"Backwards compatibility is one thing that adds so much cruft to the Windows OS, and the one thing that keeps them in business. Switching to Linux would destroy that."
Backwards compatibility? Yes, all those applications that run on win9x, but not NT, and some work on 2000...
You could say M$ didn't have a clue about the internet earlier in the 90's (that sounds weird). Yes, Netscape was huge and Microsoft was nowhere to be found. Look now!
It is a very sad day when you can't get out and help a person that may be dying in fear of being charged for a crime.
I once heard of a person being sued because they helped a citizen out of their car that had crashed. Low and behold their back was broke and it caused permanent damage. What are you to do, let them burn?
Mozilla news and advocacy site, it is really starting to kick some serious ass. In fact, on Windows I am starting to prefer it over even MSIE 5.5
Yes, but...
Sure, other another OS may be more stable, but who gives a rats ass if they can't click on the edit button in IE and edit content on their intranet using a word processor (IE and MS Word).
There's not a single thing MS and IIS IE do that can't be done on Unix. Browsing a file on a remote server and you want to edit it? Oh my! Sounds like something Emacs could do in 1988. Pretty much every single Unix environment and application these days can open files via URLs. Even SHELL environments exist that allow you to: ls ftp://someserver.com/my/directory/
This maybe something that I could use, but like I said...
Who gives a rats ass if they can't click on the edit button in IE and edit content on their intranet using a word processor (IE and MS Word)?
If you can link some documentation on this, I would be grateful. Yet, most employees will need it to be easy as MS has provided. When I see this, well then I will understand your side. It's not the IS folks I am talking about, it is the common employees.
Weren't those satellites supposed to "map demographic data"? Yes, they could listen to us anywhere in the world. What happenned, people didn't sign up and it went AWAL. Now, what will happen with this?
Well, one just doesn't know much about the presidency. The other does, but I dunno...
Hell, do we really have a choice. I keep seeing two guys running for president, don't we have more choices than that? Well, of course we do but with the way politics/corporations/media/money is today they don't show it.
Companies are building their information infrastructure around intranets and web development. MS is providing these companies with easy to use applications such as MS Office 2000 and IE 5.x. You may not want to here it, but this alone will keep these companies using MS products alone!
Sure, other another OS may be more stable, but who gives a rats ass if they can't click on the edit button in IE and edit content on their intranet using a word processor (IE and MS Word).
And if companies use this MS technology themselves, other companies would want to use the same technology to communicate with them!
Here of B2B? Yes, automate the exchange of information. How many are using Linux solutions on the desktop? There isn't a choice that compares. No I am not talking about the linux guys back in the computer room. I am talking about the employees that only want to click and edit. These employees can not do this with a current Linux solution. They cannot do this because Netscape currently sucks.
What about Star Office? Sure, do they have a web browser that incorporates all this data in a way that is easy to edit, share, and post like IE and MS Office? No.
Until a solution is provided for Linux, MS will dominate. And if MS continues to dominate at this level, you will see other MS products being used because the can "integrate" this information more easily with "common" IS employees that they employ.
... Here's a kicker - Win2K does *NOT* have a true multithreaded IP stack either.
Despite a poor showing in the file benchmark, Windows 2000 came out on top in the long TCP transaction test. Windows 2000 is the only NOS with a multithreaded IP stack, which allows it to handle network requests with multiple processors. Novell and Red Hat say they are working on integrating this capability into their products.
Why not have a Windows/IIS expert and a Linux/Apache expert put forth their best web configurations?
Test how the web applications handle different loads, dynamic vs. static or whatever, then post the results as well as the configurations. This would allow people to see the configuration and results, then determine what to use and how to configure their web servers most efficiently?
All the money in the IT world, and yet we bicker on these small things. Could it be nobody has the balls to put forth what they consider to be the best they have to offer?
Yes, and if the little guy can hang in there, then the big guy might be forced to lower prices.
This is a good thing.
(Family Video in the US had driven out many small video shops. Then they make "favorite or classic" movies more expensive afterwards. Can't do anything about it at that point except hope that another small shop can appear and have lower prices to start a business?)
