Can you name one thing VMWare does that HyperV with Server 2012 cannot do?

So the samsung galaxy S2/S3 have official 4.2 support?

I've adminned hundreds of Linux VMs. I've never once use X remoting to do so.

Serious question: what adminsitration are you doing that requires or is easier with a GUI?

I've never met a linux admin who didn't either use custom configuration packaging through an in-house Configuration Management solution, or if done "by hand" with SSH and either perl or python for 99.9% of their remote administration.

Why cripple a display solution to meet a sub 1% use case?

What apps do you really need to run network transparently? If it's specialised administration apps then those individual apps can be made network transparent if they need to.

If it's about using thin clients then perhaps a properly architected multi-tier application is in order.

Who uses X remoting to administer hundreds of hosts? An ex-windows-admin? Real administration is done over SSH, typically in screen or similar.

And no one uses pure X remoting for anything "real" due to the fact that losing your network connection means the app dies. For remote X useage everyone uses some sort of proxy layer anyways, so the "X does it natively" goes out the window, and it doesn't do it "better" due to the issue I mentioned before.

I don't find claiming 90+% of the profit from ireland as legit if 0% of the work involved was done there.

Did they ever fix the lack of command line for windows 8 servers?

You gave yourself away there as a troll, and not a serious poster. Hopefully the moderators will catch on soon.

Windows Server 2012 (there's no such thing as "windows 8 servers") ships by default with powershell. ALL configuration tasks are doable via the command line and embeddable into scripts, and MANY tasks are doable ONLY via powershell still (especially when it comes to detailed Exchange configuration).

In addition, the "core" level of windows server, which is Microsoft's recommended configuration for all new servers, doesn't even have a functioning GUI and is command line only. You can add back the GUI if you want, but for a typical datacenter server you wouldn't have a reason to, as you'd be managing it remotely via powershell remoting.

What happens to your X over SSH session when you lose internet for 30 seconds (say your 3g coverage drops, or your wifi goes wonky)?

Because ubuntu (the supported steam distro) doesn't do a release every 6 months requiring an upgrade proceedure (do-release-upgrade, a simple changing of sources.list and dist-upgrade typically results in broken packages) and yet another change to the window manager?

You can already do this on android and iphone as well with encrypted containers like Good ( http://www.good.com/ ).

The point of virtualising is that it means the OS is COMPLETELY seperate. If you want to upgrade to android 5.3.2 aka "footlong hotdog" (they ran out of dessert names), but your company is still on 4.6.1, you can. If your company image can only send packets via VPN and disallows app installation, you can still do what you want with YOUR image.

Blackberry's seperation is just at the app layer.

Only once, and it was when I fried the mobo (long story short, I ran what I thought was digital audio into the digital audio header for the motherboard... it turned out it was a 5v fan lead.)

This is in 20 years of building PCs.

I'd guess that the cost savings in having the chips integrated would have more than paid for that single motherboard replacement. In addition, I've ruined more than one AMD chip (the old thunderbird athlons) bending pins while plugging it in, which would have me ahead in spend were they 1:1 and soldered.

I agree, I've built PCs for ages and never upgraded a CPU, despite planning to.

The thing I can see this effecting, though, is diversity of price.

Right now you can spend $75-$350 on a motherboard, and $75-1000 on a processor. There are X motherboards, and Y compatible processors, for X * Y price/feature/etc points.

When USB3 came out is when I upgraded, so I got a low-to-mid spec motherboard (only cared about USB3, don't need dual video card capability etc) and then a mid-high spec processor (fastest i5 that wasn't the enthousiast factory unlocked ones).

With this change I won't have that choice. It'll be buy one of two models of this motherboard with processor A and B. OEMs won't make hundreds of combinations, and vendor's wouldn't stock them if they did.

As for your AMD systems:
-you CAN upgrade, but you haven't. He wasn't saying that you can't, but that no one winds up doing so.
-Why would you do so while still running DDR2?
-the top phenom II will run in a degraded mode due to lack of power from an AM2+ motherboard

I've always built my own PCs, and had the intention of upgrading my processor later. I've never done so. Right now I have an i5 ~3ghz system I built 14 month ago. I got the i5 with plans in a year or so to upgrade it to an i7. I haven't done so yet, nor will I likely do so, just as you haven't upgraded your Athlon64 systems.

And I've changed motherboards plenty of times and had windows reactivate, so I'm not sure what you're on about there.

They know they're doing it wrong, that's the point of the video!

Many people think that you can use deep frying as a short cut if you forgot to thaw your turkey.

People are stupid, news at 11!

People liking the things you don't like are always shills, obviously.