Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 17:03:29 -0500 (EST) From: Bill/Carolyn Pechter <pechter@shell.monmouth.com> To: netmonger@genesis.ispace.com (Drew Baxter) Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Software Update practices (was Internet Explorer and Unix Message-ID: <199811032203.RAA06724@shell.monmouth.com> In-Reply-To: <4.1.19981103162429.00a9a560@genesis.ispace.com> from "Drew Baxter" at Nov 3, 98 04:25:05 pm
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> > At 12:46 PM 11/3/98 -0800, Kenton A. Hoover wrote: > >IE for UNIX is clearly targeted at the corporate, not the home user base. > Its > >to "check off the box" on corporate requirements. Get IE in the door and NT > >will then push out UNIX, right? > > I'd hope not.. NT gives me weird rashes in all sorts of places. I'm trying > to find a way to get rid of the one running the Netscape servers.. > Want some fun... try booting the Netscape servers with year 9000. $5.00 says the web server blows chunks. It did at work, here, on a Compaq who's laptop battery ran down enough to let the date randomize. The earlier non-Y2k complient one core'd. This one just doesn't allow non-server control connections. Resetting the date and rebooting fix the problems. Don't know if it's NT4 fixpack 3 or the Netscape stuff, though. Who knows if it's year9k compliant. I wish all software was as well tested as FreeBSD. Unfortunately, the fix it in next release/slipstream patch set mentality has set in. DEC's VAX/VMS (who had a pretty common patch set back in the early to mid '80's) never put new functionality in a bug fix set. Unfortunately, Microsoft doesn't agree with that and slips goodies in with every new Win95 cd. (DLL differences, Fat32, Fat32+, USB support) At least DEC would put a dot release upgrade in for new device support. Bill +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Bill and/or Carolyn Pechter | pechter@shell.monmouth.com | | Bill Gates is a Persian cat and a monocle away from being a villain in | | a James Bond movie -- Dennis Miller | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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