But I started messing around with .net server this week and was pleasantly surprised.
A little background, I've been in the technical support field for over 10 years. The first server OS I worked with was Xenix, supporting a canned app for a chain of florists. I've gone through Novell from Personal Netware to 5.1 (still haven't worked with 6). All the incarnations of MS "server" and Happily install Linux at a client site when I get the opportunity to.
I run win2k on the desktop at home but all my usenet binaries downloading, irc, email and development stuff are done on my various linux boxes.
Anyway, I signed up to download rc1 of .net server because i'm pretty sure I will be installing it and supporting it somewhere sometime. I was pleasantly surprise by its almost plainess.
1. the install, didn't quibble on any of the hardware on my HP lpr netserver with a rs/8 attached. Everything looked like the win2k install
2. Fluffy XP desktop had to go, opted for the "classic" windows desktop
3. it boots fast! of course after the server HW takes about 5 minutes to initialize before loading the OS.
4. Nothing is enabled by default. No webservices, ftp, smtp,pop3.
5. Did I say POP3? yes they actually include a POP3 mailserver. Does this mean they are admitting exchange is a failure? I have yet to test that feature to anylength. but it does integrate with AD and all the other stuff.
6. Compatability mode for apps developed on older platforms. I don't know how well this will work, but if it's good a patch needs to be made for Win2k.

I still have some beefs with it.
1. Still has the same POS EULA and product activation that winxp has, wont be a problem in a big corporate enviro, but might cause some problems in smaller shops.
2. Still see no reason to have a GUI enabled by default on a server OS. needs to be a way to turn it off or load it. CLI at the console would be great, especially if you don't want to be there long. Just having the OPTION would rule.
3. still runs IIS, havn't tried apache on it, but might once it gets closer to release date and there are more builds or source tailored for it.

Eh who knows it might sell a few copies when it gets released.

Well the new code for comments.pl sucks ass. Makes it hard to find new user journals which are in most cases infinitly more interesting than any articles that are ever posted.
In protest I trolled all the journal entries I could find with my 10 post/24hr limit. (yet another lame implementation)
If it was you I heckled, it was nothing personal... unless you are that guy that just got his first girlfriend.

Crapflooding is not Trolling or Flamebait. All crapfloods moderated as such will be metamodded as "Unfair". Crapflooding is offtopic.
Frost pists are not trolls, they are offtopic as well.
Feel free to interject your own ideas.

Is there anyway he can get more stupid???
Just check out some of his posts concerning the Fly Spy.
Utter Nonsense.
I hope he never ends up anywhere that he's in charge of lives.

Please post here if you have any better suggestions for meetup locations. I prefer one where I can get beer.

Slashdot only allows a user with your karma to post 10 times per day. You've already shared your thoughts with us that many times. Take a breather, and come back and see us in 24 hours or so.

If you think this is unfair, please email jamie@slashdot.org with your username "ObitMan". Let us know how many comments you think you've posted in the last 24 hours.

Total Sausage Fest. But what could you expect.
Seriously though. Met some cool guys, drank some beers, talked geek and made some money. No shit, when I left the bar there was a wad of bills sitting one parking space away from my car. $58 so I actually came out ahead on the deal.
Some poor drunk is being beat up by his wife for losing the grocery money as I type.
Chris, the web guy, the other guy that had to leave for work (sorry I'm real bad with names) Good time! see you at another one.

2002-07-23 21:43:55 System Administrator Appreciation Day (articles,humor) (rejected)

2002-07-15 07:52:52 Hacker Group Targets Countries That Censor Interne (articles,news) (rejected)

Jaysus H Fuckin Christ!
I make many fine posts. Have many replies.
Occasionally i cut lose or say something some asstard doesn't like that is on-topic and/or funny.
I get modded down. no biggie. so i post at -1 or 0 still i comment and get modded up.
but now with only 2 comments per day my chances of getting modded back up are ruined unless i start another account.
Jamie and whoever else decided this are complete wastes of flesh.
Now the hardcore trolls use proxies and what all to continue posting at a higher threshhold as AC.
just wait till they beat the page widening again and all good comments at 0 are lost.

move along

Move along

Move along

I work hard to keep my karma level at -6 so i can automagically post at -1.
I some days i get lucent and post on-topic or even witty and some crap moderator browsing at -1 sees my post and ruins my record.
Moderators: Leave us bottom dwellers alone!
If i get modded up theres a good possibility that I will accidently post at 0 and be modded down a few times.
That would get me put in "time out", leaving me with nothing to do for the rest of the night.
So please Mr. Mod... Leave me alone.
My Posts will stand on thier own.

ObitMan

But i rarely logged in more than once a week.
When slash 2.0 came along my password didn't work anymore.
I tried to get my password mailed to me but i lost the email acct I was using the same day.
No biggie, so i created a new account and became user 516458.
All of a sudden i'm at -2 for making perfecty valid on topic comments.
Then i saw the wisdom of -1 posting.
you cant get modded any lower and if you have something valid to say some smart moderator will bring it up.
as for karma, who cares.
Besides. reading at -1 is a break from the pendantic nature of most posts. Truly inspiring.