Just because you have a feature rich, mature, popular, cross platform office suite that costs $0.00 doesn't mean... oh wait.
Which makes a mistake in the number of reported MS Office licenses pretty costly; Dutch police paid nearly 3 million too much when 14000 licenses were listed but unused. linky to Dutch news
Microsoft refused to pay back and now it's in court.
Server 2016 is same OS base too. No thanks until MS hires a QA department back.
What I experienced this week; the update service crashed other services out of the blue without a clue, found out nic teaming doesn't work as expected after nic 1 was disconnected, losing connections from half the network, and DHCP loadbalancing made clients disconnect from the network often for several seconds.
Applause for Microsoft and their wondeful job of delivering a stable, high quality server OS with critical services to synchronise an administrator's email, documents and media files online and use XBox online services. *claps slowly*
Development? Specialised hardware to operate machinery? Then it doesn't seem to me that there's a reason to run a Linux virtual macine on that. Might even be more prone to breaking things.
This now makes me wonder what reason there could be to run Ubuntu on Windows instead of Windows on Linux. For the few pieces of software like CAD (or games) I can understand, but then I can't think of a use for those professionals to use Linux in a virtual machine.
So, what scenario would fit best to use Linux on Windows instead of Windows on Linux for the professional? (I myself use Proxmox as a desktop with severeal machines for testing on it)
Bought it years ago after testing the hacked version on XP, sandboxed every program I installed on the machine, worked great for preventing game spyware installing into the core OS.
I always use crf with x264, like I always used q with xvid.
For me it was about keeping the same quality, but be able to store two to three times as many movies on disk for safe keeping (without the added junk).
I've already had a few DVD's with rot so I want to store them on BTRFS RAID.
A media file of 89GB gets a bit too much to casually test conversions myself.
I do wonder how large the files will be when ripping in various codecs. With some DVD's the resulting x264 and xvid conversions didn't differ much in size (with equal quality), probably because of grain and smoke.
Don't forget to mention with a simple piece of wiring between phone and speakers there's no need to replace batteries or have to recharge the earbuds often. Sounds more environmentally responsible too.
I had a discussion about this just this evening with a friend. He states the EU shouldn't charge that amount to Apple, but to Ireland itself since it's Ireland that struck a bargain with Apple.
I agree on part of it, but Ireland could never pay that amount, certainly not on the backs of the Irish. They'd take the first boat to leave the country if the government did that so it's a bit more obvious to make Apple pay who should have known a low tax rate as they had could never have been correct.
I think Tim left out after saying he'd bring back those profits to the US that they'd end up in another deal and loophole and stay safe an sound on the Apple bank account.
One of the new guys at the office has installed Kali on his phone and had a lot of fun checking out websites while being bored on vacation. He refrained from actually using holes to do someting, which shows I was right in saying we needed to hire him after graduation.:-)
So, you can even be more covert using Kali in public places without attracting attention with a laptop.
I was on one back to Amsterdam from South Africa, unfortunately economy class. My knees hurt like hell after the cramped overnight flight. No more KLM economy flights for me.
FYI, the work environment IS my concern because right now I'm the only one with enough experience and skill to take care of problems at the clients.
And I actually quit part ownership of the company because the stress of having to deal with the increased stupidity of marketing companies like Microsoft all day and night got to me. Now I just help out with the difficult stuff as long as the guys don't know what to do and as for the rest, *shrugs* I stopped caring about life so who cares what happens next.
I'm writing now and despite it not bringing in any money I feel better than ever.
I hardly eat breakfast early in the morning and eat only just after noon and later in the evening, so that had no influence on weight.
And on occasion I don't feel hungry until late in the afternoon or early evening, so then I've only eaten once during the day.
So, timing is pretty regular, and it fits most of the time with respect to lunch hour at the office and the end of the day.
As with everything, you take small steps to enable your body to get used to it, and just in case hunger strikes at the wrong hour, take some snack bars, or what we have here, sort of cookies with raisins in them, to the office for a quick bite.
And important is to have patience. Permanent weightloss is a slow process. I'm surprised it has been 2kgs a month for me.
That's what I concluded from years of following discussions, and I never even tried to start any fad diet.
The one thing I started with after reducing my working days to just a few hours was only eat when I'm really hungry.
Not when I feel peckish or something looks good. No, my stomach gives a clear signal that the body needs food and then I eat. And with just a little restraint at first and stop eating when I feel full enough, my portions became automatically smaller.
Since the start of the year I've gone down from 110kg to hitting 96kg on the scale as of last week. With the increased energy I also did a bit more weightlifting.
Even my girl who's overweight has followed my lead and only started eating when really hungry has lost 4 to 5 kg in just over 1 month (with light exercise). She now has more energy and feels much better.
It's a combination of things, but sleep is an important one.
Since I've let go of the stress of working fulltime in IT (at start of the year) and get to sleep according to my own natural rhythm, and listened to my body to eat only when it really needs food I've lost 10kgs.
It also gave me more energy and a desire to pick up exercising again.
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Just because you have a feature rich, mature, popular, cross platform office suite that costs $0.00 doesn't mean... oh wait.
Which makes a mistake in the number of reported MS Office licenses pretty costly; Dutch police paid nearly 3 million too much when 14000 licenses were listed but unused. linky to Dutch news
Microsoft refused to pay back and now it's in court.
I've used it once to run old accounting software for archival reference purposes at a client. Trying to run it in Windows XP failed.
Luckily other old software at various clients could be run in Dosbox.
If you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life.
-Marc Anthony
Server 2016 is same OS base too. No thanks until MS hires a QA department back.
