Posts by RICHTO

Microsoft releases VMware-eater

Re: Ho hum....

Vsphere still DOES NOT have shared nothing migration.

You clearly dont understand what proper software defined networking is in the sense referred to here. Try reading http://blogs.technet.com/b/windowsserver/archive/2012/04/16/introducing-windows-server-8-hyper-v-network-virtualization-enabling-rapid-migration-and-workload-isolation-in-the-cloud.aspx or Google GRE or IP ReWrite. This is something that you need Vcloud Director to approach the capabilities of with Vmware - and it's stil not as featured.

Clustering / Replication - so why does VMWare provide it as a chargeable option then if only a Microsoft Hypervisor would need it?

None of those products manages the Hypervisor actually. That would be SCVMM. I was referring to value add above the Hypervisor management - which VMWare has in System Centre.

Hyper-V 2012 actually has more flexible and all encompassing resouce control than VMware does - and a fully plugin enabled stack to let vendors write their own options at multiple levels in the Hypervisor driver stack.

Again you just demonstrate your complete cluelessness - Hyper-V 2012 is much better and more powerful at providing a multisite, multi-tenant cloud then VMWare (Which requires that you also buy Vcloud Director).

It also supports full QoS and network resource control:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh831511.aspx

About the only thing you mention that Hyper-V doesnt yet support is SIOC. But then for that you need to pay for the top VMware licence, versus Hyper-V being free.....And I have never seen an environment that used SIOC. A better solution is to control the QoS on your enterprise stroage array and put such performance sensitive systems on a dedicated partition...

What an intelligent informative comment. Not.

Hyper-V exceeds or has caught up with VMware in pretty much every key area. So if it sucks, it sucks less than the market leader....

Re: The largest deal breaker for MS VM will never be fixed.

You clearly don't have a clue what you are talking about. The whole of Windows Server has several times fewer vulnerabilities than Vsphere, and Hyper-V Server has an order of magnitude fewer vulnerabilities than vSphere.....

http://secunia.com/advisories/product/26339/

http://secunia.com/advisories/product/30987/

http://secunia.com/advisories/product/25985/

http://secunia.com/advisories/product/18255/

Re: 'Free' licenses

No you dont - Hyper-V does not come with ANY virtualisation rights. Only Windows Server has that....

Re: Ho hum....

Security? You mean like Vsphere 4 having more vulnerabilities than the whole of Windows Server 2008?

Better networking - you mean like the shared nothing migration in Hyper-V that vsphere still cant manage? Or software networking thats free in the base Hyper-V product, but for Vsphere you have to spend a fortune on Vcloud Director?

Greater reliability - you mean like cross datacentre clustering and replication free in the base Hyper-V product?

Scalability - you mean like 32 times the disk size, twice the VMs per cluster and 3 times the IOPS of Vsphere? http://blogs.technet.com/b/schadinio/archive/2012/07/07/over-1-million-iops-from-a-single-vm.aspx

Management - you mean like SCOM, SCCM, SCSM, and SCO? A far more capable and integrated offering than anything Vsphere has.....

Hyper-V Server 2012 is completely free so dont get your point about costs? And as to licensing, whats the issue?

VMWare have got big problems - Hyper-V 2012 matches or exceeds the performance of Vsphere 5, it is totally free, and it can cope with 64TB VM Disks whereas Vsphere is still crippled with a 2TB limit.

Critical flaw exposes Oracle database passwords

Re: Except...

Or they ditch the Oracle crap and use AD integration - and then set a sensible account lockout time - like 15 minutes...

Re: Big shocker that

A good reason to use SQL server. Only a couple of security vulnerabilities in the last decade versus hundreds for Oracle.....

Key evidence in Assange case dissolves

Re: "<Yawn> Local Dupe, you are just boring."

So what - she then consented to it. If she hadnt then I agree - a sticky situation - but SHE DID CONSENT - therefore it's not rape, as any 'presumption' he made of consent was then confirmed by her - as per her own statement.

Re: Matt, did you have too much prune juice this morning?

No it's what anyone independent and rational says that counts. What he did was consensual and therefore not rape by any reasonable definition. And actually i'm more right wing, so wrong there too.

