Just a minor correction. It opened trading at $30 a share, with prices soaring to $300. Rising to $300 and opening at $300 are two seperate things. If they opened at $300, then it would have cost everyone $300 to get one share at IPO price. That would be a defenite record. Still, rising tenfold is an amazing accomplishment in its first day.
For awhile, Photoshop 4 came with a demo of a watermarking program that introduced an invisible watermark that included a copyright line. It claimed that you could mess the picture up all you wanted, and it could still be read. So I tested it. 1. Original image: 640x480x24bit photo from a digital camera. 2. Added invisible watermark in photoshop, saved in tiff. 3. Opened in Paint Shop Pro (which has no knowledge of the watermark) saved in maximum compression JPEG. (VERY lossy, and ugly) 4. Printed on 300dpi HP DeskJet 560C, color 5. Scanned in on Umax 300dpi 24bit scanner 6. Saved in max lossy JPEG. 7. Opened up in Photoshop, tried to read watermark... It found it just fine.
If it could survive that ordeal, it can survive anything.
I think you pay a special fee for every audio cassette you buy (at least you used to do -- I haven't checked this information myself), designed to cover the profit loss.
Yes, you do. You also pay a fee on every DAT tape, MiniDisc, and "Audio" CD-R. (And DCC, if you can find them.) You pay a fee on any recordable media that is specifically designed for use with audio. This is the RIAA's doing. That is also why "Audio" CD recorders require that you use "Audio" CD-R discs, and why Audio CD-R discs cost 2-3 times as much as normal ones. Which is also why newer CD Players will only play CD-R discs if they are the "Audio" variety.
As for your drawbacks? MiniDisc takes away most of them (it has random access, can hold 74 minutes, is better quality than MP3, and the sound quality doesn't degrade. Although, because of the RIAA, you can only make two direct digital copies. Every third copy has to be analog.)
Actually, I found the.sig to be very IN-appropriate. Or, more correctly, that it was ironic. He was advocating that the weaker participant fight with all his might, and NOT give in. His.sig seems to advocate the opposite. (Yes, I was going to post this seperately, but you seem to have beat me to the punch, and in the process, made a good arguing point.)
However, at the time MicroSoft (as it was originally written) was founded, "Microcomputer" was THE common term for what are now called PCs. So, calling themselves the Microcomputer Software company made sense. So they weren't very creative with their shortening, but it's not that big a deal. (This is not an edorsement or defense of the company or its practices, just an explanation of its name.)
And I am the walrus, goo goo g'joob. Dude, get a life. You're not any cooler than anybody else because you just happen to be the first person to see a new slashdot story. All it means is either you had good timing, or you have so little of a life, that you sit and hit reload constantly, just waiting for that new story to pop up. Is there some secret meeting of the people who get first posts? Where "Doodz, I have three thousand, five hundred ninety seven first posts! I rool!" is a commonly overheard phraze? (Sorry, I can't write in that stupid replace the letters with number and symbols crap you freaks use, so I'm not even going to try.)
Sorry, rant mode off. I just couldn't take it anymore. Yes, I know my comment is off topic as well, but at least I'm willing to accept my karma hit. Unlike ButtF*@% here.
Er, going by the fact that Intel may be blocked from selling the PIII in the EU due to the serial number in each one (see http://www.theregister.co.uk/991128-000002.html) couldn't that affect the release of Q3 in Europe?
Well, I doubt that. I also really doubt that the EU will ban Pentium IIIs. I don't care what you say about AMD processors, the European computer industry would be majorly set back if they banned the P3. Especially the server market, as Xeons now control a large chunk, especially in smaller servers.
It's just like when the EU wanted to ban all Boeing airplanes because of "excessive noise", even when Airbus planes were just as loud. The EU just wants to use only their own products, so they make a fuss over American products. (Although, I don't know of any European-made microprocessors, so I don't get the P3 thing.)
Yes, and most fighters and bombers have this... It's called ECM, for Electronic CounterMeasures. However, the stealth planes (F-117A and B-2) have NO transmitters of any kind (other than std radio, which is kept totally silent during missions.) so they don't get an ECM pod. Broadcasting over every wavelength kind of defeats the purpose of being stealthy. For most fighers/bombers, this is fine though.
Most people misunderstand the main purpose of stealth aircraft. They are not stealthy to prevent them from being hit, but rather to not let the enemy know that they're there in the first place. They are meant to quietly sneak in, bomb the crap out of comething, then leave. The whole selling point of the F-117A was "They won't know you're there until they're dead."
