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* Posts by Rob

3 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Aug 2008

Mystery Fedora disruption prompts security fears

Rob
Unhappy

I wonder..

If the Fedora team are rebuilding all their systems - are *they* Fedora or RHEL? Hopefully they are or it implies that RHEL has been penetrated somehow.

That said, a fair proportion of hacks are down to misconfiguration or mistakes.

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Microsoft starts stoking hype for Windows 7

Rob
IT Angle

@Zappa

Nobody would say that MS aren't a pretty damn ruthless company, but then so are many others. They have had, and continue to get a roasting in the courts. Good.

But leave the DRM rubbish out of it:

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=299&tag=rbxccnbzd1

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=304&tag=rbxccnbzd1

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=309&tag=rbxccnbzd1

But then you probably think it's all a conspiracy. Sigh.

IT angle because the discussion seems to border on fundamentalism most of the time..

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Rob
Stop

@ all the fanboys

There seems to be a lot of people vying to be the biggest M$ hater here.

I understand many of the criticisms, but it makes me wonder what you're doing if you have such vast problems with your Windows installs etc. As a sysadmin for 16 years I've used and deployed lots of operating systems, including VMS, Solaris, linux and of course Windows. I can honestly say that since NT4 SP2 I've not had any real trouble. Sure, Vista has a few things I'm not so keen on - but it has always worked just fine for me on average hardware.

I believe in a 'horses for courses' approach. Linux is great for lots of things, rightfully deserves it's place in the market and will hopefully keep on getting better, but if you're deploying basic directory/file/print/email etc then 2003/8 server with XP clients is way more convenient and supportable IMHO. They don't break if you know what you're doing with them and are a doddle to look after. My company isn't deploying Vista because it doesn't offer enough extra for us - but that doesn't mean it's rubbish at all. I've had far more trouble with 3rd party apps.

I'm no MS fanboy and I don't work in Redmond - I just think that some of you need to grow up a bit, especially if you consider yourselves IT professionals.

(if anything I'm a VMS fanboy, but unfortunately it's had it's day now)

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