in reply to Big Brother Is Watching?

Sheesh, get over yourself mate. SMS isn't evil big brother software, it's a damn convenient way for site administrators to keep all machines updated. Microsoft oftens releases poorly written code, but most of it has a real purpose. Contrary to the bad press they get, their goal is NOT to punish the user. That's just a feature. Almost all systems come with some way to remote upgrade, even Unix machines can be upgraded by logging in remotely.

Second, you are overstating your case because CLIMONTV95 does not run on NT, and I doubt it runs on ME either. The program that runs on NT is called CLIMONNT. You are actually whinging about 95/98 crashing. If you insist on running lightweight desktop OSs then you're going to get the problems that come with them. Move to NT/2k.

You also give the game away when you say "slowing down or crashing in the middle of the night and even a few minutes after the test starts". So the SMS programs run fine for everyone else in the company, they run fine when you aren't running your test programs but they crash soon after you start the test programs. Check your programs aren't running away and consuming all the system resources. Note that there are more scarce resources than memory/drivespace - if you instance lots of GDI objects you can run out of 'system resources' while you still have megs left.

The correct way to deal with the problem is:
1 find out who in the IT department runs the SMS system, check that they have configured SMS correctly, then explain you need it removed from your test machines. Asking your boss to do this is not likely to work, since he may not have all the details/be that interested (varies with your boss).
2 kill CLIMON from the process list after bootup/logon - no process, no crash. This way you get the immediate updates that you may need, but the process won't get in your way.
3 Stop reading conspiracy websites, they're bad for your mind.

This post may seem a little rude, but you should have seen it before I edited it. People who describe themselves as power users are a menace. I've got one here at moment who rings me up saying things like "Do we have Bus-Mastering network cards on the server?"
me:"Yes."
him:"How do you know that?"
me:"..."
(I did a PNP dump when I installed them, but how do you explain that to someone who thinks PNP is a transistor type?).

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Re: Re: Big Brother Is Watching?
by MeowChow (Vicar) on Jan 12, 2001 at 11:15 UTC
    I did a PNP dump when I installed them, but how do you explain that to someone who thinks PNP is a transistor type?

    Actually, your menacing power-user is correct: "PNP" is an abbreviation for the positive-negative-positive junctions of doped (impure) materials used when fabricating semiconductor wafers.

    My apologies for going OT, but I suppose this thread is already way out in the boonies.

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      You're trolling me right? You can't really be that thick. If you are in context for engineering then yes, PNP refers to transistors (not wafers, which are composed of millions of PNP junctions).

      However, if I talk about network cards in servers then PNP refers to Plug and Play (or Pray), a protocol used to collect information about cards plugged into the ... ok, you successfully trolled me. Update: Comments withdrawn because they were stupid.

      As a boredom-cure, I went and found other things that PNP could stand for:
      Personal NewsPaper
      The Peoples National Party of Jamaica
      Pediatric Nurse Practitioners
      Polish National Parks
      Poisson-Nersnt-Planck Equation (for ions in bulk electrolyte)

      Somebody's going to get a real suprise when they search the monastery for PNP :D

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      I didn't believe in evil until I dated it.

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        Actually, no, I wasn't trolling.

        I simply found it unlikely that anyone would know what bus-mastering was, and know that PNP was a transistor type, without knowing what plug-n-play was.

        I assumed, instead, that you didn't know what he was talking about concerning the transistors. I further assumed that he was rattling on about PNP transistors in order to torment/troll/menace his sysadmin, who looked down upon power users such as himself. But I didn't feel the need to mention that.

        Don't take it personal; I just have a thing against despotic sysadmins, and perhaps sysadmins in general. I was abused by one as a child, and I've not been the same since...

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        I did a PNP dump when I installed them, but how do you explain that to someone who thinks PNP is a transistor type?

        You're trolling me right? You can't really be that thick.

        Yes, he probably is trolling ;) Remember, sarcasm is best served with a side order of humour.

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