Posts by RICHTO

Israel plots gigabit fibre-to-home rollout

Re: Two thirds of the country ?

"project is running behind time as it struggled to attract participants"

No one wants to be associated with a terrorist state. Except the Americans...

The LINUX TABLET IS THE FUTURE - and it always will be

Re: Reliability

Try upgrading from the beta....That Hyper-V issue was fixed a year ago....

Rampaging gnu crashes Microsoft Store, hands out literature

Re: China

China has rather a lot more schools than the USA, and a much bigger population. Yet the USA still manages more deaths via gunshots.

It IS guns that kill people. Easy access to guns means a lot more people will die than would otherwise be the case - the USA being a very clear example of this: Circa 11,000 deaths a year through guns in the USA versus circa 300 in the UK.....All of those other offensive weapons are also illegal or at least restricted in most civilised countries...Yes the determined criminals will still be able to get weapons, but your average teenager or lunatic with a grudge won't...

China 'enhances' Great Firewall, teaches it to choke off VPNs

Switch to Lync - no VPN is required for secure internet access (plus a much better end user experience)

Re: and they want to do business with the rest of the world?!

But it will. No international company will want to open an office in China without secure communications back to HQ....And staff that visit wont be able to access their remote desktops / email / phone systems either. Big old mess....

RIM writes Nokia a fat cheque as pair bury the patent hatchet

Nokia WP Sales are climbing

There are plenty of articles with more details, now that the most recent last 3 months Kantar figures were published. And don't forget that WP8 has only been available for about 1 of those 3 months. WP is currently at about 3-12% market share over the last 3 months depending on the location.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyclay/2012/12/21/windows-phone-now-third-most-popular-platform-in-u-s/

http://bgr.com/2012/12/21/windows-phone-growth-analysis-262829/

WP will also have overtaken Blackberry in most markets by the end of 2012.

Next IPCC climate assessment due 2014 now everywhere online

Re: bollocks

Not by any credible sources for years now. For instance every single scientific representative from every single country in the UN supports the concept that climaite change is a reality and that we are the primary cause.

You can hang on to far out and outdated theories like a Republican, but the facts are that almost zero scientists and especially climate scientists dispute the overwhelming evidence.

Here is some recent evidence for you: http://www.businessinsider.com/16-irrefutable-signs-that-climate-change-is-real-2012-11?op=1

Android Trojan taints US mobes, spews 500,000 texts A DAY

But IOS has over 300 known vulnerabilities, and can be rooted just by vitising a web page!

Re: Ahh

Windows XP has less than a 3rd of the vulnerabilities of OS-X....

Re: @AC

Wrong - Windows Phone DOES already specifically ask for and state permissions prior to install (and / or on first execution) just like Android does for sensitive activities:

http://allaboutwindowsphone.com/images/flow/misc/apppermission01.jpg

I agree - open = a lot more malware given the same market share (i.e. motivation for hackers to bother attacking it). This is why Linux servers on the internet are much more likely (even taking into account market share) to be compromised than ones running Windows....

Re: @AC

Wrong on both - Windows has secure repositories (Windows Store and Windows Update for instance)

Windows Phone also can state and request permission for specific functions - e.g. track your location.

Re: Did you read the blog post, Mr Register?

Maybe that would fix all the virus issues on desktop OSs like OS-X and Windows? - say we make them prompt the user before it does anything that needs elevated rights? - oh wait a minute....

Re: Android virus the cry of self denial.....

Your iPhone with over 300 known security vulnerabilities in IOS you mean?

Get a Windows Phone - only 1 Denial of Sevice vulnerability across all versions....

VCDX: The elite certification just 105 people hold

Re: I've heard this before

So same idea as a Microsoft Masters, except without the 2 weeks at Redmond (or VMWare...)

RIM is really in trouble when even Windows Phone 8 looks great

Re: I smell bias

Q4 is the businest quarter - and WP phone sales are steadily increasing so my numbers would only have been an under-estimate.

2+2+4 isnt 7....!

Re: I smell bias

Well I'm so confident in Nokia's fuutre after getting a Lumia 920 that stuck a 5 figure sum into Nokia shares a few weeks ago at ~$3 share. If you think you are right then do go do the same for RIM......

