Top Reasons to Upgrade to Windows 2000
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Here are the top reasons why businesses are moving to Windows 2000 Professional:
#1: Value. The number one reason to move to Windows 2000 Professional is the overall value it offers your business. As this list proves, Windows 2000 Professional can help you reduce costs through improved management and increase productivity through improved reliability and ease of use. For example, analysis conducted at Credit Suisse First Boston predicted that using Windows® 2000 Professional could reduce the firm's directly related IT costs by 15 percent, as well as improve employee productivity by cutting computer-related unproductive time by as much as 41 percent. For more about return on investment, see these reports from Giga Information Group, Inc. and Arthur Andersen .
#2: Reliability. An essential requirement for business users is a personal computer they can count on. That's why Windows 2000 Professional includes fundamental improvementsâ"such as modifications to the operating system core to prevent crashes and the ability for the operating system to repair itselfâ"that make it the most reliable desktop operating system Microsoft has ever produced. On comparative reliability tests conducted by ZD Labs, the average system uptime of Windows 2000 Professional was over 50 times that of Windows 98 and 17 times that of Windows NT Workstation 4.0.
#3: Mobility. Mobile computing is simpler and more efficient with Windows 2000 Professional. This means you can work anywhere, anytime while also saving time and increasing productivity. As described in these news articles, "Finally, a Notebook OS" and "Mobile Users In Love with Win2K" , Windows 2000 Professional offers mobile users key productivity and time-saving features, including the ability to hibernate and restart the system without a reboot and the ability to easily take files and folders offline.
#4: Manageability. Windows 2000 Professional is easier to deploy, manage, and support. Centralized management utilities, troubleshooting tools, and support for self-healing applications all make it simpler for administrators and users to deploy and manage desktop and laptop computers. These improvements pay off in reduced costs, as illustrated by this Eastman Chemical total cost of ownership analysis.
#5: Performance. The advancements made throughout Windows 2000 Professional are accentuated by the operating system's speed. As shown in ZD Labs tests running the most popular business applications, with 64 MB of RAM, Windows 2000 was 32 percent faster than Windows 95 and 27 percent faster than Windows 98. It is also significantly faster than Windows NT 4.0 on configurations with 32 MB of RAM.
#6: Security. Windows 2000 Professional provides comprehensive security features to protect your sensitive business data, both locally on your desktop computer and as it is transmitted over your local area network, phone lines, or the Internet. With its support for Internet-standard security features such as IP Security, Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol, and Virtual Private Networking, Windows 2000 is so secure that banks, such as Credit Suisse First Boston , use it. For some organizations, such as the law firm Dorsey & Whitney LLP, security is a key reason for moving to Windows 2000.
#7: Internet. The familiar user interface of Windows 98 combined with all the capabilities of Internet Explorer 5, makes using the Internet and your local desktop a unified user experience, as described by PC Magazine . This user interface, combined with integrated search capabilities, makes it easier to find and use information locally and on the Web.
#8: Usability. As described in this Windows 2000 Magazine review , Windows 2000 Professional combines the power and security of its predecessor, Windows NT Workstation, with the traditional ease of use of Windows 98. It also provides more wizards, a centralized location for common tasks, and menus that adapt to the way you work.
#9: Data Access. When you use Windows 2000 Professional in conjunction with Windows 2000 Server, you can take advantage of IntelliMirror technologies. By letting you store your important information and desktop settings on a central computer, IntelliMirror lets you work on any computer attached to your network as if you are at your own desk. The centralized management savings made possible by Windows 2000 IntelliMirror technologies are one of the reasons WFofR, Inc. is using Windows 2000 Professional.
#10: Hardware. Windows 2000 Professional lets you take advantage of new hardware devices, such as those with universal serial bus (USB) and IEEE 1394 (Firewire) connections. In addition, support for existing hardware makes Windows 2000 ideal for companies, such as Panasonic , that want to standardize on a single operating system across their organizations.
Before everyone gets upset, please follow me as I outline some of the critical shortcomings in Linux. First is the lack of re-entrant kernel threads. The net affect of this is a poor execution of both multi-tasking on uniprocessor systems and multi-processor systems. In a uniprocessor system the lack of reentrant kernel threads allows applications to control processor time. This cooperative multitasking is ineffecient, and systems intensive. In a multiprocessor box you wind up with an asynchronous multitaksing environment, where processor load is not balanced across the two or more processors. The net result in both situations is that processes take longer to execute. Needless to say, Windows excels at all of these.
The next is poor execution of asynchronous I/O, which is necessary for efficient communications. In fact, the execution of asynchronous I/O in Linux is quite poor, especially when compared to Windows. When subjected to the Transaction Processing Council's C and D tests, which measure transactions per minute, Linux fares poorly compared to commercial variants of Unix, BSD, and NT. The net result of this is an increased cost of ownership, as the cost of each transaction is much higher than the cost associated with Windows NT.
Another serious setback for Linux is the lack of a journalling file system. This makes data storage unreliable, and backup and recovery a dicey proposition. SGI said they would port the IRIX file system to Linux, but I haven't heard anything about this yet. However, when you look at the major commercial NOS's, they all have journalling file systems, including Sun, SCO, Windows NT, Banyan Vines, HP/UX, AIX, and Novell. Windows has cleary beaten Linux to the punch here.
I look forward to watching Linux as it grows up. I do believe it may have a bright future. It just isn't there yet! Too bad I will have to wait many years for Linux to become a viable option in the operating system arena. If I were to believe everything I read about Linux, I would have to assume that it will save the world! Please, let us also be honest and present Linux and all its many shortcomings when you are downtalking Windows.
You truly are a man to be honored and revered. Because of you, I laughed this morning. I laughed and felt full of joy because you trolls are genuinely funny. Without your trolls, I am not sure what I would do. Probably live a depressed, boring, meaningless life. Thank you so much for the joy you bring to my life.
I've been using *BSD for years starting with the first releases of Berkeley's operating system. I've even got the tape with Tahoe around somewhere. But all my coworkers at the ISP where I work claimed Linux to be the superior operating system of the next century which will crush microsoft sometime. Well, I was a little sceptical. But I've never used Linux before, so I though that I should give it a try. I ordered the newest Debian woody package, 'cos I wanted full IP6 support. No reason to keep with the old protocols. A few days later a 15 CD set sighed by some guy named ZtaHma (at least that was all I could make out of this strange signature) arrived.
I was very curious, so I started installing the stuff at my Pentium IV at once. There I ran into the first troubles. After selecting the package gcc-doc the package manager claimed that there was a conflict with gcc-2.96 and gcc-3.0 and many associated packages. This won't be of much trouble yet. But it opened of list of all the "conflicting" packages which were suddenly unselected by default. Still no problem there, I could have reselected them at once, but I accidentially hit the return key for selection which accepted the "default" and all the selections were gone. This resulted in fucking around later with constant package reinstalls, 'cos I never got all unselected packages back and the apps started complaining about missing "gcc-blurp" etc.
During install I wondered why there was no config options for ip6, but such stuff with rather common with OSS software and I prefer viing config files anyway. After full install I noticed that there was no options for installing [xkg]dm by default, but I won't call this a problem. The problems turned out at different places. I first tried to activate ip6 for my local links
bildo# ifconfig eth0 inet6 fec0::2/64 add ifconfig: bad option inet6
WTF ? After some manpaging I found out that the Linux netutils are really fucked up any use non standard parameters for ip6. But however:
bildo# ifconfig eth0 add fec0::2/64 kernel doesn't support IP6
Bad news. I noticed that the standard kernel was optimized for 80386 with support for XT harddisks but without support for ip6. So I had to recompile the entire kernel first. At this point the "gcc-blurp" reinstall fun started as already mentioned above. I was already a little wary at this point, this IP6 (EXPERIMENTIAL) - 6 years after the first draft - didn't seemed very promising. After compiling and booting ifconfig worked without trouble. But tha bad surprise was arriving:
bildo# netstat -r 127.0.0.1 * 255.255.255.0 lo
Fuck ! Were was ip6 ??? Ifconfig said it was there ! Well I thoughtit was a fucked netstat, so I tried a simple:
bildo# telnet::1 Trying::1... Connection error: connection refused bildo# telnet bildo Trying bildo... Bildo Today is a good day the mew the goat ! Login:
Well at least ip6 was working. But all apps seemed to be fucked up. So I tried a last:
bildo# ping6::1 ping6 not found
At this point I slammed by keyboard into the TFT-Panel and turned the computer off.
What remains to say ?
Linux is obviously an operation system for amateurs and hobbiests not for professional users. I reinstalled FreeBSD at my computer at once. Had to do the installation via an serial cable to my old 386 though, because my TFT-Panel and the keyboard are broken.
You swine. You vulgar little maggot. You worthless bag of filth. As we say in Texas. I'll bet you couldn't pour piss out of a boot with instructions on the heel. You are a canker. A sore that won't go away. I would rather kiss a lawyer than be seen with you.
You're a putrescent mass, a walking vomit. You are a spineless little worm deserving nothing but the profoundest contempt. You are a jerk, a cad, a weasel. Your life is a monument to stupidity. You are a stench, a revulsion, a big suck on a sour lemon.
You are a bleating foal, a curdled staggering mutant dwarf smeared richly with the effluvia and offal accompanying your alleged birth into this world. An insensate, blinking calf, meaningful to nobody, abandoned by the puke-drooling, giggling beasts who sired you and then killed themselfs in recognition of what they had done.
I will never get over the embarrassment of belonging to the same species as you. You are a monster, an ogre, a malformity. I barf at the very thought of you. You have all the appeal of a paper cut. Lepers avoid you. You are vile, worthless, less than nothing. You are a weed, a fungus, the dregs of this earth. And did I mention you smell?
Try to edit your responses of unnecessary material before attempting to impress us with your insight. The evidence that you are a nincompoop will still be available to readers, but they will be able to access it more rapidly.
You snail-skulled little rabbit. Would that a hawk pick you up, drive its beak into your brain, and upon finding it rancid set you loose to fly briefly before spattering the ocean rocks with the frothy pink shame of your ignoble blood. May you ckoke on the queasy, convulsing nausea of your own trite, foolish beliefs.
You are weary, stale, flat and unprofitable. You are grimy, squalid, nasty and profane. You are foul and disgusting. You're a fool, an ignoramus. Monkeys look down on you. Even sheep won't have sex with you. You are unreservedly pathetic, starved for attention, and lost in a land that reality forgot.
And what meaning do you expect your delusionally self-important statements of unknowing, inexperienced opinion to have with us? What fantasy do you hold that you would believe that your tiny-fisted tantrums would have more weight than that of a leprous desert rat, spinning rabidly in a circle, waiting for the bite of the snake?
You are a waste of flesh. You have no rhythm. You are ridiculous and obnoxious. You are the moral equivalent of a leech. You are a living emptiness, a meaningless void. You are sour and senile. You are a disease, you puerile one-handed slack-jawed drooling meatslapper.
On a good day you're a half-wit. You remind me of drool. You are deficient in all that lends character. You have the personality of wallpaper. You are dank and filthy. You are asinine and benighted. You are the source of all unpleasantness. You spread misery and sorrow wherever you go.
You smarmy lagerlout git. You bloody woofter sod. Bugger off, pillock. You grotty wanking oik artless base-court apple-john. You clouted boggish foot-licking twit. You dankish clack-dish plonker. You gormless crook-pated tosser. You churlish boil-brained clotpole ponce. You cockered bum-bailey poofter. You craven dewberry pisshead cockup pratting naff. You gob-kissing gleeking flap-mouthed coxcomb. You dread-bolted fobbing beef-witted clapper-clawed flirt-gill.
You are a fiend and a coward, and you have bad breath. You are degenerate, noxious and depraved. I feel debased just for knowing you exist. I despise everything about you, and I wish you would go away.
I cannot believe how incredibly stupid you are. I mean rock-hard stupid. Dehydrated-rock-hard stupid. Stupid so stupid that it goes way beyond the stupid we know into a whole different dimension of stupid. You are trans-stupid stupid. Meta-stupid. Stupid collapsed on itself so far that even the neutrons have collapsed. Stupid gotten so dense that no intellect can escape. Singularity stupid. Blazing hot mid-day sun on Mercury stupid. You emit more stupid in one second than our entire galaxy emits in a year. Quasar stupid. Your writing has to be a troll. Nothing in our universe can really be this stupid. Perhaps this is some primordial fragment from the original big bang of stupid. Some pure essence of a stupid so uncontaminated by anything else as to be beyond the laws of physics that we know. I'm sorry. I can't go on. This is an epiphany of stupid for me. After this, you may not hear from me again for a while. I don't have enough strength left to deride your ignorant questions and half baked comments about unimportant trivia, or any of the rest of this drivel. Duh.
