and always have, but the 7970m has been out an age, was a good price, had potential to be the gaming card in mobile riggs - and came out with broken drivers. AMD seemingly had extreme disinterest in fixing these drivers, or were unable to fix the problem with drivers. Someone inside AMD has to get a grip and make sure issues like this get solved, resolved, fixed.

And I do not know how the 7970m got stellar reviews - because later it became legion that it has issues. I hope the 8000m series is better.

Andrew,

Thank you for answering my comment. I re-read my comment and perhaps it came across a little harshly. This was not my intent. I believe what you guys have doe is a tremendous thing, and a very worthy achievement. It deserves respect and much kudos.

On my notes about AD. I have to live with the thing, and fundamentally the reason why I said what I said was based around the worldy fact of if things go pear shaped within an AD, in my working with it, 95% of those things going wrong get back traced to DNS problems, be that planned or unplanned, mistake or cock up, or system problem. So - it was primary why I said what I said.

When it is said that Samba* is a drop in replacement, I make the mistake that many might and assume that is the case. I am aware that the Samba team often make it clear where issues arise, but the sysvol share problem is one of the type where I sort of wish there might be a simplistic 'Things you need to be aware of and do' in areas where the drop in level isn't quite there, and where an extra step or two might be required. I suspect the greatest challenge Samba might face is the gotcha senario where people trial it and come a cropper from what might be regarded as 'drop' in level function.

I still think what you have done is excellent and I wish you well on the road you are travelling.

Now, I have one last suggestion. On a Windows machine, an AD is setup with a simplistic wizard, where standard AD questions get asked. It seems that such a wizard might be a good idea - even if at the end the wizard advised where to make additional changes. (This might give you a leg up in selling to Windows ops)

Cheers
DS
   

I've worked for a long time in MS land. And I've had variopus open source things on the go now for many years. I'd like to congratulate the Samba team on their work. This is obviously a lot of work, and a lot of digging, and some very serious work. I personally did not like the EU stuff, and I never agreed to much of the assult on MS about lack of innovation - or many of the other smears that get tossed around.

AD remains a tremendous quantity of technology, created at cost by innovative people. I always felt it was wrong that they were some how forced to pay for their innovation and development - in the end being forced to open it up because someone else said so. And I always pondered why open source, Linux, call the other parties whatever you like failed to actually innovate a true answer. Instead - while immitation is rather a compliment, its rather telling that SMB/Samba has in many cases ended up not merely being a file sharing tech for open source to share with windows - but in fact open source to share with open source. But this is just something of a personal feeling I have. Its more a pang than a deep set feeling, and very warm congrats are still in play for the SAMBA team for making this milestone.

I am somewhat surprised thos in reading the notes:

Known Issues
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- Replication of DNS data from one AD server to another may not work.
    The DNS data used by the internal DNS server and bind9_dlz is stored
    in an application partition in our directory. The replication of
    this partition is not yet reliable.

As I say, I've been working in the area for a long time, and my take on this is it should not have been released as a .0 release with this being unreliable. If your AD DC servers don't get this working reliably - from where I sit, thats a serious problem. For absolute clarity - I have a view on this, and that view is that DNS not being right breaks AD. If you have fundamental breakage in the area - I am loathe to see the release. I hope that reliability can be found in due course, but think it should have been solved before this release.

It is said in thread that some MS engineers are happy/impressed by this release. I don't know any AD people who would be in any way happy with DCs having a gremlin at the DNS level. It is minor on single servers, its a major on any multiple DC AD setups.

No, you only need to understand this is at least partially wrong. The carriers *want* you to buy a phone today, and seemingly are happy for it to arrive tommorow, and have problems from the following day. This equates to the idea of contracts where end users can't wait to get a new phone, rinse - repeat. In this regard, the carriers are not your friends, and don't want to be, They only want you to pay them the money, and get a new contract.

Google Nexus devices are likely to get updates and changes, irrespective of the evil shit carriers pull - or lack of effort on their part in none evil cases. I still have Samsung devices that T Mobile either won't update, or the updates come months and months late. Or you simply get told they can't be bothered to work on the update, get a new handset.

So - for now - I'm glad Google are attacking this problem. The carriers need the lesson.

Good luck on running your 'CAD' apps on the garbage crappola he's pitching.

If the future of PC's is to re-wrap what was a netbook idea again in 2012, screw them. If the PC can't have decently balanced hardware - and real GPU function, then any old pice of ARM will end up kicking its ass. And deservedly so.

I'm sorry, I was using some crude humour. If they can't get Windows right I saw no reason to address him by name 'correctly'.

I hate to point it out to you, but you've not really made a PC that can be my tablet and or PC too either. You keep fucking failing. I know, I've spent hours and hours testing windows 8, just like I tested XP on a Q1 and 7 on the same Q1 before it.