Re: I smell bias

You need to learn to read. It says "Nokia is being credited with having sold seven million Lumias, with four million in the last quarter" and "if Nokia doubles its sales a year from now"

So current rate was 4 million a quarter - is ALREADY a rate of 16 million a year. If they doubled that then the current yearly rate would be 32 million. Not hard is it...

Or if you want to look at the historic yearly rate then If we assume linear sales growth we would have sales of 5 million, 6 million, 7million, 8 million per quarter to get to double sales then thats still a lot higher than 14 million....(26 million).

Or even if you are talking about double the cumuative sales at the time then the author says "four million in the last quarter and two million in two quarters before that." errm - so that would be 8 million doubled then to give 16 million then, not 14 million...

So not only were you wrong in stating that i claimed sales of 30 million, but you can't do basic maths either - like the author.

Re: I smell bias

That doesnt take into account the launch of WP8.....market share is NOW 4 times what it was at the same time last year....

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/mobile/display/20121128205406_Microsoft_Sales_of_Windows_Phone_Based_Handsets_Quadruple_with_Windows_Phone_8.html

And before you start quoting Octobers numbers, you should read: http://www.forbes.com/sites/ewanspence/2012/12/03/its-not-octobers-market-share-that-counts-for-windows-phone-its-novembers/

And you might want to read what i actually said which was "The writer of the article cant count. Nokia already sold 4 Million Lumias last quarter. That's 16 million a year. So If they double sales over the next year, that means 8 million a quarter or 32 million a year." - which was referring to the authors inability to do basic maths - not a sales prediction.....

However allegedly Nokia ALREADY sold 7 million WP handsets this quarter, so it looks like they are now selling at circa 30 million a year...

Re: MDM != BES

So does SCCM 2012. Still not quite as flexible as Blackberry Enteprise Server, but it is getting there...

Re: I smell bias

WP has quadrupled it's market share in the last year, whereas Blackberry has shrunk about the same.....

For companies, WP is also much more secure than IOS and Android and is easier to manage via Exchange and SCCM.

Microsoft Santa gifts you with 5 critical fixes in Xmas Patch Tuesday

Re: Arrgggh a mass rebooting session as well!

Hire a competent Windows admin and all such issues will be a thing of the past....

Re: Bing Desktop

That's an optional functionality update, not a security one.

Microsoft Surface to hit third-party stores on Wednesday

Re: It's such a shame

Not sure where you got that idea, but Surface already does a lot more in V1.0 than Chrome, Android or the iPad.....

Re: expanding the ways in which customers can interact with Surface

Well it works very well as a skateboard: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkSVIgtqr9U

And its good for breaking other devices with....

Re: I'm Confused

Still going through the chargeback process on that one FYI....Bought one new off eBay instead for 2/3 the price...and got better service...

Does have to be said that Surface tabs are very good in terms of design / functionality....even if the Microsoft Store does suck for customer service...

Rare critical Word vuln is the star of December Patch Tuesday

Critical Vulnerabilities went up from 34 to 35. Versus the vast growth in functionality and number of code lines in Microsoft products, that's an obvious improvement. And an order of magnitude better than Linux or OS-X.

GPU-stuffed monster cracks Windows passwords in minutes

Re: Window$ $ecurity

But they do have far higher levels of security vulnerabilities and get hacked far more than Windows systems: http://www.zone-h.org/news/id/4737

Re: Shocking

That method doesnt work with Bit Locker / Secure Boot...

Re: Shock Horror

NTLM and reversible password hashes have been disabled by default since Vista / Server 2008.

Such attacks are now not possible unless you downgrade the default security settings. And the passwords are never in the DC memory in the default case.

Re: Shock Horror

Again though - that doesnt compromise security. An Admin user is supposed to be able to set and remove passwords...

I am pretty sure that XP forces you to set an Admin password...

Re: Shock Horror

To be fair though doing that didnt crack the password or the security. You had physical access to the file system, and you just overwrote the password file. Any stored passwords, etc that the user had as 'secrets' would not have been recoverable...

If you want to prevent such techniques when someone has physical access to the system then you just turn on Bit Locker....

'Build us a Death Star, President Obama' demand thousands

Re: It's a joke

That's a myth or a result of looking at a short term view from a specific starting point.

Official temperature figures viewed across the long term trend all show that global warming continues...

