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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<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Sent: ý3/ý2/ý2014 12:14 AM To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Windows XP EOL 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 <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > 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 exploit on XP and see if it is vulnerable. Eventually they will > find an exploit that works against XP. > > Even if you have a AV, people can exploit your machine without using a > virus. Is that a risk you want to accept? > > -Justin > > > On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 4:59 PM, Jimm Wetherbee <[log in to unmask]<javascript:;>> > wrote: > > > 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 5:28 PM, Riley Childs <[log in to unmask]<javascript:;> > > >wrote: > > > > > 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 anything we can't use > away > > > (sigh). > > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > >