Why most run Microsoft, not RedHat

[Scott van Looy]

Today Tim did spake thusly:

> On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 01:09 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> The problem is that so much of the system is opaque with undocumented
>> 'features' that are just waiting to be exploited.  It's not that the
>> users are clueless, it is that there is no way for them to have a
>> clue.
>
> Hear, hear...
>
>> How many people know the minimal set of ports needed to be open  for
>> Active Directory and Exchange server to work and what is supposed to
>> happen on each, for example?

I pasted that into google and got:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/270836

as my second link

> Or how in hell to get MSN messenger to work through your firewall, or
> any other number of things that you need to get to work with your
> system, but come with no more information than an instruction to see
> your system adminstrator (who has no information about it, anyway).

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q240063/

Most windows sysads know both, or are at least as capable as myself of 
googling it... :)



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