If they give you an answer, and they're wrong, then they have to explain to you when you come back, why the answer wasn't right. And you can say you won't come back, but the next person might.
You can't trust customers these days, beleive me, I don't trust mine, it's why most of my answers are vague and as general as possible as well.
In general, I think when it comes to linux, 90% of people(not linux users, PEOPLE) equate it with redhat. So when he says redhat's linux, I beleive he's absolutely correct.
Basically what we've done is this. On move-in day we have some of our techs handing out cd's and brochures with our latest anti-virus software and patches, as well as advice for securing your PC. We figure the best we can do is recommend. After that, we have extensive monitoring. Any PC found to be infected and sending out malicious traffic is quickly located and it's network connection cut off in the hubroom.
This is exactly what I have now. I have/home on a mirrored set of 120's and/backup on an external 200GB USB 2.0 drive. I do full backups weekly, as well as incrementals nightly. This setup is after I was doing backups "whenever" and I lost my/home drive to bad luck. The last backup was a month ago! Thankfully it had most of everything, and the only part I was pissed about losing, I managed to undelete from my digital camera's memory stick.
As for performance, I've never noticed any difference, it's just a home file/web server, not like I'm an ISP or anything. Plus my level of comfort is quite high. I've deleted files since then by accident and just shrugged it off and went to backup.
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If they give you an answer, and they're wrong, then they have to explain to you when you come back, why the answer wasn't right. And you can say you won't come back, but the next person might.
You can't trust customers these days, beleive me, I don't trust mine, it's why most of my answers are vague and as general as possible as well.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tbblake/2574364342/
Got it about 2 hours ago, already running it :-)
In general, I think when it comes to linux, 90% of people(not linux users, PEOPLE) equate it with redhat. So when he says redhat's linux, I beleive he's absolutely correct.
Basically what we've done is this. On move-in day we have some of our techs handing out cd's and brochures with our latest anti-virus software and patches, as well as advice for securing your PC. We figure the best we can do is recommend. After that, we have extensive monitoring. Any PC found to be infected and sending out malicious traffic is quickly located and it's network connection cut off in the hubroom.
This is exactly what I have now. I have /home on a mirrored set of 120's and /backup on an external 200GB USB 2.0 drive. I do full backups weekly, as well as incrementals nightly. This setup is after I was doing backups "whenever" and I lost my /home drive to bad luck. The last backup was a month ago! Thankfully it had most of everything, and the only part I was pissed about losing, I managed to undelete from my digital camera's memory stick.
As for performance, I've never noticed any difference, it's just a home file/web server, not like I'm an ISP or anything. Plus my level of comfort is quite high. I've deleted files since then by accident and just shrugged it off and went to backup.
good luck finding much out. I'd be willing to bet so much is classified that people that could post won't post.