You are the idiot because the rules change when you become a monopoly. Also, there is such a thing as competition within a basic ruleset that is meant to protect the basics of the market. Cooperation with, say, commonly accepted and agreed upon open Internet protocols - but then MS comes along with Embrace and Extend.
They are lowlifes over there in Redmond and it is starting to catch up with them with the backlash to their licensing and with a choice in low cost and free office suites that support their file formats.
============= I love and use Linux every day on my network, but I also love Sun Solaris and APPLE OSX. I am forced to use Windows on my work laptop. (Thank God for Cygwin/XFree)
I work for a Software Company in the northeast US, and we have no dress code to speak of. We even wear shorts in hot weather. This is one of the main reasons I stay here in spite of not getting paid what my position merits. Hey, you have to give and take.
As a matter of fact, this new upstart HR person came in and she wears business suits most days - she tried to get a dress code implemented and our VP of R&D (God love him) told her "NO way!". He gets it. He is a tech guy, though, and one of the company founders. I love the guy. He's awesome. (no, he really is)
I feel bad for all of the techies who answer directly to non techie Dilbertian "Pointy Haired" types. When are they going to learn that productivity in a tech environment is directly proportional to the physical comfort of the tech employees?
Ever try to take a dump in the middle of the day and have to struggle with a frekin suit in the stall? I mean, it turns a normally relieving experience into a stressed out sweat drenched nightmare.
Take off your monkey suits and BURN THEM IN THE BOARDROOM!
Last week I picked up a new but defective (video problem - fixed now) slot loading iMac DV for the specific task of exploring OSX. I got the machine (G3, 600Mhz, 256mb, 40gb disk, CDRW), for only $500, spent another $149 on the Applecare to cover it for 3 yrs if anything else goes wrong, got it fixed under the about to expire factory warranty at the local Apple service center. Why did I bother posting all that? To show that you don't have to spend over $1000 to get a Mac that will run OSX nicely.
I upgraded the included 10.1 to Jaguar with a CD from work. Nice OS. It does have some annoying differences, but it is UNIX underneath.
Look, I am a UNIX sysadmin. I admin a very heterogeneous environment at work, with multiple versions and flavors of UNIX and Linux (we are a software compnay and have to house many different flavors and versions that our customers run - you'd be surprised how many companies are still running Solaris 2.3 and 2.5.1 etc).
At home I have a small LAN behind my cable modem and Freesco router, 2 Solaris sparcs, a linux server, and some that change around. I hate using Windows and I wanted a machine that can run consumer software and handle media types without jumping through hoops and using things like Crossover plugins. This machine is perfect for that.
I too never bothered with Mac because the old OS's were toy OS's. Sure they ran some cool software but you couldn't do much else with them. On this thing I can do mainstream stuff, have many plug n play device support, AND do some of the UNIX stuff. Right now I am putting Xfree86 and some other UNIX staples on it so I can run UNIX apps as well as Aqua apps. It's fun.
Don't knock it till you try it. Apple has done a nice thing here and I love having a mainstream alternative to Microsoft stuff. I still love and use GNU/Linux and Solaris and other Unixes, but OSX is a real winner, so don't diss it without giving it an honest try.
I can tell you that this is my first Mac but it sure as hell won't be my last. As soon as I can afford it I am getting a decked out Powerbook as well. One of our software architects at work, a real Unix and all around guru if there ever was one, has a cherry G4 Powerbook and he loves it, and he told me he has had no problems porting UNIX code to it.
....owns Sony Pictures and has declared war on consumer fair use of digital material? Interesting. I wonder if DRM will be on board, as anotehr poster mentioned.
Nice job, Taco, you just made it harder for them to follow Linus' suggestion now that you may have alerted those who might not have been thinking about it in those terms or in relation to the kernel itself. Nice goin hoss.
During the DOT CON days I watched as people came in and out of my employer as if there was a revolving door. They kept telling me that I was dumb for staying put. I was starting to wonder if they were right. I even interviewed a few other places but nothing panned out. I started working here in the summer of '96.
