Javintosh
Meember
I asked EDS about installing XP at work a few weeks back. I was told that I needed to fill out a form to get a waiver because XP installations are strictly controlled.
You see, some of the services that are turned on in the default installation of XP cause our Cisco routers to crash. In the process of crashing, these routers will crash the routers around them and so on... The routers on the network will continue to crash like dominoes falling until you hit a WAN link. EDS learned this the hard way because someone in one of our offices in California installed XP and took down an entire campus network as a result.
EDS took to the task of figuring out what the problem was and the employee promptly became an ex-employee.
So, I filled the forms for my XP install, I added my name to the XP registry at work and I put a work request for installation. It has to be done by EDS in a very specific way or else I'll be an ex-employee.
Between the time I put the work request and the scheduled installation time (early January) Micro$haft announces that their most secure operating system ever "contains several serious flaws that allow hackers to steal or destroy a victim's data files across the Internet or implant rogue computer software." As if that was not enough: "the glitches allow hackers to seize control of all Windows XP operating system software without requiring a computer user to do anything except connect to the Internet."
The funny thing is that in spite of the crippling damage the default XP installation will do to our netowrk the EDS croonies have been swearing that XP would be different. That MS would get it right this time. I bet one of them that someone would find a major security flaw in XP within 6 months of him installing XP on my computer. Boy am I going to gloat when I go back to work Jan 2!
The more Winblows changes, the more it sucks the same.
http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/ptech/12/20/microsoft.hackers.ap/index.html
You see, some of the services that are turned on in the default installation of XP cause our Cisco routers to crash. In the process of crashing, these routers will crash the routers around them and so on... The routers on the network will continue to crash like dominoes falling until you hit a WAN link. EDS learned this the hard way because someone in one of our offices in California installed XP and took down an entire campus network as a result.
EDS took to the task of figuring out what the problem was and the employee promptly became an ex-employee.
So, I filled the forms for my XP install, I added my name to the XP registry at work and I put a work request for installation. It has to be done by EDS in a very specific way or else I'll be an ex-employee.
Between the time I put the work request and the scheduled installation time (early January) Micro$haft announces that their most secure operating system ever "contains several serious flaws that allow hackers to steal or destroy a victim's data files across the Internet or implant rogue computer software." As if that was not enough: "the glitches allow hackers to seize control of all Windows XP operating system software without requiring a computer user to do anything except connect to the Internet."
The funny thing is that in spite of the crippling damage the default XP installation will do to our netowrk the EDS croonies have been swearing that XP would be different. That MS would get it right this time. I bet one of them that someone would find a major security flaw in XP within 6 months of him installing XP on my computer. Boy am I going to gloat when I go back to work Jan 2!
The more Winblows changes, the more it sucks the same.
http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/ptech/12/20/microsoft.hackers.ap/index.html