The ARM move you made probably does have a place - but its got ZERO to do with running my 'PC' as a tablet. In fact I can't do any of that. The PC part doesn't even exist. As for your X86 tablet - oh sure, I can have my PC - but minus the start button. And minus anything to do with tablet - unless I accept Metro/Notro as my new PC life. Only 99% of everything PC I used or use is desktop based. I have no idea who you think you are talking to - Its not me.

And the real world information is rolling through the isles. The real benchmarks are closing in. Worse performance in use, worse gaming, worse multitasking, worse application compat, and continuing doese of screw me.

To be frank, by forcing this broken Notro paradigm down my through - I've never ever going to be less than hostile to your dumb sales pitch. Your new OS is a cut down 7 with some nice engineering changes in the normal method of win development - and to get them I am forced to use WinRT and this garbage UI (I won't - I'll re-engineer machinery not to - end of.) - and thats all she wrote according to you. It deserves to fail, and it deserves to supply the big pink slip to the people inside MS who ignored all the feedback from the userbase that said no.

My rough take on this, and one Apple should probably absorb globally, is that legal cases are what they are. If you are going to cry publicly that others are not following the 'law' - you don't really gain much from then being a jackass in cases where its been found you are wrong. Why now should Samsung behave in result of a ruling? If all make mockey of the process, then where does it lead.

No, Apple need to be pulled back in court and to be hammered. Double hammered. And then hammered some more. Seems a deliberate and stupid attempt to deviate from the nature and spirit of the ruling laid down on them. This isn't marketing. This is a legal case. Trying to unleash the marketing idiots on it is a mistake, and is erroneous.

Jobs in his younger days - pretty much stated that he stole everything, every idea, every good design and so on - as far as he could. Thats why he went to Xerox Parc and was so taken with a GUI - the same as Paul Allen - 'one day every computer will use that' - Its sad that in the end - he failed to understand that anyone imitating their work is in a way paying a form of homage to them - and their early spirit. And later it seems legalese and not innovation has become the guiding light. Somewhere - someone got lost.

Where would Apple be if Xerox (parc) had walked up to early Apple and crushed them in a court case. Where would the innovation be. Its too simplistic really - but you get the point.

Has decided that its out with the old and in with the new. Anyone opposing him is binned or sidelined. To underline the drive involved in Windows 8 - Windows 7 will quite quickly face a lock. If they can force you onto 8 thats where they will do so.

If he doesn't do this, the moment they will get on 8 will be minimised and he will look a private and public failure. And Mr Sinofsky doesn't like to be a failure.

It may questionably be good for windows users long term - as this might mean that the eco system has the earthquake required to shunt a billion trillion manhours of ecostructure from old win to new win.

Personally I think metro/notro is very poor. And it would take more than Sinofsky being a knob and a shitty UI to persuade people in the real world. Thus, looks rocky to me.

Its a shame, because to be blunt, 8 has some good engineering as does server 2012, utterly ruined by Sinofsky's insane LSD based unwindows, no windows allowed, ported from zune, but still broken beta UI. To rub your nose in it, they broke the old UI as well, and denied you the start bar and old desktop even if you like it. From now on its notro for you. Unless you go get classic shell and give sinofsky the finger.

The problem is I think he'd like the finger, so lets not.

I'll get my coat.

This steaming pile of undemocratic garbage is spoiling for a fight. Its got a lot of gravy train mouths to feed and the EU population and nation states are in wrack and ruin through this EU social and economic disaster, ne ' experiment'. These states are going to refuse an Budget. Which means the business and free market hating communist scum at the centre of this new 'Empire' need money, taxes, and 'funding' to further their imperium.

Whats a few billion between friends.

Europeans are approaching a time where they need to decide if this really is what they wanted. At the end of the day, Whatever charge you leverage against MS - its going to be dragged from the population directly or indirectly in higher living/usage costs, and the money will be taken by an entity that burns it as if confetti. It won't be used in products, or innovation, on poured away on a gravy train of unfit political new age elite EU types.

7 billion? Somebody has to actually try to establish why its a 7billion fine. What for? A Browser choice? Really? In 2012, 2011, 2010 - I never lacked choice in browsers you stupid bastards.

Even if I was an MS hater - I'd not like to see this kind of bullshit levied in a fantasy crime by these morons. Today these idiots come from MS, tommorow it will be you, or your company, or your family, or your bank. Its just the start.

Don't sign up. When they see the lack of custom - they will rethink the idea/deals.

In many cases people are their own worst enemy by signing up to things that are not in their favour. Apply an evolutionary curve to problems, let bad ideas/products die/ let the good ones survive.

