/me notes address - is that Seanie (the merciless)? :)
Seanie wrote:
> The correct answer was "find them boot disks and wipe your hard drive"
> or words to that effect. A complete re-install of a so-called server
> OS to fix some minor problem with some minor component!!!
Yes, however Microsoft are a bunch of lusers anyway - this is the kind
of response I would expect from them.
Over last summer I was working with a certain company and went down to a
chain of internet cafes we were working with - they had been advised to
reboot their Solaris servers daily in order to fix a problem with their
mail setup. I figured it was simply the queue wasn't getting run at
regular intervals and that restarting was the "fix" which reran the
queue. Still, this kind of advice from a certain large international
support company with terrabytes of customer support "knowledge" base is
disturbing. Obviously the horrible shite that Microsoft produce has
infected thought patterns as well as computer systems.
<snip profiles>
I have encountered several situations with large profile setups where
the only recommended fix was to re-install. Thank goodness for samba and
related tools.
> hurrah for dotfiles which can be tarred and copied
As long as you remember to backup dot files when you backup the rest :P
> Just my two-penny worth. Feel free to flame me if you disagree.
Nah, I agree :)
However, I was at a meet the other day in London where several people
were randomly spending time flaming Microsoft and I realised - I spend
too much time flaming them, I might hate them but life is too short :P
Ah...thought so.
--jcm
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