Bootstrap my ass. You used that term at least twice but your presumption is incorrect and based more upon FUD than reality. It is (at least I thought it was) commonly known that Win9X not only bootsraps with DOS but leaves a DOS VM running and makes many system calls to the DOS VM. Win9X constantly calls it's old win16 layer as well. If there were no DOS or Win16, not only would Win 9X not "bootstrap" but it wouldn't freakin run! Try www.sysinternals.com or something like that to see some of the undocumented crap that MS does.
All my client desktops are NT4 and use Outlook. ALl of them connect to Sendmail on Linux and do that nifty name-checking thing via Open LDAP. If I wanted groupware crap there's Open Source Linux answers for that too.
Since I'm sorta responsible for out telecommuters I was shown this article this morning. To make this ridiculous law work I'd have to do the even more ridiculous task of visiting employee's homes and ensuring compliance with our rules so that they used their (hypothetical) ergonomic devices in a proper fashion.
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Bootstrap my ass. You used that term at least twice but your presumption is incorrect and based more upon FUD than reality. It is (at least I thought it was) commonly known that Win9X not only bootsraps with DOS but leaves a DOS VM running and makes many system calls to the DOS VM. Win9X constantly calls it's old win16 layer as well. If there were no DOS or Win16, not only would Win 9X not "bootstrap" but it wouldn't freakin run! Try www.sysinternals.com or something like that to see some of the undocumented crap that MS does.
All my client desktops are NT4 and use Outlook. ALl of them connect to Sendmail on Linux and do that nifty name-checking thing via Open LDAP. If I wanted groupware crap there's Open Source Linux answers for that too.
If only I had this chance when I would've gambled on their stock. Sigh...
All work is voluntary, unless you're a slave! If the work is toxic/unsafe then don't do it.
Since I'm sorta responsible for out telecommuters I was shown this article this morning. To make this ridiculous law work I'd have to do the even more ridiculous task of visiting employee's homes and ensuring compliance with our rules so that they used their (hypothetical) ergonomic devices in a proper fashion.