Do you remember the Soviet Union and Vietnam talking about Vicious Uncle Sam because Captialism was so awful and evil and wasteful? The intellectual beauty of communism! Abolish money! All shall be free! All shall work equally!
Do you remember both the Soviet Union and Vietnam paying us the ultimate compliment by adopting capitalism? When they finally realized that they just weren't getting it?
See the parrallels between Windows and Linux?
You guys are gonna pay Bill Gates the ultimate compliment one day when you adopt his techniques... All you want to do is replace him with yourselves....
LOL
--- waiting for it to happen, I'm, Saint Stephen
P.S. My day just won't be complete unless you tell me what a loser I am. Please be as vicious as you can possibly be. Use lots of cruel remarks about my mother. Please tell me what an idiot I am!!!!!!!!
2004. The newspapers are talking about the collapse of the Linux dream that happened at the end of 2002. "It began in 2000. Following the wild success of the first Commercial applications, and the influx of Linux into the business, the community soon became fractured as the dreams of OSS faded away into the 'real world.' Insiders said it was like the death of the Haight-Ashebury following exposure by the media after 1967."
Yes, a good portion of my money is earned by going around and fixing crashed NT servers and putting out other fires. Other people's fires, not mine. The stuff I write, the servers I install, do not break. I'm starting to understand more and more the "Linux complaint." You guys are not upset at Microsoft technology per se. You're upset at poor execution of computer science techniques.
You express frustration at Microsoft because YOU and YOU alone have had difficulty in getting it to operate without crashing. How much luck do you think you would have had with Linux with no help from the community?
I've been working professionally with Windows NT since version 3.1, I started in 1993. I quit having the kinds of problems you guys are having when version 3.5 "Daytona" came out. Daytona was the same core technology as 4.0 without the 95 user interface. 4.0 suffered a stability problem, in that it took the general vendor population 2 years to write bug free drivers.
It has *always* been possible to have a crash-free NT environment if you have good drivers. It has *never* been possible to avoid a BSOD with crappy drivers.
The one design goal that NT strives for, and beats linux in, is usability by the general public, not just us geeks. See, guys, there's this strange beast called Business. Business, insanely, wants to retain the maximum value in their previous investments (call 'em nutty).
Consider this: Client comes to you and says they want a super-cool way-new ultra-sophisticated app, oh, and by the way, can you make it work seamlessly with the Novell 3 and 4 servers, oh, and can you have the data be accessible by the boss who likes to use Quicken, oh, and can you pull the data file off the mainframe, oh, and are my secretaries gonna have to ask me 95,000 questions about how to use the mouse and launch programs, and oh,..........
You say, "sure boss. Lemme just fetch Linux, and the mainframe access program written by Joe Shmega at U. Berkeley, and the Quicken Conversion program maintained by Bill Frickenfrack out of Stockholm, and the Novell access program written by the Cult of the Dead Skunk. Okay secrataries, now remember, when the log device grows to maximum, start a console and go to/etc/log and chmod -r a3.log, and you won't have a problem. Okay boss, now you just have to remember to grep the quicken file using \n as the third replacable parameter..."
It' just ain't gonna happen. Go try it.
(1) Linux will start to win in an economic sense when/if they start bringing this wonderful awesome stability down to the point where the secretaries and the pointy-haired bosses can understand it, or at least think they can.
(2) Once Linux tries to achieve this goal, they're gonna hit the same bug/bloat/goofiness wall that Microsoft has. Contrary to your 9000-pound brains, it is *harder* to write easier-to-use software for us metric morons than it is to write it for yourself, the genius.
Now, ain't a thing inherently wrong with Linux. I just want you guys to recognize ain't a thing inherently wrong with Microsoft programs. There is *everything* wrong with poor usage of any tool. If you guys would spent 10% the energy bitching at piss-poor PEOPLE instead of lashing out at something that just happened to give YOU trouble, things would get better.
- "A poor craftsman blames the tools."
- "A man says to the universe, 'Sir, I exist!' The Universe replies, 'I am aware of that fact.' 'However, it has not instilled in me a sense of obligation.'" (Stephen Crane)
peace out you freaks love ya
P.S. - Send me the design spec for any database application for it you want, and I'll email you back exact intructions on how to implement a bug-free Microsoft solution that I could build in about one day.
P.P.S. - it is quite easy to charge more than $100 an hour if you only bill 17-22 hours per week, because you're not really billing for all your time. I bill 45 hours per week, every week, for the last 18 months.
First of all, who only wants a file and print server? Second, I don't know why I'm able to set up NT boxes for clients that never crash and never bottleneck. I don't know why I'm able to write Active Server Pages applications running against SQL server that support 400 simultaneous users on a Pentium II/300 with 128 megs of ram. I don't know why I'm able to start-to-finish 5 of these projects every month. I don't know why someone of marginal intelligence such as myself is able to charge $100 an hour to do this. I guess I'm just stupid.
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Do you remember the Soviet Union and Vietnam talking about Vicious Uncle Sam because Captialism was so awful and evil and wasteful? The intellectual beauty of communism! Abolish money! All shall be free! All shall work equally!
