I have to remote into one everyday. We asked for 2008, but got 2012 R2...agreed; stupid isn't the word for it, especially when you're using 4 non-touchscreen monitors.
So I just installed classic shell on it, turned off all the metro crap and everyone's happy.:-)
$7.99 per month for netflix, $6 per month for a proxy server so we can watch BBC iplayer and stream live BBC TV...we never even bothered with cable; we haven't even got a digital aerial.
You don't miss what you don't have in the first place:-)
On windows server 2012, that's excatly what I did, install classic sheel, disable metro everywhere, and got back to being productive again. I don't have time for charms, live tiles and other frivolous metro bullshit. I have real work to do.
I hate all this flat, bland look as well, most especially with websites. Makes you stop and wonder what's actually clickable or not, also the icons don't resemble familiar things. Makes no sense, why do they make it a challenge for people to figure things out. I also hate how they don't put borders around things, so images etc. just bleed into the page. It's messy and ugly, and things aren't broken into sections; it's simply not pleasing to the eye. Couple that with extra large super size light grey fonts on a blinding white background....It looks absolutely, completely ghastly. Whitespace wasteland. It's why I love KDE interface so much...the icons are lovely, and it has some DEPTH, plus it's beautiful to look at. This whole minimalist, flat bullshit reminds me of mullets....they looked god awful back then, even more laughable now. In 5 years, folks will be looking back and going OMG, did we really design stuff like that?
Sorry guys, but you're way too late to the party, everyone has already been and gone and eaten your lunch a long time ago. They didn't think you'd ever show up. Your cola is still here if you want it, but it's warm and flat.
I paid a visit to a coffee cooperative in nicaragua (other half was doing phd research on the coffee industry); we had a tour round inside the sorting facility and they were showing us all the beans, graded according to type: organic, non-organic, best quality, lower quality, etc.
Then there was a little wall made up of sacks of beans, sitting outside in the hot Nicaraguan sun, they hadn't been washed through thoroughly, so a little of the fruit was still on the beans and it absolutely stank because the pulp was slowly rotting. When I asked the guide what those were doingthere, sitting outside, he replied "Oh, those are the really, really low quality beans that we can't sell. It gets used to make instant coffee."
So you may want to have a rethink about drinking instant coffee;)
Get a proper home espresso machine and make proper coffee instead, from whatever suppliers you are free to use....this is a truimph of marketing over genuine quality. However these machines will get hacked allowing folks to drink their ersatz hot beverages as before.
I guess the CEO hasn't learned the painful lessons the music industry learned about using Digitally Restricted Media. Ho hum.
I doubt it caught them out by surprise. We tested the preview version and we told them it was shit. They just chose to ignore us. The issues that the rest of the userbase are now complaining about were the exact same issues we told them about, and told them it would bomb on.
Unfortunately for MS, it's too late and the damage has been done. Folks have looked for alternatives like Android, Windows 7, Chromebooks, Apple and Linux. On the desktop, win8 is a catastrophic abortion of epic proportions. Metro should have been left on tablets/phones.
Sacrificing 99% of your user base for the sake of 1% is insanity. They must man up and admit their mistakes, but as 8.1 shows. they haven't. They haven't a got a single clue.
Er, Actually, *I* happen go give a shit what the UI on a server looks like, I remote into a 2012 R2 server to do my daily work. the UI is fucking horrid, it's all flat and bland; I've managed to banish metro with classic shell, but everything has a fucking light blue, garishly flat border around it. I can't change it to something more palatable to the eye because it's not possible to change these settings via a remote session. fuck me.
The taskbar is flat, the open apps have no depth to them, when I have 5 instances of ArcMap open, I can't tell which one is active one I'm looking at which is a fucking pain in the ass when I need compare things. Also moving the title to the middle has fucked things up becasuse the remote connection bar hovers over the middle so I can't see what's underneath it. When I want to drag and drop files into a folder, a massive flat square box appears over the folder, so I can't see the folder anymore and I can't see what I'm doing. Christ on a fucking bicycle. Explorer now has a flat, jump down ribbon menu, which is extremely distracting. Just keep it static!!
