Would you like to share with us why you consider Hotmail a "silly little system"?
Hotmail is a toy compaired to just about anything. If Windows can cut it with a webmail - why would I use it for anything important like, say, financial transations?
Pair.com services their 100,000 customers (each with several email addresses) with webmail without breaking a sweat using FreeBSD and Squirrelmail. No downtime, not hacks, no nothing. It just works.
Have you ever worked for a company that runs a large Windows 2000-based network?
Guess what Microsoft uses for their financial records (at least of lask year): AS/400.
Linux has always felt sluggish to me compaired to FreeBSD as a workstation. There are hese little lags where the system diden't apear to be doing anything when you do taks that require disk IO.
Microsoft finally succeeded in transitioning Hotmail to an all Windows 2000 environment back in 2000 or 2001. I forget the exact date but Microsoft has a whitepaper on the subject if you really want to bother searching for it.
Which goes to show that Windows doesen't scale, isen't robust and isen't easy to use.
If it took Microsoft themselved over 3 years to migrate off of FreeBSD to Windows - JUST FOR A SILLY WEBMAIL SYSTEM - imagine the pain of migrating somthing complex.
Windows is an ok server for new useres for small offices - it's GUI interface can make it easier for new computer users to deploy - but by just this example alone, you can clearly see that Microsoft isen't ready for the server room.
What a joke - he coulden't make an emergency call.
Most Ericsson phones will let you dial 911 or 112 (or whaterver it is in Europe) at any time - even during the PIN unlock stage, before you've entered a correct PIN.
Just like a typical Microsoft product - like their fileservers that come with builtin 3DPinball, Wordpad and Solitaire - but don't actually do a decent job of serving files.
And Microsoft already has deep roots in the medical industry.
Microsoft is somtimes used for invoicing in smaller offices, and once in a while you can find it in a Shitty-Patient-Tracking-Access-Pusdo-Database. Complete with huge buttons, and crappy background bitmaps.
But for actually research, diagnosis, and appliation - nobody uses a desktop OS for that, let alone XP.
There was this guy that I knew that could solve them in about four minutes - so I very carefuly heated the stickers on the corners with a hair driver and pealed them off with a razor and swaped them around. The cube became unsolvable - the relationships were just off for the cornet cubes.
It was facinating to watch him continually fail over the course of a weekend - I helpfully sugested that watching too much Red Dwarf could do that to one's mind.
after leaving the site my Safari browser unexpectly quit.
You're fresaking me out - My Konqueror crashed after pressing "Back" on the Raelian site. Konqueror and Safari share good portions of the rendering engine - KHTML, so this could make sense.
Opps, nevermined, I just realised that I left my foil hat with the shiny-side out. I put the shiny-side inwards, and my brain waves are happy again.
You probably found out - Intel actually re-released the Xircom cards under the Intel brand name for a bit less cost - Xircom has a great reputation, but Intel wanted to get some sales as well.
Once FreeBSD is up and running, I think you'll like it. The 'man' pages are excelent and things just seem to work better - once the're working, that is.
The *BSD lack some of the features of some of the Linux distributions, but when you have work to be done - they do an excelent job.
In FreeBSD, you can get back to the confuguation screen by/stand/sysinstall - you can configure your network, XFree, and other things from here.
I've been using them in my laptops for over a year now, and let me tell you thA@@!....[NO CARRIER]
Re:Have to side with the GNU folks here.
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As I understand it - it's dual licensed in the same sort of way as MySQL is. There's the GPL version and a version you can buy to embed in your Closed-Source-DRM-Widget-2003-XP that you've always wanted to make.
A lot if cities/counties/municipalities use 911 for everything. In our town - if a dog barks call 911, if you're stabed call 911, if somone if violating a building code call 911, if a post goes on Slashdot with a mispalling call 911, etc..
I'm not familiar with the Linksys PCMCIA cards - but most 'simple' network cards give you a problem at one point or another. In order to cut costs, a lot of network companies will put some of the inteligence of the card in the driver itself - this leads to complex driver and as such, these drivers don't get written for the more obscure OS'es. In addition, these card tend to be slow (they have to depend on the driver) and buggy.
For example - by swaping out a Netgear card and replacing it with an Intel card - our database performance jumped up about 35% on one server alone.
As a general rule - you can use the OpenBSD compatibiliy list as a buying guide. All the hardware is robust and well made and doesen't require clever driver tricks to work around bugs in the chipsets - exactly what you want in and environment.
