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The Very Worst Uses of Windows
bigplrbear writes "I found an interesting article revealing the many places that Microsoft products reside, and what they're used for, ranging from elevators to ticket scanners."
From the article: "Thanks to VMWare Windows is spreading throughout the datacenter. And, of course, there is only one operating system to use if you are dependent on Microsoft apps like Outlook, Word, and Excel. While I have joined the chorus of security folks who rail against the Microsoft Monoculture I still cannot believe some of the uses for Windows. Some of them are just downright silly, some you may claim are criminally negligent." Note: I'm making no claim of criminal negligence!
Well, there is one main difference between Windows and those other 'even worse' systems, uptime. If you have more than a month uptime on a Windows system, you are not applying the patches correctly.
Solaris and those others, OTOH will happily run for months and years without requiring a reboot. I recently ran across a system at work (RedHat 5) that nobody bothered with because it always did it's job. When I had to go look to see what the problem was, imagine my surprise to find it running RH5. Everyone that knew the root password had either quit or forgot they knew it, it had been sitting there running for several years. Windows will NOT do that.
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Which is the crux of why windows makes it into the hospital. With Linux there is no accountability. At least with Windows if something goes wrong someone can be sued and it's not the hospital (at least that's the idea, if not always the case).
Me failed English...
FreeBSD over Linux. If my comments seem odd, this may explain...
Does "spectroscope" == spectrometer? 'Cause I would think that the "Doctors" you refer to are real doctors (Ph.Ds) and not "memorization doctors" (M.D.s).
Real doctors are generally smart fellows, and usually have some experience with Unix, at least peripherally, what with writing their theses and journal articles in LaTeX, and their programs in abomination^h^h^h^h^h^h^hFortran.
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This is a good post, and I have noticed in recent months that the M$ shills ( perhaps paid shills ) have been modding down all well thought out posts on Slashdot that put Windoze in a bad light.
It is not just a few misinformed fanboys, but a very thorough and complete operation to down mod anything that is not favorable to M$.
Actually , the use of ( M$ ) itself may be one of the keys to an automated system, that alerts the shills to do this.
Has anyone else here seen this? , Is the Slashdot staff aware of this happening?
To much coincidence for me.
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And you die while it's waiting for someone to click "allow".
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
The Very Worst Uses of Windows - I say rubbish. These are the best uses I could see out of such a problematic OS. Why, because they work.