On Tue, 2 Feb 2016 11:05:26 AM Craig Sanders via luv-main wrote:
They WILL have to change sooner or later and the sooner the better.
many are still "happily" using XP (i.e. they don't know any better) - as the recent virus fiasco at RMH shows. workstations across the entire hospital, from pharmacy to the wards taken out by really ancient XP viruses. I know, i've been stuck in here for much of it. some sections (fortunately, the transplant clinic was one) had upgraded to win7 but many were still running XP.
If you try to access a hobby web site at work and can't access the site then access it from home. There are lots of reasons why corporate systems can't access random web sites ranging from web filters (which sometimes misfire but no-one requests whitelisting) to a variety of misconfigurations (blocking ICMP and similar things). Also the LUV server has had IPv6 enabled for a while and I have already noticed problems for one user. A member of this list has their mail server configured to do callbacks but is not correctly configured for IPv6. So they have been rejecting mail from the LUV list because their anti-spam measure isn't working with any site that advertises an AAAA record. One could argue that I should remove AAAA records to deal with that sort of problem (and all the other IPv6 problems that people might have). But I think that IPv6 is necessary and inevitable. Implementing it on the LUV server is a service for LUV members as it provides an IPv6 test bed and I sent a personal email to the person with the mailing list problem explaining it to them so they can fix their issue - they will never get email from a Google sysadmin about problems talking to Google Groups. I don't know if the LUV site even works on Windows XP. There are many potential ways in which it might break and I never test with Windows. If someone on this list would like to test the site with various versions of Windows I'd be interested to see the results. I won't commit to fixing such issues but we can definitely have a discussion about the pros and cons of various configuration options. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/