Posted on 03/30/2015 5:37:46 PM PDT by dayglored
OKAY! All you Windows users and admins and fanboys, Microsoft followers and folks, all you 90% of the computer users in the world...
After over 6 years of complaining that FreeRepublic doesn't have a Windows Ping List, I have finally decided that it's up to me to make one!So if you want on the All-New Windows Ping List (or off, but ya gotta get on before you can get off), FReepMail me (dayglored) and I'll put ya on the list.
Add me please
Unfortunately, I have no Exchange responsibilities in my current job. I haven’t worked on Exchange in 7 years now. I miss being able to work with Exchange and, honestly, I get irritated because I wind up fixing issues that I didn’t cause.
Basically, Exchange has passed me by, at least for now.
/rant
I've threatened to have a T-shirt printed up that says
"I installed server core, and all I got was this stupid command prompt."
I pretty much work out of either a PS console or the ISE any more. Starting with Exchange 2007, there are some settings and features that are only configurable from the command line. The GUI only provides access to a subset of the most commonly used settings
Thanks for doing this :)
Please add me. Thanks.
I’m in. Sign me up!
Add me. I am using Windows 7 on two machines, and I have one still on XP. I have come to like Windows 7. But I hated having to forget about XP. Rather like that one still. Still have it on one machine, because if I upgrade that machine I loose everything on it...or so I am told.
I know what you mean about the vampire reaction, though I'm not as "appalled" as I am disappointed. But I think I understand that some folks -- probably the majority of users -- aren't interested in making the computer sit up and do tricks, they look at it like a hammer, one that's got some blinky lights, but basically a hammer.
It's just a tool to get a job done. A good day is when they manage to hit the nail with the hammer's head instead of the claw, and it didn't break in their hand. They just want to go home with a paycheck and they don't see anything in making the hammer do any different than it did yesterday.
You and I are different. If we see a repetitive task, we immediately think, "How can I do this faster, more efficiently, how can I make the computer do more of this job instead of me having to do it?" Hence scripting, etc.
It gets like everything else, above a certain level of sophistication compared to the person's background. "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" they say.... Hell, I used to take apart my car's carburetor (a '74 Fiat 124) and do my own brakes and exhaust and tune-ups, set the timing and screwed with every setting I could find. These days, I just want to get from Point A to Point B and frankly I don't know a damn thing about what's under the hood any more. It frustrates me.
I misspoke? typed? By Windows people, I meant Windows support people. The ordinary user has no reason to look at the command line, honestly.
LOL, no -I- misunderstood, I assumed you meant "Windows users".
Good lord, I too am appalled by the "support" people who are scared of the command line. May God have mercy on their souls, because I sure wouldn't. I'm totally with you.
That's too bad. Powershell is finding it's way into just about everything now, though. That was predictable when they made Jeffrey Snover the lead engineer of the server division. Powershell was his creation. The story is that at one point they wanted to kill the project, and he took a demotion and a pay cut to continue working on it, and it paid off.
Things like Desired State Configuration and the capability to manage routers and switches being "baked in" to Powershell in Windows 10 are going to extend that reach some more.
I’m still P.O.’d that WinXP is obsolete.
Not a fanboi but I’m a software developer specializing in Windows apps. Count me in.
lol.
Tim?
Add me please.
Yeah, Microsoft has — at least for the past decade — been pretty much on the size of the homosexual agenda. That article was in 2005... and I don’t think they’ve weakened in their support of Gay Rights. Until Tim Cook’s recent foray into Way Too Much Information, both Microsoft and Apple were in support of the agenda, but reasonably discreetly. I wonder if Redmond will now feel that they, too, have to get noisy about it at the corporate level... I would think they have more to lose, but ya never know...
Please add me to the Microsoft ping list. Thx
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