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  1. Re:I'll bite on Microsoft Releases PowerShell DSC For Linux · · Score: 1

    The reason they have an IDE for it is because you can use it to do incredibly complex things, like design GUIs that tie in administration elements from Active Directory, SANs, switch configuration, virtual infrastructure configuration and deployment, and computer administration-- all in one language with a common syntax.

    Why would you want to do that with a scripting language ? I thought that's what MMC was for.
    While nice sed tetris isn't a good idea either.

  2. Re:I'll bite on Microsoft Releases PowerShell DSC For Linux · · Score: 1

    Don't forget: x = 3
    doesn't work.
    while: x=3 does.
    The l, r-value and assignment operator can not be tokenized by whitespace.

  3. Re:1 year may have been enough on Windows XP Support Deal Not Renewed By UK Government, Leaves PCs Open To Attack · · Score: 1

    Does anyone have any insights into what that extended support actually provides. How many security patches
    have there been released since ? To me it sound as a very expensive extra insurrance for when the house burns down and
    people above you start to look for someone to blame.

  4. Now take that 5.5 million and replace your old machines and software.

  5. Re:Competing for resources on When Enthusiasm For Free Software Turns Ugly · · Score: 1

    So petty wars of attrition.

  6. Re:Already patched on New Zero Day Disclosed In WordPress Core Engine · · Score: 1

    The only web developers who still have such security bugs in their software are 1) lazy 2) incompetent 3) not interested in security or 4) have been asleep for 15 years. For whatever the reason is, it's not wise to use their software!/p.

    That's like 90% of all developers :D.

  7. Re: systemd sux on Debian 8 Jessie Released · · Score: 1

    Last time I tried Fedora (11 or 12) It broke constantly. Although much of it was possibly due to KDE4 going through its "infant years".

  8. Re:Choose init during installation? on Debian 8 Jessie Released · · Score: 1

    Oh? Why wouldn't I just read /run/systemd/journal instead? [unplugs disk that /var is mounted on and starts box] var.mount mount process exited, code=exited status=32 hmmm, no information on what went wrong?

    That's what systemd tells you not the output of the actual mount utility. It could lie. What if mount fails because of a severe filesystem error ? What if the initrd is broken and the actual mount helper utility is not present ?

    P.S. Weren't you the genius who wondered why "we" don't know what happened before time and space began? Where do I sign up for your newsletter?

    No, I was the "genius" that got confused because the medium article mentioned 2 BIG BANGS. That send a red flag for me because I was taught that yes, we can't look "before" the big bang because there simply was no time. And offcourse cosmic inflation happened after the big bang !

    Something needed to happen to set up the initial conditions for the Big Bang, and that “thing” is cosmic inflation, or a period where the energy in the Universe wasn’t dominated by matter (or antimatter) or radiation, but rather by energy inherent to space itself, or an early, super-intense form of dark energy.

    PS. Nice Ad hominem.

  9. Re:Choose init during installation? on Debian 8 Jessie Released · · Score: 1

    If only systemd did logging. If only sad anonymous arseclowns had someway of finding answers for themselves.

    But If you can't write to these log files because your root or /var filesystem doesn't mount
    then you would have wished for stdout/stderr on the console !

  10. Re:Whitelisting executables... on Microsoft Announces Device Guard For Windows 10 · · Score: 2

    Couldn't you already create this "executable whitelist" if you setup software restriction policies ? (https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh994620.aspx)

  11. Re:So? on New PCIe SSDs Load Games, Apps As Fast As Old SATA Drives · · Score: 1

    Don't use hardware RAID. Buy an OEM LSI SAS2008 controller based (IBM serveraid M1015, Dell Perc H310, ...) card from ebay
    and flash it to passthrough IT mode. These get +2GB/s bulk throughput each that way.

  12. Re:The third factor on Can High Intelligence Be a Burden Rather Than a Boon? · · Score: 1

    Isn't that normal. I wouldn't call being bad at something you don't like a disease.
    I worked through high-school French but it never stuck, never for the lack of trying though.
    Am I a ADHD patient ?

  13. Confused: 2 Big bangs ? on The Origin of the First Light In the Universe · · Score: 1

    Yet there was a time in the distant past before any of those things had formed, shortly before the Big Bang, where the Universe was still filled with light.

    I thought spacetime started with the big bang and we had no insight into what came before ?
    The article says that the fabric of space was expanding and the big bang was an event that got its energy from spots of crumbling spacefabric (bad analogy) ?