The only thing worse than our logic is your manners. I have snipped away most of your of what you wrote, because, well... it didn't really say anything. Your attempt at constructing a creative flame was pitiful. I mean, really, stringing together a bunch of insults among a load of babbling was hardly effective... Maybe later in life, after you have learned to read, write, spell, and count, you will have more success. True, these are rudimentary skills that many of us "normal" people take for granted that everyone has an easy time of mastering. But we sometimes forget that there are "challenged" persons in this world who find these things more difficult. If I had known, that this was your case then I would have never read your post. It just wouldn't have been "right". Sort of like parking in a handicap space. I wish you the best of luck in the emotional, and social struggles that seem to be placing such a demand on you.
In my development of the Troll Library and the Troll Library Technology, I have received many questions and concerns in reference to the Troll Library and its use on Slashdot. The intention of this post is to "clear the air" of the misunderstandings and incorrect assumptions which have been posited about the Troll Library.
What is the Troll Library?
The Troll Library is a database of the best and brightest trolls of Slashdot history. The database is SQL 2000 and is managed by Microsoft C# using.NET technology.
How can the Troll Library be accessed?
The Troll Library is not yet available online, but it will eventually be made publicly available in the form of a.NET web service-- That means that you will be able to browse the library and submit your additions with your web browser (yes, even an inferior piece of shit like Mozilla, since Microsoft for some reason chose to include "down-level" compatibility with their web services in.NET).
What's the ultimate goal of the Troll Library?
To crapflood Slashdot into oblivion using Microsoft technologies.
What does the Slashdot community think about this?
Using Microsoft.NET to annihilate Slashdot really pisses off the Slashdot community, which is hilarous.
Do you sit around and read Slashdot all day?
Of course not. The client troll poster bot automatically detects a new story on Slashdot, selects a post from the Troll Library database, and submits it to Slashdot. The client is written purely in C# using Windows Forms in.NET. It would be impossible for Slashdot server to detect the presence of the bot, except for the "Dirty Linux Users:Are Hippies" header.
What if they crack down?
If the 'editors' (I use the term loosely) were to ban the RoboTroll or Troll Library posts, the posting client would have to become open source and avialable to everyone. The irony and humor is very rich indeed.
How can I help?
The single biggest need is a.NET server with the bandwidth capable of being slashdotted. Please make your plans and prepare accordingly; when the time comes, we want you to be ready. What you will receive is nothing more than a.ZIP file to unzip to your inetpub\wwwroot folder.
If you are running Apache or some other open source derivative piece of shit, I can only laugh at your sad ability to serve up plain ol' HTML. You sad and pathetic, and I fear for your future career-- or lack thereof. HAHAH!!!
Thanks!!
No - Thank you, the honorable and noble Trolls of slashdot, we all know that WE are the lifeblood of Slashdot itself, and it would wither and die without US.
Do not attempt to email me (email is bullshit of course) or otherwise, just reply to this post; replies are automatically indexed and delivered to me.
Laying here in the shadows of my room, I squint up at my love. My Ms. Portman. I am sore and tired after fucking her for eight solid hours. My chapped and aching dick is soaking in grits to relieve the pain. She gets on her knees and starts lapping the grits up out of the bowl. She places her beautiful hands on my penis and starts to lick the grits off my achy piece. Massaging my nutsack she....
WAIT, I DO IT WRONG!!!!
Yanking my dick out of her mouth I throw her to the ground and shove it in to her gaping freshly fisted ass. [goatse.cx]
"OH BIG ASS SPORK!! Fuck my ass, fuck my ass good. DEEPER, my stallion, deeper!! Make a Beowulf cluster of sperm on my back!!"
"Imagine a Beowulf cluster of this baby!"
I DO IT WRONG!!!!
I continue to hump her alabaster form. Glistening with beads of sweat, she bites her lip in delight as I tear her ass open with my engorged dick.
"Queen Amidala!!" I shreik as I near climax.
She looks up at me and screams, "You are so alive in me, unlike *BSD or VA Software!!! Fill me with seed!! Yes, Yes, Yess!!!!"
"For me you are calling, hhhmmm?"
"YODA?!? What the fuck, can't you see I am using the force here?"
He savagely kicks my Natalie aside, he pulls out his large green penis and impales me...
Im not just confused; I am utterly baffled! therefore I am also quite stupid. And I say, again, once more : thanks for your time reading this. I bet you wish you had the last x seconds of your silly life back. HAHAH BITCH. Eat that.
Despite all of the witty rhetoric and insightful commentary on this site, many of the readers have lost touch with one important fact. What is it, you ask? Well...
Frankly, LINUX SUCKS. It is the buggiest, most unstable operating system ever created for IBM PC (c). It is not hard to see why.
Most linux developers lost their saving throw versus pathetic nerddom a long time ago. You'll find them huddled in their parent's basements, living on candy bars and Captain runch. You wouldn't let these feebleminded boys ow your lawn, so why should you allow them to design your operating system?
Look at the calender, people. The year is 2002, not 1979. Nerdly losers are, well, losers. There will be no golden pocket protectors for this decade's foul crop. Distributing your source code for free is just an indication that you realize how much it sucks, have accepted the aforementioned suckage, and are moving on to your next job at Denny's.
However, misery loves company (unless it's the company le miserable in question used to work for.) Hence, the open source "headmen" spread fear and hate through their communistic followers. They are merely trying to get revenge on their smarter, cleaner, colleagues, who are weathering the economic downturn. Make no mistake. When slashdot calls for the downfall of Blizzard or Microsoft, it is not because these companies are "unfree," it's because their very existence mocks the stale dreams of the would be "'leetists." It's nerd against nerd. What a sad, sad spectacle.
But there is something you can do about it. Visit your local computer store today and buy a licensed copy of Windows XP, the most innovative operating system ever created. It's hard to get help when your operating system is created by a bunch of teenagers who can't even match their socks or get a date. But when you're using Windows XP, customer service will gladly help you with any problem you may encounter. Not only that, but you'll be in the company of scientists, engineers, administrators, and everyone else who just doesn't give a fuck about configuring his/etc/fstab. Remember, linux is only "free" if your time is of no value. Also, linux is only secure if your computer is not connected to the internet. Give up your futile, sexually repellent nerdisms and return to the company that started it all.
There it lay.. a thing of beauty. Little puddles of water shimmered on the surface, and small shapes of moonlight reflected off the soft yellow form of the toilet. I stood back and admired my work as the roaches scurried about. Then it hit me... I'm going to die for my sin.
Allow me to explain what has transpired here tonight.. the fall into madness that leaves me here in this severely disturbed state, in this bathroom... the daemons which torment my poor soul on this awful night... My gaze settles on the creeping mold behind the toilet as the dank room blurs out of view.
-- It was earlier in the evening. I had just finished getting dressed. The rented tux was stiff and uncomfortable, not to mention expensive. The happiest night of my sixteen years of life was about to take place. It was almost 8:00, and she was going to be there soon. I couldn't wait to go to the prom.
Jen was an interesting girl, generic though interesting in many ways. She wasn't the prettiest girl in my history class, but she was the only one willing to go out with someone like myself. She was only in ninth grade, though she was not much younger than me. The relationship between Jen and I was not as important as how this night was going to go.
My parents were upstairs yelling and fighting next to my room as the doorbell rang. I jumped off my bed and ran downstairs. As I threw open the door, the biggest ogre I've ever known was at the door. He lived a few houses down, and he has bullied me since I was in second grade. I looked around his massive hulk to see his large, noisy, black chevy nova idling in my driveway. I did a double take as I saw Jen sitting in the passenger seat, looking in the mirror and primping. She looked down a little bit and our eyes met for a split second. She gave me a wry smile and a little wave, then glanced away. It was obvious that she was not going to be my date this night.
I sat in the garage and cried for an hour or so, sitting on a large sack of cement mix. Fine powder had poured out of a small tear in the bag, my tears mixed with the powder on the floor. This gave me an idea. I grabbed the wheelbarrow in the corner of the garage and loaded up the materials for my dirty deed.
Nobody was home at Jason's house, the big brute had my date... but I was going to have my revenge. I kicked down the back door and dragged all the stuff upstairs to the bathroom near his room. There I went to work, mixing the thick concrete in his dingy toilet like a bowl of slowly petrifying hot grits. My foul, evil mixture began to harden as the night passed. Soon, all the toilets, sinks and bathtubs in the house had suffered the same fate. Even the mighty washing machine was filled with the thick stone. I prayed to god that this act of pure evil would free me from the daemons that laughed at me, the same horrible trolls that forced me to commit this terrible crime. I chuckled to myself as I imagined that cretinistic moose lugging a concrete filled toilet down a flight of stairs. I hoped that he'd break his fucking spine...
... but me. Was I going to live to see the sun rise in the morning?
Slashdot: News for Nerds? Or Propaganda for the Im
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Slashdot: News for Nerds? Or Propaganda for the Impressionable?
Day in and day out, Slashdot sings the praises of "open source" software. New readers of the site must be a little puzzled to find items like "GPL Violation discovered" and "Open Source Guru Speaks" listed on the main page alongside the "straight" science and technology news. Unfortunately, few people really know what Open Source stands for. Perhaps Richard Means Stallman, one of the founders of the movement, can elucidate.
"[The GNU goal was] to be able to use a computer without using any proprietary software," declaims RMS. [cnn.com] "Because that way, you can lead a better life." Of course, the only way to get rid of proprietary software is to destroy the software companies that produce it. One way this is accomplished is by putting software that would normally be public domain under a license RMS himself created, called the "General Public License," or "GPL." Simply put, this license allows code to be reused-- unless the final product is distributed without its source code, as a proprietary product must be.
Software is a commodity, and people will often take the cheapest product, even if they have to spend inordinate amounts of time struggling with poor documentation and clumsy user interfaces. "One of the best things I could do with my life is: find a gigantic pile of proprietary software that was a trade secret, and start handing out copies on a street corner so it wouldn't be a trade secret any more," enthuses RMS. [free-soft.org] "Perhaps that would be a much more efficient way for me to give people new free software than actually writing it myself."
ItÂs time to stop the doubletalk and start thinking about the real meaning of intellectual property. By some measures, intellectual property is the main export of the developed countries of the world. Artists, actors, and musicians make a living off the intellectual property they produce. Programmers and engineers create designs to be sold. And journalists and writers depend on intellectual property. Ironically, the only jobs not deeply tied to intellectual property are the jobs many slashdot readers affect to despise, like service workers, menial laborers, and administrators. If slashdot readers canÂt stomach Scott McNealy, maybe they would prefer to work with Ronald McDonald. From the other side of the fast food counter.
Not everyone enjoys working at a menial job in the day, simply in order to slave away at poorly organized programming projects. Not everyone enjoys being told that he has the "freedom" to work, without pay, for a small clique of free software partisans. It is one thing to oppose microsoftÂs monopoly on the desktop, and the RIAA's slow strangulation of fair use rights. It is quite another to embrace a whole economic and political ideology that centers around the exploitation of childlike programming savants.
This message is not a troll, although many slashdot readers may take it as such. It is simply a warning to users to think carefully before they blindly follow the political lead of Rob Malda, Jon Katz, and the like. I encourage readers to repost the text of this message, and others like it, to the supposedly "free" message boards of slashdot and other sites.
I'd just like to say a few words about my identity as an American. I am a citizen of the richest, most powerful nation on earth. We invented cars, steel, airplanes, and the atomic bomb. These facts alone make us far superior to such nations as France and Belgium, whose only claims to fame are puffy pastry, wooden shoes, and venereal disease. And as for Africa and Asia... I'm not even going to GO THERE, unless the plane I'm driving is the ENOLA GAY.
So when I see a discussion such as this, it really makes me wonder. People take democracy, world peace, equal treatment under the law, and scientific progress for granted. Callow teenagers sit and write angst-filled anti-american screeds, while enjoying material prosperity and spiritual freedom beneath the sheltering wings of the american eagle.