Perhaps you could just spring for a supported Xircom network card?
BTW: I diden't think you were trolling at all! You views were fine and diden't diserve to be jumped on like that.
The *BSD *are* a bit more difficult to install than say, Mandrake 9.1.
Examples:
OpenBSD boot disks won't on soem CD-ROM drives. I keep a Mitsumi around just in case, myself.
FreeBSD requires a song and dance to get sound to work, and most 3D functions of most graphics card don't have the same support as Linux.
But that wasen't my point. I don't claim that *BSD is a drop in replacement for your favorite Linux distribution.
My point was, that if the Linux kernal was declared illegal to use - that *BSD is close enough to replace Linux - with an additional bit of work to bring it up to speed where Linux shines (Hardware support, graphic support and mindshare)
(As an aside, *BSD demand that you don't have sucky hardware - for example, WinModems are just not supported. Odd N2000 chipsets arn't suported as well. Basically any type of hardware that has sucky driver-based logic is considered not worth suporting - as a general rule)
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Yes, he meant that and "Excelent" and "compaired" and "hese" and "apear" and "taks".
Thank you for coming back. I was wondering where my spellcheck went.
Is it really such a big deal that you'd gay up my post
with your gay reply?
You use the word "gay" as a verb - is there somthing you'd like to tell us?
I'm obviously doing on purpose by choice.
We'll, at least you have the courage to come forward.
that's quite a stretch comparing Pair with Hotmail.
Yeah, I know. Pair is much larger than Hotmail.
They host 80,000 domains - fully backed up, with databases, with client compiled software, with security, with barly any down time.
Hotmail can barly stay online for more than a week.
Would you like to share with us why you consider Hotmail a "silly little system"?
Hotmail is a toy compaired to just about anything. If Windows can cut it with a webmail - why would I use it for anything important like, say, financial transations?
Pair.com services their 100,000 customers (each with several email addresses) with webmail without breaking a sweat using FreeBSD and Squirrelmail. No downtime, not hacks, no nothing. It just works.
Have you ever worked for a company that runs a large Windows 2000-based network?
Guess what Microsoft uses for their financial records (at least of lask year): AS/400.
Bored bored bored bored! I need something new.
A brand new concept. Something nobody has ever
done before. As much as I LOVE FPS games, I've
Ring..... ring... rin.....
Hello?
It's 1983, we'd like our C-64 back if you could possibly spare it.
Linux has always felt sluggish to me compaired to FreeBSD as a workstation. There are hese little lags where the system diden't apear to be doing anything when you do taks that require disk IO.
Microsoft finally succeeded in transitioning Hotmail to an all Windows 2000 environment back in 2000 or 2001. I forget the exact date but Microsoft has a whitepaper on the subject if you really want to bother searching for it.
Which goes to show that Windows doesen't scale, isen't robust and isen't easy to use.
If it took Microsoft themselved over 3 years to migrate off of FreeBSD to Windows - JUST FOR A SILLY WEBMAIL SYSTEM - imagine the pain of migrating somthing complex.
Windows is an ok server for new useres for small offices - it's GUI interface can make it easier for new computer users to deploy - but by just this example alone, you can clearly see that Microsoft isen't ready for the server room.
The best thing about Half-life was all the extra mods and games.
Valve knows this - that most of their sales were for Counterstrike and not Half-Life itself.
Senseably, because the XBOX is a closed system, they are keeping it PC only.
What a joke - he coulden't make an emergency call.
Most Ericsson phones will let you dial 911 or 112 (or whaterver it is in Europe) at any time - even during the PIN unlock stage, before you've entered a correct PIN.
Just like a typical Microsoft product - like their fileservers that come with builtin 3DPinball, Wordpad and Solitaire - but don't actually do a decent job of serving files.
And Microsoft already has deep roots in the medical industry.
Microsoft is somtimes used for invoicing in smaller offices, and once in a while you can find it in a Shitty-Patient-Tracking-Access-Pusdo-Database. Complete with huge buttons, and crappy background bitmaps.
But for actually research, diagnosis, and appliation - nobody uses a desktop OS for that, let alone XP.
Protien folding with an XP box - that'd be funny.
Perhaps General Protection Fault holds him back.
Already, Greneral Failure reading hard-drive.
Not only to they have the modern version of the IBM Model M - they have one that has a trackpoint just like an IBM Laptop. I'm using one right now.
