Re: [CODE4LIB] Windows XP EOL

2014-03-01 Thread Riley Childs
Smart, too bad we can't do that in our learning lab! Riley Childs Student Asst. Head of IT Services Charlotte United Christian Academy (704) 497-2086 RileyChilds.net Sent from my Windows Phone, please excuse mistakes From: John Palmer

Re: [CODE4LIB] Windows XP EOL

2014-03-01 Thread John Palmer
We are migrating our oldest machines (Pentium, 64-128Mb, 30gb hdd) to TinyLinux. Our Pentium and Celeron machines with 256 Mb, 100gb machines are going to Xubuntu. Anything below 4GB RAM is going to Ubuntu 12.04 4GB+ goes to Windows 7. On Saturday, March 1, 2014, Justin Coyne wrote: > They

Re: [CODE4LIB] Windows XP EOL

2014-03-01 Thread Justin Coyne
They won't be a security risk on April 8th, but the first time that MS publishes security patches after that date for newer version, security researchers will examine the patches. Doing so will give them an idea about how to exploit the problem the patch was for. They will then try to run the exp

Re: [CODE4LIB] Windows XP EOL

2014-03-01 Thread Jimm Wetherbee
I sorry to hear about vipre. However, not all AV providers are ending support so soon. --jimm On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 6:11 PM, Riley Childs wrote: > But they ARE a security risk, our AV (vipre) is ceasing support for > windows XP, so we really don't have a choice, besides I was presently > surp

Re: [CODE4LIB] Windows XP EOL

2014-03-01 Thread Riley Childs
But they ARE a security risk, our AV (vipre) is ceasing support for windows XP, so we really don't have a choice, besides I was presently surprised when I pushed out a windows 8 image to the wrong box and it ran fine (dell deminision 2400s and a really old optiplex) Riley Childs Student Asst. H

Re: [CODE4LIB] Windows XP EOL

2014-03-01 Thread Jimm Wetherbee
Just because MS won't support XP any more doesn't mean those machines are instantly useless or a security risk come April 8th. We will not be doing anything with our lab computers until Summer because they are too old to run Windows 8 but we cannot do without them. --jimm On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at

[CODE4LIB] Windows XP EOL

2014-03-01 Thread Riley Childs
Hi, I wanted to hear how people are dealing with the Windows XP End-of-Life (if anything at all :( Personally I am migrating the computers that can run it to Windows 8 (we ran out of 7 licenses and someone (years ago) bought SA, but that's another story), and when April 7th comes around: throw