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Posted on 09/07/2006 10:11:42 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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We've only had the SUS (systems update server) for a little over a year. Yeah... companywide deployments before that were a sincere pain in the asterisk. I know what you mean.
Active Directory, group policies and SUS have been a real nice thing. No doubt about that. Patches... updates... whatnot... even new apps can be just pushed right on out.
I know we could have been using SMS all this time, but I've just always choked at the price before. I wish I'd pushed harder for it years ago and just bitten the bullet. Centralized management is just too good to not do if you can.
Your situation is of course quite different. But billable hours ~are~ billable hours. :-)
My Internet provider is JUNO. JUNO and IE7 are not good marriage prospects. I couldn't connect to the Internet most of the time, when I could connect it made my 56K dial-up modem fell like 300 BAUD (Shudder)! When it did connect it took more than 5 minutes just to reach my Email, which is an Internet based Email! It would lock up the computer, which is a 3400 Athalon, with 1 GB of RAM and a 200 GB hard-drive, so that I had to cold boot it just to turn it off!
Well, I don't know if Juno is the issue. Shouldn't be... though... as a networking sort of dude I think I would recommend a first or second-tier provider instead of a reseller. If you're on DSL, get it from whoever is the last mile provider, Qwest, Centurytel, whatever. Or cable. That way, you're only one hop to the Internet instead of two or three.
I'm guessing that the problem was the install, and maybe some issues with your particular hardware and/or drivers. I'm getting recall of one of our guys that did an install of an RC2 (release candidate, supposedly gold code) version of IE7 in beta testing that did some pretty unkind things to his system. IIRC is was a pretty specific combination of certain drivers on particular hardware that hadn't cleared the barf test. Surely, some of those still happen in the gold code and the release version. Given the only slightly sub-infinite combinations of man-moment-machine, those things are bound to happen.
I dunno. Wait for some driver updates for your system maybe before giving it another try. Or just don't do it. That's always an option. :-)
IMHO. Your mileage may vary. Consult your physician to decide if this medication is right for you. Professional drivers on a closed track. Do not try this at home.
Works for me for now. It took them 6 years or whatever to come up with this version, I can wait!
Thanks for the assist!
Hehehe... yah. I've been on a career-long love/hate abusive codependent relationship with Brother Bill's Travelling Salvation Show.
Though, I gotta admit. Windows XP is just plain the single most solid OS ever made, especially considering the myriad of platforms and vagueries of millions of peripherals they have to support. And I'm an original Macintosh devotee. It really was quite an accomplishment.
And as good as the Novell Directory Service was, I couldn't wait to dump Netware for Windows NT (then, v. 3.51). Sure, Active Directory is a total ripoff of what NDS was doing ten years ago... but AD is ~administrable~ in ways that NDS itself was always just a total PITA.
It could be said that Novell's only problem is that they were just a little too early on the curve. Novell could have ~owned~ networking if only they'd not been so good at something that could so obviously be made easier, and they failed at the interface level. The early iterations of NT were way sub-par to Netware's deeper features, but they were not just easier to use, they were easier to tie back to other legacy systems. Slam, bang, done. Netware is out and NT 3.51 is in.
NT 4.0 was a really competent follow-on to 3.51 and it sealed the deal.
When you consider the tens of thousands of applications, the combinations of hardware and software are mind-boggling. And it sorta works most of the time.
I don't worship at the feet of Microsoft, but I don't see anybody spending billions of dollars to build a better operating system mousetrap.
Microsoft has really standardized things and, Linux-worshippers aside, that's pretty much a good thing. I can help my grandmother debug her computer, get files from anyone anywhere, and go from one job to another without having to spend a week just learning their computers. And that's cool.
It's also Friday and that's cooler.
Mmmm...Friday...
I found it interesting because the law is similar to what I *think* we have here in Oklahoma. Except I really didn't know if it was a law any where. So when I stumbled on that bit of info, even though it's from VA, it made me feel optimistic that we might have something like that here in OK.
Good morning!
~sip~
The weather looks imposing! I hope it clears off before Steve gets home at lunchtime!
Good morning young ladies.
Jen, how ya doing? I thought I was gonna die in the night...had a real rough time.
But I finally got to sleep, sometime after four AM and slept till Joshua woke me up at 8am.
My throat is really raw from being sick and just from the act of coughing, so the coffee is especially good this morning.
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Cool! So you just need to check that it is not assigned to another car.
Right!
I'm going to keep an eye out on Ebay...wait till I find the perfect one.
~mornin'~
I heard Nana go downstairs during the middle of the night. She told me this morning that her room was too hot and it made her ankle hurt.
I explained they were not likely to be related, and adusted the heating vent in her room.
***ponders not doing Nanowrimo***
~sip~
That's the healthiest thing I've heard you say all week :~)
~sip~
LOL!
That's great!
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