good idea?

or best idea ever?

all of the great parts of vista minus the ones that suck ass

7/8/2008 5:19:43 PM

i wonder how many posts until someone mentions the fact that evans gay


way to beat a dead horse, tww

7/8/2008 5:20:52 PM

stop posting this crap in here

7/8/2008 5:21:47 PM

i rolled my xp back to server 2k cause its only the greatest microsoft product ever

i only have vista home pro or something, i dont like it a lot. some stuff is neat. but i really dont like running admin open and its annoying

ok

gunzz thats gay, this isnt a tech talk thread.

7/8/2008 5:22:12 PM

i didn't think this was a serious enough thread for tech talk

guess that's what i get for trying to put things in appropriate sections

7/8/2008 5:22:56 PM

im with you. i made a thread about gas prices going down, i guess it belongs in soap box

7/8/2008 5:24:16 PM

me a river

Quote :

"Be thoughtful/humorous - Hundreds of people browse the message board each day. Before you post something, think to yourself, "would the majority of the users want to read this?". If the answer is "no", then don't post it. ""

7/8/2008 5:25:00 PM

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7/8/2008 5:31:19 PM

^^and people want to read that?

7/8/2008 5:32:09 PM

^^do it

7/8/2008 6:08:38 PM

I dont want to read this in Tech Talk, either


I think it's stupid


somebody lock this shit

7/8/2008 7:26:22 PM

im doing it currently with my desktop, but thats because i barely touch it and use a laptop

7/8/2008 7:36:02 PM

i've got a dell quad core as my desktop, but server 2008 isn't for me.

vista 64 is my thing.

7/8/2008 7:46:15 PM

Server 2008 sucks for a desktop OS. I did that for a couple months while testing our next software releases for Server 2008 and Exchange 2007. I'm very happy to be back with XP Pro.

7/8/2008 8:47:27 PM

i used it as a desktop, and my creative audio sucked due to it being digital out. everything else worked great and i wish it had better drivers for audio/video from creative/nvidia

7/9/2008 10:00:11 AM

what about server 2003 for a desktop os?

7/9/2008 10:53:26 AM

ok lets be technical!!1

Quote :

"I'm very happy to be back with XP Pro."

over the weekend i did the sp3 cd slipstream with the xp pro install cd and put it on my "old" personal desktop that i'm using while my laptop is having some abused hardware replaced used sp3 and pretty much all the security center shit through last weekend

just to see how that would run from scratch, without installing the OS then doing the 10000 minor hotpacks from windows update..

and i'm really surprised at how fast its running compared to sp2, im basically ignorant on if it was that, or the amount of useless drivers and services i pulled out of the install cd, but i'm gonna actually keep the desktop in use now, even after i get my main pc back.

but not as any kind of homemade dvr system, or i'd use TEH LUNIX!11

^any reason in particular you'd use 2k3 or r2? most people seem to like 2k8/6.0 or 2000 for desktops if they're playing with that kind of setup. im curious, kind of unfamiliar with what happened to 2003 and r2

or am i repeating your question back to you?

7/9/2008 11:00:26 AM

i used server 2k3 for a while as a desktop os (not r2)


It sucked ass. would not recommend.

7/9/2008 6:32:16 PM

there are major differences between 2003/xp and 2008/vista, however.

2008 and vista have the *exact same* kernel... the difference is merely software packages. it was a bit different in xp/2003.

2008 server + the "desktop experience" feature = vista minus the bloatware

7/9/2008 6:33:58 PM

this actually did the internet rounds in March.... just found this link in my bookmarks, supposedly it's 10% faster on average:
http://exo-blog.blogspot.com/2008/03/windows-2008-vista-done-right.html

but the benchmarks are kind of weak to support this across the board.

7/17/2008 2:33:10 PM

2003 is a great work desktop OS. 2008, I would guess not.

[Edited on July 17, 2008 at 3:44 PM. Reason : edit]

7/17/2008 3:40:05 PM

just installed x86, configuring now.

8/18/2008 12:54:16 AM

damn, I forgot about media center for my 360.

8/18/2008 1:31:34 AM

i've been thinking about picking up a copy of server 2008. Anyone know if students can get it? I'm sure we can.

8/18/2008 1:54:53 AM

i miss msdn

8/18/2008 2:02:14 AM

technet plus ftw

also got a msdn subscription from work but i don't really feel comfortable using it for personal stuff

8/18/2008 10:52:30 AM

hook up a 2k8 vlk, I want to try this virtualization nonsense.

8/18/2008 11:55:26 AM