    This process, of inflation ending and giving rise to the hot Big Bang, is known as cosmic reheating, and as the Universe then cools as it expands, the particle/antiparticle pairs annihilate, creating even more photons and leaving just a tiny bit of matter left over.

    Were there 2 big bangs: The one that inflated space and the other one (recombination) that decoupled matter from photons ?
    Have you just created an extra "big bang" to be able to explain the question and don't you regress now to the question: Where did spacetime get the energy to begin with ?

  14. Re:We all need to realize... on AMD Withdraws From High-Density Server Business · · Score: 1

    People forget that Intel is not only in heavy competition with ARM, but Intel is in perpetual competition with its own parts from last year and if Intel really jacks up prices they will simply lose business from people who don't upgrade.

    Nah, you just invent some new feature and makes sure marketing plants it into everybody's head that they need it (hyperthreading).

    AMD isn't some angel, it just doesn't have the opportunity to be the big dog very often. Additionally, even when AMD isn't the top dog they've charged whackjob insane prices for chips... $900 FX-9590 launched in 2013 as some sort of bad-joke, I'm looking at you.

    True that was disgusting even more so because the next best thing (9370) was only around 400 $.
    They tried to extract money from the gamer-fanboys. Their most loyal customers.
    They did something similar recently with their AMD SSD and AMD Memory bullshit.

  15. Re:Just buy Crucial or Intel on New Samsung SSD 840 EVO Read Performance Fix Coming Later This Month · · Score: 1

    But Intel does something awful when you reach the wear leveling limit. After a power cycle it closes your drive !

  16. Their first fix came out as a windows program and later as a live cd. The Windows program used free ntfs space to shuffle data around.
    The live cd did not need a NTFS system and it did not eat my data. (ext4 + LVM2 + md-raid)
    I suspect this fix will get a corresponding live cd as well, so we'll just have to wait a little bit longer.

  17. Re:Too late; already sold my EVO's on eBay on New Samsung SSD 840 EVO Read Performance Fix Coming Later This Month · · Score: 1

    But motherboard Raid is usually fakeRAID.

  18. Re:Too late; already sold my EVO's on eBay on New Samsung SSD 840 EVO Read Performance Fix Coming Later This Month · · Score: 1

    This whole EVO performance problem is a crock of shit. People only noticed the problem running synthetic benchmarks. For normal usage, there'll be no perceptible performance issue with these drives. And yes, I have a couple of EVO drives, and yes, they are also hit with the performance issue. I just don't notice because it's such a non-issue outside of synthetic benchmarks.

    Bullshit I have 2 EVO's and I did notice. Some regions were very very slow (50-60 MB/s).
    When your VM copy suddenly takes 5-10 times as long as expected, you do notice.

  19. Re:I like imaging systems like this, but... on First Alpha of Public Sector Linux Deployment System · · Score: 1

    What do you actually monitor with icanga and munin ?

  20. Re:That's nice on First Alpha of Public Sector Linux Deployment System · · Score: 2

    My guess is that every argument you just said will be met with a shrug and "It seems to work just fine for us, don't know what you're talking about. So how do we push a group policy to all clients in Linux?" and if your best answer is to write a script to ssh into each box and patch a configuration file they'll just roll their eyes and say "Linux does not have the necessary management features we need" and you've got one more group added to the list of migration opponents.

    You use a configuration management system (puppet,chef,cfengine,ansible). But yes AD is a very comprehensive suite of pre-selected tools known to work together.

  21. Re:just buy amd or clone them from the factory in on US Blocks Intel From Selling Xeon Chips To Chinese Supercomputer Projects · · Score: 2
  22. Re:Or a simple solution. on Microsoft Creates a Docker-Like Container For Windows · · Score: 1

    So apt-get is container aware ?

  23. Re:systemd is also a major battlefield... on The New Struggles Facing Open Source · · Score: 1

    (Posting anon because I just modded him 'Underrated' to correct this travesty.)

    What about the travesty of abusing the moderation system like that to put weight on your own opinion ?

  24. Re:It's the cloud on The New Struggles Facing Open Source · · Score: 1

    "And I know there's a lot of MS hate from IT people, and sure, I hear you, they could do a lot more to make it better for all you tech wizards that know networking like the back of your hand. It's probably that which is clouding your judgment of their system

    We don't like the office stack because it's a huge opaque application suite that is horrible to troubleshoot and fix when it breaks.

  25. Re:It's the cloud on The New Struggles Facing Open Source · · Score: 1

    Most companies just shrug the security risks away when they see what it'll cost them to do it right.
    Businesses don't want to hire more people, especially not for the perceived money-eating departments like IT infrastructure.