----- Original Message ----- > From: "David R. Wilson" <da...@wwns.com>
> If you don't have the expertise for Linux I would suggest either > learning it or finding someone that does. It will save you time (uptime > that is) and will give someone time to get other tasks done. If you > have the budget to dedicate people full time to keeping Windows boxes up > for on the air servers, go right ahead. I don't mind, however I can't > find enough time available to waste mine doing such support. Well put, David. > On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 19:22 +1300, James Laurence wrote: > > Not all radio-stations have a Linux person at their disposal who can > > build, customise, maintain, and troubleshoot, a broadcasting > > automation solution based on Rivendell/Linux. What say the > > radio-station is in a relatively small locality where there is > simply > > no such person available or willing to become part of the equation? Well, if that's the case, then they probably don't have a *truly competent* Windows Person available, either. In my last position, I managed a refresh of our entire office PC fleet. We replaced them with surplused IBM ThinkCentre P4s. It took me *three weeks* to build, finalize and test our sysprep installation image. Deploying new machines took about 32 minutes from request to plug-in, and over the following 18 months (until I was laid off), we had *one* virus-type problem; Antivirus 2009 or the like. We pulled the box down; backed up the user data, reimaged, and had the seat back on line the same afternoon. It was, of course, a manager. The job was a call center; all 499 seats and all but 2 of our servers ran Linux of one flavor or another, and, module hardware failures and sloppy SQL queries, I didn't touch them much at all. You *can* run a reliable network with Windows machines, but it takes just as much technical competence as running Linux does, if not more. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274 _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
