Posts by Eadon
2429 posts • joined Monday 3rd August 2009 06:33 GMT
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Posted in Amazon cloud gobbles Microsoft data
Azure announcement - they managed to get it back online
"Microsoft is due to make its own Azure announcements next week"
I have the scoop. It says, "Hot diggety! We found the PKI certificate, it was behind the sofa".
It's quite amusing that a book seller is showing MS how to do IT.
AZURE FAIL
Windows 8 Laptop woudn't have got nicked
No one wants a Windows 8 laptop, not even in the 3rd world. So I've just realised that there is an upside to the dorky OS after all!
Simple Explanation - MS MURDERED THE NETBOOK
They came with Linux - the netbook market exploded.
Then MS managed to squeeze XP onto the things (well, first they had to be made with heavier hardware to cope with the Windows bloat).
Then MS told the OEMs not to run Linux on them. Or else have their air supply cut off.
And the 2nd half of the graph tells the ugly story. Demand plummetted!
We are seeing much the same thing happening now with PC's.
MS MONOPOLY OVER DESKTOP OEMS FAIL
FB Phone
Hey, if FB can make a phone based on a Social Network, Google can make one based on a search engine, then maybe MS can make a phone based on a whole operating system... Or how about a desktop based on a phone.... Oh dear....
Anyway the very concept of this FB phone is enough to make me shudder, but it's not aimed at me, it's aimed at the exact opposite of me, yes those saddos!
FACEBOOK CREEPY PHONE FAIL
Re: Windows Security Patches + Anti-Virus considered Harmful
@mickey mouse the fith "Eadons "Linux doesnt get malware" comment"
I said, "virus", not "malware"". As usual, some commentards here do not understand the difference between a virus and "malware"
An analogy in the biological world (and don't take this analogy too far) is that a virus is a microbe, but not all microbes are viruses.
Also please don't confuse a virus with a trojan.
Once you understand software, then you will realise I am correct.
P.S. those guys that think (or lie or troll) that Linux is not attacked because it is not popular have obviously missed the memo that Linux is the most popular OS in the world (server-side, mobile etc etc). Don't confuse computers with "desktop". And even on desktops the argument is refuted. Not a single virus writer has managed to get a Linux virus out there in the wild (as opposed to an unrealistic scenario by some asshat in a lab).
Preventing viruses from operating is trivially EASY. You set the execute flag to OFF. It's a problem that was solved in the 1970's. However, Windows cannot do this without breaking backwards compatibility, hence the need for these Windows virus scanners.
HOPE THIS HELPS.
Re: Oh boy...
@RyokuMas - "about how a Linux patch was bricking some machines"
FUD. You seem to be referring to a UEFI issue - and that is down to MS being evil with regards to insisting PC-makers use MS-only signing keys, combined with Samsung screwing up. The issue was not just confined to Linux but also to Windows.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2027819/not-just-linux-windows-can-brick-samsung-laptops-too.html
All of this was down to "trusted computing" by another name - "secure boot", which means that effectively you do not control your PC hardware any more. MS does.
Windows Security Patches + Anti-Virus considered Harmful
Windows is not ready for the desktop and it is not Industrial Strength.
Linux is virus-immune, has no need for any of these dodgy anti-virus products, and that contributes to the lower TCO of Linux. That's not hype, it's a simple fact.
WINDOWS SECURITY FAIL
Censorship of the Internet
... is in full force. What is happening is scary.
Re: Looking into the past
"You just need a mirror in space pointing at the area you want to watch in the past."
That's a cunning plan. The only tiny flaw is, to see in the past (relative to right now) you would need to be able to move the mirror away from the interesting area faster than the speed of light.
Re: Looking into the past
"Has anyone considerd that looking into the past would be just as exciting.... think about it ."
Just use Windows. 1990s technology today!
Re: If they had a time machine...
"No all religions are a crock of shit"
Actually. Yes. They are. They close minds and they discourage science, freedom and rational thought.
