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!Ubuntu on #Microsoft’s Windows Azure IAAS http://ur1.ca/9gq4x
about a year ago from Gwibber- bedzinski waldemar robert likes this.
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#Shuttleworth kissing Bill Gates as.sterisk. What good is !GNU/ !Linux resiliency if it'll run on Windows #Azure #cloud? http://ur1.ca/9gq4x
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@metztli I'm not sure I get your point. how is Azure supporting non-Windows client OSes a bad thing?
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@metztli Azure will run any distro, and imho no harm is done by creating disk images that target it.
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Hummm... @wgreenhouse: "I'm not sure I get your point". Could it be because you did not read the second sentence of my comment?
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However, by all means @wgreenhouse, run your !Ubuntu in #Azure! After all, #Microsoft has "embraced" !Linux ... & its reaching for its neck!
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@metztli there are a lot of non-free VM solutions out there, e.g. VMware. I wouldn't say Azure is inherently less reliable than those.
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Tell me @wgreenhouse, do you think that #Microsoft was "unaware" of #Stuxnet #Duqu #Flame?…that it didn't collaborate with States involved?
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@metztli no, of course I wouldn't. Nor would I trust other non-free VM hypervisors such as VMware.
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@metztli yes, I do. no point in mentioning such plans to microsoft when .us/.il/whoever could easily buy vulns on the open market w/o MS.
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@metztli a result of MS's closed security model is that there are companies such as VUPEN specializing in unreleased Windows 0days.
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@metztli ...sold only to "friendly" (NATO) governments. informing MS about these before use would be unnecessary and counterproductive.
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@metztli to reiterate, of course Azure+Ubuntu is less reliable than Ubuntu running in a FOSS VM, but it's also better than Azure+Windows.
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@metztli it was undetected by the software security industry too; I think there was much complacency about a MITM against Windows Update.
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@metztli I don't disagree. there's just no plausible evidence for the collaboration theory, at all.
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@metztli kaspersky report also indicated it wasn't anything like the whole Middle East, but about a hundred selected boxes at a time.
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Problem is #Flame erases its tracks, making it difficult for 3rd parties to realize extent of infection —initial rumor was whole Middle East
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@wgreenhouse I mistrust Windows in general. I cannot fathom why you would ever use it for anything important requiring …
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@toksyuryel My windows had a major Kernel error. I couldnt fix, had to reinstall it. Thankfully I gots 3 HDD's ^_^
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@metztli right. more recent hypothesis is that there was a fairly constant small number of hosts, adding new ones as others were deleted.
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@toksyuryel I wouldn't. but I also can't fathom why anyone would use a non-free VM host in general, be it VMware or Azure.
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@metztli no question that MS and US share an interest in MS having profitable exports. but that interest is hurt by every botnet scandal.
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@renovatedkitchen I used to have two, but they both died at around the same time and I could only afford to buy one mor…
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@toksyuryel I certainly can't understand why the Iranian oil ministry used it for critical production work-maybe they will use Linux now.
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@toksyuryel Im sorry to hear bud :(. Thats what I do. I have a 1.5TB WD Green with the intellipower or whatever its cal…
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@metztli fair enough. I think we agree, then--sorry if I've been overly pedantic and argumentative. :)
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@wgreenhouse Considering the probable level of infiltration into such industries, it seems plausible that individuals p…
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@renovatedkitchen Hm, using a small SSD for /boot does sound like a pretty interesting idea. I'll have to consider that…
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@toksyuryel It is. Except when stupid programs want to dump their cache in c:\. GRRRRRR. lol. But I know you dont use w…
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@renovatedkitchen I tend to do all my electronics purchases through newegg.
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@toksyuryel Newegg is very good :)
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@renovatedkitchen And yeah I'm on Linux ☺ among plenty else, caching is performed much smarter here^^ (as is the way …
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@toksyuryel I would send you a song to listen to, but you'll be spending the next while dowloading codecs for a .mp3 xD kidding :P
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@renovatedkitchen I can listen to mp3s just fine :P
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@toksyuryel After or before downloading codecs ^_^. Linux is awesome though. Each OS has its pro's and cons
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@renovatedkitchen I install all of my media players with the maximum support for different formats that I can. I have s…
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@toksyuryel lol. Thats awesome. All I ever use is iTunes. MP3's and ALAC files is good enough. FLAC support would be nice though.
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@renovatedkitchen Whenever possible I prefer ogg and flac, but I have support for just about everything ☺ my primary …
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@toksyuryel THats awesome. But, ALAC is still uncompressed, just takes less space. Which is nice :3
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@renovatedkitchen ALAC is compressed, that's why it takes less space. But it's lossless compression, which means quality is not degraded.
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@toksyuryel Sorry, thats what I meant. I should sleep some. lol. Every OS has its ups and downs though
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@renovatedkitchen Certainly, but the few ups of Windows and Mac aren't really compelling enough compared to their numer…
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@toksyuryel Mhm. I really love Macs OS because its very tidy and They have Logic Pro, which I spent a long time learning :3
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@toksyuryel probable level of infiltration" according to whom?
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@wgreenhouse The oil industry is a pretty big deal to most of the world as presently we still depend on it quite heavil…
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