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emh:
It's so great, that if a network program crashes, not only does it bring the OS of the server down with it, it also crashes every computer connected to the network!!

Yes, this actually happened at my work.

We have computers running Windows 2000, and we have either a Windows 2000 or a WIndows .NET server.  Anyway, a database program we use, I guess something went wrong in it and the program crashed.  However, as the program was crashing, EVERY SINGLE COMPUTER ON THE NETWORK (WHICH IS ALL THE COMPANY'S COMPUTERS) CRASHED AT THE SAME TIME!!!  How the hell does that happen?

I think all computers had to be restarted, and the problem was fixed, but still, this one program should not have taken down every computer connected to the server the program was running on.

Maybe this incident will get our IT manager to consider other alternatives.  As it is right now, he swears by all Microsoft products and thinks they're the best thing that's ever happened to the PC market.

choasforages:
damn, thats worse then our novell setup at school

voidmain:
It takes a lot more than that to convert a Microsoft droid in the form of an IT manager. 99% of the time the droid IT manager needs to be "shown the door" before positive change can occur.

Bazoukas:
VoidMan is correct. Its very difficult to convert anybody. It goes beyond Operating Systems. Humans stick to behaviors even if it has minimal rewards. Humans do not accept change.
 We are like sheeps, most of us at least. We do not realize the power that we have.
 I strongly believe, that it would take just few weeks to get rid of the worlds bigest problems, if we realized how powerfull we can be. Our handicap though is our low standards, of what we consider "rewarding".

  In other words we are kinda like this "baaah i have a car, i have a house, i hump my old lady plus my mistress, who cares if society is shit. Let somebody else fix it."

voidmain:
I should say that is true for the IT "manager/director" types but not necessarily the techy types (unless they are brain dead and can't see past MCSE). Directors have to justify their huge investments in Microsoft software, even if it means even more huge investments. Techy types could care less about that and use what allows them to do the most cool things with the least amount of effort and roadblocks.

When you can get Linux and Open Source applications without having to fill out a purchase order and not have to get signatures from God justifying the purchase then Linux creeps in the back door. And when the techy has the source which allows him/her to hack it up the way they like it's a bonus.

The only problem is, many times this has to be hidden from the IT windroid manager/director. In many cases I used open source to fill in the giant gaps that would have put the windroid IT director/CIO over budget and saved his ass. In no way would he ever admit this publicly, or necessarily know why he didn't go down with the ship. Maybe it's better to let the ship sink to speed up the inevitable.

[ December 03, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

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