Ronald Prettyman

Never clever to say but here a pic

Been using windows at the new job. I know I know, I sold my soul. But honestly I like the change of pace and to Windows credit it is doing a damn fine job of trying to act more like unix. Now if they could just disable the gui completely (not like the guiless install crap you get with server 2008) but a true headless server, take away the resource hogging graphics and their just as annoying inputs, stick to whats required. A network input, a console out and possibly a keyboard and very basic video out. The keyboard and video out being very, VERY optional. They should be reserved for the WORKSTATION server crowd. I’d rather have a console switch then a damn kvm. One more layer of hardware, one more layer of failure, one more thing to have to consider when diagnosing problems. 

Save the gui controls for the workstations where they belong, if I really need a gui, i’ll install a tool to graphically manage the server through a web interface or a remote application client. But enough about my opinions on operating systems and why the complexity of modern operating systems such as osx and windows has no place in a serious business enviroment.

I promised to share this little trinket so I will.

windows key+r

cmd

before you know it, cisco switch’s will come with VGA and usb ports

Its going to be one year this week since I started this part of the site. I can’t say, well you can see for yourself that I haven’t put a whole hell of a lot of entries in here. But one thing I need to get working on is organizing my paper work.

Had to find a document for a job and spend a good hour looking through misc folders on shelves. I found countless crap I should of thrown away years ago. I even found a receipt for a 20oz Pepsi dated 2007. Not even sure how that got in the keep pile. Sad thing is I have that receipt but don’t have the xbox receipt from the same year. Good thing I don’t actually need either one.

But not much to say. Got a new job today suppose to start Monday. Its a Windows job, but I’ve been meaning to brush up and become more efficient at it any ways. Need to read up on exchange server and active directory and the windows cli. I’m not actually sure how much exchange server I’ll be dealing with as their doesn’t seem to be much need for it in small business, but I’ve seen stranger things. Did some testing for the position and was surprised at how much I retained. They even threw some 98 at me, your have to note I did have an advantage at that, if you go back 6 months your see an entry about playing with networking Windows 98 against Solaris so I had a slight edge on that one.