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OK. Now I'm very curious about the move to Guacamole. Citrix ICA is the fastest remote desktop protocol around. Even a very seasoned VMware engineer I work with will only deploy Citrix for VDI that requires low latency and quick response times, as he admits that VMware's Blast protocol is not battle proven. So you are saying that Guacamole delivers better performance than Citrix. I guess I will have to try it for myself.

If your environment is MS Win, may I please have more detail on how you threw out Citrix. Guacamole is not providing multiple sessions to a single computer, rather that's the functionality of a broker such as Microsoft Terminal Server (termdd.sys) which allows for multiple sessions connected to the console of a computer, likewise for Citrix. For your 50+ engineers to work remotely, they would have had to have been connected to 50 unique computers via the Guacamole Server, or you still have a Citrix server and Guacamole has replaced the Citrix ICA client...

[The web application deployed to the Guacamole server reads the Guacamole protocol and forwards it to guacd, the native Guacamole proxy. This proxy actually interprets the contents of the Guacamole protocol, connecting to any number of remote desktop servers on behalf of the user.|https://guacamole.incubator.apache.org/doc/gug/guacamole-arc...]

About 12 years ago I deployed Windows Terminal Server in a corporate environment, and used PXE boot on the client computers to start a basic Linux distro that then launched the 2X client to access TS. Right now I'm creating a reference document for a VDI deployment using VMware/Citrix/TS. I've briefly looked at the NoMachine client by installing it to a Win10 computer, and the performance of NoMachine is worse than RDP to the same computer over the same link. Since you're happy with NoMahchine do you know of any optimization techniques for it?

I believe HN reported the return of the incandescent light bulb over a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11771001 which I believe is based on this Nature article: http://www.nature.com/nnano/journal/v11/n4/full/nnano.2015.3... What's old is new again...

I don't have VMS experience, but rather AS/400 and iSeries experience. The difference vs generic purpose OS (Linux, Windows, OSX) is that the AS/400, and I'm going to assume VMS since they operated in similar markets, had these features baked in by the manufacturer. OS/400 on the AS/400 was a menu based system. If the menu option existed, the feature was available, and it was as simple as flipping the bit to YES to enable a feature. Enable clustering? Select Yes, add the information of the cluster and you were done. It just worked. Did it work well? I guess. There was no way to know if it could be done better since it was a manufacturer's enabled feature. Of course Linux, Windows, OSX can do the same thing as OS/400 on AS/400 but with a lot of configuration, and a lot of jumping through hoops [it's not called Hadoop for nothing ;-)].

Kaspersky wrote about Petya 16 months ago. https://blog.kaspersky.com/petya-ransomware/11715/ Has the delivery changed causing it to resurface again?

I've never issued a charge back so I'm in unknown waters, but if I wanted to keep my account with Steam after a charge back, couldn't I just update my account to use a different credit card?

You spoke about how to monetize Monica. Based on the number of comments requesting a mobile app, perhaps that's the launch point. I would use Monica's browser interface for bulk data entry, but I would use Monica on a mobile for push reminders since that's how I get my reminders/appointments now via Google Calendar. So, keep the browser interface free, but charge for the mobile app.

The 2017 SO Developer Survey has Perl in 6th place for highest compensation in the world. https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2017#technology-to... Interestingly, Perl places 5th in the USA for highest compensation, and it doesn't even make the lists of France, Germany, India, and the UK.

I use SRWare Iron, a privacy aware derivative of Chrome. It's fast, supports the Chrome store, and claims to send less data to Google. In the end though, what does it matter if Google owns the browser? The browser could change to a non-Google product and they will still collect their data on everyone regardless.

They must. I add them occasionally to sweeten the end product.

Touché. Excellent point.

I don't have proof for the following, but I think the article should qualify the type of juice being consumed. I regularly make juice from raw vegetables (ginger, cucumber, carrots, beets, celery, parsley, cilantro, yams, kale, chard, brussel sprouts etc) and I suspect that the sugar content is less than fruit juice. Personally I don't understand why a person would juice a fruit when you can eat it whole? Fruits are so stupidly delicious when eaten whole. In the end, everything in moderation...

Agreed! While walking around the neighbourhood with my four year old, I found someone disposing of a skateboard. I grabbed it, and rode around for a bit. I'm hooked again! It has been 25 years since I was in to skateboarding. I bought a new board yesterday, pulled out my snowboarding wrist guards because I need my wrists to make money with a keyboard, and got to work learning my balance all over again last night for about 15 minutes. I'm bringing it to work to ride at lunch. I refuse to die with two young kids because I was too stupid to make exercise a priority.

All excellent points. I would like to add that I personally think one word was missing in the article that being sincere. Praise needs to be sincere as well or it will be sniffed out as feigned.

As an Ad-nauseaum user my beef with it is that certain web pages will peg the CPU at close to 90%. Otherwise it seems to be good at juggling system resources.

Yes. https://www.thestar.com/business/2016/04/19/cinespace-sells-... GM Canada purchased land in downtown Toronto and made the announcement for a corporate campus with a dealership/showroom. The challenge will be with the existing franchise dealerships that will balk at GM taking a bite out of their market share. edit - The GM official announcements specifically refers to the sale and service of electric vehicles. http://media.gm.com/media/ca/en/gm/home.detail.html/content/...

I wonder what Rob Eisenberg formerly of Angular and now with Aurelia.io would have to say about v4?

Who cares about remembering passwords? Like my burner mobile phones, I use burner passwords. I use a one time password and the next time I need to log in to the website, I request my password to be reset and use the link that is emailed to me...