Aug 19
So….I finally did it. Made the switch *PERMANENTLY*. And I can say permanently because (this time) I made the switch more than 4 months ago and have not even once considered going back. The straw that broke the camel’s back was re-imaging a laptop for a friend, when I found out that Microsoft will NO …
Jun 09
Ok – it doesn’t suck yet. I’m sure I’m going to have my membership to the all-geek club revoked for that statement but saying anything else wouldn’t be totally honest. I installed Win7, RC1 (I think – Build 7100) yesterday on the spare harddrive on my laptop just for grins. First off I was amazed …
Jan 02
Hope everyone had a great new-year. I spent mine stripping every last bit of Windows Vista off my desktop at home. I played with it for a while, mostly to see what all the fuss was about. Most of it comes down to yet another example of the dumbing down of America. Vista has managed …
Feb 10
I’m not really bashing their workstations, i’m actually quite fond of Vista on my laptop. However, when it comes to servers, I view being in an environment where Microsoft is the PRIMARY operating system by a factor of 20:1 as a form of torture akin to having my finger-naiils pulled out or being tied to …
Jan 28
I’ve been reading the TimeFinder Integration guide for SQL and Exchange – this is going to be FUN…. (not) it would be nice if, at least from the SQL standpoint, they do transaction logging in the traditional sense, so that I could just snap the database, snap the transaction logs, and back the flat-files up. …
Dec 29
I had posted a few nice words about Vista, but I deleted them when I found out that Microsoft has been bribing Bloggers with Brand new $2,300 Acer Ferrari laptops. Where’s mine? The article, on E-Week.com says that at least 7 bloggers have confessed that the nice things they’ve said about vista came after they …
Dec 04
Let’s face it, if it’s Oracle, DB2, or anything along those lines, I can snap a copy and back it up with my eyes closed. MSSQL, being a pretend database, has me stumped. I’m so used to archive logs that I’m not even sure how to use TF/Snap to back up the database. This is …
Oct 17
I can’t even talk during the day because of the great sucking sound coming from our microsoft infrastructure. From a storage end, it’s even harder, because natively Microsoft doesn’t have ANY tools to unmount a filesystem or quiesce a production volume so you can take a hardware based snapshot of it. Of course they’ve introduced …
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