I used to use iGoogle when it was around. Nowadays, I use Netvibes which gives me a tabbed view of all my RSS feeds in any browser, set as my homepage. Works fine. I don't need a separate client for it.
You already know the answer to this. A lot of non-technical people just want to get stuff done without worrying over little detail about how the device works. The recent TV ads I have seen for Chromebooks ask the question "Have you ever wanted your PC to be as simple to use as your phone?". Like it or not, that's an awfully big market.
Serious question: Where did all the clever people from Slashdot go? I used to enjoy the well thought out opinions in the comments section. It seems like every other article now is full of comments like the above.
On the small business side, Ubiquiti Edgerouters are quite frequently updated. Mine has four upgrades already this year and the support lifecycle of the equipment seems impressive.
I should probably add that our way of dealing with these horrendously outdated operating systems required for the equipment is to vlan them off from the main network and don't allow internet access.
I work in the medical industry and I have never yet seen Linux as the OS used with any major medical equipment, such as CT scanners, X-Ray scanners, MRI, Ultrasound, etc. Linux is not always the answer in the real world unfortunately.
I have been using Netvibes to aggregate all my RSS feeds onto a single page since the demise of iGoogle. As it's all browser-based, it's easy to get to it, whatever device you're on. It works better than a dedicated RSS feed application for me at least.
Any company of more than 100 users will likely have need of these services
Less true now then 5 years ago. As much as I may have emotional issues with it, MS O365 is becoming widespread and removes a number of use cases for needing on-prem windows servers for the reasons listed above.
Definitely viable for a company ~100 users. Arguable for larger firms.
I agree that O365 is often pushing out on-premise Exchange deployments nowadays, but when you use O365 still you're still using a Windows Server, you just don't host or have much control over it anymore.
Remote Desktop Services I'll give you, but Samba 4 has Active Directory Domain Controller Support, and you can use something like EGroupware to replace Exchange.
Really the only places linux has issues is remote administration and configuration of an end user workstation, inability to assign domain users to local groups, and improper management of core components. Like NetworkManager being a complete mess for configuring anything more complicated than WPA-PSK, or in some weird cases Wifi in general, DNS resolvers constantly being replaced and being non-functional out of the box, remote graphical desktops not being functional at all, and development policies / culture declaring that any end user should be able to override the will of the device's owner, aka the system administrator's. In short, I have more issues dealing with linux as a end user workstation than a server. It's manageable if you're using it as a personal workstation, but completely a non-starter if you need to manage 100s or 1000s of workstations running it.
While I agree there are viable alternatives to Active Directory and Exchange, I wouldn't want to try pitching those alternatives to a director of a company with 5000 users, especially when they already have those systems in place.
We tried that, but there's too much bullshit with trying to use it as a regular desktop. Everyone ended up running Windows VMs just to get work done.
So we went back to native installs for the desktops. All the servers are Linux or BSD though, only a fucking idiot uses windows servers.
Or somebody who needs to run MS Exchange, Remote Desktop Services and Active Directory, to name but a few systems that absolutely require Windows Servers. Any company of more than 100 users will likely have need of these services. I much prefer Linux as an operating system, but to call Windows Server admins 'fucking idiots' is just trolling.
Seismic survey processing applications would use it. Those guys had 256GB RAM in their workstations as the software could process data more quickly with more RAM. To have that in a portable system to take onto ships would be a use case for this.
This post has given me an idea. Google are now claiming to comply with the EU GDPR regulations, so I can submit a request to them for all the personal data they hold on me and they are required to give it to me. Should be an interesting read. It will be also interesting to see how they define holding my personal data for 'no longer than necessary' and how they justify that.
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That would be only on the Unifi Security Gateway. He has the ERPoE-5, which is not managed by the Unifi controller.
I used to use iGoogle when it was around. Nowadays, I use Netvibes which gives me a tabbed view of all my RSS feeds in any browser, set as my homepage. Works fine. I don't need a separate client for it.
