Posts by Volker Hett

Tricky!

MySQL is in userspace, this is a patch against the kernel. So it depends on lots of code under GPLv2 and it should be very hard to make closed source extensions without breaking someones copyrights.

Re: More proof...

As far as the legend goes, they didn't adopt those because of retraining cost. There could be a grain of truth to it :)

Re: Breeder reactor

We tried to build one here in germany, never got it running. It's now a recreation park.

Even more so

I don't expect my 32gb iPad to hold a 4k Video. On the other hand, it's an iPad 1 and I don't expect it to hold anything besides my manuals and textbooks :)

Re: FFS

Yes, VMs can, but you have to have a license to install Windows 7 or 8 in a VM first. This is certainly not the license your computer came preinstalled with.

Question to the thumb downers

what software do you use on a Windows computer?

I have full Office, SQL Server Express and Visual Studio Express on my 128GB SSD Ultrabook.

And yes, I know how to install Software to different locations, move Userhome to another drive and run software from a network share. It's actually what I earn a living with.

But on the road I need it locally, not much fun running Office via VPN from a network share over a shaky EDGE connection ....

Virtual Desktops are a solution for this, but those work fine from Android and iOS, no need for Surface Pro there.

Re: Surprising choice

Whatever works, I had Sony Ericcsons which worked fine with OSX up until the M600i which didn't at all, then Palm Pre and HTC Desire.

Re: PFI - Epic fail

We import nuclear power and export wind power. 2012 the installed and operational wind turbines in germany produced more power than our ancient and unreliable nuclear reactors.

Two of our customers are nuclear powerplants.

Up to yesterday a VPN to a facility in Shanghai did work, have to check on monday.

"So, in this instance, is the vulnerabilities the user, or that the OS allows a dodgy installation to take place?"

Up to now the user is allowed to run applications of his choice on a Mac. this trojan is probably unsigned, but if the user choses to run it and states his choice several times, it will run.

Re: Only for americans

I forgot, I'm in Bremen, Germany.

Re: What is it with number pads?

"er... maybe some people have different requirements to you?"

Probably, but why should I use a keyboard with keypads when I don't need it just because others have different requirements?

Martha Jones!

I just used one with the google authenticator app. Barcode in the browser on the desktop computer and barcode reader on the phone for two phase authentication.

Re: @JDX

And the SD Card slot on the back. I use it several times a day!

I'll skip this one, too. The old one will do what I want from it for another year or two.

Re: Some Obvious Reasons.....

And the earth is flat!

Re: I can gues at two reason

They still pay developers who work on Java, but they submit their work upstream to oracle so it can be used in "the one" Java instead of a forked apple only JVM.

Not too bad.

Re: Minimum IT knowledge for El'Reg?

Depends. I do use something close to this as my backup device and it has mirrored disks. Tape backup is too cumbersome and too expensive for home use, isn't it?

Re: Why not make 'smaller' ones?

In my experience this doesn't help much. I have a 128GB Samsung in my Desktop and my user home on a 1TB Seagate, booting the system is fast, but I don't boot it that often and waking it from hibernation is not much faster. Programs like lightroom don't start that much faster because they have to read their database from the harddisk, Same for visual studio and such.

In my Notebook I have a OCZ Vertex 4 with 256GB as a single drive, there I see a huge difference, even with Sata-2 since it's a bit older :)

So the next step is putting another and bigger SSD into my desktop and doing some filesystem balancing magic with links and mountpoints to get some sort of hierarchical storage for my needs.

Re: Come on people!

Maybe it is time to look at the pricetag on Office 365? And not everybody wants to store his mail somewhere else.

Even better in Server 2012

If your logged in you can't shut down the server, but when you're logged out anybody can shut down the server :)

Re: The key question here is...

So no korean rover with double the ram, double the cores and a sd card slot running on a MPC7447?