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Red Hat's pockets bulging on strong Linux, JBoss sales

Re: I wish we ran on RHEL (or any GNU/Linux for that matter)

You must work for or with Accenture ... a bunch of retard managers ...

Proposed California law demands anti-theft 'kill switch' in all smartphones

http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=flash+imei

Re: If this is going to be regulated...

This is already the case, however, the crooks flash a new IMEI onto the device ... you are 15 years too late, mate. And, this only works per country ... and stupid crooks sell them in Africa ... The fun starts when the new owner comes back with the hw and the IMEI has not been flashed.

What we need is an international blacklist, but since they can flash the IMEI, it is useless against the savvy.

ARM server chip upstart Calxeda bites the dust in its quest for 64-bit glory

Nanana ... what is Facebook HW guy doin' there

Facebook has no interest in ARM, just the HW guy there ...

I remember when AMD released Opteron, they had quite a bit more of the market for a couple years for themselves, before intel game back with the Core CPU.

Intel is now moving as slowly as possible, because AMD cannot really catch up, although since their ships are in this years consoles, I am sure they will have some more cash for R&D ... still, if a guy throws shitloads of cash at ARM, I am sure Intel will laugh them out the room ... until they come back with something that will kill i7.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

Same is happening with OpenSource ... it simply takes some time to tilt a monster like that, but the day Microsoft's Server/Office marketshare only starts sliding, they are dead. Look at ie ... nobody wants it anymore, despite expensive advertising on TV ... for a product they are giving away ... ROFL.

Fanbois, prepare to lose your sh*t as BRUSSELS KILLS IPHONE dock

Re: There's more good news in the press release

Write to your MEP and pray that he understands your message ... most of them will not ...

I have trouble understanding why an iPhone user will have to save money for a new dock - certainly Apple WILL NOT add a second port to their phone, because of "space" restraints - they want the thing as small and slick as possible.

What this will mean, though, is that the next dock he buys will cost a 1/10th of the price and provide the same functionality ... if he buys it online, that is ... PCWorld will still sell the shit at "silly consumer" prices....

Microsoft yanks Surface 2 DIM SCREEN of DEATH fix in update snafu

Re: Wait... What?

Yes, and some idiot on here claimed it was outselling iPad air ;-)

Re: 2000?

There are more than 2000 Microsoft employees in the UK, if even they don't want it ...

ROFL

Harvard kid, 20, emailed uni bomb threat via Tor to avoid final exam, says FBI

Actually, you want slax livecd with copy2ram and use PAYG GSM - the linux distribution is in ram, gone after a reboot. Better, (PAYG GSM sim might be bought from store = video surveillance) You could also use slax with wifi, change your mac address, then connect to tor from outside a mc d with a hoody from the bushes, just make sure no video surveillance gets you and they will never get you.

Re: This is why Tor was/is never going to work

No, no, no ... this idiot used tor from the campus wifi <---- that was asking for trouble.

Now, the email service gave the IP to the FBI, that was used from 20:15 to 20:30, FBI figured it might be tor, then they looked at the campus logs for tor connections at that time and found Kim .... easy. They probably never even had evidence of the contents ... that, they will get from the NSA later ...

I KNOW how to SAVE Microsoft. Give Windows 8 away for FREE – analyst

Re: This would actually KILL Microsoft

@Ken

Utter BS

Two very precise verifiable examples with Windows 7: Lenovo L420 (a mates) and HP EliteBook 8540W - both came with w7pro

Linux: put LiveCD in drive (Debian 7.1), all drivers including wifi, loaded - on both systems !

Lenovo Windows: Install win7, on a different computer go to Lenovo site, wild guess what graphics card you have, because for the same model, they have intel, intel HD, AMD graphics drivers, same for wifi - note that windows 7 detected neither chipset, wifi, ethernet, or card reader, let alone intel HD graphics.

HP: similar to Lenovo, although even with the correct wifi driver, as soon as you unplug power cord (it is supposed to be a laptop) you must reboot to regain wifi functionality, no wifi after wakeup ... a glitch in power management...

I even once came across a windows install that failed to detect USB - I almost had to burn the drivers to a cd, thanks to my linux livecd I could download 'em from Internet to the target machine.

Anyway, Windows is supposed to have this "look on the intertubes for drivers" feature ... it has never worked for me ... and I repair pc's (and mac's, another subject) for a lot of folk around me ... they often come to me when hard drive is totally toasted. Anybody had that ever find a driver ? I consistently use it, I am sure it will work some day for me ... I obviously only use it once Internet is configured.

Would not even take it for money

I would not even take it for money!

Say, MS paid me my monthly salary for me to sit at home and be forced to use it daily, no, thank you very much ...

