We get HP6300's with W8 stickers but W7 pro on them from CDW. I don't image mostly because it doesn't work too well with AutoCAD. We have NO PLANS to "upgrade" to W8. Hell, I'm still prying the last few XP boxes out of cold dead fingers. I only load maybe 2-3 a week so it's not much of a problem. We still use the XP VMs a lot for accessing data from various aerospace partners. Each one seems to need it's own specific version of IE with just the right settings and plug-ins.

But yeah, 8 ain't going to fly here, now with dual screen workstations and AutoCAD.

Electronic signatures with ARX on Word, Acrobat, and AutoCAD for the FAA, Boeing, Airbus, and every airline you've ever heard of.

Yeah, we're sticking with Windows 7 for the duration.

I'm so looking forward to supporting AutoCAD Inventor in the cloud. Let's see, 100 aerospace engineers and a 20Mb/s pipe. That will work just fine.

I'm fucked. I use tcsh on my *nix boxes and now my employer is moving to Lotus Notes and I have to move all the Exchange shit over to Domino and join it to the French company that bought us.

About two years ago I was contracting to Clearwire to turn up data centers. 40 rack caged colo space with DC power and four half rack sized Cisco routers, rock and roll shit. Once we got all the thousands of cables in the right places and all the configs in the equipment I was able to turn up BGP on two 10Gb circuits. 20Gb of raw fucking Internet all to myself for the next week... and only a Thinkpad with a 1Gb port to connect it to. But I will say that I could torrent the shit out of stuff! Good times!

But you have to admit that Cat5e with RJ45s on the end sure came close to that "one true cable" for a long time.

Also a lot of big box stores. Loews stores are mostly fiber and they just did a huge upgrade from 10Mb/s to 1Gb/s last year.

Side note distance story:
Had a trouble ticked for a Home Depot where we found that one of the printers up front was wired all the way back to the data center in the opposite corner, about 550 feet. Out temporary fix was to drop the port down to 10Mb/s until we could get a lift in to run a line to the IDF by the printer.

The last few batches of machines we've got from CDW have Win8 COA stickers but come delivered with Win7 Pro. I just (like last week) got rid of the last XP box around here. Hell if we're going to start to roll out Win8 now. We just finished our refresh (about 150 boxes, half engineering, half manufacturing, more or less) and we're going to keep Win7 for at least the next 5 years.

And still the ARM refuses to send help to Wunderland to help fight off the Kzin.

Italian Prosecutor. Enough said.

By any chance is this the same Italian prosecutor that went after Amanda Knox?

The Italian legal system is a total joke. Facebook can just sit on this, nothing will happen for years.

Friend, 10BASE2 AKA ThinNET is Ethernet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10BASE2

They will think you're from Jersey Shores.

Zodiac.

It's not Microsoft.

We have this coming up in a few months after a very large and old French company bought our little aerospace company. If you were part of the IT transition team, please mail me so we can hear your horror stories.