Except Jedi Knight. May the electromag, weak and strong nuclear forces be with you!
Saddo training
"SQL Internals & MCM Training: SQL Server for mere mortals and you", looks like it may appeal to many Reg readers"
Only the ones who are saddos.
Re: Ethics - I've heard of them.
@IHateWearingATie "I'd happily shill for Microsoft if they offered me a free surface pro in exchange"
That reminds me of an amusing cockup when Microsoft got Orpah Winfrey (spelling?) to plug its "Surface", and she tweeted about how much she "loves" her Surface. And a geek noticed that the tweet was sent from an iPad!
Anyway, good luck selling your soul for a Surface. Not as impressive as selling a kidney for an iPad, like our friends in China, but there you go!
Re: Holier than thou wankers
@AC 22:53
"None of you are any better than Eadon."
Correct. Nor is AC 22:53.
MISSING
Where is the usual army of Astroturfers tell us how GREAT Win 8 and the Surface is, if only we had ever used one? If even the astroturfers have given up, things must be bad!
Re: MS still chases Apple's tail lights - IN VAIN
@Ryan Clark - ha! That's close enough for me.
Re: PLAGUE OF AC's
"Eadon, fear not, we gods are listening to you"
Only Devils bother to listen to me, AC. The Gods are too busy updating the Linux kernel.
OTOH the Devils are too busy updating MS Windows... Now I'm confused.
Re: Dear Microsoft
@JDX - MS hired developers and they made Windows 8. Be careful what you wish for...
PLAGUE OF AC's
7 Comments - 6 from AC's FFS
Let the gods save us from this sickly AC PESTILENCE
MS still chases Apple's tail lights - IN VAIN
"Smaller Surface tab rumoured to chase iPad Mini sales"
Swap "Surface" with "Zune - and swap "iPad" with "iPod" and you will see how this will play out. The ONLY people that want MS gear for personal use are 56 years old accountants. With COMBER OVERS!
MS COPYING APPLE ZUNE REPEAT WITH SURFACE FAIL
Eadon told you so!
"The global PC market is dwindling, and Windows 8 could be to blame, according to the beancounters at IDC"
And this is the point I have been making here for ages. Windows is killing the PC in a similar way to how Windows effectively killed the netbook.
Windows 8 has made matters desperate (together with the UEFI secure boot nonsense). But even before Win8 - things were not looking good in the Win 7 days. In general people are not happy with the "Windows Experience" - and many are happy to pay a premium for a Mac. That's the high end. The low end have gone for Android tablets. The middle have gone for iPads or stuck with their existing PCs.
If the OS market in desktops was as competitive as it is in mobile, then the PC market would be vibrant, with lots of innovation going on. The miserable toxic wasteland that is the PC market is caused by one company - Microsoft.
WINDOWS PC FAIL
Re: The problem is simple
@Don Jefe - "There were never the crazy software/chip margins in mass produced PC's"
There is a difference however. The cost of PC hardware has fallen to the point where a Windows licence has a huge effect on the final price of the product. For the price of a windows licence, you can practically buy a whole tablet.
This will be the ruin of MS, because its competitors operating systems cost nothing (open source) and, as a double whammy, they run well on modest hardware and faster on standard hardware.
Each year hardware gets cheaper, and therefore MS will be less able to justify its cut. In the same way MS undercut IBM, it has become IBM-like, with massive operational overheads and is itself being undercut.
Re: PC-producing pals
"Why build a factory when you can buy a read made one for half the price"
That's what MS did to Nokia, in effect. They hoped that Nokia's brand could hand them market share. Unfortunately that tactic failed abominably. Ironically Nokia had to close its factories.
The problem is simple
People don't want a PC with Windows 8 on it.
If you put a Linux-based OS on a PC but brand it something else, "Android" style, then those PC's will likely fly off the shelves (this actually happened in the netbook market, until MS told the OEM's to fall in line. Which then artificially slaughtered the netbook market.)
