@travisdh1 said in What Are Virtualized Applications?:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are Virtualized Applications?:

Article is totally false. That's NOT a virtualized application, that's a standard remote app as we've been using in the industry for over 30 years. When I started in IT ini 1994 this was an established, well known part of how the X Window system worked, in UNIX... ALL applications are like this!

I remember running full fledged engineering apps remotely in the 90s on IRIX and OpenVMS machines.

Have I posted about Kasm Workspaces here yet? Makes it really easy to provide remote apps like a Xen remoteapp environment, just easier, quicker, and open source.

Right? THis is SO normal. Microsoft was pushing these hard in 2003 with the Terminal Server at the time, too.

Secret of Monkey Island, Special Edition

Having a video game evening with my daughter.

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@gjacobse I just made a video today about why we use desktops as servers now!

Well first off I get this message:

Uhm.. okay.

Desktops as servers; in some cases - they are useful. Sadly the issue I am running into is that the twelve year old computer has more cores than anything I have available to me in the office,.. I am running an old Dell with 8-cores, and everything I have only has 4-cores.

Were I running several rPi VMs that might be fine, but I am running full Windows or Linux for testing and Ham Radio. It's working but a little strained and I can't do much more without maxing the system resources out.

Oh well.. will find something some time..

What Ham radio tasks is using so many resources?

Article is totally false. That's NOT a virtualized application, that's a standard remote app as we've been using in the industry for over 30 years. When I started in IT ini 1994 this was an established, well known part of how the X Window system worked, in UNIX... ALL applications are like this!

@Oksana Isn't that a REMOTE application?

@gjacobse I once had one in my hands, but it was too costly to power.

Today is @Dominica birthday

Software updates, and doing some late night coding. Polishing off some wine. We closed our second restaurant on the beach (converting it to additional hotel space) and have lots of leftover wine to go through. Watching a movie while pounding out some code.

Anaconda 3

@gjacobse I just made a video today about why we use desktops as servers now!

@Oksana Nutanix can't be trusted and can't be considered business class in any sense. They are deceptive and having any contact with them would constitute a risk in any environment.

Saturday morning coding. Having some coffee. Waiting for my potato pancakes to be delivered.

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller

Sorry to hear this -

Is this State side or there in Nicaragua?

Nicaragua.

A little coding before heading to a funeral.

Six Million Dollar Man (1973)

@Obsolesce said in User profile migration to new Windows 11 PCs:

@xavierdelaraunt said in User profile migration to new Windows 11 PCs:

Also, even the latest Windows 11 USMT from the ADK does not include favorites etc from any of the latest browsers. Not even Edge.

They aren't using the web browsers sync for all that? All web browser stuff should be synced. I wouldn't be able to function without it, using so many different OSs across many different devices. Favorites / bookmarks / etc shouldn't even need to be considered in migrations these days.

They don't even need to manually sign in to the browser for the sync to work depending on your config.

Same, I use FireFox and everything, everywhere "just works", it's so nice.

@Oksana but why do we want to remove it? Is it that much bloat? It doesn't do anything when you don't use it.

@CloudKnight said in User profile migration to new Windows 11 PCs:

Hasn't Windows become a shitshow.

Always was, they just used to be able to claim that the alternatives didn't exist, even though they did. Now, the alternatives are too public and people are more aware that Windows isn't on par. But as someone who came from UNIX and discovered Windows later, Windows has never been good enough to justify, never been "good", never been anything but a joke. Just people re starting to wake up to it because MS isn't putting the resources into hiding it anymore.

This thread makes me so happy we run all Ubuntu and MacOS around here. Not a single official Windows instance. woot woot