OFF: Virus alert (genuine)

[Paul Mather]

On Fri, 5 May 2000, JOHN M GRAY wrote:

=> That's real funny, as a network administrator, I use all three systems, and
=> MS is the one that's best for use of use and doesn't crash with bugs.  All
=> are open to security problems.  Comments like yours makes me wonder what
=> experience you base it on.  I am a administrator on a 1200 computer network
=> running 4 different OS's, I think I have some experience on how much MS
=> "sucks".

You know, all that gubbins up there would be a lot more impressive if it
weren't so vague.  But, I guess somebody who uses "all three systems"
(which three??) on a "1200 computer network running 4 different OS's"
(which four, and are any of them Micro$oft OS's?) must know everything,
and everybody else's experience must count for little.

But wait a minute!  I just realised, *I* am an administrator on a
multi-thousand computer network running at least 12 different OS's, so
maybe *my* experience might not entirely be discounted?

=> I think there is a lot of sour grapes and people who run other
=> OS's on a few boxes and base all their "experience on how well it works on
=> their "big" network.

(Yes, we get the point already: your dick is bigger than ours.)

Actually, I think individual user experience is a better yardstick
than how smoothly a big network of machines runs, because of the fewer
points of control.  (You will have less variance on the big network,
especially with fascist admin.)

But, hey, maybe you're on to something, and it's only when you amass
Windoze boxes into huge M$-Borg like assemblies that they finally become
reliable.  Prepare to be assimilated!  ("Nobody has complained... yet.")

=> If MS sucks so bad then why isn't everyone rushing to
=> buy something else?  Oh yeah, the MS police force you to use MS, I forgot!

Well, the M$-Police would have to become M$-Miracle Workers to be able
to "force me to use MS"---unless, that is, they decided to port Windoze
to the MIPS R3000 CPU.  (Do you think you could put in a good word for
me?)

In the meanwhile, I'll be sure to remind my friends and colleagues that
I have it on expert authority that Micro$oft is actually not the
steaming pile they believe it to be, and that the next time it crashes,
that crash is simply a figment of their imagination.

"I got my mind right, boss."

Cheers,

Paul.

e-mail: paul at gromit.dlib.vt.edu

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