Getting Bart PE to boot with RIS?

Booting Bart Pe With Pxe – The CD Forum

Another link to research later. 

 

Compare RIS and Ghost

RIS vs Ghost – Sell me on which one – Topic Ars OpenForum

We used to use Ghost and now have switched over to RIS.  The best part is the ability to set up a computer with admin credentials in 5 minutes and walk away.  The user can then log onto the machine in approximately 20 minutes because it is part of the Domain.

Biggest hangups with RIS:

1. There are 6 Hals, so there are a maximum of 6 different images that need to be created (depending on your environment).  For us, we had to create 3 different images.
2. The other big hangup for RIS is trying to use a ghosted machine to create the image.  You are much better off recreating the image entirely on RIS.   I had to manually hack what HAL was used and I’m not sure if I did it correctly.

Biggest benefits with RIS:

1. All images are located on a network share.  You can easily add or delete files from the image.
2. Setting up an image is only 5 minutes of work, then you can walk away. 

Windows GPL Anti-Virus/Spyware Tool

Winpooch : Windows watchdog helps to detect spywares and trojans – opensource – anti spyware and trojan

Not much to say about this but it uses ClamAV for the backend.  I’ll have to test this latter. 

 

technorati tags: Anti-Virus, GPL

Mediawiki in the Workplace

NewsForge | Putting MediaWiki to use in an organization

I installed a mediawiki server for our IT department documentation.  After showing a couple people the web pages, they commented immediately on the lack of security.  I thought that security was unessesary since all changes could be linked to an IP address and the original content couldn’t be changed but I think everybody would have had a better feeling if there was security already installed. 

 

technorati tags: mediawiki