for a minor party as a message without throwing my vote that might count away.