Comment No surprise (good job ryan) (Score 2) 723
Wow! It seems like all of our true anonymouse cowards have come out of there holes.
I must say I find it amazing how quick a lot of our fellow slashdotr's are to judge. I work on a production team for a major high tech company. A lot of our Database servers run NT, Anything that is doing security is running some flavor of Unix or Linux.
Just today my mentor(Yes im an Intern, and 16 at that) was telling me we may have to add 3 BSDI servers to our network. I was floored! We already have about 5 diffrent OS's on our network(thats counting diffrent flovors/versions of unix and Linux)
When i asked her why the answer was pretty simple. The program out grand high mucky mucks had dessignated for Ecommerce was optimized for use with BSDI. Now i have to learn yet another OS.
I enjoy hte learning, its why im here, but I have learned one thing. SQL doesnt work well Linux boxes. NT4 has a few security holes that NT5 doesnt. You can fix those with SP4 but then our back end doesnt work.
Ive learned how to set up security on a Unix box in such away that it will make the NT boxes more secure.
I have also learned that most OS are really good at a specific task, and that Zealots will use that to the best of there advantage.
Every OS i have used had some really positive points and some really good points. Linux is great, But i wouldnt want my grandmother using it. The MacOS is great when you want simplicity or are doing major graphics. Windows on the other hand is great if you want to do just day to day stuff. I would hate writting a term paper in Vi or Emacs. Heck i would even hate doing it in Pico! But Word works really well, and notepad can be the "quick and dirty" programmers best friend, especially with HTML stuff that you need NOW.
Everything has a positive, everything has a negative. Lets not get to angry at those who are willing to actually admit they agree with somthing we dont. If everyone was like that this whole world would be like Kosovo.
I must say I find it amazing how quick a lot of our fellow slashdotr's are to judge. I work on a production team for a major high tech company. A lot of our Database servers run NT, Anything that is doing security is running some flavor of Unix or Linux.
Just today my mentor(Yes im an Intern, and 16 at that) was telling me we may have to add 3 BSDI servers to our network. I was floored! We already have about 5 diffrent OS's on our network(thats counting diffrent flovors/versions of unix and Linux)
When i asked her why the answer was pretty simple. The program out grand high mucky mucks had dessignated for Ecommerce was optimized for use with BSDI. Now i have to learn yet another OS.
I enjoy hte learning, its why im here, but I have learned one thing. SQL doesnt work well Linux boxes. NT4 has a few security holes that NT5 doesnt. You can fix those with SP4 but then our back end doesnt work.
Ive learned how to set up security on a Unix box in such away that it will make the NT boxes more secure.
I have also learned that most OS are really good at a specific task, and that Zealots will use that to the best of there advantage.
Every OS i have used had some really positive points and some really good points. Linux is great, But i wouldnt want my grandmother using it. The MacOS is great when you want simplicity or are doing major graphics. Windows on the other hand is great if you want to do just day to day stuff. I would hate writting a term paper in Vi or Emacs. Heck i would even hate doing it in Pico! But Word works really well, and notepad can be the "quick and dirty" programmers best friend, especially with HTML stuff that you need NOW.
Everything has a positive, everything has a negative. Lets not get to angry at those who are willing to actually admit they agree with somthing we dont. If everyone was like that this whole world would be like Kosovo.
