chrissmeuk

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by chrissmeuk 13y ago
This times a million. As a home worker, I spend over 2000 hours a year on an RDP connection. Wonderful tool.
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by chrissmeuk 13y ago
Excellent. Thanks for pointing this out!
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by chrissmeuk 13y ago
Thanks didn't know that (can't say I looked). Will have a play.
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by chrissmeuk 13y ago
Sorry this is a new account but I'm not a new HN reader. Shill argument here we come. To be honest I'm not enamoured with windows 8.1. It's just marginally better for me than windows 7 was and I'm trying to spread some h
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by chrissmeuk 13y ago
I did a fresh install from MSDN iso onto a disk cleaned with diskpart from a USB stick (see [1]). I didn't do an upgrade. I wouldn't ever upgrade Windows manually after a screw up going from Vista to 7. To do a full clean install
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by chrissmeuk 13y ago
No - winkey+X (the actual X key) throws up a new menu. See below: http://i.imgur.com/Tmq3iWp.png
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by chrissmeuk 13y ago
Been using this for a few days already since it was released to MSDN. Definitely better than Windows 8.0 and even Windows 7. If you don't like Metro, it's pretty easy to get rid of now but not entirely (it occasionally pokes you i
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by chrissmeuk 13y ago
Good point. I do however feel that the government departments that have failed miserably on projects will start looking at more successful projects for inspiration. We'll be a few more £billion down by then but things will improve. HMR
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by chrissmeuk 13y ago
I beg to differ. The UK government (finally) has got its act together in this department. We're seeing the NHS's core "Spine" system being rewritten using open source software (riak/erlang/ubuntu + others) and
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by chrissmeuk 13y ago
That whitepaper is for management and purchasing. The security patches are for the poor sysops who have to look after the mess left behind by the former. Every large commercial software company is just as bad. It was only a few years ago th