Subject: RE: M$ Flaws
From: Stephen King (sking@chartercollege.edu)
Date: Wed Oct 15 2003 - 19:56:58 AKDT
Good to meet some of y'all at your booth yesterday and today. =20
In spite of the risk of being smacked right out of the group, I have to
ask...say M$ disappeared tomorrow...would the world really be a happier
place, or would the virus kiddies just switch back to concentrating on
writing *nix worms that the still-stupid users would download just as
happily? I guess then at least we'd be in control of recompiling our
own darn kernels, eh?
Went to the Microsoft "Why you should switch to Windows Server 2003"
seminar today, where they talked about what they're doing about all
this. Wasn't entirely thrilled with what I heard...it's a start,
but.... Sheesh...sometimes a nice career in the janitorial industry
sounds good. Anybody hiring an entry-level hunting guide? ;-)
-----Original Message-----
From: Justin Dieters [mailto:enderak@gci.net]=20
Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 5:58 PM
To: Tim Jordan, Network Services
Cc: aklug@aklug.org
Subject: Re: M$ Flaws
A joke, but not very funny. I just spent about 12 hours last week
upgrading all our virus scan software (That was $750 for the software
alone) and doing Windows updates. One such update completely killed one
machine (wouldn't boot in anything but safe mode - and no amount of
uninstalling updates, disabling start-up programs, or disabling hardware
would fix it) That cost me an additional 6 hours of my Saturday evening
to reinstall Windows and Friends. Looks like I'm going to have to make
my rounds again tomorrow.
Luckily we are slowly but surely starting to use some open source
software around here. I just replaced our cheap-o router/firewall with
Smoothwall in preparation for some network upgrades, and in the next
couple days our file server will be switched to RedHat ($100 for Redhat
Pro w/ Samba is a lot cheaper than $5000 for Windows Server and the
associated forced hardware upgrades to run it)
Unfortunately, we are tied to running AutoCAD Land Development, so many
of our machines have to run Windows.
Justin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Jordan, Network Services" <timothy_jordan@labor.state.ak.us>
Date: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 4:31 pm
Subject: Re: M$ Flaws
>=20
> Here is an even better reason to move away from M$! Can your
> company=20
> afford to keep messing around with these darn updates?
> What a JOKE!
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