Metro is a fucking abortion of epic proportions and it must die.
I was considering wanting a wii u for christmas (to replace my stolen wii), but in the end I asked (and got) a second hand wii - seems new wii's are really hard to come by these days.
The tablety thing really doesn't do anything for me; I guess in a few years I may consider getting a wii u, it also depends how easy it is to hack and install the homebrew channel equivalent and run all my existing wii games off a USB hard drive.
Many parallels with the 360 and the RROD....brittle, lead free solder, combined with not enough cooling (no fan, tiny heatsink) due to cramped internals meant that the solder balls under the GPU started to crack. Best solution at the time was to have the GPU reballed with lead solder, which was more flexible and could handle the expansion and contraction of repeated heating/cooling cycles. Now, they're using GPU's that run a lot cooler, plus they stuck a massive fan+heatsink on them with the 360 slim, so the issue has gone away.
and the tires aren't lego, and the gauges, and the steering wheel, etc.... so what? The point is, if you like Lego, then this is cool. People build cool things.
The HST isn't allowed to point anywhere near the moon; it's far too bright and it would damage the HST's sensitive instruments, so it's a moot point anyway.
It's an ugly browser. I tried it a while back and just could not get on with the minimalist interface and lack of useful addons. The deal breaker was not being able to move the scroll bar to the left hand side.
Fastforward a few years and we get it installed at work. After a little while, I see that nothing's changed, I removed it and went back to a decent browser.
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I have to remote into one everyday. We asked for 2008, but got 2012 R2...agreed; stupid isn't the word for it, especially when you're using 4 non-touchscreen monitors.
So I just installed classic shell on it, turned off all the metro crap and everyone's happy. :-)
"Oh, and win 8 is really ugly with no aero - feels like windowing from 10 years ago. Doesn't hurt productivity, but it is UGLY."
This.
Yep, and thank you very much! :D
(Although we had to pay that too, once upon a time)
$7.99 per month for netflix, $6 per month for a proxy server so we can watch BBC iplayer and stream live BBC TV...we never even bothered with cable; we haven't even got a digital aerial.
You don't miss what you don't have in the first place :-)
Especially the ads :-D
Time to look for another cross platform browser that doesn't look like shit.
Le Sigh....
On windows server 2012, that's excatly what I did, install classic sheel, disable metro everywhere, and got back to being productive again.
I don't have time for charms, live tiles and other frivolous metro bullshit. I have real work to do.
LOL, that's sheer insanity....on KDE I just click the shutdown button that I have on my taskbar (Right next to the KDE application launcher menu)
You can save yourself the torture by installing a start menu replacement and disabling all aspects of metro :)
I hate all this flat, bland look as well, most especially with websites. Makes you stop and wonder what's actually clickable or not, also the icons don't resemble familiar things. Makes no sense, why do they make it a challenge for people to figure things out. I also hate how they don't put borders around things, so images etc. just bleed into the page. It's messy and ugly, and things aren't broken into sections; it's simply not pleasing to the eye. Couple that with extra large super size light grey fonts on a blinding white background....It looks absolutely, completely ghastly. Whitespace wasteland.
It's why I love KDE interface so much...the icons are lovely, and it has some DEPTH, plus it's beautiful to look at.
This whole minimalist, flat bullshit reminds me of mullets....they looked god awful back then, even more laughable now. In 5 years, folks will be looking back and going OMG, did we really design stuff like that?
Sorry guys, but you're way too late to the party, everyone has already been and gone and eaten your lunch a long time ago. They didn't think you'd ever show up. Your cola is still here if you want it, but it's warm and flat.
$80 for a 365 subscription? pffffft, please.
And add to that a clean install of winders 8 takes up 17Gb of hard drive space. Crazy.
I paid a visit to a coffee cooperative in nicaragua (other half was doing phd research on the coffee industry); we had a tour round inside the sorting facility and they were showing us all the beans, graded according to type: organic, non-organic, best quality, lower quality, etc.
Then there was a little wall made up of sacks of beans, sitting outside in the hot Nicaraguan sun, they hadn't been washed through thoroughly, so a little of the fruit was still on the beans and it absolutely stank because the pulp was slowly rotting. When I asked the guide what those were doingthere, sitting outside, he replied "Oh, those are the really, really low quality beans that we can't sell. It gets used to make instant coffee."
