* Posts by originalucifer

7 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Jul 2015

Hey, AT&T. Help us out. Why is buying Time Warner a good idea?

originalucifer

Looks like Ma Bell is finally pulling the liquid metal back together. it only took, what, 35 years?

There's a reason that monopoly was broken

Microsoft posts death notices for Windows 7 sysadmin certifications

originalucifer

Re: Perspective.

> EVERYTHING on the one machine (including Exchange and being a DC simultaneously - I didn't even know that was possible as it's a completely disallowed configuration)

You've never performed a MS SBS install?? I lost count how many small businesses I setup using this MS recommended configuration.

i get that its old school, but damn there was a time...

other than that, I could have written this post. spot on.

Three-commas Thiel expresses love for himself, Trump and downtrodden millionaires

originalucifer

Re: I can't believe he's gay

Agreed. "Billionaire homosexual has terrible hair" seems like an oxymoron, yet there it is.

Microsoft rolls out first 'major update' to Windows 10

originalucifer
Windows

Oh yeah, enterprise, almost forgot about them...

I really don't understand Microsoft on this. This update appears to finally add something for "enterprise" when enterprise is their fucking bread and butter. This kind of shit should have been priority 1.

You get businesses on board, and usage of windows would naturally trickle down... Nope, not with the new function-follows-form Microsoft...lets release a half-assed retail version of windows and then bolt on what our *paying* customers want after the fact.

I've had a long career shoveling Microsoft's crapware, but it's getting harder and harder. I'm secretly hoping Microsoft has a plan B, for those customers who have absolutely no plans to upgrade to their latest flagship shit show but really, I know there isn't.

sigh

VMware bids to bust out of servers and onto Windows desktops

originalucifer

So you start your foray into desktop virtualization with a desktop version that not only has no significant install base in enterprise (cmon, real use, not "sold" or "licensed"), but that most businesses do not see themselves moving towards for *years*, if at all.

sigh. they were so close

Hey, FBI. Wanna track someone by cellphone? Get a proper warrant, says US appeals court

originalucifer

Re: Relax

ahhh yes, the old "You don't have anything worth hiding from the government, so you shouldn't want to hide it" argument. Always a winner.

Pan Am Games: Link to our website without permission and we'll sue

originalucifer

The secure version is even better: https://www.toronto2015.org/