@stus Thanks for popping in!

I have my personal domain on O365. But I like Outlook OWA

Everyone has been wondering what will happen to Suse and MS now.

Pretty self destructive if that was on purpose!

Here is an example:

Three hosts, each running two Windows Server VMs, each with two sockets. Say Dell Power Edge R610 or HP Proliant DL360 nodes. Windows Standard Licensing.

Cost per license: ~$700

To license each node to run its normal load is $700 for a total of $2,100.

If we want to address the ability of any node to be a failover for the others or for non-disruptive maintenance, we need an additional license per machine. So we suddenly jump from $700 per node to $1,400 per node and the whole cluster jumps to $4,200 while gaining nothing during normal production times.

Now that only addresses single node failover. If we want to maintain the ability to do failover during times of maintenance we need yet another license for each machine! That means $2,100 per machine and $6,300 for the cluster.

Suddenly $350 per virtual machine in licensing has exploded to $1,050. A non-trivial increase.

Now we can choose which level and which features we want, but typically the value of an inverted pyramid is sold based on this top level of flexibility. If we are dealing with Data Center licensing this is more obvious and far less complex, but SMBs would rarely pay for that level of workload and may not think through the additional costs that this style of architecture potentially bring to the table.

I'll be interested to see how "truly" open this all becomes. Even though it is an open source project, SmartBear Software actually acquired/owns Swagger as of late-September. That's the same umbrella company that acquired SoapUI (open source API testing tool) a few years back. I think (and believe) they will handle it tactfully, but it's a tough balance to figure out between corporate revenue and open, community-based projects like this.

Full Details:

November 5, 2015 - Steam Client Update Released
General

Improved startup times for users with a large number of games
Added a "Update News" option to the view menu so you can go back to past offers and view their details
Changed controller Steam/Xbox button behavior to fix a collision with the hold-down-for-4-seconds method of turning off the controller:
Old behavior: Hold down 3 seconds to launch Big Picture (or single press if you were in desktop Steam).
New behavior: Pressing once will change focus to Steam if it doesn't have focus. If it has focus, pressing once will launch Big Picture.
Fixed the friends dialog sometimes dismissing if your network connection dropped and reconnected
Fixed play button for non-Steam games showing "Preload" in some cases
Fixed a possible crash when running a badly-formed steam:// URL

Big Picture
Improved hover behavior when using the mouse to navigate
Significantly improved performance in the Library area for users with a large number of games
Updated status bar look at the top of the main menu
Reorganized the Settings section and fixed several issues with individual pages
Web browser shows hand cursor when hovering over web link
Added support for multiple game library folders
Added support for picking your default install library for Games
Improved performance when rendering large amounts of text
Fixed Steam overlay flickering when using multiple NVIDIA GPUs in SLI configuration
Fixed bad on-screen positioning of Big Picture mode after running games that change display settings
Fixed unexpected switch out of Big Picture mode when displaying content validation messages
Fixed getting stuck in the Library screenshot viewer if you used the guide button
Fixed web pages being partially transparent when moving
Fixed rare crash when navigating through large lists
Fixed crash when using daisy wheel in the Web browser
Fixed mouse wheel not working when hovering the right grid in the Library
Fixed "New For You" items not activating when selected
Fixed in-game crash when using the Daisy Wheel keyboard
Fixed buttons mis-firing on the Steam Controller right after leaving a game
Fixed view CD key button in the overlay being styled incorrectly
Fixed getting stuck in the overlay if you backed out of certain panels before they fully loaded
Fixed focus going to the wrong place if you deleted the last game from the Disk Management page under settings

Steam Controller
Added a new trackpad mode, Mouse Joystick. This is an alternate way of emulating mouse-style controls for games that disable mouse input when using a gamepad. For best results, we recommend increasing the gamepad camera sensitivity/speed in the game settings.
Added a new trackpad mode, Touch Menu. This mode is useful to bind many infrequently-used hotkeys to a single trackpad. The Big Picture in-game overlay has to be enabled for this feature to work.
Added support for custom controller configurations for Desktop mode
Added option to turn off steam controller when leaving Big Picture mode.
Additional work to prevent noise and drift for the gyro when in a steady state. Calibration will refine when left idle for five seconds if current configuration uses Gyro. If drift is severe, leave idle for 15 seconds for repeated refinements. Note that "always on" is not required for auto-calibration, it happens regardless of button activation.
Made trigger soft and full pull mode-shift and gyro-enable capable buttons
Added the ability to mode shift triggers
Mouse Rotation horizon line visualization is now shown/hidden when adjusted
Added Trigger Mouse Dampening. Squeezing the trigger can now engage a dampening factor to the mouse mode.
Added Joystick Camera option to Gyro.
Added Invert Horizontal and Invert Vertical to mouse/joystick modes.
Added options to configure the suggestion modes of the dualtouch keyboard
Added Legacy configuration option for games with In Game Actions, allowing users to access advanced settings.
Mouse Rotation now visualized as a horizon line when changing the slider.
Gyro Enable Button is now visible in the gyro preferences.
Added support for keyboard/mouse emulation on Mac
Fixed a client crash when running a game with an invalid official controller configuration
Fixed some "gyro enable button" options not applying properly
Fixed bugs preventing controllers from showing up under settings when using a Steam Link
Fixed properly showing binding descriptions for games that have an official configuration
Fixed an issue with emulated analog stick sometimes moving in the wrong direction when fully deflected
Fixed Trigger modes getting stuck on Hip Fire Aggressive
Fixed Rotation visualization for Mouse Joystick
Fixed Mode Shifts not showing up properly on main controller overview.
Fixed Mode Shifts not being disabled by setting the shift button to none.
Fixed loss of input in Portal 2 after losing focus or activating the overlay

