__/ [ Jim ] on Tuesday 26 September 2006 17:23 \__
> You know what I hate about the work I do?
>
> It's the Windows boxes that STILL come in with various maladies, ALL
> software related, and 99.5% of them are only curable with a reinstall.
>
> Well, I'm SICK OF IT.
>
> I HATE having to perform microsurgery on Windows boxen that have had
> malware trounce them like the firewalls, on-access scanners (read: NORTON!)
> etc., weren't even there.
> I HATE having four of the five workspaces on my bench taken up with Windows
> boxen that're going through intensive virus scans, RE-RE-REinstalls, driver
> hunts, etc.
> I HATE fighting to bring a Microsoft machine's boot time down from TWENTY
> MINUTES to THREE. As I have been doing ALL BLOODY DAY TODAY.
>
> Thank the Deity of the Week for Linux. This laptop has been ZERO
> MAINTENANCE and ZERO TROUBLE for me since I installed SuSE. My SuSE
> webserver has been up now for 160 DAYS, continuously, without a restart,
> and it responds as readily as it did the first post-install boot.
>
> Just in case you missed the point of this message:
>
> _/-\o_ LINUX _o/-\_
Do what we have just done at the University? We have got a deal with Micro
Direct.
Student gets virus, sobs, then referred to MD. They'll sort 'em out.
Meanwhile, network staff handle /real/ problems. Very few of them, which
translates into idle time for a fixed-rate salary. Honest! You can define
your boundaries in terms of what you are willing to deal with and what is
utter garbage that a mininformed user should figure out for self. If Windows
require what we call the '5 steps to security', then it's a recipe for
trouble. It says it on the tin, so to speak.
Many seek assistance from the next-door neighbour, which reminds me of a
point that I often stress. While /some/ Linux users /sometimes/ hang out in
forums burning time, Windows folks do 'maintenance' not only for themselves,
but also for others. Think, for instance, about Steve Ballmer who struggled
for _2 days_ as he attempted to remove malware (in vain, BTW). Even his
engineers truly struggled in their latest attempts and I am not sure how it
ended up leaking to the press/blogsphere.
Best wishes,
Roy
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Roy S. Schestowitz, Ph.D. Candidate (Medical Biophysics)
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