Anyhoo, most of those people are now unemployed. I'm glad that I am not b/c I have a wife and baby to support. My wife is now looking for a job so that we can hopefully afford to get a house soon. I live in northern New Jersey and I know of many people who are out of work. Add to that the fact that the cost if living here is WAY TOO HIGH and you have a recipe for financial disaster for those out of work. My brother in law's cousin, who know ALOT about all kinds of intenet and networking stuff, hands on with routers and such, has been unemployed for over a year now. This guy can't find a job. He says that they all tell him that he is "overqualified". Love that one, huh? Now he is joining some union and going into some trade that escapes me at the moment.
Not being the tradesman type, this is unsettling. Browsing DICE.COM and others all I see are ads for so called jobs by headhunters who want nothing short of Superman (TM) for every job...."We are looking for Superman type who know everything about every technology under the sun and don't want anyone who is money motivated.." - no kidding, I saw one on DICE that looked almost like that! I am lucky to be needed where I am but if I didn't have this job I might be in the same spot. Makes one think about what company one joins. Its more than the bottom line paycheck. My company (a rare doing pretty ok tech company) pays 100% of my health insurance, I still have stock options in case the company stock ever goes up again, 3 weeks of vacation (nothing for you Europeans, I know..), they let us use our cell phones for personal use, the comfort factor that comes from 5+ years in a joint, they still buy us things like company logo clothes even in these tough times, and my pay isn't too bad. I always thought I was worth 15-20k more, but in these times I can't really demand anything more. We also have no dresscode, so I can wear my facial hair and ponytail with pride. I just keep learning more and more *NIX and hopefully some Oracle soon.
Bottom line is that in New Jersey times are tough for alot of techies and my sympathy goes out to them. I hope the overall economy picks up soon. It is hard to imagine that there can be a shortfall in IT, since every company needs some for of IT just to run.
My official title was recently changed to UNIX System Administrator, and even though I have been doing this for a few years now, successfully support almost every flavor of *nix under the sun at our software development company where we need to develop our products on these many Unices, and even have a small LAN at home running mostly Solaris 8 and Linux, I still don't feel like one.
I took some intro PASCAL and C programming after already having a B.A. major in Political Science and a History minor, but programming just doesn't seem to "click" with me. That has unfortunately applied to shell scripting as well. I am not talking about short and simple scripts or CRON jobs, but the more complex scripts that I see other guys write. This means that my boxen will never be as automated as they can be. It bothers me b/c I have bought SO MANY books on KSH, Perl, and other scripting, but none of them, even the O'Reilly books, seems to offer enough complete examples with total explanation so that even I can get comfortable with them. Also, I have yet to find a scripting book that concentrates its examples on sysadmin tasks - things that a sysadmin would like/need to automate. If any of you out there know of one then please post the title/author.
Also, when I look on DICE.com and others, I notice that they always want experience with specific packages that I may not have where I work, so how do I get experience with it? I TRIED to get my boss to spring for Veritas VM but I was told to do it with Sun Disksuite since it was essentially free. I explained how Veritas also makes the VxFS and they all meshed together - fell on deaf ears.
Yeah, but the problem with that and with plain old IMAP clients is that you can't manage your mailbox well and you haven't got the Global addressbook. You have to use everyone's SMTP email address, which is a drag if you work in a medium to large company. I've tried them all, and they all suck. None of the IMAP clients mentioned here is sufficient and the web access is only good for offsite access, NOT as a permanent solution.
Someone out there REALLY needs to address this.
Like it or not Exchange is BIG and getting bigger. Good Exchange admins command 6 figure salaries.
My company uses it and loves it. I would be happy with any email system, but my employer is VERY email-centric. they use email for EVERYTHING. Our CEO has a mailbox that is over a GB, and he uses it.... alot.
We really need an Exchange comparable email system for *NIX, other than Notes-Domino.
