Comments on: Farewell, Windows 7. http://sprocket.io/blog/2009/04/farewell-windows-7/ thomas stromberg on technology, nature, and motorcycles Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:30:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1-alpha By: toxygen http://sprocket.io/blog/2009/04/farewell-windows-7/comment-page-1/#comment-3999 toxygen Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:34:51 +0000 http://sprocket.io/blog/?p=1469#comment-3999 just 2 quick notes:<br><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/08/07/150257/Microsoft-Denies-Windows-7-Showstopper-Bug" rel="nofollow">http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/08/07/150257/Mi...</a><br><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/02/16/2259257/Draconian-DRM-Revealed-In-Windows-7" rel="nofollow">http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/02/16/2259257...</a><br><br>I wonder what will be leopard like in this order just 2 quick notes:
http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/08/07/150257/Mi...
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/02/16/2259257...

I wonder what will be leopard like in this order

]]> By: Troy http://sprocket.io/blog/2009/04/farewell-windows-7/comment-page-1/#comment-3960 Troy Fri, 08 May 2009 02:40:03 +0000 http://sprocket.io/blog/?p=1469#comment-3960 I still can't believe they didn't ship with SSH out of the box. Practically every other seriouse operating system does this, even the not so seriouse ones do. Why doesn't microsoft include an SSH server by default, or a decent client. I'd be happy if they just ported the BSD versions of these tools.<br><br>Is this really just a unix user gripe? I can't imagine that Windows-culture admins relish having to install, sometimes quite old and buggy, third party support for this at every install. I still can't believe they didn't ship with SSH out of the box. Practically every other seriouse operating system does this, even the not so seriouse ones do. Why doesn't microsoft include an SSH server by default, or a decent client. I'd be happy if they just ported the BSD versions of these tools.

Is this really just a unix user gripe? I can't imagine that Windows-culture admins relish having to install, sometimes quite old and buggy, third party support for this at every install.

]]> By: Todd http://sprocket.io/blog/2009/04/farewell-windows-7/comment-page-1/#comment-3956 Todd Tue, 21 Apr 2009 01:17:42 +0000 http://sprocket.io/blog/?p=1469#comment-3956 One of the biggest gotchas with the WoW64 architectures on 64-bit windows servers involves applications requiring ODBC connections (unfortunately they are as prolific as ever). There are now two different versions of the ODBC client and determining which one to use can be a pain depending on the data source. To setup a DSN for 32-bit application you must use: /WINDIR/SysWOW64/odbcad32.exe. For 64-bit application you must use: /WINDIR/System32/odbcad32.exe.<br><br>Now you've got me curious enough to run Windows 7 because I want to know if this 32-bit DSN support is carried over from the 64-bit servers and Vista. One of the biggest gotchas with the WoW64 architectures on 64-bit windows servers involves applications requiring ODBC connections (unfortunately they are as prolific as ever). There are now two different versions of the ODBC client and determining which one to use can be a pain depending on the data source. To setup a DSN for 32-bit application you must use: /WINDIR/SysWOW64/odbcad32.exe. For 64-bit application you must use: /WINDIR/System32/odbcad32.exe.

Now you've got me curious enough to run Windows 7 because I want to know if this 32-bit DSN support is carried over from the 64-bit servers and Vista.

]]> By: Brian http://sprocket.io/blog/2009/04/farewell-windows-7/comment-page-1/#comment-3955 Brian Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:31:57 +0000 http://sprocket.io/blog/?p=1469#comment-3955 Yeah, you've definitely been spoiled, my friend :-)<br><br>>> You can’t create a .bat file using Notepad without changing your Explorer preferences to show file extensions.<br><br>That's been the case since XP, and maybe 2000 as well... can't remember if I had to flip that switch after the last time I installed 2000.<br><br>>> When you drag a Window toward the top of the screen, it wants to automatically maximize it for you.<br><br>That may be useful for some but, yeah, it could get annoying after a while for someone who didn't want it. Did you find any sort of switches to control that feature?<br><br>>> Some applications have menus, some don’t. Windows Media Player in particularly confuses and annoys the hell out of me.<br><br>Some are just particularly hard to find, far from their normal space :-)<br><br>As for that instant name-based file searching, someone wrote an app called Everything that'll do that with older versions of Windows, at least if you're using NTFS. It works very well, too. I guess Microsoft saw that and figured they would just put that into version 7 by default. Yeah, you've definitely been spoiled, my friend :-)

>> You can’t create a .bat file using Notepad without changing your Explorer preferences to show file extensions.

That's been the case since XP, and maybe 2000 as well… can't remember if I had to flip that switch after the last time I installed 2000.

>> When you drag a Window toward the top of the screen, it wants to automatically maximize it for you.

That may be useful for some but, yeah, it could get annoying after a while for someone who didn't want it. Did you find any sort of switches to control that feature?

>> Some applications have menus, some don’t. Windows Media Player in particularly confuses and annoys the hell out of me.

Some are just particularly hard to find, far from their normal space :-)

As for that instant name-based file searching, someone wrote an app called Everything that'll do that with older versions of Windows, at least if you're using NTFS. It works very well, too. I guess Microsoft saw that and figured they would just put that into version 7 by default.

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