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The End of Windows

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Re: The End of Windows

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Post by freehunter »

charizardd wrote: post #599
freehunter wrote: post #320

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>Established businesses aren't going to put their data in someone else's datacenter You are incredibly unbelievably wrong here. I work for a vendor known for incredibly high prices and have knowledge of basically the entire infrastructure of every one of my clients, and nearly all of them have a massive cloud strategy that's in-place right now. I even have clients shipping their security and compliance logs to the cl…

On the topic of cloud strategies and infrastructure, what are your thoughts on the Mulesoft acquisition? Does this foray into infrastructure software really make it that much easier for CRM to sell the rest of their SaaS stuff? Obviously a lot of CRM and potential CRM customers have hybrid models today, does this really help them dive two feet in with Salesforce for their pending 'digital transformation'? Also, I don…

I can’t talk too much about Salesforce and Mulesoft since I’ve never used them and don’t have many clients asking me about them.

When it comes to next-gen security appliances, I see them enhancing the SIEM, but not replacing it. Too many regulations require centralized log management, and organizations depend on a central alerting and monitoring platform. I do see these security platforms making the SIEM cheaper and dumber, though. Whether it’s a storage-based pricing like Splunk or an event Rate pricing like QRadar, licensing costs a lot. Which means it costs a lot to feed a bunch of dumb logs into a system that makes information out of dumb logs. As long as you already have a Palo Alto, you might as well feed the IDPS logs into your SIEM and forget the rest: it’s fewer logs, cheaper licensing, and less hardware needed on the SIEM. You already have the Palo doing the intelligence.

With regards to hybrid clouds that are popular today, you see a lot of SIEMs go to the cloud. You can ship logs cloud-to-cloud, which saves bandwidth backhauling it to the enterprise. It is a challenge for security logging to get data from there though. Oftentimes it costs extra to send logs, or can’t be done at all. Amazon wants you to use Cloudwatch. Microsoft wants you to use Security Center. It’s a pain to centralize it all. That’s going to have to change.

Re: The End of Windows

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Post by Endy »

orf wrote: post #608
Endy wrote: post #606

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Please show me a download for Edge on a 32-bit WinXP PC.

If you are running XP (32 bit at that!) then your choice of browser is the least of your security issues. In any case you must be at least airgapping it (right?), so I guess it's academic. Edit: you might be onto something here. Running an old, outdated browser on an old, unpatched 32 bit windows xp box might trigger some anti analysis defenses on whatever malware is sure to come your way. Security through being too…

This isn't specifically my situation.

But I know three families in low-income situations for whom that sort of PC is the only one they have, because they got it from either an office or a school when the place was discarding computers. So no, it's not being air gapped. It's the computer the kids look up homework info on, it's the one the parents use to search for jobs, and more. They can't afford to upgrade, and they're afraid that even upgrading the software would make the whole thing come apart at the seams.

Re: The End of Windows

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Post by holtalanm »

jimktrains2 wrote: post #25
holtalanm wrote: post #20

i would have stopped using windows years ago if i could get games to run decently on linux.

There are many games that run well in Linux, including a large portion of the Steam library! If you meant a specific game to run, well then you need to weight your pros and cons and stop whining when you make your decision. Alternatively, dual boot.

Try running Dota 2 on Windows then run it on Linux (it is available to install from Steam for Linux) and then get back to me.

Last time I tried it a few years ago, it was ~10fps on linux, and a solid 100+fps on windows.

Re: The End of Windows

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Post by BuckRogers »

ScottBurson wrote: post #545
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Agreed. I've been using a Commodore or PC desktop since ~1986. Been through lots of hardware iterations, seen and pondered many different configurations. I found the 24" 1080P display is the best and the more, the better[0]. And no larger than 24" either, that's crucial. I've downsized from larger panels to 24". I wouldn't trade my three 1080P 24" panels for 4K panels, unless the goal was to sell the 4K panels and re…

I almost agree, except that I definitely prefer 24" 1920x1200 over 1920x1080.

So I wasn't able to get this out of my mind and went to order 3 new 1200P panels today and actually backed out at the last moment after further consideration. I think it would drive me nuts to effectively have a 21.6" panel in 16:9 optimized content, which is everything. Which would bother me more than having the additional 10% viewspace for work. Especially considering I have 3 panels, plenty of workspace.

I think at this point in the market, I'm going to stick with 16:9 native resolutions. If I do any swaps, I'll probably try out dual 27" 4K panels (also 16:9, great for 1080P content), with one mounted below the other. That'll be pretty nice in time as 4K becomes better supported.

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Post by flarg »

sanderjd wrote: post #536
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Not at all; if you want to consume a lot and create a little then your thesis is right, but the desktop is king for creators. There are a slew of very mature Windows only software out there serving many fields of endeavour for which there are no competitors in either FOSS or other OSs.

> There are a slew of very mature Windows only software out there serving many fields of endeavour for which there are no competitors in either FOSS or other OSs. Can you list some? That sort of software is my favorite genre and I'm always interested to hear about different ones.

Apologies for the delay in replying. I use MS Project and an add-on called SSI Tools daily, both essential for CPM based project management. Also MS Outlook plus Clear Context for PIM and communications functionality. There's also MindManager which is a highly functional mind mapper plus a couple of plug ins for it.

Re: The End of Windows

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Post by charizardd »

freehunter wrote: post #611
charizardd wrote: post #599

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On the topic of cloud strategies and infrastructure, what are your thoughts on the Mulesoft acquisition? Does this foray into infrastructure software really make it that much easier for CRM to sell the rest of their SaaS stuff? Obviously a lot of CRM and potential CRM customers have hybrid models today, does this really help them dive two feet in with Salesforce for their pending 'digital transformation'? Also, I don…

I can’t talk too much about Salesforce and Mulesoft since I’ve never used them and don’t have many clients asking me about them. When it comes to next-gen security appliances, I see them enhancing the SIEM, but not replacing it. Too many regulations require centralized log management, and organizations depend on a central alerting and monitoring platform. I do see these security platforms making the SIEM cheaper and…

Thanks. Interesting....

To your last point: sounds like it should change, but not that it necessarily will. I can’t fathom the cloud providers would allow an independent third party come in and take this business from them, despite how much easier it would be for the customer.

I thought splunk was usage based pricing, not storage based? But yes, I have heard similar things on how quickly it can get expensive, sometimes without any warning when they get a bill 10x what they expected...

Thanks for your time.

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