Posts by TheVogon
287 posts • joined Thursday 17th January 2013 14:47 GMT
Re: Recommendation from ACs
Commvault is a far more advanced product than VEEAM - I can second that. VEEAM is niche specialist. Commvault is full enterprise product.
Re: @asdf (was: This plonker claims to have invented the common or garden padlock?)
A padlock system is "something you have" and "something you know". A lock & key.
Erm no.
The key is something you have. The padlock is what checks it. So that would be 1 factor authentication.
Re: XBox One == Creepy Snooping Apparatus
"Do you want this Trojan Horse equipment in your house, spying on you and yours?"
I guess you would prefer the Ubuntu version that tells you they are selling your data?
Microsoft has a pretty comprehensive privacy policy - and unlike Sony they don't run their systems on Linux, your your data is less likely to be hacked and pasted across the Internet...
Re: Cable TV overlays?
New 64 bit Arm CPUs are coming too, so Atom might not be the best low power option....
Re: Nope
Actually, Apple are copying Microsoft's approach in IOS 7!
Re: What about being a sole trader?
Why would you set up a company in another EU country? Possibly you might get marginally lower corporation tax rates, but at the cost of a lot of hastle...
Re: Ltd Co. ?
A Ltd co is no trouble at all. For instance these guys will do everything including opening the company and the bank accounts for £69.50 a month - no minimum term. All you have to do is sign the forms that they fill in for you...all other company and VAT paper work is taken care of.
http://www.boox.co.uk/
Re: Women Contractors
Accountants dont need to 'sign off' your accounts unless your turnover is over £6.5M.....
https://www.gov.uk/audit-exemptions-for-private-limited-companies
Re: the fat lady is warming up
3-6 million Blackberry devices per quarter sounds about right including the older ones. That's a massive drop compared to where they were, is following the downward slope on the graph below, and likely a barely profit making position:
http://royal.pingdom.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/rim.0031.jpg
Re: @TheVogon
A lot more than I care about what you do or don't know :-)
Re: Hmmm
This should make the Wii-U look like a top seller.....
Re: Can somebody explain...
"So, WHAT CAUSED IT!"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milankovitch_cycles
These changes were generally over many thousands of years. Nowhere near 2-4 degrees per century like now....
Re: More like global cooling...
The long term global warming trend is clear: http://www.earth-policy.org/images/uploads/graphs_tables/indicator8_2012_tempgraph.PNG
http://www.livescience.com/6472-study-ocean-warmed-significantly-16-years.html
Re: Well
How is this news? Everyone apart from a few staunch Republican Faux News viewers knew this at least a decade ago.....
Posted in Final call – free Hyper V training
Hyper-V should be installed as the native version.
Not via Server 2012 unless you have a good reason to have a lower efficiency / larger attack surface.....
Re: 10
Give up. No training here. 30 minutes wasted.
Couldn't even comment on how it worked on the most common blade (HP VC) Server architecture....
Re: 10
When does the valueless waffle end and the training start? Ten minutes of my life wasted so far....
Re: Karma
it is not a secret API at all. It requires a per user access key, and Google won't give Microsoft one. That's like Microsoft refusing to sell Google a Windows activation key.
Microsoft have cleverly worked around the problem in a way that Google's shoddy code means can't easily be blocked, so Microsoft are having the last laugh.....Site terms and conditions? Never signed up to them...
Re: Genius from MS
But if the app didn't exist then they wouldn't get any visits from WP users anyway, so Microsoft have not deprived anyone of anything....
Re: Ballmer desperate to copy Google
Lol @ Microsoft sticking 2 fingers up to The Borg....
Re: My two cents
Boat Anchors. That's all they are good for.
Re: "You'd be nuts to run your business using Office 365".
"Google Mail is apparently the choice of CIA operatives in Moscow, if recent reports are to be believed."
Errm, and the secret services are well known for disclosing the tools of their trade? It might be the choice for personal use, but i don't think you will find any of the CIA as has yet outsourced itself to Google Apps....The US Government prefers Office 365: http://finchannel.com/Main_News/Tech/127568_Businesses_choose_Microsoft_Office_365_over_Google_Apps/
Re: No End-to-End Encryption
You thought wrongly then:
http://paranoia.dubfire.net/2012/07/the-known-unknows-of-skype-interception.html
"Firefox developer Gilbert Fitzgerald likened it to the sensors inside modern cars, which aggregate data from a vast number of cars in order to deliver better driving experiences."
Or like in Windows which has done this since Windows 7....
Re: @ Eadon - MS in HEADLESS CHICKEN MODE
"The fact that there are some really credible alternatives now"
Such as what? Linux on the desktop is a failure - just look at the tens of millions spent in Munich - which still hasnt completed. Apple is a niche player - and just offers another more limited and restricted flavour of lockin...
Re: MS in HEADLESS CHICKEN MODE
Dream on. Microsoft just announced increased revenue - including from Windows....
Re: Too Late
Yep - this is just bubbles from the sinking ship....
Re: Can't wait!
^Pirate
Re: Can't wait!
"Once it's released, I might bother to torrent a copy!"
You know it still hasnt been hacked? You cant fully activate a priate copy without a valid license key or valid KMS server.