At [big hardware company], we use both. When people are first hired, they are hired through a contract agency, paid hourly. (No benefits paid directly by my company, we just pay the contract agency about 1.75* what the worker is getting paid.) After a while (anywhere from 3-9 months) the worker gets upgraded to direct hire. Then he/she is paid a salary (no overtime) with full benefits (read: stock options.) As for overtime? If it gets real bad (like around Y2K time,) there will be "fringe" benefits. Such as paid lunches/dinners, free trips (one guy was chosen to represent us as Comdex, so he was given a few extra days in Vegas, along with "spending money",) even free "product". (A coworker was given a new computer for working about 70 hrs/week for three weeks on a new project. Yes, the computer was fully loaded, probably worth around $2500-$3000.)
Yeah, I stopped caring about them when the "core 6" left... (Drexler, Porter, Kersey, Duckworth, Williams, and Robinson.) Yeah, they're good, but the lockout pretty much killed the rest of my interest in the NBA in general. I'm just happy that Clyde got to spend his final NBA years in a championship team (and his hometown,) and he's now coaching his alma mater.
Every Pentium-III compatible board I have seen has an option in the BIOS to disable the PSN, and Intel even has a utility on their web site (Sorry, don't remember the link off the top of my head) to disable it. Besides, it's pretty pointless anyway. Unless you're an EXTREME security/privacy freak, (use an anonymizer, disable cookies, etc.) you're being tracked by ten different companies every time you're online anyway. -- You are paranoid, and YES, they are out to get you.
Sorry to break it to you, but most of Paul Allen's investments recently (read: since 1986, when he semi-retired from Microsoft) have had NOTHING to do with Microsoft. I mean, come on, how much do the Portland Trailblazers, the Seattle Seahawks, and the Jimmy Hendrix Museum have to do with MS? No, Mr. Allen is just a rich guy who likes to invest in tech companies, and he's done it for years now. With no connection to MS other than his fortune. In fact, the last time I saw, less than half his market value is locked up in MS. Mostly it's in his newer tech companies, like Starware (which owns Infoseek and therefore part of Go.com, as well as running a bunch of sports websites [ESPN, NBA, WNBA, NHL, NFL, NASCAR, ABC Sports])
Well, after dealing with many different brands of RAID controllers, I have found that DPT's Millenium series tend to be the best. The card takes care of everything, and they're available in 64-bit flavors with 3 onboard U2 channels, or 2 Fibre channels.
Mylex are good if you're looking for a cheaper solution, or Adaptec for dirt cheap. But, if you're looking for the absolute fastest possible solution, it would be Fibre Channel Quantum Atlas 10k's on a 64-bit DPT Millenium Fibre controller in a RAID 0+1 configuration. With a 10 drive setup (equal to the total capacity of 5 of the drives) you could easily reach 100MB/s. Of course, that's gonna cost you a pretty penny.
The telephones themselves use "HDML" instead of HTML, so you can't view normal web sites, but only ones written in HDML. There is an SDK for HDML, but it's Windows/Solaris only, but the language is simple enough. You can type in any URL you want, but only text/hdml will actually work. I have my server running a few HDML pages with local movie times (ripped from the theater chain's web site, then converted,) and I'll probably add other things to it.
The serial connection (a $200 cable) just makes the phone pretend to be a 14.4 modem. Unfortunately, my notebook (A Sony PCG-C1X) only has "non-legacy" such as USB and Firewire, so I'd need to spend ANOTHER $80 getting a USB-Serial adapter to get it to work. Supposedly, it will work with any ISP, under any OS, as it just pretends to be a serial modem, but I haven't had the opportunity to test it yet.
In my house we have (really) 25 computers, 10 of which are connected to the network directly. My roommate (who started the network before I moved in) was naming his after items in the solar system, with Linux machines named after moons of Jupiter. We got to the point where are computers are named after objects in the solar system, with their names having the second function of describing them. Io is the router (Hopefully you can figure out why.) My main computer is Charon (I've always used that as an online name, and it's a moon of Pluto, so it seemed appropriate) with my secondary computer (sitting on top of Charon) being Pluto, appropriately enough. Saturn is the main graphical workstation, with Jupiter being the server with the big HD for mp3s. The notebooks are named after comets, and the Macintoshes after asteroids. I even have my work machine IP-tunelling in as acentauri. (Any extras would be bcentauri, gcentauri, dcentauri, etc...) For the printers, we took a slightly different tack. They were originally named after the ghosts from Pacman (Inky was the inkjet, Blinky the Laser printer that had a permanently blinking LED, Dot for the dot-matrix...) but when we got the second inkjet, we had to branch out to similar sounding names. (We thought of painting the new printer pink so it could be named Pinky, but decided against it.) Yes, I know Dot isn't a Pacman ghost, but I didn't remember the fourth ghost's name... (It's Clyde.)
