I attend the University at Albany. We also have students that work for ResNet. You're right, they do have one of the easiest jobs at the school. They are provided with cell phones, laptops, and the worst is that they don't have to be anywhere. They can do whatever they want while they are on duty, and if someone has a networking problem, they get a call on the cell and then they go take care of it. I am a student assistant at Academic Computing, providing 2nd level tech support. My job is usually pretty easy, but it is nothing compared to the RNC's (ResNet Network Consultant). Whats worse is that they get paid more than me too.
Actually when I had ZA, I was running XP RC1. Now I am back to good old Win 2000. Displaying messages to the user is fine. I would be a lot happier with it if it were possible to turn it off. So far, I have not seem that ability mentioned.
I still can't understand why anyone can support the temp slow down on the P4. Why should I buy a 1.8 Ghz processor if everytime I really need the processing power, it throttles down? I might as well by a PIII 1 Ghz that will remain at 1 Ghz. It would be good if Intel incorperated the Power Now feature that AMD has. That would make so much more sense.
Blocking of drivers is just another way that Microsoft controls what I install. ZA always worked great for me. It never crashed my system, and it was very customizable. I have not yet seen Microsofts intergraded firewall program so I will not judge it yet. However, I think that Microsoft has gone beyond the "innocent until proven guilty" benefit. Comparing the MS firewall to ZA will probably start being like comparing IIS to Apache.
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I attend the University at Albany. We also have students that work for ResNet. You're right, they do have one of the easiest jobs at the school. They are provided with cell phones, laptops, and the worst is that they don't have to be anywhere. They can do whatever they want while they are on duty, and if someone has a networking problem, they get a call on the cell and then they go take care of it. I am a student assistant at Academic Computing, providing 2nd level tech support. My job is usually pretty easy, but it is nothing compared to the RNC's (ResNet Network Consultant). Whats worse is that they get paid more than me too.
Actually when I had ZA, I was running XP RC1. Now I am back to good old Win 2000. Displaying messages to the user is fine. I would be a lot happier with it if it were possible to turn it off. So far, I have not seem that ability mentioned.
I still can't understand why anyone can support the temp slow down on the P4. Why should I buy a 1.8 Ghz processor if everytime I really need the processing power, it throttles down? I might as well by a PIII 1 Ghz that will remain at 1 Ghz. It would be good if Intel incorperated the Power Now feature that AMD has. That would make so much more sense.
Blocking of drivers is just another way that Microsoft controls what I install. ZA always worked great for me. It never crashed my system, and it was very customizable. I have not yet seen Microsofts intergraded firewall program so I will not judge it yet. However, I think that Microsoft has gone beyond the "innocent until proven guilty" benefit. Comparing the MS firewall to ZA will probably start being like comparing IIS to Apache.