* Les Bell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> No, teach them how to turn on password encryption in Samba
> <<
>
> OK, not a great example, I grant - but suppose you had a LAN of Windows 95
> machines and a Samba server working with unencrypted passwords, everything
> sweet, and then a new Windows box comes in. You *could* switch to encrypted
> passwords and reconfigure everything - but is it worth it in a small
> business, etc.?
> The point is, the issue is driven by the need for Windows compatibility,
So windows is the one with the compatibility problem and our mythical
LPIC2 is going to have to fix it? My first response is that that
business needs to get the MCSE's to fix it since it's a Windows
problem... why should we care? From a business perspective this makes no
sense either. If I were running that business I wouldn't force those
changes for one machine. It highlights the incompatibility of Windows
not Linux (which may or may not matter). Who changes standard protocols
(not some of the time but everytime!)?
Politically speaking, making Linux a "swiss army knife" is fine but
don't miss out on your opportunities to highlight how fscked up M$ is!
This example would be perfect for it!
Linux interoperates with Windows and everything is humming along,
suddenly comes this new piece of Mickey$oft crap and it breaks
everything... hmmmmm... what's wrong with this picture?
Say...
"Sorry boss but Microsoft changed their networking code in this
version and those changes broke compatibility with the rest of the
network. Linux can overcome it, we just have to change X."
Not...
"Oh geez Linux doesn't work right with that version of Windoze so we
have to change X to fix Linux."
> and required the Linux administrator to be aware of changes
> Microsoft makes to their products. And as you say, despite the MS line,
> registry hacks are necessary.
Bollocks on the black-box that is the registry! All that is is their
copyright protection scheme! Fsck them! You're missing the boat again...
go read this:
http://public.wsj.com/sn/y/SB991862595554629527.html
Tell me that anyone is going to *want* to use that in their business! I
can see it now... Cisco is gonna let let Microsoft determine what links
will appear in the browser when Cisco's customers are on Cisco's web site...
Yeah right... pigs fly... there is a tooth fairy... and the easter bunny
is just over that rise... Start selling the hell out of Linux now gang
and don't back off! We've already won if we'll just carpe diem!
Let the Microsoft expertise be gained in some other way we should not
be testing it here!
--
csm
"...software engineers, as Percy Bysshe Shelley said of poets, are the
unacknowledged legislators of our time. acknowledge this reality and try
to shape it..." - stille/lessig
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