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Comment 3rd party drivers (Score 1) 82

On enterprise grade hardware with minimal third party drivers Windows has been dead stable for a very long time. Start adding shitty drivers for junk you bought at Walmart and suddenly it's unstable. Now add the heartbreak of trying to run expensive old audio hardware with half written drivers that were never fully updated for the post-Vista era (At home. EMU I'm looking at you.) and you'll really see some fireworks.

Comment Re:The Cloud is more expensive and support is wors (Score 1) 62

FreeBSD's SSL stack couldn't compete with with Windows 2000 without adding a hardware SSL accelerator. Windows/IIS had faster, more reliable SSL than the BSD + dongle solution. The dongle ran on the SCSI bus and would freeze up regularly, requiring a power cycle, which couldn't be done remotely with the hardware SKU in use. That sucked for the admin team off hours.

Comment Re:Not eating own dogfood (Score 1) 62

Actually BSD went away pretty quickly. Solaris is the OS that hung around for years. I was on the BSD team. I remember reading /. threads about it while I was in the datacenter (across the aisle from this weird cage filled with saggy cork sheets in its racks), flipping web servers from BSD to Windows 2000, checking if anyone would notice.

Comment They are worse than you think (Score 1) 53

When I got AT&T TV, which was reskinned DirectTV, it had pause ads. That was the last straw; cable soon went away from my house. Pause ads are one of the most offensive developments in TV that I can remember. I will go back to my box of laserdiscs in the garage before I subscribe to a service that inflicts them on customers.

Comment Welcome to 2009 (Score 1) 141

It's weird seeing this article now, in 2021. Because pinterest ruined GIS as soon as it launched, like seemingly within days or weeks. It's kind of amazing actually- how did they pollute image search repositories so thoroughly so damn fast? Anyway, just confine your image searches to porn and you'll be free of pinterest forever!

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