The problem is that Exchange is getting bigger and more sophisticated with every incarnation, and through SQL2k, Win2k/XP etc it is getting closer and closer to the OS. They are going to be using SQL2k/XP for the datastore, which means FAST access.
I hate to say it, but without a big company behind it I'm not sure if your average open source teams can build one of those.
It's amazing how there is always some piece of shit do-gooder who must announce to the board, as if by spite, what he has done. I hope that you feel good about yourself since nobody gives a crap about you anyway.
There is nothing wrong with this hack, and there is no way that it would run that company out of business, since I don't see enough people doing it to make a difference. Literally thousands would have to do this to cause a problem, and frankly I see no more than a few hundred buying this thing to hack it.
If the company responds by changing the agreement or the design, then I think they will just be wasting their time "reacting" to a perceived threat....a non-threat, IMNSHO.
============================== Windows NT has crashed, I am the Blue Screen of Death,
Yeah, but alot of us have been evaluating the Beta versions ad already have your lame RTM code. You guys WILL eventually fail, so start packing your bags. I don't care that M$ owns the desktop, or that it is used by alot of idiots or unlucky people, but that M$ has to OWN everything and bastardize open protocols and standards with their "Embrace and Extend" strategy. I just love all of the LIES LIES LIES that spew from Redmond, and all of the PHONEY benchmarks you pay for and the lame webpages that you keep putting out there about Novell and Linux. The tide is turning, pal, and most people are wise to your games. You can't keep turning out SHIT software and get away with it forever. Slowly the Military is getting it, and NASA already loves Linux. I write to US Legislators all the time about how insecure and FRAGILE Windows is, and that I don't want my tax money paying for it.
W2K is one of the lamest OS's I have ever seen. It takes FOREVER to install, sometimes doesn't even make the install. It is no better than NT4. After all of the release date hoopla, bought and paid for by M$, people will start to see what a sham it is. I can't believe that M$ even has the GALL to say with a straight face the Windows is better than SOLARIS!!!! It isn't even better than Solaris 7, let alone Solaris 8!!!! You guys MUST be smoking something over there in Redmond!
I see WinBLOWS boxes go down all the time. The IT staff at my company are Windows slanted, and I laugh at them all the time when crazy things happen, b/c they deserve what happens to them for running Windows on critical systems. Our FTP server runs NT because it uses a third party product for FTP services, and it only runs on Winblows. The drives are mirrored. He had to break the mirror to do a disk upgrade, but when he rebooted he got a BSOD b/c Windows forgot to set the mirror bit off. So the poor bastard had to go through all this crap and do a restore of the main drive and restore an old registry to get it back- or he could have bought Norton and gone in and set the bit manually- what a MESS!!! Who should have to go through that?!?! Idiots who insist on using MS "solutions", that's who. This guy is a nice guy and he is technically very good, and he uses UNIX sometimes, but he believes everything he reads about W2K in these pro M$ magazines, and I have to tell him that its not all he thinks. I mean, I have to remind him, "remember the disk mirroring fiasco?". I have to tell him about this and that article slamming W2K. Pathetic.
Just try to grasp the immense dislike of M$ that the US University system is full of. Tons of future IS/IT people coming out there, and they HATE Windows and LOVE LINUX. Linux is getting stronger every day. Soon a multitude of Journalling Filesystems and otehr Enterprise enhancements will be available. What will you say then? SMP keeps getting better. Michael Dell even stated that Linux sales are taking off on his servers. Every day more and more companies support it. I have used W2K, and have the RTM at work, and what you wrote IS true!
1) Win2k is buggy 2) Win2k is unstable 3) Win2k is outrageously licensed 4) Win2k is bloated 5) Win2k is anti-Linux vaporware 6) Win2k can't live in a heterogeneous lan
YES, it's all true!
I'll give you credit for daring to post with that domain name, however.
