But of course, everyone knows that there are actually four days in one. Or at least that's what the guy at timecube.com says.
Are you sure this guy is for real? This stuff smacks of Jack Chick comics mixed with a dash of the Church of the Subgenius.;) Especially the link to AboveGod :
There are 4 simultaneous days created within a single rotation of Earth. The Teaching that Earth has only 1 day in 1 rotation, is Adult poison forced on little Children. Adults are villains of child nature. God is hate of Children.
...
There are no 10 year old adults living on Earth... so when are they born? Do Adults evolve from the death sacrifice of Children? Absolutely they do. 1 DAY distorted adults dishonor children with a claim that a queer god made adults first?
Like I said the first time. The operative words are "designed for".
It doesn't say any encryption product that can be used for those purposes is illegal, it says any encryption product *designed for* those purposes is illegal.
For example, a car is a personal transportation device. It is designed to move people from point A to point B. A wheelbarrow is not designed for moving people from point A to point B, it's designed for other non-people things. However, it can effectively be used to move people, also.
So, if the criteria for judging the legality of the car & the whellbarrow were "any device designed for transporting people is illegal", the car would be illegal, the wheelbarrow wouldn't.
In your example, whatever Phillip Zimmerman designed PGP for remains what he designed PGP for regardless of how people use it. From what I recall, it was designed to give individuals the ability to be secure in their electronic data from eavesdroppers.
Now, if M$ Terrorist [tm] used PGP as its encryption engine, M$ Terrorist [tm] would be illegal, as it is would be a custom encryption product designed to harm national security, but PGP itself would still be legal.:)
Of course, the politicians could say "Trying to ensure that people have access to the protections granted by the bill of rights shall be considered intent to harm national security". That would indeed result in PGP becoming illegal, but not for the reasons you stated.;)
Hmm.. maybe theoretically.:) Realistically, I tried like hell to get past the Go puzzle to see the last girl option in 11th hour (after 2 prior wins picking the wheelchair girl and the slutgrrl). No dice.;)
Btw, anyone know what happens if you pick the one you were originally supposed to rescue?
Don't know which "we" you're talking about regarding elected officials, but, if you're referring to the US Federal Gov't, the Federalist Papers disagree with you.
Quoth James Madison: (full document at http://lcweb2.loc.gov/const/fed/fed_10.html)
Here are two of the most salient paragraphs:
No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not improbably, corrupt his integrity. With equal, nay with greater reason, a body of men are unfit to be both judges and parties at the same time; yet what are many of the most important acts of legislation, but so many judicial determinations, not indeed concerning the rights of single persons, but concerning the rights of large bodies of citizens? And what are the different classes of legislators but advocates and parties to the causes which they determine? Is a law proposed concerning private debts? It is a question to which the creditors are parties on one side and the debtors on the other. Justice ought to hold the balance between them. Yet the parties are, and must be, themselves the judges; and the most numerous party, or, in other words, the most powerful faction must be expected to prevail. Shall domestic manufactures be encouraged, and in what degree, by restrictions on foreign manufactures? are questions which would be differently decided by the landed and the manufacturing classes, and probably by neither with a sole regard to justice and the public good. The apportionment of taxes on the various descriptions of property is an act which seems to require the most exact impartiality; yet there is, perhaps, no legislative act in which greater opportunity and temptation are given to a predominant party to trample on the rules of justice. Every shilling with which they overburden the inferior number, is a shilling saved to their own pockets.
--snip some--
From this view of the subject it may be concluded that a pure democracy, by which I mean a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person, can admit of no cure for the mischiefs of faction. A common passion or interest will, in almost every case, be felt by a majority of the whole; a communication and concert result from the form of government itself; and there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party or an obnoxious individual. Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths. Theoretic politicians, who have patronized this species of government, have erroneously supposed that by reducing mankind to a perfect equality in their political rights, they would, at the same time, be perfectly equalized and assimilated in their possessions, their opinions, and their passions.
To put it in more geek-friendly terms, compare the most popular of just about anythign to the best of just about anything.:-)
The most popular is almost always the inferior one, but with the best marketing given a large enough market.
For instance, Windows vs. (insert your religious choice here). The same can be applied to movies. Try watching the Independent Film Channel if you've got cable. They actually break the mold of the 8 different plots washed, rinsed & repeated by Hollywood.
