[Eug-lug] Operating Systems.

Michael Miller mike.mikemiller at gmail.com
Mon Feb 12 15:11:43 PST 2007


I would be interested to see what type of network traffic over there
Ethernet / cable modem / DSL line.  Can we say BOTNET participants.

On 2/12/07, Ben Barrett <stircrazyben at gmail.com> wrote:
> With enough money, we can pimp your Ford Model T:
> 1) any color you like (not even just black!)
> 2) highway-safe by modern DOT standards
> 3) run on corn/rice/electricity/squeeze-cheese/etc
> 4) with dual DVD, PS3/Xbox360, GPS, etc
> 5) remote crank-start, either by embedding a monkey or via fancy electronic
> motors
> ...and so forth.... no offense intended, just a few comical ideas that came
> to mind.
>
> I keep hearing from family and acquaintances about how happy they still are
> with their
> win98 boxen... ug, how do I explain the badness there, since it "works" for
> them??
>
>
> ben
>
>
>
> On 2/12/07, Michael Miller < mike.mikemiller at gmail.com> wrote:
> > That would be my guess as well.  There is just a point where you tell
> > client [with money] NT 4.0 needs to be replaced by Win3k Server.  Or
> > what ever is running on NT 4.0 should be run on a Linux machine
> > running wine.
> >
> > Just my $0.02.
> >
> > -Miller
> >
> > On 2/12/07, Ben Barrett < stircrazyben at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > My guess:  the clients [with money] will tell you what "good business"
> is.
> > >
> > > ben
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 2/12/07, Michael Miller < mike.mikemiller at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > NT 4.0?  Why would your company support a OS that is no longer
> > > > supported?  That is just asking for trouble.
> > > >
> > > > On 2/11/07, Russ Johnson <russj at dimstar.net> wrote:
> > > > > Mr O wrote:
> > > > > > the major operating systems (linux, OS X.3,4,5, M$ 2000, XP,
> Vista).
> > > > > Don't count just those.
> > > > >
> > > > > The software company I work for supports the following:
> > > > >
> > > > > Windows NT 4.0 and up
> > > > > Linux, Redhat and SuSE officially, but it runs on just about any
> > > > > distribution we've tried.
> > > > > Solaris 7.0 and up on Sparc, 10 on Intel.
> > > > > HP-UX 11.0 and up on PA-Risc and Itanium
> > > > > AIX 4.3 and up on PowerPC. AIX on S390 unofficially.
> > > > >
> > > > > We've also been known to make it work on FreeBSD, and OpenBSD.
> > > > >
> > > > > I believe some of the developers have it running on their MacBook
> Pro
> > > > > Core 2 Duo systems. But that's not official yet either.
> > > > >
> > > > > My point is that SOME software companies DO support lots of OSes.
> > > > > Unfortunately, it's a very expensive proposition to port code from
> one
> > > > > platform to another, and businesses have to make a profit, or they
> don't
> > > > > hang around.
> > > > >
> > > > > Don't give me the OSS argument. We tried that... Our product was
> open
> > > > > source at one time. It stagnated as an open source product, so it is
> > > > > again proprietary.
> > > > >
> > > > > Russ
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