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jtpenrod:
For all of those (and you know who you are  ;)  ) who have been crowing on these boards, about how wnoderful Win-Doesn't is, take a good look at This Thread.

How about that?  :p

Windows 2K to Furtopia:  :fu:

:D  :D

Aloone_Jonez:
Do you use ebay?

Because it runs on Windows too. :(

Why don't you ask them to upgrade to FreeBSD?

jtpenrod:
Do you use ebay?
No.  :p
Because it runs on Windows too.
So?
Why don't you ask them to upgrade to FreeBSD?
Because I don't care. :p

Give them enough time, the E-Bay folks'll figure it out for themselves. Or they won't. These folks aren't really IT guys. This is part and parcel of the "Bill Gates" of goods that they were sold some five years ago: Win 2K is quite easy to run, and requires no special expertise. Fair enough, but the price that you pay is an unreliable system.  After all, this is when we saw the really big outbreak of Internet worms. Not so easy to secure, to maintain, or to keep running. There is another forum I also visit quite often, and they, too, run Win 2K as their server. Every single night, at 4:00AM local time, the site goes off-line for an hour for maintainence. This is pretty much what you have to do to keep it running. Such a PITA.

No one except for the most fanatical, die-hard, true believer will make the claim that Win-whatever makes a good, mission-critical server. You can claim that it's a better desktop system and have a point. However, when it comes to reliability and uptime, any *NIX beats any Win *. If it were up to me, I'd put them on OpenBSD. After all, why do you think that Microsoft's own services, such as Hotmail, and even an anti-*NIX propaganda web site (http://www.wehavethewayout.com) ran FreeBSD until this fact became embarrassingly too well-known?

WMD:
"We Have the Way Out" doesn't exist anymore.

http://web.archive.org/web/20040815070955/www.wehavethewayout.com/us/index.asp

jtpenrod:
"We Have the Way Out" doesn't exist anymore.

I'm quite well aware of that fact. Unforch, the forum soft insists on making hyperlinks whether or not you want them. Be that as it may, the whole "We Have the Way Out saga was quite hilarious in all its aspects: getting caught running FreeBSD, then having the entire site crash and burn for two weeks when they put it on Win-d'ohs, to the outrageous FUD the site propagated, that inspired only gales of laughter instead of migration from *NIX, to all the even funnier parody sites.

Too bad it went away, actually.

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