About a week ago I had the unmitigated pleasure of heading out to a client to do a routine harddrive swop for their backups to be transferred offsite. This is a weekly thing that gets done to keep their data safe.
As I walked in the door the owner of the company (a financial planning business) asked me to check why they had run through their local bandwidth so quickly.
What I found both horrified and amused me.
A while back I did a quick install and tour of Windows 98, today it was the turn of Windows 95. Playing around with it I can see why so many companies where I did tech support used it in favour of Win98. continue reading…
Fooling around with installing Jaunty on my laptop (twice, since the first time I managed to wipe my old /home by installing / on it – genius…) got me in the mood for tinkering.
Today while sitting in the company bakkie stuck in traffice I discovered an old CD holder, and lo and behold in it I discovered, among other things, Windows 98, 98SE, ME and 2000PRO!
I could not wait to get home and fire up a Win98 VM to relive my early tech days… continue reading…
Recently we quoted one of our larger customers to upgrade 25 of their workstations to Windows Vista and Office 2007.
After wading through the confusing Microsoft licencing options such as “Software Assurance” and “Volume Licencing” among other details we finally arrived at a quoteable price for the client. I was astounded, to say the least.
According to Kaspersky Labs – I am vulnerable. They claim that Linux, BSD and MacOS boxes are open for attack via malicious code.
And I got paranoid.
My Good Friend Jaco Kroon remarked that my blog was becoming a rant – and since then I have refrained from blogging because I deal with Windows on a daily basis. Hence everytime I open my wordpress admin page a rant is in the making.
Hence, today I will refrain from ranting (I hope) and relate clearly why I think Windows is not a good server OS. continue reading…
I have a pet peeve – compatibility. I hate when a computer user cannot work together with others in a workgroup because his/her hardware or software is incompatible with the others.
Now this is one of the first questions people ask me whenever Linux pops into the conversation: “Does it work with WIndows? Is it compatible? Can you open documents sent by Windows users?”
Yes, yes and yes. There is however a flipside – when Windows computers do not work together with Windows computers.
Desktop Ready is a bit of a misnomer – a standard that operating systems are measured against in order to fulfill a requirement that no-one has taken the time to spell out definitively. This causes a major problem, from where I stand – and leads me to ask the following questions:
These two questions, and a few remarks and observations – has lead me to believe there is not one single desktop-ready operating system available today if they are judged by the loose set of criteria we apply to this category. Here’s why I say so: continue reading…
Whenever one debates the issue of virus threats and operating systems the following comment is bound to pop up:
“Well Linux is not really less prone to virus attacks, it’s just that virus authors choose to attack the most common Operating Systems.”
If you are an Open Source pundit, you might have come across various incarnations of that argument somewhere during your travels through the intarwebs, or even during a late night drink with some fellow geeks.
Just a quick note, a follow-up to yesterday’s blog on the breakage Microsoft Products cause with Microsoft products if you will.
Proby (you know who you are) called me over to assist with a client’s computer today. The crux of the matter is this: Client had Office with Outlook 2003, client bought new computer and bought Office Home and Student. continue reading…
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