Linux-Advocacy Digest #776, Volume #31 Sat, 27 Jan 01 19:13:04 EST
Contents:
Re: 3100 W2K Adv Servers deployed accross Europe (Mig)
Re: you guys suck and so does your os! (Nigel)
Re: NTFS Limitations (Was: RE: Red hat becoming illegal?) (Giuliano Colla)
Re: Linux 2.4 Major Advance ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: THOLEN IS A MISERABLE PIECE OF SHIT ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: 3100 W2K Adv Servers deployed accross Europe ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: Comparison: Installing W2K and Linux 2.4 (Nigel)
Re: 3100 W2K Adv Servers deployed accross Europe ("Ayende Rahien")
Re: Linux 2.4 Major Advance ("Ayende Rahien")
Re: NTFS Limitations (Was: RE: Red hat becoming illegal?) ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: Gates Vaccine (mlw)
Re: All this Whistler stuff. (Nigel)
Re: 3100 W2K Adv Servers deployed accross Europe (Mig)
Re: How long does your box run for? (Matthias Warkus)
Re: Is the Web really fragile? (Matthias Warkus)
Re: Kernel upgrade - not bad at all (Matthias Warkus)
Re: Gates Vaccine (Matthias Warkus)
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From: Mig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: 3100 W2K Adv Servers deployed accross Europe
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 00:09:08 +0100
Ayende Rahien wrote:
>
> "J Sloan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Chad Myers wrote:
> >
> > > Who holds the #1 - #4 spots on the TPC.org TPC-C performance rankings?
> >
> > Just the fact that chad asks the question tells us that
> > there are some windows pcs there -
> >
> > My prediction is that these windows records will
> > be broken by Unix systems - maybe solaris, maybe
> > aix, maybe Linux, maybe all of the above, but they
> > will not stand.
>
> So far they have not been able to break them, and MS is holding the top
> records for a *long* time now.
Dont you find it weird that those numbers increased so much over just one
year? MS software came from nowhere to be number one suddenly.... i dont
believe it - if this is correct then the test is completely obsolute.
But what the heck.. since the results are so good put IIS on top and make
some money here http://www.oracle.com/guarantee/index.html?content.html
--
Cheers
------------------------------
From: Nigel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: you guys suck and so does your os!
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 23:24:46 +0000
> At first, installing SuSE or Corel was a very hard job for him and for
> the second KNode is really hard to use.
>
Firstly, nobody with any real knowledge of linux would be using corel linux
and secondly, what is so hard about using Knode?
(this reply was posted from a P133 laptop with 32mb ram running Knode under
mandrake 7.2 with ICEWM windowmanager).
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From: Giuliano Colla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: NTFS Limitations (Was: RE: Red hat becoming illegal?)
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 23:26:27 GMT
"Norman D. Megill" wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, J Sloan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Chad Myers wrote:
> >
> > > So, I'm an enterprise. I have millions of dollars resting on the stability
> > > of my XYZ software server. I have to be absolutely certain that it won't
> > > go down because I lose thousands of dollars a minute on downtime.
> > > I need, among other things, a rock-sold filesystem that I can depend on.
> > > I can:
> > >
> > > a.) Go with MS and have a filesystem that is true tested and has been
> > > around for years
> >
> > bzzt - wrong answer - if you look at the track record
> > of windows nt, the all too frequent crashes and the
> > need for therapeutic reboots make it a poor choice for
> > the data center.
>
> Another curious characteristic of NTFS is that the Master File Table
> grows but never shrinks. It can fill up to 90% of an NTFS volume, even
> after all files are deleted, and the only way to recover the space is to
> reformat the drive. See:
>
> http://packetstorm.securify.com/9904-exploits/nt.ntfs.mft.txt
>
> The response from Microsoft to a complaint about this was as follows:
>
> "My investigations and the answers from our Secondary Response Group
> confirmed, that the $MFT will never shrink. The only way is to reformat
> the Partition. This behavior is the drawback resulting from optimizing
> the NTFS performance. The main goal was to avoid fragmentation...."
