PS -- Linux novices have no business administering production servers. Someone whose idea of fixing a misbehaving server is reinstallation is not welcome to touch any of my servers.
The same applies to my production NT servers. Clueless admins who have to reinstall to fix something aren't admins. They're looking for a new job.
Most vendors have gotten smart and now release an "alternate" driver for 9x and 3.1 that's just OEMSETUP.INF, for NT client installations. Even HP does this now.
Service Pack 5 contains no security hotfixes that concern ONLY IIS. Microsoft retains these on their FTP as a seperate entity from straight NT hotfixes and service packs. So no, SP5 would *not* have this hotfix. At least, it SHOULDN'T have this hotfix.
You should advise them to check the IIS hotfixes on the MS FTP as well as the straight NT hotfixes. I believe they have a seperate directory just for security patches...at least last time I checked.
I should have amended that to also say that this is more a testimonial to the power of a good administrator, as opposed to a testmional to the security of an OS.
So now the comments here will go from "Oh it was a problem with just the 'closed-source' CGI, not the OS" to "oh it's a conspiracy to make Linux look bad". Grow up. There was a problem, it wasn't set up right to begin with, and it got cracked. Cope.
Boot to CD. Watch it load drivers. Agree to licensing. Keep pressing enter. Select partition. Choose to format it, or not. Watch it install. Reboot. Install NiC (via search or driver floppy). Watch it finish installing. Reboot, log in. Sure, you still have to service pack up, but as with any OS you tweak after installation. Real tough stuff.
Part of this is due to the fact that MS doesn't redistribute NT on a 6 month, year or biyearly basis. Which Linux does. It's much easier to keep it current that way, don't you think? So administrators have to keep the lastest service pack CD on hand...woopty doo. Real tough.
None. That's the dumbest fucking theory I've seen on here in a long time. And I've seen some stupid ones. This hurts MS's reputation, it doesn't help it.
I just sat in on a several hour AD presentation done by MS. You can tie the DDNS in Win2k to Bind 8.x servers.
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Thanks for continuing to display your ignorance. I follow MS security on a daily basis, and I implement patches that are needed, and I don't implement ones that aren't. All THINK they require a reboot, most don't. Just the restarting of a particular service or logging out and logging back in.
Exactly. People should be embracing this move as it's a move away from NetBIOS name resoultion being reliant upon WINS or LMHOSTS. They're just too ignorant to know this.
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PS -- Linux novices have no business administering production servers. Someone whose idea of fixing a misbehaving server is reinstallation is not welcome to touch any of my servers.
The same applies to my production NT servers. Clueless admins who have to reinstall to fix something aren't admins. They're looking for a new job.
I can't remember Quake1 NOT having full movement in any direction. :)
I didn't say Quake1 was the first truly 3D shooter, it's just *A* 3D shooter
As long as you're being picky, Wolf3d and Doom weren't 3D :) But Quake 1 was.
Probably because this is the C2 rating we're talking about, not NT. ANY OS would have to have no removable media for C2 certification.
Most vendors have gotten smart and now release an "alternate" driver for 9x and 3.1 that's just OEMSETUP.INF, for NT client installations. Even HP does this now.
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Service Pack 5 contains no security hotfixes that concern ONLY IIS. Microsoft retains these on their FTP as a seperate entity from straight NT hotfixes and service packs. So no, SP5 would *not* have this hotfix. At least, it SHOULDN'T have this hotfix.
You should advise them to check the IIS hotfixes on the MS FTP as well as the straight NT hotfixes. I believe they have a seperate directory just for security patches...at least last time I checked.
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I should have amended that to also say that this is more a testimonial to the power of a good administrator, as opposed to a testmional to the security of an OS.
So now the comments here will go from "Oh it was a problem with just the 'closed-source' CGI, not the OS" to "oh it's a conspiracy to make Linux look bad". Grow up. There was a problem, it wasn't set up right to begin with, and it got cracked. Cope.
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Exactly how is it difficult?
Boot to CD. Watch it load drivers. Agree to licensing. Keep pressing enter. Select partition. Choose to format it, or not. Watch it install. Reboot. Install NiC (via search or driver floppy). Watch it finish installing. Reboot, log in.
Sure, you still have to service pack up, but as with any OS you tweak after installation.
Real tough stuff.
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I believe this was a Linux focused article, not a general OS article. It wasn't a contest. Don't be so damn defensive.
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quick FYI... 8+gb drives that are IDE require SP4 or higher to work under NT4. New atapi.sys which supports that particular IBM drive standard.
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I live in Kalamazoo, work in Holland (at Donnelly Corporation), and play in Grand Rapids. :)
That doesn't denote OS integration, it denotes a lack of cross platform availability. Don't confuse the issue.
Just being down the road from Slashdot, in Holland, Michigan, I'd have to agree :)
Part of this is due to the fact that MS doesn't redistribute NT on a 6 month, year or biyearly basis. Which Linux does. It's much easier to keep it current that way, don't you think? So administrators have to keep the lastest service pack CD on hand...woopty doo. Real tough.
IIS is not "part" of the OS. It's an installable option, just like Apache with RH 6. You can also download it seperately.
NT supports system partitions up to 7.8gb in size. Not 4gb.
Bleh the post has been up for less than 5 minutes and the sites are already down. :(
None. That's the dumbest fucking theory I've seen on here in a long time. And I've seen some stupid ones. This hurts MS's reputation, it doesn't help it.
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Heh. God forbid that MS should patch their *beta* software on that test site.
You people piss and moan about FUD, then you spread it yourself by spreading the incorrect notion that Hotmail runs NT. It doesn't, idiot.
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It runs on Solaris and FreeBSD.
I just sat in on a several hour AD presentation done by MS. You can tie the DDNS in Win2k to Bind 8.x servers.
Thanks for continuing to display your ignorance. I follow MS security on a daily basis, and I implement patches that are needed, and I don't implement ones that aren't. All THINK they require a reboot, most don't. Just the restarting of a particular service or logging out and logging back in.
Exactly. People should be embracing this move as it's a move away from NetBIOS name resoultion being reliant upon WINS or LMHOSTS. They're just too ignorant to know this.
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