You post this shit when so many of my quality articles have been rejected (do note the one regarding Jon Katz is still 'pending'):
Here are your recent submissions to Slashdot, and their status within the system:
2001-11-18 05:34:01 Where Can I Get a Windows XP Crack? (askslashdot,xmas) (rejected)
2001-11-25 01:57:29 Ask a Troll! (interviews,news) (rejected)
2001-12-02 00:52:00 Linux: A Giant Turd! (articles,linux) (rejected)
2001-12-09 04:12:43 GPL: Intellectual Protection or Intellectual Theft (articles,announce) (rejected)
2001-12-12 20:36:14 Jon Katz: Asshobbit or Cockgnome? (articles,editorial)
2001-12-24 01:51:51 Hydrophobia and Nerds (science,ed) (rejected)
2001-12-30 02:41:46 Which Slashdot editor has a thing for transexuals? (articles,xmas)
I just go to Slashdot and there it is! The covetted first post, just waiting for me with its legs spread wide like the whore it is. How can I not resist sticking it in?
The Linux operating system was born in 1991 and was created by one man, a
Finnish student coincidentally named Linux Torvalds. Since these humble
beginnings, a multi-million dollar industry has sprung up to exploit the commercial potential of Linux, but
until recently Linux has eluded mainstream acceptance. However, due to the
recent economic downturn together with uncertainty over changes to Microsoft's pricing policy, Linux is
now being touted as a serious contender to Microsoft Windows. While there
are many other alternatives to Windows, including BSD which is based on SUN's (Stanford University Network - correction by bc) server-grade Solaris operating system,
none have commanded the same level of media attention as Linux.
Linux Mandrake is just the
latest in a long line of quirkily christened versions of Linux. Previous
versions of Linux have been named Red Hat, Slack Ware,
Storm and Coral. In stark contrast to the mundane names such
as 98, ME or NT preferred by Microsoft, the crazy
names of each Linux release hint at its renegade nature.
My foray into the world of Linux began by downloading a "CD image" from
the Linux web site. But don't worry, this isn't software piracy, it's
perfectly legal! Linux is shareware, meaning that it can be freely
redistributed without fear of a visit by the Business Software Alliance. The free
availability of Linux is a major reason for its popularity among
cash-strapped students and self-styled anti-capitalist hackers.
Before installing new software, it is always advisable to read the
documentation. Unfortunately, an unpleasant surprise was in store for me
in the "required configuration" section of the manual.
I was shocked to learn that Linux Mandrake only runs on Pentium
processors, meaning that my hopes of testing the water with my old Gateway 486 were dashed. Furthermore, a
whopping 32 megabytes of memory are required to run Linux! Although the advocates of Linux self-righteously
boast the efficiency of their chosen operating system and deride the
"bloatware" produced by Microsoft, it appears that their claims are
blatantly incorrect. Although my humble 486 will happily run Windows 95,
it seems that Linux requires far more powerful, and more expensive,
computer hardware. Is this really the sign of a lean, mean operating system?
Of course not.
Sadly, not even being able to install Linux is just the first of my many
complaints. A brief perusal of the features of Linux Mandrake reveals that Linux is sorely lacking many
crucial productivity applications. For example, why isn't the industry
standard web browser, Internet Explorer, included with Linux? Despite the
best efforts of the experts at the Internet
Engineering Task Force to encourage adoption of the Internet Explorer
standard, the creators of Linux seem to think that they know better. By
refusing to adhere to recognised standards, Linux is simply undermining
its own credibility.
Similarly, almost all of the world's most popular and widely used software
is completely incompatible with Linux! It may surprise you to learn that
your copy of Microsoft Office, Outlook Express, or Lotus Notes will not
work under Linux. Those who wish to use their computer for recreational
purposes are also out of luck, for almost all of the most popular games
are unavailable for Linux. Although a wide range of software is freely
available for Linux, these pitiful offerings are mostly unfinished, unreliable and do not
bear comparison to their commercial counterparts.
