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[Adam Williams]

>>>Whoa.
>>That's dirt cheap.
>That's why Intel PC's suck and gain market share. ;)

Preaching to the choir.  At this point the stability of Linux surpasses
the stability of some of the (even good) Intel hardware I'm running it
on.  Then I've got this IBM RS/6000 that's been happily grinding away
for pushing two years, and that shutdown was due to the failure of an
internal tape drive.  Amazing.

>>Very cool.  But you might want to point out that someone still running
>>1.9.18 pretty scary (That's roughly two years old?)
>You don't know how paranoid these people are. All changes have to be filed
>in Sanskrit on triplicate clay tablets before something like a change peeks
>its ugly head through the door. :)

I understand their attitude completely and why they resist change.  If
the current system is meeting the companies need why change it?  Users
request an endless chain of superfluous and silly changes because
something is inconvenient for them.  I've had a user ask that we
basically redisgn out entire e-mail system because ONE certain type of
attachment took FOUR (count them ONE ... TWO ... THREE ... FOUR) mouse
clicks to open.  Since cynisism and sarcasm seem to grow in a linear
fashion,  I figure I'll be handing out sanskrit triplicate clay tablets
by the time I'm 35. ;}

But running a two+ year old package (with MANY MANY MANY security
exploits), especially when the package (Samba) is one of the most proven
around, is a wee-bit ridiculous.  And they have already approved
(apparently) and installed newer versions elsewhere.

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