MrGuvernment
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i love windows, i have never had a reason for Linux, but over the last 2 weeks i have been using it more and more, from setting up Cobbler as a PXE server, to CentOS for a apache / mod_ssl server et cetera, if i can convicen our CTO i want to take our MySQL DB's to linux as well.
What has finally annoyed me is the dam windows activation, i am finally just sick of it!
We have windows 7 x64 Pro on all of our workstations, about 23 of them, all using OEM license, not duplicates, nothing, but at least once a week a system will claim windows isn't genuine and i have to reactivate it, sometimes this works online, other times it doesn't. 3 times now it hasn't worked online, so i left the system for a day cause i had more important things to be working on, try the next day and it re-activated fine with the key that was already in it.... WTF!
Today, i am moving some websites we host to a CentOS system, since i am sick of dealing with IIS 7, and SSL certs and the limitations windows has on them with things like not being able to use passphrases on an SSL cert, unreal.
So i shutdown our HTTP server running Server 2008 Web edition x64 that has been running for 7 months , rebooted a few times for updates, i plug the server back in at my desk, about 3 mins later, after taking it out of the rack and surprise!!!! Windows claims it isn't activate and wont even let me boot into windows so i can make one last backup of the files, (i have a backup already as i have the sites running on a temp VM for now, but i like to get one myself versus our backup system one last time aswell, call me paranoid.)
Okay fine, pull out my only copy of Server Web 2008 and check the serial on the box, as we only have one HTTP server running server 2008 Web and only I have access to the keys, enter it in, claims it is invalid! says it is already in use, so i figure okay, lets try the VM key included, nope, says it is in use as well, like $#%^$$@# hell it is, we have 1 web server, one server running Web Edition, and this is it!
I am so glad i am moving servers over to CentOS, i am finally after all this time sick of windows and their non-working activation BS that only screws legit customers, so much for considering buying some Server 2008 R2 license for new servers, i would rather spend a few days learning how to do something in CentOS then worry if i reboot a server it wont come up because MS claims it isnt activated.
Unreal.....
Sorry, had to rant, i do still love Windows 7 on my Asus 1201 and on my rig at home, but my patients are wearing thin real fast!
What has finally annoyed me is the dam windows activation, i am finally just sick of it!
We have windows 7 x64 Pro on all of our workstations, about 23 of them, all using OEM license, not duplicates, nothing, but at least once a week a system will claim windows isn't genuine and i have to reactivate it, sometimes this works online, other times it doesn't. 3 times now it hasn't worked online, so i left the system for a day cause i had more important things to be working on, try the next day and it re-activated fine with the key that was already in it.... WTF!
Today, i am moving some websites we host to a CentOS system, since i am sick of dealing with IIS 7, and SSL certs and the limitations windows has on them with things like not being able to use passphrases on an SSL cert, unreal.
So i shutdown our HTTP server running Server 2008 Web edition x64 that has been running for 7 months , rebooted a few times for updates, i plug the server back in at my desk, about 3 mins later, after taking it out of the rack and surprise!!!! Windows claims it isn't activate and wont even let me boot into windows so i can make one last backup of the files, (i have a backup already as i have the sites running on a temp VM for now, but i like to get one myself versus our backup system one last time aswell, call me paranoid.)
Okay fine, pull out my only copy of Server Web 2008 and check the serial on the box, as we only have one HTTP server running server 2008 Web and only I have access to the keys, enter it in, claims it is invalid! says it is already in use, so i figure okay, lets try the VM key included, nope, says it is in use as well, like $#%^$$@# hell it is, we have 1 web server, one server running Web Edition, and this is it!
I am so glad i am moving servers over to CentOS, i am finally after all this time sick of windows and their non-working activation BS that only screws legit customers, so much for considering buying some Server 2008 R2 license for new servers, i would rather spend a few days learning how to do something in CentOS then worry if i reboot a server it wont come up because MS claims it isnt activated.
Unreal.....
Sorry, had to rant, i do still love Windows 7 on my Asus 1201 and on my rig at home, but my patients are wearing thin real fast!