Re: MICROSOFT BS FUD

1999-04-19 Thread David Wright
Quoting Mike Barton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Nobody answered your post probably because they couldn't guess from not having any luck why you couldn't just compile the module along with whatever kernel version you're using. I included shell output from both an attempt to load the module and an

RE: MICROSOFT BS FUD

1999-04-17 Thread Mike Barton
-Original Message- From: David Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 16, 1999 9:06 AM To: Mike Barton; debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: David Wright Subject: Re: MICROSOFT BS FUD Quoting Mike Barton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I suppose you just forgot to post an even minor

Re: MICROSOFT BS FUD

1999-04-16 Thread Philip Thiem
Apparently Mindcraft and MS(we don't really know this) has pulled this act before. Take a look at the response Netware has when MC did a comparison with netware. http://www.novell.com/advantage/nw5/nw5-mindcraftcheck.html Philip Thiem -- PENQUIN-LOVER-CODER ALERT: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All

Re: MICROSOFT BS FUD

1999-04-16 Thread David Wright
Quoting Mike Barton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I suppose you just forgot to post an even minor semblance of proof? Please correct the error and let us all in on it. Better yet why not answer my iBCS anyone post of a few days ago. Seeing as the modules in -2.0.34 and -2.0.35 compare equal, and that

Re: MICROSOFT BS FUD

1999-04-15 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Christopher J. Morrone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | On 14 Apr 1999, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: [snip] | You guys need to read your Slashdot (http://slashdot.org). I've heard | that this particular benchmark was commissioned by Microsoft. Anyone | who pays attention to a benchmark commissioned by

Re: MICROSOFT BS FUD

1999-04-15 Thread Rick Macdonald
On 14 Apr 1999, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: | Well, while I agree with that, this is already being read and believed by | managers and suits. What we need are numbers to the contrary, not it was | commisioned by Microsoft. Again, any logical person would conclude that the test was biased

Re: MICROSOFT BS FUD

1999-04-15 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 1999-04-14 18:14, Christopher J. Morrone wrote: Of course, its not likely that anyone in the free software movement will be able to verify the results, because they used pretty expensive machinery. A four processor Xeon as the server, and 144 pentium test nodes with ethernet switches.

RE: MICROSOFT BS FUD

1999-04-15 Thread Mike Barton
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: MICROSOFT BS FUD Well it finally happened. Microsoft has paid someone off to fix a benchmark showing that Windows NT is actually better than linux. http://www.mindcraft.com/whitepapers/nts4rhlinux.html === Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http

MICROSOFT BS FUD

1999-04-14 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Well it finally happened. Microsoft has paid someone off to fix a benchmark showing that Windows NT is actually better than linux. http://www.mindcraft.com/whitepapers/nts4rhlinux.html === Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or .

Re: MICROSOFT BS FUD

1999-04-14 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Kenneth Scharf wrote: Well it finally happened. Microsoft has paid someone off to fix a benchmark showing that Windows NT is actually better than linux. http://www.mindcraft.com/whitepapers/nts4rhlinux.html This doesn't look good. Are the results cooked or flawed, or

Re: MICROSOFT BS FUD

1999-04-14 Thread Kirk Hogenson
Rick Macdonald wrote: Well it finally happened. Microsoft has paid someone off to fix a benchmark showing that Windows NT is actually better than linux. http://www.mindcraft.com/whitepapers/nts4rhlinux.html This doesn't look good. Are the results cooked or flawed, or the

Re: MICROSOFT BS FUD

1999-04-14 Thread Kenneth Scharf
There already has been feedback on the web (and this list) about this. It does appear that a great effort was made to pull all the stops out in configuring NT, and little care was given to setting up Linux. IE: use of a kerenl with know network bugs, none of apache's optimizations turned on...

Re: MICROSOFT BS FUD

1999-04-14 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Kenneth Scharf [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | There already has been feedback on the web (and this list) about this. | It does appear that a great effort was made to pull all the stops out | in configuring NT, and little care was given to setting up Linux. IE: | use of a kerenl with know network

Re: MICROSOFT BS FUD

1999-04-14 Thread Christopher J. Morrone
On 14 Apr 1999, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: Kenneth Scharf [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | There already has been feedback on the web (and this list) about this. | It does appear that a great effort was made to pull all the stops out | in configuring NT, and little care was given to setting up