by > same commie propaganda bullshit
> > Okay, my Father Linus line was just to see the kind of response I
> > got. if you will ask Mr. Terry Murphy, I used that line on him,
> > just to see what he would say.
> > You people really need to relax. Of course if you don't like
> > what I say, you don't have to read it. If you don't like Linux,
> > go away. This is a Linux Advocacy group. We generally post here
> > to discuss the goods and bads of Linux, not to insult each other
> > (notice the eye catching Subject: line).
> > Oh, I have a nice story about NT. I am a network administrator
> > and help-desk specialist at the moment (short contract). We run
> > a mainly NT plant where I work. I'm using a 22 day old NT box
> > for my workstation (PIII 450/128 MB RAM/13GB hdd). I installed a
> > Jaz drive on it yesterday so I could perform some minor backups
> > of my data. I had to install the Traveller drivers. They SAY
> > they work on WindowsNT, so I used them. Well, when I rebooted,
> > everything worked fine. Then, I jumped on the network to
> > transfer some files, and I loaded up Notes to check my email.
> > Suddenly, my NT machine got really, really slow. Then, NT froze
> > up!!!!! Well, I waited 10 minutes and nothing happened, so I
> > rebooted. That was all she wrote. The NT machine never found
> > the hard-drive again.
> > My question is this:
> > Could NT be so poorly written that it let me load a conflicting
> > driver (which M$ certified for US on NT, after all) that caused
> > the driver for my Ultra ATA controller to misbehave and cause my
> > beautiful 13Gig Hdd to fail? The harddrive is useless now.
> > Thankfully, I have a 3year contract with Gateway.
> > Just for the Linux people, I loaded up a spare PC with Linux
> > today and put it on the network for a file server and pack up
> > machine. The Jazz drive works fine on it. But then, the Linux
> > OS will see my Jaz using the ppa module. Using Samba, it works
> > like a charm.
> > Just for the record, my company (Sea Ray Boats) uses most things
> > other than NT for their mission critical stuff, and only uses NT
> > for Notes. The really needed stuff runs on AS/400s, RS/6000s,
> > and a few Linux boxes here and there.
> > --
> > J. J. Horner (REMOVE NOSPAM before replying)
> > System has been up
> > 9:01pm up 8 days, 4:59, 1 user, load average: 0.16, 0.13,
> > 0.06
on the 'net. I guess I am telling a lie. How did anyone ever
tell who the liars were before the Internet told the whole
truth? I guess that without the Internet to keep us honest, we
are all just liars at heart.
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J. J. Horner (REMOVE NOSPAM before replying)
System has been up
9:55pm up 8 days, 5:53, 1 user, load average: 0.33, 0.24,
0.13