Perry L Harold
pharold at proftesting.com
Thu Mar 16 09:33:30 CST 2006
FWIW A generalization on "bad" software or hardware. "Everyone" knows that Adobe Reader "Works" for all pdf files so that it's mostly universal. We have one box though that will not run any Reader version newer than version 5. The box has been around for a while and had various things installed - most of which has been uninstalled so it's fairly clean. But something sits on it somewhere that keeps the newer reader(s) from working. We have 20+ other boxes that are a similar setup and have no problem with Reader at all. The point being - one crash on one machine doesn't globally indicate the quality or non-quality of the product. Often most of us will discard something if it doesn't work in the first instance. However, if it works the first 2 or 3 times and then we have a problem we will then go to the next machine and try again. If (and usually when) it works again then we know that it was an aberration rather than condemning the software (or hardware) as a whole. And what works in my setup doesn't always work the best in your setup and vice-versa. The great thing about this list is that we do get to see opinions and real world results from lots of sources to give us advice we can use in creating our own setups. Perry Harold -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John Bartow Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 9:34 PM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] [dba-OT] Norton Antivirus Activation Gustav, Was there any indication of conflict with another program? Anti-virus, firewall, etc.? -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav Brock Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 9:12 AM To: dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] [dba-OT] Norton Antivirus Activation Hi John We ran the Keria firewall a month ago on a Win2000 workstation. Bad experience, sorry. It's the first application we've seen truly crash a Win2000 machine. Standard IBM hardware, all servicepacks installed. We picked the safe route and applied a hardware firewall. /gustav >>> john at winhaven.net 15-03-2006 15:40:33 >>> If any of you decide to try or buy Kerio Firewall or CounterSpy I'd appreciate it if you'd use my web pages to get there. http://www.winhaven.net/security/prevention.html Or http://www.winhaven.net/security/firewall.html Or http://www.winhaven.net/security/spyware.html I'm supposed to get some brownie points or something for users clicking there from my site :o) Perhaps a check even if you use it to buy the product. I never foresee the day that enough people do it to actually make the check worth printing but I am just interested to see how this web click for pay thing actually works out. If it pans out we may consider doing something akin to this on the Database Advisor's web site. John B. PS Since I recommend (and use) every product on my web site that is click for money I have no qualms about it. I won't sell anything I won't use! _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com