============================== Windows NT has crashed, I am the Blue Screen of Death,
There are PLENTY of Windows exploits out there, and if these DDOS tools were compiled for those boxes, I imagine that they also could have been used. The UNIX boxes were more attractive, b/c everyone knows that most UNIX boxes run on large hardware that can better handle the workload to carry out such an attack. I have seen NT machines Blue Screen from stray packets. Maybe everyone should focus on the fact that YAHOO!'s and other attacked services machines that were running UNIX stood up to the attack and although they were swamped they never went down as a result.
There is more than one way to spin a story.
============================== Windows NT has crashed, I am the Blue Screen of Death,
Stop smoking the bad weed, dude. I have used both and I still prefer LINUX over W2K as a workstation. I guess its a matter of preference, but I am frankly sick of all of the morons stating that W2K IS superior. I beg to differ.
I am frankly NOT IMPRESSED by W2K and cannot understand what is so wonderful about it. All it is is NT with a 98'ish front end polish, and they moved everything all over the place to make it look "new and improved". I don't think its all that faster, and it takes forever to install and to boot. Also, on my system, which is mostly premium parts, and runs Nt4, 98, Solaris 8 w/o the Xserver, FreeBSD, and Linux just fine, it couldn't configure my serial ports or my modem correctly. Even when I tried to disable certain hardware profiles it keeps changing them back after the reboot, b/c of course Redmond knows best, and the damn thing stil didn't work. I guess all the the MCSE's will just say it's my fault, right? It's never M$'s fault.
Windows 2000 is SHIT. It's shit with over 65000 BUGS in it. If I want buggy shit I'll look in a stable for it.
============================== Windows NT has crashed, I am the Blue Screen of Death,
Yeah, but they use Media Player as an embrace and extend strategy for the Internet Multimedia area. Embrace streaming, extend it with their own stuff, support other OS's, then when they've won, abandon every OS except Windblows, then you need Winblows to listen to streaming. Monopoly preserved.
Check & mate.
============================== Windows NT has crashed, I am the Blue Screen of Death,
You're a fucking moron. Wake up and join the times, ass. Email is the way things are done today. I work way more than 40 hours, and unlike those Congress idiots who you defend, I don't get to vote my own payraise or get a huge fat pension when I retire. The fact that I pay too much in taxes already- local, state, AND FEDERAL- means that those spoiled lazy asses ought to answer every damn email I send, constituent or not!
You sicken me.
============================== Windows NT has crashed, I am the Blue Screen of Death,
Politicians are useless and lecherous SCUM. They are the lowest of the low. Ever since politics went from public service to a career choice, I have NO RESPECT for them.
In spite of the way I feel, I DO write my Congressmen regularly (they aren't getting off THAT easy)- and I always get a paper response as long as I leave my address- but its always a canned form letter on the topic. I know better than to think they actually READ constituent mail- Hell, I don't vote for Democrats anyway.
I never get anything from other Congressjerks since they don't respond to non Constituents, even though their committee decisions affect us all.
Remember, absolute power corrupts, ABSOLUTELY. America is not a democracy for individuals....only for rich people and corporations. "Let them eat cake..."
============================== Windows NT has crashed, I am the Blue Screen of Death,
It might not die. Read the post the other guy wrote about bacteria surviving on one of our probes and then being brought back to Earth and revived. Life can be very robust.
============================== Windows NT has crashed, I am the Blue Screen of Death,
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You are the idiot because the rules change when you become a monopoly. Also, there is such a thing as competition within a basic ruleset that is meant to protect the basics of the market. Cooperation with, say, commonly accepted and agreed upon open Internet protocols - but then MS comes along with Embrace and Extend.
They are lowlifes over there in Redmond and it is starting to catch up with them with the backlash to their licensing and with a choice in low cost and free office suites that support their file formats.
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I love and use Linux every day on my network, but I also love Sun Solaris and APPLE OSX. I am forced to use Windows on my work laptop. (Thank God for Cygwin/XFree)
I work for a Software Company in the northeast US, and we have no dress code to speak of. We even wear shorts in hot weather. This is one of the main reasons I stay here in spite of not getting paid what my position merits. Hey, you have to give and take.
