So how do you get in now?

Usually the biggest issues are done on the fast track. I've never had the crazy issues you see in the news with Win10 because I leave it all default on my home systems.

My home systems are never the first to jump Rev or whatever. I will never be a beta tester for Win10 lol.

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Yes, it is super cool. Our dev team was talking about it a few days ago.

What's a real use case for that other than look what I can do? Training? Correcting?

@tonyshowoff said in SQL security over the LAN:

@Obsolesce said in SQL security over the LAN:

The AD authentication process is secure... Kerberos and all that which MS SQL server can use. After that point I don't know if there is a maintained secure channel from the authenticated app to the SQL server.

Not if you don't use one.

One of what? AD? MS SQL? Authenticated app?

I didn't read all 50 replies yet.

The AD authentication process is secure... Kerberos and all that which MS SQL server can use. After that point I don't know if there is a maintained secure channel from the authenticated app to the SQL server.

@scottalanmiller said in Why are Windows Management GUI Elements So Tiny?:

So I've wondered this for a long time. When working on any other platform, and I have a management tool, I normally set it to full screen so that I can see as much as possible all at once. Say I'm working with user permissions or reading a log, I want to see a lot at once. It's critical to reading things and finding things quickly.

But on Windows, so often their GUI elements have an enforced, and insanely tiny, size. Take the Data Properties dialogue on a file for example, or the Event Viewer. In these cases, nothing that I need to see or do every fits on the screen. For even the most trivial operation, I have to scroll and scroll. The Data Properties dialogue shows only three items on the screen at one time, no matter how big your screen is. It's so few, that it is hard to have your eyes track the scrolling rate as there isn't enough space to track the movement, and when used over a remote session, it is even worse.

Why do the force us to use such horrible GUI elements, so much of Windows would be faster, more reliable, easier, and more attractive, if we could simply resize windows. I can do this with a web page, why not the Windows desktop? This seems like a very arbitrary crippling of the interface with no obvious benefits to Microsoft to make their systems so unfriendly.

Ill keep this in mind for my apps

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

Do you win by whining?

The most failed startups wins the game.

@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

https://futurism.com/artificial-sun-china-temperature-record/

That's awesome.

@scottalanmiller said in I am going to start an ISP:

@Obsolesce said in I am going to start an ISP:

@scottalanmiller said in I am going to start an ISP:

@Obsolesce said in I am going to start an ISP:

@scottalanmiller said in I am going to start an ISP:

In rural eastern Europe, 300Mb/s 4G is a reality and has been for years. Plenty speed to handle almost anything

I'm lucky to get 30 Mbps 4G LTE here....

LTE is 3G. Most American 4G is actually slower than 3G (which is why all the big carriers here use 3G LTE instead of actual 4G). The "G" is the signally standard, not a reference to the speed. Each new generation can go faster than the old ones, but you can use it to go slower, if you want.

Real 4G will go much faster than 3G LTE. Real 5G will blow the doors off of that. If you give it the bandwidth.

Think of it like copper and fiber. Fiber can go faster, but in the real world, it's all down to the speed that you select and lots of copper goes faster than fiber in real deployments. Both go really fast and really slow, if you want them to. But if you need the ultimate speed, fiber can go insanely fast.

Current connection says LTE+. What's that?

I always thought that T-Mobile was giving me 4G/LTE. Didn't know it was 3G.

LTE is a specific 3G technology. 3G is a generation, LTE is a specific 3G implementation. It's the fastest tech currently deployed in the US until 5G rolls out.

LTE Advanced (written LTE+) is a better form of LTE, but is still 3G.

One of the key errors in American marketing is being concerned about how a product reaches its speeds, rather than the speeds and quality of the resulting service. No one should care that LTE is 3G or 4G, that's crazy to care. If you are a wireless scientist and interested in signally, sure, it is a point of interest. But as a consumer, there is literally no value in knowing the "generation of signalling" used. But for some reason in the US market, knowing the "generation" of the technology has become vastly more important to consumers than the quality or speed or even cost of the resulting service!

Speed and latency matter to me. I simply got the name of what I have incorrect, due to marketing and me never caring enough to look into it.

@scottalanmiller said in I am going to start an ISP:

@Obsolesce said in I am going to start an ISP:

@scottalanmiller said in I am going to start an ISP:

In rural eastern Europe, 300Mb/s 4G is a reality and has been for years. Plenty speed to handle almost anything

I'm lucky to get 30 Mbps 4G LTE here....

LTE is 3G. Most American 4G is actually slower than 3G (which is why all the big carriers here use 3G LTE instead of actual 4G). The "G" is the signally standard, not a reference to the speed. Each new generation can go faster than the old ones, but you can use it to go slower, if you want.

Real 4G will go much faster than 3G LTE. Real 5G will blow the doors off of that. If you give it the bandwidth.

Think of it like copper and fiber. Fiber can go faster, but in the real world, it's all down to the speed that you select and lots of copper goes faster than fiber in real deployments. Both go really fast and really slow, if you want them to. But if you need the ultimate speed, fiber can go insanely fast.

Current connection says LTE+. What's that?

I always thought that T-Mobile was giving me 4G/LTE. Didn't know it was 3G.