Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2002 18:10:47 -0800 From: UCTC Sysadmin <ecsd@transbay.net> To: Tom Hunt <tom@berkeleyinternet.com>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, crjara@transbay.net Subject: Re: Anti-Unix Web site on the fritz? - Tech News - CNET.com Message-ID: <3CAA64A7.E627AE72@transbay.net> References: <3CAA570B.1080904@berkeleyinternet.com>
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> Tom Hunt wrote: > > It gets better. So Unisys, desperate to sell some high end servers, tried to tap into the Microsoft excess-charge-for-a-bad-OS surplus of billions of consumer dollars. No shame for proffering their anus for a round pounding there. What do you hate, they asked Microsoft. Microsoft replied, well we hate Unix, because it proves that we don't know much about operating systems. So Unisys said, hey, if you're already badmouthing Unix, we'll just get on board, how about it, and Microsoft said sure, and let's put up a web site to prove how much less intelligence we can muster jointly as opposed to separately - a negative synergy, as it were. The honchos commissioned a flunky to put the site up, saying "get it up quickly so that it works." Of course, what the flunky did was use FreeBSD, because he wanted to go home to watch Star Trek and he knew if he used FreeBSD it would just immediately work without complaint and without a raft of 112 security patch fixes with an attendent 122 reboots. So that's what he did, since nobody told him that the site was trying to destroy Unix in favor of the 122-reboot OS. The next day, someone mentioned that besides being the laughingstock of the above-80-IQ world just for the site's message, everyone got an extra 55-gallon drum's worth of belly laughs from the fact that the anti-Unix website was itself running on Unix. Of course, the marketing managers at both companies immediately saw red and demanded to fix the web server to run using the correct OS - the 122-reboot OS that they were trying to sell all along. This time they commissioned 12 engineers (including some political officers planted to insure compliance with One Microsoft Way) to get the site up using Windows XP. The web site of course is down, because (1) the most secure operating system on earth was being hacked every 30 seconds by script kiddies reading about XP exploits on BugTraq, and (2) because the installers followed the installation instructions, after which the only thing the server would do is report "Windows Protection Error. You need to reinstall Windows." They are still in that loop. They did bring in a television set, though, so they can watch not only the current Star Trek, but also the reruns of Voyager at 10 PM, and reruns of STNG at 1AM, daily until they get the site running. "I think I'll get to see all the episodes I ever missed," said Rinky Dink, the Project Manager. "After all, we'll be there quite a while. At least we get 20 free pizzas per month," he said. -ecsd@transbay.net Remember, when you're in Oslo, call 44 44 44 44 to feed your tech support crew. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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