And then there is my brother. It was more of a glancing blow. He still hides during storms at 40. No exit wound to speak of, but I always say it obviously got stuck in and bounced around his brain.
I not so sure I agree. OS 8, 7 and so forth are all "dead"... and have been for a while. For me there was little or no interest in OS 9 for about the same reason as my interest level in Windows. Stability. Too many instances (OS 9) where I saw a single application bring the whole house of cards down (reboot).
OS X is THE reason I use a Mac mixed with my Linux world. That is, perhaps, notable point number one. Have you compared Linux running 64 bit compared to 32? Wow. If you think OS X is nice today, on a G5, just wait until the core OS and all the various applications show up with 64 bit capabilities where applicable. It'll raise the bar yet again with no hardware purchases needed for those lucky G5 owners. Of course the current G4 line will continue to work with the 32 bit version which Apple seems to have the ability to keep making faster and better. +90% of the updates from them I've been tickled with. OTOH +90% of the updates from that other company just scare me...
My Netware servers are still, well, serving. Average lift span for the core servers is ten years as it's going now.
I've had similar experiences with Linux as well (running for years on end).
I've played with all the GUI's. NeXT was too pricey. BeOS just never was allowed to catch on. OS/2 almost, so close. I like Linux, but even as a hard core geek the KDE vs. GNome thing is getting rather old. Aqua does the trick though. After using OS X, well, Windows is frankly a joke.
Flame me, troll me, but be honest. The truth hurts sometimes.
That's interesting -- I found it just easier to not support Exchange (ever in any way shape, or form:). Frankly I've never missed it, a dead line, or any of my data or network due to this virus or that... Microsoft based products are off limits in the data-centers.
As previously stated... learn HOW to use the [various] search engines. I found my public library in under 5 seconds. Shorter than it would take me to pick up the phone and dial 411.
Is this the same memory page protection that was supposed to be incorporated into Windows 2000? I can remember being *excited* about Windows 2000 (reading the specs)... as I removed Windows 98se at home and started using Linux there full time.
I've had multiple of their 60G flavors when they were big and bad. You can set them up to do RAID-0 (useless IMHO) and/or RAID-1 (there's versions with multiple drives enclosed). I believe that they have RAID-5 versions as well...
I fortunately had MULTIPLE RAID-1 Snap! servers setup -- the main device (RAID-1) and a mirrored/backup to another RAID-1 Snap! server... which saved my butt. Probably due to lightening the entire device was DOA and the only way to get the data off of it was to send it back to them (for a charge). This is where I switched this type of setup over to old PC's running Linux. Give me a couple of large hard drives and I can do lot of damage/storage for next to nothing.
I've found that a old 486 running Linux with a couple of hard drives stuffed in it (RAID-1) is typically MUCH faster than the Snap! appliance servers and can serve the same clients via the same protocols with no issue.
1. One of these Blaster type worms will come along. AV software won't catch it while it migrates through web servers (and then clients using IE), also via Outlook, and of course the direct connections. Login... reformat. When entire chunks of companies are looking at nothing but the BIOS info they'll SERIOUSLY re-think the whole matter.
1b. Another real option (based on Microsoft's history of code writing) is that one of these updates that comes along -- which EVERYBODY is trying to install quick and fast... will completely trash the system leaving you staring at nothing but... BIOS.
2. OO or WordPerfect (for Linux) sure don't seem cryptic to any of my users. Click File, Open,... Sure, the need for better GUI based configuration routines are being worked on and coming. I will say there is nothing like coding for Linux sitting in front of OS X.:)
3. Have you deployed large scale software roll outs for Linux? Or patched hundreds of systems that needed it due to, oh my gosh, a flaw that was found (and typically fixed if it is serious within 24 hours)? I've done it for Windows, Linux, and OS X. OS X wins hands down (GUI or command line is trivial to deal with), Linux can easily be made to work "magic"... while Windows will sometimes work, sometimes won't. Some Windows applications won't work right, or at all. Heck, some Windows patches require you to run around manually rebooting problem systems -- I've seen 1/10th the headaches dealing with NBM systems.
May you be modded up... and watch as business WILL roll with Linux... and care to bet what the home users follow with? I can't count how many Linux distro CD's I've sent home with people who's 95 or Me box did this or that and won't work right anymore... One of the reasons Microsoft made it to the top was BECAUSE of the pirating going on. Ssshhhh, here, take it. It'll be OK. Well... we, the geeks, FUCKED IT UP. We, the geeks, WILL fix it. The best part? It's not illegal this time...as Microsoft is pinching their users with activation keys and phoning home.