The issue we have with the PC market isn't that PC's are undesirable per se, it's that they suck because they come with windows, they need anti-virus, they're packed with crapware, which takes effort to clean off, and so forth.
If PC's were in demand, then there would be more profits, they are not, because there is no competition so we end up with a sub-standard OS on them pre-installed. Also, PC's now have "secure boot" that makes it more difficult to ditch windows.
PC FAIL
Ugly Phones
These are amongst the ugliest phones I've ever seen. Suitable for small children perhaps, those that have no taste.
NOKIA FAIL
Re: I don't think so - Use LibreOffice instead.
"Meanwhile in the real world, LibreOffice just doesn't cut it. It might do for limited home use, but its not even close to an enterprise ready product"
@AC 20:42 - uh huh, then please explain why technology blue chips are making LIbreOffice and OpenOffice the default, and demanding justification for MS Office licences these days. Most enterprises are on Office 2003 and that's more than what they need. LibreOffice is much better than that. MS Office 2007 onwards is WORSE, a devolution - the ribbon interface that slows down experienced users, extra bloat and no real advantages.
Streisland Effect to the Rescue
Got something to hide, then don't advertise the fact, you will always kindle unwanted curiosity. Hiding in plain site works because people assume it's not important if they are allowed to see it.
However, govts, corps and their lawyers will always play dirty in attempts to hush things up, openness will always have to be fought for.
SPY OUT
Re: I don't think so - Use LibreOffice instead.
LibreOffice. It's more than good enough for Blue Chips. It's more than good enough for SME's. It's a professional product. No licence fees. No subscriptions. It's 100% open and 100% free. And you can't get your systems audited for using it, nor is your data exposed to a foreign mega-corp, the FBI etc.
Did I mention LibreOffice also had the advantage of being ribbon and Metro-UI free?
That an organisation needs MS Office is a myth, perpetuated by marketers and the fanbois.
Sweden seems such a nice place
But it is behaving like a fascist state. Pity.
The elephant in the room is Win8 - the Toxic OS
"cannibalising" - laptops are not "cannibalising" PC's - the relationship is actually one species eating a different species.
Cannibilising would be iPhone 6 stopping iPhone 5 sales, for instance. Same species.
Anyway, no one wants Windows 8. MS controls the PC desktop and prevents competition. So the market has reacted by not buying PC's. MS is killing the desktop market in a similar way to how it killed the netbook market. By making the computers suck.
This analysis is obvious to EVERYBODY except analysts.
Re: But it takes 2lbs of frozen peas
Propulsion can work in 3 ways for solar system travel - pea shooter mode (fire fast stuff from the exhaust, action = reaction) - solar sail mode (use radiation pressure of sunlight - physics quiz question- how can a massless photon exert pressure?) or use gravitational sling shot effects (best used in combination with the previous two).
Re: For me .net is still a benchmark of incompetence
"I mean .net programmes don't even run on all versions of Windows. It's a bytecode which needs to be re-compiled but is less portable than native win32 code."
That is a correct statement. Even Joel On Software complained bitterly about this when he tried .NET.
"And what do you get for it? Bounds checking! Seriously every modern Pascal compiler does that for you at (virtually) no extra cost, and I'm sure there are many other languages which can do the same."
That is also correct.
"For me someone using .net shows that they didn't think before choosing their platform. They just went with the first best thing the advertisement told them to use."
Correct again, from personal experience, from an enterprise computing perspective, I can vouch that .NET tends to be chosen by those teams that do not understand enterprise computing.
So why did this insightful post get downvoted? For telling the irrefutable truth? (Rhetorical question).
.NET is for legacy
But I guess there's a kindness by Amazon in rescuing the dwindling number of hapless MS devs from the misery of using "downtimes r us" Azure.
Re: IE 10
@Steve Davis 3 - What was the classic line in one of the amusing Apple "I'm a PC" ads about a Windows user finally realising how annoying the "Windows experience" really is? "You are coming to a sad realisation. Cancel or Allow?"
