At 01:38 AM 12/7/2005 -0500, Ray wrote:
>So was I a bit harsh? Looks like it. Do I have a valid point? Definitely!
>Should I voice that opinion? I think so. Should I try a bit more tact next
>time? Yes sir.
Oh, I'm not certain about that. Tact is just a way of making
people feel better while you make your point. The point, the facts,
are what they are. Mary Poppins once said that a spoonfull of sugar
helps make the medicine go down, but I've lately come to believe that
a needle in the sitting muscle is a much better motivator and more
effective to boot. There's just no getting around the facts, so
why mince words?
Back in the late 90's we could run dedicated servers with
an ISDN line and a P133 running NT4.0 or Slackware 2.2. These days
the requirements are to the point you simply can't run a 24-slot
server on even a dedicated DS1 circuit, and for hardware if you run
Gentoo Linux or a Windows server you better have a couple of
gigahertz under the hood and a boatload of RAM.
Which is probably as it should be -- the game has
evolved, the server requirements should as well. It is,
however, somewhat annoying that the "little guy" is being specced out
of the market but I suppose that is the nature of things in this
industry.
- Dan
* Dan Sorenson DoD #1066 A.H.M.C. #35 [EMAIL PROTECTED] *
* Vikings? There ain't no vikings here. Just us honest farmers. *
* The town was burning, the villagers were dead. They didn't need *
* those sheep anyway. That's our story and we're sticking to it. *
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