Thanks Iinet. It's good to see a small wa company do well and continue to have morals. Was a custome for years, currently with internode who are now Iinet owned anway. I remember one of the early Iinet user group meetings at a local Perth pizza joint. Come a long way.
Heh. I was actually just trying to be conservative. I should have put "at least" in there I guess - i couldn't be bothered working it out exactly or looking up benchmarks. Either way. Worrying about AGP slots so you can use your old-as-dirt 3D card from 1999 when integrated 3d is many times faster and has later version OpenGL and DIrectX support is mildly retarded.
We run operating systems for one reason: application delivery. Windows is where the industry specific applications are, so that is what the client machines run.
To administer the clients, it is a lot easier to do so with Windows servers.
Do i run windows servers facing the internet? Fuck no. They are well protected by hardware firewalls, mail, etc. comes through FreeBSD. But Windows has its uses.
I'm a big fan of heterogeneous networks. Use the most appropriate platform for the service you are attempting to deliver. Any mainstream OS these days can be secured "well enough" with minimal effort if you know shit from clay.
1999 wants its memes back. I've got Windows boxes that stay up for months at a time and only go down to be patched. Any enterprise storage array will likely come with a bunch of Windows only tools. To run most industry specific software out there needs Windows clients, and to administer Windows clients it is a lot less fucking around to do it with an active directory domain running on Windows servers.
If your machines are constantly broken, it doesn't matter what mainstream OS you are running, be it Linux, Windows, OS X or whatever. The problem is the muppet maintaining them, not the platform these days.
Our dell experience was totally soured by the Latitude E6500 throttlegate fiasco. Also, the Latitude E series in general (all except the E43xx) saw out failure rate go from "minimal" with the old D series, to 35% within 12 months on the E series (mostly E6500s). Dell kept trying to blame our image, or that we were doing inappropriate workloads on the machines, etc. We shit-canned them and went to Elitebooks and haven't looked back.
1. No storage array does it properly. 2. You can BUILD a ZFS storage array with de-dup, compression, self-healing, etc. for cheaper than you can buy a Netapp or EMC. A filesystem approach is the only way to ensure end-to-end data integrity, correcting tranmission errors between the host and the storage, etc.
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Thanks Iinet. It's good to see a small wa company do well and continue to have morals. Was a custome for years, currently with internode who are now Iinet owned anway. I remember one of the early Iinet user group meetings at a local Perth pizza joint. Come a long way.
Just turn it off. No payment = no service, as above dont' shoot yourself in the foot with a publicity stunt.
How much they are paid doesn't mean that your recruitment process is competent.
The same thing happens when you pay peanuts for unix administrators. Muppet admins are muppet admins, irrespective of platform.
Problem is, "pretty" doesn't make a usable desktop for getting work done.
Heh. I was actually just trying to be conservative. I should have put "at least" in there I guess - i couldn't be bothered working it out exactly or looking up benchmarks. Either way. Worrying about AGP slots so you can use your old-as-dirt 3D card from 1999 when integrated 3d is many times faster and has later version OpenGL and DIrectX support is mildly retarded.
We run operating systems for one reason: application delivery. Windows is where the industry specific applications are, so that is what the client machines run.
To administer the clients, it is a lot easier to do so with Windows servers.
Do i run windows servers facing the internet? Fuck no. They are well protected by hardware firewalls, mail, etc. comes through FreeBSD. But Windows has its uses.
I'm a big fan of heterogeneous networks. Use the most appropriate platform for the service you are attempting to deliver. Any mainstream OS these days can be secured "well enough" with minimal effort if you know shit from clay.
You're doing it wrong. With both operating systems.
1999 wants its memes back. I've got Windows boxes that stay up for months at a time and only go down to be patched. Any enterprise storage array will likely come with a bunch of Windows only tools. To run most industry specific software out there needs Windows clients, and to administer Windows clients it is a lot less fucking around to do it with an active directory domain running on Windows servers.
If your machines are constantly broken, it doesn't matter what mainstream OS you are running, be it Linux, Windows, OS X or whatever. The problem is the muppet maintaining them, not the platform these days.
Our dell experience was totally soured by the Latitude E6500 throttlegate fiasco. Also, the Latitude E series in general (all except the E43xx) saw out failure rate go from "minimal" with the old D series, to 35% within 12 months on the E series (mostly E6500s). Dell kept trying to blame our image, or that we were doing inappropriate workloads on the machines, etc. We shit-canned them and went to Elitebooks and haven't looked back.
I'll clarify here: by HP, i mean elitebooks. We don't by anything else off them.
We gave up on dell and went to HP. Yes, the dell support is a lot better - the only problem is you need it 10-20x as often. And i'm not kidding.
You have actually worked in the real world, yes? Windows servers are far from toys and are in use in plenty of enterprises the world over.
This is why you use ECC ram.
Onboard intel GPU will do you fine. Drivers are open source too.
Your matrox card will be outperformed by a factor of probably 5-10 by the integrated intel GPU these days.
1. No storage array does it properly. 2. You can BUILD a ZFS storage array with de-dup, compression, self-healing, etc. for cheaper than you can buy a Netapp or EMC. A filesystem approach is the only way to ensure end-to-end data integrity, correcting tranmission errors between the host and the storage, etc.
Data integrity for one?
This... iOS needs Microsoft a lot less than Microsoft needs to get on iOS.
Actually, 1984 seems to be the political reference manual for 2001 onwards.
You can already open office docs on a tablet. If you need to edit them, BYOD peeps are already pushing stuff like VMware view, anyhow.
No one will care.
What the fuck do microsoft think makes them so special?
If indie developers working out of their bedroom can take the 30% so can they.
Hundreds of millions, you mean.
It's an example from 10 years ago mate.