Bill Bosacker - All Comments

re: Open Source UI Templates and new CS Theme

maya mostafa — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 08:54:20 GMT

i was searching for ready made templates to enhance the way of working and save time.

re: Windows 2008 Workstation, 4 months later...

tom — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 05:08:36 GMT

Funny thing was I sold my copy of vista x64 business oem on ebay b/c as a university student I can get server 2008 for free from MS's dream spark thing. Can also get server 2003 if i want to put that on another machine

Tweaking Server 2008 to operate as a workstation on my thinkpad was so easy given the utility available at win2008workstation.com

This machine sure if fast and stable. I turned off various services and this gave it a speed up.

Haven't really had much trouble with anything, would like to get Bluetooth going though

Very smooth to adapt it to workstation OS

re: Windows Server 2008: Data Execution Prevention (DEP)

Bill Bosacker — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:57:06 GMT

Hey Markus, are you sure that it is the DEP that is preventing your VB scripts from running? It may be the UAC or even IE that is preventing them from running. The companies that I've done business for don't allow VB Scripts to be run due to their virus potential. If you can, the best options would be to either convert them to Windows PowerShell scripts, or write a .NET application to do the work.

re: Windows Server 2008: Data Execution Prevention (DEP)

Markus Orchowski — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:32:17 GMT

I write a ton of vbscripts to help with system administration.

Up until just today no problems now DEP will not allow any VB Scripts to run. Even after I change the settings to "Turn on DEP for essential Windows programs and services only". Originally I tried to allow wscript.exe to be allowed, but this problem is explicitly denied and can't be allowed.

I feel completely handicapped without the ability to run my scripts.

re: A look behind "The Mojave Experiment"

Bill Bosacker — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 06:15:42 GMT

Hey Dave, you know me well. I had some great teachers and mentors in my past, and I did some entertainment work in the early 90s. Because of that, I am always thinking, "What are they NOT saying?" When it comes to advertising the most important words are those that are not said.

Tonight was the first night that I had seen a Mojave commercial. It and all the videos on the web site are heavily edited to remove anything that does not reflect nicely on Vista. The sad thing is that if they had hired a professional ad company to do this, it wouldn't be as obvious.

re: A look behind "The Mojave Experiment"

Dave Burke — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 05:01:01 GMT

You've always been a troublemaker... :-) Thanks for the link anyway! I guess I was so struck by Mojave before it seemed so un-Microsoft.

re: I upgraded my workstation to Windows Server 2008

Bill Bosacker — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:04:09 GMT

Hey Phillip,

Over my last 13 years of development there have only been 2 applications that I had been unable to install on server versions of Windows. Like you said, one was an anti-virus tool from a specific manufacturer, so I just went to a different manufacture, case solved. The other was some video conferencing software that I rarely used, but guess what? It works on Windows Server 2008, whereas I couldn't even install it before.

As for developer tools, if they don't install on a server, then you should not be installing them. Developers should be developing on the platform(s) that they intend their applications to run on. And on top of that, I do not believe in using a million 3rd party tools in applications that I develop. In the past I had used quite a few, but trying to manage all of them becomes impossible as time moves forward.

Take it easy,
Bill

re: I upgraded my workstation to Windows Server 2008

Phillip — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:20:04 GMT

My biggest concern with using a Server OS is the problems I have had installing some software that is not "licensed" for server-based operating systems. Like anti-virus, some developer tools, etc...

Of course you also have the reverse problem with installing server-based tools on a workstation OS, like SQLServer Professional or Enterprise. The difference is there are usually developer versions of the enterprise tools that will work on your workstation OS.