> professor Ross Norstrom, National Wildlife Research Centre, Kanada and the above mentioned > Linus Torvalds.
Kanada? Var ar Kanada? Jag kommer fran Canada, is that the same place? Still, strangely Svensk sounding name on that Kanadian, maybe, along with Herr Torvalds, they mostly like ethnic Swedes. How Stockholm of them!:-)
Oh man, I feel so enlightened by their wonderful studies!
I mean wow! NT/Compaq blows away a UE450 worse than it blows away Linux?!? I guess I should stop wasting my time with this old hat Unix junk and get with the program and join the winning team! You can be sure that Real Soon Now NT will be far more reliable and scalable than any Unix system and I will be straight out of a job if I don't embrace the New Technology and join the marching ranks of brave new world techies towards progress and bliss.
Now... I need to modify/recompile rdist to use ssh instead of rsh on some intranet servers. It was so easy on Linux and Solaris so it must be a snap on NT eh? I wanna do this on NT so I can turf all those silly Sun 450 boxen? They're obviously useless as servers.
> The reason any truely seasoned IT professional > scoffs at this document is because of the > source.
True, but I notice you qualified that observation with "seasoned." Alas, these same seasoned systems folks aren't making many purchasing decisions and are kept in the back room where their views on reality don't embarass the suits. (speaking from experience here...)
I've encountered too many people mentally conditioned by Pravda who will discount any all other studies - no matter how technically solid - in favour of the ones - no matter how technically soft - that support their prejudices. (Sadly, MS apparatchiks are not the only ones guilty of this).
When a news source publishes an _opinion_ about any given technology, an opinion with a lot of unsubstantiated BS and opinionated spin, it is FUD.
When a news source posts a snippet about a factual event, sans spin, sans BS, it is news.
This is a news snippet about two vendors who did a 180 and are now changing their plans regarding the showcasing on a *new* technology at a public event. This is not FUD. This is not an opinion.
Perhaps/.'ers applaud news and abhor FUD. I see nothing sinister about this.
It's nice to see someone calling a browser an app and saying removing it does nothing more than removing the ability to read HTML. Too bad others aren't so honest in both development and in rhetoric.
Yah! I noticed that too and thought it was the one chuckle-worthy spot in an otherwise decent article.
I think that GUI-dependent types may indeed think that tweaking textual config files is actually tweaking source. By this definition every Unix sysadmin tweaks source every day! I guess stepping up from there to editing Makefiles makes one a hacker eh?
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> professor Ross Norstrom, National Wildlife Research Centre, Kanada and the above mentioned
:-)
> Linus Torvalds.
Kanada? Var ar Kanada? Jag kommer fran Canada, is that the same place? Still, strangely Svensk sounding name on that Kanadian, maybe, along with Herr Torvalds, they mostly like ethnic Swedes. How Stockholm of them!
Oh man, I feel so enlightened by their wonderful studies!
... I need to modify/recompile rdist to use ssh instead of rsh on some intranet servers. It was so easy on Linux and Solaris so it must be a snap on NT eh? I wanna do this on NT so I can turf all those silly Sun 450 boxen? They're obviously useless as servers.
I mean wow! NT/Compaq blows away a UE450 worse than it blows away Linux?!? I guess I should stop wasting my time with this old hat Unix junk and get with the program and join the winning team! You can be sure that Real Soon Now NT will be far more reliable and scalable than any Unix system and I will be straight out of a job if I don't embrace the New Technology and join the marching ranks of brave new world techies towards progress and bliss.
Now
> The reason any truely seasoned IT professional
> scoffs at this document is because of the
> source.
True, but I notice you qualified that observation with "seasoned." Alas, these same seasoned systems folks aren't making many purchasing decisions and are kept in the back room where their views on reality don't embarass the suits. (speaking from experience here...)
I've encountered too many people mentally conditioned by Pravda who will discount any all other studies - no matter how technically solid - in favour of the ones - no matter how technically soft - that support their prejudices. (Sadly, MS apparatchiks are not the only ones guilty of this).
When a news source publishes an _opinion_ about any given technology, an opinion with a lot of unsubstantiated BS and opinionated spin, it is FUD.
/.'ers applaud news and abhor FUD. I see nothing sinister about this.
When a news source posts a snippet about a factual event, sans spin, sans BS, it is news.
This is a news snippet about two vendors who did a 180 and are now changing their plans regarding the showcasing on a *new* technology at a public event. This is not FUD. This is not an opinion.
Perhaps
I'd love to see them run side by side on identical hardware. Maybe many folks would be interested.
Maybe some others don't want such comparisons to be so public?
Hmm, I heard it as:
Q. What's the difference between a dead skunk in the road and a dead lawyer in the road?
A. Skid Marks.
Also, what do you call 100 lawyers lying at the bottom of the harbour?
A. A good start.
It's nice to see someone calling a browser an app and saying removing it does nothing more than removing the ability to read HTML. Too bad others aren't so honest in both development and in rhetoric.
Yah! I noticed that too and thought it was the one chuckle-worthy spot in an otherwise decent article.
I think that GUI-dependent types may indeed think that tweaking textual config files is actually tweaking source. By this definition every Unix sysadmin tweaks source every day! I guess stepping up from there to editing Makefiles makes one a hacker eh?
> So what country is Bell Canada's parent company located in then? ;-)
Da great country of Ottawa Valley eh.
It might be fun to remind folks that Alexander G. Bell was not an American.
Ta,
-MikeR-