>
The amusing part is that, according PC Magazine tests, the greatest
drawback of NTFS is excessive fragmentation, which produces an
increasing loss of performance with time.
> "I checked this with our Escallation Team and so i can say that this
> behavior of NTFS will not be changed."
>
> So, not only do you need therapeutic reboots, you also need therapeutic
> reformats.
>
PC Magazine suggests reformatting once a year, because of fragmentation!
Algorithms to minimize fragmentation without loosing space do exist from
at least 25 years, otherwise dynamic memory allocation would be
impossible!.
> --Norm
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From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux 2.4 Major Advance
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 18:25:59 -0500
Chad Myers wrote:
>
> "spewage forth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:94to6o$7ev$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > In comp.os.linux.advocacy Chad Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > > news:94s88j$11i$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > >> In comp.os.linux.advocacy Chad Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> > "J Sloan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > >> >> Chad Myers wrote:
> > >> >>
> > >> >> > P.S.- sponsoring an independant benchmark does not necessarily
> > >> >> > taint the findings.
> > >> >>
> > >> >> Hint: "sponsored" and "independent" clash.
> > >>
> > >> > Then you have no idea how the scientific world works. All studies
> > >> > are sponsored by someone, but it doesn't affect the outcome of
> > >> > the study.
> > >>
> > >> Then you have never been involved in the 'scientific world'.
> > >>
> > >> I have. I was involved in radon research in the late 80s-early90s
> > >> in northeastern pennsylvania.
> > >>
> > >> I can tell you that under no uncertian terms, sponsorship absolutely
> > >> affects the outcome of these studies.
> >
> > > Ah yes, anecdotal qualified evidence. Suddenly, this makes everything
> > > ok.
> >
> > Sorry chad, I didnt mean to interrupt your steady stream of bullshit
> > with actual experience.
> >
> > > Whatever.
> >
> > Everyone who disagrees with chad is wrong. I see.
>
> Everyone who disagrees with Chad with no basis for disagreeing, no facts,
> no logical arguments, just "I was a scientists, uh huh, yes I was" claims.
> Give me a break. If you think anyone believes you...
>
> > And every study which shows that linux is in any way superior to windows
> > is biased.
>
> No, just ones on LinuxToday.com and C't. There are several ZDnet ones that
> show Linux doing things better. I've never questioned the validity of those.
> It's just ironic how there are several companies out there doing benchmarks
> of Linux vs NT but never publish the results, or the results aren't very
> conclusive. We don't have ONE major benchmark showing Linux doing anything
> really all that well except for SpecWeb. Ever wonder why there aren't many,
> if any benchmarks showing Linux winning anything?
Nope, I don't wonder at all.
The Microsoft EULA specifically prohibits publishing ANY performance
data which shows Microsoft coming behind the competition.
Ever wonder why the ONLY published competitions which Microsoft wins are ones
where the MS system has significantly more memory and/or CPU bandwidth and/or
disk drives and/or disk bandwidth.
Hint: Because on identical equipmnet, Microsoft loses, and the EULA
specifically prohibits publishing the results.
>
> -Chad
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall....
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that she doesn't like.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
------------------------------
From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: THOLEN IS A MISERABLE PIECE OF SHIT
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 18:27:09 -0500
Ralph Miguel Hansen wrote:
>
> Aaron R. Kulkis wrote:
>
> >
> snip
> >
> > Muana Loa is an active volcano in Hawaii...where Tholen lives.
> snip
> >
> Thanks...... . So possibly Tholen said something you didn't agree with, I
> presume.
In over a decade of writing, Tholen has yet to produce even one
posting on USENET which would indicate an IQ above 80.
>
> Cheers
>
> Ralph Miguel Hansen
> Using SuSE 5.3 and 7.0
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall....
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that she doesn't like.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
------------------------------
From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 3100 W2K Adv Servers deployed accross Europe
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 18:31:03 -0500
Mig wrote:
>
> Ayende Rahien wrote:
>
> >
> > "J Sloan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > Chad Myers wrote:
> > >
> > > > Who holds the #1 - #4 spots on the TPC.org TPC-C performance rankings?
