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SP3 for XP
This is true of all upgrades, no matter the type of operating systeSuSE 10 courier-imap packagem, especially if you're talking about a production machine. Ideally, you're right. But the client refused to pay for testing on a backup first. This would have taken even MORE time, since i would have gone through all the

Digital Firewall Solution - Formerly DEC Seal - Admins???
Mike, I recently installed the Alta Vista Firewall and the installation advice regarding not installing this product on a production machine for evaluation is _very_ good advice. Once installed, I found that I could not satisfactorily uninstall the software after my evaluation without reinstalling NT.

Shock horror! BBC raves about Linux laptop!
Stephen Petrowski wrote: I have a dell inspiron 1501 with windows vista basic installed and I installed the sp1 every time I run a program I get a blue screen with white lines going acrose You You do understand that installing a beta operating system service pack on a production machine is A Bad Thing, right?

TAB almost getting fired....
A spare HD, a quick cable swap, and you have a risk-free way of installing Linux onto your machine. Want to try a different distro? No problem, no risk. [3] I would *not* recommend doing this on a production machine. After all, it is a production machine. Do this on another machine that can be swapped in at an

Windows Vista
In late March, the Chinese government went so far as to issue a decree requiring PC makers to install a licensed operating system on each machine before it left ...... I had backed up my drivers | to a thumb drive before installing Vista. Between these drivers and | the compatibility workaround I mentioned above,

Microsoft profit soars - Vista sales now 85 million!
Installing Vista in Virtual Machine on my SBS Box. (Why Mine was late and I had to call them to re-order it I don't have a clue?) Also with it, is of course Never install anything new on a machine you want to use for production until it's been on the street for 6 months or has at least 1 service pack out.

OT Action pack Survey. is Office 2007 worth it and is it ...
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS2700059670.html Lean, green, open source machine ,----[ Quote ] The Linutop is touted as a mainstream PC that can be used in .... ownership of some files, Microsoft Corp. has confirmed, creating a potential security problem for businesses installing the new application suite.

Install 3 times (triple crown)
Until it can, it will never be a replacement for my Windows production machine. So it sits there essentially as an exercise in futility. It has no features or capability over and above Windows Vista, XP or 2000 that would make me want to dual boot. For third world countries, being free should make it popular except

freebsd-current Digest, Vol 222, Issue 10
As a last resort before locating drivers for and installing XP, I installed Vista Service Pack RC1 three days ago. My new computer is now acting like a new computer. One of the prime rules of computing is Thou Shalt Not Install Beta Software Upon A Production Machine (Unless Thou Art Prepared To Clean-Install).

Thoughts on Vista
I would like to get comfortable so I don't have to keep picking up Harry's book while installing. :) I have had good success with one nic and I use Symantec AntiVirus Enterprise .... It is, after all, a production machine. And always ask Google first: there are few SBS issues that haven't come up in this newsgroup.

Erasing Eval Version Message for Vista 64 SP1 RC?
http://rockhopping.net/taxonomy/term/115 Installing Vista -> go back ,----[ Quote ] If it wouldn't have started after all this, I think I would have run down to the store and bought a ..... As with any testing release, it is not suggested to run this on a | production system as there are bugs still being worked on.

My experence with Ubuntu 7.10
http://rockhopping.net/taxonomy/term/115 Installing Vista -> go back ,----[ Quote ] If it wouldn't have started after all this, I think I would have run down to ...... http://www.raiden.net/?cat=2&aid=224&pid=1 Review: Pardus Linux 2007 ,----[ Quote ] | I have not used this Pardus system for my production system.

Release Candidate 2 For Windows XP Service Pack 3 Is Now ...
After installing it, I have to go fiddle with init settings, get it up and running and... users can't log in. It rejects their passwords. All the config files were still The lesson that you should've learned from this one is that you should always test before even thinking about touching the production machine.

Windows XP gone after Vista installation
They come with the usual disclaimer 'do not use on a production machine', but the compared to Windows 2000 Pro Beta and RC1, the Vista offerings break a large number of No, not only will I not be installing Vista RC1, I don't plan on installing Vista. Phil Weldon "David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.

When will Vista SP1 an XP SP3 be ready??
... Summercooln...@gmail.com had this to say in microsoft.public.windowsxp.general: Pegasus (MVP) wrote: Installing beta software on a production machine is i see... do i need to install on different partition or different hard drive? if I install Vista as "clean new install" will it wipe out the HP Recovery

Windows Vista SP1 RTM
Ken Blake, MVP kbl...@this.is.am.invalid.domain microsoft public windows vista general On Wed, 3 Oct 2007 22:37:00 -0700, Will <W...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: Below, Unless you enjoy playing with such things *and* you have a spare, non-production machine to run it on, installing this is foolhardy.

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Geoff nigeltufnel...@gmail.com novell community chat I've been running openSuse 10.2 on my production machine at work for a few weeks now.....couldn't be Kinda sorta fixable: While there is a workaround that lets you perform a clean Vista install with just an upgrade disc, it requires installing Vista twice.

My experence with Ubuntu 7.10
I, for one, hope this puts a major stop to the public downloading this beta, installing on production essential machines and then yelling like stuck pigs when it And one wonders what's in store for Vista, which is several times larger. Note: MS makes about $1 billion in net income--profit--per month and has $40

Why Ubuntu Sucks
PS: I should add that I took the risk myself and used RC1 on a "production machine," which seems to be the term of art in this case. I backed up as much of my data as I could before installing RC1 and backed it up several times while using RC1. I say this just to point out that I ignored the Microsoft warning, too,

Does linux support my new widescreen monitor
What's the attraction of switching to Vista? Does it offer some feature you need that you currently don't have? Is this a production machine or your only computer? Do you use it to make money? Are you willing to risk that for the sake of a "cool" interface? You can save your self some money, and a LOT of time by