It is unthinkable that we should allow the law to shield the subversives who are even now undermining the moral foundations of this great country. So I say: let the dissenters be gathered up, and shipped to Canada. And then, we can nuke the whole place. It may seem harsh, but I think it is the best way. Death is the only fitting fate for the enemies of America. And Canada has been a hotbed of communist activity since before you all were born.
I think it is important that we preserve the moose population, however. This can be accomplished by skilled taxidermists.
And now I must bid you adieu. Please remember, always look both ways before you cross the street... that, and DEATH to the ENEMIES OF THE STATE!
We all know that "trolling" is a disease. It increases the signal to noise ratio of discussions. It annoys users who have something informative to say. And it exposes readers to goatsex, homosexuality, and frighteningly deviant behavior. However, that is not all.
Many of the most obsessive trolls want their work to be seen. These sad, lonely souls want to create a disturbance, ANY disturbance, in the small world of slashdot. Hence trolling relies on a cheap, easy source of karma for "dummy accounts." Some of these are "karma burn" accounts that are used to post offensive material with a +2 bonus, exposing more people to the troll. Some are even used to mod up fellow trolls.
The obvious solution, of course, is "karma whoring," the practice of making insipid, cravenly conformist comments to please the moderators. Who would spend months polishing an account, posting thoughtful and informative comments, only to throw it away on goatsex and gibberish? No: for these "trollers," whoring themselves out is the only possible way to get the karma they so desperately need.
I used to think that the editors were arrogant and hypocritical. Their policy in the discussion groups seemed to stifle creativity and intellectual freedom. But now I see why their policies are needed. The trolls are destroying slashdot. Post by post, line by line, they are driving away the readers who created this site. Now, karma whores push aside teenage brainiacs. The goatse man drives away RMS and his wholesome essays.
Who is your typical troll? A teenage loser, probably gay, who whiles away the day at slashdot, hoping to impress losers even more pathetic than himself. Responsible readers of the site should not be exposed to this filth. Most trolls are neither clever nor funny. They look like what they are: the crude efforts of frustrated children. Long live moderation.
Business Situation The company's heterogeneous environment based on Sun Solaris, Oracle, WebObjects, Lotus Notes, and NetWare was difficult to maintain, and required the company to rely on expensive, hard to find external expertise. This was resulting in higher costs and the inability to keep its Web site up and running.
Software and Services Microsoft Windows® 2000 Advanced Server
Microsoft Internet Information Services 5.0
Microsoft SQL Serverâ 7.0 Enterprise Edition
Scenario Intranet
Company Overview
Founded in 1971, Hard Rock Cafe International has grown into a $400 million entertainment company that embodies the spirit of rock music through its signature cafes, hotels and casinos, collectible and fashion merchandise, live concerts and performance venues, and the Hard Rock Records music label. A wholly-owned subsidiary of London-based Rank PLC, Hard Rock Cafe International operates or franchises 104 signature Cafes in more than 36 countries, providing visitors around the world with a unique experience that combines food and merchandise with the largest collection of rock memorabilia on the planet.
"The Microsoft platform has enabled us to achieve far greater functionality than we ever dreamed, both for our public Web site and our corporate intranet. Since we migrated to Windows 2000, we've been able to rapidly deliver the tools and applications needed to support our business and reduce costs."
"Not only have we been able to implement a great deal more functionality, but the Microsoft platform has been much easier to administer and maintain, requiring almost no effort at all."
With the new platform, the company has been able to rapidly develop applications that improve the efficiency of the company's core businessâ"food, entertainment and merchandising. "With the Microsoft platform, we've been able to build tools and applications to lower costs and assist with just about every part of our business," said Conti. "In the past, new menus required sending a large amount of materials to all our storesâ"recipes, food display guidelines, and so on. Now that we can do this via our intranet, we're saving upwards of $20,000 per year for just this one task. We've also developed a wealth of other applications, for everything ranging from gift certificate management to souvenir merchandise catalogs. We've even built a tool to control the functionality of our Cisco-based video playback system, which we're now running in some of our cafes."
"We've only had two developers working on our intranetâ"the same number we had working on the Linux platformâ"and the Microsoft platform has enabled them deliver upwards of 50 applications over the last year. We're definitely getting more results for our development dollars now."
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How to Remove Linux and Install Windows on Your Computer (Q247804)
The information in this article applies to:
Microsoft Windows 2000 , Advanced Server Microsoft Windows 2000 , Datacenter Server Microsoft Windows 2000 , Professional Microsoft Windows 2000 , Server Microsoft Windows NT Server version 4.0 Microsoft Windows NT Workstation version 4.0
For a Microsoft Windows XP version of this article, see Q314458 .
SUMMARY This article describes how you can remove the Linux operating system from your computer, and install a Windows operating system. This article also assumes that Linux is already installed on the hard disk using Linux native and Linux swap partitions, which are incompatible with the Windows operating system, and that there is no free space left on the drive.
Windows and Linux can coexist on the same computer. For additional information, refer to your Linux documentation.
MORE INFORMATION To install Windows on a system that has Linux installed when you want to remove Linux, you must manually delete the partitions used by the Linux operating system. The Windows-compatible partition can be created automatically during the installation of the Windows operating system.
IMPORTANT : Before you follow the steps in this article, verify that you have a bootable disk or bootable CD-ROM for the Linux operating system, because this process completely removes the Linux operating system installed on your computer. If you intend to restore the Linux operating system at a later date, verify that you also have a good backup of all the information stored on your computer. Also, you must have a full release version of the Windows operating system you want to install.
Linux file systems use a "superblock" at the beginning of a disk partition to identify the basic size, shape, and condition of the file system.
The Linux operating system is generally installed on partition type 83 (Linux native) or 82 (Linux swap). The Linux boot manager (LILO) can be configured to start from:
The hard disk Master Boot Record (MBR).
The root folder of the Linux partition.
The Fdisk tool included with Linux can be used to delete the partitions. (There are other utilities that work just as well, such as Fdisk from MS-DOS 5.0 and later, or you can delete the partitions during the installation process.) To remove Linux from your computer and install Windows: Remove native, swap, and boot partitions used by Linux:
Start your computer with the Linux setup floppy disk, type fdisk at the command prompt, and then press ENTER.
NOTE : For help using the Fdisk tool, type m at the command prompt, and then press ENTER.
Type p at the command prompt, and then press ENTER to display partition information. The first item listed is hard disk 1, partition 1 information, and the second item listed is hard disk 1, partition 2 information.
Type d at the command prompt, and then press ENTER. You are then prompted for the partition number you want to delete. Type 1 , and then press ENTER to delete partition number 1. Repeat this step until all the partitions have been deleted.
Type w , and then press ENTER to write this information to the partition table. Some error messages may be generated as information is written to the partition table, but they should not be significant at this point because the next step is to restart the computer and then install the new operating system.
Type q at the command prompt, and then press ENTER to quit the Fdisk tool.
Insert either a bootable floppy disk or a bootable CD-ROM for the Windows operating system on your computer, and then press CTRL+ALT+DELETE to restart your computer.
Install Windows. Follow the installation instructions for the Windows operating system you want to install on your computer. The installation process assists you with creating the appropriate partitions on your computer.
Examples of Linux Partition Tables Single SCSI drive Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 500 4016218 83 Linux native (SCSI hard drive 1, partition 1) /dev/sda2 501 522 176715 82 Linux swap (SCSI hard drive 1, partition 2) Multiple SCSI drives
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 500 4016218 83 Linux native (SCSI hard drive 1, partition 1) /dev/sda2 501 522 176715 82 Linux swap (SCSI hard drive 1, partition 2) /dev/sdb1 1 500 4016218 83 Linux native (SCSI hard drive 2, partition 1) Single IDE drive
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 500 4016218 83 Linux native (IDE hard drive 1, partition 1) /dev/hda2 501 522 176715 82 Linux swap (IDE hard drive 1, partition 2) Multiple IDE drives
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 500 4016218 83 Linux native (IDE hard drive 1, partition 1) /dev/hda2 501 522 176715 82 Linux swap (IDE hard drive 1, partition 2) /dev/hdb1 1 500 4016218 83 Linux native (IDE hard drive 2, partition 1) Also, Linux recognizes more than forty different partition types, such as: FAT 12 (Type 01)
FAT 16 > 32 M Primary (Type 06)
FAT 16 Extended (Type 05)
FAT 32 w/o LBA Primary (Type 0b)
FAT 32 w/LBA Primary (Type 0c)
FAT 16 w/LBA (Type 0e)
FAT 16 w/LBA Extended (Type 0f)
Note that there are other ways to remove the Linux operating system and install Windows than the one mentioned above. The preceding method is used in this article because the Linux operating system is already functioning and there is no more room on the hard disk. There are methods of changing partition sizes with software. Microsoft does not support Windows installed on partitions manipulated in this manner.
Another method of removing an operating system from the hard disk and installing a different operating system is to use an MS-DOS version 5.0 or later boot disk, a Windows 95 Startup disk, or a Windows 98 Startup disk that contains the Fdisk utility. Run the Fdisk utility. If you have multiple drives, there are 5 choices; use option 5 to select the hard disk that has the partition to be deleted. After that, or if you have only one hard disk, choose option 3 ("Delete partition or logical DOS drive"), and then choose option 4 ("Delete non-DOS partition"). You should then see the non-DOS partitions you want to delete. Typically, the Linux operating system has two non-DOS partitions, but there may be more. After you delete one partition, use the same steps to delete any other appropriate non-DOS partitions.
After the partitions are deleted, you can create partitions and install the operating system you want. You can only create one primary partition and an extended partition with multiple logical drives by using Fdisk from MS-DOS version 5.0 and later, Windows 95, and Windows 98. The maximum FAT16 primary partition size is 2 gigabytes (GB). The largest FAT16 logical drive size is 2 GB. For additional information, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: Q105074 MS-DOS 6.2 Partitioning Questions and Answers If you are installing Windows NT 4.0 or Windows 2000, the Linux partitions can be removed and new partitions created and formatted with the appropriate file system type during the installation process. Windows allows you to create more than one primary partition. The largest partition that Windows NT 4.0 allows you to create during installation is 4 GB because of the limitations of the FAT16 file system during installation. Also, the 4-GB partitions use 64-KB cluster sizes. MS-DOS 6.x and Windows 95 or Windows 98 do not recognize 64-KB cluster file systems, so this file system is usually converted to NTFS during installation. Windows 2000, unlike Windows NT 4.0, recognizes the FAT32 file system. During the installation of Windows 2000, you can create a very large FAT32 drive. The FAT32 drive can be converted to NTFS after the installation has completed if appropriate.
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How to Remove Linux and Install Windows on Your Computer (Q247804)
The information in this article applies to:
Microsoft Windows 2000 , Advanced Server Microsoft Windows 2000 , Datacenter Server Microsoft Windows 2000 , Professional Microsoft Windows 2000 , Server Microsoft Windows NT Server version 4.0 Microsoft Windows NT Workstation version 4.0
For a Microsoft Windows XP version of this article, see Q314458 .
SUMMARY This article describes how you can remove the Linux operating system from your computer, and install a Windows operating system. This article also assumes that Linux is already installed on the hard disk using Linux native and Linux swap partitions, which are incompatible with the Windows operating system, and that there is no free space left on the drive.
Windows and Linux can coexist on the same computer. For additional information, refer to your Linux documentation.
MORE INFORMATION To install Windows on a system that has Linux installed when you want to remove Linux, you must manually delete the partitions used by the Linux operating system. The Windows-compatible partition can be created automatically during the installation of the Windows operating system.
IMPORTANT : Before you follow the steps in this article, verify that you have a bootable disk or bootable CD-ROM for the Linux operating system, because this process completely removes the Linux operating system installed on your computer. If you intend to restore the Linux operating system at a later date, verify that you also have a good backup of all the information stored on your computer. Also, you must have a full release version of the Windows operating system you want to install.
Linux file systems use a "superblock" at the beginning of a disk partition to identify the basic size, shape, and condition of the file system.
The Linux operating system is generally installed on partition type 83 (Linux native) or 82 (Linux swap). The Linux boot manager (LILO) can be configured to start from:
The hard disk Master Boot Record (MBR).
The root folder of the Linux partition.
