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Jonathan Melhuish wrote:
I was quite worried when I walked up to the Nationwide cash machine (next to where the 2600 meetings start, I think) and was greeted with: "Welcome to NT 4.0 (with Internet Explorer). Press Ctrl + Alt + Delete to log on" I was under the impression that they all ran some variant of UNIX, or at least something reasonably secure?
Whilst I like M$ bashing as much as the next geek, NT does have some nice security features, and if you know what you are doing you can make a solid install. Microsoft had clearly realised that it is an much the "know how to do reliable computing", as it is technology, when they launched Windows 2000. There was a lot of discussion of data centers, and recognition on the problems of admins who migrate froma desktop OS, suddenly confronted with the kind of environment where good change management may be suddenly far more important than all that know how. I think similar thing happened with the mainframe to Unix switch. Admins who were use to managing every change in tiny details were faced with departmental servers managed by lightly experienced admins. Thus Unix acquired it's reputation for insecurity and lack of reliability, but fortunately for Unix the standard of comparison dropped very quickly ;) -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.