Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 01:11:44 +0200 From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> To: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>, Santos <casd@myrealbox.com> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is this still actual? Message-ID: <a05111b04b991b6c7b30d@[10.0.1.60]> In-Reply-To: <20020827152738.F68343-100000@carver.gumbysoft.com> References: <20020827152738.F68343-100000@carver.gumbysoft.com>
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At 3:28 PM -0700 2002/08/27, Doug White wrote: > On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Santos wrote: > >> http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1148/sam0107a/0107a.htm and >> http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108q/0108q.htm > > These benchmarks are not to be trusted. SysAdmin Magazine has refused to > provide sufficient information to reconstruct their benchmarks externally > for verification, which is the first step in publishing even a > semi-scientific benchmark. They didn't run the benchmarks -- the authors did. Moreover, the authors are totally fscking clueless programmers who don't know diddly about system administration or performance tuning. They just blindly apply what other people tell them to apply. I know this because I have extensively spoken to them specifically on the topic of what they did for this article, and their methodology. The sad thing is that they actually had a real point, and if they had stuck to just the one OS that they actually know anything about (from the perspective of system programmers), then they would have been able to make that point clear and not cloud the issue with things like whether or not they tuned their other platforms appropriately, etc.... IMO, what they really wanted to do was to demonstrate their "superior" spamware on the "superior" spamware platform(s), and if they could take a pot-shot at FreeBSD in the process, then so much the better. > Pretty much everyone, even the Windows folks, has deridied SysAdmin about > these articles -- search around. Indeed. I hate to say it, but don't bother wasting your time with _SysAdmin_. -- Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. GCS/IT d+(-) s:+(++)>: a C++(+++)$ UMBSHI++++$ P+>++ L+ !E W+++(--) N+ !w--- O- M++ V PS++(+++) PE- Y+(++) PGP>+++ t+(+++) 5++(+++) X++(+++) R+(+++) tv+(+++) b+(++++) DI+(++++) D+(++) G+(++++) e++>++++ h--- r---(+++)* z(+++) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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