Re: building servers

2002-10-02 Thread mpdickens
roger schmeits wrote: Would the savings be enough to justify going down this road? Thats an open ended question It comes down to how much is your time worth? If you build your own system, you *are* hardware support. I suppose if you break it down, it becomes: 1.) I am / I am not

Re: Intel LaGrande

2002-09-23 Thread mpdickens
Palladium is an opt-in system. Yeah And Bill Gates swore to Congress he *never* violated any antitrust acts or competed unfairly in shape or form PGP Never had a back door.. V-chip security codes escrowed by the FBI would only be used by the FBI upon procurement of a valid a

Re: the civil war

2002-09-23 Thread mpdickens
Net Llama! wrote: There are many scholarly essays which assert that Sherman was the first military leader in modern history who truly understand that in order to win a war, you must defeat not only the opposing military forces, but also the spirit of the civilians. Creating a swatch of

Linux is quitely winning even on Wall$treet

2002-09-17 Thread mpdickens
Check this article out: http://www.computing.co.uk/Analysis/1134915 Best Peck ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users

Rant......

2002-09-17 Thread mpdickens
I have a RANT: I gotta tell ya: Here I am, at http://www.ibiblio.org webpage that contains just about all of the linux distro's that are available... I'm reading the various descriptions of the distros. I come to the Debian description and it states: Debian is kernel independent. It currently