:) Gotta Love it -----Original Message----- From: Chris.Smith@raytheon.co.uk [mailto:Chris.Smith@raytheon.co.uk] Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2000 6:11 AM To: George Toft Cc: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] CNN, SusE, Lousy PR Hi, ** I agree totally with this thread: Microsoft's OS is not ready for ** prime time. Like I prattled on before, in my office of 25 Windows ** users, only four could install the OS. What - you think that is bad. I get lumbered into helping with things NT at work due to most of the poxy staff being off with stress problems (due to Windows NT!). We also have 800 windows based boxes (mostly 98 but moving to NT). Here's a few nasty ones to make you cringe:- 1/ Ever tried installing Small Business Server? 3 CD's of patches for Windows NT that sequentially install themselves. Installation time: 3 hours. Then it randomly dials out to the Internet to update itself without informing you and/or being able to control it. 2/ mscvrt.dll. Hmm very nasty. Ever tried reinstalling a later version of this? I had to write an InstallSheild program and the Inevitable Visual C++ hello world program and insert the DLL into the InstallSheild installation script. Time: 4 hours (included battling with licensing problems and learning Visual C++ basics!!!). Technical details on request :-) 3/ IE5. Suddenly, one solemn day, out IIS server started dishing out something odd which breaks IE5 permanently. It stops cookies being used and prompty commits suicide at the client end on access to a certain _plain_html_ document which validates to HTML4.0 standard from www.w3.org. 4/ The CAD problems. Hmm incompatible version of opengl32.dll....New video cards had to be purchased so that NT could understand them (in 2D as well) with SP6a (These are Matrox G400s which work perfectly with everything else except 6a!!!). They were replaced with 3DLabs Oxygen GVX1s!!! ( ------------------- Ok, where to begin. I inheirited a nice small little network. The last admin was less than lazy. It had Small Business Server 4.5 running on one machine, and the other 13 machines are NT Workstation. The guy installed ALL DEFAULTS on everything. He never cared to shutdown services that were never used. It was running with NT SP4, no service packs had been installed for Exchange, IIS or anything. This one machine was running IIS, Exchange, Proxy Server, Primary Domain Server, DNS Service, FTP Server, and was the gateway for all the computers on the network, to the internet. I could go on forever.... But won't. thanks, Justin -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/