Becuse cut and paste is limited to one computer whereas pick and drop could do one computer or numerous _devices_, in theory. As long as everything was compatible.
Doctor Peter Venkman: This city is about to face a disaster of biblical proportions. Mayor: What do you mean, "biblical?" Doctor Raymond Stantz: We mean real wrath-of-God type stuff. Plagues, darkness-- Winston Zeddemore: The dead rising from the grave! Doctor Egon Spengler: Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes-- Doctor Peter Venkman: Riots in the streets, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria!
Burlington Coat Factory will install Linux on 1,150 computers in its 250 stores over the next 12 to 18 months.
"Burlington will run Red Hat Software Inc.'s version of Linux on 1,250 Dell OptiPlex® PCs for office management, to administer its Baby Registry and to handle back-office functions such as shipping and receiving. Dell will factory-install Red Hat Linux software through its DellPlus service on the OptiPlex GX1 computers, giving Burlington the ease and efficiency of PCs that arrive ready to use."
You see??
This wouldn't happen if it had a perfectly good verson of NT/2000/whatever from MS on it!
Microsoft has integrated the feature of you requireing to always fiddle with your server every day or so (crashes and patches and upgrades - oh my!), just to make sure you always know where it is!
It's a good thing people! This way we don't find our servers connected wirelessly to the lan and are actually hopping on trains to mexico!
Dog bless you Micro$soft for your insight:)
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Becuse cut and paste is limited to one computer whereas pick and drop could do one computer or numerous _devices_, in theory. As long as everything was compatible.
Consider that enigmatic character from William Gibsons "The Sprawl" trilogy.
Of course she was the second clone of the original Jane Tessier-Ashpool, but hey...
I'm in Canada, so steal my design (copyright nakedjames): Slash.
dammit, that was my question. :(
-Quick, save the queen!
-Which one of us is the queen?
-I'm the queen!
-No you're not!
-Freedom! Horrible horrible freedom!
You fool! Now we'll never know if ants can be taught to sort tiny screws in space!
...noone got the Ghostbusters quote:
Doctor Peter Venkman: This city is about to face a disaster of biblical proportions.
Mayor: What do you mean, "biblical?"
Doctor Raymond Stantz: We mean real wrath-of-God type stuff. Plagues, darkness--
Winston Zeddemore: The dead rising from the grave!
Doctor Egon Spengler: Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes--
Doctor Peter Venkman: Riots in the streets, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria!
Late late news!
Burlington Coat Factory will install Linux on 1,150 computers in its 250 stores over the next 12 to 18 months.
"Burlington will run Red Hat Software Inc.'s version of Linux on 1,250 Dell OptiPlex® PCs for office management, to administer its Baby Registry and to handle back-office functions such as shipping and receiving. Dell will factory-install Red Hat Linux software through its DellPlus service on the OptiPlex GX1 computers, giving Burlington the ease and efficiency of PCs that arrive ready to use."
Sited from: Linux in Business
You see?? This wouldn't happen if it had a perfectly good verson of NT/2000/whatever from MS on it! Microsoft has integrated the feature of you requireing to always fiddle with your server every day or so (crashes and patches and upgrades - oh my!), just to make sure you always know where it is! It's a good thing people! This way we don't find our servers connected wirelessly to the lan and are actually hopping on trains to mexico! Dog bless you Micro$soft for your insight :)