What I see is that MS have noticed the significant move to Linux/BSD and have lost a great deal of market as a result.
The business people at MS put their thinking caps on and saw a way to charge people for running Linux, and Azure is the result.
What I've not seen any mention of here, is that Azure itself runs on Linux. So this is a weird situation. MS are guaranteeing TOS for Windows in Azure, which is backed up by rock solid Debian[1] providing the network switching layer, which is much more critical than a single VM.
What you mean is you have not learnt anything else in the last 20 years sufficiently to do what is basic. That's what is sad.
The most secure mailer IMO is mutt with lynx HTML viewer. It's also by the fastest to load my multigig mailbox. YMMV, given it cost me nothing, runs persistently in a screen session on a VPS with 64MB of RAM, I'll call it my cloud solution too.
No, what he is saying is that he is is a government administration expert. Through transitioning businesses to Office 365 the government's workflow of generating thousands of search warrants is now reduced to just one as they need only access to one address to carry out thousands of searches in a single instance.
I disagree. For someone on that level, the interfaces are pretty confusing and unfamiliar so a totally different OS may go unnoticed. Other than it'll now 10x faster due to no need for A/V.
Maybe for each cup of coffee you drink, that's one less chance that it could have been a cola or beer, which could be considered harmful. Perhaps orange squash instead of coffee would have had the same result.
Build or rent a server, load it up. Fetchmail can fetch mail from any POP or IMAP provider, if you want to go that route. Or, you can accept mail directly through sendmail, which is not trivial and requires a domain.
If you don't want to lose control of your email address ever again, you can register a domain and either host it yourself, or find a commercial host that will work with customer domains.
Outgoing with sendmail is easy, or your incoming host will usually provide it too, if you prefer that.
Horde works great with activesync devices, or with browsers. It can also manage your calendar, contacts, notes, todo list, etc.
Advanced topics for the DIY crowd: greylisting, spamassassin, DNS-rbls, SPF, SRS
This. Except I'm not a sendmail fan. qmail/djbdns has done me fine since 2003, very reliable, very easy to patch. The.qmail rules that have built up over that time allow me to avoid spamassassin on addresses that are not mail lists or things I know are social media related etc, very handy and saves a lot of wasted CPU. Greylisting is good, but annoyingly some web servers try and deliver directly on tcp/25, and don't queue if given a 4xx.
The very real benefit to running your own is that you can easily ssh to the machine and run mutt in a screen. So much more efficient than a web browser that renders the text/html part full of junk.
I see it as quite relevant. Under her leadership YahooGroups! was destroyed. Does she claim design ownership of that too? The changes to YahooGroups drove people away and killed a community. That was about the only thing that Yahoo was useful for. Sad times.
I canceled cable because most (not all) of what was offered is pure shit.
Sports, home decorating, sports, celebrity crap, hunting bigfoot, cooking, cooking, sports, cooking, game shows, shopping channel, honey boo boo, ice truckers, reality TV shows, more shopping, more celebrity crap, fishing, golfing, more bigfoot, more game shows....and on and on. It's drivel, replicated over and over and over.
This is just pure profit. The business model is shifting now as it appears they are shifting the burden of share holder satisfaction, when the programmes are terrible, hit the pirates with fines rather than new subscribers rewarding with revenue. There's also a hint that they're expecting others in the pool to plug the gaps, thus some hint that the internal department can shrink as there's other outside resource now.
It would be quite hard to contest the data you get back though. It is also quite hard to ensure that their process costs them more money than the telemetry data they're selling on.
The UK press, and increasingly the BBC, are promoting Tory ideology while subtly or unsubtly denigrating Labour's (fully costed, in comparison to the Tories') manifesto
This is because the Tory's control the BBC's revenue, the TV Licence. They threaten to reduce it, continually until the BBC show the Tory government in a good light. Sad as the BBC now has a bias.
Sure, a lot of linux distros are hosted up on websites, but rarely do you find indexes like you can with FTP easily.
I'll miss the days of using somewhat questionable 'ftp search' websites that tried to scrape as much info as they could from anonymous-enabled FTP servers around the globe.
You'll be missed, good ol' FTP.
Yes, I think the real problem was just how to embed adverts into the listing output. If that problem could be solved then people would welcome FTP back with open arms.
Most people can't afford to live closer to work. They wouldn't save enough money to live closer even if they didn't commute by car. That is in fact the primary reason they live far enough away to where they can't bike, and have to commute by car to begin with. It's all well and good to snark about "excuses" but some of these things are explanations, not excuses. Our whole society is designed to be self-deflagrating, and calling it "excuses" when people complain about that is, in short, a dick move that won't win you any friends.
