Al said:
No need to nitpick my punctuation, given that you understood my meaning ;-)
LOL ;-)
Sometimes hard to avoid. On the other hand, when one's responsibilities
include maintaining a system with which some fault can be found, one's
abilities to get the job done are _not_ enhanced significantly by
complaining. I don't mean this as a criticism of you, just a reflection on
the psychology of it all.
My reference was to your sentence which ended: "... for (a certain person's)
sake", and was solely made for the humourous effect.
That said, I do find it particularly telling that the Street address for
Microsoft is:
"One Microsoft Way"
Think about that one for a minute... ;-)
Personally, I would have packaged Windows quite differently were I in
charge. It would then suit me, but I am not sure if you (or anybody else)
would like it.
How one might *feel* about the gaps in the toolset is one thing, how one
compensates for them is another.
/Al
I think we all would have packaged windows a bit differently. i also
think the problem maybe that those that do package the OS are too far
removed from those of us that deploy and support it.
im hoping that by having non bashing discussions about some of the
shortcomings of the OS, it may be read and taken into consideration by
someone who can address and correct them. i know MS of 2005 is *NOT* the
MS of 1980, nor is it realistic to think that it should be. however, i
believe MS has gone way off track with their server OS and is out of
touch with the admins in the trenches. it should be illegal for MS
employees to read their own propaganda. it seems they start to believe
it and before long 4 Gigs of diskspace and 500 megs of ram are being
used by music players, graphical wizards, webbrowsers, paint utilities,
and movie makers.
maybe what needs to occur is a more distinctive separation between the
desktop and server versions of the OS.
being an experienced windows admin is far more frustrating than being an
experienced linux.unix admin. ive admined both for the past 5 years and
am starting to feel the frustration most windows admins attribute to
just being a 'linux zealot'.
i take comfort in knowing that im not alone with the empty, unsatisfied,
frustrating feelings that come from maintaining windows servers.
the rant ends here, but the frustration marches on.
next hacker that gets into longhorns cvs, ill pay 500 bucks if you can
get perl and ssh into the start menu and path. just a joke, uh.. kinda
happy hacking!
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