Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 22:36:15 -0400 From: Matthew Graybosch <matthew@starbreaker.net> To: Stanley Hopcroft <Stanley.Hopcroft@IPAustralia.gov.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How does FreeBSD make a difference in a government context ? Message-ID: <20010919223615.0a7842e2.matthew@starbreaker.net>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Thu, 20 Sep 2001 11:37:50 +1000 Stanley Hopcroft <Stanley.Hopcroft@IPAustralia.gov.au> wrote: > Dear Sir, Call me Matthew; everybody else does. You can also call me "you bastard"; some of my boss' clients have been known to do so after calling about bugs that I fixed months ago. > Yes it would stick in my throat too. This amazingly enough is a > FreeBSD desktop in an organisation that worships MS Windows. Hell's Bells. How'd you manage that in a bureaucracy? > Amazingly enough, the CIO asked me about security when I was > about to reply. Security? On MS boxen? What is your CIO smoking, and where can I get a dime bag? > I would have married her. It's not often one sees __anyone__ > like that. I'd have done it already, but neither of us are ready. > I agree wholeheartedly. Could you suggest where I can look for > them. Something with the name Gartner, <famous management school>, > IDC, even ZD would be ideal. Well, I found an article in Sys Admin magazine comparing performance between a Windows 2000 rig and three different Unix boxen, one running Linux, one running, Solaris, and the other running FreeBSD. Here's the URL [ http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1148/sam0107a/ ]. Beyond that, I really don't know much about any benchmarks. I tend to equate them with lies, damned lies, and statistics. All I care about is that using Unix is a hell of a lot less stressful than using Windows. > for anything but infecting other peoples computers. Yep. I'd like to round up all the script kittens making these viruses and neuter them -- their existence makes compulsory eugenics look like a smart idea for about 30 seconds or so. > > "Screw Sartre. Hell isn't other people. Hell is debugging > > other people's code." > > I like your sig. Thanks. I wanted something halfway original, and didn't feel like quoting BOFH or Ayn Rand. Besides, somebody else already quoted the Wizard's First Rule (Terry Goodkind). > Thank you very much for your encouraging words. You're welcome. I'd like to be more of a help, but I doubt that I could get away with sneaking my $LART onto an airplane and helping beat some sense into your inferiors. ****** Matthew Graybosch [matthew@starbreaker.net] http://www.starbreaker.net :: where dreams and reality collide "Screw Sartre. Hell isn't other people. Hell is debugging other people's code." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20010919223615.0a7842e2.matthew>