[ale] Mojave experiment

[Greg Freemyer]

My last negative experience with Vista:

I visited a client and needed to copy several GB of data off a blade
server.  They had misplaced their dongle that provides USB
connectivity.

No problem, I'll connect up my external drive to one of the
workstations and share it out.  Then map the drive from the blade and
copy away.

I spent an hour trying to figure out how to get Vista to share my
external drive.  Never did figure it out.

Later on one of our people told me it is a common problem caused by
Vista's security model.

Greg

On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Forsaken <forsaken at targaryen.us> wrote:
> On Aug 5, 2008, at 2:44 PM, Jeff Lightner wrote:
>
>> Lol
>>
>> Vista not bad for normal end users?
>>
>> Meaning normal end users never try to get printers and other devices
>> that worked flawlessly with their older XP system but now can't be
>> made
>> to work on Vista even with a gun pointed to its head?
>
> When I say normal end users, I'm talking about the folks who sit down
> in front of their computers, check their email, do their online
> banking, visit ebay, and maybe print a few lolcats here and there.
> Honestly, I haven't heard of that many problems with printer drivers,
> but the folks I know all use HP printers, so I'm not really surprised.
> Most of the folks I know bitching about Vista are the ones with high
> end systems with high end video cards and sound cards that they built
> themselves (ie, power users). Not your average housewife who went to
> Wal-Mart and bought an HP computer off the shelf.
>
>> Your parents may have been lucky or maybe just do minimal things.  The
>> few people I know that have tried Vista (including at least one
>> professional Windoze Admin) think its sucks wind.
>
> I'm pretty sure I said that anyone with a clue knows better when it
> comes to Vista ;) The professional windows admin you referenced
> probably qualifies as that (or maybe not, most windows admins I know
> are secretly linux geeks and just admin windows boxes to pay the
> bills!) My old laptop came with Vista pre-installed (and only a gig of
> RAM as well.. wtf were they thinking?). It never got a chance to boot.
> First thing I did was insert and XP disc and boot that (and, of
> course, after that install was done, a boot off of an Ubuntu disc
> immediately followed)
>
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