From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 24 14: 7:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from germanium.xtalwind.net (germanium.xtalwind.net [205.160.242.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35C1237B423 for ; Thu, 24 May 2001 14:07:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jack@germanium.xtalwind.net) Received: from localhost (localhost.xtalwind.net [127.0.0.1]) by germanium.xtalwind.net (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f4OL6V319225; Thu, 24 May 2001 17:06:31 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jack@germanium.xtalwind.net) Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 17:06:31 -0400 (EDT) From: jack To: Kris Kennaway Cc: j mckitrick , Subject: Re: "Windows brings us something we don't have..." In-Reply-To: <20010524113922.B31551@xor.obsecurity.org> Message-ID: <20010524170121.F18547-100000@germanium.xtalwind.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Today Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 06:15:39PM +0100, j mckitrick wrote: > > > > This is a quote from a zdnet article on organizations adopting Windows 2000 > > and XP. Is there anything we can learn from this? What could we add to > > FreeBSD that could fill this 'gap,' if there truly is one? > > > > > > For the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (news - web sites), deeply > > mired in its first installation of Windows 2000 on > > a campus that has spent decades as a Unix (news - web sites)-only > > environment, it's simply a matter of first things first. > > "There are people on campus who aren't too keen on Windows at all, but as > > we work with them, they are beginning to see > > that Windows brings us something we don't have," says Danilo Almeida, a > > systems programmer in MIT's information > > systems department. > > And what would that be, hmm? Massive funding injections from the > William H. Gates III Foundation? Blue Screens of Death, lost and corrupted data, wasted time waiting for reboots, Back Orifice, NetBus, and hundreds of other security holes, totally stupid defaults set by the installation program,......... -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack O'Neill Systems Administrator / Systems Analyst jack@germanium.xtalwind.net Crystal Wind Communications, Inc. Finger jack@germanium.xtalwind.net for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD enriched, vcard, HTML messages > /dev/null -------------------------------------------------------------------------- A Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer is to computing what a McDonalds Certified Food Specialist is to fine cuisine. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message