The Fdisk tool included with Linux can be used to delete the partitions. (There are other utilities that work just as well, such as Fdisk from MS-DOS 5.0 and later, or you can delete the partitions during the installation process.) To remove Linux from your computer and install Windows: Remove native, swap, and boot partitions used by Linux:
Start your computer with the Linux setup floppy disk, type fdisk at the command prompt, and then press ENTER.
NOTE : For help using the Fdisk tool, type m at the command prompt, and then press ENTER.
Type p at the command prompt, and then press ENTER to display partition information. The first item listed is hard disk 1, partition 1 information, and the second item listed is hard disk 1, partition 2 information.
Type d at the command prompt, and then press ENTER. You are then prompted for the partition number you want to delete. Type 1 , and then press ENTER to delete partition number 1. Repeat this step until all the partitions have been deleted.
Type w , and then press ENTER to write this information to the partition table. Some error messages may be generated as information is written to the partition table, but they should not be significant at this point because the next step is to restart the computer and then install the new operating system.
Type q at the command prompt, and then press ENTER to quit the Fdisk tool.
Insert either a bootable floppy disk or a bootable CD-ROM for the Windows operating system on your computer, and then press CTRL+ALT+DELETE to restart your computer.
Install Windows. Follow the installation instructions for the Windows operating system you want to install on your computer. The installation process assists you with creating the appropriate partitions on your computer.
Examples of Linux Partition Tables Single SCSI drive Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 500 4016218 83 Linux native (SCSI hard drive 1, partition 1) /dev/sda2 501 522 176715 82 Linux swap (SCSI hard drive 1, partition 2) Multiple SCSI drives
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 500 4016218 83 Linux native (SCSI hard drive 1, partition 1) /dev/sda2 501 522 176715 82 Linux swap (SCSI hard drive 1, partition 2) /dev/sdb1 1 500 4016218 83 Linux native (SCSI hard drive 2, partition 1) Single IDE drive
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 500 4016218 83 Linux native (IDE hard drive 1, partition 1) /dev/hda2 501 522 176715 82 Linux swap (IDE hard drive 1, partition 2) Multiple IDE drives
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 500 4016218 83 Linux native (IDE hard drive 1, partition 1) /dev/hda2 501 522 176715 82 Linux swap (IDE hard drive 1, partition 2) /dev/hdb1 1 500 4016218 83 Linux native (IDE hard drive 2, partition 1) Also, Linux recognizes more than forty different partition types, such as: FAT 12 (Type 01)
FAT 16 > 32 M Primary (Type 06)
FAT 16 Extended (Type 05)
FAT 32 w/o LBA Primary (Type 0b)
FAT 32 w/LBA Primary (Type 0c)
FAT 16 w/LBA (Type 0e)
FAT 16 w/LBA Extended (Type 0f)
Note that there are other ways to remove the Linux operating system and install Windows than the one mentioned above. The preceding method is used in this article because the Linux operating system is already functioning and there is no more room on the hard disk. There are methods of changing partition sizes with software. Microsoft does not support Windows installed on partitions manipulated in this manner.
Another method of removing an operating system from the hard disk and installing a different operating system is to use an MS-DOS version 5.0 or later boot disk, a Windows 95 Startup disk, or a Windows 98 Startup disk that contains the Fdisk utility. Run the Fdisk utility. If you have multiple drives, there are 5 choices; use option 5 to select the hard disk that has the partition to be deleted. After that, or if you have only one hard disk, choose option 3 ("Delete partition or logical DOS drive"), and then choose option 4 ("Delete non-DOS partition"). You should then see the non-DOS partitions you want to delete. Typically, the Linux operating system has two non-DOS partitions, but there may be more. After you delete one partition, use the same steps to delete any other appropriate non-DOS partitions.
After the partitions are deleted, you can create partitions and install the operating system you want. You can only create one primary partition and an extended partition with multiple logical drives by using Fdisk from MS-DOS version 5.0 and later, Windows 95, and Windows 98. The maximum FAT16 primary partition size is 2 gigabytes (GB). The largest FAT16 logical drive size is 2 GB. For additional information, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: Q105074 MS-DOS 6.2 Partitioning Questions and Answers If you are installing Windows NT 4.0 or Windows 2000, the Linux partitions can be removed and new partitions created and formatted with the appropriate file system type during the installation process. Windows allows you to create more than one primary partition. The largest partition that Windows NT 4.0 allows you to create during installation is 4 GB because of the limitations of the FAT16 file system during installation. Also, the 4-GB partitions use 64-KB cluster sizes. MS-DOS 6.x and Windows 95 or Windows 98 do not recognize 64-KB cluster file systems, so this file system is usually converted to NTFS during installation. Windows 2000, unlike Windows NT 4.0, recognizes the FAT32 file system. During the installation of Windows 2000, you can create a very large FAT32 drive. The FAT32 drive can be converted to NTFS after the installation has completed if appropriate.
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Here are the top reasons why businesses are moving to Windows 2000 Professional:
#1: Value. The number one reason to move to Windows 2000 Professional is the overall value it offers your business. As this list proves, Windows 2000 Professional can help you reduce costs through improved management and increase productivity through improved reliability and ease of use. For example, analysis conducted at Credit Suisse First Boston predicted that using Windows® 2000 Professional could reduce the firm's directly related IT costs by 15 percent, as well as improve employee productivity by cutting computer-related unproductive time by as much as 41 percent. For more about return on investment, see these reports from Giga Information Group, Inc. and Arthur Andersen .
#2: Reliability. An essential requirement for business users is a personal computer they can count on. That's why Windows 2000 Professional includes fundamental improvementsâ"such as modifications to the operating system core to prevent crashes and the ability for the operating system to repair itselfâ"that make it the most reliable desktop operating system Microsoft has ever produced. On comparative reliability tests conducted by ZD Labs, the average system uptime of Windows 2000 Professional was over 50 times that of Windows 98 and 17 times that of Windows NT Workstation 4.0.
#3: Mobility. Mobile computing is simpler and more efficient with Windows 2000 Professional. This means you can work anywhere, anytime while also saving time and increasing productivity. As described in these news articles, "Finally, a Notebook OS" and "Mobile Users In Love with Win2K" , Windows 2000 Professional offers mobile users key productivity and time-saving features, including the ability to hibernate and restart the system without a reboot and the ability to easily take files and folders offline.
#4: Manageability. Windows 2000 Professional is easier to deploy, manage, and support. Centralized management utilities, troubleshooting tools, and support for self-healing applications all make it simpler for administrators and users to deploy and manage desktop and laptop computers. These improvements pay off in reduced costs, as illustrated by this Eastman Chemical total cost of ownership analysis.
#5: Performance. The advancements made throughout Windows 2000 Professional are accentuated by the operating system's speed. As shown in ZD Labs tests running the most popular business applications, with 64 MB of RAM, Windows 2000 was 32 percent faster than Windows 95 and 27 percent faster than Windows 98. It is also significantly faster than Windows NT 4.0 on configurations with 32 MB of RAM.
#6: Security. Windows 2000 Professional provides comprehensive security features to protect your sensitive business data, both locally on your desktop computer and as it is transmitted over your local area network, phone lines, or the Internet. With its support for Internet-standard security features such as IP Security, Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol, and Virtual Private Networking, Windows 2000 is so secure that banks, such as Credit Suisse First Boston , use it. For some organizations, such as the law firm Dorsey & Whitney LLP, security is a key reason for moving to Windows 2000.
#7: Internet. The familiar user interface of Windows 98 combined with all the capabilities of Internet Explorer 5, makes using the Internet and your local desktop a unified user experience, as described by PC Magazine . This user interface, combined with integrated search capabilities, makes it easier to find and use information locally and on the Web.
#8: Usability. As described in this Windows 2000 Magazine review , Windows 2000 Professional combines the power and security of its predecessor, Windows NT Workstation, with the traditional ease of use of Windows 98. It also provides more wizards, a centralized location for common tasks, and menus that adapt to the way you work.
#9: Data Access. When you use Windows 2000 Professional in conjunction with Windows 2000 Server, you can take advantage of IntelliMirror technologies. By letting you store your important information and desktop settings on a central computer, IntelliMirror lets you work on any computer attached to your network as if you are at your own desk. The centralized management savings made possible by Windows 2000 IntelliMirror technologies are one of the reasons WFofR, Inc. is using Windows 2000 Professional.
#10: Hardware. Windows 2000 Professional lets you take advantage of new hardware devices, such as those with universal serial bus (USB) and IEEE 1394 (Firewire) connections. In addition, support for existing hardware makes Windows 2000 ideal for companies, such as Panasonic , that want to standardize on a single operating system across their organizations.
Before everyone gets upset, please follow me as I outline some of the critical shortcomings in Linux. First is the lack of re-entrant kernel threads. The net affect of this is a poor execution of both multi-tasking on uniprocessor systems and multi-processor systems. In a uniprocessor system the lack of reentrant kernel threads allows applications to control processor time. This cooperative multitasking is ineffecient, and systems intensive. In a multiprocessor box you wind up with an asynchronous multitaksing environment, where processor load is not balanced across the two or more processors. The net result in both situations is that processes take longer to execute. Needless to say, Windows excels at all of these.
The next is poor execution of asynchronous I/O, which is necessary for efficient communications. In fact, the execution of asynchronous I/O in Linux is quite poor, especially when compared to Windows. When subjected to the Transaction Processing Council's C and D tests, which measure transactions per minute, Linux fares poorly compared to commercial variants of Unix, BSD, and NT. The net result of this is an increased cost of ownership, as the cost of each transaction is much higher than the cost associated with Windows NT.
Another serious setback for Linux is the lack of a journalling file system. This makes data storage unreliable, and backup and recovery a dicey proposition. SGI said they would port the IRIX file system to Linux, but I haven't heard anything about this yet. However, when you look at the major commercial NOS's, they all have journalling file systems, including Sun, SCO, Windows NT, Banyan Vines, HP/UX, AIX, and Novell. Windows has cleary beaten Linux to the punch here.
I look forward to watching Linux as it grows up. I do believe it may have a bright future. It just isn't there yet! Too bad I will have to wait many years for Linux to become a viable option in the operating system arena. If I were to believe everything I read about Linux, I would have to assume that it will save the world! Please, let us also be honest and present Linux and all its many shortcomings when you are downtalking Windows.
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I've been using *BSD for years starting with the first releases of Berkeley's operating system. I've even got the tape with Tahoe around somewhere. But all my coworkers at the ISP where I work claimed Linux to be the superior operating system of the next century which will crush microsoft sometime. Well, I was a little sceptical. But I've never used Linux before, so I though that I should give it a try. I ordered the newest Debian woody package, 'cos I wanted full IP6 support. No reason to keep with the old protocols. A few days later a 15 CD set sighed by some guy named ZtaHma (at least that was all I could make out of this strange signature) arrived.
I was very curious, so I started installing the stuff at my Pentium IV at once. There I ran into the first troubles. After selecting the package gcc-doc the package manager claimed that there was a conflict with gcc-2.96 and gcc-3.0 and many associated packages. This won't be of much trouble yet. But it opened of list of all the "conflicting" packages which were suddenly unselected by default. Still no problem there, I could have reselected them at once, but I accidentially hit the return key for selection which accepted the "default" and all the selections were gone. This resulted in fucking around later with constant package reinstalls, 'cos I never got all unselected packages back and the apps started complaining about missing "gcc-blurp" etc.
During install I wondered why there was no config options for ip6, but such stuff with rather common with OSS software and I prefer viing config files anyway. After full install I noticed that there was no options for installing [xkg]dm by default, but I won't call this a problem. The problems turned out at different places. I first tried to activate ip6 for my local links
bildo# ifconfig eth0 inet6 fec0::2/64 add ifconfig: bad option inet6
WTF ? After some manpaging I found out that the Linux netutils are really fucked up any use non standard parameters for ip6. But however:
bildo# ifconfig eth0 add fec0::2/64 kernel doesn't support IP6
Bad news. I noticed that the standard kernel was optimized for 80386 with support for XT harddisks but without support for ip6. So I had to recompile the entire kernel first. At this point the "gcc-blurp" reinstall fun started as already mentioned above. I was already a little wary at this point, this IP6 (EXPERIMENTIAL) - 6 years after the first draft - didn't seemed very promising. After compiling and booting ifconfig worked without trouble. But tha bad surprise was arriving:
bildo# netstat -r 127.0.0.1 * 255.255.255.0 lo
Fuck ! Were was ip6 ??? Ifconfig said it was there ! Well I thoughtit was a fucked netstat, so I tried a simple:
bildo# telnet::1 Trying::1... Connection error: connection refused bildo# telnet bildo Trying bildo... Bildo Today is a good day the mew the goat ! Login:
Well at least ip6 was working. But all apps seemed to be fucked up. So I tried a last:
bildo# ping6::1 ping6 not found
At this point I slammed by keyboard into the TFT-Panel and turned the computer off.
