I don't run anything close to a datacenter, so this probably is not applicable to anyone with more than 20 servers, but I run my ntp service on parts attached to a wooden 2x4 (just because I can). It's an arm 800 MHz cpu and keeps very accurate time. Most of our DNS and DHCP is on sheevaplug style 'boxes'. They don't keep accurate enough time for me...
Really? They do? Crap. Why am I still paying for it then?
They don't give their software away. It's cheap, but certainly not free. Even as a student, it still costs something ($60) for MS Office.
They filed like 3 years ago. Meanwhile, all these other companies decide it's a good idea and implement it. Now all these companies are going to take it up the (random explitive) just because the uspto is so (another random explitive) slow.
Seriously though, I doubt M$ has ever had a truly original idea (or did i steal that line from A Beautiful Mind?), and I doubt they ever will. It's all about the money for them. They don't care about innovation, unless it gets them more money. We'd still be running M$-DOS if it could generate enough revenue, but go ahead and tell me how i'm wrong, and how they've donated crap to schools, and tried to share the source code. (one more random explitive) I'm done now
you're right, you're not smart enough.
oops, did i just say that out loud?
I must admit, there was a time when I felt the same way as you, but amazingly enough, I didn't fall head over heels for linux until Gentoo came along (most likely the most difficult distro for initial setup). Fortunately, I had friends who used linux, and the gentoo forums are amazing, and now I can barely handle using windows.
By the way, this was written from a windows machine, which has twice the power of my linux box, and still barely runs faster.
And I'm not sure why I should ask my local restaurant what operating system to run. I work at a college, and after this summer, all of our servers, including student registration, and financial accounting stuff, will be running linux, and we'll all be happier (and have extra money to spend on our faculty, instead of on overpriced microsoft licensing)
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I don't run anything close to a datacenter, so this probably is not applicable to anyone with more than 20 servers, but I run my ntp service on parts attached to a wooden 2x4 (just because I can). It's an arm 800 MHz cpu and keeps very accurate time. Most of our DNS and DHCP is on sheevaplug style 'boxes'. They don't keep accurate enough time for me...
Really? They do? Crap. Why am I still paying for it then? They don't give their software away. It's cheap, but certainly not free. Even as a student, it still costs something ($60) for MS Office.
Yes, but you were also paying for that space.
They filed like 3 years ago. Meanwhile, all these other companies decide it's a good idea and implement it. Now all these companies are going to take it up the (random explitive) just because the uspto is so (another random explitive) slow. Seriously though, I doubt M$ has ever had a truly original idea (or did i steal that line from A Beautiful Mind?), and I doubt they ever will. It's all about the money for them. They don't care about innovation, unless it gets them more money. We'd still be running M$-DOS if it could generate enough revenue, but go ahead and tell me how i'm wrong, and how they've donated crap to schools, and tried to share the source code. (one more random explitive) I'm done now
you're right, you're not smart enough. oops, did i just say that out loud? I must admit, there was a time when I felt the same way as you, but amazingly enough, I didn't fall head over heels for linux until Gentoo came along (most likely the most difficult distro for initial setup). Fortunately, I had friends who used linux, and the gentoo forums are amazing, and now I can barely handle using windows. By the way, this was written from a windows machine, which has twice the power of my linux box, and still barely runs faster. And I'm not sure why I should ask my local restaurant what operating system to run. I work at a college, and after this summer, all of our servers, including student registration, and financial accounting stuff, will be running linux, and we'll all be happier (and have extra money to spend on our faculty, instead of on overpriced microsoft licensing)