And much like the 'ol Netware servers... once I set up a box and get it running... it just works. And works. And works. Typical deployment time for installation, email setup, web setup, DNS setup, Samba setup [they have got to HATE that one;], and anything else the clients needs... is an afternoons work.
Sure -- you have to keep them updated as needed. The remote "root" type exploits that come along, compared to Windows, is so minimal it's funny. Normal installations don't give end users shell access and unless one of the services being used is remotely exploitable the possibility of any (which is most found) local exploit is quickly mitigated.
Sound Sticks: now playing in MONO, thank you Apple.
Volume control? It rather acts like a BALANCE control, though getting louder as expected. Starts raising volume on one channel (for me the right is first)... and works it's way to the other until they're both together at max volume (in MONO of course).
I've checked the Sound Sticks with another Mac that wasn't upgraded. They work just fine....Oh, and using any application to import [using Quicktime] the DRM'd garbage files... doesn't work anymore. You end up with SILENCE. Yeah, AudioHiJack or burning/ripping still works, but more of a pain.
So now my music sounds like shit and I feel like I'm using a Microsoft product. Great.
I monitor port probing as well -- and see a wide range of known and "unknown" port attempts also coming from all over the world. In the last week not one (!1) probe on port 2000...
Let's see -- it seems that with every release of Windows the printing specifications have changed. Enough to break quirky old app's that *WILL* remain running until I deem necessary. I'm also getting sick of digging in different places for system settings. In Windows 98 they were here, then in 2K over there, and now with XP someplace else.
Have you USED their operating systems? Now, have you *USED* Linux and OS X extensively. I have placed each platform in front of myself and used it solely at home for months on end with each. The Windows box almost got thrown out the Window, but stopped myself short (good hardware) and reformatted Linux and used that. Then I put a Mac in front of myself and continue to use that to this day (Linux is still plugging away in the basement, thank you).
Have you ever used & maintained a Windows Server? How about BSD? Linux? QNX? Netware? Well, again, I have. It also happens to be my job. There's little wonder why there are -0- Windows servers in the data-centers... and you know, most of the Netware servers are notorious for running *YEARS* without a reboot or any issues. My record is just under a decade before I _really_ had to replace the last Netware 3.12 server (every fan in the system was dead after we finally found where it was hidden:).
And people don't wonder why I've been mythodically replacing the Windows boxes in the offices with Linux and Mac's. Particularly after they're up and running on their new system.
As for Microsoft business practices... Yeah, I still want my many THOUSANDS of dollars back for Windows licensing that I _had_ to purchase if I wanted decent hardware through normal OEM channels from many years ago. Funny, but those servers are still running Linux to this day...
I don't care that they dominate the market. Their operating system, well, does suck pretty bad. They've never been leaders, but wanna-be followers who have stolen and cheated their way to the top.
I love Apple's offerings today -- if you've worked with their stuff you'd understand. I wouldn't be without my iPod, and until you sit in front of a iSight you just won't understand. I also have little doubt that if Apple had risen to the top they'd pull the exact same tricks IBM did, Microsoft is, and the next big company probably will. In the mean time... buh-bye Microsoft. Too much money (WAY TOO MUCH) much too fast...
Their stats don't line up with mine -- the only thing I do agree with is that it is getting worse. It continuously has since March of last year it seems. Back then my base was about 500 a day THEN. Today it's much different, but let's digest some numbers.
Forgetting work -- let's just look at my home domain. Hosting my wife and myself I'll look at my email alone. In the last week we've sent/received 42 legit emails. That's about 6 a day between the two of us. In the same week the average _daily_ traffic looks like this:
I'll start by saying that actual junk mail that may make it to the Inbox in front of me is maybe 1 a week. I find even that annoying. Yesterday, an average day -- there were 109 messages harvested by spam sucking address'. Our daily average [last typical week] at home was 6 emails (sometimes less, sometimes more:).
By my numbers that is almost 95% of my email traffic which is simply not wanted, nor allowed.:)
There were also a total of 291 subnets blocked (for various other noticeable offenses:) yesterday alone (a typical day). This includes the harvested messages -- which now puts the email traffic at almost 98% being generated by spam.