I don't think any encyption products currently popular as free software or on the commercial market are ""custom-made" encryption products designed for "use in harming national security, use in the sexual exploitation of children [or] use by organized crime."
There's a difference between "designed for" and "can be used for".
I think what they're trying to prevent is M$ Terrorist [tm] complete with custom encryption specifically designed for use in harming national security. (Click OK to install!)
So, unless there's a PGP whitepaper I missed out on...;)
Just curious... but what platforms does BSD support that Linux doesnt? Linux runs on everything from PalmPilot's and Itsy's to IBM System/390 mainframes. I can't think of a single platform that exists today that Linux doesn't run on...
Take a look at http://www.netbsd.org It has a list of platforms supported. Also of note, NetBSD was the first Free *nix to support USB.
At the top of the LinuxHQ Back OnLine page it says:
The reason for the downtime was that I was originally planning on transfering the linuxhq.com domain to another organization.
At the bottom of the LinuxHQ Back OnLine page it says:
Also, if an established organization within the Linux community would like to take ownership of the linuxhq.com domain and continue to maintain the web site with a dedication to quality, I would be willing to hear the proposal. But, if you are serious about taking ownership, you must have a solid plan in place and willing to provide the committment necessary to maintain one of the best web sites in the Linux community.
Sounds to me like the millions paid for Linux.Com got him thinking and he wants in on some of the action. The first deal fell through, so now he's being a little more forthright about what he's after.;)
It's not about MetroWerks here. Even if they had a bad name that wouldn't be a reason enough to bash Red Hat.
If Microsoft release Office for Linux tomorrow, would you switch to BSD just because of that? Would you really be so easy to be manipulated?
OK, Debian is easier for you, fair enough. But if we have to compare Corel with Red Hat, that's another matter. AFAIK Corel has only expressed intentions to support WINE and KDE. Whereas Red Hat not only releases all their software with the GPL but they also pay GNOME and KDE programmers to produce even more GPLed code. BTW, how do you manage to switch to a new kernel without rebooting?
Corel has been actively contributing to Wine for quite some time now. For instance, take a look at the WINE-CVS mailing list: here
I realize it's not about metrowerks, they've stated intentions to also support other distros, etc. I was just mentioning possible reasons people weren't whining about corel.;)
Regarding your strawman about switching to BSD, I already do happily use BSD in addition to Linux. And, in case it needs mentioning, no, I wouldn't drop Linux because of a M$ port.;) I do agree with the original article's point which is not RedHat bashing - it's saying that it's not good for only RedHat (or only anyone) to receive official support. You may have noticed that Corel WordPerfect only lists libc5, kernel 2.0.x and X as a requirement. IMHO, that's the way to go.
Of course, it's easy enough to use.rpm's on other systems as I mentioned way up there ^^^, and I've seen FreeBSD advocates suggest to companies wanting to port to FreeBSD to do a Linux port first. That way the company will immediately realize a larger user base, and FreeBSD folk can use the apps under Linux emulation.
Along the same lines, Debian tends to include installers to de-rpm and debanize rpm-only packages, also. Scripts that do library preloads aren't uncommon, either, as binary-only programs often have nasty little bugs and library dependencies that can't be recompiled away. rvplayer 5.0 w/ kernel 2.2.x comes to mind.
Re: no-reboot kernel upgrades, I think that's going to have to wait for Hurd to become a bit more polished.;) The reason I don't reboot is that I don't do kernel upgrades w/ every distro upgrade. None of the Debians from 1.1 to present needed new kernels to work from what I remember. Of course, Debian 2.0 did require a reboot once libc6 was installed to as to get utmp switched over, but that was the only one.
Why didn't anyone cried 'foul' when Corel announced they will be bundling their office suit with Debian GNU/Linux? Yes, I know that Debian is a noncommercial organization but are we against the Balkanization or are we against someone making money out of Linux?
My Linux is Red Hat precisely because of everything they return to the whole community (well, and because they are the easiest to maintain) And it would be absurd to begin to dislike them only because a software company likes them as well. Please, let's try to be more mature about these things.
Probably no one cried foul because of Corel/Debian things because...
In contrast to Corel's copious non-distro specific efforts, Metrowerks, who has offered nothing to the free software community, comes out with plans to release their tool packaged only for redhat.
Corel shipped Redhat on their Netwinders, all of the new code they're putting into their Corel Linux Distro is going to be GPL'd, they've contributed substantially to Wine.. All in all, they've given back quite a bit to the community.
