@travisdh1 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@gjacobse said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@travisdh1
Ah- the good old days of DEC,.. I had once thought about looking to pick up a DEC PDP 11/23 setup..DEC OpenVMS is the not so fond memories from my first IT job. Had to have something to oppose the good memories of SGI IRIX.
I was lucky to start IT on SunOS. Only worked on OpenVMS as an end user a little later.
@gjacobse How can using the easiest OS be too much for anyone, let alone HAM radio people? Seems like the perfect fit. That's the exact crowd that I'd expect to have been on Xenix in the mid 1990s and moved to Linux or BSD in the late 1990s. What software is on Windows and not on Linux? I'm looking on wikipedia for HAM software and it seems like it's all Linux these days.
@travisdh1 said in What Are Virtualized Applications?:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are Virtualized Applications?:
Article is totally false. That's NOT a virtualized application, that's a standard remote app as we've been using in the industry for over 30 years. When I started in IT ini 1994 this was an established, well known part of how the X Window system worked, in UNIX... ALL applications are like this!
I remember running full fledged engineering apps remotely in the 90s on IRIX and OpenVMS machines.
Have I posted about Kasm Workspaces here yet? Makes it really easy to provide remote apps like a Xen remoteapp environment, just easier, quicker, and open source.
Right? THis is SO normal. Microsoft was pushing these hard in 2003 with the Terminal Server at the time, too.
Secret of Monkey Island, Special Edition
Having a video game evening with my daughter.
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse I just made a video today about why we use desktops as servers now!
Well first off I get this message:
Uhm.. okay.
Desktops as servers; in some cases - they are useful. Sadly the issue I am running into is that the twelve year old computer has more cores than anything I have available to me in the office,.. I am running an old Dell with 8-cores, and everything I have only has 4-cores.
Were I running several rPi VMs that might be fine, but I am running full Windows or Linux for testing and Ham Radio. It's working but a little strained and I can't do much more without maxing the system resources out.
Oh well.. will find something some time..
What Ham radio tasks is using so many resources?
Article is totally false. That's NOT a virtualized application, that's a standard remote app as we've been using in the industry for over 30 years. When I started in IT ini 1994 this was an established, well known part of how the X Window system worked, in UNIX... ALL applications are like this!
@gjacobse I once had one in my hands, but it was too costly to power.
Software updates, and doing some late night coding. Polishing off some wine. We closed our second restaurant on the beach (converting it to additional hotel space) and have lots of leftover wine to go through. Watching a movie while pounding out some code.
@gjacobse I just made a video today about why we use desktops as servers now!
@Oksana Nutanix can't be trusted and can't be considered business class in any sense. They are deceptive and having any contact with them would constitute a risk in any environment.
Saturday morning coding. Having some coffee. Waiting for my potato pancakes to be delivered.
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Sorry to hear this -
Is this State side or there in Nicaragua?
Nicaragua.
A little coding before heading to a funeral.
@Obsolesce said in User profile migration to new Windows 11 PCs:
@xavierdelaraunt said in User profile migration to new Windows 11 PCs:
Also, even the latest Windows 11 USMT from the ADK does not include favorites etc from any of the latest browsers. Not even Edge.
They aren't using the web browsers sync for all that? All web browser stuff should be synced. I wouldn't be able to function without it, using so many different OSs across many different devices. Favorites / bookmarks / etc shouldn't even need to be considered in migrations these days.
They don't even need to manually sign in to the browser for the sync to work depending on your config.
Same, I use FireFox and everything, everywhere "just works", it's so nice.
@Oksana but why do we want to remove it? Is it that much bloat? It doesn't do anything when you don't use it.
