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Still running XP?
kyanwan:
--- Quote from: fohfoh on July 24, 2009, 10:29:04 AM ---Kyanwan, have you looked into Powershell 1.0? It's Microsoft's attempt to bring back command lines. (Basically trying for the stripped version of Windows sever 2008.) Currently though, powershell isn't available for the command version of server 2008. Not yet at least. It might be available in the later service packs.
Windows Server 2008 is a pretty cool OS. But god damn, 900 CAD?
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I haven't - I've basically lost most hope that Windows would ever have any command line features ... where, say, I could login SSH to a system and do 99.5% of the work I could do while sitting at the console ... while sitting at home.
MS isn't bringing back anything. They're realizing that SSH is an administrative tool like no other. Minimal bandwidth, powered, low resource, and fully standardized & cross-OS compatible. Crap - I could even *FULLY* admin my server off my PocketPC (...and I HAVE! XD)
They're getting into the server game.
Still, would be cool to have command line *really* revived with windows. It's been so long ... T_T ...
fohfoh:
Their reasoning for powershell is that there's less of a face for hackers to attack and also, it uses less resources.
Xiong Chiamiov:
--- Quote from: Mag-X on July 23, 2009, 11:31:07 AM ---
--- Quote from: xchiamiov on July 23, 2009, 03:50:22 AM ---Also, I refuse to put more than a gig stick in either of my primary computers
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Why? Even with XP you'll see noticeable speed gains with more memory.
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I don't believe that an OS and the programs I run every day should use that much memory. Right now, I can run a browser, editor and IM, as well as XP in a virtual machine, without going into swap space. Adding more memory wouldn't help at all, since I'm not using up all that I have as it is.
zorena86:
I only have XP on my laptop and that's because it's fairly old and only has 512mb ram. Been thinking about installing linux in it but I barely use it since the battery is dead (like not chargeable kind of dead) and when I checked it was a bit over $100 to get the battery for it. Might as well just go get a new laptop for a few hundred more and be much better then this few year old piece.
My current desktop has Vista 64-bit and I like it a lot. As some of you have seen my pics in the desktop pic thread, you can see that I use quite a lot of resources with my OS and I have 4gb ram. Been thinking about puttig another 4gb of ram in it to run like a beast but I've also been thinking of installing linux since I would be able to do everything I like to do (cube desktop, cool custom theme icon bars and gadgets) and use very little resources. Only reason why I haven't installed linux yet is because I don't have any place to store the 800+ gb of stuff I have on my hard drive during reformat yet.
AceHigh:
Using XP until Windows 7 is released. So do the other smart people I know.
Basically everything I need works on my XP right now. I know that in the future I will need more RAM and when I buy a new graphic card, I will need DX10 support. But for now XP works and you know what they say: Don't fix what isn't broken.
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