Kwyjibo wrote:
>
>"Murderous Speeding Drunken Distracted Driver (Hector Goldstein)"
><drunk_and_distracted@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> clifto wrote:
>>>Murderous Speeding Drunken Distracted Driver (Hector Goldstein) wrote:
>>>> Kwyjibo wrote:
>>>>>> Yup the lack of cryptic error messages went as soon as I switched
to
>>>>>> Linux.
>>>>>
>>>>>Very true. Linux is a lot worse than Windows when it comes to cryptic
>>>>>error
>>>>>messages.
>>>>
>>>> That's only the case if you're incompetent.
>>>
>>>No, he's right. Windows exists to prevent you from seeing error
messages,
>>>no matter what awful thing is happening to your system that might be
>>>prevented if you saw an error message.
>>
>> That must explain we're seeing roughly a 15% failure in the Windows
>> Management Instrumentation interface in the 2500
>> Winblows eXtra CraPpy installs my team sup****ts.
>>
>
>Your team can't be doing a very good job if you can't diagnose a WMI
problem
>when you have 375 examples to investigate.
LMAO. My team's primary purpose is software development, and we've got
higher priorities than dealing Microsoft's 15% failure rate. It's in
the task list, but toward the bottom.
>> Those failures result in NO errors being returned, when there are
>> problems with the system. Interestingly enough, in researching the
>> problem to try to fix it, I see a number of solutions posted by
>> "microsoft guys" (some MVPs, others actual employees), yet in our
>> cases none of those solutions work.
>
>So you and your team are not capable of diagnosing a problem and coming
up
>with your own solution?
We'll get it, when we have our other priorities taken care of. The
main piece, which is to reboot the terminals, works without issue; we
just provide re****ting with 15% inaccuracy. The business owner is fine
with that, as he's got much higher things on his wish list, too. His
main concern was the stability of the terminals, which was cured by
the rebooting piece. The re****ting piece is hardly "mission critical,"
unlike the basic operation of the point of service terminal itself.
>> Freakin' useless, and if the decision would have been mine (I wasn't
>> on the team at specification time) I would NOT have pushed that
>> flaming pile of garbage into our sites. One of the tasks I've had to
>> perform was to write a service to make the terminals reboot
>> automatically at a given time each day, as they don't seem to be able
>> to operate for more than 72 hours without breaking.
>
>Again - That just shows a lack of investigative and problem solving
ability.
No, it shows you don't have a clue as to what my task list is like.
For that matter, it's evident you don't have a clue, period.
>I'm surprised you would openly admit your incompetence in an open forum
such
>as usenet. If I was that piss-poor at my job I would keep it to myself
and
>probably be looking for emplyment elsewhere.
Unlike you, I've not made that admission.
By the way, if I'm incompetent, why has my income doubled in the four
years I've been with this employer? Why am I about to receive yet
another promotion which will bring with it another 50% increase in
pay?
>> Ah well, as long as idiots keep specking Microsoft crap, I'll have a
>> job.
>
>Until someone someone notices your inability to solve fairly basic
>problems.......
>
>> Can't say that with Linux; those boxes are "fire and forget."
>
>Just the way you like them, huh? No thinking involved.
My primary job purpose is to develop software, not to play the role of
sysadmin. Deploying Linux allows me to focus my attention on my job;
deploying Winblows doesn't.
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Sarcasm is my sword
Apathy is my ****eld
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