12 Jan
2012
12 Jan
'12
12:27 a.m.
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From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org
[mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Dave McGuire
Sent: 11 January 2012 22:19
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: "Modern" e-mail clients suck! (Was: QUOTING
(Was: Truce, compromise reached? - Re: teaching programming
to kids - Re: Looking for 8080/Z80 BASIC
On 01/11/2012 03:48 PM, MikeS wrote:
I checked today. Several of our Windows servers have not had a re-boot for
more than 300 days, when we swapped the SAN connections to the new SAN.
However this does mean they havn't been patched for 300 days so I guess I
have some overtime coming up. Please show me the Microsoft document which
recommends weely re-boots?
It can be tedious to move disks to a different Windows box, because many
windows installations use custom IDE drivers that only work with one
particular chip. If the disks are IDE you can load the generic IDE driver
before the move it works fine. If you can't a little hacking may be
required.
Some consumer Windows installations are tied to the BIOS in the machine, and
will un-licence themselves when migrated. However any one with more than 5
PCs can get a Volume Licence hich gets round this...
The BitLocker encryption system also locks disks into a particlar PC ...
I think what you have to keep in mind is that, as
in most
instances of
closed minds, prejudice and ignorance, the very
people who bad-mouth
Windows, Yahoo etc. the most also brag the loudest that
they would not
stoop
to using it; therefore they obviously have no relevant
experience and their
opinions have no more authority than a KKK
member's opinion of a
non-caucasian's intelligence.
Wrong. In my case at least, yes it's true that I don't
use it, never
really have save for the odd installation here and there to help a
friend, but that doesn't mean I have no experience with it.
This is an
incorrect assumption.
Fortunately their frequent personal
attacks on
anyone who's 'on the other side' are generally less violent... ;-)
Only when it's deserved. ;)
But if a business' Windows system really
needed rebooting
every day I
suspect their IT person would very shortly be
looking for
another job.
Microsoft recommends it!! You can suspect all you want;
many major
Windows installations have periodic reboots as standard operating
procedure. When I ran a colocation company, we'd see about a dozen
people filter in every friday night to reboot their machines,
with about
fifty more incidents in the ICMP logs when machines had gone
down on a
schedule. This added up to ALL of the Windows machines in the colo.
(out of a few thousand machines...to some math-challenged
Gartner-is-gospel types, this means "95%")
And when people who say they support a Windows
installation
complain about
not being able to back up or migrate to another
disk/computer as I read in
the previous round of this tedious ritual, that
tells me
more about their
competence than any flaws in Windows (and there
are some,
to be sure).
I know for a fact that this is extremely difficult to do, as I've
watched highly competent, experienced Windows people spend hours and
even days trying. Have YOU done it? If so, how did you get
around the
tied-to-the-hardware thing (whose name escapes me at the moment)?
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
New Kensington, PA