[nycbug-talk] mad uptime

[Sunny Dubey]

On Friday 02 July 2004 11:33 am, Rick Aliwalas wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, G. Rosamond wrote:
> > > some other minor stuff.  Went from BIND4, to BIND8, to BIND9 over the
> > > years w/o rebooting.  Try that on Windoze!
> >
> > or on a 'unix-like' system. . .
>
> osx I assume?  I went to the osx class here at usenix and got an extreme
> headache keeping up with all the windows/icons/drop-downs etc shown to
> administer the box.  It's so much easier to edit a text file - but the
> instructor focused on the mac way.  Which is fine but awful hard to
> follow - for me at least.

GUI administration at USENIX ? :^)

Whats worse: this ? or Windows being POSIX compliant ? lol

>
> It was mentioned a few times how great it was that apple is embracing
> open source and its positive impact etc etc.  As far as I can tell,
> apple benefits from oss _far_ more than the other way around.  
> got flamed by some folks in the class when I innocently asked (ok,
> trolled) what applications are they running that warrant a G5 server as
> opposed to a *BSD box.  They came at me hard w/ the old windows argument
> that unix cmd-line is too cryptic, the learning curve is to high, its
> easier to train admins to use a gui,...

all too true man, all too true ...

Sunny Dubey