Of course, other companies like Apple, Synology, etc., wrote their own SMB server implementation after ditching Samba. And other projects often have lists of features that have to be disabled to keep the license GPLv2.
I'm kind of OK with that. When corporations get too involved with Open Source projects, it tends to cause problems.
What pisses me off is that if the press actually talked about the recession we are in, and it is a recession if you take out the ridiculous amounts of money spent on AI slop we are in a deep recession
What do you mean? You mean you don't believe Intuit's press release saying the layoffs are about AI? HR never lies, I don't want to hear anything different.
Removing server features from workstations was a step ahead of the pack.
Into a hole.
It's an upgrade
It isn't.
Apple has all the money, they can afford to do both things and it's weird they haven't. Having a meaningful management system is a huge part of selling computers, to corporate and educational users. Back before all computers were on an IP network, when they didn't have security beyond antivirus, you could get away with not offering management.
Those who have demands closer to the old day workstation solutions are better served by other OS'es, but we're a blip on the consumer axis, not a norm.
Apple has a solid alternative to Windows for business use, if only they offered a full suite. They could be digging into that market. That's what NeXTStep really was supposed to be, a Macintosh-ish system for business use. Their prices were even more hallucinatory than Apple's at the time, which prevented any real adoption more than any lack of software, especially since they had very good compatibility with other environments (including, for example, a Netware client.) It's quite confusing what made them think they could get those kinds of dollars for a 68k when the PC was just getting fast. We can't ask Jobs now, though.
WHO is ostensibly a SCIENTIFIC organization.
Taiwan was a leader in COVID response practices, and whether they want to call it "Taiwan" or "Shangri-La" or "Brigadoon" IDGAF.
In fact, Taiwan expressed concern about human transmission of COVID 12/31/19 but WHO *refused* to acknowledge until China finally admitted it in late Jan 2020.
So fuck WHO: if we know that whatever they think/discover/recommend has to be run-by Xi before the rest of us can know?
I am in favor of Microsoft releasing Linux distributions, donating code for Linux distributions and for the Linux kernel, supporting Linux on their cloud infrastructure, et cetera. I am not in favor of anything which involves Redhat even peripherally as long as they (IBM, really) continue to mount an attack on the GPL by continuously violating the clause about additional restrictions not being allowed, hiding behind the corrupt US court system, and exploiting the fact that approximately no one can afford to sue IBM.
To return to my point, I remain unsurprised.
And now we don't understand how the galaxy we are in sticks together, and haven't for, what, 50+ years.
It's not gravity?
I can tell you've never used Microsoft hardware.
The issue is that I use Microsoft software every work day, and it is shit all day every time.
I just want a way to write a scheduled task with one line instead of an entire config file.
cron daemons still exist. Some of them are fairly fancy. I am running the default one for debian (as in, I installed "cron") and even that conveniently creates cron.{daily,hourly,monthly,weekly,yearly} where I can just dump scripts instead of editing crontab, if one will suit anyway. And then there's also at.
Another thing I would like is to be able to just put startup scripts in one directory and have them run instead of doing all kinds of configuration
That's
Windows 8 was the single biggest change in all of Microsoft UI history, and even then they didn't actually change any of the most important parts. All windowing operations are still based on IBM CUA and... work like dogshit.
Every single Windows version has the same problem, some things just won't multitask. If you try to drag an Edge window while the browser is opening a tab, you can't. That's because the application is responsible for that. On Unix systems this isn't a thing because the Window Manager is responsible.
What's especially frustrating about this is that Windows actually has some cool UI features like detecting when you're connecting to some displays you've connected to before, and arranging them logically the way you had them arranged before. But then the process fails as Windows forgets which windows were maximized, or the application doesn't restore to the same size window it had before because of some weird interaction. So Windows has this awesome feature... which doesn't actually work. I still have to rearrange my windows every time because they do actually do it, but they do it incorrectly.
But with that said Windows has never, ever, EVER changed the basic way Window management has functioned since Windows 3.0. It is still basically the same, the only significant difference is where minimized windows go.
I did a google search, then I wanted to do another related search, google figured out accurately what I wanted on the second one based on the first, and offered as a suggestion exactly the search I had in mind. Could they do this without AI? Maybe, they were doing it before, but rarely did it actually give the suggestion I wanted. I might not have thought anything of it but there were interface appearance changes at the same time.
Problem is, lawmakers are too often on the teat. A proper response to this would be to not only force them to restore literally all of these domains but also allow people to use them for commercial use after this, just to remind Google that they don't run the world.
Harrison's Postulate: For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.