Computer security is also an area that seems to have been overlooked by
the developers of Linux. In these times when hacking and viruses are
commonplace, it defies belief to learn that no anti-virus software is available for
Linux. To add insult to injury, there is no Linux version of the popular
ZoneAlarm firewall. By using Linux,
you are issuing an open invitation to the hordes of ne'er-do-wells on the
Internet.
The shortcomings of Linux are obvious. Without even installing Linux
Mandrake, I have exposed several fundamental flaws. Surely it is not too
much to expect that, after ten years of development, the creators of Linux
would have addressed these problems? The real question that the
prospective Linux user must ask himself is, "Why bother?" After all,
Microsoft Windows comes free with most PCs and there simply isn't a need
to replace it, particularly not with a product of inferior quality.
Although it is always tempting to support the underdog, Windows XP will
be the deserved victor in the battle ahead. I recommend that those
Adequacy readers who are hoping to upgrade their operating system
patiently wait for the release of Windows XP, rather than foolishly
wasting their time, effort and money on Linux.
Good job being able to type with one hand up your ass. I know when I'm self-fisting, I have to peck at the keyboard with a pencil in my teeth, because I'm furiously whacking off with my other hand.
It is time for us, the people of color to take a stand! As a black woman I am angered, shocked and saddened to see the Open Source community in general - and Linux users specifically - continuing to perpetuate racism. I know that many of you may not consider yourselves party to any racist beliefs, but by using Linux you are condoning and assisting an OS that oppresses minorities.
Companies such as Microsoft and Apple have made great strides in making technology available to the African-American community. It saddens me to see that Linux has not taken similar steps. While the two companies mentioned above donate time and resources to impoverished schools - and I'd like to take an aside to thank Microsoft for their offer to donate even more to schools to settle some lawsuits - I've yet to hear of a Redhat or a Mandrake that will make its software freely available to our children. By keeping their product out of the hands of those who need it most, these companies are depriving us of our chance to shine!
Additionally when one looks closely at the userbase of Linux, one will see that its made up almost entirely of wealthy white men. Nowhere are my fellow African-American's depicted, and women are almost as rare. I do not believe this to be an accident, not in this day and age. Not with a product that counts as one of its biggest programs something unfortunately named "Samba." I think we all remember this mean-spirited fairy tell that the white devil would tell its children. I would remind Linux of what became of the "Sambas" chain of restaurants when they would not end their racist name.
Further examples can be seen in Apache. This name steals this Native American tribe of their identity. To take a proud race of people and demean them by naming a third-rate web browser after them is criminal.
This blatant racism must be brought to a halt! Such a cancer cannot be allowed to fester within the Open Source community! I encourage my fellow proud, black Brothers and Sisters to boycott this racist OS. There are other alternatives that will not keep us in chains.
I work as a consultant for several fortune 500 companies, and I think I can shed a little light on the climate of the open source community at the moment. I believe that part of the reason that open source based startups are failing left and right is not an issue of marketing as it's commonly believed but more of an issue of the underlying technology.
I know that that's a strong statement to make, but I have evidence to back it up! At one of the major corps(5000+ employees) that I consult for, we wanted to integrate Linux into our server pool. The allure of not having to pay any restrictive licensing fees was too great to ignore. I reccomended the installation of several boxes running the new 2.4.9 kernel, and my hopes were high that it would perform up to snuff with the Windows 2k boxes which were(and still are!) doing an AMAZING job at their respective tasks of serving HTTP requests, DNS, and fileserving.