Of course, once blocked there's a URL sent back (-0- lookups in the same time frame) which tells you what to do (email a unblocking address or pickup the phone and call me... you do know me, right?:). Yesterday's already blocked address' attempting to send even MORE spam in was 2,251 for a total of 2 email address' which may send/get 6 emails in the same time frame. Now we're at 99.7% of the potential email traffic was all generated by spam..3% was real.
They're numbers, well -- just don't jive with my real life experiences.
The short answer is yes. Get a Mac. (you had to ask:)
Something that I've been now seriously considering doing at the office just kind of happened by accident for me at home -- going to 1Gbit. At home it was doable to do as I didn't need that 16 port 100Mbit switch, but could make it happen with a 5 port series for around $100.
When the switches I want at office hit the right price (they're getting close:) the migration will begin there as well -- fortunately there's already a Mac population started so that'll be just that many less systems I need to swap NIC's out on.
Next to the Mac's the only other box to be upgraded to 1Gbit so far (w/out issue) was the Linux server in the basement. Well, almost -- this quickly opened a can of worms as I was finding issues with my 10Mbit [wireless] uplink. That's of other issue (it was half duplex -- and my antenna is 10Mbit, but really is better to feed it to the local LAN at 100Mbit [done] full duplex... VoIP works so much better now:).
The Mac (for me) hosts the MP3 files and are typically eaten by the SliMP3 player. It has a 10Mbit link -- which isn't even noticed when moving files around at 1Gbit speeds. Yes, I regularly move multi-gig sized files around the network while listening to the iTunes library on the house stereo -- and no, it doesn't "skip". Even while that is going on it's not much of an issue to watch a movie over the network on the laptop (the wife does all the time) while talking to her mom [over the network technically].
Of course having SCSI-160 and 320's peppered about helps as they can sustain these network speeds... You're probably going to find that your hard drive is your limiting factor pretty quickly.
Being from Chicago -- and happy that I can typically watch Chicago's very own... Channel 9 (WGN)... I have to say the first thing that I thought of was what is Microsoft doing with WGN?...yeah, this note has been sent off to their legal department...:)
Interesting take on things -- and I will say that I am no Microsoft fan. I was ticked when I had to pay the Windows tax to get a PC during the time period Microsoft got away with such tatics. Working in IT myself and being a business owner I will say that as a end user I do not trust Microsoft anymore. Not for a long time. WFW3.11 and NT had it going on back in the day. 95 came to market too soon (and no, I didn't buy). 98 wasn't any good until the se release. Me was nothing but a money grab. 2K is barely usable and XP is a joke (IMHO:).
Funny -- of course the offices all run on Linux (and/or Netware to this day, thank you:). New desktops are either OS X or Linux based. Period. Where possible (CAD groups) the networks have been segmented off and there's little Windows worlds that, in a couple of my offices... can't see the Internet. Ever. Yeah, I believe it has come to that (already). Funny, but the networks always... just work. Always.
There something wrong with this guys equations... and I believe that it does NOT account for people like me. There's many of me out there it seems. I took my mom and dad off Windows years ago and they THANKED ME. Go figure. My contribution to the Microsoft coffers since 2000? $-0-
It sure seems that with EVERY major computer type company you look at they're all going one Unix or the other. IBM is Linux. Redhat Linux (obviously:). Mac's are BSD based. BSD is alive and strong, don't think it's not... Novell has gone Linux. HP and Dell want into the mix directly. What do the best tv video recorders all run on?
Microsoft obviously has enough money to be a around for a long while. Even while their markets are being eaten left and right. Windows is, well, a technological JOKE at best -- comparing it personally to any of the Unix's out there. OpenOffice sure isn't going away. Who knows WordPerfect may decently re-appear and there's always -X- company out there to come along. What else does Microsoft make money at? Not much.
I see their bottom line continueing to be eaten away -- left and right. Mean while their costs will continue to sky rocket and things will be, well, fun to watch...
If anyone can help me find my car keys (mis-placed them, probably not stolen as the car *is* in the driveway)... and you live nearby I'll be happy to give you a ride down to the local coffee shop.
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And then there is my brother. It was more of a glancing blow. He still hides during storms at 40. No exit wound to speak of, but I always say it obviously got stuck in and bounced around his brain.
I'm not sure of the relationship :), but my fathers cousin was hit and the exit wound was at the knee. It blew/burned the rest of the leg off...
I not so sure I agree. OS 8, 7 and so forth are all "dead" ... and have been for a while. For me there was little or no interest in OS 9 for about the same reason as my interest level in Windows. Stability. Too many instances (OS 9) where I saw a single application bring the whole house of cards down (reboot).
