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From: Bill/Carolyn Pechter <pechter@shell.monmouth.com>
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Subject: Re: Software Update practices (was Internet Explorer and Unix
To: netmonger@genesis.ispace.com (Drew Baxter)
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 17:03:29 -0500 (EST)
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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
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