I just hope you're not a Windows shop.

I have an MCSE (and most of the certificates MS offers) for a single reason - my current company needs them for the MS partner program, so i get paid to do those exams and keep them current.

There are a lot of people who cheat using braindumps or similar methods, but if you know your stuff and can read fast they're easy and you can be out in 30 minutes.

An expert that uses .GIF (which is restricted to 256 colors) and frames which are not the same?

I'm sorry, the article is worthless as it is.

Yeah. And a NT4 Server install needs even less space than the 2003 install!

I'm not sure if being paranoid is the right step - careful, sure, paranoid - no.

In the end, the goal of IT is to enable it's users to be more productive. Sometimes overparanoid IT guys can make life more difficult for the Users - this should be minimized.

All of the Windows Server components are always on-the-disk in Server 2008/R2. IIS on the disk, whether you use it or not. But only when enabling it you'll actually get the services you need for it.

This doesn't hurt. It doesn't compromise security.

So you wrote a lot and it even makes sense and considers most of the cases.

But Aero is disabled by default in Server 2008/R2. So there's no harm - it's available if you need it, but it doesn't affect your security with just being there.

Not really. If you're doing something for free, many laws don't come into play. For example, this is about the "Sales of Goods Act". If you're not selling, you don't have to worry.

Accountability for software sold is a good thing. Because right now, there is none.

DNSSEC is okay, it's just BIND that sucks. There are several DNS appliance vendors that have fully automated DNSSEC already working. For that matter, the Windows DNS server also sucks on the same level as does bind.

PowerDNS will bring mostly-automated DNSSEC, but it's not done yet.

That's a good thing, isn't it? If there's such a tax, you can download all the content you want. After all, you paid for it when you bought the storage medium.

Sadly, this is what a few people here actually believe.

No, there are plenty of SSDs that can sustain sequential read speeds above SATA2.

In fact, the US Military has rules to say our soldiers are supposed to disobey unlawful orders.

Erm, what happened in Germany was legal on their laws at that time. Laws can be changed.

No longer. The EU forbade it. You need to explicitly click on the yellow icon and allow newer IE versions to be installed.

5% of the system partition. If you don't have enough space, you won't enough space for restore points.

You can set it higher manually, though. But you'll need to know about it.

The default is 5% of the system partition. Small system partition, no place for restore points.

That's why i recommend at least 200GB for C:\

Obviously, Kirk is the better Captain.