I agree that all this harsh attn toward Metrowerks is misplaced, but seeing time and time again, "X is releasing Y for Redhat Linux!" makes users of other distros feel alienated. And, this *is* a constant thing. Metrowerks just happened to be the one pushing their product for "Redhat Linux" when the camel's back was reaching overload.
IMHO, Debian is the easiest to maintain as long as you stay within the lines of the packaging system. For instance, I've gone through several Debian's distro-version upgrades w/o rebooting.. (!!)
Slackware hapens to use a STANDARD package manager that's all Slackware uses tar and gzip , what's so bad about that ? every unix around can use tar , gzip is available on most too rpm , deb ? why limit yourself to one distribution by using them ? granted that Slackware's uninstall and upgrade isn't as easy as appget or whatever debian calls it Slackware is standard , librarys in sensible historical places , portable package managment....
I think the idea of slackware balkanizing Linux is silly, too. However, I don't see what's more "STANDARD" about slackware's 'setup' package manager compared to the ones most other distros have. It keeps track of what's installed in a central location, sort of like Debian..;) Just without the level of fine-grained dependencies and less smarts in the package manager.
Regarding.deb, it's easy to get into:
ar x package.deb tar zxvf data.tar.gz
The files other than data.tar.gz are similar in function to the install.sh that slackware.tgz's come with - control info & scripts for the package manager to use.
RPM is harder to get into, as standard unix tools won't get into it, afaik (though perhaps cpio can do it), but there are programs out there that can can get them open, like rpm2cpio and alien.
Besides, you don't have to limit yourself by using package managers.. Lots of people on slackware go outside the packaging system and put stuff in/usr/local/ (or even in the system directories *the horrors*!) but, ppl do that on other systems, too. In fact, whether I'm using Debian, FreeBSD, NetBSD or Solaris, I've invariably got at least *something* in/usr/local/bin.;)
I don't want to insult anybody but I kind of preferred DG. It looks cleaner and more corporate. The "swirl" even looks uglier than the old one. What does the heck is the vase supposed to mean?
I liked the old logo of the chicken, too. But, I can't figure out why Debian should have a corporate-looking logo. The responses in this article remind me of back when the penguin was selected for Linux. Half the ppl were saying "The PENGUIN?! DON'T VOTE FOR THAT!!"... It seems pretty well-accepted now, though. Even if it isn't corporate-looking.;)
I think a good way of handling this would be to give each article 2 seperate value scores. 1 for humor value, another for informational value. That way, someone out for a laugh could adjust their sort options to put the humorous ones on top... And the underloved, undersexed twits who always want to run everything could have an option to eliminate all signs of humanity.;)
This kind of reconciles "classical" vs. "romantic" as described in zen & the art of motorcycle maintenance, too. (go quality!)
I would imagine most Open Source apps out there will compile to a Solaris x86 target. This seems like it targets an extremely small niche. Anything that uses imake is a pain to get compiled on a solaris machine as a general rule, since it's configured to work with the sun cc. Perhaps if you switch to XFree86, and recompile it yourself with gcc it would do ok, but what a pain. I plan to try this lxrun out soon a system I've got here running solaris x86 for that very reason.;)
Solaris x86 being a small niche was probably the driving force behind the port to it.
They can easily go up to a commercial vendor and ask for patches or get support when they have problems..
And, a commercial vendor can easily say "Piss off, we've got 32,324 higher priority bugs to fix first";) Besides, the money saved on royalties should be enough to hire a nice team of programmers from amongst the active contributors (ala Alan Cox) The astute executive may even notice that it's generally more effective demanding a fix from an employee than from the arrogant corporate megalith of the decade.
In a non-PC environment, it just won't hold up. If you're using it on a single box, that's one thing. But if you want to use Linux in firewalls, gateways, embedded systems, and so on, it has along way to go.
Based on the context, it appears as though Ken is using the term PC to mean "Personal Computer" i.e., a workstation a person is using, not the x86-based platform. The originator of this thread was referring to the stability of his *firewall* running Linux.;)
As an aside, my Alphastation running Debian has been just as stable as the x86's - no crashes barring hardware/power failure.. Which puts Linux a notch above the stability I've seen from Solaris and FreeBSD. In fairness to FreeBSD, the sporadic kernel panics are on 3.1-RELEASE and its -stable branch, not a real blessed "stable" release.