This is just IBM trying deperately to make itself relevant without involving Microsoft and not succeeding. I can't imagine why anyone would involve IBM in a Green Field site these days - they are a Dinosaur....
Re: "You'd be nuts to run your business using Office 365".
Its still better than Google Apps though - both in terms of functionality and privacy....
The best just got better...
Why would any chav buy a Blackberry now? They are killing a large part of their market. Blackberry have already been pushed into 4th place globally by Windows phone - This is just blasting another hole in the side of the sinking ship....
Re: The real story ...
SANIC BIRD LOVE?
Is that having a shag in a Portaloo?
Re: FTFY
Damn, thought this was a PORG fight from the title.....
Re: Linux - the engineer's server operating system
That cost also excludes the millions that IBM spent developing the 'Limux' version of Linux used by this project.
There are numerous other sources than Microsoft / HP that confirm that it would have been cheaper to stay with Microsoft:
http://www.geek.com/news/munich-linux-migration-hits-serious-snags-555131/
Re: lost almost all respect for consumer reports
Gas for vehicles is a mix of Methane, Ethane, Propane and Butane depending on the source....
No I don't mean Octane. Those sort of long chain hydrocarbons are only found in petrol and similar fuels, not in gas.
Re: lost almost all respect for consumer reports
Really? post some of these reports then. The only ones I can find say Gas is less polluting:
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2012/02/13/chinese-electric-car-pollution-more-harmful-to-humans-than-gas-cars
http://www.afdc.energy.gov/vehicles/natural_gas_emissions.html
For instance The Chrysler CEO said natural gas is the “cleanest alternative available”
http://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/chrysler-ceo-rush-to-evs-will-be-masochism-in-the-extreme-pushes-for-natural-gas-options/
Re: @TheVogon
Nope, from here: http://www.geek.com/news/munich-linux-migration-hits-serious-snags-555131/
There are also more recent articles that calculate the current cost at over €50 million more than if they had stayed with Microsoft...
This also ignores the tens of million that IBM spent producing a version of Linux for this project ('Limux') that actually worked well enough on the desktop to be usable....
Other articles note that there has been a large increase in IT support costs due to the migration...
"In the UK it's not really a threat cos where the crap do you get bullets from in any case?"
Just take a trip to the US and buy some in Walmart?
Not true. Banning guns does reduce violent crime. Hence why the USA has by far the highest rate of gun homicide in the world.
And people who carry guns are far likelier to get shot – and killed – than those who are unarmed - http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17922-carrying-a-gun-increases-risk-of-getting-shot-and-killed.html
Some other US Pro Gun bullshit is shot down here: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/01/pro-gun-myths-fact-check
Yes but now Americans can extend their 'right to bear arms' to aircraft, secure locations, etc where previously metal detectors would have prevented them from doing so.
I'm all in favour - let the Darwin Awards continue.....
http://blogs.kqed.org/lowdown/files/2012/12/firearm-OECD-UN-data3_washpost.jpg
Re: All very true, but..
The printer that is used for the test versions of this gun was an industrial type printer that used HARD plastic, which negates most of the points raised in the article as to why it won't work.
The printer in question cost £3,000 from eBay. However, it is likely that you could just order the parts created via a print to order service if you didn't want to buy the printer....
Re: Linux - the engineer's server operating system
Munich tried that. Ten years and tens of millions of dollars later they still havnt finished migrating to Linux.. And the 'migration' consists largely of accessing Windows via Citrix whenever they need to get real work done....
Re: This sounds like shit to me
This is the country that has wasted tens of millions migrating Munich council to Linux so hardly a great shock. Said migration has still not been completed ten years later, and when they want to do any real work, they access Windows systems via Citrix!
Re: HOW DARE YOU!
That was because someone with half a brain at Commodore decided that instead of using a checksum, they would write 2 entire copies of all data to the tape!
And if one copy was corrupt it would fail to load - without any option to select the other copy!
Re: Battery tech is still not there yet...
That design already exists. It is called a Toyota Prius....
Re: lost almost all respect for consumer reports
Gas powered cars are way greener than the Tesla as most of the electricity used to charge the Tesla is generated by non renewable sources, and making those batteries generates a lot of pollution, whereas gas is just Ethane and is one of the cleanest burning fuels that there is....They also have the advantage that they can be designed to be dual fuel and use petrol too....
Re: Another firm ruined then.
"And now Google are entering the desktop market. MS are going to get hammered in the desktop market sooner rather than later."
Erm, you mean the great success of the Chrome Book, lol? It makes Windows RT look like a top seller....
In terms of Server, Office and Desktop, Microsoft are still growing revenue, so whatever fantasy you are dreaming of shows no sign of making it to reality any time soon...
Re: MSFT the Value Destroyer
"MS has bought 3 similar solutions"
Fail right there.
I guess you still use CC:Mail under your rock, but in the real world, Lync is a unified communications package aimed at corporates, whereas Skype is a consumer focused communications tool. Linking them together will give a unified way for consumers to contact companies from their desktop and visa versa. Microsoft monetises Lync via license fees and Skype via adverts and VOIP call charges.
Yammer is a very different beast. It's like a cross between Linked in and Facebook for corporates: https://www.yammer.com/product/features/accessing-yammer/
