On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 6:47 AM, Joseph L. Casale
jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote:
Remember that windows integration website ( don't remember the name
but related to nLite and ryanvm) shutdown by Microsoft - it made a
great deal of news because they had scripts to take out annoyances
such as
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Joseph L. Casale
jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote:
which is about as useful as Microsoft Windows support... is it broken?
reinstall windows
FFS, this attitude amongst opensource guys that MS is the devil and are
trying to murder your family or sabotage your
Remember that windows integration website ( don't remember the name
but related to nLite and ryanvm) shutdown by Microsoft - it made a
great deal of news because they had scripts to take out annoyances
such as balloons popping up in the taskbar. MS lawyers had them
disbanded
For a good reason,
I called them and explained to them that I couldn't get it to boot --
they gave me instructions on reinstalling
So Windows is garbage because one support tech is an idiot? There are
no idiots in the Linux world?
The KSOD event occurred after an automatic Windows update (which
isn't all that
On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 at 11:47am, Joseph L. Casale wrote
I can't believe I'm jumping into this thread
This useless thread will never end, FOSS guys have their sh!t in a knot
over MS for reason of which I have my own opinions.
I wonder what those opinions are. One of the main reasons *I* am no
I wonder what those opinions are.
That would just start a useless flame..
One of the main reasons *I* am no fan
of MS is their clear subversion of standards for their own ends.
Well, they do some stupid things. No Linux vendor ever did?[1]
Exchange, e.g., has a *horrible* IMAP implementation
ken wrote:
Okay, here's one. Maybe someone here can figure it out.
Upgrading from 4.5 to 4.5. From a 4.6 ISO I copied all the RPMs into a
directory... let's call it c:/install :). Now the oracle dba has
strict parameters on what versions can be installed and which can't.
The rpms in
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 6:47 AM, Joseph L. Casale
jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote:
I called them and explained to them that I couldn't get it to boot --
they gave me instructions on reinstalling
So Windows is garbage because one support tech is an idiot? There are
no idiots in the Linux world?
2009/10/19 ken geb...@mousecar.com:
In the couple of months I've had the need to contact Redhat support on
just one issue and their support has been terrible, so far completely
useless and a waste of time. I don't know what Redhat charges us for
The only guy I personally know who went with
Amos Shapira schrieb:
2009/10/19 ken geb...@mousecar.com:
In the couple of months I've had the need to contact Redhat support on
just one issue and their support has been terrible, so far completely
useless and a waste of time. I don't know what Redhat charges us for
The only guy
Rainer Duffner wrote:
Amos Shapira schrieb:
2009/10/19 ken geb...@mousecar.com:
In the couple of months I've had the need to contact Redhat support on
just one issue and their support has been terrible, so far completely
useless and a waste of time. I don't know what Redhat
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 09:12:01AM +1300, Clint Dilks wrote:
Rainer Duffner wrote:
Amos Shapira schrieb:
2009/10/19 ken geb...@mousecar.com:
In the couple of months I've had the need to contact Redhat support on
just one issue and their support has been terrible, so far
Clint Dilks a écrit :
My Experience has been that its the difference between installing system
and setting up systems for production use. In New Zealand at least it
seems that if you can have a system where everything is installed in the
standard way with a default configuration then you
On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 9:50 AM, ken geb...@mousecar.com wrote:
In the couple of months I've had the need to contact Redhat support on
just one issue and their support has been terrible, so far completely
useless and a waste of time.
..
I've opened the lowest-severity cases and generally
Niki Kovacs wrote:
Clint Dilks a écrit :
My Experience has been that its the difference between installing system
and setting up systems for production use. In New Zealand at least it
seems that if you can have a system where everything is installed in the
standard way with a default
Clint Dilks wrote:
My Experience has been that its the difference between installing system
and setting up systems for production use. In New Zealand at least it
seems that if you can have a system where everything is installed in the
standard way with a default configuration then you can
Joseph L. Casale wrote:
which is about as useful as Microsoft Windows support... is it broken?
reinstall windows
FFS, this attitude amongst opensource guys that MS is the devil and are
trying to murder your family or sabotage your life is such BS.
The people with the the attitude
Maybe today. How long has it been that you could start something on a
windows box and expect it to still be running a year later? People
runing unix/linux have expected and achieved that for decades.
A long time:)
Windows _is_ reliable, what isn't reliable is the myriad of cheap sh!t
hardware
ken wrote:
On 10/18/2009 08:17 AM Kwan Lowe wrote:
I'm pretty sure most corporations will continue to pay to use Red Hat.
It's pretty tough to go the head of IT and tell them you want to use
an OS without a corporate support license. Support is a security
blanket, if nothing else -- and
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 08:29:59AM +1030, Ian Blackwell wrote:
My experience has been good and I have no negative feelings about their
support offering. We had a critical issue once on a production server
with 250 users, and that they solved for us very quickly. Other lower
priority issues
War is a failure of the imagination.
--William Blake
On 10/19/2009 06:29 PM Keith Keller wrote:
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 08:29:59AM +1030, Ian Blackwell wrote:
My experience has been good and I have no negative feelings about their
support offering. We had a critical issue once on a
Joseph L. Casale wrote:
Maybe today. How long has it been that you could start something on a
windows box and expect it to still be running a year later? People
runing unix/linux have expected and achieved that for decades.
A long time:)
Windows _is_ reliable, what isn't reliable is the
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Joseph L. Casale
jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote:
which is about as useful as Microsoft Windows support... is it broken?
reinstall windows
FFS, this attitude amongst opensource guys that MS is the devil and are
trying to murder your family or sabotage your
Interesting column at CNET...
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10376762-16.html
~~
Novell has been positioning itself as the Avis of Linux, a distant
but gaining Red Hat competitor that tries harder. Like Oracle,
Novell argues that it can give customers Red Hat value at a lower
price.
There's
Ron Blizzard wrote:
I wonder if Red Hat has ever considered limited, paid support options
for CentOS?
I think that would be brand cannibalisation and self-defeating. To
charge a lower support fee for the same product with a different name
would surely only devalue their prime product and
On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 2:04 AM, Ian Blackwell i...@ikel.id.au wrote:
Ron Blizzard wrote:
I wonder if Red Hat has ever considered limited, paid support options
for CentOS?
I think that would be brand cannibalisation and self-defeating. To
charge a lower support fee for the same product
I'm pretty sure most corporations will continue to pay to use Red Hat.
It's pretty tough to go the head of IT and tell them you want to use
an OS without a corporate support license. Support is a security
blanket, if nothing else -- and it's a place to lay blame if something
goes wrong.
On 10/18/2009 08:17 AM Kwan Lowe wrote:
I'm pretty sure most corporations will continue to pay to use Red Hat.
It's pretty tough to go the head of IT and tell them you want to use
an OS without a corporate support license. Support is a security
blanket, if nothing else -- and it's a place to
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