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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Posted by christophe 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".
I got many locks of the system that let me know nothing. Even the old NT4 blue screen was not there to know what the problem was.
> 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.
This is a commercial advertisement that let you think W2k can be as Unix.
> 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.
And you will see that Windows 2000 beat unix when it has X times more CPU.
Go to:
http://www.netcraft.com/survey/developers/oracle.html
And look what the database company is using for servers.
> 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.
What happened after 81 seconds , it crashed ? ;)
It is well known that do download records are on BSD servers. There is no way to compare the MS IP stack.
> If such an OS is completely crap, then I wonder what you call other OSes.
I call other OS OS, I call MS stuff crap.
Go to www.netcraft.com and look at the top 50 server uptime:
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/top.avg.html
Where is Microsoft ?
Mark is right even if categorical.
Bathed in a sea full of crap (m$) you can ever try to do something good but the conclusion will be that it will be crap whatever you try to do. |
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