As a matter of fact, this new upstart HR person came in and she wears business suits most days - she tried to get a dress code implemented and our VP of R&D (God love him) told her "NO way!". He gets it. He is a tech guy, though, and one of the company founders. I love the guy. He's awesome. (no, he really is)
I feel bad for all of the techies who answer directly to non techie Dilbertian "Pointy Haired" types. When are they going to learn that productivity in a tech environment is directly proportional to the physical comfort of the tech employees?
Ever try to take a dump in the middle of the day and have to struggle with a frekin suit in the stall? I mean, it turns a normally relieving experience into a stressed out sweat drenched nightmare.
Take off your monkey suits and BURN THEM IN THE BOARDROOM!
Actually, I'm happily using Mozilla on the OSX iMac.
Last week I picked up a new but defective (video problem - fixed now) slot loading iMac DV for the specific task of exploring OSX. I got the machine (G3, 600Mhz, 256mb, 40gb disk, CDRW), for only $500, spent another $149 on the Applecare to cover it for 3 yrs if anything else goes wrong, got it fixed under the about to expire factory warranty at the local Apple service center. Why did I bother posting all that? To show that you don't have to spend over $1000 to get a Mac that will run OSX nicely.
I upgraded the included 10.1 to Jaguar with a CD from work. Nice OS. It does have some annoying differences, but it is UNIX underneath.
Look, I am a UNIX sysadmin. I admin a very heterogeneous environment at work, with multiple versions and flavors of UNIX and Linux (we are a software compnay and have to house many different flavors and versions that our customers run - you'd be surprised how many companies are still running Solaris 2.3 and 2.5.1 etc).
At home I have a small LAN behind my cable modem and Freesco router, 2 Solaris sparcs, a linux server, and some that change around. I hate using Windows and I wanted a machine that can run consumer software and handle media types without jumping through hoops and using things like Crossover plugins. This machine is perfect for that.
I too never bothered with Mac because the old OS's were toy OS's. Sure they ran some cool software but you couldn't do much else with them. On this thing I can do mainstream stuff, have many plug n play device support, AND do some of the UNIX stuff. Right now I am putting Xfree86 and some other UNIX staples on it so I can run UNIX apps as well as Aqua apps. It's fun.
Don't knock it till you try it. Apple has done a nice thing here and I love having a mainstream alternative to Microsoft stuff. I still love and use GNU/Linux and Solaris and other Unixes, but OSX is a real winner, so don't diss it without giving it an honest try.
I can tell you that this is my first Mac but it sure as hell won't be my last. As soon as I can afford it I am getting a decked out Powerbook as well. One of our software architects at work, a real Unix and all around guru if there ever was one, has a cherry G4 Powerbook and he loves it, and he told me he has had no problems porting UNIX code to it.
....owns Sony Pictures and has declared war on consumer fair use of digital material? Interesting. I wonder if DRM will be on board, as anotehr poster mentioned.
Nice job, Taco, you just made it harder for them to follow Linus' suggestion now that you may have alerted those who might not have been thinking about it in those terms or in relation to the kernel itself. Nice goin hoss.
Like my dear daddy told me, "they can never take your education from you".... and ..."you have the rest of your miserable life to work."
Old man was right.
During the DOT CON days I watched as people came in and out of my employer as if there was a revolving door. They kept telling me that I was dumb for staying put. I was starting to wonder if they were right. I even interviewed a few other places but nothing panned out. I started working here in the summer of '96.