Hmmm, if I was that journalist, I would have used "The purpose of that site was not certain." But, he probably only included the domain for this exact comic value... New.sig? I like it!
Wow.. I drink at least three cups of coffee a day, along with 3-4 cans of Coca Cola. I eat like a horse. I HAVE to eat breakfast, or else I'm starving by 11:30 AM. Even with breakfast, I must eat a full sized lunch or by 6 PM, my stomach growls so loudly it's louder than my voice! And I've been doing this for most of ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H all of my adult life.
Not only is Janes used by the layman, but it is almost required reading for people in the know. When I was in the Air Force, we used Janes books more than our own intelligence reports. (4 years, not intelligence service.) I know a professor of mine who was in the CIA for 20+ years, and he swore by their Defence Review (among other publications.)
Okay... I know mine aren't the oldest, but here goes: My main web surfing computer at home is a Macintosh Plus. 1MB of RAM, an external 30MB HD. I also use an SE/30 for web surfing. (I even have a slashdot account just for reading on them. I set it up so I could save the "lite, text only" version of slashdot.) And then there are the others: Atari ST, Commodore 64, TRS-80, Amiga 500, Apple ][e, Macintosh SE, IBM PC, IBM PC/XT, IBM PS/2 P70 (suitcase 386 with gas plasma display), Leading Edge Model 'D' (one of the first desktop clones.) Then there are the recent computers: Dual Pentium II/333, Celeron 466, K6-2/300, 486/100, PowerBook 5300c. All of the computers other than the PS/2 P70 are fully functional. The PS/2 forgot its configuration settings, and its floppy drive is broken. (It doesn't have a BIOS setup program, you have to boot from a special floppy disk, so I'm screwed until I repair the floppy.) Plus, spare parts: a couple pentium motherboards, a bunch of old processors, some spare ISA and PCI cards, some old 72-pin SIMMs. And a Palm V. And an HP 48GX. (I've surfed the web with it!) Whew! Did I miss anything? Now I just need to get ahold of that Intellivision Computer System...
Uh, he was co-founder of Microsoft. He never worked at PARC. He went from prep school to Harvard to Microsoft, to illness, too investing in four billion little tech companies (and the Portland Trailblazers, and the Seattle Seahawks, and the Jimi Hendrix museum...)
First, I agree, they really needed to have put up the RH config info.
Second, as to the firewall, they specifically stated that it was meant to approximate a "real world" situation. Thus, they used a firewall to prevent "stupid" attacks, like DOS. How many real world servers are all alone in the night? Not that many. Most (smart) admins put some kind of firewall in the way. That is what PCW did.
As to their apparent lack of Linux-saavy? Well, I would have liked it better if:
They had an NT expert configure NT, and a Linux expert configure Linux, or
They had a joe-shmoe admin, that knew equal amounts about both OSes (i.e. little about either) configure both, with default, or nearly-default settings on both.
Remember, for a real world test, you should have a real world configuration, not an artificially extra secure one, or one that takes so many tweaks that no professional sysadmin would spend the time applying all of them. I, for one, would rather spend an hour configuring a mostly secure NT box than spend two days configuring a perfectly secure Linux box. (Or vice versa, whichever happens to be true at the time.)
Remember, time is money too. My boss lets me play with Linux all I want during spare time, but when I have to make the server work now, he doesn't want to wait the extra three hours while I get the Linux box perfect. He'd rather have the NT box "good enough" now. Admitedly, I'm an NT-guru, and I'm fairly new at Linux (only 3 years of experience, but I'm geting better. I've had my home server running flawlessly for multiple months now) but I think I know enough that it shouldn't take me 10 times as long to do the same tasks.
And just so you don't think I'm too GUI-happy, I loved my DOS box, and still use the command line all the time in NT. (I have the services for UNIX installed to make it a really happy NT box.)