I dont know if I understand this correctly. Right now XFree86 requires a Whole server for each video card right? The new Xfree86 will alow driver modules. Is this closer to the way Winblows uses video drivers?
It's closer to the way AcceleratedX uses video drivers. One server executable, many pluggable drivers. Being OS independent, it wouldn't be that close to the way Windows does things.
Currently, XFree86 supports quite a few cards in their SVGA server, and the number has grown lately - for instance, now you can use SVGA or s3v servers for s3v cards.
The NRA lobby is extremely powerful and they not only control much legislation, but also seem to be able to command puplic opinion. People talk as if having the means to kill a large number of people quickly and easily readily at hand is some sort of god given right.
In a civilised society, it is not. Lets stop pointing fingers at ridiculous things like video games and start to point them at the NRA and other groups that have seen to it that if you want, you can get ahold of enough weapons to do the sort of things that these boys did.
Pointing fingers at the NRA for violence in society is just as ridiculous as pointing fingers at video games. The NRA is defending people's rights to defend themselves, not the rights of criminals. In fact, the NRA launched something called Crimestrike about 7-8 years ago, whose purpose was to see to it that violent criminals receive stiff punishment.
The NRA wants the good guys to be able to have guns. The bad guys can get the means to kill regardless of any legalities, just as people can get at cocaine and the like, even though that has been illegal for nearly a century.
On a side note, the NRA also supported instant check systems at gun shops, so that if someone is a convicted felon, sale is declined.
But even with all the violent tendencies in the world, it's very difficult to act on them if you don't have a gun. Guns are the basic problem. Gun advocates will quote the Constitution as if it were holy writ: I say, the Constitution be damned; the provision for well-armed militias was written when the worst thing you could carry was a wheel lock musket. Stop hiding behind the Constitution and tell us exactly how free access to guns helps build communities in our cities. A note to the clue-challenged: You can't. They don't. Wake up.
The reason the right to own guns is essential is not because the Constitution says so. It's because the point of the United States is *individual rights* Part of that is having the ability, as an individual, to defend yourself.
The police don't have the obligation (or the resources) to defend you as an individual. They are there for the "public" safety. If someone is at your door, trying to deprive *you* of your life, you get the standard 20 minute police response time. If the attacker succeeds, you're left dead. The fact that an APB goes out as they're putting you in a bodybag isn't much of a consolation, IMHO.
Besides, the places in the US with the highest murder rates are also the places with the most repressive gun control laws (Washington DC, where guns are banned outright, and California, for instance). In contrast, the places where people have been given the right to carry concealed weapons, violent crimes against them have dropped (Somewhere in florida had a big problem with rape.. This severely dropped off once concealed firearms were legalized)
As for guns being the basic problem, I don't see how you could be further from the truth. Since bombs are a big factor in the event being discussed, I think it has been demonstrated quite well that it's easy enough for anyone to obtain a means of killing people besides guns (cars, knifes, poison, etc) Firearms are unique in this respect because they have excellent *defensive* value.
Sure, freedom has risks associated with it... I'm of the firm belief that the risks are worth the result. Besides, there are lots of other countries out there where guns are not legal for people who do want to trade their freedom for the illusion of security.
Is it me or does anyone else see some parallels to the movie _Heathers_?
"What's your *damage*?"
Carrie 2: The rage was the one that struck me first.. Probably because that's the most recent movie of that genre I've seen. I don't know if Heathers quite fits, because the outcast gets one of the main popular girls to date him.. I think if that happened to one of these Trench Coat Mafia guys, he may have found a fun way to redirect his energies in "other ways"...;)
Maybe it is time to standardize. I think BSD would be a lot stronger if there was one flavor to advocate and improve.
This whole net/open/free BSD thing is too confusing for most people.
I disagree. Each of their goals are different enough to justify 3 projects. For instance, to get something secure as OpenBSD is pretty much impossible unless you're really focused on securing every facet of the system. To have its crypto, it can't be developed in the US.
And, FreeBSD's level of "Friendliness" and relatively rapid evolution probably wouldn't mix well with the breadth of architectures supported by NetBSD.
I personally use Debian Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD, and have never thought "Hmm.. it sure would be better if this were all standardized". That reeks too much of mob rule, force and mediocrity for my tastes.
