Hardware acceleration wasn't the problem with NT4. The drivers were loaded in Ring 0, for additional speed. Of course, this meant that the slightest problem with a driver blue-screened your server, but I guess Micro$lop didn't care. If they've stopped this for 2k3, all well and good. If nothing else, servers don't need fast graphics, DirectX or anything like that. Those are for workstations.
We don't need to increase the address space to get more IP addresses. Just get rid of Class A and Class B IP addresses, and let everybody work with Class C. Why anybody would ever have thought that somebody would need 16 million or so IP addresses for their exclusive use is beyond me. Hell, how many companies with Class B subnets need than much address space? Just go to Class C for everybody and reclaim all the waste.
If you're getting so many UNIX features, why not just go to UNIX and be done with it?
Yes, I know, there are always programs you can't do without and can't find in UNIX. There's also, of course, the problem of getting people to try something new. For many people, learning anything new is hard, and once they've done it, they don't want to do it again, so there's lots of resistance to change. However, all these new features look like Micro$lop's finally realized that they did it the wrong way in the first place, but don't want to admit it.
I think the biggest problem for me is that all these shiny new features are still piled on top of all the existing Windows cruft. The old vulnerabilities are all still there, still unpatched, still waiting to be exploited. As long as a glitch in a display driver is still allowed to crash your server without warning, I'll stay away from anything built on NT "technology," TYVM.
I didn't find Miller evasive, just unclear on the concept. He just didn't seem (to me, at least) to have any idea that the ugrade needed to be authenticated before it was run. He came across as thinking that getting a CD with an update was proof in and of itself that it was authentic and should be used.
It rather reminds me of the time I tried to find out why a bank had a certain policy. All the teller could say was that it was company policy, so I asked her to get the manager. He agreed that it was policy, which I already knew. When I asked him why it was company policy, he told me, "Because it's company policy." That's right! It's company policy because it's company policy because it's company policy. No matter how hard I tried, I never managed to get him to listen to my actual question, or to see that he wasn't answering it. Mr. Miller sounds just like this: "If it comes on a CD it's authentic, because it came on a CD."
If you'd ever had your email box flooded with bounces from messages you'd never sent because some lusing twitiot spammer had used your address as a return address, you'd be sensative too. I know; I have. There isn't anything you can compare a spammer to that wouldn't be insulted by the reference, and as far as I'm concerned, the Death of a Thousand Paper-cuts is too good for them.
I started out with a trackball, as my desk didn' really have room for a trackball. Now, I wouldn't have it any other way. I not only use one at home, I have one for work as well. Not only does it make scrolling (horizontal, as well as vertical) easy, I never have to worry about repositioning it, or bumping into anything. For me, a mouse is just a poor substitute for a proper pointing device.
It all depends on what you're used to. I've used a three-button trackball for so long that a wheel wouldn't feel right. However, if you prefer a wheel, go for it.
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Hardware acceleration wasn't the problem with NT4. The drivers were loaded in Ring 0, for additional speed. Of course, this meant that the slightest problem with a driver blue-screened your server, but I guess Micro$lop didn't care. If they've stopped this for 2k3, all well and good. If nothing else, servers don't need fast graphics, DirectX or anything like that. Those are for workstations.
We don't need to increase the address space to get more IP addresses. Just get rid of Class A and Class B IP addresses, and let everybody work with Class C. Why anybody would ever have thought that somebody would need 16 million or so IP addresses for their exclusive use is beyond me. Hell, how many companies with Class B subnets need than much address space? Just go to Class C for everybody and reclaim all the waste.
Yes, I know, there are always programs you can't do without and can't find in UNIX. There's also, of course, the problem of getting people to try something new. For many people, learning anything new is hard, and once they've done it, they don't want to do it again, so there's lots of resistance to change. However, all these new features look like Micro$lop's finally realized that they did it the wrong way in the first place, but don't want to admit it.
I think the biggest problem for me is that all these shiny new features are still piled on top of all the existing Windows cruft. The old vulnerabilities are all still there, still unpatched, still waiting to be exploited. As long as a glitch in a display driver is still allowed to crash your server without warning, I'll stay away from anything built on NT "technology," TYVM.
It rather reminds me of the time I tried to find out why a bank had a certain policy. All the teller could say was that it was company policy, so I asked her to get the manager. He agreed that it was policy, which I already knew. When I asked him why it was company policy, he told me, "Because it's company policy." That's right! It's company policy because it's company policy because it's company policy. No matter how hard I tried, I never managed to get him to listen to my actual question, or to see that he wasn't answering it. Mr. Miller sounds just like this: "If it comes on a CD it's authentic, because it came on a CD."
If you'd ever had your email box flooded with bounces from messages you'd never sent because some lusing twitiot spammer had used your address as a return address, you'd be sensative too. I know; I have. There isn't anything you can compare a spammer to that wouldn't be insulted by the reference, and as far as I'm concerned, the Death of a Thousand Paper-cuts is too good for them.
I started out with a trackball, as my desk didn' really have room for a trackball. Now, I wouldn't have it any other way. I not only use one at home, I have one for work as well. Not only does it make scrolling (horizontal, as well as vertical) easy, I never have to worry about repositioning it, or bumping into anything. For me, a mouse is just a poor substitute for a proper pointing device.
It all depends on what you're used to. I've used a three-button trackball for so long that a wheel wouldn't feel right. However, if you prefer a wheel, go for it.