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> From: Bill Laidley[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Reply To: Bill Laidley
> Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 1:20 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: XML Mapper
>
> I'll try to stay in a similar tone to Richard's efforts. Quiet,
> restrained, thoughtful prose.
>
(snicker)
> Here is a real example... try to run a web site using NT - if the box
> was designed specifically to run NT you will get an average of one week
> between crashes. If the box wasn't designed specifically for NT you may
> crash daily - or worse. Such reliability.
>
I have an intranet in my house. Very unscientific, but there ya go, it's
the only thing that I have absolute control over and can monitor. This
intranet has, unsurprisingly, an NT server (for a business that I was going
to start "real soon now") and a Linux server (because I had the spare
machine lying around.)
The NT box, generally, crashes (as you say) approximately 1x/week with a
BSOD. The Linux box only comes down when Mother Nature sees fit to remove
house power (no UPS yet) or when I flip the big red switch (actually "Push
the small ivory button.") Now, you can imagine the load on a house
intranet. :-{)
I'm slowly migrating stuff off of the NT box ("Dave, stop. I'm afraid") and
when it's done, it will follow the other one to become a 2nd Linux server.
I anticipate being Microsoft-free in about a year or so. The hardest part
is going to be getting the wife off of Windoze. (The kids are all getting
Imacs and/or Ibooks, by their choice.)
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