Note that I have never had a commute longer than about fifteen minutes, so I'm not making excuses for myself, either. I'm trying to help you understand how the world works, even though you're willfully ignorant.
Really? So it's too expensive to get a train and then commute by cycle from station to door then?
In this country (where the study was performed) the driver is almost taxed off the road by MOT, Vehicle Excise Duty, fuel duty, insurance then there's the car parking fees in the cities after that (assuming you can park freely at home), plus running costs, all of which would include VAT at some stage also. You could negate just the vehicle excise duty with the cost of the bike alone, before you start talking all the other costs. It's not much more expensive to move a little closer to work or even cycle one or two days of the week and leave a car behind for just those couple of days. You wont save much money doing just that, perhaps move the insurance down one bracket at most.
Or of course, don't be so picky about your work and find something closer to home, then you don't have to re-mortgage and pay the stamp duty just to move premises.
Most non-motorways predate the car, so in fact they were "made" for horses and bikes and foot traffic.
Modern roads (as you call them, motorways) were in fact made for cars. Here's a hint: if it's paved, and it's got road markings for cars on it, it's designed first and foremost for cars. You don't need as wide a way for cycles, and paths for cycles are usually fairly readily recognizable.
I am generally in favor of adding cycle paths to the world, but in many cases, mixing bicycles and automobiles is insane.
Nope. You're wrong. Most roads pre-date the automobile. They were initially designed without cars in mind. However, most people wish to use their cars on them. Hence car tax was brought about to pave them.
This. The thread is full of excuses. To make matters worse, the excuses for doing nothing to help ones own health means that people are happy to run the risk of earlier than needed death whilst also adding to global warming. Also, with that shorter life, you're spending the majority of the working day couped up in a car.
Using a bike to work is a great way of turning that commute into exercise, you arrive on the premise with a better level of dopamine and adrenaline, but that time went towards extending your pension years.
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What I see is that MS have noticed the significant move to Linux/BSD and have lost a great deal of market as a result.
The business people at MS put their thinking caps on and saw a way to charge people for running Linux, and Azure is the result.
What I've not seen any mention of here, is that Azure itself runs on Linux. So this is a weird situation. MS are guaranteeing TOS for Windows in Azure, which is backed up by rock solid Debian[1] providing the network switching layer, which is much more critical than a single VM.
1: https://www.theregister.co.uk/...
What you mean is you have not learnt anything else in the last 20 years sufficiently to do what is basic. That's what is sad.
The most secure mailer IMO is mutt with lynx HTML viewer. It's also by the fastest to load my multigig mailbox. YMMV, given it cost me nothing, runs persistently in a screen session on a VPS with 64MB of RAM, I'll call it my cloud solution too.
No, what he is saying is that he is is a government administration expert. Through transitioning businesses to Office 365 the government's workflow of generating thousands of search warrants is now reduced to just one as they need only access to one address to carry out thousands of searches in a single instance.
I disagree. For someone on that level, the interfaces are pretty confusing and unfamiliar so a totally different OS may go unnoticed. Other than it'll now 10x faster due to no need for A/V.
A broken clock is right once a day.
*twice.*
But now they're running websites for free customers they don't know they have.
If by segment you mean have separate DC's and airgaps, then yes. Or use a less vulnerable and more robust OS.
I doubt anyone could stand Starbucks or Costa for 16 years straight.
Maybe for each cup of coffee you drink, that's one less chance that it could have been a cola or beer, which could be considered harmful. Perhaps orange squash instead of coffee would have had the same result.
When a company says they're not tracking, likely they are. What was their business model again?
Build or rent a server, load it up. Fetchmail can fetch mail from any POP or IMAP provider, if you want to go that route. Or, you can accept mail directly through sendmail, which is not trivial and requires a domain.
If you don't want to lose control of your email address ever again, you can register a domain and either host it yourself, or find a commercial host that will work with customer domains.
Outgoing with sendmail is easy, or your incoming host will usually provide it too, if you prefer that.
Horde works great with activesync devices, or with browsers. It can also manage your calendar, contacts, notes, todo list, etc.
Advanced topics for the DIY crowd: greylisting, spamassassin, DNS-rbls, SPF, SRS
This. Except I'm not a sendmail fan. qmail/djbdns has done me fine since 2003, very reliable, very easy to patch. The .qmail rules that have built up over that time allow me to avoid spamassassin on addresses that are not mail lists or things I know are social media related etc, very handy and saves a lot of wasted CPU. Greylisting is good, but annoyingly some web servers try and deliver directly on tcp/25, and don't queue if given a 4xx.
