IT BS thread

Interesting if true

http://www.pcgamer.com/2014/09/29/windows-9-will-be-free-to-windows-8-owners-according-to-report/

 

Also, neat backstory to our current OMGWTFBBQ

http://www.wired.com/2014/09/shellshocked-bash/

 

"They say the spirits of Sys Admins long past haunt this place, but I never believed them!"

 

I hate macs in a corporate environment with the fury of 10,000 Suns. Not only that but then users mainly have to run all their programs on Citrix due to most websites requiring IE and Outlook 2011 being generally fail and Citrix fails all the time.

What a mess.

 

Citrix. Ye gods.

I flippin' HATE Citrix. Ever since having to figure out Xenserver 5.x installation, set up and configuration to hosting production servers on the fly, I flat out don't work with them any more.

Thankfully, my new gig doesn't have ANY Citrix in place at all....zero. For which I am profoundly grateful.

 

Decommissioning old servers is so much more fun now that I work someplace with FDIC backing and rules.



Every HDD must be individually un-mounted, triple wiped to DoD spec, and certified destroyed. By hand, I might add.

 

Has anyone done performance comparisons on Microsoft's stand-alone Hyper-V with VMware's ESXI? We're using the free ESXI version 4.1. We can't go beyond it because we can't afford the management tools for version 5 (though it's free, you can't manage the VMs without the vCenter software).

 

Personally, unless you're in an amazeballs large scenario, the performance is so close nowadays that I'd recommend hyper-v for ease of use in 90% of deployments.

Really, the only 'difference' between them in day to day use is your familiarity with the tools to manage them. The inherent work they do is amazingly similar and pretty comparable.

If you're comfortable in a winders environment, the hyper-v tools are prooly easier to get used to. If you're a CLI warrior more comfortable in linux, then the ESx will be second-nature for you to use.

It's really down to a preference point now, like Ford vs Dodge or somesuch.

 

I thought this was funny, especially the comments ("sounds like real life to me." "Which means she's a project manager")

Computer Engineer Barbie:
http://news.slashdot.org/story/14/1...utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

 

One of my users came by my desk this morning. Says I might have too many monitors going on, and too much to do.



Not sure of his point.

 

Pretty much what I see at work all day:

 

I just received a request from a user who says they want Yammer installed on their desktop...

 

lol I get stuff like that all the time. Put link on desktop and say "There ya go, installed!"

 

I'm all alone for a couple weeks. Kids and teachers are gone and almost everyone else used vacation days.

First time I actually paid attention to this in 2012...c'mon Microsoft, I still haven't gotten used to the fact that dcpromo no longer exists.

Guess I should start trying to learn PowerShell. It's great and all, but who has the time to start committing all these new commands to memory?

 

Powershell isn't all too harsh.

If you're already a CLI warrior, a lot of it is fairly easy to grok. Its just looking up syntax most of the time.

 

Maybe I'll just start forcing myself to use it and look things up until I start to remember it.

I've done a few things with it, but not recently.

 

lol, it's worse than that. We have a group policy that sets everyone's home page to launch our Sharepoint site, which has a link to Yammer directly on it. You can't NOT get to Yammer.

There's a huge push by MS to make PowerShell more prevalent. If I remember right, they have it integrated into the latest Visual Studio even.

 

...and here I am just trying to retire the last of our 2003 DCs!

But at least we don't still have a ton of XP clients kicking around. I know some folks who are still supporting relatively large XP environments.

 

Most of my work has XP machines, and WinCE machines. We have some Linux thin clients too. Last time I went to visit someone at RI hospital, I noticed they were still on XP too.

 

Wow, we're down to less than 10 out of about 1000 total. Everything is generally on 7.