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Posted on 12-Feb-2001 19:38 GMT by Christian Kemp64 comments
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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 28 of 64ANN.lu
Posted by Mark Olsen on 13-Feb-2001 23:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 27 (Hassan Sultan):
> 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".
Look at my other posts. Such stupid ideas as putting graphics operations in kernel space. Have you fired that crazy bimbo that came up with this?
Crap APIs, Win32 is evil, and DirectX is really, really fscked up.
> 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.
Ohh, nice, what's even nicer is that Microsofts bad programmers enjoy stuffing things into kernelspace, as simple a thing as playing an MPEG can lay down Win2k Advanced Server easily. Please note this: Keep stuff out of kernel space.
> 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.
They finally got this one. But what good is it when Win2k is a bastard to administer?
> 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.
cat /dev/random | nc www.microsoft.com 80
> If such an OS is completely crap, then I wonder what you call other OSes.
Now, if you would just answer my accusations instead of digging up shit, you might realise that Windows IS crap.
But maybe this is why you are avoiding it. You know that Windows is shit, but you don't want to admit it.
Jump...
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