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Just a minor correction. It opened trading at $30 a share, with prices soaring to $300. Rising to $300 and opening at $300 are two seperate things. If they opened at $300, then it would have cost everyone $300 to get one share at IPO price. That would be a defenite record. Still, rising tenfold is an amazing accomplishment in its first day.
For awhile, Photoshop 4 came with a demo of a watermarking program that introduced an invisible watermark that included a copyright line. It claimed that you could mess the picture up all you wanted, and it could still be read. So I tested it.
1. Original image: 640x480x24bit photo from a digital camera.
2. Added invisible watermark in photoshop, saved in tiff.
3. Opened in Paint Shop Pro (which has no knowledge of the watermark) saved in maximum compression JPEG. (VERY lossy, and ugly)
4. Printed on 300dpi HP DeskJet 560C, color
5. Scanned in on Umax 300dpi 24bit scanner
6. Saved in max lossy JPEG.
7. Opened up in Photoshop, tried to read watermark... It found it just fine.
If it could survive that ordeal, it can survive anything.
Yes, you do. You also pay a fee on every DAT tape, MiniDisc, and "Audio" CD-R. (And DCC, if you can find them.) You pay a fee on any recordable media that is specifically designed for use with audio. This is the RIAA's doing. That is also why "Audio" CD recorders require that you use "Audio" CD-R discs, and why Audio CD-R discs cost 2-3 times as much as normal ones. Which is also why newer CD Players will only play CD-R discs if they are the "Audio" variety.
As for your drawbacks? MiniDisc takes away most of them (it has random access, can hold 74 minutes, is better quality than MP3, and the sound quality doesn't degrade. Although, because of the RIAA, you can only make two direct digital copies. Every third copy has to be analog.)
Actually, I found the .sig to be very IN-appropriate. Or, more correctly, that it was ironic. He was advocating that the weaker participant fight with all his might, and NOT give in. His .sig seems to advocate the opposite. (Yes, I was going to post this seperately, but you seem to have beat me to the punch, and in the process, made a good arguing point.)
Hey, I like my Acurate Integral! A little paint, and it becomes a mathematical statement!
Yes, but you just registered the domain names. I just copyrighted them. How about $500 each?
However, at the time MicroSoft (as it was originally written) was founded, "Microcomputer" was THE common term for what are now called PCs. So, calling themselves the Microcomputer Software company made sense. So they weren't very creative with their shortening, but it's not that big a deal.
(This is not an edorsement or defense of the company or its practices, just an explanation of its name.)
And I am the walrus, goo goo g'joob.
Dude, get a life. You're not any cooler than anybody else because you just happen to be the first person to see a new slashdot story. All it means is either you had good timing, or you have so little of a life, that you sit and hit reload constantly, just waiting for that new story to pop up.
Is there some secret meeting of the people who get first posts? Where "Doodz, I have three thousand, five hundred ninety seven first posts! I rool!" is a commonly overheard phraze? (Sorry, I can't write in that stupid replace the letters with number and symbols crap you freaks use, so I'm not even going to try.)
Sorry, rant mode off. I just couldn't take it anymore. Yes, I know my comment is off topic as well, but at least I'm willing to accept my karma hit. Unlike ButtF*@% here.
Well, I doubt that. I also really doubt that the EU will ban Pentium IIIs. I don't care what you say about AMD processors, the European computer industry would be majorly set back if they banned the P3. Especially the server market, as Xeons now control a large chunk, especially in smaller servers.
It's just like when the EU wanted to ban all Boeing airplanes because of "excessive noise", even when Airbus planes were just as loud. The EU just wants to use only their own products, so they make a fuss over American products. (Although, I don't know of any European-made microprocessors, so I don't get the P3 thing.)
Yes, and most fighters and bombers have this... It's called ECM, for Electronic CounterMeasures. However, the stealth planes (F-117A and B-2) have NO transmitters of any kind (other than std radio, which is kept totally silent during missions.) so they don't get an ECM pod. Broadcasting over every wavelength kind of defeats the purpose of being stealthy. For most fighers/bombers, this is fine though.
Most people misunderstand the main purpose of stealth aircraft. They are not stealthy to prevent them from being hit, but rather to not let the enemy know that they're there in the first place. They are meant to quietly sneak in, bomb the crap out of comething, then leave. The whole selling point of the F-117A was "They won't know you're there until they're dead."
