The siren song of Windows service packs
After reinstalling Windows 2000 on the computer in the library, it's been crashing approximately once every 4 hours (as opposed to the old installation, which didn't crash ever until a reboot-me-now virus got past the we're not going to update because we don't want to! Norton installation.) So, once again, I did something that keeps biting me; I installed one of the Microsoft Service Packs to bring this copy of Windows up to current microsoft patch levels.
Need I mention that I use Unix boxes to run the windows domain that all of these pcs run in? Need I mention that Microsoft wants to kill off the Unixes? After waking up this morning to find a dead (again) PC, I took about 50 minutes to install service packs, rebooted, and was left with a PC that people couldn't log into anymore. Ooookay, that's a hour of my life that's been completely wasted, and it's another reason to go out and buy a teeny tiny powermac and a SGI multlink adapter (or an Apple 20" studio display), even if that means that I'll be stuck with the incredibly sucky MacOS user interface. The Mac, you see, runs Un*x, and that means that it uses samba to do windows networking, and samba, unlike Microsoft Windows, doesn't need to be incompatable with the samba server I use to run the windows domain.
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I know it's selfish of me, but when you tell stories like this, I feel much less ignorant. Since I consider you to be a guru, I feel much less like an idiot when crap happens in your world, too.
Thanks. :)
Love.