On 04/16/2015 07:23 PM, rbowman wrote:
On 04/16/2015 10:47 AM, T wrote:
I am previewing SOF (Son-of-Frankenstein, or Windows Nein,
oops, Windows 10). It is snappier and a bit more polished.
But it is still Frankenstein (w8) re-spun, so don't hold
your breath. For content creation, stay on Windows 7.
Or get the hell off of Windows completely (I use Linux).

We've been running the previews to see if there are any surprises. My
development machines include one Windows 2000, one XP, a couple of
Windows and a Linux box running Kubuntu. Except for the 2000, that's the
same mix I have at home except I run OpenSuse 13.2 instead of Kubuntu.

We have some Windows 8/Server 2012/Server 2012 R2 boxes at work. A
couple of people have come to terms with them but every time I log on I
wonder what to do next.



Hi RBowman,

Oh M$ Server is a horrible piece of crap. I have to deal with them
occasionally.

Since my customer base is mainly small businesses,
when I see them, it is usually because one of my colleagues
(competitors) told them that they needed it to speed things up.
One of my competitors talks everyone he can into an Exchange
(eMail) Server. Takes my breath away. I have undone two
of them in the last year.

And you don't need a server when you have five or fewer workstations.

I don't care for the "Cloud", but eMail works beautifully in the
cloud. Both Zoho and gMail have incredible spam/virus filters
too.

And M$ likes to put an artificial performance block in W7 and XP
to keep you from serving files from them. Here is the
antidote:


-T

REGEDIT4
; Optimize XP and W7 for use as a mini file server

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Session
Manager\Memory Management]
"LargeSystemCache"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\servic es\LanmanServer\Parameters]
"Size"=dword:00000003