What remains to say ?
Linux is obviously an operation system for amateurs and hobbiests not for professional users. I reinstalled FreeBSD at my computer at once. Had to do the installation via an serial cable to my old 386 though, because my TFT-Panel and the keyboard are broken.
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#1: Value. The number one reason to move to Windows 2000 Professional is the overall value it offers your business. As this list proves, Windows 2000 Professional can help you reduce costs through improved management and increase productivity through improved reliability and ease of use. For example, analysis conducted at Credit Suisse First Boston predicted that using Windows® 2000 Professional could reduce the firm's directly related IT costs by 15 percent, as well as improve employee productivity by cutting computer-related unproductive time by as much as 41 percent. For more about return on investment, see these reports from Giga Information Group, Inc. and Arthur Andersen .
#2: Reliability. An essential requirement for business users is a personal computer they can count on. That's why Windows 2000 Professional includes fundamental improvementsâ"such as modifications to the operating system core to prevent crashes and the ability for the operating system to repair itselfâ"that make it the most reliable desktop operating system Microsoft has ever produced. On comparative reliability tests conducted by ZD Labs, the average system uptime of Windows 2000 Professional was over 50 times that of Windows 98 and 17 times that of Windows NT Workstation 4.0.
#3: Mobility. Mobile computing is simpler and more efficient with Windows 2000 Professional. This means you can work anywhere, anytime while also saving time and increasing productivity. As described in these news articles, "Finally, a Notebook OS" and "Mobile Users In Love with Win2K" , Windows 2000 Professional offers mobile users key productivity and time-saving features, including the ability to hibernate and restart the system without a reboot and the ability to easily take files and folders offline.
#4: Manageability. Windows 2000 Professional is easier to deploy, manage, and support. Centralized management utilities, troubleshooting tools, and support for self-healing applications all make it simpler for administrators and users to deploy and manage desktop and laptop computers. These improvements pay off in reduced costs, as illustrated by this Eastman Chemical total cost of ownership analysis.
#5: Performance. The advancements made throughout Windows 2000 Professional are accentuated by the operating system's speed. As shown in ZD Labs tests running the most popular business applications, with 64 MB of RAM, Windows 2000 was 32 percent faster than Windows 95 and 27 percent faster than Windows 98. It is also significantly faster than Windows NT 4.0 on configurations with 32 MB of RAM.
#6: Security. Windows 2000 Professional provides comprehensive security features to protect your sensitive business data, both locally on your desktop computer and as it is transmitted over your local area network, phone lines, or the Internet. With its support for Internet-standard security features such as IP Security, Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol, and Virtual Private Networking, Windows 2000 is so secure that banks, such as Credit Suisse First Boston , use it. For some organizations, such as the law firm Dorsey & Whitney LLP, security is a key reason for moving to Windows 2000.
#7: Internet. The familiar user interface of Windows 98 combined with all the capabilities of Internet Explorer 5, makes using the Internet and your local desktop a unified user experience, as described by PC Magazine . This user interface, combined with integrated search capabilities, makes it easier to find and use information locally and on the Web.
#8: Usability. As described in this Windows 2000 Magazine review , Windows 2000 Professional combines the power and security of its predecessor, Windows NT Workstation, with the traditional ease of use of Windows 98. It also provides more wizards, a centralized location for common tasks, and menus that adapt to the way you work.
#9: Data Access. When you use Windows 2000 Professional in conjunction with Windows 2000 Server, you can take advantage of IntelliMirror technologies. By letting you store your important information and desktop settings on a central computer, IntelliMirror lets you work on any computer attached to your network as if you are at your own desk. The centralized management savings made possible by Windows 2000 IntelliMirror technologies are one of the reasons WFofR, Inc. is using Windows 2000 Professional.
#10: Hardware. Windows 2000 Professional lets you take advantage of new hardware devices, such as those with universal serial bus (USB) and IEEE 1394 (Firewire) connections. In addition, support for existing hardware makes Windows 2000 ideal for companies, such as Panasonic , that want to standardize on a single operating system across their organizations.
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Before everyone gets upset, please follow me as I outline some of the critical shortcomings in Linux. First is the lack of re-entrant kernel threads. The net affect of this is a poor execution of both multi-tasking on uniprocessor systems and multi-processor systems. In a uniprocessor system the lack of reentrant kernel threads allows applications to control processor time. This cooperative multitasking is ineffecient, and systems intensive. In a multiprocessor box you wind up with an asynchronous multitaksing environment, where processor load is not balanced across the two or more processors. The net result in both situations is that processes take longer to execute. Needless to say, Windows excels at all of these.
The next is poor execution of asynchronous I/O, which is necessary for efficient communications. In fact, the execution of asynchronous I/O in Linux is quite poor, especially when compared to Windows. When subjected to the Transaction Processing Council's C and D tests, which measure transactions per minute, Linux fares poorly compared to commercial variants of Unix, BSD, and NT. The net result of this is an increased cost of ownership, as the cost of each transaction is much higher than the cost associated with Windows NT.
Another serious setback for Linux is the lack of a journalling file system. This makes data storage unreliable, and backup and recovery a dicey proposition. SGI said they would port the IRIX file system to Linux, but I haven't heard anything about this yet. However, when you look at the major commercial NOS's, they all have journalling file systems, including Sun, SCO, Windows NT, Banyan Vines, HP/UX, AIX, and Novell. Windows has cleary beaten Linux to the punch here.
I look forward to watching Linux as it grows up. I do believe it may have a bright future. It just isn't there yet! Too bad I will have to wait many years for Linux to become a viable option in the operating system arena. If I were to believe everything I read about Linux, I would have to assume that it will save the world! Please, let us also be honest and present Linux and all its many shortcomings when you are downtalking Windows.
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I've been using *BSD for years starting with the first releases
of Berkeley's operating system. I've even got the tape with Tahoe around somewhere. But all my coworkers at the ISP where I work claimed Linux to be the superior operating system of the next century which will crush microsoft sometime. Well, I was a little sceptical. But I've never used Linux before, so I though that I should give it a try. I ordered the newest Debian woody package, 'cos I wanted full IP6 support. No reason to keep with the old protocols. A few days later a 15 CD set sighed by some guy named ZtaHma (at least that was all I could make out of this strange signature) arrived.
I was very curious, so I started installing the stuff at my Pentium IV at once. There I ran into the first troubles. After selecting the package gcc-doc the package manager claimed that there was a conflict with gcc-2.96 and gcc-3.0 and many associated packages. This won't be of much trouble yet. But it opened of list of all the "conflicting" packages which were suddenly unselected by default. Still no problem there, I could have reselected them at once, but I accidentially hit the return key for selection which accepted the "default" and all the selections were gone. This resulted in fucking around later with constant package reinstalls, 'cos I never got all unselected packages back and the apps started complaining about missing "gcc-blurp" etc.
During install I wondered why there was no config options for ip6, but such stuff with rather common with OSS software and I prefer viing config files anyway. After full install I noticed that there was no options for installing [xkg]dm by default, but I won't call this a problem. The problems turned out at different places. I first tried to activate ip6 for my local links
bildo# ifconfig eth0 inet6 fec0::2/64 add ifconfig: bad option inet6
WTF ? After some manpaging I found out that the Linux netutils
are really fucked up any use non standard parameters for ip6. But however:
bildo# ifconfig eth0 add fec0::2/64 kernel doesn't support IP6
Bad news. I noticed that the standard kernel was optimized for 80386 with support for XT harddisks but without support for ip6. So I had to recompile the entire kernel first. At this point the "gcc-blurp" reinstall fun started as already mentioned above. I was already a little wary at this point, this IP6 (EXPERIMENTIAL) - 6 years after the first draft - didn't seemed very promising. After compiling and booting ifconfig worked without trouble. But tha bad surprise was arriving:
bildo# netstat -r 127.0.0.1 * 255.255.255.0 lo
Fuck ! Were was ip6 ??? Ifconfig said it was there ! Well I thoughtit was a fucked netstat, so I tried a simple:
bildo# telnet ::1 Trying ::1... Connection error: connection refused bildo# telnet bildo Trying bildo... Bildo Today is a good day the mew the goat ! Login:
Well at least ip6 was working. But all apps seemed to be fucked up. So I tried a last:
bildo# ping6 ::1 ping6 not found
At this point I slammed by keyboard into the TFT-Panel and turned the computer off.
What remains to say ?
Linux is obviously an operation system for amateurs and hobbiests not for professional users. I reinstalled FreeBSD at my computer at once. Had to do the installation via an serial cable to my old 386 though, because my TFT-Panel and the keyboard are broken.
From the annals of the Troll Library .
From the annals of the Troll Library .
We are plesed to inform you that, after careful consideration, we have accepted your troll into the Troll Library.
You show a masterful skill at trolling.
Thank you for your time and your contribution.
You're a putrescent mass, a walking vomit. You are a spineless little worm deserving nothing but the profoundest contempt. You are a jerk, a cad, a weasel. Your life is a monument to stupidity. You are a stench, a revulsion, a big suck on a sour lemon.
You are a bleating foal, a curdled staggering mutant dwarf smeared richly with the effluvia and offal accompanying your alleged birth into this world. An insensate, blinking calf, meaningful to nobody, abandoned by the puke-drooling, giggling beasts who sired you and then killed themselfs in recognition of what they had done.
I will never get over the embarrassment of belonging to the same species as you. You are a monster, an ogre, a malformity. I barf at the very thought of you. You have all the appeal of a paper cut. Lepers avoid you. You are vile, worthless, less than nothing. You are a weed, a fungus, the dregs of this earth. And did I mention you smell?
Try to edit your responses of unnecessary material before attempting to impress us with your insight. The evidence that you are a nincompoop will still be available to readers, but they will be able to access it more rapidly.
You snail-skulled little rabbit. Would that a hawk pick you up, drive its beak into your brain, and upon finding it rancid set you loose to fly briefly before spattering the ocean rocks with the frothy pink shame of your ignoble blood. May you ckoke on the queasy, convulsing nausea of your own trite, foolish beliefs.
You are weary, stale, flat and unprofitable. You are grimy, squalid, nasty and profane. You are foul and disgusting. You're a fool, an ignoramus. Monkeys look down on you. Even sheep won't have sex with you. You are unreservedly pathetic, starved for attention, and lost in a land that reality forgot.
And what meaning do you expect your delusionally self-important statements
of unknowing, inexperienced opinion to have with us? What fantasy do you hold that you would believe that your tiny-fisted tantrums would have more weight than that of a leprous desert rat, spinning rabidly in a circle,
waiting for the bite of the snake?
You are a waste of flesh. You have no rhythm. You are ridiculous and obnoxious. You are the moral equivalent of a leech. You are a living emptiness, a meaningless void. You are sour and senile. You are a disease, you puerile one-handed slack-jawed drooling meatslapper.
On a good day you're a half-wit. You remind me of drool. You are deficient in all that lends character. You have the personality of wallpaper. You are dank and filthy. You are asinine and benighted. You are the source of all unpleasantness. You spread misery and sorrow wherever you go.
You smarmy lagerlout git. You bloody woofter sod. Bugger off, pillock. You grotty wanking oik artless base-court apple-john. You clouted boggish foot-licking twit. You dankish clack-dish plonker. You gormless crook-pated tosser. You churlish boil-brained clotpole ponce. You cockered bum-bailey poofter. You craven dewberry pisshead cockup pratting naff. You gob-kissing gleeking flap-mouthed coxcomb. You dread-bolted fobbing beef-witted clapper-clawed flirt-gill.
You are a fiend and a coward, and you have bad breath. You are degenerate, noxious and depraved. I feel debased just for knowing you exist. I despise everything about you, and I wish you would go away.
