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I don't do a great deal of swearing in this journal. I do a moderate amount of swearing in real life. But Claudine told some people in our families about this site before I really brought up this journal. So I really don't know who is reading this. Actually I don't know if anyone is reading this. But anyway back to the swearing.
Goddamn cocksucking motherfucking Windows NT!
Ok, that covers it. Mom, if you are reading this, I'm sorry. But you don't know the evils of Windows NT.
I spent all day today leaning about how difficult it is to upgrade a normal, white bread, installation of Windows NT Server. A normal fileserver. Never hurt anyone. But if you try to upgrade to Windows 2000 server, all hell breaks loose.
I've never been one of the "I-hate-microsoft" crowd. I have seen the limitations of Microsoft software. I have never used an Apple product in my life. Oh, wait. I did play Risk once on my college roommate's Apple. But I have used WordPerfect, Lotus 1-2-3, and Novell Netware products.... in the past. But I currently use the Microsoft equivalent of all those products. But Windows NT Server is pissing me OFF!
So if you follow the recommendations on installing Windows NT Server, you keep your boot partition at around 1 Gig. So when you try to upgrade to Windows 2000, the upgrade process cannot continue because it cannot find enough disk space. So if you back everything up, wipe out your partitions, increase your boot partion to the recommended 2-4 Gig and then try to reinstall Windows NT, it CAN'T handle a partition that size, because it initially installs the Windows NT kernel, not into an NTFS partion, but in a FAT partition!!!
So won't everyone be surprised when they log into that particular server Monday morning? Of course Microsoft "suggests" that you don't do the upgrade on a production server, but on a test server with "exactly the same" configuration as your production server. How many small companies have the money to just have a server "laying around"?
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