OS X is THE reason I use a Mac mixed with my Linux world. That is, perhaps, notable point number one. Have you compared Linux running 64 bit compared to 32? Wow. If you think OS X is nice today, on a G5, just wait until the core OS and all the various applications show up with 64 bit capabilities where applicable. It'll raise the bar yet again with no hardware purchases needed for those lucky G5 owners. Of course the current G4 line will continue to work with the 32 bit version which Apple seems to have the ability to keep making faster and better. +90% of the updates from them I've been tickled with. OTOH +90% of the updates from that other company just scare me...
Why would I *want* to use Windows?
My Netware servers are still, well, serving. Average lift span for the core servers is ten years as it's going now.
I've had similar experiences with Linux as well (running for years on end).
I've played with all the GUI's. NeXT was too pricey. BeOS just never was allowed to catch on. OS/2 almost, so close. I like Linux, but even as a hard core geek the KDE vs. GNome thing is getting rather old. Aqua does the trick though. After using OS X, well, Windows is frankly a joke.
Flame me, troll me, but be honest. The truth hurts sometimes.
That's interesting -- I found it just easier to not support Exchange (ever in any way shape, or form :). Frankly I've never missed it, a dead line, or any of my data or network due to this virus or that ... Microsoft based products are off limits in the data-centers.
Interesting -- had a similar implementation back in '88
The answer is simply "NO". OTOH I will be happy to help these poor souls out for a small fee (as in beer :) and get them going with a Linux distro.
...we'd like to talk to you about your homepage...
As previously stated ... learn HOW to use the [various] search engines. I found my public library in under 5 seconds. Shorter than it would take me to pick up the phone and dial 411.
Is this the same memory page protection that was supposed to be incorporated into Windows 2000? I can remember being *excited* about Windows 2000 (reading the specs) ... as I removed Windows 98se at home and started using Linux there full time.
:)
I still run Linux.
Three letters for you: I B M
Absolutely, but of course, YMMV
... which saved my butt. Probably due to lightening the entire device was DOA and the only way to get the data off of it was to send it back to them (for a charge). This is where I switched this type of setup over to old PC's running Linux. Give me a couple of large hard drives and I can do lot of damage/storage for next to nothing.
I've had multiple of their 60G flavors when they were big and bad. You can set them up to do RAID-0 (useless IMHO) and/or RAID-1 (there's versions with multiple drives enclosed). I believe that they have RAID-5 versions as well...
I fortunately had MULTIPLE RAID-1 Snap! servers setup -- the main device (RAID-1) and a mirrored/backup to another RAID-1 Snap! server
I've found that a old 486 running Linux with a couple of hard drives stuffed in it (RAID-1) is typically MUCH faster than the Snap! appliance servers and can serve the same clients via the same protocols with no issue.
And in other news ... Delta flights grounded today due to "a computer glitch"
I have to wonder...
Here's why against your arguments:
... reformat. When entire chunks of companies are looking at nothing but the BIOS info they'll SERIOUSLY re-think the whole matter.
... will completely trash the system leaving you staring at nothing but ... BIOS.
... Sure, the need for better GUI based configuration routines are being worked on and coming. I will say there is nothing like coding for Linux sitting in front of OS X. :)
... while Windows will sometimes work, sometimes won't. Some Windows applications won't work right, or at all. Heck, some Windows patches require you to run around manually rebooting problem systems -- I've seen 1/10th the headaches dealing with NBM systems.
... and watch as business WILL roll with Linux ... and care to bet what the home users follow with? I can't count how many Linux distro CD's I've sent home with people who's 95 or Me box did this or that and won't work right anymore... One of the reasons Microsoft made it to the top was BECAUSE of the pirating going on. Ssshhhh, here, take it. It'll be OK. Well ... we, the geeks, FUCKED IT UP. We, the geeks, WILL fix it. The best part? It's not illegal this time...as Microsoft is pinching their users with activation keys and phoning home.
1. One of these Blaster type worms will come along. AV software won't catch it while it migrates through web servers (and then clients using IE), also via Outlook, and of course the direct connections. Login
1b. Another real option (based on Microsoft's history of code writing) is that one of these updates that comes along -- which EVERYBODY is trying to install quick and fast
2. OO or WordPerfect (for Linux) sure don't seem cryptic to any of my users. Click File, Open,
3. Have you deployed large scale software roll outs for Linux? Or patched hundreds of systems that needed it due to, oh my gosh, a flaw that was found (and typically fixed if it is serious within 24 hours)? I've done it for Windows, Linux, and OS X. OS X wins hands down (GUI or command line is trivial to deal with), Linux can easily be made to work "magic"
May you be modded up
You did all that ... and then posted it on /. ?
