Okay, so I went over the top with the finger one.. that's what a case of beer will do to one while reading these things:) Note to anyone who questions why I have so many Win boxes - I am a home-based developer for a MS-centric company.
My primary dev Win2K server - SQL 7.0, IIS 5.0, InterDev, and all current patches.. In order to follow the MS philosophy on these things - doing it the "suggested" way - creates accounts out the wazoo that then have to be deciphered and applied in the right places. Usually there are multiple places and missing any one of those will cause a failure - seldom with useful error messages. I've been doing admin on NT and Win2K servers for 5 years now and it never fails to amaze me how complicated MS seems to make simple things.
RE: SQL Server - sure, it can use Windows authentication. However if one wishes to write code/script that is not hostage to MS' ever-changing standards? In that scenario I would rather USE the standard SQL logon that can be changed simply and easily in one's scripts - not a bastardized MS scheme requiring one to go change user accounts, groups, etc. In SQL Server setups, the MS path is to create all NT based authentication.
Blue screens - In previous versions of Windows - the 9* and ME series - BSOD was more common. My primary dev server is the most frequent BSODer. And yes, it is configurable to either sit at BSOD, or dump and reboot. Mine dumps/reboots. However, more common these days is the complete lockup - requiring an unfriendly power off that risks disk corruption. Losing Konqueror and having to click up another instance is much different than losing everything that may be open on a Win box. My experience now has been that shutting down X will most frequently solve ANY lockup problem without risk of disk corruption. Granted if you have apps up you will lose that data - but at least you don't have to wait for a reboot that adds only insult to injury.
Builtin BASH - "Builtin" (if that's a word) is the key word here. I *don't* want to actually use it under Win - and yes, WSH is great. I have used it for several time-saving little utility apps that don't really need to be full-blown apps. But for a company to create a bunch of crap and point their finger saying "See the other guys don't have THIS!" is ludicrous.
Finger - Uh, yeah went over the top here - It does. My apologies.
That all said - I use both OS types. I make my money on the MS OS and apps and will always be partial to them... but for my OWN use? Linux. Documentation may lag, but for simplicity, security, stability, and above all, STANDARDS, I would rather have a Linux box in front of me any day.
HEY! Do you need to setup accounts in 3 or 4 places to get the desired result? (See NT User account, IIS Account, SQL Server account, etc.) HEY! Can Linux do BLUE SCREENS? - We can.Boy HOWDY! HEY! Windows doesn't nave builtin BASH support! HEY! Windows doesn't have built-in FINGER support either!
Sure, if one creates a bunch of propietary type stuff and wants to pride one's company on it...yeah the other boys won't have it.. but they do have standards. Ewwww...what a concept - standards.
Again, FWIW, I'm a web developer and corporately have to code most of my stuff to fit IE..but damned if I don't hate their "extensions" of standard things. Read "Bastardizations of standards".
My 2 cents...
It would NOT surprise me in the least if MS was NOT building this shit as we speak (type). A good plan is malleable - if they lose their "little" case - they darned well better have contingency plans. Bill is hell-bent on taking over the world as we know it...and you KNOW he's got a plan regardless.
3. I enjoy receiving junk mail, it means someone actually is willing to spend money to reach me. I hate receiving spam, it means someone has stolen my e-mail from somewhere and is charging me for their advertising.
You have GOT to be kidding. Your junk mail comes from a variety of sources. I used to do sales - and I could easily mosey on down to a county courthouse and grab all the names I wanted in a few hours. And if I was feeling exceptionally lazy, a quick call to a list provider and a hundred bucks would easily buy me 1000 names and addresses - or however many I wanted. As of late, this has been superseded (now there's a $5 word) by email lists of the poor suckers that actually give out their personal info.
Word to the wise - you're already at/. so this may NOT be necessary - keep a good "trash" account to fill out those registrations. I let the BS build up until I've a good 50 to look over and then usually give them a cursory glance and delete them. This usually occurs every 3-4 days.
Fast forward to today - same deal as several years ago - except instead of buying physical addresses - I'm buying email addys. I'm not a spammer (and really wasn't back then either) these days, but the game is the same, the technology has just changed.
Personal opinion: It only takes me a few seconds(or less) to delete some spam...however, those physical junk mails not only waste paper products (99% of the time) needlessly(IMHO), but I personally always end up ferretting through them anyway. For me - a second or two to delete a spam (especially if I have it coming in to one specific account) - and with a well configured email client, that spam can REALLY be minimized - versus ripping open some envelope to make sure it's not something I actually should see (read "bill") and throwing it away.