I consider myself to be very technically inclined having programmed in VB for the last 8 years doing kernel level programming. I don't believe in C programming because contrary to popular belief, VB can go just as low level as C and the newest VB compiler generates code that's every bit as fast. I took it upon myself to configure the system from scratch and even used an optimised version of gcc 3.1 to increase the execution speed of the binaries. I integrated the 3 machines I had configured into the server pool, and I'd have to say the results were less than impressive... We all know that linux isn't even close to being ready for the desktop, but I had heard that it was supposed to perform decently as a "server" based operating system. The 3 machines all went into swap immediately, and it was obvious that they weren't going to be able to handle the load in this "enterprise" environment. After running for less than 24 hours, 2 of them had experienced kernel panics caused by Bind and Apache crashing! Granted, Apache is a volunteer based project written by weekend hackers in their spare time while Microsft's IIS has an actual professional full fledged development team devoted to it. Not to mention the fact that the Linux kernel itself lacks any support for any type of journaled filesystem, memory protection, SMP support, etc, but I thought that since Linux is based on such "old" technology that it would run with some level of stability. After several days of this type of behaviour, we decided to reinstall windows 2k on the boxes to make sure it wasn't a hardware problem that was causing things to go wrong. The machines instantly shaped up and were seamlessly reintegrated into the server pool with just one Win2K machine doing more work than all 3 of the Linux boxes.
Needless to say, I won't be reccomending Linux/FSF to anymore of my clients. I'm dissappointed that they won't be able to leverege the free cost of Linux to their advantage, but in this case I suppose the old adage stands true that, "you get what you pay for." I would have also liked to have access to the source code of the applications that we're running on our mission critical systems; however, from the looks of it, the Microsoft "shared source" program seems to offer all of the same freedoms as the GPL.
As things stand now, I can understand using Linux in academia to compile simple "Hello World" style programs and learn C programming, but I'm afraid that for anything more than a hobby OS, Windows 98/NT/2K are your only choices.
Did you know that there are very few bigger whiners and prima donnas in music that Henry Rollins? Yep, its true. That man shits all over his fans then moans that no one likes him. That cockgnome is so flamingly gay I can feel the heat from here. The only thing lamer than Henry Rollins are his fans. Whenever I see one of them, I have to resist the urge to smash a lamp into their face. Ugh.
Michael didn't even mention me. I suppose this means I haven't been trolling hard enough. For the new year, I resolve to redouble my trolling efforts and bring Slashdot to its knees. I've already brought Jon Katz to his knees, and lets just say that wasn't quite what I had in mind. I had a dozen Japanese exchange students over, so we decided to make a bukake film with Jon while he was down there.
I work as a consultant for several fortune 500 companies, and I think I can shed a little light on the climate of the open source community at the moment. I believe that part of the reason that open source based startups are failing left and right is not an issue of marketing as it's commonly believed but more of an issue of the underlying technology.
I know that that's a strong statement to make, but I have evidence to back it up! At one of the major corps(5000+ employees) that I consult for, we wanted to integrate Linux into our server pool. The allure of not having to pay any restrictive licensing fees was too great to ignore. I reccomended the installation of several boxes running the new 2.4.9 kernel, and my hopes were high that it would perform up to snuff with the Windows 2k boxes which were(and still are!) doing an AMAZING job at their respective tasks of serving HTTP requests, DNS, and fileserving.
I consider myself to be very technically inclined having programmed in VB for the last 8 years doing kernel level programming. I don't believe in C programming because contrary to popular belief, VB can go just as low level as C and the newest VB compiler generates code that's every bit as fast. I took it upon myself to configure the system from scratch and even used an optimised version of gcc 3.1 to increase the execution speed of the binaries. I integrated the 3 machines I had configured into the server pool, and I'd have to say the results were less than impressive... We all know that linux isn't even close to being ready for the desktop, but I had heard that it was supposed to perform decently as a "server" based operating system. The 3 machines all went into swap immediately, and it was obvious that they weren't going to be able to handle the load in this "enterprise" environment. After running for less than 24 hours, 2 of them had experienced kernel panics caused by Bind and Apache crashing! Granted, Apache is a volunteer based project written by weekend hackers in their spare time while Microsft's IIS has an actual professional full fledged development team devoted to it. Not to mention the fact that the Linux kernel itself lacks any support for any type of journaled filesystem, memory protection, SMP support, etc, but I thought that since Linux is based on such "old" technology that it would run with some level of stability. After several days of this type of behaviour, we decided to reinstall windows 2k on the boxes to make sure it wasn't a hardware problem that was causing things to go wrong. The machines instantly shaped up and were seamlessly reintegrated into the server pool with just one Win2K machine doing more work than all 3 of the Linux boxes.
