[ Ubuntu-BD ] Windows screwup forces Ubuntu shift

[Mahbub Alamgir]

Great ! Great !

I think the day is no so far  when Microsoft will
understand there own problem.
They will invent that "$$Microsoft$$" turned into
"ProblemSoft">> "ExpireSoft"...>>"DeadSoft"
It's really paifull that A person unable to
guide/modify or makeup a OS.

A Person should Always follow the "ProblemSoft"'s
problematic instructions.


Thank You
Mir Mahbub Alamgir

--- Russell John <russell at linux.org.bd> wrote:

> Windows screwup forces Ubuntu shift
> 
> By: Charlie Demerjian
> 
> You never quite wrap your head around how
> anti-consumer Microsoft's
> policies are until they bite you in the bum. Add in
> the customer
> antagonistic policies of its patsies, HP in this
> case, and vendors
> like Promise, and you have quite a recipe for pain.
> Guess what I did
> today?
> 
> It started out quite simply, a client needed to set
> up a small branch
> office, something I do almost every week. Four
> workstation and a
> repository for files, occasional backups, and a
> shared printer is all
> they would need, nothing special. Five HP 5100s, a
> printer, a Promise
> TX2300 with mirrored drives and a DVD-R was all I
> needed. That was the
> easy part.
> 
> Out came the anaemic 40GB drive from one HP, and in
> when the Promise
> controller and two WD 200GB SATA drives. The TX2300
> was a snap to set
> up, the hardest part was rebooting 10 times until I
> caught that CTRL-F
> is the key to get into the card BIOS. A minute
> later, the RAID was
> built and it was time to restore the OS from the
> CDs. Two thumbs up to
> Promise here, it really could not be easier.
> 
> This is where the pain began. Microsoft has a policy
> where the vendors
> can't ship you a Windows CD so instead they have to
> send you a series
> of restore CDs. These option-free exercises in
> rookie programming
> mistakes are a shining example of what is wrong with
> the industry. HP,
> like the weak willed jellyfishes that they are, went
> along with this
> plan rather than stand up for the people paying
> them.
> 
> The problem? The #*(&$ers at HP made it so the brain
> dead restore
> scripts would not see any hardware other than the
> parts they shipped,
> and it would not recognise the Promise controller.
> Fair enough, it
> isn't HP's duty to recognise everything, that would
> be well beyond
> anything I expected. You just press F6 and install
> the drivers
> manually, it gives you the standard Windows prompt
> there.
> 
> Looking past the problem of the machine not having a
> floppy, you can
> easily add one for the initial install, things got
> ugly quick. The
> problem? Those weasels at Captain Junior Spy Central
> disabled the F6
> driver install on their restore CD! There is no
> Windows CD so you can
> do it manually, you either use theirs or have your
> own copy.
> 
> If you have a copy of XP to use, guess what? The key
> that comes with
> the HP box is restricted to the version of Windows
> on the restore CD.
> Vanilla XP will not work, nor will any of the copies
> I have lying
> around. Your choice, use only HP hardware or buy a
> copy of XP. A big
> FU to MS and HP for this little ray of sunshine.
> 
> Money grubbing and brain dead tactics aside, I
> figured I could boot
> from the Promise CD and possibly manually format the
> drives and dump
> the install CDs to the HD. That trick will often
> work to get you by
> initial unrecognised drives. That is when I learned
> half of the
> problems with Promise, the CD it provides is not
> bootable and contains
> nothing resembling a tool. Sparse would be a step up
> from what it
> offers.
> 
> Biting back my fervent desire to throw this mess out
> of a window, get
> a gun, and go to Redmond, I put in the original HD
> and booted into it
> to see if there were any interesting tools to help
> my plight. I tried
> to install the drivers and noticed the second
> problem, the #($&#65533;ing
> Promise CD doesn't have drivers on it! No, I am not
> kidding, they ship
> the card with a CD, but that CD has no drivers on
> it! Honestly.
> 
> If you click the install drivers option, it prompts
> you to put a disk
> in the (nonexistent) A: drive to make a driver disk.
> There is no
> option to unpack, no option to put it in any other
> location, you are
> just screwed. Manually browsing the CD comes up with
> the same programs
> the moronic installer offers you. A: drive or the
> highway. In this day
> and age, there is no excuse for not shipping a
> driver with hardware,
> Promise really screwed this up.
> 
> So, unable to transfer the install easily, unable to
> legally use a
> different CD of Windows with my legally purchased
> key, and unable to
> install the drivers with the one I had, I was left
> with only one
> option. The machine was put in place Saturday
> running Ubuntu. The
> owner of the chain was informed of it, why it was
> done, and what the
> ramifications, mainly stability and security, were.
> 
> Luckily, he is a smart man, and from this point on,
> Linux will be the
> OS of choice on all his servers, it is cheaper to
> buy, cheaper to
> install, and much more secure. Desktops are under
> evaluation, but
> Microsoft lost this chain for sure on the server
> side. If it doesn't
> think their brain dead policies are costing them
> money, I am proof
> positive that they are, and I am willing to bet I am
> far from alone.
> 
> Source:
>
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=36635
> 
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MIR MAHBUB ALAMGIR

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