Have you ever tried to install Windows from scratch on a computer
It's a royal pain in the ass.
Not any more.
I installed Win98 last week on a machine I'd built for a friend from spare parts.
I stuck the CD in, booted the machine, answered a few simple questions (disk formatting, which components etc) and went off to read my email. When I came back it was finished. Totally idiot proof.
Even my father managed to install 98 a little while ago on a new machine (home built, hence no pre-installed OS)
NT is reasonalby easy to install provided the boot disks (or CD) contain drivers for your SCSI/RAID adapters, if they don't (as with new Dell & HP servers) it's a little more complicated, but I still managed to install NT on a new server within 20 minutes last week.
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Personally, if the moderation controls were always visible, but not always active, I wouldn't bother using them. When I do have moderator points I take a bit more time over what I read and ensure I use my points wisely. Making them available all the time would (IMHO) severly reduce their effectiveness.
It was meant to be a fake-troll.
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Grrr.... that will teach me to use pseudo-html tags. My last post was meant to be a blatant tongue-in-cheek troll.
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Patching your system beyond recognition is not the path to job security. There is no such thing as true job security, no-one is indespensable. Anyone who kids themeselves that they are is sadly deluded.
You don't need to license NT for 25000 users if all they are using is Exchange. However the licensing costs for Exchange alone will probably bankrupt you.
>For those of you who will say "Well, they didn't >snatch up BSD code" I say "How do you know")
So basically your saying that MS used BSD code without giving credit (which contravenes the BSD licence) yet hasn't done the same with Linux code just because of the GPL?
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Have you ever tried to install Windows from scratch on a computer
It's a royal pain in the ass.
Not any more.
I installed Win98 last week on a machine I'd built for a friend from spare parts.
I stuck the CD in, booted the machine, answered a few simple questions (disk formatting, which components etc) and went off to read my email. When I came back it was finished. Totally idiot proof.
Even my father managed to install 98 a little while ago on a new machine (home built, hence no pre-installed OS)
NT is reasonalby easy to install provided the boot disks (or CD) contain drivers for your SCSI/RAID adapters, if they don't (as with new Dell & HP servers) it's a little more complicated, but I still managed to install NT on a new server within 20 minutes last week.
>What advantage is there to buying one of these?
Try finding a laptop with 8-9 hour battery life.
Given Psions pricing track record with the S5, it will probably cost the same in US$ as it does in GBP i.e. US$700
Personally, if the moderation controls were always visible, but not always active, I wouldn't bother using them. When I do have moderator points I take a bit more time over what I read and ensure I use my points wisely. Making them available all the time would (IMHO) severly reduce their effectiveness.
Grrr.... that will teach me to use pseudo-html tags. My last post was meant to be a blatant tongue-in-cheek troll.
Try pair Networks (http://www.pair.net)
They are better 'cos they use FreeBSD
Patching your system beyond recognition is not the path to job security. There is no such thing as true job security, no-one is indespensable. Anyone who kids themeselves that they are is sadly deluded.
You don't need to license NT for 25000 users if all they are using is Exchange. However the licensing costs for Exchange alone will probably bankrupt you.
>For those of you who will say "Well, they didn't
>snatch up BSD code" I say "How do you know")
So basically your saying that MS used BSD code without giving credit (which contravenes the BSD licence) yet hasn't done the same with Linux code just because of the GPL?
You really haven't got single a clue have you?
http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=209624296 is the URL in question.
>Isn't thiat the guy from WHAM?
Nah, that was Andrew Ridgley.
Who care what a machine looks like.
Function over form defiantly.