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by **Alex B** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 11:40 am

People are silly enough to be running server 2008 already?

by **Silent Knight** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 11:40 am

Akane wrote:Vista Ultimate 32bit with Dual screen.

Does everything always have to turn into a 'My cock is bigger' discussion. OS people, who gives a piss how much RAM/Screens etc you are using.

by **NZVengeance** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 11:42 am

pyro_sniper2002 wrote:People are silly enough to be running server 2008 already?

yes i got a copy from work so i installed it. were using ti for testing at work so they just gave me a license.

by **solitaire** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 12:43 pm

BZG|Bling wrote:whats the 1996 game? thats oldschool!!

XP for me, it does what I need with no fuss so no plans to change to vista or linux.

Birth of the federation... a turn based strategy game based in the star trek universe.

geek geek blah blah blah

by **solitaire** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 12:45 pm

Silent Knight wrote:
Akane wrote:Vista Ultimate 32bit with Dual screen.

Does everything always have to turn into a 'My cock is bigger' discussion. OS people, who gives a piss how much RAM/Screens etc you are using.

I think the point was that he has two cocks... he didnt mention the size... :lol:

no grip · by **Akane** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 12:45 pm

Silent Knight wrote:Does everything always have to turn into a 'My cock is bigger' discussion. OS people, who gives a piss how much RAM/Screens etc you are using.

I was just posting my response inline with all the others, didn't know you interperted it that way. My cock is actually freakin' small if you really wanted to know.

by **NZVengeance** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 12:48 pm

Akane wrote:I was just posting my response inline with all the others, didn't know you interperted it that way. My cock is actually freakin' small if you really wanted to know.

My profile! · by **Dirtbag** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 2:47 pm

Voted for XP, over the last week ive spent more time fiddling with pfsense though, its frickin sweet.

When i shift to vista I will take my virtual machines with me to play old games. Dual monitors makes it hard to play the old games that have crap resos and bad colour depth, it affects the other screen.
Starcraft and rollercoaster tycoon2 on a virtual machine, and maybe soon to be birth of the federation... big ST and turnd based strat game geek

edit: just saw someone compare it to master of orion! I AM SO GETTING IT :lol:

by **mr2_t** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 9:53 pm

at work

Z/OS , i5O/S , AIX , HPUX, ESX, Redhat, Windows NT4/2000/2003/XP/Vista

at home

Ubuntu/XP/Vista, mostly XP though...

Caldina GT-T · by **snwtoy** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 9:58 pm

pyro_sniper2002 wrote:People are silly enough to be running server 2008 already?

Server2008 is service pack 1 already - so why not. By all accounts so far it's being taken on a lot more quickly than vista, possibly because of the free hyper-v component.

by **Alex B** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 10:01 pm

Its at service pack one because vista is and they are matching the updates etc. I very much doubt we will be reccomending server 2008 to any of our clients at work at this stage, maybe in a 6/12 months.

by **Adamal** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 12:18 am

On my old machine, I had XP, Vista, Vista SP1 Beta and Win2k8.

On this one, I've just got Vista x64, but planning to also have OS-X. Have the image, just that it appears it won't boot using an IDE DVD drive, needs to be SATA. Strange, but Oh well, I was looking at getting one sooner or later!

by **geishaboy** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 4:42 am

Akane wrote:
Silent Knight wrote:Does everything always have to turn into a 'My cock is bigger' discussion. OS people, who gives a piss how much RAM/Screens etc you are using.

I was just posting my response inline with all the others, didn't know you interperted it that way. My cock is actually freakin' small if you really wanted to know.

You guys crack me up

I am running XP because it came with the computer. I really couldn't care less what OS I'm using, as long as it works, and it works fast

Which is my major problem with Vista, it works, but very very slowly. So slow that it pretty much doesn't work at all unless you have 100GB of ram, and 2000 GB HD and a 9.2GHZ processor

Jokes, but Vista does piss me off, too much pissing around and too many bells and whistles to do anything at all

by **Boosted_162** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 9:05 am

I use Vista Home Premium, like geishaboy, it's what came on my laptop :lol:

by **fivebob** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 11:41 am

pyro_sniper2002 wrote:People are smart enough to be running server 2008 already?

Corrected your spelling error

We are going live with the first of our web server farm next week, if that goes ok, the rest will be converted over the next month or so, then it will be on to the database and application servers.

If you test throughly first before using new technology then there is no reason why you shouldn't be an early adopter. Especially if the technology offers significant enhancements, which, for us, 2008 server does.

by **Alex B** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 12:14 pm

Each to their own

by **fivebob** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 12:27 pm

pyro_sniper2002 wrote:Each to their own

So you've implemented a thorough test plan and found that 2008 server is not production ready??? Or are you just basing your opinion on the theory that waiting for the first SP to be released is the right option. :roll:

IME there's too little of the former, and too much of the latter going on in the IT community. My experience has shown that it's better to test and see if it's suitable for the needs of the company, then implement with a proper fallback plan.

red car · by pc » Sat Mar 01, 2008 2:25 pm

fivebob wrote:
pyro_sniper2002 wrote:Each to their own

So you've implemented a thorough test plan and found that 2008 server is not production ready??? Or are you just basing your opinion on the theory that waiting for the first SP to be released is the right option.

IME there's too little of the former, and too much of the latter going on in the IT community. My experience has shown that it's better to test and see if it's suitable for the needs of the company, then implement with a proper fallback plan.

I think you'll find that not being an early adopter of newer OSs is more around risk management. i.e if you're running on 2003 and it works fine and has been for many years, then why increase the risk during an upgrade of encountering a problem that no-one in the world has seen yet. Scenario is quite different if you need some of the new features in the new OS, but I think you will find in most shops, the upgrade is essentially unnecessary and is only done so that the shop remains on a currently supported platform.

by **Alex B** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 4:00 pm

I agree with the having to keep up with things factor, but there is also "if it aint broke dont fix it"

Thats pretty much it ^ How do we know every app/piece of jade/Greentree etc etc software is going to work with it at this stage? Is the extra labour of testing all this worth it at this stage? And why take the risk of a very annoyed client, just for the sake of being the latest and greatest?

This is not MY policy, this is the path my current employers have chosen to take for our clients, people that have had a lot more years in the industry in the field.(much like your self fivebob)

How many businesses do you know of that have dumped XP in favor of Vista at this stage? How long did it take for businesses to adapt XP over Win2k, i can think of a rather large chocolate factory that only just went over to XP last year when their IT structuring went global.

by **Adamal** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 5:43 pm

I thought Willy Wonka's factory was run on magic, not computers?

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