11 Jan
2012
11 Jan
'12
10:18 p.m.
On 01/11/2012 03:48 PM, MikeS wrote:
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