Your average joe doesn't back-up his files. What does iTunes expect, me to burn a backup copy every time I purchase a new song? That's ridiculous. Have you ever purchased software online? I have never *not* been able to re-download it if I purchased it online. As long as I had my serial number or license it was available. I have a username/pass on iTunes, it should work the same way. I am all for backing up important things like configs, etc. But if I PAY for something online and I don't get a hard copy, then it should be available to me whenever I need it again.
Here's my problem with iTunes..
If you format your computer and did not back-up your downloaded music you have to PURCHASE it again. I believe if I'm paying for music online and do not receive a CD that I own a license and should be able to re-download it again for free. This was a nice little shock after spending $50 on music then losing it.
Napster will re-sync your collection if your hard drive crashes, etc. No fee, just hit re-sync and it will download it all again for you. But you are still able to back it up if you choose to. This problem with iTunes will definitely stir some stuff up in the future when some average joe's hard drive crashes and he loses $300 worth of music. It's about the same as someone breaking in your car and jacking your life-long CD collection.
Another quick fix if you don't have enough time to apply the patch before shutdown. Go into Administrative tools, Services, find the RPC service. It gives you options of what to do if it unexpectedly dies. By default, it is set to shutdown after 60 seconds. You can change this to "Do nothing". Make sure you set it for the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd warning. So basicly now it will die, but it will go un-noticed.
At my company we just recently rolled out some new Novell software. It's all web based and very easy to use. When I first joined the company I had not worked much with Novell and thought of it as archaic. Even with age, Netware is a good product that makes Window's box's easy to manage. I am happy to here about the Linux integration and Ximian addition. Now I can get my Linux and Novell administration too!
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Your average joe doesn't back-up his files. What does iTunes expect, me to burn a backup copy every time I purchase a new song? That's ridiculous. Have you ever purchased software online? I have never *not* been able to re-download it if I purchased it online. As long as I had my serial number or license it was available. I have a username/pass on iTunes, it should work the same way. I am all for backing up important things like configs, etc. But if I PAY for something online and I don't get a hard copy, then it should be available to me whenever I need it again.
Here's my problem with iTunes.. If you format your computer and did not back-up your downloaded music you have to PURCHASE it again. I believe if I'm paying for music online and do not receive a CD that I own a license and should be able to re-download it again for free. This was a nice little shock after spending $50 on music then losing it. Napster will re-sync your collection if your hard drive crashes, etc. No fee, just hit re-sync and it will download it all again for you. But you are still able to back it up if you choose to. This problem with iTunes will definitely stir some stuff up in the future when some average joe's hard drive crashes and he loses $300 worth of music. It's about the same as someone breaking in your car and jacking your life-long CD collection.
It's not that hard to spoof a mac address, your mac address logs are worthless.
Another quick fix if you don't have enough time to apply the patch before shutdown. Go into Administrative tools, Services, find the RPC service. It gives you options of what to do if it unexpectedly dies. By default, it is set to shutdown after 60 seconds. You can change this to "Do nothing". Make sure you set it for the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd warning. So basicly now it will die, but it will go un-noticed.
At my company we just recently rolled out some new Novell software. It's all web based and very easy to use. When I first joined the company I had not worked much with Novell and thought of it as archaic. Even with age, Netware is a good product that makes Window's box's easy to manage. I am happy to here about the Linux integration and Ximian addition. Now I can get my Linux and Novell administration too!