I was just reading the NT EULA yesterday and they specifically forbid benchmarking their products without prior written approval of Microsoft. I wonder if it was obtained for these tests...
Encryption as an offensive weapon - Have you not heard of the "virus" that encrypted files on a users hard disk randomly?
Even if it is not true, it makes for a good "offensive" use of encryption. Especially if you held the encryption keys in "ransom" until the company paid up - supposedly to some untraceable electronic fund.
Do you not find kidnapping an "offense?"
You login is flawed, mostly because you don't have the imagination to see how encryption can be used as an offensive weapon.
How, exactly, could Linux be turned into a "marketing strategy to takeover the world?" Marketing strategies are for companies. Now, maybe RedHat or Caldera could have a marketing strategy, but what we are promoting is competition in the OS field. An OS can't have a marketing strategy, only companies.
BTW: I've been using Linux since 0.96. I believe before/. was even around???
"There is nothing magical about UNIX that makes [it] automatically better professional[ly]."
Yes there is. Unix expertise is harder to fake than Windows. Any idiot can fake their way through an interview for a Windows NT administrator position. The same can not be said about a Unix administrator position. This is simply due to the fact that the minimal skills required to be a competant Unix administrator are much greater than the minimal skills to be a competant WindowsNT administrator. There are more options and greater flexability in Unix systems, so the knowledge base must be larger than that for WindowsNT.
Point being, if you prove yourself as a competant Unix administrator it usually means you actually know something. If you prove yourself as a competant WindowsNT administrator you may actually know something, but it is not a given and certainly not the usual case.
ON AVERAGE expert Unix administrators have more knowledge and skill than expert WindowsNT administrators. This is not to say that no WindowsNT administrators have more knowledge or skill than Unix adminstrators, some do.
Sorry I had to explain this to you. You may have more knowledge of TCP/IP and "all the related technologies" than I, but I sincerely doubt it.
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I was just reading the NT EULA yesterday and they specifically forbid benchmarking their products without prior written approval of Microsoft. I wonder if it was obtained for these tests...
Encryption as an offensive weapon - Have you not heard of the "virus" that encrypted files on a users hard disk randomly?
Even if it is not true, it makes for a good "offensive" use of encryption. Especially if you held the encryption keys in "ransom" until the company paid up - supposedly to some untraceable electronic fund.
Do you not find kidnapping an "offense?"
You login is flawed, mostly because you don't have the imagination to see how encryption can be used as an offensive weapon.
How, exactly, could Linux be turned into a "marketing strategy to takeover the world?" Marketing strategies are for companies. Now, maybe RedHat or Caldera could have a marketing strategy, but what we are promoting is competition in the OS field. An OS can't have a marketing strategy, only companies.
/. was even around???
BTW: I've been using Linux since 0.96. I believe before
"There is nothing magical about UNIX that makes [it] automatically better professional[ly]."
Yes there is. Unix expertise is harder to fake than Windows. Any idiot can fake their way through an interview for a Windows NT administrator position. The same can not be said about a Unix administrator position. This is simply due to the fact that the minimal skills required to be a competant Unix administrator are much greater than the minimal skills to be a competant WindowsNT administrator. There are more options and greater flexability in Unix systems, so the knowledge base must be larger than that for WindowsNT.
Point being, if you prove yourself as a competant Unix administrator it usually means you actually know something. If you prove yourself as a competant WindowsNT administrator you may actually know something, but it is not a given and certainly not the usual case.
ON AVERAGE expert Unix administrators have more knowledge and skill than expert WindowsNT administrators. This is not to say that no WindowsNT administrators have more knowledge or skill than Unix adminstrators, some do.
Sorry I had to explain this to you. You may have more knowledge of TCP/IP and "all the related technologies" than I, but I sincerely doubt it.
So... What wasn't true?