Needless to say, I won't be reccomending Linux/FSF to anymore of my clients. I'm dissappointed that they won't be able to leverege the free cost of Linux to their advantage, but in this case I suppose the old adage stands true that, "you get what you pay for." I would have also liked to have access to the source code of the applications that we're running on our mission critical systems; however, from the looks of it, the Microsoft "shared source" program seems to offer all of the same freedoms as the GPL.
As things stand now, I can understand using Linux in academia to compile simple "Hello World" style programs and learn C programming, but I'm afraid that for anything more than a hobby OS, Windows 98/NT/2K are your only choices.
This is the same excuse I used when I was a kid to get out of trouble with my parents. "But you didn't say that I couldn't do it!" No matter that they didn't explicitly say I couldn't take money out of Mom's purse, its still wrong. Same thing in this instance.
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You post this shit when so many of my quality articles have been rejected (do note the one regarding Jon Katz is still 'pending'):
Here are your recent submissions to Slashdot, and their status within the system:
2001-11-18 05:34:01 Where Can I Get a Windows XP Crack? (askslashdot,xmas) (rejected)
2001-11-25 01:57:29 Ask a Troll! (interviews,news) (rejected)
2001-12-02 00:52:00 Linux: A Giant Turd! (articles,linux) (rejected)
2001-12-09 04:12:43 GPL: Intellectual Protection or Intellectual Theft (articles,announce) (rejected)
2001-12-12 20:36:14 Jon Katz: Asshobbit or Cockgnome? (articles,editorial)
2001-12-24 01:51:51 Hydrophobia and Nerds (science,ed) (rejected)
2001-12-30 02:41:46 Which Slashdot editor has a thing for transexuals? (articles,xmas)
I just go to Slashdot and there it is! The covetted first post, just waiting for me with its legs spread wide like the whore it is. How can I not resist sticking it in?
I was glad when that skinhead fucker got killed.
Maybe its because he's a retarded illiterate lobotomized monkey?
When I read that parent post, my first thought was "Hey when is Ralph Nader going to bite on this." I'm very pleased he didn't disappoint.
The Linux operating system was born in 1991 and was created by one man, a
Finnish student coincidentally named Linux Torvalds. Since these humble
beginnings, a multi-million dollar
industry has sprung up to exploit the commercial potential of Linux, but
until recently Linux has eluded mainstream acceptance. However, due to the
recent economic downturn together with uncertainty over changes to Microsoft's pricing policy, Linux is
now being touted as a serious contender to Microsoft Windows. While there
are many other alternatives to Windows, including BSD which is based on SUN's (Stanford University Network - correction by bc) server-grade Solaris operating system,
none have commanded the same level of media attention as Linux.
Linux Mandrake is just the
latest in a long line of quirkily christened versions of Linux. Previous
versions of Linux have been named Red Hat, Slack Ware,
Storm and Coral. In stark contrast to the mundane names such
as 98, ME or NT preferred by Microsoft, the crazy
names of each Linux release hint at its renegade nature.
My foray into the world of Linux began by downloading a "CD image" from
the Linux web site. But don't worry, this isn't software piracy, it's
perfectly legal! Linux is shareware, meaning that it can be freely
redistributed without fear of a visit by the Business Software Alliance. The free
availability of Linux is a major reason for its popularity among
cash-strapped students and self-styled anti-capitalist hackers.
Before installing new software, it is always advisable to read the
documentation. Unfortunately, an unpleasant surprise was in store for me
in the "required configuration" section of the manual.
