Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2001 09:28:37 +0200 From: Cynic <cynic@mail.cz> To: "Nick Turner" <Greenmantis@qwest.net>, <joel2a@yahoo.com>, <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Microsoft bashers Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20010805092731.02b5f8e8@mail.cz> In-Reply-To: <000b01c11d7d$f054eea0$0200000a@nickswin2kbox> References: <4.2.2.20010803221311.00cb62e0@mail.intwebservices.com>
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This one was actually a fine example of MS- and Linux-bashing.
Pitty.
At 09:12 8/5/2001, Nick Turner wrote the following:
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>Well I have a few things to say in reply to your message. First of all
>FreeBSD was never designed to be a game console for teenage kids to play
>silly internet games on. You are quite obviously very new to the FreeBSD OS.
>If you think that FreeBSD is buggy in comparison to Windows then a few
>things come to my mind. A) you're a idiot that has no life and likes to play
>Ashron's Call. B) Hasn't taken the time to notice that FreeBSD is running on
>the worlds busiest web servers in the world including Hotmail [Which I might
>add is owned now by Microsoft and yet STILL runs FreeBSD!! I guess they knew
>their own OS couldn't handle it!!]Yahoo, Digital River, Geocities etc. As
>for Unix software being buggy, well sometimes you get what you pay for...
>But I can't tell you the number of times that I have bought a $50 piece of
>software for Windows and have it screw up everything. (Yes I use Winblows
>2KPro... but only as necessary. I am striving to become FreeBSD Wizard. Just
>an Apprentice at the moment.) Never had that happen with FreeBSD. Now I
>won't say that Windows is totally useless or insecure just mostly and
>mostly. Looks pretty though.Unless you are running Win2K, NT, or XP it has
>security holes in it big enough to drive a mining dump truck through. And
>next you'll be telling me that you can run personal firewalls to help patch
>Windows deficiencies. That is a little like sticking the bank guard in the
>vault and expect him to do perimeter patrol. By the time the thief has broke
>into the vault, it's a little late to arrest him. Whoopee, the guard
>detected him. Too late...
>
>My own personal opinion... If you want to play games on Unix go play in the
>Linux sandbox with the other kiddies. (Good luck trying to figure out which
>one of the six billion releases is going to work for you though.)
cynic@mail.cz
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And the eyes of them both were opened and they saw that their files
were world readable and writable, so they chmoded 600 their files.
- Book of Installation chapt 3 sec 7
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