Re: [H] Win8 start menu replacement options

2013-03-04 Thread Bryan Seitz
Excellent, I am still using it and as you said it is very close to the Win7 look and feel which is what drew me to it. (Also it doesn't crash etc) On 3/3/13 3:14 PM, Greg Sevart wrote: Just a follow-up on this...I'd been using Start8 on my PCs and Classic Shell (free) on my Server 2012

Re: [H] Win8 start menu replacement options

2013-03-04 Thread Julian Zottl
Couple of other options for you: http://www.tomsguide.com/us/pictures-story/461-windows-7-windows-8-restore-start-menu-taskbar-Gadgets.html Julian On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Bryan Seitz se...@bsd-unix.net wrote: Excellent, I am still using it and as you said it is very close to the

Re: [H] Win8 start menu replacement options

2013-03-04 Thread Christopher Fisk
There is a serious problem that needs to be addressed by Microsoft if there is this big of a need for a start menu on windows 8. On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 10:59 AM, Julian Zottl jzo...@radiantnetworks.netwrote: Couple of other options for you:

Re: [H] Win8 start menu replacement options

2013-03-04 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 04:30 PM 04/03/2013, Christopher Fisk wrote: There is a serious problem that needs to be addressed by Microsoft if there is this big of a need for a start menu on windows 8. Ballmer has lost his mind or is over his head and it's going to hurt MS. The beauty of the 95 -- 98 -- ME -- XP --

[H] Need advice on Windows server OS flavor for NFS

2013-03-04 Thread Brian Weeden
Need some advice on OS for my media server. I've been using Win7 for a while, but need to move to something that supports NFS. From what I've read, Win7 doesn't and won't. While I'm aware of the *nix world out there that might be an option, nearly all of my experience is with Windows and given

Re: [H] Need advice on Windows server OS flavor for NFS

2013-03-04 Thread Julian Zottl
If you don't want to change much, check out freenfs. It will give you what you need. That being said, check out freenas if you ever want to seperate out your machines. It supports nfs/cifs(smb)/iscsi out of the box and can be expanded to include media server duties. Easy to use web GUI too :)