@travisdh1 said in Windows 7 and 8.1 updates switching to cumulative monthly rollups starting in October:

@scottalanmiller said in Windows 7 and 8.1 updates switching to cumulative monthly rollups starting in October:

I've seen a lot of people complaining that there have so many small patches break things that this will cause support problems for them.

I should pull the local repair shop owners in here, you'd never hear the end of it.

Ha! Yeah, why do patch updates only seem to affect consumers and SMBs?

Prepare for big updates to Asset Management. Wish this was around when I was building ITIS (IT Inventory System) I'd revisit the project, but with so many offerings out there now, it's a flooded market. The implications for ISO QC in calibration labs and the like are titillating.

About time that someone made an improved one.

@scottalanmiller said in NSA tools leaked, Cisco patches exploits found inside the leaked tools:

Read: CIsco confirms that the US was NSA's targetted enemy 😞

Surprise, surprise...

Does the WISP market still use 24V passive PoE currently use it or have they moved away from it?

@Dashrender said in Cisco lays off nearly 20% of its work force:

@StrongBad said in Cisco lays off nearly 20% of its work force:

Even 7% is significant. You don't do that casually, that hits the news like a ton of bricks. Your customers see that as you having problems. Not an image anyone wants to project.

Maybe customers don't like it, but Wall Street certainly often seems to.

That's because Wall St. makes the most money from companies in flux, not those succeeding. Wall St. is about momentary gains, not long term survival. What's good for Wall St. isn't good for the company itself.

Can you do handwritten notes in the Android app?

@scottalanmiller said in US Cyber Arsenal Compromised:

Or if the government tries to secure it with the lowest bidders....

That's not trying, that's handballing (reference) in attempt to avoid responsibility... aka passing the buck.

@dafyre said in Chrome Remote Desktop:

@scottalanmiller -- I heard it was bad, but that was a while ago. I'll give it a go tonight or something and see what smokes.

THey have instructions for Ubuntu 12.04... and nothing else.

@JaredBusch said in Will CORD Change the Economics of Broadband?:

@DustinB3403 said in Will CORD Change the Economics of Broadband?:

The focus of CORD as explained in the article is to find a solution using virtualization at a cloud level for the last mile.

I got nothing like that at all out of that article.

That's what it read like to me. They service providers need to upgrade the 'last mile' and are looking to do it with cloud type virtualization. This way they can still maintain a very wide range of supported equipment while maintaining up time.

@DustinB3403 said in US Finally Gets the Beginning of an Open Source Policy:

That's cool, but what happens when one agency refuses to release, the government sues it's self??

Yes, that happens all of the time. That's the job of the executive branch. You see Obama or the DOJ doing that regularly with government agencies that break the law.

@scottalanmiller said in VMware Sued Over Unlicensed Use of Linux Kernel Code:

@thwr said in VMware Sued Over Unlicensed Use of Linux Kernel Code:

It looks a little bit like that. Anyway, we don't have anything like your fines and settlement deals here.

VMware seems pretty unconcerned about having used Linux code and violating the GPL in Germany, though.

Too big to care.

I used to use BeOS, long, long ago. I still have the boxed copy around someplace. And I think that I still have some books on it.

Normally dual booting is handled by the Linux installer. No need for other utilities.

On the Ubuntu Linux family, for instance, you can fix it with the following steps:

Open /etc/sysctl.conf, with an editor, such as vim. Enter the line: net.ipv4.tcp_challenge_ack_limit = 999999999 Save the file. Use the shell command "sysctl -p" to update the configuration.

Now that I'm on fiber I seem to be able to post screen shots. More to come tomorrow. It is very late here.