Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 13:54:49 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Roy Bettle <rbettle@criterion-group.com>, John Horn <jhorn1@desperate.ci.tucson.az.us> Cc: misc@openbsd.org, "Questions List FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Microsoft ask users to crack win2000 site (fwd) Message-ID: <v04210103b3d6152e9559@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <37B05E26.DA485EF5@criterion-group.com> References: <Pine.GSO.4.05.9908100946270.14304-100000@desperate.ci.tucson.az.us> <37B05E26.DA485EF5@criterion-group.com>
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At 10:15 AM -0700 8/10/99, Roy Bettle wrote: > 1) M$ is having a hard enough time just getting the Win2K computer > to stay running. The first time they turned it on and placed > it "in the line of fire" for this challenge, it crashed within > 4 hours and was subsequently down for over 24 hours. > > Summary: Do any of us in the *BSD community want to be associated > with something so ridiculously unstable? I think you concentrated too much on the bugtraq posting (which was tacked on the end of the message sent to these lists), and missed the actual question meant for these lists. He wasn't saying that we should help, or in any way be associated with the Microsoft W2K development. He's just saying that maybe we should offer a similar challenge, but using *BSD boxes. I know that some of the Mac-related web sites are comparing the "success" of this W2K challenge with a similar challenge running on a LinuxPPC machine. I myself don't know if it's worth the time to put up such BSD-based boxes with a similar challenge, but I can see where it might gain some favorable attention. The only way this would HELP microsoft is if it turned out that W2K *is* more stable than *BSD. My guess is that that isn't going to happen. At the same time, I myself would not want to offer up a box as an "official target" for much of anyone, so I'm not volunteering to do it... :-) --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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