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With its Microsoft Alternatives project, or MAlt, CERN hopes to avoid vendor and data lock-in. The LHC runs on Windows?
I'm just going out on a limb here, but I'd imagine they could fit a few copies of Office into their 1 B Euro budget?
Ah well, I guess replacing Word with Libre Office will let them smash a few more particles a year.
Sorry(ish) if this seemed a little too political.
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If done right, and documented and followed up on correctly, this could be the project that makes me take Linux seriously. That is, if it leads to a standard Linux distro without dependency upon the command line, and other arcana I just don't have time for.
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I'd have to confess that, given the ridiculous antics that ms has subjected us to over the last ten years, I would quite happily get physical on the particles of ms decision makers.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Do not turn off your computer, Windows is configuring updates.
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If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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So they're moving from a single MAlt.
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They probably also don't want to risk having an experiment interrupted because Windows 10 insisted on pushing an update at precisely the wrong time, nevermind the possibility that said update would probably prevent them from using part of the collider because of driver signing issues.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Pixelate light, let it interfere, obtain solution—size limited by budget. "Let the Midnight Special shine a light on me"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Pixelate light, let it interfere, obtain solution—size limited by budget.
OK, if you're trying to tell me that this isn't a link to Japanese pr0n, I'm calling bullsh1t!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
modified 13-Jun-19 19:03pm.
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Now that you mention it, sounds about right 
TTFN - Kent
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Are you saying Japanese prOn === Manga?
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Millions of mail servers running vulnerable Exim mail transfer agent (MTA) versions are currently under siege, with attackers gaining permanent root access via SSH to the exploited machines according to security researchers. Patch 'em if you got 'em
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We’re excited to announce starting today you can try WSL 2 by installing Windows build 18917 in the Insider Fast ring! I'd love to know what's going through Linus' mind when he hears this
Only tangentially related. I was looking up the rules about possessives and names to confirm nothing had changed since I first learned it. It has - apparently (depending on the particular rules you follow), it can either be ' or 's. However, as I was searching, I found this, which amused me to no end (yes, I'm a dull fellow):
Special Rules for Classical Names
But there are a few exceptions. For classical and biblical names with two or more syllables ending in s or es, you usually just add an apostrophe. If the name is only one syllable, add -'s.
Socrates' students
Ramses' kingdom
Amos' prophecy
Zeus's warnings
The names Jesus and Moses are always made possessive with the apostrophe alone:
Jesus' disciples
Moses' law
modified 13-Jun-19 14:57pm.
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the only problem with using Linux on windows is that tools like the event viewer are particularly useful.
Kent Sharkey wrote: Special Rules for Classical Names
See?
It's not only in programming languages that half-educated nutters have "brilliant ideas" (which are already covered by standard rules that they haven't learned, yet) and preach them as if they were Gospel!
In fact, there are far, far more non-expert "experts" in the English language than there are in all programming languages put together.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I was looking up the rules about possessives and names...
Great minds... blah blah blah. I did the same a couple weeks ago. I've already forgotten the new rules, but they were interesting.  Another item you may be interested in regarding English as a whole is the book Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English, by John McWhorter. I've never read it, but listened to a podcast that is no longer available from a local Dallas station. Here is another podcast that still survives. Skip the first two minutes, because they are annoying: http://traffic.libsyn.com/mickelson/mickelson-2008-12-04.mp3?dest-id=21957. From the first six minutes (of 1:30:00) it seems to be as interesting as what I heard many years ago.
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David O'Neil wrote: I've already forgotten the new rules
Do that.
They're just style rules, which means that they're the personal preferences of the half-educated moron who wrote them.
There are only between 130 and 180 real rules of English grammar (depending on where you live). All the rest is bullsh1t from arrogant wankers who don't really know what they're talking about, but who talk really loudly anyway.
Empty vessels, again.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Sounds like you're talking about yourself! 
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Thank you - put in my queue. I had tried Bill Bryson's The Mother Tongue, but this sounds better. 
TTFN - Kent
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Unfortunately, only the first 15 minutes are on that book.  The podcast I listened to was a full hour, and it was fascinating, but I can't find it online anywhere. So maybe just find the book.
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Quote: You can expect to get more features, bugfixes, and general updates to WSL 2
But what about icons!?
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Why would anyone want to run fake Linux in Windows?
You can erun a VM with a full Linux distrro in it, AND share files and devices.
What is the tangible benefit of WSL over Linux in a VM?
Sounds like the C#8 team has migrated to the Windows team and started pushing pointless bullshit into the project...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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/shrug
Maybe it has more access to the Windows box? I've never become interested enough to care to figure out either. If they wanted to switch to Linux, why not create a full distro of their own?
TTFN - Kent
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Running Linux in a VM will always be a better idea.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Running Linux in a VM will always be a better idea. Do you really want to take a chance on MS screwing up WSL during an update, or waiting until THEY decide the kernel needs to be updated? IMHO, that's a blatantly BAD idea, almost as bad as using Visual Basic beyond the 3rd grade.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I suspect that the two of you are right. 
Also that having Linux playing too close to the various Windows API seems like it's just asking for security leakage. Having the isolation of a VM feels safer to me.
TTFN - Kent
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Resources and efficiency.
VM takes more and is less.
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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