From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Oct 4 13:18:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA20559 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sun, 4 Oct 1998 13:18:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from opi.flirtbox.ch ([62.48.0.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA20544 for ; Sun, 4 Oct 1998 13:18:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from oppermann@pipeline.ch) Received: (qmail 16798 invoked from network); 4 Oct 1998 20:18:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO pipeline.ch) (195.134.140.1) by opi.flirtbox.ch with SMTP; 4 Oct 1998 20:18:27 -0000 Message-ID: <3617D7E5.E0573961@pipeline.ch> Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1998 22:17:41 +0200 From: Andre Oppermann Organization: Internet Business Solutions Ltd. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alex Perel CC: "Dag-Erling C. Smørgrav" , "James D. Butt" , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Device Drivers for Linux and Intel's annoucement References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Alex Perel wrote: > > On 4 Oct 1998, Dag-Erling C. =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= wrote: > > > "James D. Butt" writes: > > > http://www.microsoft.com/backstage/column_T2_1.htm > > > > Yuck. Who are these Weak & Wanker people anyway? This is so > > warm-n-fuzzy-feel-good I might just puke. > > What really bugs the hell out of me is Microsoft's attitude that > they invented load balancing solutions using a single IP. I think someone > has to wake them up to the realities of NAT, and products such as Cisco's > LocalDirector (which btw can do the job96237589235x better than any NT > server ever could). > > Oh and speaking of 100% availability, none of my machines get > unscheduled downtime.. hmmm.. I wonder why Microsoft's do. Did someone ever saw www.netscape.com not responding? (except network failures of course) They don't run NT, they run UNIX (I think SGI IRIX). -- Andre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message