I cannot believe how incredibly stupid you are. I mean rock-hard stupid. Dehydrated-rock-hard stupid. Stupid so stupid that it goes way beyond the stupid we know into a whole different dimension of stupid. You are trans-stupid stupid. Meta-stupid. Stupid collapsed on itself so far that even the neutrons have collapsed. Stupid gotten so dense that no intellect can escape. Singularity stupid. Blazing hot mid-day sun on Mercury stupid. You emit more stupid in one second than our entire galaxy emits in a year. Quasar stupid. Your writing has to be a troll. Nothing in our universe can really be this stupid. Perhaps this is some primordial fragment from the original big bang of stupid. Some pure essence of a stupid so uncontaminated by anything else as to be beyond the laws of physics that we know. I'm sorry. I can't go on. This is an epiphany of stupid for me. After this, you may not hear from me again for a while. I don't have enough strength left to deride
your ignorant questions and half baked comments about unimportant trivia, or any of the rest of this drivel. Duh.
The only thing worse than our logic is your manners. I have snipped away most of your of what you wrote, because, well... it didn't really say anything. Your attempt at constructing a creative flame was pitiful. I mean, really, stringing together a bunch of insults among a load of babbling was hardly effective... Maybe later in life, after you have learned to read, write, spell, and count, you will have more success. True, these are rudimentary skills that many of us "normal" people take for granted that everyone has an easy time of mastering. But we sometimes forget that there are "challenged" persons in this world who find these things more difficult. If I had known, that this was your case then I would have never read your post. It just wouldn't have been "right". Sort of like parking in a handicap space. I wish you the best of luck in the emotional, and social struggles that seem to be placing such a demand on you.
From the annals of the Troll Library .
What is the Troll Library?
The Troll Library is a database of the best and brightest trolls of Slashdot history. The database is SQL 2000 and is managed by Microsoft C# using .NET technology.
How can the Troll Library be accessed?
The Troll Library is not yet available online, but it will eventually be made publicly available in the form of a .NET web service-- That means that you will be able to browse the library and submit your additions with your web browser (yes, even an inferior piece of shit like Mozilla, since Microsoft for some reason chose to include "down-level" compatibility with their web services in .NET).
What's the ultimate goal of the Troll Library?
To crapflood Slashdot into oblivion using Microsoft technologies.
What does the Slashdot community think about this?
Using Microsoft .NET to annihilate Slashdot really pisses off the Slashdot community, which is hilarous.
Do you sit around and read Slashdot all day?
Of course not. The client troll poster bot automatically detects a new story on Slashdot, selects a post from the Troll Library database, and submits it to Slashdot. The client is written purely in C# using Windows Forms in .NET. It would be impossible for Slashdot server to detect the presence of the bot, except for the "Dirty Linux Users:Are Hippies" header.
What if they crack down?
If the 'editors' (I use the term loosely) were to ban the RoboTroll or Troll Library posts, the posting client would have to become open source and avialable to everyone. The irony and humor is very rich indeed.
How can I help?
The single biggest need is a .NET server with the bandwidth capable of being slashdotted. Please make your plans and prepare accordingly; when the time comes, we want you to be ready. What you will receive is nothing more than a .ZIP file to unzip to your inetpub\wwwroot folder.
If you are running Apache or some other open source derivative piece of shit, I can only laugh at your sad ability to serve up plain ol' HTML. You sad and pathetic, and I fear for your future career-- or lack thereof. HAHAH!!!
Thanks!!
No - Thank you, the honorable and noble Trolls of slashdot, we all know that WE are the lifeblood of Slashdot itself, and it would wither and die without US .
Do not attempt to email me (email is bullshit of course) or otherwise, just reply to this post; replies are automatically indexed and delivered to me.
From the annals of the Troll Library .
Laying here in the shadows of my room, I squint up at my love. My Ms. Portman. I am sore and tired after fucking her for eight solid hours. My chapped and aching dick is soaking in grits to relieve the pain. She gets on her knees and starts lapping the grits up out of the bowl. She places her beautiful hands on my penis and starts to lick the grits off my achy piece.
Massaging my nutsack she....
WAIT, I DO IT WRONG!!!!
Yanking my dick out of her mouth I throw her to the ground and shove it in to her gaping freshly fisted ass. [goatse.cx]
"OH BIG ASS SPORK!! Fuck my ass, fuck my ass good. DEEPER, my stallion, deeper!! Make a Beowulf cluster of sperm on my back!!"
"Imagine a Beowulf cluster of this baby!"
I DO IT WRONG!!!!
I continue to hump her alabaster form. Glistening with beads of sweat, she bites her lip in delight as I tear her ass open with my engorged dick.
"Queen Amidala!!" I shreik as I near climax.
She looks up at me and screams, "You are so alive in me, unlike *BSD or VA Software!!! Fill me with seed!! Yes, Yes, Yess!!!!"
"For me you are calling, hhhmmm?"
"YODA?!? What the fuck, can't you see I am using the force here?"
He savagely kicks my Natalie aside, he pulls out his large green penis and impales me...
I DO IT WRONG!!
All your sporkz are belong to the dead homiez!!
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From the annals of the Troll Library .
From the annals of the Troll Library .
Frankly, LINUX SUCKS. It is the buggiest, most unstable operating system ever created for IBM PC (c). It is not hard to see why.
Most linux developers lost their saving throw versus pathetic nerddom a long time ago. You'll find them huddled in their parent's basements, living on candy bars and Captain runch. You wouldn't let these feebleminded boys ow your lawn, so why should you allow them to design your operating system?
Look at the calender, people. The year is 2002, not 1979. Nerdly losers are, well, losers. There will be no golden pocket protectors for this decade's foul crop. Distributing your source code for free is just an indication that you realize how much it sucks, have accepted the aforementioned suckage, and are moving on to your next job at Denny's.
However, misery loves company (unless it's the company le miserable in question used to work for.) Hence, the open source "headmen" spread fear and hate through their communistic followers. They are merely trying to get revenge on their smarter, cleaner, colleagues, who are weathering the economic downturn. Make no mistake. When slashdot calls for the downfall of Blizzard or Microsoft, it is not because these companies are "unfree," it's because their very existence mocks the stale dreams of the would be "'leetists." It's nerd against nerd. What a sad, sad spectacle.
But there is something you can do about it. Visit your local computer store today and buy a licensed copy of Windows XP, the most innovative operating system ever created. It's hard to get help when your operating system is created by a bunch of teenagers who can't even match their socks or get a date. But when you're using Windows XP, customer service will gladly help you with any problem you may encounter. Not only that, but you'll be in the company of scientists, engineers, administrators, and everyone else who just doesn't give a fuck about configuring his
From the annals of the Troll Library .
Allow me to explain what has transpired here tonight
--
It was earlier in the evening. I had just finished getting dressed. The rented tux was stiff and uncomfortable, not to mention expensive. The happiest night of my sixteen years of life was about to take place. It was almost 8:00, and she was going to be there soon. I couldn't wait to go to the prom.
Jen was an interesting girl, generic though interesting in many ways. She wasn't the prettiest girl in my history class, but she was the only one willing to go out with someone like myself. She was only in ninth grade, though she was not much younger than me. The relationship between Jen and I was not as important as how this night was going to go.
My parents were upstairs yelling and fighting next to my room as the doorbell rang. I jumped off my bed and ran downstairs. As I threw open the door, the biggest ogre I've ever known was at the door. He lived a few houses down, and he has bullied me since I was in second grade. I looked around his massive hulk to see his large, noisy, black chevy nova idling in my driveway. I did a double take as I saw Jen sitting in the passenger seat, looking in the mirror and primping. She looked down a little bit and our eyes met for a split second. She gave me a wry smile and a little wave, then glanced away. It was obvious that she was not going to be my date this night.
I sat in the garage and cried for an hour or so, sitting on a large sack of cement mix. Fine powder had poured out of a small tear in the bag, my tears mixed with the powder on the floor. This gave me an idea. I grabbed the wheelbarrow in the corner of the garage and loaded up the materials for my dirty deed.
Nobody was home at Jason's house, the big brute had my date
... but me. Was I going to live to see the sun rise in the morning?
From the annals of the Troll Library .
Day in and day out, Slashdot sings the praises of "open source" software. New readers of the site must be a little puzzled to find items like "GPL Violation discovered" and "Open Source Guru Speaks" listed on the main page alongside the "straight" science and technology news. Unfortunately, few people really know what Open Source stands for. Perhaps Richard Means Stallman, one of the founders of the movement, can elucidate.
"[The GNU goal was] to be able to use a computer without using any proprietary software,"
declaims RMS. [cnn.com] "Because that way, you can lead a better life." Of course, the only way to get rid of proprietary software is to destroy the software companies that produce it. One way this is accomplished is by putting software that would normally be public domain under a license RMS himself created, called the "General Public License," or "GPL." Simply put, this license allows code to be reused-- unless the final product is distributed without its source code, as a proprietary product must be.
Software is a commodity, and people will often take the cheapest product, even if they have to spend inordinate amounts of time struggling with poor documentation and clumsy user interfaces. "One of the best things I could do with my life is: find a gigantic pile of proprietary software that was a trade secret, and start handing out copies on a street corner so it wouldn't be a trade secret any more," enthuses RMS. [free-soft.org] "Perhaps that would be a much more efficient way for me to give people new free software than actually writing it myself."
ItÂs time to stop the doubletalk and start thinking about the real meaning of intellectual property. By some measures, intellectual property is the main export of the developed countries of the world. Artists, actors, and musicians make a living off the intellectual property they produce. Programmers and engineers create designs to be sold. And journalists and writers depend on intellectual property. Ironically, the only jobs not deeply tied to intellectual property are the jobs many slashdot readers affect to despise, like service workers, menial laborers, and administrators. If slashdot readers canÂt stomach Scott McNealy, maybe they would prefer to work with Ronald McDonald. From the other side of the fast food counter.
Not everyone enjoys working at a menial job in the day, simply in order to slave away at poorly organized programming projects. Not everyone enjoys being told that he has the "freedom" to work, without pay, for a small clique of free software partisans. It is one thing to oppose microsoftÂs monopoly on the desktop, and the RIAA's slow strangulation of fair use rights. It is quite another to embrace a whole economic and political ideology that centers around the exploitation of childlike programming savants.
This message is not a troll, although many slashdot readers may take it as such. It is simply a warning to users to think carefully before they blindly follow the political lead of Rob Malda, Jon Katz, and the like. I encourage readers to repost the text of this message, and others like it, to the supposedly "free" message boards of slashdot and other sites.
Peace out, and God bless.
From the annals of the Troll Library .
So when I see a discussion such as this, it really makes me wonder. People take democracy, world peace, equal treatment under the law, and scientific progress for granted. Callow teenagers sit and write angst-filled anti-american screeds, while enjoying material prosperity and spiritual freedom beneath the sheltering wings of the american eagle.
It is unthinkable that we should allow the law to shield the subversives who are even now undermining the moral foundations of this great country. So I say: let the dissenters be gathered up, and shipped to Canada. And then, we can nuke the whole place. It may seem harsh, but I think it is the best way. Death is the only fitting fate for the enemies of America. And Canada has been a hotbed of communist activity since before you all were born.
I think it is important that we preserve the moose population, however. This can be accomplished by skilled taxidermists.
And now I must bid you adieu. Please remember, always look both ways before you cross the street... that, and DEATH to the ENEMIES OF THE STATE!
From the annals of the Troll Library .
Many of the most obsessive trolls want their work to be seen. These sad, lonely souls want to create a disturbance, ANY disturbance, in the small world of slashdot. Hence trolling relies on a cheap, easy source of karma for "dummy accounts." Some of these are "karma burn" accounts that are used to post offensive material with a +2 bonus, exposing more people to the troll. Some are even used to mod up fellow trolls.
The obvious solution, of course, is "karma whoring," the practice of making insipid, cravenly conformist comments to please the moderators. Who would spend months polishing an account, posting thoughtful and informative comments, only to throw it away on goatsex and gibberish? No: for these "trollers," whoring themselves out is the only possible way to get the karma they so desperately need.
I used to think that the editors were arrogant and hypocritical. Their policy in the discussion groups seemed to stifle creativity and intellectual freedom. But now I see why their policies are needed. The trolls are destroying slashdot. Post by post, line by line, they are driving away the readers who created this site. Now, karma whores push aside teenage brainiacs. The goatse man drives away RMS and his wholesome essays.
Who is your typical troll? A teenage loser, probably gay, who whiles away the day at slashdot, hoping to impress losers even more pathetic than himself. Responsible readers of the site should not be exposed to this filth. Most trolls are neither clever nor funny. They look like what they are: the crude efforts of frustrated children. Long live moderation.