In my travels, I've come across a page that illustrates that. It's here on thttpd's site It's a bit dated, but it does illustrate Zeus' (and thttpd's) speed.
NT 4.0 is 2.5 times faster than Linux as a File Server and 3.7 times faster as a Web Server
with ZDNet's findings on the subject of the same benchmarks of Linux vs NT benches.
The same thing could have happened if smp were "Accidentally" left out of the linux machine's kernel.
I doubt that any amount of "tuning" would generate this type of difference. With apache, perhaps realtime ip resolution would do it, but I don't see how that would figure in with Samba.
Speaking as a geek who didn't go to college "because it wasn't necessary", I think it is necessary unless you want to be restricted in your choice of jobs and pay scale.
It reminds me of how black people would tell their kids "You have to be 3 times as good as white people to get the same pay|respect|etc".
Except, without a degree, it's probably more like 5-10 times as good.;)
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Like I said the first time. The operative words are "designed for".
:)
;)
It doesn't say any encryption product that can be used for those purposes is illegal, it says any encryption product *designed for* those purposes is illegal.
For example, a car is a personal transportation device. It is designed to move people from point A to point B. A wheelbarrow is not designed for moving people from point A to point B, it's designed for other non-people things. However, it can effectively be used to move people, also.
So, if the criteria for judging the legality of the car & the whellbarrow were "any device designed for transporting people is illegal", the car would be illegal, the wheelbarrow wouldn't.
In your example, whatever Phillip Zimmerman designed PGP for remains what he designed PGP for regardless of how people use it. From what I recall, it was designed to give individuals the ability to be secure in their electronic data from eavesdroppers.
Now, if M$ Terrorist [tm] used PGP as its encryption engine, M$ Terrorist [tm] would be illegal, as it is would be a custom encryption product designed to harm national security, but PGP itself would still be legal.
Of course, the politicians could say "Trying to ensure that people have access to the protections granted by the bill of rights shall be considered intent to harm national security". That would indeed result in PGP becoming illegal, but not for the reasons you stated.
Hmm.. maybe theoretically. :) Realistically, I tried like hell to get past the Go puzzle to see the last girl option in 11th hour (after 2 prior wins picking the wheelchair girl and the slutgrrl). No dice. ;)
Btw, anyone know what happens if you pick the one you were originally supposed to rescue?
Quoth James Madison: (full document at http://lcweb2.loc.gov/const/fed/fed_10.html)
Here are two of the most salient paragraphs:
To put it in more geek-friendly terms, compare the most popular of just about anythign to the best of just about anything. :-)
The most popular is almost always the inferior one, but with the best marketing given a large enough market.
For instance, Windows vs. (insert your religious choice here). The same can be applied to movies. Try watching the Independent Film Channel if you've got cable. They actually break the mold of the 8 different plots washed, rinsed & repeated by Hollywood.
I don't think any encyption products currently popular as free software or on the commercial market are ""custom-made" encryption products designed for "use in harming national security, use in the sexual exploitation of children [or] use by organized crime."
;)
There's a difference between "designed for" and "can be used for".
I think what they're trying to prevent is M$ Terrorist [tm] complete with custom encryption specifically designed for use in harming national security. (Click OK to install!)
So, unless there's a PGP whitepaper I missed out on...
I realize it's not about metrowerks, they've stated intentions to also support other distros, etc. I was just mentioning possible reasons people weren't whining about corel.
Regarding your strawman about switching to BSD, I already do happily use BSD in addition to Linux. And, in case it needs mentioning, no, I wouldn't drop Linux because of a M$ port.
Of course, it's easy enough to use
Along the same lines, Debian tends to include installers to de-rpm and debanize rpm-only packages, also. Scripts that do library preloads aren't uncommon, either, as binary-only programs often have nasty little bugs and library dependencies that can't be recompiled away. rvplayer 5.0 w/ kernel 2.2.x comes to mind.
Re: no-reboot kernel upgrades, I think that's going to have to wait for Hurd to become a bit more polished.
In contrast to Corel's copious non-distro specific efforts, Metrowerks, who has offered nothing to the free software community, comes out with plans to release their tool packaged only for redhat.
Corel shipped Redhat on their Netwinders, all of the new code they're putting into their Corel Linux Distro is going to be GPL'd, they've contributed substantially to Wine.. All in all, they've given back quite a bit to the community.
