Linux Is The Future!!

Many of my friends know that I have begun learning Red Hat. Yes I am getting trained to be a Red Hat Certified Engineer. It's good money to be a Red Hat Engineer, because there are very few Linux Engineers around and its not easy to fix a Linux machine on your own like you would fix a Windows machine.

Well but the other reason why I love Linux is because of their ideology. Linux believes in the open society. We believe that Technology is free and is meant to be shared. Unlike Microsoft who holds their (crappy) technology to themselves, Linux is open to share it with the world. I know I am still using Windows XP as of now... but it wont be long when I would have moved completely onto a Red Hat or a Suse Linux environment... I was really thrilled to know how the US Army too has embraced Linux Operating Systems for its functioning. (Read here and here)

We, in our organization too have moved from Windows to Linux now. I don't think a NGO like ours can afford to pay as high as INR 14,000,000/- (approx US$ 285,714) for 100 users lics comprising of the Windows Server, 100 Cals, Exchange Server, 100 Exchange Cals, Vista, and Antivirus. Hence we have moved onto Novell's Suse Linux Enterprise Edition which comes to us for a meare INR 1,000,000/- (approx US$ 20,408).

There already lots of mid-size and large companies migrating to Linux from windows to cut cost and to have a stable environment, some of the reasons being Linux Systems (Server as well as user-end) are :-
1) More Stable - Linux machines have never crashed in the history of modern computing
2) More Secured - Linux machines do not need an Anti-virus and has one of the best onboard Firewall system
3) More Reliable - Linux machines are more reliable than windows and your database is more than just secured under the Administrator's thumb.
4) Cost Effective - Any time cost effective, cos the kernel & some of the components are free of charge for distribution, its just the cost of production is what you pay for.

Well now since its a Friday evening and its already 7.40pm here... i don't think I have the patience to finish of this post... so I am logging of guys... besides will you guys really enjoy reading all this technical junk anyway... So do yourself a favour and have a great weekend... ;)

Crazy Bugging Time...

I just finished writing my little post about the Valentines Day (see below) and our Accounts Server gets infected. Don't these bug creators have no other work to do... Figured out its a stupid spyware trying to extort information from the server. I guess it's time we upgraded to some powerful Firewall for our organization. Now I have no idea what to do as my anti-spyware software scans thru the machine and detects it to termination... its taking hell of a time... So this is what I am doing... writing another post on my blog... he he...

Just a word of caution to some young System Administrators, please do not blog while you are scanning your system... it could prove dangerous if you do not action some of the processes at the right time.

How to Update NOD32 Virus Definition Manually...

Hello Guys...
This was one of the most quested out query I found on most of the blogs - How to update the NOD32 Virus Definition manually? Its quite a valid question as it saves the time of download on each workstation and also doesn't choke up the bandwidth. And I have found the most easiest way of doing this job.

Just follow these simple steps:
1. Go to C:\Program Files\ESET\updfiles
2. Copy the entire files from here.
3. Dump it into the exact location in the new workstation where you want the definition to be updated.

I know it sounds crazy but surprisingly it works. Unlike Symantec or Norton AV the updates are not on a DAT file. Here it is on a .nup file.

So guys I hope this has helped you guys to solve your little update problem... ;)