Interesting. I agree with Scott. Azure is the Windows platform, and things like Rackspace are more the Linux side.

Itanium was, and really still is, a pretty solid system. Incredibly per thread performance and massive cache. You can run Windows on them with zero memory - because the entire OS can operate out of cache! It is really just the price and lack of available operating systems that got them. If the chips were only twice the price of a top end Xeon or Operton and if Linux was broadly available on it, even from just a single major vendor, it would make a huge difference.

That really sucks. Two in one week, this isn't going to help private space travel any.

Update on the Antares Rocket- http://www.iflscience.com/space/operator-blew-antares-rocket-deliberately
It got blown up deliberately when it was discovered it wouldn't make orbit.

@coliver said:

I guess I don't know why large distributions are using Systemd if it is pretty much universally reviled by the community.

Gnome requires it going forward.

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender said:

But because of the nature of something like this, it's better served as a class action lawsuit - though that does take a lot of startup capital on the side of the law firm.

I guess I just parroted you, lol.

Hey this puts me in good company 🙂

@Dashrender said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender said:

No browser supports HTML5 completely correctly. Granted there are ones that do it better than others.

Partially because the final spec is just one day old. But in general, all HTML support is always just "really close." The closer the better, and that is what they generally compete over.

Agreed - and as we all know, until recently MS/IE just used to do their own thing, but now they seem to be at least trying to play better.

As far back as IE7 there has always been extra code snippets that will have to be added to deal with browser inconsistencies with HTML, XHTML and CSS. Most often MS was last to the party and only if you add proprietary coding.

Nice

My understanding was that just as many of the vulnerabilities came from the fact that Microsoft released their source to China in order to get into their market in the first place. I forget where I heard that but I could be wrong.

@scottalanmiller said:

@thanksaj said:

You guys are the only ones who seem to have issues with Android. I've never had issues with Android and productivity.

We are far from the only ones and you are very far from a business use case for your devices.

I used Android devices to do pretty much all the same stuff Danielle has done when I was at NTG. I never had issues.

@Dashrender Yes, that can be done.

I use it this way because URLquery can, subjectively speaking, take a while if there are a lot of relay links (I found one site that had over 500 calls to other sites just by following one link), so I start by decoding the short URL to check where it's going. If I've never heard of it or I'm still suspicious, then it's off to URLquery.

Did you see that in the US news today they said that "... doctor who got ebola...".

@Brett-at-ioSafe Better late than never.

Absolutely, they must be working on this stuff around the clock. Although each update is relatively small so the individual changes are not that monumental.

Very cool.

Examples include: Cingular renamed themselves AT&T

And worse, Paetec renamed themselves Windstream.

I can't believe how easily you can fool American consumers by doing that. I've yet to meet a customer of either that knows who they get service (or don't get service) from!

@scottalanmiller said:

They did rename "My PC" to "This PC." Their need to rename the "computer" in every release is getting ridiculous.

Could be a quick way to tell what build you are on too, as a quick visual indicator.

Still, no reason they couldn't put the build number in the lower right like all other builds they've had in the past!~

El Reg is more reporting. IW is more OpEd.