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Microsoft: The Faint Smell of Rot
happycorp writes "A business reporter for ABC/Fortune
is asking whether Microsoft is poised to collapse, based on years of industry observation
(with successful calls in the past, he notes) rather than
purely technical considerations.
A short read, with this favorite quote:
"if you sniff the air, you can just make out the first hints of rot.""
Nothing to say really ..
I know this will be modded off-topic, but is there any particularly good reason the whole front page is filled with stories posted by a single editor? How long do you go into hybernation between these spasms of dupe-and-bore postings?
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The moans you hear in the backround when able to post this new article's headline is not what you think, yes, that's right it's actually an ENTIRE orgy of circle jerking, not just a few cubicle loners.
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"98, the most unstable OS"
.NET integration or flowery backgrounds or transparencies or being cool for using a UNIX-derived kernel - it's about the *overhead*. It's about being able to tell your computer to only devote CPU cycles to a few things and not have to worry about 40-60 system-critical processes.
I'll apologize in advamce for being off-topic. And I realize I'm taking a position that's very unpopular here. And no I'm not a troll. And yes, ME was the worst piece of shit MS ever released.
But I've found 98se, when properly tweaked and with 98lite installed, to be incredibly reliable for a variety of applications.
Before I got a copy of 2000, I was running Apache on 98se/98lite with IE uninstalled and had, like, weeks of uptime. Of course I didn't have much traffic, either. But between 98lite and various other common tweaks, you can get three nines if you don't have your hear up your ass or a huge amount of traffic. The only time that box rebooted was when the power went out.
98se is the only OS I'll use for my audio/visual workstation just because it's the only OS a lot of high-end audio/visual apps will recognize. I used to work for a studio that spent tens of thousands of dollars on a pro-level digital multitrack system (ensoniq PARIS) that will ONLY run on 98se. Not 95, not XP, not 2K, not MacOS. Not even the first edition of 98. ONLY 98se.
Oh, and all those pesky viruses that have been hitting XP and 2000 users? Don't apply to 98. I can't think of the last virus that came out that I actually had to worry about (no IE or OE on my machine). Especially if you uninstall IE (which is one thing 98lite does). With 98 you only have to do major upgrades one every few months.
No, you wanna talk about the most unstable, porous, pink-hotpants-in-the-Mission OS ever made, you wanna talk about XP. I know people who have machines almost three times as fast as mine who run XP, and their...machines...cccrrrraaawwwwllllll... even when they're not being infected by some new 24-hour flu. My 1.2GHz athlon *screams* running 98se/lite. That means everything to somebody whose professional reputation depends partly on how many tracks you can record at once. It's not about the round buttons or
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They will never stop until somebody makes the
The problem is the terrorists aren't attacking us because we are treating them poorly. No, they are attacking us to convert us to Islam and to punish us for being infidels and not obeying shari'a.
Go read some of the manifestos and declarations put out by Osama bin Laden and the blind sheik. They are more concerned with the fact that we charge interest and treat women equally than that we go into their countries and murder their children (even if it were true.)
Let me just detail that what is happening today isn't new at all. We've seen events like 9/11 in the past several hundred years on many occasions, sponsored by Muslem terrorists.
* The Europeans embarked on the crusades to rebuild holy Christian sites destroyed by Muslem fanatics in Jerusalem. That, and to put an end to the constant Muslem invasions of Europe.
* Muslem fanatics have been persecuting, murdering, torturing, raping, pillaging, and enslaving Europeans since they have been able to. If they ever stopped, it was because of their military defeats and the killing of their leaders. No amount of negotiation, barter, or capitulation has ever been successful.
* Even today, the king of Spain has sworn an oath to fight all Muslems. This is in response to the Muslem invasion of Spain. The country of Spain once understood the threat of Moslem terrorists, and swore to defeat it permanently.
* The Barbary Pirates were in fact Muslem fanatics and terrorists. After diplomatic parrying, the US went as far as to pay tribute to them. In the end, we built up the first US navy to crush them. After that, the US has refused to negotiate with terrorists. Our policy has been to meet force with more force.
The radical sect of Islam would either see you dead or "reverted" to Islam.