So you may want to have a rethink about drinking instant coffee ;)
Get a proper home espresso machine and make proper coffee instead, from whatever suppliers you are free to use....this is a truimph of marketing over genuine quality. However these machines will get hacked allowing folks to drink their ersatz hot beverages as before.
I guess the CEO hasn't learned the painful lessons the music industry learned about using Digitally Restricted Media. Ho hum.
I doubt it caught them out by surprise. We tested the preview version and we told them it was shit. They just chose to ignore us.
The issues that the rest of the userbase are now complaining about were the exact same issues we told them about, and told them it would bomb on.
They could not pay me to use it, much less give it away for free.
Unfortunately for MS, it's too late and the damage has been done. Folks have looked for alternatives like Android, Windows 7, Chromebooks, Apple and Linux. On the desktop, win8 is a catastrophic abortion of epic proportions. Metro should have been left on tablets/phones.
Sacrificing 99% of your user base for the sake of 1% is insanity. They must man up and admit their mistakes, but as 8.1 shows. they haven't. They haven't a got a single clue.
Er, Actually, *I* happen go give a shit what the UI on a server looks like, I remote into a 2012 R2 server to do my daily work. the UI is fucking horrid, it's all flat and bland; I've managed to banish metro with classic shell, but everything has a fucking light blue, garishly flat border around it. I can't change it to something more palatable to the eye because it's not possible to change these settings via a remote session. fuck me.
The taskbar is flat, the open apps have no depth to them, when I have 5 instances of ArcMap open, I can't tell which one is active one I'm looking at which is a fucking pain in the ass when I need compare things. Also moving the title to the middle has fucked things up becasuse the remote connection bar hovers over the middle so I can't see what's underneath it. When I want to drag and drop files into a folder, a massive flat square box appears over the folder, so I can't see the folder anymore and I can't see what I'm doing. Christ on a fucking bicycle.
Explorer now has a flat, jump down ribbon menu, which is extremely distracting. Just keep it static!!
Metro is a fucking abortion of epic proportions and it must die.
I do not like the redesign, it's too flat, and the text is too squashed leaving you with whitespace wasteland.
If you go ahead I'm afraid I won't be visiting anymore. I give flat, whitespace wasteland websites a wide berth.
I was considering wanting a wii u for christmas (to replace my stolen wii), but in the end I asked (and got) a second hand wii - seems new wii's are really hard to come by these days.
The tablety thing really doesn't do anything for me; I guess in a few years I may consider getting a wii u, it also depends how easy it is to hack and install the homebrew channel equivalent and run all my existing wii games off a USB hard drive.
Many parallels with the 360 and the RROD....brittle, lead free solder, combined with not enough cooling (no fan, tiny heatsink) due to cramped internals meant that the solder balls under the GPU started to crack. Best solution at the time was to have the GPU reballed with lead solder, which was more flexible and could handle the expansion and contraction of repeated heating/cooling cycles. Now, they're using GPU's that run a lot cooler, plus they stuck a massive fan+heatsink on them with the 360 slim, so the issue has gone away.
Stop treating your operating system like it's a giant fucking easter egg. Folks want to get work done, not waste time wondering how to do x,y & z
Yes, and there's also this thing called a media server computer which plugs into that 40" tv. Broadcast is dead.
and the tires aren't lego, and the gauges, and the steering wheel, etc.... so what? The point is, if you like Lego, then this is cool. People build cool things.
FTFY :0)
The HST isn't allowed to point anywhere near the moon; it's far too bright and it would damage the HST's sensitive instruments, so it's a moot point anyway.
Try this:
https://www.startpage.com/
It uses google, but even google don't know who you are when you go through these guys :)
It's an ugly browser. I tried it a while back and just could not get on with the minimalist interface and lack of useful addons. The deal breaker was not being able to move the scroll bar to the left hand side.
Fastforward a few years and we get it installed at work. After a little while, I see that nothing's changed, I removed it and went back to a decent browser.