What I experienced this week; the update service crashed other services out of the blue without a clue, found out nic teaming doesn't work as expected after nic 1 was disconnected, losing connections from half the network, and DHCP loadbalancing made clients disconnect from the network often for several seconds.
Applause for Microsoft and their wondeful job of delivering a stable, high quality server OS with critical services to synchronise an administrator's email, documents and media files online and use XBox online services. *claps slowly*
Need more words to clarify. :-)
Development? Specialised hardware to operate machinery?
Then it doesn't seem to me that there's a reason to run a Linux virtual macine on that. Might even be more prone to breaking things.
But what would those options be for? If it's a Windows shop, what use would they have for running Linux that they couldn't do on Windows?
*several
Proofread too quick. Need edit option.
This now makes me wonder what reason there could be to run Ubuntu on Windows instead of Windows on Linux. For the few pieces of software like CAD (or games) I can understand, but then I can't think of a use for those professionals to use Linux in a virtual machine.
So, what scenario would fit best to use Linux on Windows instead of Windows on Linux for the professional? (I myself use Proxmox as a desktop with severeal machines for testing on it)
Although at a safe pace and distance from other objects.
Bought it years ago after testing the hacked version on XP, sandboxed every program I installed on the machine, worked great for preventing game spyware installing into the core OS.
I always use crf with x264, like I always used q with xvid.
For me it was about keeping the same quality, but be able to store two to three times as many movies on disk for safe keeping (without the added junk).
I've already had a few DVD's with rot so I want to store them on BTRFS RAID.
Already use glasses for which one needs good eyes. :-P
But you'd be surprised how low crf needs to be for some movies to avoid bleeding detail. Especially in dark areas.
A media file of 89GB gets a bit too much to casually test conversions myself.
I do wonder how large the files will be when ripping in various codecs. With some DVD's the resulting x264 and xvid conversions didn't differ much in size (with equal quality), probably because of grain and smoke.
Are we talking Apple here or Microsoft?
I'm starting to get a bad feeling about the number 10, and I'm not even thinking of Downing Street.
Don't forget to mention with a simple piece of wiring between phone and speakers there's no need to replace batteries or have to recharge the earbuds often.
Sounds more environmentally responsible too.
Yes, Me too. I'll get one right away as soon as I have something to put in it.
I had a discussion about this just this evening with a friend. He states the EU shouldn't charge that amount to Apple, but to Ireland itself since it's Ireland that struck a bargain with Apple.
I agree on part of it, but Ireland could never pay that amount, certainly not on the backs of the Irish. They'd take the first boat to leave the country if the government did that so it's a bit more obvious to make Apple pay who should have known a low tax rate as they had could never have been correct.
I think Tim left out after saying he'd bring back those profits to the US that they'd end up in another deal and loophole and stay safe an sound on the Apple bank account.
One of the new guys at the office has installed Kali on his phone and had a lot of fun checking out websites while being bored on vacation. He refrained from actually using holes to do someting, which shows I was right in saying we needed to hire him after graduation. :-)
So, you can even be more covert using Kali in public places without attracting attention with a laptop.
I was on one back to Amsterdam from South Africa, unfortunately economy class. My knees hurt like hell after the cramped overnight flight. No more KLM economy flights for me.
That's the current trend in things, technology for technology's sake. Not to solve any real problems.
FYI, the work environment IS my concern because right now I'm the only one with enough experience and skill to take care of problems at the clients.
And I actually quit part ownership of the company because the stress of having to deal with the increased stupidity of marketing companies like Microsoft all day and night got to me.
Now I just help out with the difficult stuff as long as the guys don't know what to do and as for the rest, *shrugs* I stopped caring about life so who cares what happens next.
I'm writing now and despite it not bringing in any money I feel better than ever.
It's at times like this that I'm glad I was able to dump Windows many years ago and had at least at home a fun computing environment.
Too bad I still have to fix stupid stuff on Windows server, Exchange and other proprietary software.
I hardly eat breakfast early in the morning and eat only just after noon and later in the evening, so that had no influence on weight.
And on occasion I don't feel hungry until late in the afternoon or early evening, so then I've only eaten once during the day.
So, timing is pretty regular, and it fits most of the time with respect to lunch hour at the office and the end of the day.
As with everything, you take small steps to enable your body to get used to it, and just in case hunger strikes at the wrong hour, take some snack bars, or what we have here, sort of cookies with raisins in them, to the office for a quick bite.
And important is to have patience. Permanent weightloss is a slow process. I'm surprised it has been 2kgs a month for me.
It's all bullshit pseudo science.
That's what I concluded from years of following discussions, and I never even tried to start any fad diet.
The one thing I started with after reducing my working days to just a few hours was only eat when I'm really hungry.
Not when I feel peckish or something looks good. No, my stomach gives a clear signal that the body needs food and then I eat. And with just a little restraint at first and stop eating when I feel full enough, my portions became automatically smaller.
Since the start of the year I've gone down from 110kg to hitting 96kg on the scale as of last week. With the increased energy I also did a bit more weightlifting.
Even my girl who's overweight has followed my lead and only started eating when really hungry has lost 4 to 5 kg in just over 1 month (with light exercise). She now has more energy and feels much better.
Is there anything magical about sleep?
It's a combination of things, but sleep is an important one.
Since I've let go of the stress of working fulltime in IT (at start of the year) and get to sleep according to my own natural rhythm, and listened to my body to eat only when it really needs food I've lost 10kgs.
It also gave me more energy and a desire to pick up exercising again.