It's clicky as hell, costs me $99, and I could bludgeon someone to death with it.
Best. Keyboard. Ever.
you're using a retarded
40 column web browser
HEY! MY TRS-80 COCO ONLY
HAS 32 COLUMNS - AND NO
LOWERCASE, YOU INSENSITIVE
CLOD!
Oddly appropriate for the topic to have a question mark in there.
American Public Shools' do an excelent job, of teaching punctuation!
Its just were lossers at speling.
There was this guy that I knew that could solve them in about four minutes - so I very carefuly heated the stickers on the corners with a hair driver and pealed them off with a razor and swaped them around. The cube became unsolvable - the relationships were just off for the cornet cubes.
It was facinating to watch him continually fail over the course of a weekend - I helpfully sugested that watching too much Red Dwarf could do that to one's mind.
after leaving the site my Safari browser unexpectly quit.
You're fresaking me out - My Konqueror crashed after pressing "Back" on the Raelian site. Konqueror and Safari share good portions of the rendering engine - KHTML, so this could make sense.
Opps, nevermined, I just realised that I left my foil hat with the shiny-side out. I put the shiny-side inwards, and my brain waves are happy again.
I believe, however, that Munich is the capital...
Actually, it's Brussels is Gremany's new capital. Germany owns europe, just 60 years late.
I hope MySQL doesen't change too much...
It a easy to use, psudo-database thats really fast.
It's not a real database - but it's two strength (ease and speed) make it ideal for many projects.
I love PostgreSQL for all sorts of real database reasons, but for some tasks MySQL is superior (like PHP websites).
Type in
dmesg | more
and page up and page down though the message - you you see any problem with PCMCIA controllers?
It might not be the card that FreeBSD is having trouble, it might be the PCI/PCMCIA cipset!
You probably found out - Intel actually re-released the Xircom cards under the Intel brand name for a bit less cost - Xircom has a great reputation, but Intel wanted to get some sales as well.
/stand/sysinstall - you can configure your network, XFree, and other things from here.
Once FreeBSD is up and running, I think you'll like it. The 'man' pages are excelent and things just seem to work better - once the're working, that is.
The *BSD lack some of the features of some of the Linux distributions, but when you have work to be done - they do an excelent job.
In FreeBSD, you can get back to the confuguation screen by
-Ben
I've been using them in my laptops for over a year now, and let me tell you thA@@!....[NO CARRIER]
As I understand it - it's dual licensed in the same sort of way as MySQL is. There's the GPL version and a version you can buy to embed in your Closed-Source-DRM-Widget-2003-XP that you've always wanted to make.
A lot if cities/counties/municipalities use 911 for everything. In our town - if a dog barks call 911, if you're stabed call 911, if somone if violating a building code call 911, if a post goes on Slashdot with a mispalling call 911, etc..
I'm not familiar with the Linksys PCMCIA cards - but most 'simple' network cards give you a problem at one point or another. In order to cut costs, a lot of network companies will put some of the inteligence of the card in the driver itself - this leads to complex driver and as such, these drivers don't get written for the more obscure OS'es. In addition, these card tend to be slow (they have to depend on the driver) and buggy.
For example - by swaping out a Netgear card and replacing it with an Intel card - our database performance jumped up about 35% on one server alone.
As a general rule - you can use the OpenBSD compatibiliy list as a buying guide. All the hardware is robust and well made and doesen't require clever driver tricks to work around bugs in the chipsets - exactly what you want in and environment.
Perhaps you could just spring for a supported Xircom network card?
BTW: I diden't think you were trolling at all! You views were fine and diden't diserve to be jumped on like that.
The *BSD *are* a bit more difficult to install than say, Mandrake 9.1.
Examples:
OpenBSD boot disks won't on soem CD-ROM drives. I keep a Mitsumi around just in case, myself.
FreeBSD requires a song and dance to get sound to work, and most 3D functions of most graphics card don't have the same support as Linux.
But that wasen't my point. I don't claim that *BSD is a drop in replacement for your favorite Linux distribution.
My point was, that if the Linux kernal was declared illegal to use - that *BSD is close enough to replace Linux - with an additional bit of work to bring it up to speed where Linux shines (Hardware support, graphic support and mindshare)
(As an aside, *BSD demand that you don't have sucky hardware - for example, WinModems are just not supported. Odd N2000 chipsets arn't suported as well. Basically any type of hardware that has sucky driver-based logic is considered not worth suporting - as a general rule)