In some ways, I'm surprised that no mobile vendors have realised that they could decimate the old school ISP model with an aggressive take on this. All you can eat for £25 a month. They would unhinge the old bandwidth supply models too - as business realises that its mobile workers benefit greatly from an always on/always available model over the old 'on this WAN/LAN/WWAN model. A £60 all you can eat business tariff. Yum Yum.

With their demostration - if it was peaceful.

And they should be allowed to demonstrate. Such is a fundamental of this society.
But its not lost on me, nor should it be lost on_anyone_else - that their demostrate and represent everything that would unhinge that democracy, and its many hard fought battles. No, you don't get to silence opposition to your 7th century religion, and its crimes. No , you don't get to stifle and limit freedom of expression, just because it challeneges your religion. No, you don't get to impose your 7th century barbarism by trying to be a 5th column. The removal of religion from state took many decades in this society. Efforts to swing your religious desires into politics, and then into religious dictatorship are obvious, and must not be allowed to succeed. Ever.

'Submission' as muslims is your right. If you wish to be so fucking stupid and submit to this garbage - thats a personal choice you can take as you wish. But I *never* submitted to it, and I will not be submitted to it, not even by proxy, not by PR, not by propaganda, and not by 3000 idiots with stupid beards, pygamas, and/or Ninja outfits and retarted stupid idiocy whining outside of Youtube/Google buildings.

This is a secular state. If you do not like it, please feel free to go and live in one of the now many islamic shithole states that plaster this globe. But here is the fun part. Most of you live here because you did not like it there very much. Thats a freedom you very much have as much as standing round outside of a google building offending me deeply.

Oh, sorry, I should not mock your ability to be deeply offended every 5 minutes by everyone and everything. But I did. Whoops.

You have clearly not spent as much time with SSD as you should have done to make the comment. And vaguely I think what you meant to say was they make slower ones that cost less than the faster ones, and they make claims about the controllers that do clever shit that alays the shortening cell write limit on lower NM NAND chips.

No SSD on the market has survived more than 3 months in our production laptops that use bloaty Siemens software in VMs. None. Not the cheapest, not the largest, not the most expensive, not the supposedly most resilient (excluding SLC, my comment is centred on MLC). And the time frames are visibly worse today than on the larger NM sized stuff we used early on because people are globally seemingly moving to cells that simply have lower write death - which drives down cost, and in our use drive lifetime.

And you'll generally get no warning from a SSD. None. Its working then its not. Light on. Light off. Data there. Data BOOM. Bluntly that can't be classed as a good thing. Given its got wear leveling - one might argue it should have wear level warning tech as well. But I digress.

I'm not mad. Butt you clearly are. If you wish, you can live in the world of the GMA gfx subsystems. I don't mind you quoting HD4000, it has some validity, but you're quite deliberately not speaking about Intel GFX. You're talking about the latest variant - and the only one that reaches even close to acceptable levels, *and* thats only at the low end. If you dare to play in medium or high end, and note, any idiot who thinks they would willingly remove or revoke Linux from that space deserves to be stripped and shredded for stupidity - is a class A fool.

Linus has spoken publicly about how the kernel should change nothing - things should be presented correctly to the system, and not break things. If a Kernel upgrade breaks software - then think carefully about how you view this.

You don't get adaquate OpenGL - you get shitty OpenGL, and if you think that Intel OpenGL is 'good' enough, then go explore how many Catia or real 'OpenGL' real world products dare to try and reside within its limits. This is intel GFX. Do you even really comprehend what shit you are shovelling?

I get better battery life from an ARM platform - if thats what rocks your boat - so do you. But hey, guess *what*. You and Linux *need* people like Nvidia on ARM because the hardware (Nvidia make hardware - understand this, they make it, you don't. You want your software to run on *their* hardware) means a ton of work for you if you are stupid with them.

If the Linux movement *acvtually* believes in its ideals - thats fine. But throwing shit at devs who have started to try to build bridges and find ways forward, is counter productive. If you want them to go fight for your idealism inside the Nvidia machine, then you need a greater deal of pragmatism, bridge building, and so on. I don't expect many Nvidia devs or engineers will be motivated by Linus's bucket of shit, nor the chopping off at the knees antics.

And yes, despite the abuse aimed at Nvidia - here is the truth. Their hardware combined with their closed source binary drivers are *the best*, the highest level, working, performance GFX on the platform. Try remembering that this is a benefit, and a good thing, despite the fair caveats spoken about the areas where its not ideal. Unless you prefer your platform be second class and garbage, lagging years behind where it needs to be. You could always choose to be so stupid.

Well, take this as the hint; Linus Torvalds took to using 'Fuck' as a basis of his public dropping a bucket of shit on the vendor. If you want an adult conversation, by all means have the leader who kicks things off lead the way.

Until then, This is slashdot. Not the houses of Parliament.