I agree that all this harsh attn toward Metrowerks is misplaced, but seeing time and time again, "X is releasing Y for Redhat Linux!" makes users of other distros feel alienated. And, this *is* a constant thing. Metrowerks just happened to be the one pushing their product for "Redhat Linux" when the camel's back was reaching overload.
IMHO, Debian is the easiest to maintain as long as you stay within the lines of the packaging system. For instance, I've gone through several Debian's distro-version upgrades w/o rebooting.. (!!)
Regarding
ar x package.deb
tar zxvf data.tar.gz
The files other than data.tar.gz are similar in function to the install.sh that slackware
RPM is harder to get into, as standard unix tools won't get into it, afaik (though perhaps cpio can do it), but there are programs out there that can can get them open, like rpm2cpio and alien.
Besides, you don't have to limit yourself by using package managers.. Lots of people on slackware go outside the packaging system and put stuff in
I think a good way of handling this would be to give each article 2 seperate value scores. 1 for humor value, another for informational value. That way, someone out for a laugh could adjust their sort options to put the humorous ones on top ... And the underloved, undersexed twits who always want to run everything could have an option to eliminate all signs of humanity. ;)
This kind of reconciles "classical" vs. "romantic" as described in zen & the art of motorcycle maintenance, too. (go quality!)
It uses Apache for page serving (including PHP), and thttpd for image serving.. Right tools for the job. :)
Based on the context, it appears as though Ken is using the term PC to mean "Personal Computer" i.e., a workstation a person is using, not the x86-based platform. The originator of this thread was referring to the stability of his *firewall* running Linux.
As an aside, my Alphastation running Debian has been just as stable as the x86's - no crashes barring hardware/power failure
Currently, XFree86 supports quite a few cards in their SVGA server, and the number has grown lately - for instance, now you can use SVGA or s3v servers for s3v cards.
The NRA wants the good guys to be able to have guns. The bad guys can get the means to kill regardless of any legalities, just as people can get at cocaine and the like, even though that has been illegal for nearly a century.
On a side note, the NRA also supported instant check systems at gun shops, so that if someone is a convicted felon, sale is declined.
The police don't have the obligation (or the resources) to defend you as an individual. They are there for the "public" safety. If someone is at your door, trying to deprive *you* of your life, you get the standard 20 minute police response time. If the attacker succeeds, you're left dead. The fact that an APB goes out as they're putting you in a bodybag isn't much of a consolation, IMHO.
Besides, the places in the US with the highest murder rates are also the places with the most repressive gun control laws (Washington DC, where guns are banned outright, and California, for instance). In contrast, the places where people have been given the right to carry concealed weapons, violent crimes against them have dropped (Somewhere in florida had a big problem with rape
As for guns being the basic problem, I don't see how you could be further from the truth. Since bombs are a big factor in the event being discussed, I think it has been demonstrated quite well that it's easy enough for anyone to obtain a means of killing people besides guns (cars, knifes, poison, etc) Firearms are unique in this respect because they have excellent *defensive* value.
Sure, freedom has risks associated with it... I'm of the firm belief that the risks are worth the result. Besides, there are lots of other countries out there where guns are not legal for people who do want to trade their freedom for the illusion of security.
And, FreeBSD's level of "Friendliness" and relatively rapid evolution probably wouldn't mix well with the breadth of architectures supported by NetBSD.
I personally use Debian Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD, and have never thought "Hmm.. it sure would be better if this were all standardized". That reeks too much of mob rule, force and mediocrity for my tastes.
In my travels, I've come across a page that illustrates that. It's here on thttpd's site It's a bit dated, but it does illustrate Zeus' (and thttpd's) speed.
Compare and contrast:
NT 4.0 is 2.5 times faster than Linux as a File Server and 3.7 times faster as a Web Server
with ZDNet's findings on the subject of the same benchmarks of Linux vs NT benches.
The same thing could have happened if smp were "Accidentally" left out of the linux machine's kernel.
I doubt that any amount of "tuning" would generate this type of difference. With apache, perhaps realtime ip resolution would do it, but I don't see how that would figure in with Samba.
Speaking as a geek who didn't go to college "because it wasn't necessary", I think it is necessary unless you want to be restricted in your choice of jobs and pay scale.
;)
It reminds me of how black people would tell their kids "You have to be 3 times as good as white people to get the same pay|respect|etc".
Except, without a degree, it's probably more like 5-10 times as good.