The very real benefit to running your own is that you can easily ssh to the machine and run mutt in a screen. So much more efficient than a web browser that renders the text/html part full of junk.
I see it as quite relevant. Under her leadership YahooGroups! was destroyed. Does she claim design ownership of that too? The changes to YahooGroups drove people away and killed a community. That was about the only thing that Yahoo was useful for. Sad times.
I canceled cable because most (not all) of what was offered is pure shit.
Sports, home decorating, sports, celebrity crap, hunting bigfoot, cooking, cooking, sports, cooking, game shows, shopping channel, honey boo boo, ice truckers, reality TV shows, more shopping, more celebrity crap, fishing, golfing, more bigfoot, more game shows....and on and on. It's drivel, replicated over and over and over.
This is just pure profit. The business model is shifting now as it appears they are shifting the burden of share holder satisfaction, when the programmes are terrible, hit the pirates with fines rather than new subscribers rewarding with revenue. There's also a hint that they're expecting others in the pool to plug the gaps, thus some hint that the internal department can shrink as there's other outside resource now.
This. It's shocking how close to the truth Idiocracy is.
It would be quite hard to contest the data you get back though. It is also quite hard to ensure that their process costs them more money than the telemetry data they're selling on.
If the UK has begun the brexit process, how would EU law apply to license fee paying iPlayer users?
This is because the Tory's control the BBC's revenue, the TV Licence. They threaten to reduce it, continually until the BBC show the Tory government in a good light. Sad as the BBC now has a bias.
I was not aware Obama had anything to do with the UK's NHS.
Sure, a lot of linux distros are hosted up on websites, but rarely do you find indexes like you can with FTP easily.
I'll miss the days of using somewhat questionable 'ftp search' websites that tried to scrape as much info as they could from anonymous-enabled FTP servers around the globe.
You'll be missed, good ol' FTP.
Yes, I think the real problem was just how to embed adverts into the listing output. If that problem could be solved then people would welcome FTP back with open arms.
Sorry but most secure email server is qmail. End of. That also can run on a pi.
The thread is full of excuses.
Most people can't afford to live closer to work. They wouldn't save enough money to live closer even if they didn't commute by car. That is in fact the primary reason they live far enough away to where they can't bike, and have to commute by car to begin with. It's all well and good to snark about "excuses" but some of these things are explanations, not excuses. Our whole society is designed to be self-deflagrating, and calling it "excuses" when people complain about that is, in short, a dick move that won't win you any friends.
Note that I have never had a commute longer than about fifteen minutes, so I'm not making excuses for myself, either. I'm trying to help you understand how the world works, even though you're willfully ignorant.
Really? So it's too expensive to get a train and then commute by cycle from station to door then?
In this country (where the study was performed) the driver is almost taxed off the road by MOT, Vehicle Excise Duty, fuel duty, insurance then there's the car parking fees in the cities after that (assuming you can park freely at home), plus running costs, all of which would include VAT at some stage also. You could negate just the vehicle excise duty with the cost of the bike alone, before you start talking all the other costs. It's not much more expensive to move a little closer to work or even cycle one or two days of the week and leave a car behind for just those couple of days. You wont save much money doing just that, perhaps move the insurance down one bracket at most.
Or of course, don't be so picky about your work and find something closer to home, then you don't have to re-mortgage and pay the stamp duty just to move premises.
Most non-motorways predate the car, so in fact they were "made" for horses and bikes and foot traffic.
Modern roads (as you call them, motorways) were in fact made for cars. Here's a hint: if it's paved, and it's got road markings for cars on it, it's designed first and foremost for cars. You don't need as wide a way for cycles, and paths for cycles are usually fairly readily recognizable.
I am generally in favor of adding cycle paths to the world, but in many cases, mixing bicycles and automobiles is insane.
Nope. You're wrong. Most roads pre-date the automobile. They were initially designed without cars in mind. However, most people wish to use their cars on them. Hence car tax was brought about to pave them.
Cycle faster, move closer or die younger.
Most non-motorways predate the car, so in fact they were "made" for horses and bikes and foot traffic.
This. The thread is full of excuses. To make matters worse, the excuses for doing nothing to help ones own health means that people are happy to run the risk of earlier than needed death whilst also adding to global warming. Also, with that shorter life, you're spending the majority of the working day couped up in a car.
Using a bike to work is a great way of turning that commute into exercise, you arrive on the premise with a better level of dopamine and adrenaline, but that time went towards extending your pension years.