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Backwards compatibility? Yes, all those applications that run on win9x, but not NT, and some work on 2000...
Could you possibly leave parts of it open ended, like the quake games?
So much for keeping our intellectual secrets from China. Oh wait, they already know how we make our nuclear bombs.
You could say M$ didn't have a clue about the internet earlier in the 90's (that sounds weird). Yes, Netscape was huge and Microsoft was nowhere to be found. Look now!
I once heard of a person being sued because they helped a citizen out of their car that had crashed. Low and behold their back was broke and it caused permanent damage. What are you to do, let them burn?
Yes, but...
Sure, other another OS may be more stable, but who gives a rats ass if they can't click on the edit button in IE and edit content on their intranet using a word processor (IE and MS Word).
This maybe something that I could use, but like I said...
Who gives a rats ass if they can't click on the edit button in IE and edit content on their intranet using a word processor (IE and MS Word)?
If you can link some documentation on this, I would be grateful. Yet, most employees will need it to be easy as MS has provided. When I see this, well then I will understand your side. It's not the IS folks I am talking about, it is the common employees.
Consumers have spoken, it was DIVX.
This B2B stuff will change all that! Yes, they will need to "communicate", and there goes privacy...
How many times have you been asked your Social Security Number? Isn't this supposed to be the one thing you don't give out? Yet...
Weren't those satellites supposed to "map demographic data"? Yes, they could listen to us anywhere in the world. What happenned, people didn't sign up and it went AWAL. Now, what will happen with this?
Some people just want the "shiny new sports model" and they don't know what hardware is fast anyway.
Are you reading your eight ball again?
Hell, do we really have a choice. I keep seeing two guys running for president, don't we have more choices than that? Well, of course we do but with the way politics/corporations/media/money is today they don't show it.
Bill Gates, at one time would have been the 23rd richest NATION in the world! And this means that he maybe could have bought Africa.
And the poor? Yes, the poor here are much better off. But compared to what?
Are you talking about NASA?
Oh, wait a minute, were is that browser since 4.x...
Sure, other another OS may be more stable, but who gives a rats ass if they can't click on the edit button in IE and edit content on their intranet using a word processor (IE and MS Word).
And if companies use this MS technology themselves, other companies would want to use the same technology to communicate with them!
Here of B2B? Yes, automate the exchange of information. How many are using Linux solutions on the desktop? There isn't a choice that compares. No I am not talking about the linux guys back in the computer room. I am talking about the employees that only want to click and edit. These employees can not do this with a current Linux solution. They cannot do this because Netscape currently sucks.
What about Star Office? Sure, do they have a web browser that incorporates all this data in a way that is easy to edit, share, and post like IE and MS Office? No.
Until a solution is provided for Linux, MS will dominate. And if MS continues to dominate at this level, you will see other MS products being used because the can "integrate" this information more easily with "common" IS employees that they employ.
Linux needs a new web browser.
Despite a poor showing in the file benchmark, Windows 2000 came out on top in the long TCP transaction test. Windows 2000 is the only NOS with a multithreaded IP stack, which allows it to handle network requests with multiple processors. Novell and Red Hat say they are working on integrating this capability into their products.
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Why not have a Windows/IIS expert and a Linux/Apache expert put forth their best web configurations?
Test how the web applications handle different loads, dynamic vs. static or whatever, then post the results as well as the configurations. This would allow people to see the configuration and results, then determine what to use and how to configure their web servers most efficiently?
All the money in the IT world, and yet we bicker on these small things. Could it be nobody has the balls to put forth what they consider to be the best they have to offer?
Pure BS, or somebody doesn't know what they are doing, or what hardware to buy.
Chirstes!, why do you need that much storage for home directories?
This is a good thing.
(Family Video in the US had driven out many small video shops. Then they make "favorite or classic" movies more expensive afterwards. Can't do anything about it at that point except hope that another small shop can appear and have lower prices to start a business?)
I say take the test, cause as the radio said you can make more than $70,000 a year!
If you are already making that much, then hey you must already know this!
X? Is that the GUI thing you run as root? if knowledge = 0 then Functionality + Stupidity = reinstall
So was the earth for navigation.