https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/04/13/microsoft_kills_support_old_windows_on_new_chips/

The three app stores that are baked into devices (excluding Amazon)

Apple: The exclusive club that allows business transactions on its premises but don't piss off the owners or you're out on your ear. Google Play: The we accept anyone club where people come to hang out and do a bit of business. Pick pockets and thieves go unnoticed but are thrown out upon discovery. Windows store: The wild west, lawless, don't trust anyone. A marshall/law bringer comes to town every-so-often, throws out a few trouble makers, doesn't finish cleaning up the place before leaving again.

"just in time" 🙂

@Kelly said in Where do you see Microsoft in 5, 10, and 15 years?:

Well, this will prolong the lifespan of Windows on the desktop: http://news.softpedia.com/news/nsa-approved-windows-10-cleared-for-classified-use-512841.shtml.

If the NSA has cleared it, it'll likely still be there is 2040.

The thing that points to there not being anything to worry about, while lacking the "unlimited" is a bit odd, is that those with limits say that there are limits. It doesn't say unlimited, but it does give a limit, either.

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FYI - to get into a Volume License agreement with Microsoft, you must purchase 5 licenses to start. Any 5. For example 5 Windows desktops Software Assurance licenses.

The cheapest option that I am currently aware of is 4 Windows Server CALs and a single Windows Desktop upgrade or SA.

Old thread but I just found this out after wasting a few hours last evening trying to get Hyper-V 2016 on my Dell 2950 lab server. Processors need to support SLAT
http://www.nodefinity.net/post/hyper-v-on-poweredge-2900-2950-the-end-of-the-road-is-windows-server-2012-r2

@JaredBusch said in Are MS Windows Update servers capped to 10mbps:

@Dashrender said in Are MS Windows Update servers capped to 10mbps:

I definitely haven't had a cap while downloading updates, I'm pegging my 100 mb down pipe.

Right, but then the sad thing is why was the download taking so long if I was only seeing the backup running.. F'n windows update process.....

yep.. the process lies about what's going on.. I think there must be some type of post download processing going on, but it's still listed at downloading, but the network speed shows no download happening.

OK, finally got that solved using this, and guess what the results are....

Failed the test.

Yay..... now lets see what Microsoft has to say about the results...

Lets see how this works...
Uninstalled Skype 7.29
RegEdit deleting all references to skype
Restart
Installed fresh download - 7.31

Also disabled the JABRA connector for my headset.

Ohh they updated it!

@Minion-Queen said in Microsoft Exchange Online outage:

We got mail just fine it's the sending that got us all day.

That, also, would explain the overall silence.

@scottalanmiller said in Azure Announces 22% Price Increase for the UK in January 2017:

@JaredBusch is that a Christmas theme on your Telegram?

In the built in gallery. a little ways down. a star field/nova/milkyway. not sure exactly which. but by space fanatic daughter loved that background. so there we go.

@travisdh1 said in Microsoft, at least they found and fixed the problem themselves this time.:

I mean, even I make sure that GPG is enabled. Guess this could be included in the "Burned by eschewing best practices" thread as well.

Are they DSS compliant? That's one of the big checks according to the STIGS. We even have to make local repos GPG check and encrypted.

@StuartJordan said in Microsoft joins the Linux Foundation:

I would say everyone should raise a glass to Microsoft for this move.

They've been doing such a good job the last year or two. Very impressive.

@thwr said in storvsp.sys - Hyper V question:

@scottalanmiller said in storvsp.sys - Hyper V question:

@thwr said in storvsp.sys - Hyper V question:

But, TBH, do we have such a List for GNU/Linux, BSD or MacOS?

MacOS, no. Proprietary and gone since the 1990s.
Mac OSX, no. Proprietary and not that documented.

my bad

Linux and BSD, yes, because open source is natively documented by definition.

For the most part, yes. Just a little example: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/w1/slaves/w1_therm

Could you tell from just looking at this file how exactly a virtual sysfs w1-therm temperature data file or even the virtual file structure looks like for a DS18XXX sensor? I had to try it the hard way, because there was no such documentation a year ago.

That's just one simple example. I know, I could (and probably should) improve that on my own...

Spoiler:

cat /sys/bus/w1/devices/28*/w1_slave 62 01 ff ff 7f ff ff ff 91 : crc=91 YES 62 01 ff ff 7f ff ff ff 91 t=22125

@JaredBusch Sweet!