..."We are looking for Superman type who know everything about every technology under the sun and don't want anyone who is money motivated.." - no kidding, I saw one on DICE that looked almost like that! I am lucky to be needed where I am but if I didn't have this job I might be in the same spot. Makes one think about what company one joins. Its more than the bottom line paycheck. My company (a rare doing pretty ok tech company) pays 100% of my health insurance, I still have stock options in case the company stock ever goes up again, 3 weeks of vacation (nothing for you Europeans, I know..), they let us use our cell phones for personal use, the comfort factor that comes from 5+ years in a joint, they still buy us things like company logo clothes even in these tough times, and my pay isn't too bad. I always thought I was worth 15-20k more, but in these times I can't really demand anything more. We also have no dresscode, so I can wear my facial hair and ponytail with pride. I just keep learning more and more *NIX and hopefully some Oracle soon.
Anyhoo, most of those people are now unemployed. I'm glad that I am not b/c I have a wife and baby to support. My wife is now looking for a job so that we can hopefully afford to get a house soon. I live in northern New Jersey and I know of many people who are out of work. Add to that the fact that the cost if living here is WAY TOO HIGH and you have a recipe for financial disaster for those out of work. My brother in law's cousin, who know ALOT about all kinds of intenet and networking stuff, hands on with routers and such, has been unemployed for over a year now. This guy can't find a job. He says that they all tell him that he is "overqualified". Love that one, huh? Now he is joining some union and going into some trade that escapes me at the moment.
Not being the tradesman type, this is unsettling. Browsing DICE.COM and others all I see are ads for so called jobs by headhunters who want nothing short of Superman (TM) for every job.
Bottom line is that in New Jersey times are tough for alot of techies and my sympathy goes out to them. I hope the overall economy picks up soon. It is hard to imagine that there can be a shortfall in IT, since every company needs some for of IT just to run.
You are BOTH wrong. Solaris is free to use, commercial and non-commercial on 8 processors or less.
So, yes they do make money licensing it on the large machines.
My official title was recently changed to UNIX System Administrator, and even though I have been doing this for a few years now, successfully support almost every flavor of *nix under the sun at our software development company where we need to develop our products on these many Unices, and even have a small LAN at home running mostly Solaris 8 and Linux, I still don't feel like one.
I took some intro PASCAL and C programming after already having a B.A. major in Political Science and a History minor, but programming just doesn't seem to "click" with me. That has unfortunately applied to shell scripting as well. I am not talking about short and simple scripts or CRON jobs, but the more complex scripts that I see other guys write. This means that my boxen will never be as automated as they can be. It bothers me b/c I have bought SO MANY books on KSH, Perl, and other scripting, but none of them, even the O'Reilly books, seems to offer enough complete examples with total explanation so that even I can get comfortable with them. Also, I have yet to find a scripting book that concentrates its examples on sysadmin tasks - things that a sysadmin would like/need to automate. If any of you out there know of one then please post the title/author.
Also, when I look on DICE.com and others, I notice that they always want experience with specific packages that I may not have where I work, so how do I get experience with it? I TRIED to get my boss to spring for Veritas VM but I was told to do it with Sun Disksuite since it was essentially free. I explained how Veritas also makes the VxFS and they all meshed together - fell on deaf ears.
Anyone have any other (useful) suggestions?
Thanks,
Tom
Yeah, but the problem with that and with plain old IMAP clients is that you can't manage your mailbox well and you haven't got the Global addressbook. You have to use everyone's SMTP email address, which is a drag if you work in a medium to large company. I've tried them all, and they all suck. None of the IMAP clients mentioned here is sufficient and the web access is only good for offsite access, NOT as a permanent solution.
Someone out there REALLY needs to address this.
Like it or not Exchange is BIG and getting bigger. Good Exchange admins command 6 figure salaries.
My company uses it and loves it. I would be happy with any email system, but my employer is VERY email-centric. they use email for EVERYTHING. Our CEO has a mailbox that is over a GB, and he uses it.... alot.
We really need an Exchange comparable email system for *NIX, other than Notes-Domino.
The problem is that Exchange is getting bigger and more sophisticated with every incarnation, and through SQL2k, Win2k/XP etc it is getting closer and closer to the OS. They are going to be using SQL2k/XP for the datastore, which means FAST access.
