From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Nov 19 7:13:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mercury.gfit.net (ns.gfit.net [209.41.124.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDB8A1562C for ; Fri, 19 Nov 1999 07:13:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tom@embt.com) Received: from PARANOR (timembt.iinc.com [206.67.169.229]) by mercury.gfit.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA13477 for ; Fri, 19 Nov 1999 09:18:54 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from tom@embt.com) Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19991119101303.01216df8@mail.embt.com> X-Sender: tembt@mail.embt.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 10:13:03 -0500 To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: Tom Embt Subject: RE: Microsoft service packs... (was many other threads...) In-Reply-To: <000001bf3264$9ac28160$021d85d1@youwant.to> References: <3834DDDF.DCA2119A@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Perhaps one cannot mention NT without feeling an intense need to vent frustration. As for Win2K, I crash it constantly, but I think it's mostly a "video driver thing". Tom Embt > > I'm baffled. How did the merits of NT get into this? We were never even >discussing whether NT was a good or bad server operating system. > > DS > >> Quote from a friend who is an NT admin... >> In response to David's comments on NT 'advances' in Service Packs.... >> >> >> This is nuts. >> >> >> Anyway, I think NT is stable when it comes to programs, but when the >> system goes down, it goes down hard. The other day, I installed a new >> server, which had nothing on it but NT4.0 and service pack 4. The >> company >> came out to install the banks software, and it crashed (bug checked) >> TWICE >> just during the FILE COPY!!! I mean, come on. How the heck can you >> norrow >> down what caused that? >> >> No, the more I use NT, the more I hate it. Even from the very limited >> use >> of win2000, I think it will be much better. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message