[rescue] Re: [geeks] THIS. MAKES. ME. SICK.

[Paul Sladen]

Interesting... you like both NT and BeOS... neither of which has any memory
protection.

Paul

On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Will Jennings wrote:

> Well, just to add in my own 2 cents worth, and to somewhat go with the 
> general "know-what-you're-doing" path.. Our NT server at work is practically 
> never down, unless we're doing fun things like "hey, I heard this linux 
> thingy will boot on a floppy and hack the admin pw! Cool! Damn, didn't work! 
> Ok, time to bring the server back up.." *grin* But then our company has 3 
> total employees. However, on a larger scale, I have customers that use NT 
> exclusively, and for significantly larger numbers of users (I work for 
> SMB-aimed VAR). And the NT servers we set up don't go down... But then, we 
> know what we're doing too... Not trying to send pretentious, but my dad is 
> an MCSE and MCP, and has been in the computer business since 1965, and I've 
> been using computers since the age of 3. Also, we generally only sell HP 
> Netservers and IBM Netfinitys as NT servers, no Dell shit (I call them 
> "Smell" and often joke about them being something good to fill dumpsters 
> with). But largely it comes to opinion... God, I hate NetWare, I like SCO, 
> linux pissed me off, thing would go haywire in the install process, haven't 
> tried BSDs, I dislike Sun as a company and dislike their hardware but will 
> soon teach myself Solaris, I like VMS very much, same with RT-11, MacOS 
> needs to be burned and please bring me the head of Jobs on an iron pike.. 
> (no strong feelings there!), BeOS is a great thing, I'm sad when I see it 
> not taking off, I'll soon also be learning SSP, and HP/UX. But really, you 
> can find good things about all of them and bad things about all of them, it 
> often comes down to personal preference.. Such as people who don't like MS 
> in general are not likely to say good things about NT.. Sorry if I offended 
> anyone, all views are my own and not yours : ) LOL Keep in mind the old 
> saying: "Opinions are like assholes; everyone's got 'em"
> 
> Will J
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