Well if I knew your name I would try and recall myself. It's part of my "forgotten years" as well... all went by so quickly ... and so long ago :)

Ehud Gavron
first dot last at gmail

I was - a LAMPF DAC system manager.

Not to be confused with my dad (same last name) who is a physicist :)

Ehud
P.S. And you are? :)

TL;DR summary - at the end of the day the gamer wants a tight Windows system. The server admin wants a tight server (LAMP, WAMP, XAMP, MEAN, etc.). The hardware developer wants all the latest drivers. The R/T guys want predictable and repeatable, and Donald Trump wants it not to be produced in Mexico. However, that's not what OP asked about, and his interesting article relates to features on clustered filesystems that are cool to have and not available outside of the [really out of date/obsolete] OpenVMS.

Long Version:
Whenever someone asks about "best" OS or app or features to have in one... invariably it leads to the proponents of Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS, (and kudos to the poster who brought up BeOS!) etc. all jumping to extoll their virtues.

Ironically the OP asked about OS and everybody jumped into talking about monolithic kernels... filesystems, and only a couple discussing other elements of the OS which is queue system (OpenVMS really had that one sewn so tight it was awesome).

Interestingly tho the original ARTICLE talked about a clustered filesystem environment. It would appear OP is right on this one - only VMS did it. Some of the functionality for single-host stuff is now beat by BTRFS, but the clustered writeback, locking, and other features mentioned in the PDF are without compare in anything else today

Ehud
Tucson AZ US

There's no "happy July 4th."

We don't celebrate July 4th, December 25th, October 31st, etc.

We celebrate the HOLIDAYS.

HAPPY US INDEPENDENCE DAY.

(and yes, as previous posters pointed out it's not an international holiday. Sorry Will Smith and ID4 crew.)

Godwin's Law (again)

Godwin's law.

Google can do what it wants.

In legalese, that would be: Google is not an arm of the government, is a corporation, and is free to do as its company governance determines is in the best interests of its shareholders.

Simply put, nobody forces users to choose to use google. There are plenty of search engines, some good, some bing, etc. Some don't protect your privacy, some duckduckgo. In the end if the choice is to use google there are advantages (they'll try to give you an answer they think you'll find useful) and disadvantages (Tim Wu might jump out from behind a bush and yell "aha!" at you).

Google's search algorithms have made this world a better place.

I'm glad they don't have to appease anyone to keep offering that superior product.

E

The OP includes a link to an IRAQ user saying he can't set up his Chromecast...

and a 9 day old post from someone saying they're now on the beta track and google saying they'll fix it.

Are we really to believe there's a great google conspiracy to disrupt chromecasts, and
in a week and a half NOTHING has been discussed, but now the only two links are
an IRAQI WINDOWS USER and someone who accidentally got into beta.

My money is on hoax.

Ehud

My two ChromeCasts are working great.

I love a good hysterical conspiracy and am disappointed not to be part of it.

Go on, keep on making up stuff. Perhaps some of it will turn out to be true!

E

I'd like Diane Feinstein to be geo-fenced to keep her grubby little NSA-sucking
encryption-hating lying hands off of issues that are over her altitude or too far
for her eyesight to comprehend.

Geo-fencing for worthless corrupt senators. Now there's an answer.

Leave the drones alone. They are innocent of any wrongdoing.

E

The original article link to the actual new story ("Apple decertifies...") is behind a paywall.
With all due respect to the Wall Street Journal, is there a reputable news source for this
that we can read?

It's grammar, not grammer, and you're welcome, illiterate swinehunt.

Oh good job, Captain Hindsight! You are absolutely right! Manning should have never been able to use a USB stick [takes notes]. Also Snowden should have never been given so much access [takes notes].

"...this would have never happened."

Oh excelsior! Your powers of observation and hindsight deduction are without compare. Between that and your three split infinitives all I can say is BRAVO, SIR, BRAVO! You truly have your finger on the pulse of ... everything that's that wrong.

That's the "if you're in an organization that pays for extended support you can pretend it's still alive" period :)

For everybody else, g'luck, you're EOLd and no more update soup for you.