At [big hardware company], we use both. When people are first hired, they are hired through a contract agency, paid hourly. (No benefits paid directly by my company, we just pay the contract agency about 1.75* what the worker is getting paid.) After a while (anywhere from 3-9 months) the worker gets upgraded to direct hire. Then he/she is paid a salary (no overtime) with full benefits (read: stock options.) As for overtime? If it gets real bad (like around Y2K time,) there will be "fringe" benefits. Such as paid lunches/dinners, free trips (one guy was chosen to represent us as Comdex, so he was given a few extra days in Vegas, along with "spending money",) even free "product". (A coworker was given a new computer for working about 70 hrs/week for three weeks on a new project. Yes, the computer was fully loaded, probably worth around $2500-$3000.)
Yeah, I stopped caring about them when the "core 6" left... (Drexler, Porter, Kersey, Duckworth, Williams, and Robinson.) Yeah, they're good, but the lockout pretty much killed the rest of my interest in the NBA in general. I'm just happy that Clyde got to spend his final NBA years in a championship team (and his hometown,) and he's now coaching his alma mater.
Every Pentium-III compatible board I have seen has an option in the BIOS to disable the PSN, and Intel even has a utility on their web site (Sorry, don't remember the link off the top of my head) to disable it. Besides, it's pretty pointless anyway. Unless you're an EXTREME security/privacy freak, (use an anonymizer, disable cookies, etc.) you're being tracked by ten different companies every time you're online anyway. -- You are paranoid, and YES, they are out to get you.
Holy rumor mongering batman!
Sorry to break it to you, but most of Paul Allen's investments recently (read: since 1986, when he semi-retired from Microsoft) have had NOTHING to do with Microsoft. I mean, come on, how much do the Portland Trailblazers, the Seattle Seahawks, and the Jimmy Hendrix Museum have to do with MS? No, Mr. Allen is just a rich guy who likes to invest in tech companies, and he's done it for years now. With no connection to MS other than his fortune. In fact, the last time I saw, less than half his market value is locked up in MS. Mostly it's in his newer tech companies, like Starware (which owns Infoseek and therefore part of Go.com, as well as running a bunch of sports websites [ESPN, NBA, WNBA, NHL, NFL, NASCAR, ABC Sports])
Well, after dealing with many different brands of RAID controllers, I have found that DPT's Millenium series tend to be the best. The card takes care of everything, and they're available in 64-bit flavors with 3 onboard U2 channels, or 2 Fibre channels.
Mylex are good if you're looking for a cheaper solution, or Adaptec for dirt cheap. But, if you're looking for the absolute fastest possible solution, it would be Fibre Channel Quantum Atlas 10k's on a 64-bit DPT Millenium Fibre controller in a RAID 0+1 configuration. With a 10 drive setup (equal to the total capacity of 5 of the drives) you could easily reach 100MB/s. Of course, that's gonna cost you a pretty penny.
The telephones themselves use "HDML" instead of HTML, so you can't view normal web sites, but only ones written in HDML. There is an SDK for HDML, but it's Windows/Solaris only, but the language is simple enough. You can type in any URL you want, but only text/hdml will actually work. I have my server running a few HDML pages with local movie times (ripped from the theater chain's web site, then converted,) and I'll probably add other things to it.
The serial connection (a $200 cable) just makes the phone pretend to be a 14.4 modem. Unfortunately, my notebook (A Sony PCG-C1X) only has "non-legacy" such as USB and Firewire, so I'd need to spend ANOTHER $80 getting a USB-Serial adapter to get it to work. Supposedly, it will work with any ISP, under any OS, as it just pretends to be a serial modem, but I haven't had the opportunity to test it yet.
In my house we have (really) 25 computers, 10 of which are connected to the network directly. My roommate (who started the network before I moved in) was naming his after items in the solar system, with Linux machines named after moons of Jupiter. We got to the point where are computers are named after objects in the solar system, with their names having the second function of describing them. Io is the router (Hopefully you can figure out why.) My main computer is Charon (I've always used that as an online name, and it's a moon of Pluto, so it seemed appropriate) with my secondary computer (sitting on top of Charon) being Pluto, appropriately enough. Saturn is the main graphical workstation, with Jupiter being the server with the big HD for mp3s. The notebooks are named after comets, and the Macintoshes after asteroids.
I even have my work machine IP-tunelling in as acentauri. (Any extras would be bcentauri, gcentauri, dcentauri, etc...)
