[OFFTOPIC]Well, those were NT 4.0 machinss, back then you didn't get nearly as many updates as you do now. You might find a hotfix or two that warranted installing in production, but really you waited between service packs back then, and after the NT 4.0 service pack 2 fiasco you waited until everyone else had installed a service pack before you did the same . Also in production I try not to install anything 'wacky' on my boxes. Domain controllers would run DNS (or bind, depending) and wins/dhcp, but no 3rd party non-ms produced product. A lot of microsoft OS instability is due to poorly written code that gets installed whilly nilly. If you keep it simple, it is a lot more stable, much like a unix or linux host I would imagine. Im just starting to get my feet wet on the *nix side of the fence. It's overwhelming and facinating. I can't wait until my 1st test system breaks so I can troubleshoot it. NT/windows troubleshooting is old hat now, I suspect my redhat 9 box will be a different story altogether.

Windows update is good and bad I guess. It definately makes fixes between service packs a lot more accessible. But I wonder sometimes if they aren't too accessible at times.

But, I didn't mean to hijack the thread, after all, it's on a unix board. My apologies to the easily offended and board mods in advance.
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