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New News flash: UNIX better than Windows 2000
[link|http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/28226.html|http://www.theregist...tent/4/28226.html]

The BIG surprise...
An older MS internal whitepaper from August 2000 on switching Hotmail, which MS acquired in 1997, from front-end servers running FreeBSD and back-end database servers running Solaris to a whole farm running Win2K, reads like a veritable sales brochure for UNIX, but concludes that the company ought to set the right example by ensuring that each division "should eat its own dogfood."


I'm not even going to bother to try to quote portions of it... it's ALL good. Read it. :-)
Regards,

-scott anderson

"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
New Told ya, didn't I? Huh? Huh?
I remember asking somebody why it was taking so long to move Hotmail over to NT4 during my '98-'99 incarceration - they said it was because the code was so bad. My response was "well, if the code is so bad, then why is it stable under Solaris?"

Silence.

I think I've told this story here before...
Trust me, those final Xen levels were ass.
You missed a jumping puzzle, wandering through the bowels of an alien factory of bland and uninspired design, playing whack the pinata with a giant spider's unitesticle and aiming rockets into the head of a giant uberfetus while trying to avoid being teleported away to one tedious battle after another, only to be rewarded with a brief chat by the gman who makes an offer of recruitment - no cool ending cutscene - nada.
To the person at Valve responsible for this abortion of an ending to an otherwise utterly brilliant FPS Googling for this and happening upon my post here, I'd like to say: "I hope you end up at a new job deep frying chicken you fucking idiot."
- Anonymous user on the final levels of Half-Life single player.
New Dangit, scott, that's TWICE now! In one day!...
...where you've beaten me to the posting punch. Gotta start waking up in a different time zone, I guess...

Many fears are born of stupidity and ignorance -
Which you should be feeding with rumour and generalisation.
BOfH, 2002 "Episode" 10
New Muah. Bow before my l33t pretemporal posting skillz!
Regards,

-scott anderson

"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
New /.ed methinks...
Not the Reg article, but the link to securityofice.net within.
-----
Steve
New The whole thing is better
I put it up on my crappy resume page
site:

[link|http://www.users.voicenet.com/~broom/hotmail.html|http://www.users.voi...room/hotmail.html]

Please don't pass out the URL and get me /.ed
New Thank you, Barry. :)
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Steve
New Hilarious Good News.. so rare in the these pre-Warz days..
     News flash: UNIX better than Windows 2000 - (admin) - (7)
         Told ya, didn't I? Huh? Huh? - (inthane-chan)
         Dangit, scott, that's TWICE now! In one day!... - (tseliot) - (1)
             Muah. Bow before my l33t pretemporal posting skillz! -NT - (admin)
         /.ed methinks... - (Steve Lowe)
         The whole thing is better - (broomberg) - (1)
             Thank you, Barry. :) -NT - (Steve Lowe)
         Hilarious Good News.. so rare in the these pre-Warz days.. -NT - (Ashton)

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