Month: April 2005

Microsoft is such a riot. They paid for yet another study comparing Windows to Linux, and– surprise!— the study concluded that Windows can be recovered more quickly from a hack or other disaster.

My favorite quote regarding the study comes from some Microsoftian:

“I’m not saying Linux is not reliable, In fact, both operating systems tend to do so well in general uptime comparisons that faults have to be introduced in order to gauge reliability.”

Windows does “well” in uptime? That’s patently false in my experience. I have had Linux servers run for over a year without being rebooted a single time; my current hosting servers have been running non-stop for three months (and that’s only because I physically moved them to a new location in February). On the other hand, I personally know several companies whose Windows servers are scheduled to reboot themselves nightly so there aren’t problems in the morning when everyone comes into the office.

Ahh, Microsoft, we laugh heartily at your games and tactics…

Deep wisdom from Laralee:

“Life is too short to listen to music you don’t like.”

If there’s one thing worse than spam, it’s spam sent by an idiot who can’t even use the crappy spam-generating tools to create their message. Here’s a gem I just received:

From: “Evelyn” <betty0oYv@phreaker.net>
Cc: jeff@bitrelay.net

%GREET
%AD
%SITE
%EXIT

Sheesh. Loser.

Apparently the world’s fastest computer is up and running at the National Nuclear Security Administration, and it’s only half-complete. It hums along at 135 trillion operations per second. Yowza.

Perhaps the best line from the NNSA’s press release, though, is this gem:

“Scientists at LLNL for the first time have performed 16-million-atom molecular dynamics simulations with the highest accuracy inter-atomic potentials necessary to resolve the key physical effects to successfully model pressure induced rapid resolidification in Tantalum.”

Hunh? It probably took a supercomputer just to write a sentence like that. But it sounds cool.