I got shivers when back in the days when I had to repair FisherPriceOS® aka XP, I since avoid the pests as much as possible.

Lifesize, driveable AIR-POWERED LEGO CAR hits the road

Re: Surely...

@AC 09:13 GMT

Found something wrong on wikipedia? Fix it instead of moaning ... FFS

Android antivirus apps CAN'T kill nasties on sight like normal AV - and that's Google's fault

Re: Crazy Platform

In over 15 years of IT, I have yet to come across a single Mac that needs to be reinstalled because it had a virus ... last time I looked there were 7 viri for Mac OS X vs 300 000 to 2 000 000 for Windows (depends how the vendors count mutations) ... Macs still need av software just in case something bad crawls up one day ... I have personally owned half a dozen, work in a business with plenty of Macs (90% in my team have Macs - we have choice of OS, I use debian)

Re: Wait,

I have the FB app on mine, mainly because it was pre-installed and I can't remove it, but I partly fixed that by not giving it any information in the first place. However, it's disturbing to find it running occasionally when I look through my list of running processes. I didn't ask it to start.

What is that crazy OS you are running ? Unbelievable ... you cannot claim fb app is "a vital part of the operating system" ... worse, it starts on its own ?

So, impossible to uninstall, starts on its own ... let me guess, sounds like Android or Windows ...

Re: Wait,

And on Android, you usually cannot launch the app if you do not grant it all "required" privs ... on my Blackberry, I can choose which ones to give and still use the app ... ok, some features will be disabled ... ;-)

I feel sorry for the droid folks ... ;-)

Tube be or not tube be: Apple’s CYLINDRICAL Mac Pro is out tomorrow

Re: I thought I'd seen it all...

@ Dave 126

You forgot, "wired" midi on windows sucks big time, on Mac it is plug and play, on Windows it is ... hm, where was that driver, where do I download that thirdparty app to test which midi devices have been detected by windows .... seen it all before, many times ... shit, I forgot to reboot a third time ... my silly fault ... or wasn't it ?

IT bods: Windows XP, we WON'T leave you. Migrate? Chuh! As if...

Re: Another biased survey

Needless to say: you must move off of XP (the next zero-day might not get fixed). You should move off of MS asap to never get into this shit again.

Keep old hardware, get Linux, solved. Keep XP in a vm until you figured how to replace those legacy apps - you might be able to pay for the migration to an open platform with the savings ... support is waaaay cheaper than cals and client os licenses, believe me, intentionally excluding server licenses, that is your budget for newer kit to improve server performance even more!!!!

All it takes is cojones!

Re: What?

Seriously, keep Windows?! In Enterprise?? You should be fired for incompetence.

Fixed that for ya!

Why should we be in a rush to move off XP?

Because your company decided to go for software from a monopolist that squeezes ever more cash out of you for the same "basic computing" functionality your company uses by having you pay multiple times (client OS, server OS, server software, CALS) and forcing ever-changing API's and UI's down your throat.

You are tied to their API's/UI's that change with every Windows release, imagine, had you moved to Linux in 2001, you could have had the same major gnome version to this day, fully patched, and kept it for a few more years - remember, you choose the ui you want to use - not redhat/suse/ubuntu/oracle.

Re: I believe it

There are many, when you compare to XP.

Example, you cannot simply right-click an item in explorer, you have to first left-click, then right-click - this they introduced with Vista and have not fixed since - apparently, it is an improvement.

Seriously, those who migrated NT4 to XP were silly (to remain polite) at the time, but everybody can make a mistake once, only cretins make the same mistake twice, though ... ;-)

Give 'em linux, get your datacenter act together, bite the bullet, migrate to open standards platforms - you know you will have to sooner or later - it would have been so much cheaper had you done so in 2002 - the longer you hold on to that crap, the more expensive it will become.

If you are in doubt, ask santa for a calculator ...

Microsoft admits: We WON'T pick the next Steve Ballmer this year

Re: I'll have a go.

Great, you must have a plan, why else would you want to board Titanic?

Re: First decision - Split the company

That would mean only "Server and business tools + cloudy stuff" and Applications ( Office ) would survive... ask Santa for a calculator this year....

And that would already a miracle...

They are doing "well" in these sectors exclusively because window cleaners think terminals are as crap as cmd.exe and mice mean they do not need to learn how to type with more than two fingers...

That Google ARM love-in: They want it for their own s*** and they don't want Bing having it

@AC 16:08 Re: "the problem-filled world of ARM" (in the article)

Ever heard of netcraft.com ?

