I laughed my arse off. Then I realized he was serious.
NT is here to stay and it's becoming the choice of a new generation of IT professional.
I refuse to comment. Despite the fact that he himself admits that NT does not perform anywhere near UNIX, his opinion is that NT is competitive with UNIX on high-end servers.
He also refuses to acknowledge the "homegrown Unix variant" Linux, stating that "a large percentage of the Linux installations are still in the realm of the computer hobbyist". Proof of this, Mr. Russinovich? To be sure, there are many of us who have adopted Linux as our home OS and continue to happily hack away at it, but signs have shown nothing but continued acceptance of Linux in the business market.
All in all, it's standard FUD, exactly what one would expect from a source like www.winntmag.com.
As awesome as penguins are, and as cool a place as the Montreal Biodome is (seriously; if you've never been there it's a big indoor zoo shaped like a giant insect when viewed from the Olympic Stadium above it), I find it interesting that they haven't used more elegant tactics than "press reload every 20 seconds" in their layout. There's a Java applet that will do this for you as well as a technique involving meta tags that reloads the page. Perhaps they wanted to stay in tune with those who don't have fast connections and the latest browser technology, but I still find it interesting.
Obviously, Adams' reply comment was meant in jest. If you read the strip, you're probably aware that he has a very dim view of corporate America (and tie-ins) and that, in turn, justifies the goofy merchandise. As always, the caveat is if you don't like it, don't buy it. Scott Adams is not arriving at your doorstep wielding a flaming pike and demanding your wallet. As for personal judgment on the cartoonist himself, while he may be a "techie", he uses AOL. That should say it all. Humorous chap though.
www.eli.com is a good source for old and reasonably new Sparcs. They also sell some DEC/Alpha systems and the occasional x86. I wish I had the money for something decent, though. Sniffle.
The SparQ was really ahead of its time. Although it wouldn't make sense for Iomega to continue producing a drive which directly competes with its flagship product at ten times the capacity, one can only hope. Tech support is another thing-if I go pick up one of the SparQs sitting at CompUSA and something goes wrong, does Iomega cover it? It's a tough situation.
I would kill and/or maim small animals and possibly those undesirable siblings of mine for Linux drivers for my Creative VideoBlaster Webcam II. As far as sound goes, mine is a non-Creative (read: extremely el cheapo) "Sound Blaster-compatible" card made by Realtek (the Avance Logic ALS100+), so I guess anything would be appreciated. I have an old Sound Blaster Pro sitting around doing nothing, so I might use that if worse comes to worse. Best of luck with the project, though. It's nice to see Creative taking care of the OSS community.
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I laughed my arse off. Then I realized he was serious.
NT is here to stay and it's becoming the choice of a new generation of IT professional.
I refuse to comment. Despite the fact that he himself admits that NT does not perform anywhere near UNIX, his opinion is that NT is competitive with UNIX on high-end servers.
He also refuses to acknowledge the "homegrown Unix variant" Linux, stating that "a large percentage of the Linux installations are still in the realm of the computer hobbyist". Proof of this, Mr. Russinovich? To be sure, there are many of us who have adopted Linux as our home OS and continue to happily hack away at it, but signs have shown nothing but continued acceptance of Linux in the business market.
All in all, it's standard FUD, exactly what one would expect from a source like www.winntmag.com.
~Dan
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As awesome as penguins are, and as cool a place as the Montreal Biodome is (seriously; if you've never been there it's a big indoor zoo shaped like a giant insect when viewed from the Olympic Stadium above it), I find it interesting that they haven't used more elegant tactics than "press reload every 20 seconds" in their layout. There's a Java applet that will do this for you as well as a technique involving meta tags that reloads the page. Perhaps they wanted to stay in tune with those who don't have fast connections and the latest browser technology, but I still find it interesting.
~Dan
Obviously, Adams' reply comment was meant in jest. If you read the strip, you're probably aware that he has a very dim view of corporate America (and tie-ins) and that, in turn, justifies the goofy merchandise.
As always, the caveat is if you don't like it, don't buy it. Scott Adams is not arriving at your doorstep wielding a flaming pike and demanding your wallet.
As for personal judgment on the cartoonist himself, while he may be a "techie", he uses AOL. That should say it all. Humorous chap though.
~Dan
www.eli.com is a good source for old and reasonably new Sparcs. They also sell some DEC/Alpha systems and the occasional x86. I wish I had the money for something decent, though. Sniffle.
~Dan
The SparQ was really ahead of its time. Although it wouldn't make sense for Iomega to continue producing a drive which directly competes with its flagship product at ten times the capacity, one can only hope.
Tech support is another thing-if I go pick up one of the SparQs sitting at CompUSA and something goes wrong, does Iomega cover it? It's a tough situation.
~Dan
I would kill and/or maim small animals and possibly those undesirable siblings of mine for Linux drivers for my Creative VideoBlaster Webcam II.
As far as sound goes, mine is a non-Creative (read: extremely el cheapo) "Sound Blaster-compatible" card made by Realtek (the Avance Logic ALS100+), so I guess anything would be appreciated. I have an old Sound Blaster Pro sitting around doing nothing, so I might use that if worse comes to worse. Best of luck with the project, though. It's nice to see Creative taking care of the OSS community.
"I'm sorry. Windows NT Kitchen Edition could not authenticate client: toaster. Illegal password specified. Please reboot toaster and try again."
"General Protection Fault in Module: BreadCrumb001XB03XPF34. Abort, Retry, Fail?"
Or worse, yet, run Solaris and have to start a Java-based toast client that takes 10 minutes to load...
~Dan