"Biting back my fervent desire to throw this mess out of a window, get a gun, and go to Redmond..."
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"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."
hahaha, isn't it always...
"Those weasels at Captain Junior Spy Central disabled the F6 driver install on their restore CD!"
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i really have to applaud the linux community for the viable free OS alternatives. i can see myself getting "happy feet", if i can just find that "special" distro, though in situations which charlie described, many can and do succeed in fitting the bill...