Dance with the devil that's not based on a written accredited standard, and that's likely to change significantly any time it gets to be too well understood by non-Microsoft developers.
Windows, unless you just refuse to be able to run certain software, requires you to change everything every 2 years.
Linux, unless you're talking about a 3-5 person shop without any security concerns, requires you to constantly patch... patch... patch... every 2 weeks.
Hey, let's not forget that part of the historical Unix culture was the days at MIT when they first imposed passwords on the accounts, and a bunch of the hackers including Richard Stallman protested and refused to put passwords on their accounts.
There is an old saying, a nation can't be half slave and half free - but only all slave or all free.
That sounds clever and all, but you omitted the handwaving and 'proclamations' and faulty logic to back it up.
All of that 'How can any man be said to be free while....' and whatnot. Which really reduces down into rhetoric and mushes up, rather than clearly defines, the meaning of the term 'freedom.'
The simple truth is copyright controls are untenable without massive free speech restrictions like the DMCA (and beyond), and information is so easy to manuipulate and change form - that it can't be controlled unless all of it is controlled.
Similarly, your feet can't achieve 'freedom' in a world where there are snowdrifts, hot black asphalt in the midday sun, and sharp glass out back near the dumpster.
Print it all up on some leaflets. You can feel good about handing them out. And oh so very righteous afterwards sitting at your computer in your dorm room.
NetBSD is much, much more portable than 'Linux' if you refer to an Operating System, and not just a Kernal. 'NetBSD' represents a kernal and a complete base userland, all under one unified seamless source tree. Linux, on the other hand, is a kernal, and any number of different utilities and packages lumped together. There are dozens of versions of 'Linux' just for the x86, let alone the variations when you move from one architecture to another, whereas there is one NetBSD port for each platform, and all the NetBSD ports consist of base userlands compiled from the same source tree.
Hope this makes sense. What it means in the final analysis is that I can (almost) tar up the/etc directory from a NetBSD 1.6 Sparc machine and expand it into the/etc directory of any x86 or 68000 or MIPS or PPC NetBSD 1.6 machine and it will just work.
Linux is far more client server advaned, that is the market key to Linux.
Nope. Uh-uh. With ever 'advance' in Linux, with nearly every 'distro' it becomes a fatter and heavier 'desktop' while adding just about nothing in the way of being a better client. Face it, the 'fat desktop' model of computer has a lot of appeal, and it's where Linux is heading.
People are always saying 'NFS really sucks in general' and it's hard to tell why they say so. It might have to do with poor implementations of NFS on Linux that I've heard mentioned. I have an NFS server here on the home network that's rock steady and serves as a primary 'waypoint' for all the Unix boxes. They're all NetBSD and Solaris boxes, so maybe that's why I haven't had any problem.
Is there a short digest version of what's so bad about NFS on Linux that someone can reiterate?
I ran into some interesting 'UID at the client security' issues at a place I recently worked. I had an NT box, and I threw a copy of Microsoft's Interix POSIX subsystem on the machine. Through coincidence I discovered that I could rsh into any of the Solaris boxes at the company. What I noticed most significantly was that it wasn't asking for a password at all. So, as an experiment (I had the admin password on the NT box, which was my desktop machine) I created an NT account on the machine with a co-worker's UID. *poof* I could rsh into any Solaris box, and I had their account privledges.
I quietly backed out without doing a thing, but it made me a little nervous. The company in question makes implantable medical devices, and it would have taken me a minute or two longer to make changes to firmware code in development for said.
Many people have conveniently forgotten, or they never knew, that 'The Cathederal and the Bazaar' was written to criticize the way the GNU Emacs development project was being run.
Raymond had a vision once. It was after one of the better of the CAW (Church of All Worlds) rituals that he reguarly participates in. The one where he played that human thighbone flute and got to ball three nubile wiccan-wannabes.
Microsoft's use of the BSD stock is a good example of them paying attention to the networking community, and not reinventing a wheel (though from what I have heard, they're using a new implementation in current products).
Almost every other company or organization out there that has implemented TCP/IP used the BSD stack. This is good, for it means that when all the different OSes talk to each other with networking, they all speak in the same, or a very similar, dialect.
Linux is unusual in that it doesn't use the Berkeley stack. Word has it Linus had some arbitrary reason for liking somebody else's code instead.
You discredit your arguement if 'Microsoft used the BSD TCP/IP stack' is your strongest evidence. Try again, please.