Re: Any chance of a bit of common sense

Just so wrong and clueless. Actually the CIA has no problem at all with grabbing well known people from public view in European countries:

http://news.yahoo.com/italy-court-upholds-american-convictions-201150582.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=feed

Anyway, the concern here is not kidnap, but that they would engineer false allegations to discredit Assange / or get him back to a country where he can be extradited. Hardly unbelieveable bearing in mind that kidnap is routine...

Re: Matt, did you have too much prune juice this morning?

What he is accused of doesnt equate to rape. More like being a bit inconsiderate.

Re: Any chance of a bit of common sense

Yes we do believe the CIA would do this - they are well known for dirty tricks. This approach means that he looses public support and credibility from anyone who believes the claims.

Re: Spoddyhalfwit

But that's because he doesnt want a surprise trip to the USA. Its quite clear that these allegations wouldnt get past the interview stage...

Re: RICHTO the short of memory

Utterly wrong. The UK court didnt consider if there was a case to answer at all. All that they consider is is the extradition warrant valid.

Re: [e-mail]

But the UK court doesnt consider the actions at all. How could they - the UK court has been presented with no evidence. Unfortunately all that they consider is is the extradition warrant valid. This is one of the big problmes with the current system - especially with extraditions to the USA.

Re: The smoking gun..

Sweden is quite capable of interviewing him in the UK - and has done similar in other previous cases. But they are refusing to do this for him - which leads to the conclusion that this is polictically motivated and that the USA are hoping to get him extradited.

Re: Doesn't matter

Yes - of badly embarrassing the Americans....

The reason he doesnt want to face the claims (which are rediculously flimsy and are anyway his word versus theirs) is that he risks being extradited the the USA!

It is quite clear that this case wouldnt even get past the initial questioning let alone near a court room.

Re: @RICHTO

There is no evidence that he knew she woudl not consent - and in fact she did.

If she was really worried about HIV then she could have told him to stop before the end - and removed 99% of the risk - regardless that he had already started.

There are two options here - either these were politically driven claims - or these 2 women were just pissed off that he got one over on both of them during the same visit and tried to get revenge....

Neither of the things he has been accused of constitute rape in any commonly accepted meaning of the word...

Re: But

I guess it's better than storing it on your wardrobe like Monica?

Re: [e-mail]

If im in bed with someone and they let me have sex with them, I dont ask for explicit permission to start again. Its taken as a given that consent has been given. They have the option of withdrawing consent, but they need to communicate the fact....'No, Stop' is the commonly accepted method....

Re: [e-mail]

So she consented then. Both before by having sex with him in bed and after by letting him continue. How is there even a case here?

And the 'continued after a condom burst' is even more rediculous. How do you prove he knew it had burst, and even if it had, how is that even a crime? He is already in the situation at that point.

Both of these cases are his word versus theirs and there is no supporting evidence. It's quite clearly a political fit up.

Microsoft issues IE 10 Flash flaw fix for Windows 8

Re: Great...

IE isnt installed on 2012 Server by default.

Re: Good general purpose heuristic

But the main alternatives - Firefox, Safari, Chrome all have far more vulnerabilities than current IE versions! Are we to go without a browser?!

Redmond promises emergency IE bug fix on Friday (zero day + 5)

Re: Actual vulnerabilities

IE doesnt have any components that run in kernel mode....

Re: Arghhh

You are very much mistaken (except for maybe Opera) or you need to update to IE9 then. See Secunia.org:

http://secunia.com/advisories/product/34591/

http://secunia.com/advisories/product/30282/

http://secunia.com/community/advisories/search/?search=chrome&page=1

http://secunia.com/advisories/product/28698/

Re: Arghhh

Not really, Safari is generally hacked first every year at the Pwn to Own competition....

Yes it wouldnt make sense to switch permanently if security is your concern. IE 9 has had significantly fewer security vulnerabilities since launch than Chrome, Safari, Firefox or Opera have in the same period.

Windows 8 to grab iPad market share wrested back from Android

Re: windows 7 ?

If they are the same price, most people will select Windows tablets over Apple. Full OS, proper USB support, neat keyboards, and most importantly Microsoft Office.

Windows 8: Never mind Office, it's for GAMING

Re: Sarcasm?

