Posts by Jay_x386

Re: And 11% of visits were Eadon knocking Microsoft

Eadon.... those were the days

or

THOSE WERE THE DAYS

Re: Been hearing this...

@JDX

Crying Wolf, very true, but.........I know it's off topic, but just like IPv4 allocation running out, it's run out, but still keeps giving with no obvious end in sight ?

What they say about necessity ?

Just say'in, I'll get me coat. Off to look for 8 groups of 4 hexadecimals and some colons (that's not meant to rude either)

@The Lord Gord

Gotta disagree about your domain sarcasm. I'm an admin at a ftse100 company and apart from the obvious lack of start button...... I just pin my apps to the task bar. I see no difference in domain functionality. I admit the group policy templates need updating to support IE10 and the Internet admin maintaince has finally gone to be replaced with something usable. So far so good. Yes our GPO's needed work, but they have 10+ years of crap with Hugh swathes of settings and their reason lost in the out sourcing of time from 2 or 3 incumbents.

It connects to files and printers..... What else is there ? Browsing http ?

GPO preferences offer so much more, hell one day I may even be able to get rid of some login scripts.

Yep there are challenges, the KMS needed upgrading, which needs change management representation.

an app based on access2000 runtime with a locked msi has to be manually installed as the developer (not Microsoft) hard coded the paths, and no amount of ACT shims have helped.

UEFI is mainstream at last.

The absolute winner though is hyper-v for development if you've not tried it you are missing out.

I rarely see metro. At the end of the day I just undock chuck the laptop in my bag, and dock again the next day to the same Desktop across 2x24" monitors, it even remembers if i boot directly to the laptop, which w7 had issues with sometime. My machine only reboots now are via WSUS or because an installer insists.

boot to desktop in 8.1 is all I want.

Re: I'll believe it when I see it...

The article is about Microsoft Hyper-V and NOT microsoft virtualPC on W7. HyperV-2008 is free or if you buy a 2008 server license instead of W7 and put on your laptop you can then enable the hyper-v role. Basically ditch the virtualPC and get using HyperV (or a hypervisored VMware) it is much faster.

Re: The future is The Matrix

DVD's are private personal off-line clouds.

Clouds.......erhmm

I converted my server farm and SAN into an extra testicle cloud and called it a loads of bolloxs cloud.

Re: 16GB - 32GB price

not really the best comparison. A 2 litre car is almost certainly 4 cyclinder and 3 litre is often 6 so not the same engine. Coupled with uprated components such has suspension, brakes, to actually stop the higher spec engine. Apart from that ......

boltar boltar bol....tar

yes you laddie, look up,

up ..

yes at the blue thing at the top of the page....<shakes head>

what the hell... probably a troll

Outsourced

"as a result it will learn" ..... trouble is, amazon don't want to employee techies either. They will also outsource their stuff, all the way down the line; until it will be just one outsource company employing lots of contract managers and a couple of ex-techies with 'architect' and 'manager' in their job title.

They will in turn employee an IT contractor called Ben who will hopefully (if the architect specified it right) recover your data.....

Fortunately my colleague, Ben, is very diligent and will forever remain the IT / Data monkey.

…. and if the data has permanently gone, sack the contractor

Panasonic Viera TX-P42ST30

amazon the Panasonic Viera TX-P42ST30,

You wont be disappointed for £500 (I paid 560 - a couple of months back and even that is still a bargain)