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Re: [News] Windows PC at Universities Can Become Zombie Armies

____/ ed on Sunday 19 August 2007 14:48 : \____

> On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 00:34:35 +0100
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> My daytime job is around JANET and there have been some serious
>> congestion issues some months ago. In fact, in December the mail
>> server got knocked down by excessive Windows spewage.
> 
> Mail was given and removed in the time that I was studying. They went
> from Novel to Windows domain and it just sucked. They tried using
> Exchange for the mail and within a week it was buckling and we all lost
> mail accounts for good.
> 
> Until that time I did not appreciate how much time and effort Windows
> networks consumed. It was a sorry time.

Like father, like son. Like desktop, like server.

TCO studies and stories heard suggest that Windows is a chore to manage in the
datacentre. My mail servers (e.g. the one on schestowitz.com) has not raised
an error in years, with the exception of server migrations. An Exchange server
in the faculty, on the other hand, is a disaster and I considered dropping it
altogether because of the annoying prompts it leads to (focus stealing).

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