From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Oct 3 15:18:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA08482 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sat, 3 Oct 1998 15:18:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from germanium.xtalwind.net (germanium.xtalwind.net [205.160.242.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA08452 for ; Sat, 3 Oct 1998 15:18:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jack@diamond.xtalwind.net) Received: from localhost (jack@localhost) by germanium.xtalwind.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA17783; Sat, 3 Oct 1998 18:18:10 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: germanium.xtalwind.net: jack owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1998 18:18:10 -0400 (EDT) From: jack X-Sender: jack@germanium.xtalwind.net To: "James D. Butt" cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Device Drivers for Linux and Intel's annoucement In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 3 Oct 1998, James D. Butt wrote: > This is the OS developer they should be able to make their servers not > crash if they expect customers to do it. J.D. you're obviously not a man with the M$ mind set. :) This is the `re' company we're talking about. Reboot. Reinstall. Surely you've taught most of your Win* dialup customers to reboot before calling you for tech support when things don't work. Why just the other day a customer was kind enough to call and scream at us insisting that our web and ftp servers were down. Our tech support dude finally talked him into rebooting and, being the strong juju W95 is, lo an behold it fixed our servers. :) Reinstall is one of M$'s stock answers on their alleged support lines. No, the developers can't keep their servers running in a controlled, or any other, environment. An OS based on bubble gum and duct tape never will be stable. The best they can do is to sell you a dozen licenses to use on twelve different boxes and then come up with a bandaid that will figure out which one or two of them are up at any given moment. The spin doctors then go out touting the wonders of the bandaid and those lemmings looking at the world through M$ colored glasses (i.e. everything constantly falling over) see this magical bandaid as their salvation. They never realize that they wouldn't need to buy the cure if they hadn't bought the disease in the first place. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message