... you have a bigger set (or more bandwidth) than me!
I will say
And much like the 'ol Netware servers ... once I set up a box and get it running ... it just works. And works. And works. Typical deployment time for installation, email setup, web setup, DNS setup, Samba setup [they have got to HATE that one ;], and anything else the clients needs ... is an afternoons work.
Sure -- you have to keep them updated as needed. The remote "root" type exploits that come along, compared to Windows, is so minimal it's funny. Normal installations don't give end users shell access and unless one of the services being used is remotely exploitable the possibility of any (which is most found) local exploit is quickly mitigated.
No, Microsoft does not "get it" by a long shot.
...if you haven't already...
... and works it's way to the other until they're both together at max volume (in MONO of course).
...Oh, and using any application to import [using Quicktime] the DRM'd garbage files ... doesn't work anymore. You end up with SILENCE. Yeah, AudioHiJack or burning/ripping still works, but more of a pain.
Sound Sticks: now playing in MONO, thank you Apple.
Volume control? It rather acts like a BALANCE control, though getting louder as expected. Starts raising volume on one channel (for me the right is first)
I've checked the Sound Sticks with another Mac that wasn't upgraded. They work just fine.
So now my music sounds like shit and I feel like I'm using a Microsoft product. Great.
?
:)
I monitor port probing as well -- and see a wide range of known and "unknown" port attempts also coming from all over the world. In the last week not one (!1) probe on port 2000...
It's just you.
Let's see -- it seems that with every release of Windows the printing specifications have changed. Enough to break quirky old app's that *WILL* remain running until I deem necessary. I'm also getting sick of digging in different places for system settings. In Windows 98 they were here, then in 2K over there, and now with XP someplace else.
... and you know, most of the Netware servers are notorious for running *YEARS* without a reboot or any issues. My record is just under a decade before I _really_ had to replace the last Netware 3.12 server (every fan in the system was dead after we finally found where it was hidden :).
... buh-bye Microsoft. Too much money (WAY TOO MUCH) much too fast...
Have you USED their operating systems? Now, have you *USED* Linux and OS X extensively. I have placed each platform in front of myself and used it solely at home for months on end with each. The Windows box almost got thrown out the Window, but stopped myself short (good hardware) and reformatted Linux and used that. Then I put a Mac in front of myself and continue to use that to this day (Linux is still plugging away in the basement, thank you).
Have you ever used & maintained a Windows Server? How about BSD? Linux? QNX? Netware? Well, again, I have. It also happens to be my job. There's little wonder why there are -0- Windows servers in the data-centers
And people don't wonder why I've been mythodically replacing the Windows boxes in the offices with Linux and Mac's. Particularly after they're up and running on their new system.
As for Microsoft business practices... Yeah, I still want my many THOUSANDS of dollars back for Windows licensing that I _had_ to purchase if I wanted decent hardware through normal OEM channels from many years ago. Funny, but those servers are still running Linux to this day...
I don't care that they dominate the market. Their operating system, well, does suck pretty bad. They've never been leaders, but wanna-be followers who have stolen and cheated their way to the top.
I love Apple's offerings today -- if you've worked with their stuff you'd understand. I wouldn't be without my iPod, and until you sit in front of a iSight you just won't understand. I also have little doubt that if Apple had risen to the top they'd pull the exact same tricks IBM did, Microsoft is, and the next big company probably will. In the mean time
Their stats don't line up with mine -- the only thing I do agree with is that it is getting worse. It continuously has since March of last year it seems. Back then my base was about 500 a day THEN. Today it's much different, but let's digest some numbers.
:).
:)
:) yesterday alone (a typical day). This includes the harvested messages -- which now puts the email traffic at almost 98% being generated by spam.
... you do know me, right? :). Yesterday's already blocked address' attempting to send even MORE spam in was 2,251 for a total of 2 email address' which may send/get 6 emails in the same time frame. Now we're at 99.7% of the potential email traffic was all generated by spam. .3% was real.
