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by buffoon 11y ago
AD, Sharepoint, Office 365 is already canned in Azure/O365. You won't be buying a Windows Server license to run them any more and it's feasible that they may even not run on Windows at some point in the future. Office's
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by buffoon 11y ago
Heavy Windows server user here. We have 100+ windows server 2008 R2 and 2012 R2 machines in production and a massive .Net/C# codebase. Currently it's a complete bastard of an operating system. It's expensive, hard to manage e
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by buffoon 11y ago
There is no .Net here AFAIK and if there was it's not a problem. It's software defined networking that happens to use Linux as a kernel. As for .Net, ASP.Net 5 runs fine on Linux and OSX without any COM or registry dependencies. I
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by buffoon 11y ago
That's a good question!
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by buffoon 11y ago
Same. For the price of a toughbook you just buy 5 Chromebooks and throw them away.
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by buffoon 11y ago
Well it's been two months and I haven't heard any complaining other than one ActiveX based drum scanning thing doesn't work. Turns out the scanner's direct descendant has a web API so we're integrating that. To be f
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by buffoon 11y ago
Downloading now. You have at least persuaded me to have another go at it :)
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by buffoon 11y ago
No it's not rooted and I can't deploy our device policy on rooted devices (this is a company phone; a moto g 3rd gen). I had terrible battery problems on a moto g2 about a year ago which is what I'm basing my opinion on so th
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by buffoon 11y ago
Good tip; many thanks.
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by buffoon 11y ago
Well that was more abstract and citations than body. Slightly disappointed.
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by buffoon 11y ago
Yes. It allows people to migrate easily which inevitably leads to conflicts.
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by buffoon 11y ago
You're 100% right. Sort of. I've built many an AD forest in my years and it is certainly powerful. However when your laptops drop off the domain after a month or so, things get hairy. That and numerous other problems such as an en
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by buffoon 11y ago
Three reasons: I want my stuff synced with my desktop running Chrome and it's horrible to use and drinks battery. (I have already tried it)
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by buffoon 11y ago
This makes me wish we had extensions in Chrome on Android. uBlock would be very welcome.
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by buffoon 11y ago
The problem is that a large number of small files is a very common use case. Even Windows itself consists of lots of small files i.e. the source code and WinSxS. It should handle general scenarios consistently. We've had a few minor ve
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by buffoon 11y ago
I disagree. It isn't that it works well but merely that it is there. In fact the majority of Windows networks both corporate and small business I can safely say that it barely works and is usually a mismanaged unpatched mess or filled
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by buffoon 11y ago
It's really not that fast. The filesystem is a total dog (MFT contention) to the point that manipulating lots of small file is up to two orders of magnitude slower than ext4. This is made bearable thanks to SSDs being on the market. Al
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by buffoon 11y ago
This. Two weeks to get two hard disks on an enterprise agreement. Bought the damn things off Misco and had them there the next morning. Decided to buy supermicro from now on. Plus Broadcom NICs in 2015. Kill me now.
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by buffoon 11y ago
Indeed. It was the rocketry hobby that made me think about building timers and electronic things. Such an inspirational hobby when you think about it.
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by buffoon 11y ago
Back in the early 1980s I made a simple RC and comparator based bomb timer in electronics at school as an official project. How times have changed...
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by buffoon 11y ago
Slightly off topic but I had a friend who was scared of dogs because they looked at him. We had to cross the road if there was a dog coming.
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by buffoon 11y ago
I have very few anecdotes past that; very soon after that, I bought a Compaq pentium pro, a thinkpad and a volvo, used NT and became a boring enterprise monkey. I bought a massive fully stacked Sun Enterprise 1000E and storage array in 2001
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by buffoon 11y ago
It wasn't unfortunately. The SPARC 10 had no built in CD drive like the newer 5 and 20 models so that couldn't control the audio interface and it didn't issue the right incantations to the CD drive I had. I was cheap so it wa
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by buffoon 11y ago
Memories... Good soundtrack, even if the film did make me cringe. When it came out I was knee deep in oodles of Perl on a shit-hot upgraded SPARCstation 10 machine (not camo painted I will add). Whacked the soundtrack in my external caddied
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by buffoon 11y ago
I'm not really suggesting, just acknowledging the inevitability of.
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by buffoon 11y ago
Possibly fixed. I've had one incident of an XFS filesystem refuse to mount after it replayed the journal after a power outage. xfs_repair worked but I shouldn't have to piss around in single user mode in 2015. Kit was a HP DL380p,
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by buffoon 11y ago
Or use FreeBSD with ZFS or buy a NAS appliance.
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by buffoon 11y ago
I thought NTFS and ZFS are the enterprise filesystems of choice? We merely tolerate others. That has been my experience over the last 15 years or so.
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by buffoon 11y ago
TV doesn't have ad blockers though.
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by buffoon 11y ago
Perhaps it was an early example of a movable typo :)

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