Not crap, just an unfortunate series of events. Here's my take on it: "Printing faults crash the Citrix servers". Yes they do crash if they have insufficient memory, Windows or otherwise. They also crash if they are the wrong version or have never been maintained. I've also had problems with a SAMBA system when a device driver was updated on a remote Windows NT server, and the wrong printer driver was used. This comes back to not having any centralised policies regarding Change management.
"User account policies difficult to control". Yes, and they need to be centralised. This is applicable for any OS, and concerns policy, not technology. They had several Unix / Linux systems doing things, presumably because they were more cost effective than anything else on offer. Note also that this was a merger of three departments, so possibly a few people left in the merger. Again no documentation. "Data was spread across multiple system partitions". Again, policy, not technology. No policy means data will always spread to fill a space (like the gas equations). Email and virus complaints - nothing new here. If it's not managed or maintained of course Exchange will fall over. It's the last sentence which is really silly though: one suspects the writer got a guernsey from a certain quarter for that one. My predictions: They will eventually get the thing running, then they will run out of funding for the Windows sysadmins' wages, then the thing will fall over again and they will have to justify the cost of fixing it again. Or they will outsource the lot and wonder why the charges are so high. It's going to be fun when they fill up their disks again. - Jill. -----Original Message----- From: David Guest [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 17 February 2005 4:31 PM To: GLUG; SLUG Subject: [SLUG] Wall-to-wall Windows Is operating system vilification permited under the NSW anti-vilification laws? http://smh.com.au/articles/2005/02/14/1108229893549.html Really, someone should take the IT section of SMH to task over this sort of crap. David -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT NOTICES This email (including any documents referred to in, or attached, to this email) may contain information that is personal, confidential or the subject of copyright or other proprietary rights in favour of Aristocrat, its affiliates or third parties. This email is intended only for the named addressee. Any privacy, confidence, copyright or other proprietary rights in favour of Aristocrat, its affiliates or third parties, is not lost because this email was sent to you by mistake. If you received this email by mistake you should: (i) not copy, disclose, distribute or otherwise use it, or its contents, without the consent of Aristocrat or the owner of the relevant rights; (ii) let us know of the mistake by reply email or by telephone (+61 2 9413 6300); and (iii) delete it from your system and destroy all copies. Any personal information contained in this email must be handled in accordance with applicable privacy laws. Electronic and internet communications can be interfered with or affected by viruses and other defects. As a result, such communications may not be successfully received or, if received, may cause interference with the integrity of receiving, processing or related systems (including hardware, software and data or information on, or using, that hardware or software). Aristocrat gives no assurances in relation to these matters. If you have any doubts about the veracity or integrity of any electronic communication we appear to have sent you, please call +61 2 9413 6300 for clarification. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
