I had new IT guy go around putting this on servers and desktops without me knowing.... despite the fact that I licenses for Nod32. As soon as I put Nod32 on.. all sorts of crap was coming up. Word of advice to any sys admin, Windows or Linux... Nod32 is the best AV for both that I have used, works with Exchange, Sendmail, Postfix etc, light and damned effective.
is this really still a problem? Geez I run hundreds of Windows and Linux desktops with no spyware/malware/crapware problems. If I can create a windows image that stops this surely Microsoft can.
I will agree with that. Take a look at the admin tools in Mandrake... jeeze... a breeze. My wife knows nothing about computers and she sorts out printer problems LOL
here is an objective view from a win admin and a linux newb admin. We have around 400 pcs and are switching them to linux terminal servers because we cannot afford the licenses.. we teach IT to charities but are not ourselves one... so no discount.
A few simple points: we teach newbs, they use it to do word processing browse the net blah blah.. simple. The desktop is easy, fast and does not crash. We have problems with one or two sites using government written media players, but I am trying to resolve this because I am on the commitees. For people new to computers... it just works and they are happy... however.
For staff and learners that are used to windows and office... they just hate it... they do not want to change. Ironic that I have tutors not willing to learn new things:) They have a point though; is OpenOffice as good as MS Office? No. Is GIMP as good as Photoshop? Of course not. But do we have the money to pay for these things... who does?
As for sys admin: lots of pros and cons. Active directory is great and no comparison in Linux. LDAP ain't up to it. Hardware detection is a dream in Windows even re-imaging different harware. Downside of Windows, paying, of course, and then AV software and then writing policies so tight to stop the crapware that it stops machines functioning properly.
Upside of Linux, free, stable, easy remote management...ssh and webmin are just the best. bottom line it, just keeps going.
Flame all you like;)
I agree, we are a small buisness with around 20 staff and we were getting around 300-400 spam a day through our exchange server. I put in a Linux box running sendmail and SA and it is down to around 3 a day.
Well worth the effort and considering what we are paying for Exchange server, a damn good solution.
man alive! give it up. What exactly is going to happen if they have this patent? They have thousands, what have they done so far with them? You think because Microsoft own a patent the rest of the world will pay,,,yeah right.
I don't get this...why do all/. dotters give a shit about this? Let them patent away...and...what exactly? They think they own it...yeah right, lets see China pay up, or Thailand, Germany, France etc etc these are non stories
Why does everyone go beserk because Microsoft patented this or that? Whos gives a shit? Sure, I am in Europe and the laws are different; but the only people worrying should be Microsft shareholders. THAT is a watse of money.
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I had new IT guy go around putting this on servers and desktops without me knowing.... despite the fact that I licenses for Nod32. As soon as I put Nod32 on.. all sorts of crap was coming up. Word of advice to any sys admin, Windows or Linux... Nod32 is the best AV for both that I have used, works with Exchange, Sendmail, Postfix etc, light and damned effective.
is this really still a problem? Geez I run hundreds of Windows and Linux desktops with no spyware/malware/crapware problems. If I can create a windows image that stops this surely Microsoft can.
I will agree with that. Take a look at the admin tools in Mandrake... jeeze... a breeze. My wife knows nothing about computers and she sorts out printer problems LOL
here is an objective view from a win admin and a linux newb admin. We have around 400 pcs and are switching them to linux terminal servers because we cannot afford the licenses.. we teach IT to charities but are not ourselves one... so no discount. A few simple points: we teach newbs, they use it to do word processing browse the net blah blah.. simple. The desktop is easy, fast and does not crash. We have problems with one or two sites using government written media players, but I am trying to resolve this because I am on the commitees. For people new to computers... it just works and they are happy... however. For staff and learners that are used to windows and office... they just hate it... they do not want to change. Ironic that I have tutors not willing to learn new things :) They have a point though; is OpenOffice as good as MS Office? No. Is GIMP as good as Photoshop? Of course not. But do we have the money to pay for these things... who does?
As for sys admin: lots of pros and cons. Active directory is great and no comparison in Linux. LDAP ain't up to it. Hardware detection is a dream in Windows even re-imaging different harware. Downside of Windows, paying, of course, and then AV software and then writing policies so tight to stop the crapware that it stops machines functioning properly.
Upside of Linux, free, stable, easy remote management...ssh and webmin are just the best. bottom line it, just keeps going.
Flame all you like ;)
I got an old 866mhz with 512 ram running mandrake 10.1 and kde 3.3 running like lightnening... are you sure that ram is plugged in ;)
LMAO.. nice post
I agree, we are a small buisness with around 20 staff and we were getting around 300-400 spam a day through our exchange server. I put in a Linux box running sendmail and SA and it is down to around 3 a day. Well worth the effort and considering what we are paying for Exchange server, a damn good solution.
man alive! give it up. What exactly is going to happen if they have this patent? They have thousands, what have they done so far with them? You think because Microsoft own a patent the rest of the world will pay,,,yeah right.
I don't get this...why do all /. dotters give a shit about this? Let them patent away...and...what exactly? They think they own it...yeah right, lets see China pay up, or Thailand, Germany, France etc etc these are non stories
Why does everyone go beserk because Microsoft patented this or that? Whos gives a shit? Sure, I am in Europe and the laws are different; but the only people worrying should be Microsft shareholders. THAT is a watse of money.