> > >
> > > Just the fact that chad asks the question tells us that
> > > there are some windows pcs there -
> > >
> > > My prediction is that these windows records will
> > > be broken by Unix systems - maybe solaris, maybe
> > > aix, maybe Linux, maybe all of the above, but they
> > > will not stand.
> >
> > So far they have not been able to break them, and MS is holding the top
> > records for a *long* time now.
>
> Dont you find it weird that those numbers increased so much over just one
> year? MS software came from nowhere to be number one suddenly.... i dont
> believe it - if this is correct then the test is completely obsolute.
>
> But what the heck.. since the results are so good put IIS on top and make
> some money here http://www.oracle.com/guarantee/index.html?content.html
>
Ayende is now going to deny that he has any use for US $1,000,000
or the equivalent value in his local currency.
> --
> Cheers
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall....
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that she doesn't like.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
------------------------------
From: Nigel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Comparison: Installing W2K and Linux 2.4
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 23:33:30 +0000
> temporary kludge. BTW do you think windows could run
> Linux programs at all, let alone at near normal speed?
>
I guess there is always the option of booting linux under the win2k version
of vmware - very slow though and none of the stability of booting windows
under the linux version of vmware.
> Pardon me but your ignorance is showing.
>
> gimp has been in every Linux distro I've ever seen.
>
It is also available for windows - a lot less stable though obviously.
> star office and IIRC most of the others come with SuSE
> and other distros -
Staroffice (and openoffice) are also available on windows.
Hopefully openoffice on linux will have printing support so linux users are
no longer forced to put up with staroffice's crappy windows user interface.
------------------------------
From: "Ayende Rahien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 3100 W2K Adv Servers deployed accross Europe
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:31:16 +0200
"Mig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:94vkmi$s6d$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Ayende Rahien wrote:
>
> >
> > "J Sloan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > Chad Myers wrote:
> > >
> > > > Who holds the #1 - #4 spots on the TPC.org TPC-C performance
rankings?
> > >
> > > Just the fact that chad asks the question tells us that
> > > there are some windows pcs there -
> > >
> > > My prediction is that these windows records will
> > > be broken by Unix systems - maybe solaris, maybe
> > > aix, maybe Linux, maybe all of the above, but they
> > > will not stand.
> >
> > So far they have not been able to break them, and MS is holding the top
> > records for a *long* time now.
>
> Dont you find it weird that those numbers increased so much over just one
> year? MS software came from nowhere to be number one suddenly.... i dont
> believe it - if this is correct then the test is completely obsolute.
So just because MS is on top then the test is obsolute? Just few years ago
Oracle used it everywhere.
> But what the heck.. since the results are so good put IIS on top and make
> some money here http://www.oracle.com/guarantee/index.html?content.html
I'm getting: JavaScript Not enabled or not allowed by Proxy.
Not changing the settings for them, I think I know what you mean, and if so,
you need to read the terms a little better, I'm not going to spend several
millions & a lot of time just to get about one tenth of my invesment and
being forced to sign an NDA first.
------------------------------
From: "Ayende Rahien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux 2.4 Major Advance
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:33:14 +0200
"Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> The Microsoft EULA specifically prohibits publishing ANY performance
> data which shows Microsoft coming behind the competition.
Liar.
P.S.
It seems that the only way for AK to understand is to use his style.
There is no such clause in the EULA except for SQL Server, which is
commonplace in the SQL Servers industry.
------------------------------
From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: NTFS Limitations (Was: RE: Red hat becoming illegal?)
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 18:36:32 -0500
Giuliano Colla wrote:
>
> "Norman D. Megill" wrote:
> >
> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, J Sloan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Chad Myers wrote:
> > >
> > > > So, I'm an enterprise. I have millions of dollars resting on the stability
> > > > of my XYZ software server. I have to be absolutely certain that it won't
> > > > go down because I lose thousands of dollars a minute on downtime.
> > > > I need, among other things, a rock-sold filesystem that I can depend on.