Check this out:

http://uptime.netcraft.com/perf/reports/performance/Hosters?orderby=epercent&tn=november_2013

You can get the full picture here, but you have to pay, from what I understand ...

http://www.netcraft.com/internet-data-mining/hosting-provider-server-count/

Since Microsoft is a sponsor, I am sure they do not wish to publish the info directly ... my guess is 80/20 *nix/Win ... just how often do you come by asp pages these days ? Very, very rarely ... so it might even be less than that.

Microsoft's cloudy chief: Azure reliability knocks your own kit for six

"From a general availability and reliability perspective I feel pretty good that our systems are better than pretty much every customer system I have met,"

He's basically saying that Windows reliability sucks ... if he says so, fanbois can shut up.

More to the subject, having applications in the cloud is OK, I think, like a global process automation solution. Having your data in the cloud is dumb, though, having your security in the cloud is even dumber ... it would not only give the miscreant access to your data in the cloud, but also your on-site data. Then again, what do Window cleaners know about reliability or security ? Right ...

Munich signs off on Open Source project

Only Window cleaners tired of rebooting their servers 3 times after installing a printer driver or a Windohs update migrate their data to the cloud, real men keep their data secure in-house.

Microsoft's licence riddles give Linux and pals a free ride to virtual domination

> Windows techies are much cheaper than skilled Linux devops types.

Window cleaners are much cheaper than skilled Linux devops types.

there, fixed that!

Apple iPhone 5s still world's top-selling smartphone – report

Where is the Z30 ?

I have one and an iphone 4S, ipad air, two Sony xperias ... none of them come close in terms of usability, I love the hub (best thing since sliced bread, honest! <- a MUST TRY for work email), the predictive text that I swipe into the sentence - it's learned some of my favorite wordings in no time (2, 3 days), and I use three languages every single day, never switch keyboard, it detects the language after the first word or two , the stability ... it has android support (not that I care), USB host, hooked up my 3Tb hard drive, mouse, keyboard and watched a movie on my TV from my couch for the fun of it (I have a network capable linux-based Bluray+"AlmostAnyMedia" player I usually employ for that). Blackberry has a native remote for my media player (freebox) like the others, syncs photos/videos wirelessly with my freebox in the background as well.

And it comes with nginx, ffs. Got the dev kit, need time to fiddle with it ...

And why is it not in the top 2 ? Sometimes I do not get it ...

What’s new in SQL 2014?

SQL 2014

So where is the article about the new features ofthe 2014 SQL standard ???

True, I know the spelling of the standard takes a hyphen, but omitting both MS and Server in the title of that article made me think they were talking standard ... I mean, the product name is MS SQL Server 2014, the standard SQ-2014, now, which is closer ? Right !

Damn cleaners strike again !

Ping me when MS SQL Server can do something like Oracle RAC .... until then, utter waste of money, for smaller systems you have Postgres, for clusters Oracle RAC - MS replication ? LOL - talking from experience.

Re: I hate the abuse of the SQL = SQL Server

@AC 16:17

TBH, yes, those are the cleaners with a tie ... throw them out !

BlackBerry flings John Chen $89 MILLION to save troubled firm

New boss, new horizon?

Optimise OS 10 for PlayBook, ship a PlayBook 2 with uber fast CPU and there you go, back to profit!

LOL

Sent from my z30

How to find OS X Mavericks' 43 hidden photogenic beauties

>The drive in my 2008 iMac is died once and the replacement is slowly going. So I run everything on an external 1TB drive.

Get an SSD, man, you will not recognise your kit after that change ....

BTW, getting your maths wrong like that means you rimposter, not rcorrect ... where is rcorrect, how did you get his password ?

It's NOT an iPad - but that's FINE: I learned to LOVE Microsoft's Surface 2

Re: Still don't see any reasons to buy it @Bucky O'Hare

Seriously ? Now, in all honesty, trying to be humble, there are more surface 1's on the tip than in customer's hands. This guy writes that the surface 2 sucks in every aspect, except that it runs faster than surface 1, has office and is well built.

Nobody wants a tablet for work, though you could get a high-end android tablet and put linux on it ... that would beat any windows box (even i7), productivity-wise, but that is not the point.

No, the point is, nobody likes windows 8 ui, nobody thinks Microsoft is cool, nobody cares to write apps for surface, nobody wants surface because there are no apps.

Bottom-line, MS desperately tries the reality distortion tactic and without coolness, is doomed to fail.

Surface 2 will fail just as miserably as surface 1 failed.

So the question, which I consider very legitimate, is: where did el reg find a twit to write such an article ... come on, nobody is that dumb ... so maybe there is cash to be had - I personally experienced MS trying to buy ppl, so I would not be surprised.

Grow up ? No, get your head out of the sand !

HP: Yes, we plan to axe another 7,100 European staffers

Never work for a quoted company - period.