I hate to say it, but without a big company behind it I'm not sure if your average open source teams can build one of those.
Make me wrong PLEASE?
Eat Shit you goddamn fuck.
I don't remember the IRA bombing Big Ben or anything remotely as populated as the WTC.
The Muslims believe in an Eye for an Eye. YOU deal with it, you hippie bastard.
Thanks! I copied that very well written letter and sent it to the President, to my 2 Senators, and my Representative.
I also signed some other guy's petition and alerted the HRRC.org, ACLU.org, and EFF.org to this new successor to the DMCA.
Cheers!!
Imagine if every lazy fool did this??
Sad, but they won't.
It's amazing how there is always some piece of shit do-gooder who must announce to the board, as if by spite, what he has done. I hope that you feel good about yourself since nobody gives a crap about you anyway.
...a non-threat, IMNSHO.
There is nothing wrong with this hack, and there is no way that it would run that company out of business, since I don't see enough people doing it to make a difference. Literally thousands would have to do this to cause a problem, and frankly I see no more than a few hundred buying this thing to hack it.
If the company responds by changing the agreement or the design, then I think they will just be wasting their time "reacting" to a perceived threat.
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Windows NT has crashed,
I am the Blue Screen of Death,
Yeah, but alot of us have been evaluating the Beta versions ad already have your lame RTM code. You guys WILL eventually fail, so start packing your bags. I don't care that M$ owns the desktop, or that it is used by alot of idiots or unlucky people, but that M$ has to OWN everything and bastardize open protocols and standards with their "Embrace and Extend" strategy. I just love all of the LIES LIES LIES that spew from Redmond, and all of the PHONEY benchmarks you pay for and the lame webpages that you keep putting out there about Novell and Linux. The tide is turning, pal, and most people are wise to your games. You can't keep turning out SHIT software and get away with it forever. Slowly the Military is getting it, and NASA already loves Linux. I write to US Legislators all the time about how insecure and FRAGILE Windows is, and that I don't want my tax money paying for it.
W2K is one of the lamest OS's I have ever seen. It takes FOREVER to install, sometimes doesn't even make the install. It is no better than NT4. After all of the release date hoopla, bought and paid for by M$, people will start to see what a sham it is. I can't believe that M$ even has the GALL to say with a straight face the Windows is better than SOLARIS!!!! It isn't even better than Solaris 7, let alone Solaris 8!!!! You guys MUST be smoking something over there in Redmond!
I see WinBLOWS boxes go down all the time. The IT staff at my company are Windows slanted, and I laugh at them all the time when crazy things happen, b/c they deserve what happens to them for running Windows on critical systems. Our FTP server runs NT because it uses a third party product for FTP services, and it only runs on Winblows. The drives are mirrored. He had to break the mirror to do a disk upgrade, but when he rebooted he got a BSOD b/c Windows forgot to set the mirror bit off. So the poor bastard had to go through all this crap and do a restore of the main drive and restore an old registry to get it back- or he could have bought Norton and gone in and set the bit manually- what a MESS!!! Who should have to go through that?!?! Idiots who insist on using MS "solutions", that's who. This guy is a nice guy and he is technically very good, and he uses UNIX sometimes, but he believes everything he reads about W2K in these pro M$ magazines, and I have to tell him that its not all he thinks. I mean, I have to remind him, "remember the disk mirroring fiasco?". I have to tell him about this and that article slamming W2K. Pathetic.
Just try to grasp the immense dislike of M$ that the US University system is full of. Tons of future IS/IT people coming out there, and they HATE Windows and LOVE LINUX. Linux is getting stronger every day. Soon a multitude of Journalling Filesystems and otehr Enterprise enhancements will be available. What will you say then? SMP keeps getting better. Michael Dell even stated that Linux sales are taking off on his servers. Every day more and more companies support it. I have used W2K, and have the RTM at work, and what you wrote IS true!