> > > > I can:
> > > >
> > > > a.) Go with MS and have a filesystem that is true tested and has been
> > > > around for years
> > >
> > > bzzt - wrong answer - if you look at the track record
> > > of windows nt, the all too frequent crashes and the
> > > need for therapeutic reboots make it a poor choice for
> > > the data center.
> >
> > Another curious characteristic of NTFS is that the Master File Table
> > grows but never shrinks. It can fill up to 90% of an NTFS volume, even
> > after all files are deleted, and the only way to recover the space is to
> > reformat the drive. See:
> >
> > http://packetstorm.securify.com/9904-exploits/nt.ntfs.mft.txt
> >
> > The response from Microsoft to a complaint about this was as follows:
> >
> > "My investigations and the answers from our Secondary Response Group
> > confirmed, that the $MFT will never shrink. The only way is to reformat
> > the Partition. This behavior is the drawback resulting from optimizing
> > the NTFS performance. The main goal was to avoid fragmentation...."
> >
>
> The amusing part is that, according PC Magazine tests, the greatest
> drawback of NTFS is excessive fragmentation, which produces an
> increasing loss of performance with time.
>
> > "I checked this with our Escallation Team and so i can say that this
> > behavior of NTFS will not be changed."
> >
> > So, not only do you need therapeutic reboots, you also need therapeutic
> > reformats.
> >
>
> PC Magazine suggests reformatting once a year, because of fragmentation!
> Algorithms to minimize fragmentation without loosing space do exist from
> at least 25 years, otherwise dynamic memory allocation would be
> impossible!.
Microsoft....working on debuggin the latest in 1960's technology....
>
> > --Norm
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall....
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that she doesn't like.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
------------------------------
From: mlw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Gates Vaccine
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 18:46:50 -0500
"." wrote:
>
> mlw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > gryb wrote:
> >>
> >> Gates Vaccine
> >> _____________________________________________________________
> >>
> >> If Bill Gates had done something bad, it would have been the front
> >> page news of every newspaper in the USA and perhaps the world.
> >>
> >> Well, he's done something good.
> >>
> >> The odd thing is --- it's not front page news.
>
> > It is a common tactic for the robber barons in society shroud themselves in
> > "good" deeds made possible only by the crimes they have committed.
>
> It comes right down to this; alot of things are more important than computers.
> Life is one of them.
>
> It doesnt matter WHY he gave the money away; if you were bitten by a poisonous
> snake and faced certian death unless antivenin was given immediately, would you
> refuse it if bill gates were holding the syringe?
>
That is not the issue at all. There is no arguing that what he did is a good
gesture, but he should receive no benefit from it because he has only given
what he has taken in criminal actions.
I would believe in his sincerity if he did not make press announcements about
charity. There are many people that believe that flaunting charitable work is
offensive. Whether or not someone gives to charitable causes, or participates
in charitable behavior, is irrelevant. The only real charity is anonymous,
everything else is public relations work.
In short, if you want recognition for charity, it isn't a charitable act. He is
a robber baron, pure and simple, no matter what he does, he should not be
allowed to wash the stain off his reputation, especially while his company
continues to exhibit the behavior it has for so long.
--
http://www.mohawksoft.com
------------------------------
From: Nigel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: All this Whistler stuff.
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 23:54:02 +0000
> (and yeah I am posting this from windows, 'cause
> my NIC refuses to work under linux. I do have an idea why not
> though, and I may get it fixed soon)
Try posting the make and model of your netcard (and any other
relevant data) here and maybe you will get some help?
------------------------------
From: Mig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 3100 W2K Adv Servers deployed accross Europe
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 00:52:51 +0100
Ayende Rahien wrote:
> > Dont you find it weird that those numbers increased so much over just
> > one year? MS software came from nowhere to be number one suddenly.... i
> > dont
> > believe it - if this is correct then the test is completely obsolute.
>
> So just because MS is on top then the test is obsolute? Just few years ago
> Oracle used it everywhere.
