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Comment Re: I'd consider paying for Microsoft Linux. (Score 1) 250

PowerShell Remoting was made available in PowerShell 2.0 back in 2009. This allows you to execute local PS cmdlets against remote systems, or to launch an interactive shell via Enter-PSSession. PowerShell is now the foundation of all new local and remote administration tools available for Windows.

Comment Re:As a Windows Phone user (Score 5, Informative) 85

They didn't make the choice to exclude anybody, there is a technical limitation. The reason this first release is only compatible with those six devices is because they are the only six on the market with system partitions large enough to handle the in-place upgrade process. The higher-end devices have less free space on the system partition. They have a solution for this problem, but it is not ready for deployment yet.

Some context on why we chose these and not higher end phones like the 930/Icon or 1520: We have a feature that will be coming soon called “partition stitching” which will allow us to adjust the OS partition dynamically to create room for the install process to be able to update the OS in-place. Until this comes in, we needed devices which were configured by mobile operators with sufficiently sized OS partitions to allow the in-place upgrade, and many of the bigger phones have very tight OS partitions. Note that this doesn’t mean that Windows 10 will take more disk space than Windows Phone 8.1, it’s just a function of the upgrade process at this point. Once the partition stitching feature is completed, many more devices will be supported.

Source: http://blogs.windows.com/blogg...

Comment Misleading headline? (Score 1) 256

While the verbiage is not inaccurate, the headline insinuates (and is reflected by the comments) that the seawater is consumed by this process. I'll admit that IANAC, but from what I read (yeah, I know...) the first step in this process only extracts CO2 from the seawater. The byproducts of that step are acidified seawater, hydrogen gas, sodium hydroxide, and carbon dioxide. Putting the CO2 aside, the rest of it can be recombined into seawater at it's original pH. Maybe I overlooked something?

Comment You aren't alone (Score 1) 467

I went through this back when I was in high school. Compaq insisted that a BIOS update for my laptop would resolve an issue I was having with the PCMCIA slot under Windows 2000. The BIOS update bricked the motherboard, and the BIOS recovery procedures did not work. They then washed their hands of the problem because the laptop was out of warranty. To say that I was livid would be a gross understatement...at sixteen years old I didn't have the means to run out and buy a replacement. Laptops still cost $1200 at a minimum back then, and even ebaying an old used laptop would have cost $700+. I considered taking the issue to local media so that I could get some sort of response from Compaq, but ultimately decided it wasn't worth the effort (plus, you know, I was sixteen, so I figured I wasn't going to be taken seriously).

Comment Re:Translation (Score 1) 866

they can't adjust, they can't get out of their box, they have little empathy or respect for people outside their domain

I have those same tendencies, but I don't blame my local public high school for it. Lots of people are just assholes. It doesn't have to be specific to their educational background or chosen career field.

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