On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 21:31, Jim Lux wrote: > At 04:41 PM 1/18/2007, Robert G. Brown wrote: > >On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Jim Lux wrote: > > > >>And likewise, WinXP on the desktop. A company with 20,000 WinXP > >>desktops cannot tolerate BSODs and mystery hangs on a significant > >>fraction of those desktops at any frequency. When your call center > >>operators are being timed to the second, the sysadmin folks know > >>INSTANTLY when there are problems. > >> > >>But, just as in the server application, the configurations are > >>rigorously controlled and tested. It's certainly not the usual > >>home computer with umpty-five downloaded widgets, etc. > > > >Even with strong controls and an instantly reinstallable system image, > >WinXX boxes are corrupted once a month or so in our labs. > > But you've got those pesky students to deal with. Not like a > corporate environment where everyone boots off the same image from > the server, they run SMS, and if you muck with the configuration, you > can get fired. > > >Too many > >things that can go wrong. Fortunately, they've dropped the > >reinstallation time to almost nothing. > > Precisely.. > > I should have used a different metaphor, though. Microsoft so far has > >been to Linux like Fezzik was with Westley in The Princess Bride, > >tolerating its occassional blows. "I just want you to feel you're doing > >well. I have for people to die embarrassed..." > > In an interesting coincidence of references, my wife and daughter's > horse is named "The dread pirate Roberts", the reference to which I > have found is almost as dating as a former competitor of mine(in > horse shows, not in engineering) who named her horse "E-Ticket", said > tickets not having existed for decades. We all knew what it meant, > but the 12 year olds hanging around the barn didn't. (Of course, they > didn't understand who "The Stones" were, either. Such is life in codgerdom)
I'm not sure how dating the princess bride is; my younger brother is still in college, but we both grew up with that movie! 'E-Ticket' though? Man! -Kevin > > > > Jim > > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
