Hmmmm... did I touch a nerve, there?

First, note the handle. Unca Xitron. Not Anonymous. You might try at least using a handle so your rants could be responded to more accurately instead of standing behind Anonymous.

As for the rest, I've been a SysAdmin since 1993. I spend most of my time riding herd on varying flavors of Unix, and I'll be the first to admit that I got sick of learning all the new ways Bill wanted things done from one flavor of Windoze to another, and stopped wasting my time learning each new OS around 2000.

Now, on to your "points". Are you sincerely stating that you feel your grandmother should be shelling out the cash it takes to buy NT workstation in order to be protected from Bill's other abortions? And having been a SysAdmin for as long as I have, I've seen enough BSOD's to know that it matters very little how secure the system is, if you can't trust it to run well without throwing up its hands and crashing.

What reason has Mr. Gates given that would justify the expense and the addition of a whole new set of errors, bugs, security holes, etc.? It is traditional to wait until the second Service Pack has been released before a corporation will even think about adopting a new OS, because it takes that long for Bill's children to find everything they've broken. So aside from wanting to be a beta tester that is paying for supposedly polished, release worthy software, what benefit can you point to that justify upgrading from a fairly stable OS to a buggy, newly released OS? What can XP do... what app can it run... that cannot be run on Windows 98? Answer those questions, and you'll have actually answered the question I asked, which I don't think you have answered.

NT may very well have all the superiority over other windoze products which you speak of, but last time I adminned it it was crap, and I'd be willing to bet that in 3 years you're going to be singing the same song about how lame XP and Win2K are as you now sing about Win9X.

As for Easter Eggs slowing a system down, have you ever performed a defrag and noted that once all the files are contiguous and defragged the system runs more quickly? Do you ever wonder what kind of performance hit having to work around a 100MB Easter Egg sitting on your hard drive - against your wishes and without your knowledge - might have on disk IO? Do you know how much of that Easter Egg's code is loaded each time you run the app, whether you access the Easter Egg or not?

And no offense to all the windoze folks on here, but there is a difference between Windows Admin and SysAdmin. SysAdmin has traditionally been a Unix term, one which only recently Windows Admins have been taking to themselves. So tell me, Anonymous, how many flavors of Unix do you "SysAdmin"?

Unca Xitron

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