Talk:Patrick's Proposal to Standardize Platforms

Spot on. Every workplace with multiple terminals maintains a strict and standard database structure. One of the biggest mini-mission and training hurdles is the damn multitude of different versions of all the software. It should all be archived if not wiped. But I would go much further than you. I would stick everything currently on the machines into a folder called "Archives". Then I would create a standard procedure for naming folders -- something involving the current date, probably. I would put all of those into a folder called "Text Files". Creating more folders would be strictly prohibited on pain of having to clean the Sim Office. Whether or not you automate this, I think it really needs to be done and I'm happy to see you're talking about it. 100% Stamp of Approval, plus I'll help when I'm next in town. - Darth Wombat (talk) 04:00, 19 September 2013 (UTC)

Of course, files that are already on the computer will be archived. I was going to archive them on Kane (as well as on a couple other computers, for redundancy. Maybe even use a RAID array?), then create folders for each computer, noting the date on each, as you said. But then, every computer that I will be imaging (read: all of them) would be completely wiped, its partition table deleted, then re-image with the appropriate OS in the C: partition, then the appropriate version of Orbit in the D: partition. The only files should be a fresh install of Windows, and Orbit in the root directory of D:. --patrickpowns (talk) 11:29, 19 September 2013 (UTC)

Awesome! Just be sure to save the archives! :) - Darth Wombat (talk) 20:25, 19 September 2013 (UTC)