Paul Hill wrote: > On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 8:38 PM, Paul McNett <[email protected]> wrote: >> Paul McNett wrote: >>> What tweaks would a server need to use as a workstation? Just use it as a >>> workstation >>> (and pay the premium price for the privilege). >> For instance, in Linux or Apple you'd have to install a windowing >> environment, since >> servers by default don't tend to get set up with GUI. But on Windows, unless >> they've >> changed things, everything is really based on the GUI. > > This isn't true for Win 2008. There's a GUI-less 'headless' mode.
Wow, I'm impressed, actually. > Windows 2008 seems quite good. The biggest problem for me is that > they've moved everything around. I'm lost in IIS setup, all the > settings I'm familiar with have moved around. What else is new? I've long suspected the move-around is to make it seem brand new. But wait a second, I thought you said it was headless. So how are you using a GUI to configure it? > Actually my biggest gripe is that they've messed up NTBackup. It can > only backup local drives, not network shares. rsync from the network drives to the tape backup system, then back up that. Probably better to have been doing it that way all along, anyway, as copying large files over the network is pretty intensive on each end, and on the network itself. Paul _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
