@thecreativeone91 said:

I saw this on SW and everyone was freaking out saying they would never use SSD based SANs because of this report.. People's Logic makes no sense.

Yup, the average SMB IT person has a serious issue understanding stats and how to apply information to the real world.

@thecreativeone91 said:

@nadnerB said:

Powering it off until I can spend the time to secure it

Just leave it on, and post the IP here. Someone will be nice and secure it for you 😉

Thanks for the offer. 😄 That'll speed things up heaps!
The IP is 127.0.0.1
 
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That would be horrific, all your limbs and muscles clenched / spastic and then someone pulls your 'chute open. Ohhhhh that would suck the next day. Better than splat, but... ugh.

I'm not surprised by this. MS didn't want to be completely silent, but at the same time they don't want to release a new Flagship without Windows 10.

@thanksaj said:

This is awesome! WOOHOO!

Wow - This is totally cool! Awesome news for BYOD.

@IRJ said:

I wonder why Russia wants to help the US all of the sudden. Seems kind of fishy to me.

Russia doesn't want rogue hackers anymore than anyone else does. Not good business and doesn't help them.

We were considering Google Apps for Quixotic, but the team is small and everyone was already very used to Microsoft tools. So, at least for now, we went with Office 365 instead. But Google Apps was a strong contender. It's a great product.

Our Principle Engineer came from a strong Microsoft background so that played a big role, even though we are not focused on Microsoft development tools.

Some of the software on these routers is atrocious. I don't just mean the awful grammar and spelling in the ASUS router I bought, but I wouldn't be surprised at all if password checking was just something like:

var password = document.getElementById('password').value, correctPass = 'foobar'; if (password == correctPass) window.location.href = "/secure/index.html";

Oh wait, this actually happens in practice!

@scottalanmiller said:

What issue did you have with XP? I've never heard of an issue with the XP firewall.

The only issues I ever recall hearing about where that some where unhappy that XP didn't block outbound by default. And even today it's easy to setup. But then again I don't want normal users to do that to themselves anyhow.

It's like the old days of social engineering people to setup an .rhosts file with a wild card entry so you didn't need a login to get into the machine. You'd think people would learn host-based authentication (especially alone) isn't really good, but of course why would they learn? They never do.

@scottalanmiller said:

I grew up in an area of NY where WW2 fly overs was a normal summer activity.

Same here. My father's office is on an active military base in Rome, NY!

@scottalanmiller said:

If anyone wants an awesome introduction to Cricket and to some Indian history, check out the very long but awesome movie Lagan: Once Upon a Time in India which talks about the British occupation, cricket and taxation of the people. Great historical movie.

Great movie. Highly recommend.

@nadnerB said:

An interface to keep pace with SSDs 🙂

M.2 is interesting not just because it can speed up storage with PCI Express lanes, but because it can use a whole bunch of different buses too; it stands to replace both mSATA and mini PCI Express
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/02/understanding-m-2-the-interface-that-will-speed-up-your-next-ssd/

It doesn't actually look like it will be revolutionary. It seems to be more along the lines of an adapter or go between. It still uses the same buses and still has the same limitation of the technology that it is integrated into. Will be cool and usable for the mini-pc and laptop markets but I doubt it will replace SATA in the near future.

Even more stuff should be working now.

Let us know if you make it into the program for the Preview - I heard that it was closed to new members./

Windows 10 First Look:

http://www.pluralsight.com/courses/windows-10-first-look

YYYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Microsoft: Even cheapo Lumias to get slimmed down Windows 10: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/02/09/windows_10_4_cheap_phones/
Microsoft is working to get Windows 10 working on devices with just 512MB RAM, including the Lumia 520.
 
Things are looking up for my 620

Nice find!