Do you remember both the Soviet Union and Vietnam paying us the ultimate compliment by adopting capitalism? When they finally realized that they just weren't getting it?
See the parrallels between Windows and Linux?
You guys are gonna pay Bill Gates the ultimate compliment one day when you adopt his techniques... All you want to do is replace him with yourselves....
LOL
--- waiting for it to happen,
I'm,
Saint Stephen
P.S. My day just won't be complete unless you tell me what a loser I am. Please be as vicious as you can possibly be. Use lots of cruel remarks about my mother. Please tell me what an idiot I am!!!!!!!!
It reflects *so* well on your minds!
Later my droogies.
test post; please moderate down to -20
2004. The newspapers are talking about the collapse of the Linux dream that happened at the end of 2002. "It began in 2000. Following the wild success of the first Commercial applications, and the influx of Linux into the business, the community soon became fractured as the dreams of OSS faded away into the 'real world.' Insiders said it was like the death of the Haight-Ashebury following exposure by the media after 1967."
Human nature, people. Human nature.
Dreams die.
-sts-
Yes, a good portion of my money is earned by going around and fixing crashed NT servers and putting out other fires. Other people's fires, not mine. The stuff I write, the servers I install, do not break. I'm starting to understand more and more the "Linux complaint." You guys are not upset at Microsoft technology per se. You're upset at poor execution of computer science techniques.
..........
/etc/log and chmod -r a3.log, and you won't have a problem. Okay boss, now you just have to remember to grep the quicken file using \n as the third replacable parameter..."
You express frustration at Microsoft because YOU and YOU alone have had difficulty in getting it to operate without crashing. How much luck do you think you would have had with Linux with no help from the community?
I've been working professionally with Windows NT since version 3.1, I started in 1993. I quit having the kinds of problems you guys are having when version 3.5 "Daytona" came out. Daytona was the same core technology as 4.0 without the 95 user interface. 4.0 suffered a stability problem, in that it took the general vendor population 2 years to write bug free drivers.
It has *always* been possible to have a crash-free NT environment if you have good drivers. It has *never* been possible to avoid a BSOD with crappy drivers.
The one design goal that NT strives for, and beats linux in, is usability by the general public, not just us geeks. See, guys, there's this strange beast called Business. Business, insanely, wants to retain the maximum value in their previous investments (call 'em nutty).
Consider this: Client comes to you and says they want a super-cool way-new ultra-sophisticated app, oh, and by the way, can you make it work seamlessly with the Novell 3 and 4 servers, oh, and can you have the data be accessible by the boss who likes to use Quicken, oh, and can you pull the data file off the mainframe, oh, and are my secretaries gonna have to ask me 95,000 questions about how to use the mouse and launch programs, and oh,
You say, "sure boss. Lemme just fetch Linux, and the mainframe access program written by Joe Shmega at U. Berkeley, and the Quicken Conversion program maintained by Bill Frickenfrack out of Stockholm, and the Novell access program written by the Cult of the Dead Skunk. Okay secrataries, now remember, when the log device grows to maximum, start a console and go to
It' just ain't gonna happen. Go try it.
(1) Linux will start to win in an economic sense when/if they start bringing this wonderful awesome stability down to the point where the secretaries and the pointy-haired bosses can understand it, or at least think they can.
(2) Once Linux tries to achieve this goal, they're gonna hit the same bug/bloat/goofiness wall that Microsoft has. Contrary to your 9000-pound brains, it is *harder* to write easier-to-use software for us metric morons than it is to write it for yourself, the genius.
Now, ain't a thing inherently wrong with Linux. I just want you guys to recognize ain't a thing inherently wrong with Microsoft programs. There is *everything* wrong with poor usage of any tool. If you guys would spent 10% the energy bitching at piss-poor PEOPLE instead of lashing out at something that just happened to give YOU trouble, things would get better.
-
"A poor craftsman blames the tools."
-
"A man says to the universe, 'Sir, I exist!'
The Universe replies, 'I am aware of that fact.'
'However, it has not instilled in me a sense of obligation.'"
(Stephen Crane)
peace out you freaks
love ya
P.S. - Send me the design spec for any database application for it you want, and I'll email you back exact intructions on how to implement a bug-free Microsoft solution that I could build in about one day.
P.P.S. - it is quite easy to charge more than $100 an hour if you only bill 17-22 hours per week, because you're not really billing for all your time. I bill 45 hours per week, every week, for the last 18 months.
First of all, who only wants a file and print
server? Second, I don't know why I'm able to
set up NT boxes for clients that never crash
and never bottleneck. I don't know why I'm able
to write Active Server Pages applications
running against SQL server that support 400
simultaneous users on a Pentium II/300 with
128 megs of ram. I don't know why I'm able to
start-to-finish 5 of these projects every month.
I don't know why someone of marginal intelligence
such as myself is able to charge $100 an hour
to do this. I guess I'm just stupid.
Can you say RAD people? I know that you can.