Re: [opensuse]] Win vs Lin info - First Vista experience

2007-04-06 Thread M Harris
On Thursday 05 April 2007 03:13, John Andersen wrote: On the other side, I configured a Core 2 Duo Dell 9200 2 gig ram for a friend. You are the first one to actually say you are using *2 gig ram* and that is important... if you are using less than 2 gig you are going to look at

Re: [opensuse]] Win vs Lin info - First Vista experience

2007-04-05 Thread John Andersen
On Wednesday 04 April 2007, John Pierce wrote: or grins we allowed my wifes to boot into vista, 20 minutes later we got to the first semi-useable desktop, we still had alot of configuration to do. On the other side, I configured a Core 2 Duo Dell 9200 2 gig ram for a friend. It booted in

Re: [opensuse]] Win vs Lin info - First Vista experience

2007-04-05 Thread John Pierce
... this machine need *at least* one more GB Ram... what a joke... Two months ago my wife and I decided that it was time for new laptops, out IBM A21Ms had serverd us well. But 667Mhz P3s were a little out dated. Since we get the maximum life out of machine we decided that we would

Re: [opensuse]] Win vs Lin info - First Vista experience

2007-04-05 Thread Billie Erin Walsh
M Harris wrote: On Wednesday 04 April 2007 03:27, John Andersen wrote: After switching on the system, it took 15-20 minutes before it showd a desktop. Huh, an Intel Core 2 Duo E6400, at 2.13 GHz, 2MB L2 Cache, 1066 MHz FSB 1GB Ram (DDR2 SDRam 533 MHz, 64 Bit), with NVidia GeForce 7650 GS

Re: [opensuse]] Win vs Lin info - First Vista experience

2007-04-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 21:22 -0500, M Harris wrote: On Monday 02 April 2007 21:05, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote: Long ago about 2000 years we were warned we could not serve both GOD and Bill Gates. Preach it, bubba ... Amen -- Kind regards, M Harris My boss

Re: [opensuse]] Win vs Lin info - First Vista experience

2007-04-04 Thread John Andersen
On Wednesday 04 April 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After switching on the system, it took 15-20 minutes before it showd a desktop. Huh, an Intel Core 2 Duo E6400, at 2.13 GHz, 2MB L2 Cache, 1066 MHz FSB 1GB Ram (DDR2 SDRam 533 MHz, 64 Bit), with NVidia GeForce 7650 GS (256 MB DDR2 HDMI

Re: [opensuse]] Win vs Lin info - First Vista experience

2007-04-04 Thread Per Qvindesland
I have seen the same thing, started up the a spanking new HP machine with about 4GB of DDR2 ram, 2 core 2 chips and it was slo I went out for a breather (cigarette) and cam back in again about 15 minuts later, but the machine was still busy starting, up nothing rong with the machine

Re: [opensuse]] Win vs Lin info

2007-04-03 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 17:48 +, Russell Jones wrote: Don't confuse certainty with ideology. Hedge your bets and you won't be wrong. But you won't be right either. I know MS is appropriate in certain situations. But one needs to take their strategy and the distortions they create to

Re: [opensuse]] Win vs Lin info

2007-04-03 Thread M Harris
On Monday 02 April 2007 21:05, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote: Long ago about 2000 years we were warned we could not serve both GOD and Bill Gates. Preach it, bubba ... Amen -- Kind regards, M Harris -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional

Re: [opensuse]] Win vs Lin info

2007-03-21 Thread Russell Jones
Adam Tauno Williams wrote: Yep, specifically we are talking about Samba4, and it is quite a ways from a release. Right, so it does exist, it's just not useful yet. But it's not as if it's not being developed and tested. I was talking about something equivalent, not compatible. Sure

Re: [opensuse] Win vs Lin info

2007-03-01 Thread Russell Jones
John Andersen wrote: On Monday 26 February 2007, Hans van der Merwe wrote: This will probably spark some debates, but can someone point me to some information that I can use to successfully challenge out IT department concerning moving some Windows driven services to Linux (file, print and

[opensuse] Win vs Lin info

2007-02-27 Thread Hans van der Merwe
This will probably spark some debates, but can someone point me to some information that I can use to successfully challenge out IT department concerning moving some Windows driven services to Linux (file, print and email/collaboration). An anti-FUD cheat-sheet if you like. E-Mail

Re: [opensuse] Win vs Lin info

2007-02-27 Thread DElyMyth
On 2/27/07, Hans van der Merwe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This will probably spark some debates, but can someone point me to some information that I can use to successfully challenge out IT department concerning moving some Windows driven services to Linux (file, print and email/collaboration).

Re: [opensuse] Win vs Lin info

2007-02-27 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 23:48 -0900, John Andersen wrote: On Monday 26 February 2007, Hans van der Merwe wrote: This will probably spark some debates, but can someone point me to some information that I can use to successfully challenge out IT department concerning moving some Windows driven

Re: [opensuse] Win vs Lin info]

2007-02-27 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 09:45 +0100, DElyMyth wrote: On 2/27/07, Hans van der Merwe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This will probably spark some debates, but can someone point me to some information that I can use to successfully challenge out IT department concerning moving some Windows driven

Re: [opensuse] Win vs Lin info]

2007-02-27 Thread Dave Howorth
Hans van der Merwe wrote: Thx, but the practical problem is this... we have two competent Windows centric IT people... one IT manager who overdosed on the MS-Coolaid we have an AD, 70 XPs (full house, Office etc), MS-Portal, MS-Exchange, MS-SQL, BackupExec, MS-IIS, FullSiteLicense(TM).

Re: [opensuse] Win vs Lin info]

2007-02-27 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 10:21 +, Dave Howorth wrote: Hans van der Merwe wrote: Thx, but the practical problem is this... we have two competent Windows centric IT people... one IT manager who overdosed on the MS-Coolaid we have an AD, 70 XPs (full house, Office etc), MS-Portal,

RE: [opensuse] Win vs Lin info

2007-02-27 Thread Michael S. Dunsavage
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Re: [opensuse] Win vs Lin info]

2007-02-27 Thread John Andersen
On Tuesday 27 February 2007, Hans van der Merwe wrote: Yes but something like - But, TCO is much lower with current Widows arch than Linux, see these reports (classic FUD) is difficult to counter - Any manager that believe a single word from a Gartner report is one you don't want to work for.