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  1. Re:An important difference on Linux vs. Windows: What's The Difference? · · Score: 1
    This is an add-on layer, not an integral part of the OS. Can you ssh into your windows machine and restart the webserver with one simple command?


    Ever heard of iisreset? I can restart IIS on a remote server from my local machine, provided I have set up the IIS server to allow such.

    Can you totally modify the way your computer runs by writing shell scripts or modifying existing ones? (And yes, I do these things all the time.)


    Yes. They're called batch files. Set up a batch file that executes some vbscript using cscript. It's a decent version of shell scripts.

    To be clear, I dislike working in Windows as much as the next guy. I'd rather be running two dozen Linux boxen than the two dozen Windows boxen I have, but unfortunately you can't drop an existing infrastructure overnight. Migration from one platform to another is not easy, and takes lots of time... Not to mention the costs involved.
  2. Re:Welcome to last week on China Deploys IPv9 Network · · Score: 2, Funny

    Winamp 5 is named such because "who wants a Winamp foreskin?"

  3. Re:certainty on Ward Hunt Ice Shelf Breaks In Two · · Score: 1

    could a huge mirror stop the death ray? can the death ray kill the grimace?

  4. Re:Also include AV and Malware remover. on What Would You Put Into A Software Survival Kit? · · Score: 1

    that's true. i leave ie on the machine, and if i come across a site that doesn't work properly in opera, i email the webmaster. the best benefit of opera is doesn't work. :p

  5. Re:Also include AV and Malware remover. on What Would You Put Into A Software Survival Kit? · · Score: 1

    opera is better than ie, moz, or netscape.

  6. Re:So, we're back to the 60's. on Microsoft Next Generation Shell · · Score: 1

    i honestly use windows as my desktop os and linux as my server os. linux as a gui desktop sucks, just most people won't admit it. linux will be inferior to windows in the desktop arena until the gui is based off something other than xf86. x is too fucking slow.

  7. Re:Another troll article! on Big Brother Lifetime Award Goes To Microsoft · · Score: 1

    i agree with you. about 2 years ago, i had an old windows 95 box that i used daily for irc, mp3 playback and download, browsing, ircd, and a few other things. it was a amd 5x86 133 with 24mb of ram. my best uptime was like 6 weeks, 4 days before explorer died and i rebooted. currently, i have a windows 2000 workstation that has hit about 2 weeks up (i just got this box about a month ago, downed it to install more memory). i also have a server running linux 2.4.18, it's highest uptime has been about 2 months (power company sucks. i have a bit of a clue as to how to configure a windows box. it's not that hard if you take a few minutes and work with it. some people just want to bash microsoft (not saying i like microsoft at all, because i don't) i'm rambling. ignore this.

  8. Re:oooh weeks of uptime on Big Brother Lifetime Award Goes To Microsoft · · Score: 1

    i think they call that version "datacenter edition". it's about $35k.

  9. Re:On what do you base this assertion? on Blogger Hacked · · Score: 1

    didn't this just happen about a week ago?

    *cough*

  10. Re:Blogs, who need em? on Blogger Hacked · · Score: 1

    domainmonger is only $17 per year, including dns hosting.

  11. Re:deal? on Cellphones On Airplanes · · Score: 1

    haha, too bad my mod points died yesterday. someone mod this up!

  12. Re:What will you do? on ECCp-109 Solved · · Score: 3, Funny

    Unable to resolve target system life.liberty.pursuit-of-happiness.

  13. why not... on One Million AOL discs to be returned to AOL · · Score: 1

    just write "package refused: return to sender" on every aol cd you get and send it back to them? it's easier, and doesn't cost you any money.

  14. Re:Revisionist BeOS History? on History and Perspective on BeOS · · Score: 1

    people still use windows 95 and 98 today. it's a multiuser as beos, except beos doesn't pretend to be multiuser.

  15. Re:Lithp? on If Programming Languages Could Speak · · Score: 1

    of course.

  16. Re:if programming languages could speak on If Programming Languages Could Speak · · Score: 1

    You're lack of grammar frightens me.

    thank you jeezus.

  17. Re:I've fallen in love with Opera, but... on "Fastest Browser On Earth" Cuts Crud · · Score: 1

    i set it to identify as mozilla, because some pages will not let you in (like my bank's site ) unless you are using m$ie or netscape.

  18. Re:Children on Shake-up At SonicBlue · · Score: 1

    maybe that's the idea...

  19. Re:Why the FAX law was important on [Junk]Fax.com Fined $5.4 Million · · Score: 1

    i also have an account that does not get spammed. i also have an account that gets 20 - 30 spams a day. i think the strongest form of beating spam is to beat the spammers. i'm sure this would work.

  20. Re:quickbooks on Crossover Gets Quicken · · Score: 1

    i use it at work.. absoulte trash. you may be okay unless you keep inventory in your personal finances. ;-)