[geeks] Recommendations?

[Kurt Huhn]

Dave McGuire wrote:
> > Market Share.  People are afraid to go with the "Underdog".
> 
>   But man, that makes SO much sense.  "These people made a lot of
> money, so obviously their products are good!"  ...in keeping with this
> society's population's sad tendency to avoid thinking for themselves
> AT ALL COST!

I think the thought process is "MS is a huge corporation, they've got
deep pockets, and they'll be around for a long time.  Therefor we don't
need to worry about the vendor disappearing in the next couple of years,
and our infrastructure and end-user skills are safe."  Flawed yes, but
that's the way suits think.  Never mind "that unix thing" has been
around longer than most people on their staff...

> 
>   Fucking annoying.   *grumble*
> 
>   But no matter.  I think for myself, my computers don't crash, I
> haven't lost work in well over ten years.  Who gives a shit that I
> can't play video games...I outgrew that shit when I was 12 anyway.
> 

I haven't lost a single byte of work since I started using SGI
machines.  I did lose a few things on my Sparc Classic when it suffered
a power outage a few years ago - just by virtue of not having a
journaled FS.  Same thing coulda happened on an other computer at that
time though.
-- 
Kurt
kurt at k-huhn.com