Re: Windows Rants! (was Re: dial up with winxp)

[Tighe Schlottog <emry@icephyre.net>]

> I feel like starting another thread off of this because we might
> actually have some decent traffic flow through like that one time with
> the sparc machines.

What you say?

> Anyway, I've found that Windows itself provides little to no
> information.  Isn't that odd?  It can't tell you where a certain area
> code is, what the ISO notation for a particular country is, or even
> what 100 degrees Celsius is in Fahrenheit.

Have you ever installed XP?  Jebus Mary and Joseph, it makes sure that you
have a valid Key and that is about it.

> Not only the lack of information, but the way that they love to extend
> and embrace.  Man.  Their idea of security is running Kerberos 5 on
> everything.  Eh?

But, but, but, Kerberos is the most secure thing evar!  I mean, it isn't
like a chimp with a pencil and a piece of paper can break it.  Oh wait,
never mind.

>  What the hell kind of good does that do when IIS has a nasty hole in
> it that allows people to gain full access to your machine?  Psh.

Bah!  That is a FEATURE TO ALLOW REMOTE ADMINISTRATION!!!!

> Sure, Windows has the interface and the good looks, but what is it
> /really/?  I honestly think it looks more like a toy than anything
> Unix I've seen.  Well, except for perhaps AIX, but that's because
> there're religious issues there.

ALL PRAISE XP!
ALL PRAISE XP!
ALL PRAISE XP!
ALL PRAISE XP!
ALL PRAISE XP!
ALL PRAISE XP!

YOU DO NOT NEED TO KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT HOW YOUR MACHINE WORKS.  THAT IS
WHY WE ARE HERE.  WE ARE MCSE'S OF BORG.  YOUR MACHINE WILL BE "UPGRADED"
PREPARE FOR UPGRADING, GRAB YOUR ANKLES AND SAY, "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH".

disclaimer : I am trying to bait Nate into a fit in which he will begin to
froth at the mouth and howl at the moon.  So, if you believed any of that
tripe I wrote, HA HA FOOLED YOU.


tighe

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	"Oh yeah?  I toss poo."


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