Now, I know that the C-64 was seen by a lot of people as the poor-man's Apple II (lots of kids bought them because it's what they could afford- remember the Apple II was actually taken seriously as a expensive business computer for a short time..). The Vic-20 is also from that early period. I think you'd have to go back to the CBM line from Commodore to find a machine that wasn't designed as a knockoff of the Apple II.
No, actually when I quit that job to move across country and marry someone, they were sorry to see me go, and my boss's boss even gave me a 'sending off' bonus at my going away party.
Well, some of the biggest promoters of SUVs are the advocates of more choking Federal regulation of the auto industry. People would be buying Station Wagons and other vehicles with lower emissions than overgrown passenger trucks to haul their families around. But the Auto industry was forced to adopt average emissions standards for their fleet of automobiles. SUVs are the result, trucks that people use as passenger vehicles but which aren't calculated into the emissions average as passenger vehicles.
Yes, the SUV explosion is another example of paternalistic government regulations gone bad.
At a previous job I always took great delight in entering my hours on the Excel spreadsheet I was given by using small L for the one numeral and capital O for the zero.
I'm not so sure it 'started out' as an Apple thing. My Sun type 5 keyboards have keys surrounding the spacebar similar to the ones on a modern Windoze keyboard.
But we can say it's another Apple Invention if it makes some people feel good.
What about your Sun box forces you to do everything through X? I have a SS10 that runs Solaris, and it does a lot without needing to use X. When I do want to run X on it I don't use the Sun Desktop (a bad idea on a machine as old as a SS10), I use FVWM2 for a Window Manager and all the regular stuff I always used back when I ran Linux.
Wow. Now that must lead to a few stunted shelves at the library. Here in the US they're allowed to have books on the library shelves which only contain Greek or Latin, or whatever language the work was in originally.
There are, of course, people advocating bi-lingual language who'd like to get rid of anything (they refer to it as 'dead white man stuff') that isn't written in Spanglish.
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Dance with the devil that's not based on a written accredited standard, and that's likely to change significantly any time it gets to be too well understood by non-Microsoft developers.
Linux, unless you're talking about a 3-5 person shop without any security concerns, requires you to constantly patch... patch... patch... every 2 weeks.
Apples, oranges, a whole bunch of fruit.
Hey, let's not forget that part of the historical Unix culture was the days at MIT when they first imposed passwords on the accounts, and a bunch of the hackers including Richard Stallman protested and refused to put passwords on their accounts.
Ahem....
That sounds clever and all, but you omitted the handwaving and 'proclamations' and faulty logic to back it up.
All of that 'How can any man be said to be free while....' and whatnot. Which really reduces down into rhetoric and mushes up, rather than clearly defines, the meaning of the term 'freedom.'
Similarly, your feet can't achieve 'freedom' in a world where there are snowdrifts, hot black asphalt in the midday sun, and sharp glass out back near the dumpster.
Print it all up on some leaflets. You can feel good about handing them out. And oh so very righteous afterwards sitting at your computer in your dorm room.
NetBSD is much, much more portable than 'Linux' if you refer to an Operating System, and not just a Kernal. 'NetBSD' represents a kernal and a complete base userland, all under one unified seamless source tree. Linux, on the other hand, is a kernal, and any number of different utilities and packages lumped together. There are dozens of versions of 'Linux' just for the x86, let alone the variations when you move from one architecture to another, whereas there is one NetBSD port for each platform, and all the NetBSD ports consist of base userlands compiled from the same source tree.
/etc directory from a NetBSD 1.6 Sparc machine and expand it into the /etc directory of any x86 or 68000 or MIPS or PPC NetBSD 1.6 machine and it will just work.
Hope this makes sense. What it means in the final analysis is that I can (almost) tar up the
Linux is far more client server advaned, that is the market key to Linux.
Nope. Uh-uh. With ever 'advance' in Linux, with nearly every 'distro' it becomes a fatter and heavier 'desktop' while adding just about nothing in the way of being a better client. Face it, the 'fat desktop' model of computer has a lot of appeal, and it's where Linux is heading.
People are always saying that Slackware is dead. One wonders what their motives are in wishing it so.
I've always wondered if it's resentment and/or hostility toward something that works well but doesn't really have many shiney bits to diddle with.
Slackware isn't dead. I wish the Sparc port of Slack hadn't died, though.