I personally hate getting spam, but I would rather spend the few seconds to delete those that DO make it through my filters, than have to drag a bunch of damned envelopes in the house and end up filling up my wastebasket 7/04/xx).
Trust me.
No one gives a fat rat's ass on how they
reach you - they'll do it one way or the other.
One thing that IS a pain is getting a HUGE spam file. I've got broadband so it's not usually THAT big a delay, but word to the spammers - "If you want me to even THINK about reading it, keep it short, simple and concise."
"Me Too!" I've used most of the browsers since the "beginning of the Net as we know it" - and I have yet to use ANYTHING that can compete with the feature set of Opera. Mouse gestures, MDI, general customization features.
Normally you have to dig around IE to find anything of note, and Moz/Netscape...well..we'll just leave it there for me.When the "Reviewing Clown" wrote about the mouse gestures as a "Con", I just gave up on reading. Sure - how long does it take to move 6 inches across my screen to hit the back button? Well, a little bit more than clicking a right button and sliding a quarter inch to move back.
Yup, I do have to roam to a different machine at times to access certain sites. But for the most part, the IE 5 compatibility mode can handle even SSL sites without trouble. There's probably more problem from my proxy than my browser though.
Nope, all my machines - Linux and Doze have Opera on them and I wouldn't give Opera up for the world. It saves me far more time overall than the annoyance that a few - very few - sites give me in rendering.
Here's a good example - I open up 10-15 windows while scanning news in the morning and let them load..then simply click through them at my leisure. But what happens when I need to get to something behind them? In Opera? Minimize the window - period. I can slide 'em around, copy, paste, etc. In a "normal" IE browser? Spend half a minute minimizing all those windows.
Opera is the one to beat if you're shooting for it. Oh yeah, and I'm a web dev primarily coding for IE.
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Okay, so I went over the top with the finger one.. that's what a case of beer will do to one while reading these things :) Note to anyone who questions why I have so many Win boxes - I am a home-based developer for a MS-centric company.
My primary dev Win2K server - SQL 7.0, IIS 5.0, InterDev, and all current patches.. In order to follow the MS philosophy on these things - doing it the "suggested" way - creates accounts out the wazoo that then have to be deciphered and applied in the right places. Usually there are multiple places and missing any one of those will cause a failure - seldom with useful error messages. I've been doing admin on NT and Win2K servers for 5 years now and it never fails to amaze me how complicated MS seems to make simple things.
RE: SQL Server - sure, it can use Windows authentication. However if one wishes to write code/script that is not hostage to MS' ever-changing standards? In that scenario I would rather USE the standard SQL logon that can be changed simply and easily in one's scripts - not a bastardized MS scheme requiring one to go change user accounts, groups, etc. In SQL Server setups, the MS path is to create all NT based authentication.
Blue screens - In previous versions of Windows - the 9* and ME series - BSOD was more common. My primary dev server is the most frequent BSODer. And yes, it is configurable to either sit at BSOD, or dump and reboot. Mine dumps/reboots. However, more common these days is the complete lockup - requiring an unfriendly power off that risks disk corruption. Losing Konqueror and having to click up another instance is much different than losing everything that may be open on a Win box. My experience now has been that shutting down X will most frequently solve ANY lockup problem without risk of disk corruption. Granted if you have apps up you will lose that data - but at least you don't have to wait for a reboot that adds only insult to injury.
Builtin BASH - "Builtin" (if that's a word) is the key word here. I *don't* want to actually use it under Win - and yes, WSH is great. I have used it for several time-saving little utility apps that don't really need to be full-blown apps. But for a company to create a bunch of crap and point their finger saying "See the other guys don't have THIS!" is ludicrous.
Finger - Uh, yeah went over the top here - It does. My apologies.
That all said - I use both OS types. I make my money on the MS OS and apps and will always be partial to them... but for my OWN use? Linux. Documentation may lag, but for simplicity, security, stability, and above all, STANDARDS, I would rather have a Linux box in front of me any day.
FWIW...
HEY! Do you need to setup accounts in 3 or 4 places to get the desired result? (See NT User account, IIS Account, SQL Server account, etc.)
