[ILUG] don't ya just hate it when...

[Glen Gray]

Bloatware. Where do you get that from. I can install Windows 2000 from
one CD, RedHat and others come on 2, Suse comes on 10 or something or a
pair of DVD's or something.

Bloatware, get your facts straight.

Glen

On 17 May 2001 15:02:53 +0100, Keith Clancy wrote:
> *cough* IIS backdoors, SSH rox 
> windows p.o.s bloatware
> 
> Keith.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ilug-admin at linux.ie [mailto:ilug-admin at linux.ie]On Behalf Of Glen
> Gray
> Sent: 17 May 2001 15:08
> To: ilug at linux.ie
> Subject: Re: [ILUG] don't ya just hate it when...
> 
> 
> I'm with you guys,
> 
> I've been such a fool. Why did I quit my job as head windows guru to
> come and do this *nix crap. I mean I need to use this archaic vi text
> editor to actually setup my network settings.
> 
> Wheres the easy to use, I know exactly what I am doing, dialog boxes
> that take away all the complexity. It seems that Linux and Unix are only
> getting this now thanks those clever people over at Ximian. Thier chief
> used to work for Microsoft and he knows what computers are supposed to
> work like.
> 
> No where did I put that cert.
> 
> Glen
> 
> 
> On 17 May 2001 14:41:15 +0100, Wesley Darlington wrote:
> > Howdy,
> > 
> > On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 02:27:51PM +0100, Paul Jakma wrote:
> > > On Thu, 17 May 2001, Jerry Walsh wrote:
> > > > Why do you want a bleeding edge graphics card in a SERVER?
> > > well i don't know why.. it's a server so you put the best hardware in
> > > it? And of course, cutting edge server OSes, like Windows2000 have
> > > those nice graphical management tools that make working on them such a
> > > joy.
> > 
> > Like, of course! *Everybody* knows you can't have a computer without
> > a keyboard, a monitor and (most importantly) a mouse. What sort of
> > computer can /possibly/ do any useful work without these things???
> > (How can you talk to it? How can you tell it what to do? How do you
> > configure its bios, darnit??? Tell me that, eh!)
> > 
> > As such, it follows that if one is going to connect a monitor, it
> > is remiss not to install a quality graphics card. Anyway compared to
> > the cost of the rest of the hardware and the os and backoffice licences,
> > the difference in cost between a barely tolerable graphics card and
> > something decent is trivial.
> > 
> > > like the Compaq Proliant servers had Ati RagePro chips in them, back
> > > when RagePro wasn't too bad.
> > >
> > > And of course linux didn't properly support those chips for ages.
> > > Remember trying to install RH6.1 or somesuch on a Proliant and the
> > > bloody GUI install thingy wouldn't work... typical.
> > 
> > *Tchah*!
> > 
> > > really just fed up with this Unix stuff now.... think i'll go get an
> > > MCSE and work on proper OSes.
> > 
> > I'm with you, man. Let's go get ... certified!
> > 
> > Wesley.
> > 
> > PS. I'm just trying to get in the spirit of things here, folks. Apologies
> >     if I'm not being successful.
> > 
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