Woohoo!!!

Like I said, Tom, we are on the opposite ends of the spectrum,
as well as the bell curve. I have found that most of my
experiences in life are greater than two standard deviations
from the average. In this case, I can't keep MS Word and Windows
from blowing up (OBTW - my Win98 box went down in flames after
6 days and 18 hours), which is something most people have no
problem with.

Oh well.

George



Tom Achtenberg wrote:
>
> If MS is so bad and Linux is so great, how come I am having and had so much
> trouble mounting the floppy, cdrom and second hard drive and can't get
> printers to work on the network. All of that happened almost automatically
> with the Windows boxes. Maybe after I spend a bunch of time learning Linux
> it will be easier but at this time it is a very user unfriendly system.
>
> On Wednesday 21 November 2001 06:46 pm, you wrote:
> > <snip>
> >
> > > I won't join in the thought that their software stinks -
> > > it doesn't - there are some excellent features and they do keep
> > > improving it and they usually work backwards and actually implement base
> > > features by the second or third update/service release/service pack.
> >
> > </snip>
> >
> > I'm sorry. I know for a fact that MS software stinks. Sure there might be
> > some individual applications from MS that run fine, but as a whole their
> > software stinks. By software I also include the operating system.
> >
> > Some examples:
> >
> > The operating system (Win XP) sometimes refuses to recognize the usb mouse
> > when starting the system. Never happens on my linux box.
> >
> > Win XP reboots the machine out of the blue (who knows why). My Linux box
> > never does that...
> >
> > Internet Explorer is a security risk (can't be denied).
> >
> > IIS is a security risk (can't be denied). My apache logs during the last
> > NIMDA outbreak were full of attempted IIS exploits. Sure you can get a
> > patch from MS, but will it break IIS all together? There first patch for
> > NIMDA did just that.
> >
> > Outlook - need I say anything about this one?
> >
> > I run Win95/98/NT4/2000/XP in the shop here for testing purposes. When it
> > comes to real work I write code on my linux boxes and run servers on
> > Solaris.
> >
> > Speaking of software. Win2k copied their tcp/ip stack code from BSD. So
> > that is an example of good software.
> >
> > As for me, I will not pay money to Microsoft to be their alpha/beta tester.
> >
> > Just my 2 cents worth :)
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