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Why UNIX is better than Windows... By Microsoft
BenBenBen writes "According to a whitepaper found on "a fairly insecure server", UNIX not only is more reliable and easier to maintain than Windows (2000 in this case), it's cheaper too. These shock results are reported on both The Register and (the source) Security Office."
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B******s - i just discovered this artive via another site and tried to read - instantly slashdotted!
WTF is it runing on - a quad Xeon IIS 2.0/w2k machine with 1 GB memory?
It shows that Windows is dying, not BSD!
may have insecure server products(and desktop products for that matter) but whatever Security Office was running is nothing more than a smoking pile of silicon and hard drive.
You mean... You mean... That instead of paying for Win2000, I could have installed FreeBSD instead?
Oh, the humanity!
(Yes, this was sarcastic!)
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Saying this are shock results is like saying finding out Micheal Jackson had plastic surgery.
There has been one hour and 46 minutes since the last MS critical article was posted. You need to wait at least two hours.
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I realized after I hit submit that I was thinking by the old rules -- I should have asked whether pilfering documents from their server wasn't punishable by a federal death penalty by now. (I wish that was entirely a joke.)
Also, isn't the paper just the opinion of the writer, and dismissable by MS like the tobacco industry dismissed the memo by one of its ad exec mapping out marketing cigarettes to children. They would never do such a thing, no.
That MS has one honest soul in its ranks shouldn't be all that much of a shocker, right? Oops, I guess that was a troll.
> Wouldn't it be neat if MS put out a fully
> reliable, configurable, cheap O/S?
Yeah, they could call it MS/Linux.
Ha, Ha
</simpsons>
Looks like once again, M$ gets busted for lying through it's teeth. Of course, that's what all good marketing is. Not that any of this comes as a suprise for anyone who's administered both Windows and *nix boxen.
Why is it that the proponents of "one nation under God" are so eager to get rid of "liberty and justice for all"?
M$ used *nix servers, they wouldn't have this problem
-ADon't you mean MS/GNU/Linux? Or GNU/Microsoft/Linux or....
You get the idea.
If it were to come about, it would the most (or should that be "only"?) schizophrenic OS out there - constantly battling with itself to be free (as in speech) and closed at the same time. Perhaps they could reincarnate Bob as some little clippy that tries to both help and screw with with. Oh no wait, I believe the standard Clippy already does that...
Ugh... the Submit button needs to be placed farther away from the Preview button (*covers head with brown paper bag*).
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Agreed - most likely, it's just some guy with a 28K modem who's got a dedicated phone line. Sometimes, his mom picks up the wrong line and the whole site goes down.
Yeah, but what if they sent chocolates and hookers to you?
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So that new benz I just bought ISN'T going to run UT2003 faster? DAMN IT!!!!!!!!
Nope, not the death penalty.
A special clause on page 394 of the enacting legislation says that anyone convicted of publishing Microsoft's dirty laundy is enjoined from using any other operating system for life. It's Microsoft only, baby!
Repeat offenders are enjoined from using any operating system other than Windows ME.
And for the hard-core cases... they bring out BOB.
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. -- H L Mencken
that upon opening http://www.microsoft.com/servers , read "Build and Deploy", as "Build and Destroy"?
Though, of course, this is Microsoft we're talking about, king of the "New Major Security Hole Discovered" PR philosophy.
The only servers they have are Really Insecure, Fairly Insecure, and "You want an FTP login with that?"
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MS might sick [sic] their lawyers...
yuck yuck yuck
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I am reminded of a time during my short term at Best Buy where I was demoing an eMachine with Windows XP for a customer. All of a sudden, the screen froze and there was no response from keyboard or mouse. Embarrassed, I quickly made up some excuse and went to Start -> "Turn off computer" to restart the machine.
The next words out of the customer's mouth were, "Oooh, I like how it fades."
Apparently, this customer was an ex-Millenium user who looked past computer lockups as commonplace, or perhaps they just really dig user interfaces and could care less about the fact that a new display computer is having problems locking up during a simple mouse meneuver.
No, but it will bring GTA3 to a whole new level.
Hopefully, they remembered to turn off auto-correct and "smart" quotes.
And now we understand the origin of all the MS security holes.
Clippy: It looks like you're trying to copy an unchecked buffer, would you like help with this feature?...
But you are forgetting one thing. Though you may hate the taste of dog food, it is actually a lot more nutritious than almost every made-for-human alternative.
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Noooooooo! Now you've spawned a whole new generation of bad jokes...
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"Windows 2000 rarely needs a reboot "
yes, it is nearly 2 nines...
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I don't think that I would accept a hooker from Microsoft. My guess is that she would have a virus.
Chocolate, on the other hand...
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