Re: It's a joke

? Its not like there is any doubt abut global warming anymore. In case you have have your head in the sand for a decade or 2 then there is now over whelming observable evidence that a) Global warming is happening, and b) the primary cause is greenhouse gas emissions caused by mankind.

The only thing left to argue about is how bad it will be...

The US government recognises Scientology as a religeon is what i refer to - and gives them the relevant tax exemptions.

Re: @ Michael Luke

But we do have Oil - lots of it. And Gas. And Coal. However, im sure we are on the to do list, somewhere after France.....

Re: $852,000,000,000,000,000

That will be the Exchange rate to £1 before the deathstar is built the way their budget deficit is heading....

Re: It's a joke

Well half of them still don't acknowledge the facts around global warming,and they consider Scientology a religeon so not the greatest of surprises.....

Microsoft Windows Server 2012: Why Bother?

Re: Why bother? Because of graft.

Presumably as you were "30 + years" as a BOFH they were not paying you to take risk. They paid people a few levels up the food chain to make those decisions....

Re: Just one thing missing

How about if you are? Remote Admins Tools will install onto a Surface Pro tablet....And you can snap the keyboard on if you want to.

Re: @RICHTO

#1 - the question answered was "Microsoft Windows Server 2012: Why Bother?" - Not sure why you are going on about upgrading, this is the case for new installations too.

The same comment about upgrade costs adding to TCO would be true of any other OS also. And at least you can upgrade Windows verisons. Many Linux distributions only support a clean install.

#2 - That is assuming that you already have clients to upgrade. What abut green field sites? And anyway - much of the new functionality does not need new clients.

#3 - The functioonality is known - this is an RTM product.

#4 - Please explain how "the performance aspect can easily start to work against you" ? - Please define where a 2008 or a 2003 server would be "much better suited" ?

Re: Some Obvious Reasons..... @RICHTO

Core server install (No GUI) was an option since Server 2008. It's not new.

Re: Just one thing missing

So you clearly cant manage your Windows servers in a controlled or recommended manner. Hire a decent Windows admin. I know they cost a bit more than Linux ones, but it's worth it....

Re: On that TCO ...

And that's just the CAL cost - which is not necessarily a significant component of your TCO

Re: Just one thing missing

Touch and Gesture is the future. Not just for tablets...

Re: Performance

So do I, and when it fell over much more frequently. That was well over a decade ago.....

Re: Some Obvious Reasons.....

"you mean ACLs like Unix has had since the 1980s"

No - I mean proper ACLs throughout the OS - not the limited Posix 1e rubbish of user, group and world bit masks of UNIX.

Linux has tried to fix it via NFSv4 ACLs, but it's still nothing like the capbility Windows has. And is still experimental.

So for instance on Linux, you cant evaluate access via claims based authentication or support expression based ACLs.

Re: SQL 2012 on Win 2012

Yep - no more mirroring.

Re: Just one thing missing

Install the remote admin tools and you dont have you use TIFKAM remotely. Or learn the TIFKAM keyboard shortcuts, or just use Powershell....

Re: Some Obvious Reasons.....

Security - Windows Server is a long way ahead of say a Linux distribution for security. I refer to number of vulnerabilities, criticality of vulnerabilities, average days at risk, and probablilty of an internet facing server being compromised - all of which Windows Server has been ahead of Linux in every year since 2003. (2002 was the year Bill Gates made secuirty Microsoft's #1 priority). Plus Windows was designed from the bottom up to be secure with full ACLs built in at every level to the OS and kernal - not a set of bolt on after thoughts like Linux - where bodges like SEL are required.

TCO - funny you should mention it - but web services was the exception i referred to. However there are a number of changes in 2012 to address that - we will have to wait for a stuidy to see if that is still the case....

Functionality - here are 2 - Secure boot and disk deduplication.

Performance -- none of your comments are related to performance - Windows Server comes in a NAS appliance version.

Some Obvious Reasons.....

#1 Security - lower vulnerability counts, with fewer days at risk and fewer critical vulnerabilties that are on average fixed faster than any competing OS. Full support for secure boot.

#2 TCO - lower cost of support / ownership in an enterprise compared to competing OSs for the vast majority of uses.

#3 Functionality - The market leader in many respects.

#4 Performance - Significantly outperforms other platforms in common uses - e.,g. worlds fastest fileserver.

MySQL gains new batch of vulns

Re: Richto

That's like asking why the Slapper worm only runs on Linux....