Forgetting work -- let's just look at my home domain. Hosting my wife and myself I'll look at my email alone. In the last week we've sent/received 42 legit emails. That's about 6 a day between the two of us. In the same week the average _daily_ traffic looks like this:
I'll start by saying that actual junk mail that may make it to the Inbox in front of me is maybe 1 a week. I find even that annoying. Yesterday, an average day -- there were 109 messages harvested by spam sucking address'. Our daily average [last typical week] at home was 6 emails (sometimes less, sometimes more
By my numbers that is almost 95% of my email traffic which is simply not wanted, nor allowed.
There were also a total of 291 subnets blocked (for various other noticeable offenses
Of course, once blocked there's a URL sent back (-0- lookups in the same time frame) which tells you what to do (email a unblocking address or pickup the phone and call me
They're numbers, well -- just don't jive with my real life experiences.
If you ever get a chance to see one ... they're almost amazing:
LED TV's
The short answer is yes. Get a Mac. (you had to ask :)
:) the migration will begin there as well -- fortunately there's already a Mac population started so that'll be just that many less systems I need to swap NIC's out on.
... VoIP works so much better now :).
Something that I've been now seriously considering doing at the office just kind of happened by accident for me at home -- going to 1Gbit. At home it was doable to do as I didn't need that 16 port 100Mbit switch, but could make it happen with a 5 port series for around $100.
When the switches I want at office hit the right price (they're getting close
Next to the Mac's the only other box to be upgraded to 1Gbit so far (w/out issue) was the Linux server in the basement. Well, almost -- this quickly opened a can of worms as I was finding issues with my 10Mbit [wireless] uplink. That's of other issue (it was half duplex -- and my antenna is 10Mbit, but really is better to feed it to the local LAN at 100Mbit [done] full duplex
The Mac (for me) hosts the MP3 files and are typically eaten by the SliMP3 player. It has a 10Mbit link -- which isn't even noticed when moving files around at 1Gbit speeds. Yes, I regularly move multi-gig sized files around the network while listening to the iTunes library on the house stereo -- and no, it doesn't "skip". Even while that is going on it's not much of an issue to watch a movie over the network on the laptop (the wife does all the time) while talking to her mom [over the network technically].
Of course having SCSI-160 and 320's peppered about helps as they can sustain these network speeds... You're probably going to find that your hard drive is your limiting factor pretty quickly.
Being from Chicago -- and happy that I can typically watch Chicago's very own ... Channel 9 (WGN) ... I have to say the first thing that I thought of was what is Microsoft doing with WGN? ...yeah, this note has been sent off to their legal department... :)
Interesting take on things -- and I will say that I am no Microsoft fan. I was ticked when I had to pay the Windows tax to get a PC during the time period Microsoft got away with such tatics. Working in IT myself and being a business owner I will say that as a end user I do not trust Microsoft anymore. Not for a long time. WFW3.11 and NT had it going on back in the day. 95 came to market too soon (and no, I didn't buy). 98 wasn't any good until the se release. Me was nothing but a money grab. 2K is barely usable and XP is a joke (IMHO :).
:). New desktops are either OS X or Linux based. Period. Where possible (CAD groups) the networks have been segmented off and there's little Windows worlds that, in a couple of my offices ... can't see the Internet. Ever. Yeah, I believe it has come to that (already). Funny, but the networks always ... just work. Always.
... and I believe that it does NOT account for people like me. There's many of me out there it seems. I took my mom and dad off Windows years ago and they THANKED ME. Go figure. My contribution to the Microsoft coffers since 2000? $-0-
:). Mac's are BSD based. BSD is alive and strong, don't think it's not... Novell has gone Linux. HP and Dell want into the mix directly. What do the best tv video recorders all run on?
Funny -- of course the offices all run on Linux (and/or Netware to this day, thank you
There something wrong with this guys equations
It sure seems that with EVERY major computer type company you look at they're all going one Unix or the other. IBM is Linux. Redhat Linux (obviously
Microsoft obviously has enough money to be a around for a long while. Even while their markets are being eaten left and right. Windows is, well, a technological JOKE at best -- comparing it personally to any of the Unix's out there. OpenOffice sure isn't going away. Who knows WordPerfect may decently re-appear and there's always -X- company out there to come along. What else does Microsoft make money at? Not much.
I see their bottom line continueing to be eaten away -- left and right. Mean while their costs will continue to sky rocket and things will be, well, fun to watch...
I thought this was Slashdot. Oh well--
... and you live nearby I'll be happy to give you a ride down to the local coffee shop.
If anyone can help me find my car keys (mis-placed them, probably not stolen as the car *is* in the driveway)
Now, where did I put those keys?