In-Home Streaming
Reduced CPU usage of the streaming client software
Enabled hardware encoding by default, please report issues on the bug forum
Added workarounds for some multi-monitor issues with NVFBC capture mode
Updated AMD hardware encoding SDK for improved Win8+ performance
Improved performance and fixed garbled picture with AMD hardware encoding
Improved performance of some video capture methods for windowed games
Disabled some incompatible capture methods if AMD Crossfire is detected
Improved support for rotated (portrait-mode) monitors
Changed desktop mode to capture one monitor at a time and follow the mouse across monitors
Fixed incorrect display cropping on Linux clients when hardware accelerated decoding is enabled
Fixed a potential cause of black screens when hosting games on a computer with multiple GPUs
Fixed low resolution due to Windows display-scaling settings in NVFBC capture mode
Fixed bugs with streaming multiple-monitor desktops on Windows 8 and higher
Fixed incorrect mouse coordinates in some situations with Windows 8.1 and Windows 10
Fixed a crash if the user exits Steam while a streaming session is still active
Fixed some causes of audio stutter when streaming at high bitrate
Fixed always-black video on some multi-GPU, multi-monitor systems
Fixed issues with Toki Tori 2 and several other games which rely on VSync for animation timing
Fixed crashes on systems with certain AMD video drivers
Fixed low capture resolution when running games on a high-DPI monitor
Fixed mouse cursor position when text scaling is enabled on the host computer
Fixed mouse clipping issue with fullscreen games

SteamOS + Linux
Added support for Captured Portal (i.e Hotel Wifi) network configurations
Improved compatibility with XCB games
Fixed being unable to type shifted characters from the virtual keyboard

Mac OS X
Fixed focus issues when displaying 2 modal dialogs at the same time
Fixed slow shutdown when you had a Steam Controller connected

Windows
Added a warning and link to troubleshooting steps when Steam detects that Windows Compatibility Mode is interfering with internal functionality
Improved compatibility of the Steam overlay with other third-party overlay software

I think for a lot of people they are already mostly gone.

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Once the Installation GUI comes up, I'm going to customize my installation. Desktops are nice to look at from time to time.

It's completely unneeded, but whatever. I want it.

So customize your installation and select "Server with GUI" else select "File and Print Server" for basic file share functionality in a CLI.

Select Done.

Select your partitioning, the basics are fine. Click into and then click done.

Lastly click "Begin Installation"

Set your Root password and follow the onscreen guides. Create additional users if you need them. (Which you should. No one should use the root account for everything)

Modding to mark as a question that has been resolved.

@Lakshmana said:

How to verify these fake mail?

What more do you need to know? You verified it four ways:

It was from Samsung that you did not contact. It said "you won" which clearly means spam. It was not from who it stated it was from. It was asking for your information.

Wow if i look back the day when i first met the CentOS. Thanks to @scottalanmiller and @Minion-Queen because of you guys I learned about them and yeah I will keep going in learning 🙂

If you really feel point and clicky, EaseUS Todo Backup will clone. But as others have said, DD is easiest.

@Dashrender said:

@scottalanmiller earlier was mentioning differentials vs incrementals.

I wonder if the terms still apply, or if the industry at large has dropped the two terms and simply moved to the use of incrementals.

Pretty big deal... if you delete a differential nothing bad happens. Delete an incremental and you have a disaster...

http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1276968-backing-up-6-pc-s-to-a-nas-using-acronis?page=1#entry-5202270

@MattSpeller said:

@Dashrender said:

@MattSpeller said:

Should have made it with a 5 port 10gbit router + sexy wifi integrated to get rid of insecure access issues while they were at it

The 5 port switch would have been a great add... I can take or leave the WAP.

Ditto, but I'm picturing the work from home stock broker on a bedazzled ipad grunting and poking at the screen

Yeah an AIO device would be probably the best.

Some people would rather have their toes chewed off by rats that be held hostage by a clown.

http://mangolassi.it/categories

@brianlittlejohn Better bring your snow tires, lol

@dafyre said:

@thanksajdotcom KeePass to the rescue, lol.

LastPass here, but yup!