I was shocked to learn that Linux Mandrake only runs on Pentium
processors, meaning that my hopes of testing the water with my old Gateway 486 were dashed. Furthermore, a
whopping 32 megabytes of memory are required to run Linux! Although the advocates of Linux self-righteously
boast the efficiency of their chosen operating system and deride the
"bloatware" produced by Microsoft, it appears that their claims are
blatantly incorrect. Although my humble 486 will happily run Windows 95,
it seems that Linux requires far more powerful, and more expensive,
computer hardware. Is this really the sign of a lean, mean operating system?
Of course not.
Sadly, not even being able to install Linux is just the first of my many
complaints. A brief perusal of the
features of Linux Mandrake reveals that Linux is sorely lacking many
crucial productivity applications. For example, why isn't the industry
standard web browser, Internet Explorer, included with Linux? Despite the
best efforts of the experts at the Internet
Engineering Task Force to encourage adoption of the Internet Explorer
standard, the creators of Linux seem to think that they know better. By
refusing to adhere to recognised standards, Linux is simply undermining
its own credibility.
Similarly, almost all of the world's most popular and widely used software
is completely incompatible with Linux! It may surprise you to learn that
your copy of Microsoft Office, Outlook Express, or Lotus Notes will not
work under Linux. Those who wish to use their computer for recreational
purposes are also out of luck, for almost all of the most popular games
are unavailable for Linux. Although a wide range of software is freely
available for Linux, these pitiful offerings are mostly unfinished, unreliable and do not
bear comparison to their commercial counterparts.
Computer security is also an area that seems to have been overlooked by
the developers of Linux. In these times when hacking and viruses are
commonplace, it defies belief to learn that no anti-virus software is available for
Linux. To add insult to injury, there is no Linux version of the popular
ZoneAlarm firewall. By using Linux,
you are issuing an open invitation to the hordes of ne'er-do-wells on the
Internet.
The shortcomings of Linux are obvious. Without even installing Linux
Mandrake, I have exposed several fundamental flaws. Surely it is not too
much to expect that, after ten years of development, the creators of Linux
would have addressed these problems? The real question that the
prospective Linux user must ask himself is, "Why bother?" After all,
Microsoft Windows comes free with most PCs and there simply isn't a need
to replace it, particularly not with a product of inferior quality.
Although it is always tempting to support the underdog, Windows XP will
be the deserved victor in the battle ahead. I recommend that those
Adequacy readers who are hoping to upgrade their operating system
patiently wait for the release of Windows XP, rather than foolishly
wasting their time, effort and money on Linux.
Good job being able to type with one hand up your ass. I know when I'm self-fisting, I have to peck at the keyboard with a pencil in my teeth, because I'm furiously whacking off with my other hand.
It is time for us, the people of color to take a stand! As a black woman I am angered, shocked and saddened to see the Open Source community in general - and Linux users specifically - continuing to perpetuate racism. I know that many of you may not consider yourselves party to any racist beliefs, but by using Linux you are condoning and assisting an OS that oppresses minorities.
Companies such as Microsoft and Apple have made great strides in making technology available to the African-American community. It saddens me to see that Linux has not taken similar steps. While the two companies mentioned above donate time and resources to impoverished schools - and I'd like to take an aside to thank Microsoft for their offer to donate even more to schools to settle some lawsuits - I've yet to hear of a Redhat or a Mandrake that will make its software freely available to our children. By keeping their product out of the hands of those who need it most, these companies are depriving us of our chance to shine!
Additionally when one looks closely at the userbase of Linux, one will see that its made up almost entirely of wealthy white men. Nowhere are my fellow African-American's depicted, and women are almost as rare. I do not believe this to be an accident, not in this day and age. Not with a product that counts as one of its biggest programs something unfortunately named "Samba." I think we all remember this mean-spirited fairy tell that the white devil would tell its children. I would remind Linux of what became of the "Sambas" chain of restaurants when they would not end their racist name.