The Xbox now outsells the Wii every month. Wii is a dying platform.'"We do know that the Xbox 360 led all platforms yet again in the hardware race, moving 193,000 units." http://popzara.com/pages/2545/

I think you are confusing the Kinect with PS Move - Motion controller tracking. Which was a straight copy of the Wiii. Kinect is something entirely different with no controller and full body tracking.

You mean its an evolution of the Xbox Live Vision Camera - which Sony copied with the PS3 Eye.

Re: You're kidding me; right?

That wasnt a proper benchmark - it was a small bit of code that they worked for months to optimise. In true wideranging benchmark tests, Direct X still significantly outperforms Open GL.

Re: Kinect?

Kinect V1 is very good at what it does - - but it isnt accurate enough for single finger control required for say full combat games, etc.

This will come with Kinect V2 due very soon....

Google to axe IE 8 support, cuts off Windows XP lifeline

Re: Silly old google!

Lifeline?! LOL.

No one needs Google these days. Outlook.com and Skydrive are better than anything Google offers.....

How to be a Puppet master: Make Amazon, VMware dance for you

Most automation systems could do that. Chef, Bladelogic, etc. The real value is in how easy is it to use and integrate and what capability does the whole setup give you? So for instance a customer requests 10 Hyper-V or ESX clusters with 20 different VMs, with installed applications - across multiple sites - some of which sit in an external cloud - can your system automate the whole request, approval, deployment, monitoring and capacity management for that?

See some examples here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/orchestrator/archive/2012/05/22/private-cloud-demo-extravaganza-videos.aspx

nb - SCOM includes monitoring legacy OSs out of the box too (seeing as that will be relevant for most Puppet users): http://blogs.technet.com/b/momteam/archive/2012/07/30/now-available-system-center-2012-operations-manager-monitoring-pack-for-unix-and-linux-operating-systems.aspx

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Wrong,. Group policy is - as it says - policy mangement - it in no way provides automation funtionality - which is what Systems Centre Orchestrator does.

SCOM was leagues in front of Nagios in the 2007 R2 version with far more intelligence in event correlations and issue resolution - and the gap has only widened since with the release of the 2012 version and the integration to Service Manager - for which there is simply no comparison for Nagios.

Group Policy is not Automation Software.

The equivalent of Puppet from Microsoft would be a small part of Systems Centre Configuration Manager, plus some of Systems Centre Orchestrator. (Unfortunately Puppet doesnt offer any of the features of Systems Centre Service Manager or Systems Centre Operations Manger.)

Fanboys order 2m iPhone 5s in 24 hours

Re: iPhone touts.

And even further behind the Nokia Luma 920....

Office to propel Windows tablets past Android in 2015

Once WIndows tablets are out - that run a secure OS - and be managed without a farm of additional crap - yes that is exactly what they will do. Buy loads of Windows tablets.

Re: Office to propel Windows tablets past Android in 2015

Possibly - but Google's current 'Docs' product can't even display most Office documents properly. Not an option for anyone that relies on Office.

Well I havnt bought a tablet becuase im waiting for one with Office on, and i'm sure there are plenty like me...

Re: Probably wrong...

It might have taken Microsoft 5 years - but they have a much better product than Google Docs - and it offers seemless transition to and from other cloud hosted Office SaaS providers or to and from on premises deployments with a single management console.

Google is the poor man's option. Not that it actually costs any less when you look at the full TCO.

Re: Another 'prediction'

Seems about the right percentage for Windows RT which is a cutdown / consumer type product.. However what about the 20-30% of the market that Windows 8 full version will undoubtedly take on tablets?

Smack your phones up, says Microsoft

If its public now then Microsoft filed it a long time ago....

Office 365 turns Lotus eater

Hate to tell you, but Exchange is both more stable and more scalable than Notes these days for given hardeware....Welcome to the 21st century.

'Over half' of Android devices have unpatched holes

Re: To anyone saying Apple is the answer..

You mean ditch that legacy monolithic kernel and move to a hybrid microkernel architecture with layered everything and fully modular? (Like Windows)

Ten USB 3.0 HDD enclosures

Re: ISOs and rugged

Just install Hyper-V - which is free - and run however many OSs you want - but without all the security holes that Linux invariably comes with....

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/hyper-v-server/