- Mode 13 hex
From the annals of the Troll Library .
Solution Overview
Customer Profile
Hard Rock Café International is a $400 million entertainment company and a wholly owned subsidiary of London-based Rank PLC.
Business Situation
The company's heterogeneous environment based on Sun Solaris, Oracle, WebObjects, Lotus Notes, and NetWare was difficult to maintain, and required the company to rely on expensive, hard to find external expertise. This was resulting in higher costs and the inability to keep its Web site up and running.
Solution
By switching to the Microsoft® platform, Hard Rock Café was able to reduce its total cost of ownership and increase its ability to deliver the new applications that will improve the company's efficiency.
Software and Services
Microsoft Windows® 2000 Advanced Server
Microsoft Internet Information Services 5.0
Microsoft SQL Serverâ 7.0 Enterprise Edition
Scenario
Intranet
Company Overview
Founded in 1971, Hard Rock Cafe International has grown into a $400 million entertainment company that embodies the spirit of rock music through its signature cafes, hotels and casinos, collectible and fashion merchandise, live concerts and performance venues, and the Hard Rock Records music label. A wholly-owned subsidiary of London-based Rank PLC, Hard Rock Cafe International operates or franchises 104 signature Cafes in more than 36 countries, providing visitors around the world with a unique experience that combines food and merchandise with the largest collection of rock memorabilia on the planet.
Situation
Until recently, Hard Rock Cafe had a mixed IT environment consisting of Sun Solaris, Novell NetWare, and Lotus Notes, with the company's intranet consisting of an Intel-based server running Linux and Apache. Although the IT group had a large number of intranet applications it needed to develop, their Linux-based platform made this extremely difficult and time-consuming. "The Linux-based intranet consisted of a few simple applications that two developers had builtâ"looking up a phone number, browsing imported POS logs, and paging a support technicianâ"with everyone sharing the same password," said Rob Conti, manager of network services for Hard Rock Café. "We wanted to offer additional Web-based applications for accessing detailed financial data and communicating with our stores, but the lack of security and functionality in the Linux platform meant we would have to develop everything from scratch. That made these initiatives just too cost-prohibitive to pursue on the Linux platform."
Solution
In March 2000, Hard Rock Café standardized on the Microsoft platform to lower its total cost of ownership. This included converting the company's Internet site from Solaris to Windows 2000, migrating the company's mail and messaging solution from Lotus Notes to Exchange 2000, and consolidating the company's four NetWare-based file and print servers onto a single server running Windows 2000.
Hard Rock Café also migrated its intranet server to Windows 2000. It still resides on a single Intel-based server, now running Windows 2000 Server with Internet Information Services 5.0 and SQL Serverâ 7.0. In each restaurant, five or six PCs running Windows 2000 Professional and Microsoft Internet Explorer are used to access the intranet.
"The Microsoft platform has enabled us to achieve far greater functionality than we ever dreamed, both for our public Web site and our corporate intranet. Since we migrated to Windows 2000, we've been able to rapidly deliver the tools and applications needed to support our business and reduce costs."
Ron Ward
Sr. Director, IT and Internet
Hard Rock Café International
Since migrating to the Microsoft platform, Hard Rock Cafe has enjoyed the ability to easily build and deploy new intranet applications that assist users throughout the company with doing their daily jobs. "The Microsoft platform has enabled us to achieve far greater functionality than we ever dreamed, both for our public Web site and our corporate intranet," said Ron Ward, senior director of IT and Internet for Hard Rock Café. "Since we migrated to Windows 2000, we've been able to rapidly deliver the tools and applications needed to reduce costs and streamline the way we do business."
To create the extensive functionality now enjoyed across the company, Hard Rock Café developers used the Visual Studio® 6.0 development system. "The power of the integrated tools provided in the Microsoft platform was one of the key reasons we decided to use it as the foundation for our new corporate intranet," said Conti. "We've only had two developers working on our intranetâ"the same number we had working on the Linux platformâ"and the Microsoft platform has enabled them deliver upwards of 50 applications over the last year. We're definitely getting more results for our development dollars now. Not only have we been able to implement a great deal more functionality, but the Microsoft platform has been much easier to administer and maintain, requiring almost no effort at all. "
Every user accessing the Hard Rock Café intranet now enjoys a personalized start page based on their role in the organization, and designed to help them do their jobs as efficiently as possible. "When a user logs in, they're now presented with a customized start page that provides links to all the functionality they're permitted to access," said Conti. "User profiles and permissions are managed using another intranet application we developed, and are stored in the SQL Server 7.0 database. This was much easier to develop on Windows 2000 than it would have been under Linux, again due to the extensive core functionality provided in the Microsoft platform."
"Not only have we been able to implement a great deal more functionality, but the Microsoft platform has been much easier to administer and maintain, requiring almost no effort at all."
Rob Conti
Manager of Network Services
Hard Rock Café International
With the new platform, the company has been able to rapidly develop applications that improve the efficiency of the company's core businessâ"food, entertainment and merchandising. "With the Microsoft platform, we've been able to build tools and applications to lower costs and assist with just about every part of our business," said Conti. "In the past, new menus required sending a large amount of materials to all our storesâ"recipes, food display guidelines, and so on. Now that we can do this via our intranet, we're saving upwards of $20,000 per year for just this one task. We've also developed a wealth of other applications, for everything ranging from gift certificate management to souvenir merchandise catalogs. We've even built a tool to control the functionality of our Cisco-based video playback system, which we're now running in some of our cafes."
Migrating to the Microsoft platform has also enabled Hard Rock Café to take advantage of the wide range of third-party applications available for Windows 2000. "We deployed a solution from Business Intelligence Solution Group, called intelligentScorecardâ, to provide business managers throughout the company with easy access to the information needed to run their area of the business," said Ward. "It consolidates information from systems across the company into a centralized data warehouse and gives us the ability to define and monitor key performance indicators on a real-time basis. Each café manager sees the relevant indicators directly on their personalized intranet start page, and can easily drill down to investigate the information behind the numbers. We never would have been able to deploy something like this with Linux."
"We've only had two developers working on our intranetâ"the same number we had working on the Linux platformâ"and the Microsoft platform has enabled them deliver upwards of 50 applications over the last year. We're definitely getting more results for our development dollars now."
Rob Conti
Manager of Network Services
Hard Rock Café International
Moving Forward With Microsoft
Now that Hard Rock Café has built an extensive intranet to service its 50+ corporate-owned cafes, the company is planning on deploying an extranet that will service its 50+ franchise locations. "We'll be able to communicate all the corporate standards for menu items and merchandise by basically cloning our existing Intranet serverâ"just leaving out the financial reporting tools," said Conti. "This will allow our franchisees to enjoy all the benefits of the functionality we've developed for internal use, and will aid them in achieving the same high standards that we demand of our corporate-owned cafes."
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From the annals of the Troll Library .
The information in this article applies to:
Microsoft Windows 2000 , Advanced Server
Microsoft Windows 2000 , Datacenter Server
Microsoft Windows 2000 , Professional
Microsoft Windows 2000 , Server
Microsoft Windows NT Server version 4.0
Microsoft Windows NT Workstation version 4.0
For a Microsoft Windows XP version of this article, see Q314458 .
SUMMARY
This article describes how you can remove the Linux operating system from your computer, and install a Windows operating system. This article also assumes that Linux is already installed on the hard disk using Linux native and Linux swap partitions, which are incompatible with the Windows operating system, and that there is no free space left on the drive.
Windows and Linux can coexist on the same computer. For additional information, refer to your Linux documentation.
MORE INFORMATION
To install Windows on a system that has Linux installed when you want to remove Linux, you must manually delete the partitions used by the Linux operating system. The Windows-compatible partition can be created automatically during the installation of the Windows operating system.
IMPORTANT : Before you follow the steps in this article, verify that you have a bootable disk or bootable CD-ROM for the Linux operating system, because this process completely removes the Linux operating system installed on your computer. If you intend to restore the Linux operating system at a later date, verify that you also have a good backup of all the information stored on your computer. Also, you must have a full release version of the Windows operating system you want to install.
Linux file systems use a "superblock" at the beginning of a disk partition to identify the basic size, shape, and condition of the file system.
The Linux operating system is generally installed on partition type 83 (Linux native) or 82 (Linux swap). The Linux boot manager (LILO) can be configured to start from:
The hard disk Master Boot Record (MBR).
The root folder of the Linux partition.
The Fdisk tool included with Linux can be used to delete the partitions. (There are other utilities that work just as well, such as Fdisk from MS-DOS 5.0 and later, or you can delete the partitions during the installation process.) To remove Linux from your computer and install Windows:
Remove native, swap, and boot partitions used by Linux:
Start your computer with the Linux setup floppy disk, type fdisk at the command prompt, and then press ENTER.
NOTE : For help using the Fdisk tool, type m at the command prompt, and then press ENTER.
Type p at the command prompt, and then press ENTER to display partition information. The first item listed is hard disk 1, partition 1 information, and the second item listed is hard disk 1, partition 2 information.
Type d at the command prompt, and then press ENTER. You are then prompted for the partition number you want to delete. Type 1 , and then press ENTER to delete partition number 1. Repeat this step until all the partitions have been deleted.
Type w , and then press ENTER to write this information to the partition table. Some error messages may be generated as information is written to the partition table, but they should not be significant at this point because the next step is to restart the computer and then install the new operating system.
Type q at the command prompt, and then press ENTER to quit the Fdisk tool.
Insert either a bootable floppy disk or a bootable CD-ROM for the Windows operating system on your computer, and then press CTRL+ALT+DELETE to restart your computer.
Install Windows. Follow the installation instructions for the Windows operating system you want to install on your computer. The installation process assists you with creating the appropriate partitions on your computer.
Examples of Linux Partition Tables
Single SCSI drive
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 500 4016218 83 Linux native (SCSI hard drive 1, partition 1)
/dev/sda2 501 522 176715 82 Linux swap (SCSI hard drive 1, partition 2)
Multiple SCSI drives
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 500 4016218 83 Linux native (SCSI hard drive 1, partition 1)
/dev/sda2 501 522 176715 82 Linux swap (SCSI hard drive 1, partition 2)
/dev/sdb1 1 500 4016218 83 Linux native (SCSI hard drive 2, partition 1)
Single IDE drive
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 500 4016218 83 Linux native (IDE hard drive 1, partition 1)
/dev/hda2 501 522 176715 82 Linux swap (IDE hard drive 1, partition 2)
Multiple IDE drives
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 500 4016218 83 Linux native (IDE hard drive 1, partition 1)
/dev/hda2 501 522 176715 82 Linux swap (IDE hard drive 1, partition 2)
/dev/hdb1 1 500 4016218 83 Linux native (IDE hard drive 2, partition 1)
Also, Linux recognizes more than forty different partition types, such as:
FAT 12 (Type 01)
FAT 16 > 32 M Primary (Type 06)
FAT 16 Extended (Type 05)
FAT 32 w/o LBA Primary (Type 0b)
FAT 32 w/LBA Primary (Type 0c)
FAT 16 w/LBA (Type 0e)
FAT 16 w/LBA Extended (Type 0f)
Note that there are other ways to remove the Linux operating system and install Windows than the one mentioned above. The preceding method is used in this article because the Linux operating system is already functioning and there is no more room on the hard disk. There are methods of changing partition sizes with software. Microsoft does not support Windows installed on partitions manipulated in this manner.
Another method of removing an operating system from the hard disk and installing a different operating system is to use an MS-DOS version 5.0 or later boot disk, a Windows 95 Startup disk, or a Windows 98 Startup disk that contains the Fdisk utility. Run the Fdisk utility. If you have multiple drives, there are 5 choices; use option 5 to select the hard disk that has the partition to be deleted. After that, or if you have only one hard disk, choose option 3 ("Delete partition or logical DOS drive"), and then choose option 4 ("Delete non-DOS partition"). You should then see the non-DOS partitions you want to delete. Typically, the Linux operating system has two non-DOS partitions, but there may be more. After you delete one partition, use the same steps to delete any other appropriate non-DOS partitions.