People are always saying 'NFS really sucks in general' and it's hard to tell why they say so. It might have to do with poor implementations of NFS on Linux that I've heard mentioned. I have an NFS server here on the home network that's rock steady and serves as a primary 'waypoint' for all the Unix boxes. They're all NetBSD and Solaris boxes, so maybe that's why I haven't had any problem.
Is there a short digest version of what's so bad about NFS on Linux that someone can reiterate?
I ran into some interesting 'UID at the client security' issues at a place I recently worked. I had an NT box, and I threw a copy of Microsoft's Interix POSIX subsystem on the machine. Through coincidence I discovered that I could rsh into any of the Solaris boxes at the company. What I noticed most significantly was that it wasn't asking for a password at all. So, as an experiment (I had the admin password on the NT box, which was my desktop machine) I created an NT account on the machine with a co-worker's UID. *poof* I could rsh into any Solaris box, and I had their account privledges.
I quietly backed out without doing a thing, but it made me a little nervous. The company in question makes implantable medical devices, and it would have taken me a minute or two longer to make changes to firmware code in development for said.
Many people have conveniently forgotten, or they never knew, that 'The Cathederal and the Bazaar' was written to criticize the way the GNU Emacs development project was being run.
It had nothing at all to do with Microsoft.
Raymond had a vision once. It was after one of the better of the CAW (Church of All Worlds) rituals that he reguarly participates in. The one where he played that human thighbone flute and got to ball three nubile wiccan-wannabes.
Microsoft's use of the BSD stock is a good example of them paying attention to the networking community, and not reinventing a wheel (though from what I have heard, they're using a new implementation in current products).
Almost every other company or organization out there that has implemented TCP/IP used the BSD stack. This is good, for it means that when all the different OSes talk to each other with networking, they all speak in the same, or a very similar, dialect.
Linux is unusual in that it doesn't use the Berkeley stack. Word has it Linus had some arbitrary reason for liking somebody else's code instead.
You discredit your arguement if 'Microsoft used the BSD TCP/IP stack' is your strongest evidence. Try again, please.
Now, I know that the C-64 was seen by a lot of people as the poor-man's Apple II (lots of kids bought them because it's what they could afford- remember the Apple II was actually taken seriously as a expensive business computer for a short time..). The Vic-20 is also from that early period. I think you'd have to go back to the CBM line from Commodore to find a machine that wasn't designed as a knockoff of the Apple II.
No, actually when I quit that job to move across country and marry someone, they were sorry to see me go, and my boss's boss even gave me a 'sending off' bonus at my going away party.
Well, some of the biggest promoters of SUVs are the advocates of more choking Federal regulation of the auto industry. People would be buying Station Wagons and other vehicles with lower emissions than overgrown passenger trucks to haul their families around. But the Auto industry was forced to adopt average emissions standards for their fleet of automobiles. SUVs are the result, trucks that people use as passenger vehicles but which aren't calculated into the emissions average as passenger vehicles.
Yes, the SUV explosion is another example of paternalistic government regulations gone bad.
Why not RS-232C cable connectors? Or Token Ring?
At a previous job I always took great delight in entering my hours on the Excel spreadsheet I was given by using small L for the one numeral and capital O for the zero.
I'm not so sure it 'started out' as an Apple thing. My Sun type 5 keyboards have keys surrounding the spacebar similar to the ones on a modern Windoze keyboard.
But we can say it's another Apple Invention if it makes some people feel good.
Off topic rant-
You've gotta either somehow work Mae Ling Mak into your tagline (and ditch Portman) or admit you're a newbie in these parts.
Now you're sounding like the vengeful maintenance engineers from Central Services in the movie Brazil.
Is that some sort of a sysadmin thing?
What about your Sun box forces you to do everything through X? I have a SS10 that runs Solaris, and it does a lot without needing to use X. When I do want to run X on it I don't use the Sun Desktop (a bad idea on a machine as old as a SS10), I use FVWM2 for a Window Manager and all the regular stuff I always used back when I ran Linux.
Wow. Now that must lead to a few stunted shelves at the library. Here in the US they're allowed to have books on the library shelves which only contain Greek or Latin, or whatever language the work was in originally.
There are, of course, people advocating bi-lingual language who'd like to get rid of anything (they refer to it as 'dead white man stuff') that isn't written in Spanglish.
"Give me a Z. Z! Give me an E. E!" etc. etc. etc.
Nuts. Just plain nuts. Spam really bugs some people.