[rescue] Another Reason Windows Sucks

[Andrew Weiss]

On Tuesday, July 9, 2002, at 09:00 AM, ssandau at bath.tmac.com wrote:

> I would *run* from Windows X-PeePee as fast as possible. My limited
> experience suggests it's the ultimate in
> I'm-smarter-than-you-are-and-I'm-out-to-prove-it software, and follows
> in the eat-up-all-the-system-resources Windows tradition. And don't get
> me started on sound cards...
>
> I'd go back to win2k if you have to have windows. Even then you have to
> deal with a fsked-up network configuration and "My Network Places." I
> really hate using software written for 5-year-old users. At least in
> windows terms it is relatively stable.
>
> (Personally, my one Windoze box at home has 95, and my
> need-it-to-sign-in-and-out Windows box at work is NT.)
>

Once you get used to it Windows 2000 network configuration and systems 
management tools are what they should have been all along.... complex 
enough to handle a real naming system (Active Directory) that at least 
makes a minor attempt to be standards based... Kerberos auth/LDAP 
browsing... but of course they have some gotchas in there.... just run 
mixed-mode.  The tools also have command line analogs for most of them 
that can be run over the telnet server which thank-goodness is now 
built-in... so we are approaching Unix a bit.  Terminal services for 
administration is also built-in now...so you can GUI administrate the 
rest.  As for the My this My that... the first thing I do on any new 
machine is change My Computer to the hostname, My Network Places (or 
Network Neighborhood on the older machines) to Network... My Documents 
to Documents... etc. (takes 5 seconds or so)

-Andrew
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