Comments on: Luddites, or something else.

By: wimminz

wimminz — Fri, 04 Jul 2014 17:51:18 +0000

Only a problem if you are running it…. and if you are running it, you’re used to problems anyway..lol

By: iHateCamelCase

iHateCamelCase — Fri, 04 Jul 2014 17:48:52 +0000

Running Cisco's VoIP manager? Four words you don't want to hear: 'Backdoor SSH root key' "Cisco has warned Unified Communications installations can be remotely hijacked by miscreants, thanks, thanks to a hardwired SSH private key." heh.

By: wimminz

wimminz — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 18:50:16 +0000

not quite, server 2012 is win8 with whole slew of available addons, and a couple of minor subtractions, eg win8 is at heart a server OS, same as the venerable 2k which later morphed to win7, which means win9 should be great too…

By: Mikey

Mikey — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 18:46:36 +0000

I was rather apprehensive about windows 8 myself, until you pointed out in a previous article that it wasn’t that bad and was based on windows server 2012 anyways. So I decided to take the plunge and installed it on my new PC I recently built. It runs just fine on modern hardware with a good SSD. Initially I struggled with figuring out the interface until I opened a browser and started googling shit, and eventually switched to the desktop view being the default. My only complaint about the new windows is that with the introduction of apps it seems that they have bifurcated user programs into two somewhat exclusive groups. For example, when I run an app from the app screen ( or whatever the hell they call it) you don’t see it in the task bar if you decide to switch over to a program in the desktop. It makes switching between apps and desktop programs more troublesome than it needs to be.

I also ran into an issue with the Skype app where I wanted to voice chat with a friend while we played a video game together. Problem was, voice communications would stop after I switched over to the game, until I was able to switch back. I ended up uninstalling the Skype App and reinstalling Skype as a desktop program, which solved the problem. But all these glitches are relatively minor, and if I really get sick of it I can reboot into Ubuntu anyways. Dual boot FTW…