HEY! Can Linux do BLUE SCREENS? - We can.Boy HOWDY!
HEY! Windows doesn't nave builtin BASH support!
HEY! Windows doesn't have built-in FINGER support either!
Sure, if one creates a bunch of propietary type stuff and wants to pride one's company on it...yeah the other boys won't have it.. but they do have standards. Ewwww...what a concept - standards.
Again, FWIW, I'm a web developer and corporately have to code most of my stuff to fit IE..but damned if I don't hate their "extensions" of standard things. Read "Bastardizations of standards".
My 2 cents... It would NOT surprise me in the least if MS was NOT building this shit as we speak (type). A good plan is malleable - if they lose their "little" case - they darned well better have contingency plans. Bill is hell-bent on taking over the world as we know it...and you KNOW he's got a plan regardless.
Unless, of course, one chooses to bastardize and/or create new "de facto" standards that make everything prior passe.
Second the motion - NO HAIRY ASS!
/. topic regarding "Britney suck", I'm ALL for that. I WOULD buy that DVD.
But as in a previous
--- Beer - not just for breakfast anymore.
3. I enjoy receiving junk mail, it means someone actually is willing to spend money to reach me. I hate receiving spam, it means someone has stolen my e-mail from somewhere and is charging me for their advertising.
/. so this may NOT be necessary - keep a good "trash" account to fill out those registrations. I let the BS build up until I've a good 50 to look over and then usually give them a cursory glance and delete them. This usually occurs every 3-4 days.
You have GOT to be kidding. Your junk mail comes from a variety of sources. I used to do sales - and I could easily mosey on down to a county courthouse and grab all the names I wanted in a few hours. And if I was feeling exceptionally lazy, a quick call to a list provider and a hundred bucks would easily buy me 1000 names and addresses - or however many I wanted. As of late, this has been superseded (now there's a $5 word) by email lists of the poor suckers that actually give out their personal info.
Word to the wise - you're already at
Fast forward to today - same deal as several years ago - except instead of buying physical addresses - I'm buying email addys. I'm not a spammer (and really wasn't back then either) these days, but the game is the same, the technology has just changed.
Personal opinion: It only takes me a few seconds(or less) to delete some spam...however, those physical junk mails not only waste paper products (99% of the time) needlessly(IMHO), but I personally always end up ferretting through them anyway. For me - a second or two to delete a spam (especially if I have it coming in to one specific account) - and with a well configured email client, that spam can REALLY be minimized - versus ripping open some envelope to make sure it's not something I actually should see (read "bill") and throwing it away.
I personally hate getting spam, but I would rather spend the few seconds to delete those that DO make it through my filters, than have to drag a bunch of damned envelopes in the house and end up filling up my wastebasket 7/04/xx).
Trust me. No one gives a fat rat's ass on how they reach you - they'll do it one way or the other.
One thing that IS a pain is getting a HUGE spam file. I've got broadband so it's not usually THAT big a delay, but word to the spammers - "If you want me to even THINK about reading it, keep it short, simple and concise."
OH GOD!!!! With the exception of the Windows thing - I'm screwed.
"Me Too!" I've used most of the browsers since the "beginning of the Net as we know it" - and I have yet to use ANYTHING that can compete with the feature set of Opera. Mouse gestures, MDI, general customization features.
Normally you have to dig around IE to find anything of note, and Moz/Netscape...well..we'll just leave it there for me.When the "Reviewing Clown" wrote about the mouse gestures as a "Con", I just gave up on reading. Sure - how long does it take to move 6 inches across my screen to hit the back button? Well, a little bit more than clicking a right button and sliding a quarter inch to move back.
Yup, I do have to roam to a different machine at times to access certain sites. But for the most part, the IE 5 compatibility mode can handle even SSL sites without trouble. There's probably more problem from my proxy than my browser though.
Nope, all my machines - Linux and Doze have Opera on them and I wouldn't give Opera up for the world. It saves me far more time overall than the annoyance that a few - very few - sites give me in rendering.
Here's a good example - I open up 10-15 windows while scanning news in the morning and let them load..then simply click through them at my leisure. But what happens when I need to get to something behind them? In Opera? Minimize the window - period. I can slide 'em around, copy, paste, etc. In a "normal" IE browser? Spend half a minute minimizing all those windows.
Opera is the one to beat if you're shooting for it. Oh yeah, and I'm a web dev primarily coding for IE.