After the partitions are deleted, you can create partitions and install the operating system you want. You can only create one primary partition and an extended partition with multiple logical drives by using Fdisk from MS-DOS version 5.0 and later, Windows 95, and Windows 98. The maximum FAT16 primary partition size is 2 gigabytes (GB). The largest FAT16 logical drive size is 2 GB. For additional information, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
Q105074 MS-DOS 6.2 Partitioning Questions and Answers
If you are installing Windows NT 4.0 or Windows 2000, the Linux partitions can be removed and new partitions created and formatted with the appropriate file system type during the installation process. Windows allows you to create more than one primary partition. The largest partition that Windows NT 4.0 allows you to create during installation is 4 GB because of the limitations of the FAT16 file system during installation. Also, the 4-GB partitions use 64-KB cluster sizes. MS-DOS 6.x and Windows 95 or Windows 98 do not recognize 64-KB cluster file systems, so this file system is usually converted to NTFS during installation. Windows 2000, unlike Windows NT 4.0, recognizes the FAT32 file system. During the installation of Windows 2000, you can create a very large FAT32 drive. The FAT32 drive can be converted to NTFS after the installation has completed if appropriate.
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The information in this article applies to:
Microsoft Windows 2000 , Advanced Server
Microsoft Windows 2000 , Datacenter Server
Microsoft Windows 2000 , Professional
Microsoft Windows 2000 , Server
Microsoft Windows NT Server version 4.0
Microsoft Windows NT Workstation version 4.0
For a Microsoft Windows XP version of this article, see Q314458 .
SUMMARY
This article describes how you can remove the Linux operating system from your computer, and install a Windows operating system. This article also assumes that Linux is already installed on the hard disk using Linux native and Linux swap partitions, which are incompatible with the Windows operating system, and that there is no free space left on the drive.
Windows and Linux can coexist on the same computer. For additional information, refer to your Linux documentation.
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To install Windows on a system that has Linux installed when you want to remove Linux, you must manually delete the partitions used by the Linux operating system. The Windows-compatible partition can be created automatically during the installation of the Windows operating system.
IMPORTANT : Before you follow the steps in this article, verify that you have a bootable disk or bootable CD-ROM for the Linux operating system, because this process completely removes the Linux operating system installed on your computer. If you intend to restore the Linux operating system at a later date, verify that you also have a good backup of all the information stored on your computer. Also, you must have a full release version of the Windows operating system you want to install.
Linux file systems use a "superblock" at the beginning of a disk partition to identify the basic size, shape, and condition of the file system.
The Linux operating system is generally installed on partition type 83 (Linux native) or 82 (Linux swap). The Linux boot manager (LILO) can be configured to start from:
The hard disk Master Boot Record (MBR).
The root folder of the Linux partition.
The Fdisk tool included with Linux can be used to delete the partitions. (There are other utilities that work just as well, such as Fdisk from MS-DOS 5.0 and later, or you can delete the partitions during the installation process.) To remove Linux from your computer and install Windows:
Remove native, swap, and boot partitions used by Linux:
Start your computer with the Linux setup floppy disk, type fdisk at the command prompt, and then press ENTER.
NOTE : For help using the Fdisk tool, type m at the command prompt, and then press ENTER.
Type p at the command prompt, and then press ENTER to display partition information. The first item listed is hard disk 1, partition 1 information, and the second item listed is hard disk 1, partition 2 information.
Type d at the command prompt, and then press ENTER. You are then prompted for the partition number you want to delete. Type 1 , and then press ENTER to delete partition number 1. Repeat this step until all the partitions have been deleted.
Type w , and then press ENTER to write this information to the partition table. Some error messages may be generated as information is written to the partition table, but they should not be significant at this point because the next step is to restart the computer and then install the new operating system.
Type q at the command prompt, and then press ENTER to quit the Fdisk tool.
Insert either a bootable floppy disk or a bootable CD-ROM for the Windows operating system on your computer, and then press CTRL+ALT+DELETE to restart your computer.
Install Windows. Follow the installation instructions for the Windows operating system you want to install on your computer. The installation process assists you with creating the appropriate partitions on your computer.
Examples of Linux Partition Tables
Single SCSI drive
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 500 4016218 83 Linux native (SCSI hard drive 1, partition 1)
/dev/sda2 501 522 176715 82 Linux swap (SCSI hard drive 1, partition 2)
Multiple SCSI drives
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 500 4016218 83 Linux native (SCSI hard drive 1, partition 1)
/dev/sda2 501 522 176715 82 Linux swap (SCSI hard drive 1, partition 2)
/dev/sdb1 1 500 4016218 83 Linux native (SCSI hard drive 2, partition 1)
Single IDE drive
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 500 4016218 83 Linux native (IDE hard drive 1, partition 1)
/dev/hda2 501 522 176715 82 Linux swap (IDE hard drive 1, partition 2)
Multiple IDE drives
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 500 4016218 83 Linux native (IDE hard drive 1, partition 1)
/dev/hda2 501 522 176715 82 Linux swap (IDE hard drive 1, partition 2)
/dev/hdb1 1 500 4016218 83 Linux native (IDE hard drive 2, partition 1)
Also, Linux recognizes more than forty different partition types, such as:
FAT 12 (Type 01)
FAT 16 > 32 M Primary (Type 06)
FAT 16 Extended (Type 05)
FAT 32 w/o LBA Primary (Type 0b)
FAT 32 w/LBA Primary (Type 0c)
FAT 16 w/LBA (Type 0e)
FAT 16 w/LBA Extended (Type 0f)
Note that there are other ways to remove the Linux operating system and install Windows than the one mentioned above. The preceding method is used in this article because the Linux operating system is already functioning and there is no more room on the hard disk. There are methods of changing partition sizes with software. Microsoft does not support Windows installed on partitions manipulated in this manner.
Another method of removing an operating system from the hard disk and installing a different operating system is to use an MS-DOS version 5.0 or later boot disk, a Windows 95 Startup disk, or a Windows 98 Startup disk that contains the Fdisk utility. Run the Fdisk utility. If you have multiple drives, there are 5 choices; use option 5 to select the hard disk that has the partition to be deleted. After that, or if you have only one hard disk, choose option 3 ("Delete partition or logical DOS drive"), and then choose option 4 ("Delete non-DOS partition"). You should then see the non-DOS partitions you want to delete. Typically, the Linux operating system has two non-DOS partitions, but there may be more. After you delete one partition, use the same steps to delete any other appropriate non-DOS partitions.
After the partitions are deleted, you can create partitions and install the operating system you want. You can only create one primary partition and an extended partition with multiple logical drives by using Fdisk from MS-DOS version 5.0 and later, Windows 95, and Windows 98. The maximum FAT16 primary partition size is 2 gigabytes (GB). The largest FAT16 logical drive size is 2 GB. For additional information, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
Q105074 MS-DOS 6.2 Partitioning Questions and Answers
If you are installing Windows NT 4.0 or Windows 2000, the Linux partitions can be removed and new partitions created and formatted with the appropriate file system type during the installation process. Windows allows you to create more than one primary partition. The largest partition that Windows NT 4.0 allows you to create during installation is 4 GB because of the limitations of the FAT16 file system during installation. Also, the 4-GB partitions use 64-KB cluster sizes. MS-DOS 6.x and Windows 95 or Windows 98 do not recognize 64-KB cluster file systems, so this file system is usually converted to NTFS during installation. Windows 2000, unlike Windows NT 4.0, recognizes the FAT32 file system. During the installation of Windows 2000, you can create a very large FAT32 drive. The FAT32 drive can be converted to NTFS after the installation has completed if appropriate.
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#9: Data Access. When you use Windows 2000 Professional in conjunction with Windows 2000 Server, you can take advantage of IntelliMirror technologies. By letting you store your important information and desktop settings on a central computer, IntelliMirror lets you work on any computer attached to your network as if you are at your own desk. The centralized management savings made possible by Windows 2000 IntelliMirror technologies are one of the reasons WFofR, Inc. is using Windows 2000 Professional.
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Before everyone gets upset, please follow me as I outline some of the critical shortcomings in Linux. First is the lack of re-entrant kernel threads. The net affect of this is a poor execution of both multi-tasking on uniprocessor systems and multi-processor systems. In a uniprocessor system the lack of reentrant kernel threads allows applications to control processor time. This cooperative multitasking is ineffecient, and systems intensive. In a multiprocessor box you wind up with an asynchronous multitaksing environment, where processor load is not balanced across the two or more processors. The net result in both situations is that processes take longer to execute. Needless to say, Windows excels at all of these.
The next is poor execution of asynchronous I/O, which is necessary for efficient communications. In fact, the execution of asynchronous I/O in Linux is quite poor, especially when compared to Windows. When subjected to the Transaction Processing Council's C and D tests, which measure transactions per minute, Linux fares poorly compared to commercial variants of Unix, BSD, and NT. The net result of this is an increased cost of ownership, as the cost of each transaction is much higher than the cost associated with Windows NT.
Another serious setback for Linux is the lack of a journalling file system. This makes data storage unreliable, and backup and recovery a dicey proposition. SGI said they would port the IRIX file system to Linux, but I haven't heard anything about this yet. However, when you look at the major commercial NOS's, they all have journalling file systems, including Sun, SCO, Windows NT, Banyan Vines, HP/UX, AIX, and Novell. Windows has cleary beaten Linux to the punch here.
I look forward to watching Linux as it grows up. I do believe it may have a bright future. It just isn't there yet! Too bad I will have to wait many years for Linux to become a viable option in the operating system arena. If I were to believe everything I read about Linux, I would have to assume that it will save the world! Please, let us also be honest and present Linux and all its many shortcomings when you are downtalking Windows.
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I've been using *BSD for years starting with the first releases
of Berkeley's operating system. I've even got the tape with Tahoe around somewhere. But all my coworkers at the ISP where I work claimed Linux to be the superior operating system of the next century which will crush microsoft sometime. Well, I was a little sceptical. But I've never used Linux before, so I though that I should give it a try. I ordered the newest Debian woody package, 'cos I wanted full IP6 support. No reason to keep with the old protocols. A few days later a 15 CD set sighed by some guy named ZtaHma (at least that was all I could make out of this strange signature) arrived.
I was very curious, so I started installing the stuff at my Pentium IV at once. There I ran into the first troubles. After selecting the package gcc-doc the package manager claimed that there was a conflict with gcc-2.96 and gcc-3.0 and many associated packages. This won't be of much trouble yet. But it opened of list of all the "conflicting" packages which were suddenly unselected by default. Still no problem there, I could have reselected them at once, but I accidentially hit the return key for selection which accepted the "default" and all the selections were gone. This resulted in fucking around later with constant package reinstalls, 'cos I never got all unselected packages back and the apps started complaining about missing "gcc-blurp" etc.
During install I wondered why there was no config options for ip6, but such stuff with rather common with OSS software and I prefer viing config files anyway. After full install I noticed that there was no options for installing [xkg]dm by default, but I won't call this a problem. The problems turned out at different places. I first tried to activate ip6 for my local links
bildo# ifconfig eth0 inet6 fec0::2/64 add ifconfig: bad option inet6
WTF ? After some manpaging I found out that the Linux netutils
are really fucked up any use non standard parameters for ip6. But however:
bildo# ifconfig eth0 add fec0::2/64 kernel doesn't support IP6
Bad news. I noticed that the standard kernel was optimized for 80386 with support for XT harddisks but without support for ip6. So I had to recompile the entire kernel first. At this point the "gcc-blurp" reinstall fun started as already mentioned above. I was already a little wary at this point, this IP6 (EXPERIMENTIAL) - 6 years after the first draft - didn't seemed very promising. After compiling and booting ifconfig worked without trouble. But tha bad surprise was arriving:
bildo# netstat -r 127.0.0.1 * 255.255.255.0 lo
Fuck ! Were was ip6 ??? Ifconfig said it was there ! Well I thoughtit was a fucked netstat, so I tried a simple:
bildo# telnet ::1 Trying ::1... Connection error: connection refused bildo# telnet bildo Trying bildo... Bildo Today is a good day the mew the goat ! Login:
Well at least ip6 was working. But all apps seemed to be fucked up. So I tried a last:
bildo# ping6 ::1 ping6 not found
At this point I slammed by keyboard into the TFT-Panel and turned the computer off.
What remains to say ?
Linux is obviously an operation system for amateurs and hobbiests not for professional users. I reinstalled FreeBSD at my computer at once. Had to do the installation via an serial cable to my old 386 though, because my TFT-Panel and the keyboard are broken.
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