Posts by PJR

Microsoft CFO quits as quarterly results fail to sparkle

Balmer future uncertain ???

I've visited my bank account this morning. I can now confirm my future is more uncertain then Balmer's.

Seriously, those folks claiming Win7 is not a serious improvement over WinXP are unknowledgeable. More a religious statement to propagate hate against Microsoft then any actual fact. We have boost PC speed here 4 to 1 ratio moving from WinXP_32 to Win7_64. CAD stations boosted hundreds of time moving from WinXP AutoCAD 10 to Win7_64 AutoCAD 13. Things that used to take 10 to 20 minutes just to zoom in and out (extra large CAD drawings) are now instantaneous with the same hardware.

Sorry. I used to hate Microsoft, but I enjoy that company more and more. Windows 8 is very easy to "upgrade" to "interface-like-win-7" and then you enjoy faster speed. Better manageability. et.c. Read my lips. I hate Metro. Then so what ??? I don't care !!! All you need is to boost memory to over 8 gig. Preferably 16 gig. It cost nothing and is an excellent wait to keep your PC four more years. I thank Microsoft for that. Driver compatibility was no issue here. Rock solid. Never bombs. Thank Microsoft for that.

Symantec Backup Exec 2012 problems

BUExec 2012 will never recover cause it needs at completely re-written.

Well A nice lady from India - working for Symantec - blocked me on Symantec web site because I wrote Backup Exec Services were stalled again and again and again ... :):):) The crap at Symantec is on and healty !!!

After month of 2012, I know now I do not hate this software because of reluctance to change. I hate it because it is totaly unreliable.

It's been written before and I repeat it again. This product is crap. Your chances to recover your data with this product are less then mediocre.

BUExec 2012. Everybody seems to discuss the fondamentals ...

Ok. A new interface. bla, bla, bla. I hate it, but its not my point for now. After working with that software for weeks now, I can tell two things:

1) Time wasted running this program has doubled if not trippled. Baby-Sitting this has become absolutely ridiculous. I know this software enough now for what I need. Which I consider basic. It consists of backing up 1 DC, 1 File Server, 1 Sharepoint, 1 SQL Server to a disk, then to a tape. I can assure you I am not a case of lurning curve. This software is filled up with bugs. All over !!! At first, jobs were randomly disapearing on the screen. After some service call to Symantec, the tech there (after waiting three weeks without reliable BU) destroyed the credentials to a point I had to wipe out (again) my server, and start from scratch. Database errors are on the daily menu. Deleting Backup-Sets leads to totaly random results. They are not in fact deleted from the disk, which gets overfilled rapidly. Job that failed are not clean-up et.c. Worse, deleted backup sets reapear from time to time. Nobody at Symantec can claimed they ever tested it. It is so easy to bomb it just after a fresh install I cannot believe any of those unprofessional and irresponsible Symantec's declarations. Same ridiculous bugs we have seen for decades are there again. Like the famous "Backup Succeeded, but some files were omited". Then you discover that the omitted files are from Symantec End Point Protection ... Silly !!! Or the ridiculous database error because it suposely cannot BU the database log, et.c. et.c.

2) But there's far worse then that, restoring fails to an almost 100% rate. If you feel like throwing your company in total inability to restore whatever, feel free to instll BUExec 2012 immediately.

Have I said the new interface is stupid, and inneficient ???

This software is total crap.

Paul Jr