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Man. Do you work for the finance director? I would have said it - especially if you had suggested it back when they were looking at new system.
 
LooseCannon said:
Good to hear, EW. I'm not nearly that rigorous. You really should be using a Mac with Time Machine - hourly automated backups.

Anyway. Vista wasn't bad in the way Windows ME was bad; Vista was a huge tech jump (considering it was 6 years later) and wasn't for the average person to configure. On a box that was designed for it, Vista ran great.
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Well, it's not that I have anything against W 7 or Vista - but having to adapt to a new operating system right now, be it a good one or a lousy one, would suck. I need this time to produce a PhD thesis, which takes time.

As for what type of computer to use - I had no choice, really, I was given the standard laptop every employee at the faculty has, a Dell Latitude. Currently it's the only computer I have, I don't have a private one at the moment.
 
That's a fine PC, really.  And I totally understand what you mean about learning something new.  In a few weeks, it'd be old hat to you, but in the mean time, it would be a pain. 

Another nice thing about Vista/Win7 is that the back up system is sooooo easy to use.


Albie said:
We had a departmental meeting the other day and the IT boss talked of the cost of software licensing going up drastically since all our 1270 stores are now on WinXP.  I nearly stuck my hand up and said:

"If we had gone to open source, it would be £0"

I really don't think that would have gone down well at all. Considering the finance director was present as well.
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Ha!  That sounds like things we hear here.  "Adobe Acrobat has to be upgraded, thats 25 new Keys".... Open source would be $0.
 
Wasted The Great said:
Ha!  That sounds like things we hear here.  "Adobe Acrobat has to be upgraded, thats 25 new Keys".... Open source would be $0.
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I'm so happy I'm not in the IT department. You guys must have a blood pressure high enough to increase your risk of brain stroke tenfold.
 
Wasted The Great said:
But, I know how you feel, just keep nursing along that XP box and all will be well!!  Back the hell out of it up!!  Flash drives, External HDD's, Network drives, your mom's PC....
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My backup up strategy? Robocopy or rsync (according to the OS) and backed up to a SD card, USB ext. HDD, a network share and a USB stick. That network share is backed up to a further two separate drives nightly.

LooseCannon said:
Man. Do you work for the finance director? I would have said it - especially if you had suggested it back when they were looking at new system.
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It was suggested but didn't go down well as there is no knowledge of Linux in our entire IT dept aside from what I know. Besides, the finance director has committed to the capital exp. And the apps that run will have to be made to run on a different OS - in short, it would be cheaper and easier to keep with Microsoft.
 
Eddies Wingman said:
I'm so happy I'm not in the IT department. You guys must have a blood pressure high enough to increase your risk of brain stroke tenfold.
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Changing mail servers literally led to a hole in the wall in the IT office here. It can be fucking fierce sometimes.

Albie said:
It was suggested but didn't go down well as there is no knowledge of Linux in our entire IT dept aside from what I know. Besides, the finance director has committed to the capital exp. And the apps that run will have to be made to run on a different OS - in short, it would be cheaper and easier to keep with Microsoft.
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Ah, so the license fees are high, but you save on the apps. Gotcha. Very similar to the discussions had here.
 
Wasted The Great said:
Honestly, other than some little things, I really do like Win7 better.  Some programs just won't run, some drivers just won't work, but overall, it is fairly simple to use once you get the hang of it.
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As a Mac owner, reading statements like this gives me a warm, fuzzy feeling. 
 
As a certified Mac technician (now that my company is no longer vendoring for Apple, I can say it freely), I can say that fuzzy feeling is completely without foundation ;)
 
LooseCannon said:
As a certified Mac technician
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Big mistake.  Now I will pester you with any and all Mac questions, large and small.  Of course, I have had very few problems with my Macs over the years, hence the fuzzy feeling.  The worst is that my 7-year-old laptop sometimes doesn't want to wake up from sleep mode.  But, I just restart it, no big whoop.
 
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