1) Win2k is buggy
2) Win2k is unstable
3) Win2k is outrageously licensed
4) Win2k is bloated
5) Win2k is anti-Linux vaporware
6) Win2k can't live in a heterogeneous lan
YES, it's all true!
I'll give you credit for daring to post with that domain name, however.
==============================
Windows NT has crashed,
I am the Blue Screen of Death,
There are PLENTY of Windows exploits out there, and if these DDOS tools were compiled for those boxes, I imagine that they also could have been used. The UNIX boxes were more attractive, b/c everyone knows that most UNIX boxes run on large hardware that can better handle the workload to carry out such an attack. I have seen NT machines Blue Screen from stray packets. Maybe everyone should focus on the fact that YAHOO!'s and other attacked services machines that were running UNIX stood up to the attack and although they were swamped they never went down as a result.
There is more than one way to spin a story.
==============================
Windows NT has crashed,
I am the Blue Screen of Death,
Stop smoking the bad weed, dude. I have used both and I still prefer LINUX over W2K as a workstation. I guess its a matter of preference, but I am frankly sick of all of the morons stating that W2K IS superior. I beg to differ.
I am frankly NOT IMPRESSED by W2K and cannot understand what is so wonderful about it. All it is is NT with a 98'ish front end polish, and they moved everything all over the place to make it look "new and improved". I don't think its all that faster, and it takes forever to install and to boot. Also, on my system, which is mostly premium parts, and runs Nt4, 98, Solaris 8 w/o the Xserver, FreeBSD, and Linux just fine, it couldn't configure my serial ports or my modem correctly. Even when I tried to disable certain hardware profiles it keeps changing them back after the reboot, b/c of course Redmond knows best, and the damn thing stil didn't work. I guess all the the MCSE's will just say it's my fault, right? It's never M$'s fault.
Windows 2000 is SHIT. It's shit with over 65000 BUGS in it. If I want buggy shit I'll look in a stable for it.
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Windows NT has crashed,
I am the Blue Screen of Death,
Yeah, but they use Media Player as an embrace and extend strategy for the Internet Multimedia area. Embrace streaming, extend it with their own stuff, support other OS's, then when they've won, abandon every OS except Windblows, then you need Winblows to listen to streaming. Monopoly preserved.
Check & mate.
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Windows NT has crashed,
I am the Blue Screen of Death,
You're a fucking moron. Wake up and join the times, ass. Email is the way things are done today. I work way more than 40 hours, and unlike those Congress idiots who you defend, I don't get to vote my own payraise or get a huge fat pension when I retire. The fact that I pay too much in taxes already- local, state, AND FEDERAL- means that those spoiled lazy asses ought to answer every damn email I send, constituent or not!
You sicken me.
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Windows NT has crashed,
I am the Blue Screen of Death,
Politicians are useless and lecherous SCUM. They are the lowest of the low. Ever since politics went from public service to a career choice, I have NO RESPECT for them.
...only for rich people and corporations. "Let them eat cake..."
In spite of the way I feel, I DO write my Congressmen regularly (they aren't getting off THAT easy)- and I always get a paper response as long as I leave my address- but its always a canned form letter on the topic. I know better than to think they actually READ constituent mail- Hell, I don't vote for Democrats anyway.
I never get anything from other Congressjerks since they don't respond to non Constituents, even though their committee decisions affect us all.
Remember, absolute power corrupts, ABSOLUTELY. America is not a democracy for individuals.
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Windows NT has crashed,
I am the Blue Screen of Death,
Ok, I prefer Linux to Winblows.
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Windows NT has crashed,
I am the Blue Screen of Death,
Well, I guess Mr. Hanky is comin' on New Years this year!
Howdy Ho boys 'n girls!
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Windows NT has crashed,
I am the Blue Screen of Death,
It might not die. Read the post the other guy wrote about bacteria surviving on one of our probes and then being brought back to Earth and revived. Life can be very robust.
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Windows NT has crashed,
I am the Blue Screen of Death,