For the printers, we took a slightly different tack. They were originally named after the ghosts from Pacman (Inky was the inkjet, Blinky the Laser printer that had a permanently blinking LED, Dot for the dot-matrix...) but when we got the second inkjet, we had to branch out to similar sounding names. (We thought of painting the new printer pink so it could be named Pinky, but decided against it.) Yes, I know Dot isn't a Pacman ghost, but I didn't remember the fourth ghost's name... (It's Clyde.)
Hmmm, if I was that journalist, I would have used "The purpose of that site was not certain." But, he probably only included the domain for this exact comic value... New .sig? I like it!
Wow.. I drink at least three cups of coffee a day, along with 3-4 cans of Coca Cola. I eat like a horse. I HAVE to eat breakfast, or else I'm starving by 11:30 AM. Even with breakfast, I must eat a full sized lunch or by 6 PM, my stomach growls so loudly it's louder than my voice! And I've been doing this for most of ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H all of my adult life.
Not only is Janes used by the layman, but it is almost required reading for people in the know. When I was in the Air Force, we used Janes books more than our own intelligence reports. (4 years, not intelligence service.) I know a professor of mine who was in the CIA for 20+ years, and he swore by their Defence Review (among other publications.)
I don't know about you, but I've had a slot-loading Pioneer DVD drive in my computer for over 3 months now... Oh, I guess mine isn't elegant...
Okay... I know mine aren't the oldest, but here goes: My main web surfing computer at home is a Macintosh Plus. 1MB of RAM, an external 30MB HD. I also use an SE/30 for web surfing. (I even have a slashdot account just for reading on them. I set it up so I could save the "lite, text only" version of slashdot.) And then there are the others: Atari ST, Commodore 64, TRS-80, Amiga 500, Apple ][e, Macintosh SE, IBM PC, IBM PC/XT, IBM PS/2 P70 (suitcase 386 with gas plasma display), Leading Edge Model 'D' (one of the first desktop clones.) Then there are the recent computers: Dual Pentium II/333, Celeron 466, K6-2/300, 486/100, PowerBook 5300c. All of the computers other than the PS/2 P70 are fully functional. The PS/2 forgot its configuration settings, and its floppy drive is broken. (It doesn't have a BIOS setup program, you have to boot from a special floppy disk, so I'm screwed until I repair the floppy.) Plus, spare parts: a couple pentium motherboards, a bunch of old processors, some spare ISA and PCI cards, some old 72-pin SIMMs. And a Palm V. And an HP 48GX. (I've surfed the web with it!) Whew! Did I miss anything? Now I just need to get ahold of that Intellivision Computer System...
Uh, he was co-founder of Microsoft. He never worked at PARC. He went from prep school to Harvard to Microsoft, to illness, too investing in four billion little tech companies (and the Portland Trailblazers, and the Seattle Seahawks, and the Jimi Hendrix museum...)
First, I agree, they really needed to have put up the RH config info.
Second, as to the firewall, they specifically stated that it was meant to approximate a "real world" situation. Thus, they used a firewall to prevent "stupid" attacks, like DOS. How many real world servers are all alone in the night? Not that many. Most (smart) admins put some kind of firewall in the way. That is what PCW did.
As to their apparent lack of Linux-saavy? Well, I would have liked it better if:
Remember, for a real world test, you should have a real world configuration, not an artificially extra secure one, or one that takes so many tweaks that no professional sysadmin would spend the time applying all of them. I, for one, would rather spend an hour configuring a mostly secure NT box than spend two days configuring a perfectly secure Linux box. (Or vice versa, whichever happens to be true at the time.)
Remember, time is money too. My boss lets me play with Linux all I want during spare time, but when I have to make the server work now, he doesn't want to wait the extra three hours while I get the Linux box perfect. He'd rather have the NT box "good enough" now. Admitedly, I'm an NT-guru, and I'm fairly new at Linux (only 3 years of experience, but I'm geting better. I've had my home server running flawlessly for multiple months now) but I think I know enough that it shouldn't take me 10 times as long to do the same tasks.
And just so you don't think I'm too GUI-happy, I loved my DOS box, and still use the command line all the time in NT. (I have the services for UNIX installed to make it a really happy NT box.)
Okay, <rant mode off>
Interesting, coming from someone whose .sig quotes a decidedly political, and non-technical, book...