Rants!

and then on licensing...

I actually heard a person at an MS licensing brief say that the reason they switched back to MS was that Linux licensing was too complex. At first I started laughing, then I realized what the distros have done and realized that the poor guy knew nothing really and was genuinely confused, and I must admit on second thought, about all the crap that the distros put out trying to explain GNU, the distribution copyright, and the Open Source generally... well, MS's new program where they cut out the middlemen entirely is actually starting to look like the simple one...

on service packs...

I'm tired of hearing admins say that service packs break more than they fix. I mean, c'mon people! have you yet questioned whether or not you actually know what you are doing? If you understand how the system works and do a little common sense preparation, MS can't "hose your whole business network." I mean really..... IMO this is a typical ploy for lazy, or, shall I say "unknowledgable" administrators - blame. The blame game. We IT people seem to have an inordinate amount (of course none @TR, but you've heard them eleswhere!) of people that are better at blame than any technical skill.... instead of the recently mentioned hack101 and virii101 courses, maybe they should offer a full year in blame. Perhaps it's more upper division? Blame 301-303?

Then again, even though it would probably be quicker to spend some time learning, I suppose it's more fun to run around and gain support for the ego by posting all over the internet about how much OS's suck and then getting lots of supportive feedback, so it's off to the Usenet so I too can find out what to tell my boss for having not worked during this time off extended posting. :)