Further examples can be seen in Apache. This name steals this Native American tribe of their identity. To take a proud race of people and demean them by naming a third-rate web browser after them is criminal.
This blatant racism must be brought to a halt! Such a cancer cannot be allowed to fester within the Open Source community! I encourage my fellow proud, black Brothers and Sisters to boycott this racist OS. There are other alternatives that will not keep us in chains.
Happy Kwannza!
Because that nick makes about as much sense as Jon Katz after his fifth espresso.
My sig is fine.
But Jon only sucks if you're a 13 year old boy, that pederast!
Hey I'm here and ready for you to powder my soft, pink bum before you wrap me in a diaper. Mmmmm.....
I work as a consultant for several fortune 500 companies, and I think I can shed a little light on the climate of the open source community at the moment. I believe that part of the reason that open source based startups are failing left and right is not an issue of marketing as it's commonly believed but more of an issue of the underlying technology.
I know that that's a strong statement to make, but I have evidence to back it up! At one of the major corps(5000+ employees) that I consult for, we wanted to integrate Linux into our server pool. The allure of not having to pay any restrictive licensing fees was too great to ignore. I reccomended the installation of several boxes running the new 2.4.9 kernel, and my hopes were high that it would perform up to snuff with the Windows 2k boxes which were(and still are!) doing an AMAZING job at their respective tasks of serving HTTP requests, DNS, and fileserving.
I consider myself to be very technically inclined having programmed in VB for the last 8 years doing kernel level programming. I don't believe in C programming because contrary to popular belief, VB can go just as low level as C and the newest VB compiler generates code that's every bit as fast. I took it upon myself to configure the system from scratch and even used an optimised version of gcc 3.1 to increase the execution speed of the binaries. I integrated the 3 machines I had configured into the server pool, and I'd have to say the results were less than impressive... We all know that linux isn't even close to being ready for the desktop, but I had heard that it was supposed to perform decently as a "server" based operating system. The 3 machines all went into swap immediately, and it was obvious that they weren't going to be able to handle the load in this "enterprise" environment. After running for less than 24 hours, 2 of them had experienced kernel panics caused by Bind and Apache crashing! Granted, Apache is a volunteer based project written by weekend hackers in their spare time while Microsft's IIS has an actual professional full fledged development team devoted to it. Not to mention the fact that the Linux kernel itself lacks any support for any type of journaled filesystem, memory protection, SMP support, etc, but I thought that since Linux is based on such "old" technology that it would run with some level of stability. After several days of this type of behaviour, we decided to reinstall windows 2k on the boxes to make sure it wasn't a hardware problem that was causing things to go wrong. The machines instantly shaped up and were seamlessly reintegrated into the server pool with just one Win2K machine doing more work than all 3 of the Linux boxes.
Needless to say, I won't be reccomending Linux/FSF to anymore of my clients. I'm dissappointed that they won't be able to leverege the free cost of Linux to their advantage, but in this case I suppose the old adage stands true that, "you get what you pay for." I would have also liked to have access to the source code of the applications that we're running on our mission critical systems; however, from the looks of it, the Microsoft "shared source" program seems to offer all of the same freedoms as the GPL.
As things stand now, I can understand using Linux in academia to compile simple "Hello World" style programs and learn C programming, but I'm afraid that for anything more than a hobby OS, Windows 98/NT/2K are your only choices.
thank you.
it wasn't too bad. better than i expected, actually.
Did you know that there are very few bigger whiners and prima donnas in music that Henry Rollins? Yep, its true. That man shits all over his fans then moans that no one likes him. That cockgnome is so flamingly gay I can feel the heat from here. The only thing lamer than Henry Rollins are his fans. Whenever I see one of them, I have to resist the urge to smash a lamp into their face. Ugh.
Once again I have a pair of replies to this. You may take your pick.
