TruItSupport Brisbane Queensland IT system support for Windows and Linux computer networks
TruItSupport Brisbane Queensland IT system support for Windows and Linux computer networks
Is windows bad for business ?
"Ninety-five percent of the world's computers run Windows," Ballmer proudly told an audience of students at Sweden's Royal Institute of Technology on Monday. "They don't run Mac, they don't run Linux."
Microsoft is also very good at suggesting that Windows malware is an industry problem rather than one that's a direct result of its own lax security.
For the full story go to the original document at: www.pcworld.com
TruItSupport have quite a few customers who are using Fedora Linux as their desktop operating system.
Some of these desktops have been in service for three to four years with no issues at all (none!).
One customer has Six Linux desktop computers running as POS devices.
Not one has required a reboot in more than three years.
These machines have proved their worth as they have run flawlessly, providing fantastic return on investment for the business.
The cost to business of computer stoppages (even reboots because of lock-ups) is enormous.
Using Linux and well specified hardware we have been able to entirely eliminate outages for our customers who are prepared to try it.
On this page we will be putting links to some solutions we come across with our usage of Fedora Linux. We expect this list to grow over time but it is starting small with one article.
We also hope in future to add some "war stories" describing how we have used Linux in business to great effect giving major cost savings to the companies using it.
Fedora 10 fixed IP issue.
How to use a fixed IP on fedora 10
Fedora 12 FreeBASIC run issue.
How to run FreeBASIC on Fedora 12
Please use the Contact page to share your requirements with us.
Virgin's Blue
Better late then never, or maybe not!
"Virgin Blue pursues $20 million in compensation for business loses in check-in crash."
Virgin Blue will seek to recover $20 million lost when it's reservation system crashed last month.
The carrier is expected to demand compensation from Navitaire the company which supplies the NewSkies system which failed on September 26 2010.
Apparently another carrier Ryan air had experienced similar problems in the preceding weeks so Navitaire should have been especially alert to possibility of systems issues with Virgin Blue.
Virgin in this situation are probably in a bind that smaller organisations don't have to face. That is they are locked into a proprietary IT solution because of their need to collaborate with other industry players. This mean that Virgin probably cannot change IT suppliers even if they wanted to.
To an outsider the performance of Navitaire in this situation has been outstanding. When most businesses expect an up-time of 99.99% which means a downtime of around one hour a year and some businesses demanding up-time of 99.999 or about six minuets a year, it is hard to understand how an Navitaire could let their customer suffer an outage of days.
Virgin Blue do not see this situation as causing long term damage to their company. How would your business be perceived if you suffered a similar outage. The concept of disaster recover somehow does not seem to have permeated the people at Virgin Blue or Navitaire and they both should share some responsibility for this. If organisations don't ensure that their IT providers have sufficient disaster recovery for them, the they must share some of the responsibility when disasters happens.
More IT news Here
Microsoft Products
A large range of Microsoft Products are supported.
Microsoft XP/Family, Server 2003 & Windows 7 and Server 2008
SQL Database
Remote Desktop
VNC - virtual network connection
VPN - virtual private network
Firewalls Office and various other products are catered for
We supply Microsoft Mice and Keyboards.
