Yes, but in those days of 5 megabyte hard disks you probably had a lot of your "information" in physical form - photos, records, letters, CDs, etc, so the consequences of losing that 5MB wouldn't be all that serious.

Not so common today.

0) RAID1/10 first so that if a disk fails you don't need to go to your actual backups and lose a days work[1].

[1] (Lost work since time of last backup) + (Time to install new disk) + (Time to reinstall / retrieve from backup)

I agree, but to be fair in this case it appears to me inline the same as an article. I don't mind it that much though it will probably result in fewer votes on any given poll as it is pushed further down by other articles.

Since recycling is the least-best of the three R's, it might be a good time to look at the other two: Reduce, Re-use.

...except you've just lost a day's work. I don't consider that an acceptable loss so I RAID1 all drives on desktop computers (with the nightly backup thing happening too).

Yes, RAID is not a backup, but the point is to reduce the need to call on backups in the first place.

I fight... for the users.

are you saying XP is better in the enterprise?

Unequivocally yes.

You are high or in some dinosaur industry. If you haven't moved all your PC's off XP yet you are doomed!

I didn't say we were still using XP. My client had to change off XP because Microsoft stopped making security updates for it, not because of any merits of 7. Along with the previously mentioned, we had to deal with a lot of hardware simply not working at all (no 64-bit Windows drivers) and utterly pathetic system recovery. Have you ever had Windows 7 successfully perform a startup repair? Ever? Me neither, though XP managed it all the time.

Who BROWSES a windows network? Not any sort of enterprise. Why would someone do that? The admin sets the drives,. printers, etc you need based on your location and function.

That works for the most commonly used shares (when Windows 7 remembers to mount them, which is about 50% of the time), but for more than a handful of network shares, you browse.

XP is garbage. Its like saying you want to use win98 in these days. If you have modern touch screen devices, you almost have to use windows 8. I find win8 less stable than windows 7 but windows 7 is surely just as stable as windows 2000.

Or as stable as XP perhaps? XP is nothing like 98 and its crash-tastic glory. Who uses touch screens in the Enterprise? And if they do, they're probably doing it on Android or perhaps Apple.

There are a few benefits to 7 of course: Proper 64-bit support is nice for programs that need more than 4GB and a few more CPU registers available if they're compiled right. That does not matter in an enterprise. The printer system is much improved as is the WSUS system. Marginally better driver detection, although a sysprep is still required for basic scenarios such as switching between AHCI and PATA emulated SATA modes. Can't think of much else I'm afraid.

You, sir, win the Internet today.

Yes, and the enterprise desktop is not one of them. I assume you do not work in the corporate sector, otherwise you would know that Windows 7 is a major step backwards.

Multi-domain logins? Sure, so long as you don't mind typing the WHOLE DOMAIN NAME every time you log in for all but one default domain. Domain selector dropdown box? Gone. No problem, just drop in a custom gina. Whoops, that whole ABI is gone.

Okay, let's browse the Windows network. So long as you're happy to wait for ten minutes, it will eventually populate with a flat (yes, FLAT) list of all the computers it can find, which is usually about 20 percent of the actual number of computers on the network. You can group the right pane by Workgroup to attempt to bring some structure to the list, but the left pane is pretty much beyond help.

What an absolute joke.

I think you'll find his miracle cure more closely resembles a bullet.

So Nokia's board, who hired Elop

I see, so I guess you could blame the Trojans for opening the gates. Fair enough.

I wonder what company he'll help next.

As usual, good PR for Intel... too bad their SSDs self-destruct based on a timer, instead of trying to soldier on until things actually get really broken (and only *then* self-destruct).

Wait, what?

You have had no electricity costs beyond meter rental?

Are you using a battery bank to store excess power during the day to use at night, or are you factoring in selling power back to the grid and getting a zero sum?

Dear Microsoft,

Thank you for your generous donation to our staff social club. As promised, please find attached drivers that utilise the *real* TRIM commands for our SSDs.

Sincerely yours,
A. Manufacturer

And since they clearly have shown no gratitude for you promoting their music for free, just don't play RIAA music any more.

So who does the best Creative Commons cafe mix tapes?