Posts by Corborg

Abu Hamza facemasks....

...for EVERYONE

Wizard needs food

Why would you compare Gauntlet (1985) to Streets of Rage (1991)?

Anyhow, Gauntlet was great, I built my own mini version a few years back: http://minicade.blogspot.co.uk/

2012

I've installed close to 100 2012 servers replacing a lot of SBS 2003 and vanilla 2003 servers. If the start menu is a problem, Start8 works just as well on server as it does Windows 8 so that solves that problem.

Performance wise it's much more modular and less bloated than 2008, I find it quicker. I use powershell scripts with a CSV file of user details to quickly populate the AD for a new domain and cloudy Exchange most of the time.

And when it's all configured you can drop it down to core to stop people fiddling with it locally, and take it back to full fat GUI when you want to, something that wasn't possible in 2008. Overall I like it. But what do I know I only have hands on experience :p

Double up

Why don't they make it so you type a password in, but it reads your fingerprint as you're typing it in? Password and fingerprint aren't secure, but combined it's a little better.

I hope they will be using....

...the Windows Snipping Tool.

Our garden wall fell down

MS tried to create a Metro driven app store, locking vendors in to their own distribution system so that they could take a fat profit ala Apple.

It didn't work. You can have your start menu back.

I just bought a Windows 8 Phone

and I bloody love it.

Down vote me in 3...2......1........

No climb down

Considering the interface is also in the excellent Server 2012 it would be crazy to go back on it now.

They will just replace the mouse cursor with a hand, like in Surgeon Simulator 2013 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2XkTIYhQC8)

MJF

MJF appears on Windows Weekly and This week in tech pod casts.

She has never come across as knowing her onions technically. She just regurgitates press releases. I remember a recent one where she said she had never installed/reinstalled Windows!. And you expect us to value her opinion on Server 2012?

Terror Wrist

The watch as a computer form factor is useless. At best it will be a bluetooth remote for the Ipod or Iphone in your back pocket.

Make lemonade

I've felt the pain of trying to get training out of a multi billion pound company, and having it denied. When your employer isn't willing to invest in you, it's time to face facts and take it into your own hands.

With a fairly modern PC, HyperV (or virtual box, VMWare etc), some patience and some good material there is nothing you can't achieve that you couldn't in a training room.

I find trainsignal and CBT nuggets video training is great combined with a book usually cracks it.

Chromosexual

+1 from me for the ribbon hate fan club. I wonder if the same team were involved in the Windows 8 start screen.

Rotting Apple

In 3 years time Apple will be a bit player once again. Boom, bust, and no messiah to save them.

Maybe Woz will give them the patent for his all in one remote.

Useful

Netbook for me is used when I go on holiday and don't want to take an expensive device with features I don't need. I use it to dump digi photos on to from the SLR and then pop it back in the hotel room safe. Maybe check the email once in a while. I'm sure it will be used in this way until it pops.

Damnit

I wish they would banish PST files once and for all I'm sick of them

Screaming.net

I can only talk from personal experience. I've been on talk talk for 2 years, I'm getting 14Mb down and 1Mb up over my old copper lines and have never had an outage. I am very close to the exchange though so I'm sure the service would be solid whoever I was with.

Shocking

XP password cracked using a rack full of servers and 25gpu's.

I'll stick to a USB floppy drive and Konboot to circumvent any windows passwords undetected thanks

Fond Memories

RE Amiga Format, issue one, New Zealand Story demo on the cover disk. It was exciting to see it split from Amiga/ST Format into a mag of its own and it built up to become a wonderful publication for years to come.

Shame my dad threw out my entire and complete collection of Amiga Format magazines several years ago when I was away at uni.

Thanks Dad.

KISS

I like MS's new take on things. They appear to be going back to get the basics right so they can build on that. Server 2012 is great, Windows 8 is great (with Start8!) Hyper-V is charging at ESX. I think they are back on track.