Microsoft: You've got it all WRONG. It's Apple's iPad playing catch-up with our Surface

Re: In general journalists unaware of how sycophantic their Apple articles are

I agree

I do not get Apple, the entry level 13" macbook pro with an i7 and SSD (you get yourself) is faster and cheaper than any of the other 13" macbook pros (except the entry level with retina display, $50 dollars more), ok, it does not have a retina display ... but frankly, who cares about Retina except photographers ?

You can upgrade mem and hard drive (SSD) ... Who are the cretins that buy the Retina display 13", I want to know? I would like to avoid them being hired at my company.

Tell me, what are you gonna do with a 120Gb pcie SSD - do not tell me they are faster than SATA SSD's, in theory yes, in practice, no.

As for Surface [pro], I do not see the need. iPad may be cool, although I do not have one and do not plan on buying one, thank you very much (walled garden), android and windows are too buggy ...

Re: Really?

and here I was, convinced that they had been in the "tablet" market for 10+ years ... silly me.

Slip your SIM into a plastic sheath, WIPE international call charges

WTF?

What, International calls are not like local calls ? since when are we back in the dark ages ?

Free telecom, in France ... free unlimited calls to 40+ countries, EU, North America and some other places all from my mobile ... for under 20 euros/month with 1Gb data plan, slow data after that...

Sorry, guyz ...

Why a Robin Hood tax on filthy rich City types is the very LAST thing needed

codejunky Re: Robin Hood etc

@ codejunky

You are pretty funny and don't get me wrong, I probably hate the labour party more than you do ... but blaming them for the financial crisis that started out with salesmen selling houses in the US to people who could not afford them in great numbers and banks trading those loans on the stock market is not very fair. Are you Nigel Farage ? Certainly sounds like it, absolutely clueless.

The main problem we face today is the amount of wealth that is transferred from the real economy into the virtual economy (stock markets) and that we never see again because its fruit end up in some tax haven.

The point of the Robin Hood tax is to prevent traders from speculating on some stuff, such as currencies. Look what speculation did to the UK (on currency in the 90's) or Greece and Spain more recently (on debt) ...

You cannot legally charge the CEO's or the traders in person, they are just doing their job and you cannot charge the employer, because it is a bank ... fine a bank and we pay the fine.

Sadly, banks rule the world and you MUST have a bank account.

Lessons?

1. Never work for a quoted company, ever.

2. Never invest in the virtual economy.

3. Ovoid overdrafts and loans at all costs.

Those who do 1 and/or 2 are criminals.

Gates, Zuckerberg to deliver free coding lesson

I do not think those two have any credentials when it comes to programming - seriously ... Mark may have some business strategy knowledge worth a penny, Gates ? I seriously do not know what value he could add ... but then again, who am I ...

Get Steve Wozniak, Richard Stallman, or Linux Torvalds in if you want good programmers ...

Laptops Snowden took to Hong Kong and Russia 'just a decoy'

Re: Shutdown

You and the other moron are thick ... government shutdown does NOT mean national security is at risk - the CIA/NSA/FBI still get all they want, when they want ... the president has no choice, he knows what happens when you do not obey the trio ... the mob shoot fireworks into your skull.

Have PIXmania. In fact, have £59m with it too, Dixons tell German VCs

"And so ends the retail firm's costly flirtation with the online gadget souk seven years after it coughed €266m for a 77 per cent stake in the biz and a little over a year after it bought the remaining shares for €10m."

EPIC

Lawsuit claims Microsoft misled investors in Surface RT fiasco

M$ H8er

Those who are cretin enough to invest in M$ deserve ALL they get.

Like investing in White Star Line when you know what will happen to Titanic.

Everybody on this planet knows that M$ will sink real fast, the only question that remains is "when".

Windows Vista hurt, with Windows 8 and Windows phone, they really tried very hard to die quickly ... and I am not even mentioning surface, xbox one ... name anything from Redmond that has a chance ... right, told ya!

Microsoft 'touches 16k shop workers' to flog Windows 8 hard

Lord of the flies

Ever seen flies on a touch screen ? I have last summer and it was hilarious - they are happy to open Control Panel for you or whatever ... close random windows ....

Every now and then, when I point at something onscreen, the display thinks I want to click it although I have not "touched" the screen ... so "touch screen" is inappropriate, it should be pointer screen ... And at the end of the day, it is expensive useless junk, tbh.

So: 6,500 Win 8 laptops later, how are BT's field engineers coping?

Re: signature capture ?

I always sign somebody else's name, often politicians I dislike ... and there are many to choose from.

I once signed a speeding fine in France with the name of famous German dictator ... perfectly readable ... no problems at all.

A hotel I often go to has figured it out and lets me do it ... they know the company will pay anyway ... ;-)