1) I love to be diapered. Are you in SF, Mr. AC? Bring a box of Pampers over and lets play
or
2) Jon Katz, posting anonymously again I see.
Michael didn't even mention me. I suppose this means I haven't been trolling hard enough. For the new year, I resolve to redouble my trolling efforts and bring Slashdot to its knees. I've already brought Jon Katz to his knees, and lets just say that wasn't quite what I had in mind. I had a dozen Japanese exchange students over, so we decided to make a bukake film with Jon while he was down there.
You, sir, are both a cockgnome and an asshobbit.
I know that Taco only posts these stories because he's entertained by the trolls that will make this post:
Hey Taco! Here's the first picture of a Black Hole!
What the fuck are you talking about?
I work as a consultant for several fortune 500 companies, and I think I can shed a little light on the climate of the open source community at the moment. I believe that part of the reason that open source based startups are failing left and right is not an issue of marketing as it's commonly believed but more of an issue of the underlying technology.
I know that that's a strong statement to make, but I have evidence to back it up! At one of the major corps(5000+ employees) that I consult for, we wanted to integrate Linux into our server pool. The allure of not having to pay any restrictive licensing fees was too great to ignore. I reccomended the installation of several boxes running the new 2.4.9 kernel, and my hopes were high that it would perform up to snuff with the Windows 2k boxes which were(and still are!) doing an AMAZING job at their respective tasks of serving HTTP requests, DNS, and fileserving.
I consider myself to be very technically inclined having programmed in VB for the last 8 years doing kernel level programming. I don't believe in C programming because contrary to popular belief, VB can go just as low level as C and the newest VB compiler generates code that's every bit as fast. I took it upon myself to configure the system from scratch and even used an optimised version of gcc 3.1 to increase the execution speed of the binaries. I integrated the 3 machines I had configured into the server pool, and I'd have to say the results were less than impressive... We all know that linux isn't even close to being ready for the desktop, but I had heard that it was supposed to perform decently as a "server" based operating system. The 3 machines all went into swap immediately, and it was obvious that they weren't going to be able to handle the load in this "enterprise" environment. After running for less than 24 hours, 2 of them had experienced kernel panics caused by Bind and Apache crashing! Granted, Apache is a volunteer based project written by weekend hackers in their spare time while Microsft's IIS has an actual professional full fledged development team devoted to it. Not to mention the fact that the Linux kernel itself lacks any support for any type of journaled filesystem, memory protection, SMP support, etc, but I thought that since Linux is based on such "old" technology that it would run with some level of stability. After several days of this type of behaviour, we decided to reinstall windows 2k on the boxes to make sure it wasn't a hardware problem that was causing things to go wrong. The machines instantly shaped up and were seamlessly reintegrated into the server pool with just one Win2K machine doing more work than all 3 of the Linux boxes.
Needless to say, I won't be reccomending Linux/FSF to anymore of my clients. I'm dissappointed that they won't be able to leverege the free cost of Linux to their advantage, but in this case I suppose the old adage stands true that, "you get what you pay for." I would have also liked to have access to the source code of the applications that we're running on our mission critical systems; however, from the looks of it, the Microsoft "shared source" program seems to offer all of the same freedoms as the GPL.
As things stand now, I can understand using Linux in academia to compile simple "Hello World" style programs and learn C programming, but I'm afraid that for anything more than a hobby OS, Windows 98/NT/2K are your only choices.
thank you.
This is the same excuse I used when I was a kid to get out of trouble with my parents. "But you didn't say that I couldn't do it!" No matter that they didn't explicitly say I couldn't take money out of Mom's purse, its still wrong. Same thing in this instance.
Then you should listen to a guy called Sparklehorse. Its melancholy but not in a sad goth kind of way. More like a richer Elliot Smith.
Nope. I'm assuming the two rolls of TP a day are used after ones ass gets pounded by a 250lbs lifer?
"May the schwartz be with you!!"