I work for Microsoft. Unlike a lot of my peers in the same industry out there, I do not have to worry about whether there will be a job for me tomorrow or next year or 5 years from now.
Say what you will about MS, bash me if you want, but I'm laughing all the way to the bank with a brand new truck and about to purchase a $300,000 home.
God i love this company and I'm perfectly willing to devote 80 hour work weeks (much to my wife's dismay!) to it because the benefits are great.
Slashdotters forget they don't represent the majority of individuals in the world. Just because slashdotters say it's a bad thing, doesn't mean the average Joe wouldn't see the great benefit of this system. I already utilize MSN Messenger's capability to send e-mail alerts of Stock alerts, Sports scores, Calendar reminders and e-mail from my wife. It's awesome, I can hardly wait to take it to the next step!
Oh Yes! Us warmongers would love to see a site dedicated to the military compters. UYK-7, BSY-1, BSY-2,
I remember working on the WLR-8 EW system with Core memory on my second sub.
My first boat, The USS Sculpin SSN-590 (built around 1959) had a fire control system that was copied off the WWII German U-Boats - the FC system was all synchros and servos that kept track of a target's relative position, speed, course which was eventually fed directly to the torpedos. This was a system for real men, nowadays we let the computers do most of the thinking for us.
Ahhhh, the good ole days.....
See the Sculpin
Not really. If I can't use Outlook, but I can use the rest of the system (albeit, slowly) - then that's a strange defintition of a "lock up". Since Task Manager will eventually catch up with the process and kill it when told, then the OS is fine and doesn't require a reboot. If you are impatient (as I am) and decide to reboot instead of letting Task Magaer do its job, then who's fault is that? Win2K? Or mine?
While I'm happy with my Win2K machines, I've begun to dislike Office 2000 (especially Outlook). I may end up going back to Office 97.
I've been a lurker on Slashdot for exactly 12 months now, and this is the first thread I've participated in. Feels good to finally be a participant. Even though I'm no fanatic of Linux, at least I'm giving it a go.
I've been running Win2K Server at home as my File/Print Server and as Proxy server since September. I've rebooted it twice in that time. At work, my host machine is Win2K Pro. I've rebooted that machine 3 or 4 times in almost 3 months.
At no time have any of my Win2K reboots been due to BSOD or any other lock up. It's usually been due to some other app (usually Outlook 2000)bogging the system down to the point that it was easier to just reset the machine than to wait several minutes for Task Manager to close the runaway process.
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I work for Microsoft. Unlike a lot of my peers in the same industry out there, I do not have to worry about whether there will be a job for me tomorrow or next year or 5 years from now.
Say what you will about MS, bash me if you want, but I'm laughing all the way to the bank with a brand new truck and about to purchase a $300,000 home.
God i love this company and I'm perfectly willing to devote 80 hour work weeks (much to my wife's dismay!) to it because the benefits are great.
..that the alerts above are being sent to my cell phone.
Slashdotters forget they don't represent the majority of individuals in the world. Just because slashdotters say it's a bad thing, doesn't mean the average Joe wouldn't see the great benefit of this system. I already utilize MSN Messenger's capability to send e-mail alerts of Stock alerts, Sports scores, Calendar reminders and e-mail from my wife. It's awesome, I can hardly wait to take it to the next step!
I remember working on the WLR-8 EW system with Core memory on my second sub. My first boat, The USS Sculpin SSN-590 (built around 1959) had a fire control system that was copied off the WWII German U-Boats - the FC system was all synchros and servos that kept track of a target's relative position, speed, course which was eventually fed directly to the torpedos. This was a system for real men, nowadays we let the computers do most of the thinking for us. Ahhhh, the good ole days..... See the Sculpin
Not really. If I can't use Outlook, but I can use the rest of the system (albeit, slowly) - then that's a strange defintition of a "lock up". Since Task Manager will eventually catch up with the process and kill it when told, then the OS is fine and doesn't require a reboot. If you are impatient (as I am) and decide to reboot instead of letting Task Magaer do its job, then who's fault is that? Win2K? Or mine?
While I'm happy with my Win2K machines, I've begun to dislike Office 2000 (especially Outlook). I may end up going back to Office 97.
I've been a lurker on Slashdot for exactly 12 months now, and this is the first thread I've participated in. Feels good to finally be a participant. Even though I'm no fanatic of Linux, at least I'm giving it a go.
Andy
I've been running Win2K Server at home as my File/Print Server and as Proxy server since September. I've rebooted it twice in that time. At work, my host machine is Win2K Pro. I've rebooted that machine 3 or 4 times in almost 3 months.
At no time have any of my Win2K reboots been due to BSOD or any other lock up. It's usually been due to some other app (usually Outlook 2000)bogging the system down to the point that it was easier to just reset the machine than to wait several minutes for Task Manager to close the runaway process.
Happy Holidays everyone!
Andy.