Re: Pay me
@Alan Brown "I still wouldn't."
Nor would I.
LYING with STATISTICS
"in the last 12 months there has been an 150 per cent rise in adoption among small business customers."
Statistics are gr8! Two SME's subscribed 12 months ago, one in Basingstoke and one in Skegness. This year an additional enterprise from Wigan has signed up - a whopping 150 pc rise in adoption! This is Microsoft's FASTEST growing business.
OFFICE SALES FAIL
Brutal China
Here we have a brutal dictatorship foisting misery upon its own people: yet some victimised peasants still like Microsoft!
"Plugs holes in IE10"
Plugging IE (and Windows for that matter) is like trying to plug a BLACK HOLE. You cannot plug it. You can only put plasters over its event horizon.
IE - RUNAWAY GRAVITATIONAL COLLAPSE FAIL
From now on - Down votes
For anyone that says, "Just Sayin'"
Bah humbug!
Re: Missing Windows 8 User
@Seanie Ryan - "everyone knows God gave us English when he invented us"
True that. And He gave us Linux too. Through his mortal son, Lisus
Re: It's whether the degree is *hard* or *soft*
@cornz 1 "Which, Eadon, is what YOU did and then copied, pasted, altered a few phrases"
Like most things you accuse me of, this is incorrect. But thanks for the flattery that I must have copied and pasted, my prose is that good!
MS lashes out
It's fun to watch the death throes, as they painfully transform from software company (of sorts) to full time Patent Troll and Google botherer.
If the EU has any guts, they should put an end to MS's continual strong-arming of OEM's to only promote Windows on desktops.
Yes, Google are evil too, so good luck to MS in beating them up a bit for their sinister transgressions.
ALL ROUND FAIL
Maggie - the UNIX of politicians
RIP Maggie - you beat up the Unions and the Argies and saved our country from the socialist peril that hath since sold the family silver (and gold) and bankrupted us! If only Cameron were to copy you and not Blair.
Missing Windows 8 User
New Species of ape "between HUMANS and MONKEYS FOUND"
At long last a Windows 8 user has been found, he is new to science. He may suffer from dangerous viruses and is a user of crude and brutally primitive tools that are a throwback to the dark ages, such as Visual Studio 2013 and IE.
Cloud Disaster Recovery
Who's responsible for the DR for when that fails, e2e style?
What could POSSIBLY go wrong?
Perhaps if we did not outsource our jobs
Then there would be more jobs to go around here in England. Or is my arithmetic faulty?
Re: It's whether the degree is *hard* or *soft*
@FirstName "It's just the teensiest bit frustrating, sometimes, when you play so hard-to-get with any facts to back them up."
I'm often providing factual explainations as to why Unix systems are superior. They have a sold security model from the ground up, they are faster, require less powerful hardware to run, they run on more platforms and POSIX systems are open standards based. They come with superb window managers (from light weight to eye candy) a superb command line interface and much software that has API's that allow it to be run from the command line, in the Unix philosophy of piping output from one system to input to another system through stdin and stout.
In particular if you take Linux, it has additional advantages that come with being GPL open source. You are welcome to check these facts out for yourself, there is not enough space in this comment box to write a wikipedia article with citations.
Ultimately, if you're a Linux or Unix user, you can bask in warm feeling of superiority over your clueless windows brethren.
Re: It's whether the degree is *hard* or *soft*
@frank ly
"Eadon is still upset because none of those socialist girls on the Humanities degree courses wanted to practice their breeding techniques with him"
I'd be even more upset if they did, those commie socialist girls are all fat and fugly, not like the pretty capitalist lasses with nice eyes and tasteful make up plus brains and charm!
Upgrade to Linux Mint
It's free, it's better, and it probably does what you need your PC to do. And a ton of other stuff you can't live without once you know it's there.
Your box will run faster, will have more free resources and you won't need AV.
