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New No I don't.
I have zero interest in doing the same.
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No matter how much Microsoft supporters whine about how Linux and other operating systems have just as many bugs as their operating systems do, the bottom line is that the serious, gut-wrenching problems happen on Windows, not on Linux, not on Mac OS. -- [link|http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1622086,00.asp|source]
Here is an example: [link|http://www.greymagic.com/security/advisories/gm001-ie/|Executing arbitrary commands without Active Scripting or ActiveX when using Windows]
New I have zero interest in administrating Windows.
However, I have a very high interest level in my paycheck.
"Here at Ortillery Command we have at our disposal hundred megawatt laser beams, mach 20 titanium rods and guided thermonuclear bombs. Some people say we think that we're God. We're not God. We just borrowed his 'SMITE' button for our fire control system."
New Anything else...
...is the tail wagging the dog.


Peter
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[link|http://www.kuro5hin.org|There is no K5 Cabal]
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New Adminning Windows is too much stress for me.

Is it enough to love
Is it enough to breathe
Somebody rip my heart out
And leave me here to bleed
 
Is it enough to die
Somebody save my life
I'd rather be Anything but Ordinary
Please

-- "Anything but Ordinary" by Avril Lavigne.

New It's not the computers that stress me...
...and never has been.

It’s the people. It’s the commute. It’s the numbskull HR policies. It’s the mental maze that is the expenses form. It’s the political wrangling over who’s got control of the local DNS/AD/LDAP/NDS/DTSS/NTP/whatever.

The actual computers and the software that runs on them are fairly low down on the list of things to get wound up about.

An OS is an OS is an OS. They’re all shit, in one way or another. Fanboidom is pointless; I used to say that I’d work on anything with a power switch.



Peter
[link|http://www.debian.org|Shill For Hire]
[link|http://www.kuro5hin.org|There is no K5 Cabal]
[link|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org|Home]
New When Linux breaks, there's a reason.
And usually a nice sane reason. And if it's an insane reason, it's usually because someone you probably work with has made an insane change.

IME, Windows likes to sometimes break "just because it feels like it". This is stressful. More so when you have someone relying on you to have it working - which it was an hour earlier - and they are wondering what kind of meds you're on because it's broken, you keep telling them you don't know why, and they're not sure they believe you when say you didn't touch it.

</rant>

OTOH, I *have* had major major stress from administering a security policy created by auditors who decided to Do Things Right but secure in the knowledge that It Would Not Be Them Doing It. Right down to specifying equipment they couldn't believe was reliable only because we wouldn't follow some of their more extreme rules. I believe Those In Charge wisely and quietly decided, unfortunately after this was irrevocably in place, that auditors were never to be allowed to do that again.

Wade.

Is it enough to love
Is it enough to breathe
Somebody rip my heart out
And leave me here to bleed
 
Is it enough to die
Somebody save my life
I'd rather be Anything but Ordinary
Please

-- "Anything but Ordinary" by Avril Lavigne.

     Intermittent problem with Oracle - (ben_tilly) - (16)
         To me this sounds like a - (folkert) - (2)
             Anything is possible, but that seems unlikely - (ben_tilly) - (1)
                 Then I'd agree... - (folkert)
         Sounds like Oracle have been taking lessons from Microsoft. - (static) - (9)
             Yeah - which is why I dislike the situation so much -NT - (ben_tilly)
             You want non-deterministic? - (inthane-chan) - (7)
                 And people wonder why I won't admin Windows Servers... :-) -NT - (static) - (6)
                     No I don't. - (folkert) - (5)
                         I have zero interest in administrating Windows. - (inthane-chan) - (4)
                             Anything else... - (pwhysall)
                             Adminning Windows is too much stress for me. -NT - (static) - (2)
                                 It's not the computers that stress me... - (pwhysall) - (1)
                                     When Linux breaks, there's a reason. - (static)
         anything in the system logs? - (daemon) - (2)
             We checked those logs, and we intend to do more - (ben_tilly) - (1)
                 thats always the hardest part it takes a sneaky outage - (daemon)

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