FUD

[Jonathan Hale]

There's also a free Linux-based equivalent called Partition Image (or
PartImage):
http://www.partimage.org/

(My apologies, Kevin.. That was supposed to go to the list the first
time..)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <KRFinch at dstsystems.com>
To: "Brian Kelsay" <BLKELSAY at kcc.usda.gov>
Cc: <kclug at kclug.org>
Sent: Friday, January 02, 2004 10:44 AM
Subject: Re: FUD

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> I'd have preferred to use ghost myself.  I just couldn't talk the
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> - Kevin
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>              "Brian Kelsay"
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> >>"magnificently stable"?!?  That's rich.
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> >My favorite Win95 story comes from when I was building systems for a
> >payroll project I was on.  One time we had 11 identical HP systems
that we
> >were building, and the only thing on them that required a custom
driver
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> >the video card.  We set them all up in a row and clicked the same
buttons
> >on down the line during the setup to set them all up identically.  3
> worked
> >the way that they were supposed to by the time we were done loading
> >Windows, and the remaining 8 all had one problem or another that
required
> >either reconfiguration or reloading to bring them up to spec.
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> That is why most techs that have to load Winders on multiple similar
> machines use Ghost.  If I run into a tech that sneers at Ghost, then I
know
> he hasn't supported thousands of machines.  It has saved me hours and
> hours.  More time for surfing, doing tickets, securing the network,
> learning new stuff, configuring/using Linux, etc.
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> Winders is good or passable for some tasks, but some companies are
> realizing the savings they could have, by using alternatives.  Some
> companies make so much that Winders licensing schemes have little to
no
> affect on them.
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> Brian Kelsay
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