That was untill MS corrupted it. I will never accept those results and
certainly not on x86 boxes.. Just the fact that IA32 is faster than
anything else makes this unreal (I use IA32 muself). And as a W2K user and
experiencing the slowliness (WTF do they do their scheduling algorithm -is
it just vanilla round-robin or what?) this makes the results even more
weird.
> > But what the heck.. since the results are so good put IIS on top and
> > make some money here
> > http://www.oracle.com/guarantee/index.html?content.html
>
> I'm getting: JavaScript Not enabled or not allowed by Proxy.
Surpass your proxy .. works fine here in Mozilla and Konqueror
> Not changing the settings for them, I think I know what you mean, and if
> so, you need to read the terms a little better, I'm not going to spend
> several millions & a lot of time just to get about one tenth of my
> invesment and being forced to sign an NDA first.
Well...you could get Oracle to run for about 100K... so you get your
investment 10 fold :-) This is a good offer and if you beleive MS stuff is
as good as TPC shows then make the money
--
Cheers
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Warkus)
Subject: Re: How long does your box run for?
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 23:52:55 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It was the Sat, 27 Jan 2001 11:30:15 -0700...
...and Michael Vester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 144 days of uptime the longest my Linux boxes have. The only
> reason they are restarted is because like California, here in
> Alberta we are going through a power deregulation too. Power
> deregulation is the stupidest thing any government has ever
> done.
Hey, we in Germany deregulated power two years ago or such, and still
our power grid is about five times as reliable as the US one used to
be. Deregulation is OK, you've just got to do it the right way.
mawa
--
Einblattlocher!
Elektrogriller!
Erbsenpürierer!
Zweifingertipper!
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Warkus)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: Is the Web really fragile?
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 23:54:09 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It was the Sat, 27 Jan 2001 14:55:29 -0500...
...and jtnews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On cnet.com's front page on,
> January 27,2000 2:50 PM EST, it reads:
>
> Microsoft Under Fire
> --------------------
> Why was the company's
> network so vulnerable, and
> what does it say for the fragility
> of the Web?
>
> What has Microsoft's problems got
> to do with the Web?
Well, they show clearly that the Web would be a very fragile affair if
it ran on an NT/i386 platform monoculture and a "Microsoft way" policy
monoculture :>
mawa
--
Einblattlocher!
Elektrogriller!
Erbsenpürierer!
Zweifingertipper!
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Warkus)
Subject: Re: Kernel upgrade - not bad at all
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 23:48:17 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It was the Sat, 27 Jan 2001 19:57:14 +0000...
...and Edward Rosten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Matthias Warkus"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > It was the Sat, 27 Jan 2001 04:30:14 -0500...
> > ...and Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> > I'm very happy and impressed with how smoothly it went, but (yes,
> >> > there had to be a but ;)) I would imagine the process would be very
> >> > daunting to somebody not comfortable with the unix command line. The
> >> > whole process terrified my girlfriend...
> >>
> >>
> >> yeah and i'm sure if she ever has to install Windows from scratch on a
> >> bare hard drive she will have that same feeling. (remember she would
> >> need a bootdisk with a cdrom driver and mscdex.exe on it,
> >
> > Vade retro satanas. In my limited experience, there's hardly anything
> > nastier in the DOS world than dealing with CD drives.
>
> SCSI.
OK, you win.
mawa
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I got it bad
You don't know how bad I got it
-- Nik Kershaw
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Warkus)
Subject: Re: Gates Vaccine
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 23:51:13 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It was the Sat, 27 Jan 2001 16:34:34 -0500...
...and mlw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think not. One should not be able to buy a good reputation with the proceeds
> of criminal acts. To think otherwise would imply that if you stole enough, you
> could be deemed a saint if the meager portion you gave away is sufficient to
> impress the ignorant. This is clearly what billy boy has in mind.
However, this is truly American (another good reason not to like the
US).
Who was it again who said (these are not the exact words) "In America,
it doesn't matter how you acquire your wealth, the important thing is
to keep it for twenty years"...? A saying that was often taken to
allude to the Kennedys, but I suppose it's older than that.
mawa
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After Eight mints.
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