Posted on 12-Feb-2001 19:38 GMT by Christian Kemp | 64 comments View flat View list |
Things have been pretty slow behind the scenes at ANN. I still worked most of January 2001 and the past two weeks of February, so my free time was limited. My PC seems to be working okay now, but my dialup has been very unreliable and painfully slow (how many errors are normal in W2k's dialup status window? So far I have 143 for less than 200k transferred...). The DSL line is supposedly being installed "in a few weeks". Sounds oddly familiar. I finally found an Amiga sponsor again, so that my phone costs are almost covered. Thanks also to the individuals who offered donations - sorry I didn't get back to you - but I'm always reluctant to accept individual donations for a number of reasons I won't go into since space is limited. :) To wrap up this MOTD, I'm trying once more to find one or more reliable contributors to do a bit of moderation and article posting. Please apply via email.
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MOTD 12/Feb/2001 : Comment 27 of 64 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Hassan Sultan on 13-Feb-2001 23:00 GMT | In reply to Comment 26 (Mark Olsen): Well, you say : "Windows is crap", fine, what exactly is crap in Windows(say Win2000 since it's the one that Christian use) ? give me the technical problem, not "this is crap".
What I see : IBM, Compaq, Dell, Unisys, Bull,Motorola... have programs that guarantee 99.999% availability for Windows2000, same level as the other Unix bigboxes, this is a proof of its stability.
Go look at http://www.tpc.org the benchmarks results for databases, this is a industry wide standard for benchmarking databases, the top spots are trusted by Windows2000, proof of its performance.
At http://www.internet2.edu/html/i2lsr.html, you can see that Win2000 hold the speed record for transfer over Internet2: 830Mbit per second during 81 seconds on a distance of 5,626Km. Proof of its network stack performance. Now, I don't think Win2000 would be able to transfer 830Mbit/s during 81sec and would not be able to reliably transfer a 200Kb over a modem.
If such an OS is completely crap, then I wonder what you call other OSes. |
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