One word: Gaming
You already know the answer to this. A lot of non-technical people just want to get stuff done without worrying over little detail about how the device works. The recent TV ads I have seen for Chromebooks ask the question "Have you ever wanted your PC to be as simple to use as your phone?". Like it or not, that's an awfully big market.
I was kind of angling for a suggestion of somewhere else to go, but you may be right.
You're not wrong. Slashdot does still have some interesting stories occasionally, but the comments though...
Serious question: Where did all the clever people from Slashdot go? I used to enjoy the well thought out opinions in the comments section. It seems like every other article now is full of comments like the above.
On the small business side, Ubiquiti Edgerouters are quite frequently updated. Mine has four upgrades already this year and the support lifecycle of the equipment seems impressive.
I should probably add that our way of dealing with these horrendously outdated operating systems required for the equipment is to vlan them off from the main network and don't allow internet access.
I work in the medical industry and I have never yet seen Linux as the OS used with any major medical equipment, such as CT scanners, X-Ray scanners, MRI, Ultrasound, etc. Linux is not always the answer in the real world unfortunately.
I have been using Netvibes to aggregate all my RSS feeds onto a single page since the demise of iGoogle. As it's all browser-based, it's easy to get to it, whatever device you're on. It works better than a dedicated RSS feed application for me at least.
Any company of more than 100 users will likely have need of these services
Less true now then 5 years ago. As much as I may have emotional issues with it, MS O365 is becoming widespread and removes a number of use cases for needing on-prem windows servers for the reasons listed above.
Definitely viable for a company ~100 users. Arguable for larger firms.
I agree that O365 is often pushing out on-premise Exchange deployments nowadays, but when you use O365 still you're still using a Windows Server, you just don't host or have much control over it anymore.
Remote Desktop Services I'll give you, but Samba 4 has Active Directory Domain Controller Support, and you can use something like EGroupware to replace Exchange.
Really the only places linux has issues is remote administration and configuration of an end user workstation, inability to assign domain users to local groups, and improper management of core components. Like NetworkManager being a complete mess for configuring anything more complicated than WPA-PSK, or in some weird cases Wifi in general, DNS resolvers constantly being replaced and being non-functional out of the box, remote graphical desktops not being functional at all, and development policies / culture declaring that any end user should be able to override the will of the device's owner, aka the system administrator's. In short, I have more issues dealing with linux as a end user workstation than a server. It's manageable if you're using it as a personal workstation, but completely a non-starter if you need to manage 100s or 1000s of workstations running it.
While I agree there are viable alternatives to Active Directory and Exchange, I wouldn't want to try pitching those alternatives to a director of a company with 5000 users, especially when they already have those systems in place.
We tried that, but there's too much bullshit with trying to use it as a regular desktop. Everyone ended up running Windows VMs just to get work done. So we went back to native installs for the desktops. All the servers are Linux or BSD though, only a fucking idiot uses windows servers.
Or somebody who needs to run MS Exchange, Remote Desktop Services and Active Directory, to name but a few systems that absolutely require Windows Servers. Any company of more than 100 users will likely have need of these services. I much prefer Linux as an operating system, but to call Windows Server admins 'fucking idiots' is just trolling.
Beltalowda, To pochuye ke?
Seismic survey processing applications would use it. Those guys had 256GB RAM in their workstations as the software could process data more quickly with more RAM. To have that in a portable system to take onto ships would be a use case for this.
Reminds me of Sealand off the UK coast. You can now become a Baron of Sealand for £29.99. https://www.sealandgov.org/
It's a good point. The law goes into effect next week, so we will see what checks they do on my identity when I request it.
This post has given me an idea. Google are now claiming to comply with the EU GDPR regulations, so I can submit a request to them for all the personal data they hold on me and they are required to give it to me. Should be an interesting read. It will be also interesting to see how they define holding my personal data for 'no longer than necessary' and how they justify that.