Why most run Microsoft, not RedHat

[Les Mikesell]

Les wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 10:05 +0100, Scott van Looy wrote:
>> 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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>> knot in cables caused data stream to become twisted and kinked
>>
> The first didn't answer Active Directory, and the second didn't answer
> for the current revision of I.E.
> Not so simple is it?
> 

And if you look at that first link you'll notice that it didn't exist 
until a few months ago and it consolidates stuff that was previously 
spread over 16 articles.  It still doesn't tell you what a firewall 
administrator would want to know in terms of direction of connectivity 
or how domain controler or AD authentication fits into the picture. Who 
is it that thinks opening ports 1024 through 65535 as it suggests is a 
good idea?

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   Les Mikesell
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