From kragen@dnaco.net Thu Jun 25 10:11:09 1998 Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 10:11:07 -0400 (EDT) From: Kragen To: casey@e-commerce.com Subject: Re: Wrong (on Terra Server) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Keywords: X-UID: 73 Status: RO X-Status: A You said: > But when 100% of the 50 or so comments vary from "what do you expect from > MS?" to "AARRGRAAH! BILLGATESISANTICHRIST GARAARAHHAH EVIL NT BLAARGH > LINUX R0X0RS!" you can start making some relevant generalizations even > from the relatively small sample. Well, I thought I'd go through the 102 or so comments posted before yours and summarize them for you, ordered by their frequency and anti-Microsoftness: It's because of Microsoft's lousy technology: 30 It doesn't work (or it doesn't work well): 15 Other people have bigger databases, so I'm not impressed: 8 Incomprehensible rambling: 3 Jokes (mostly at Microsoft's expense): 6 Microsoft is evil: 1 The Borg is coming, and its name is Gates: 1 It would be great to periodically slam MS servers: 1 That would be childish, it would be easier to ping flood: 1 The USGS uses Linux, and this is because of Microsoft's lousy tech: 1 You guys are Microsoft dupes who deserve to be buttfucked by BillG: 1 Most bigger databases aren't on the Web: 1 Other people have bigger databases; they work on non-MS tech: 1 Microsoft is stupid because it doesn't work: 1 Works fine here: 1 It's slashdot's fault: 1 It's Wired's fault: 1 It's the fault of Yahoo, Wired, and slashdot: 1 It's a combination of slashdot's fault and Microsoft's lousy tech: 1 The number of keys in a DB is more important than the number of bytes: 1 It makes my browser get bigger: 2 Here's where you can find better equivalents: 3 One of the better equivalents sucks: 1 We're sorry it sucks; here are the parts that don't: 1 Poor Legato and StorageTek: 1 Sometimes Slashdot is laggy, this is a good stress test for SQL server: 1 Why is the white paper only available as a self-extracting executable: 1 IE works, Netscape doesn't: 2 Let's add a feature to Mozilla that lets it pretend to be MSIE: 1 Let's not, let's add a feature to Apache to help IE users change to Mozilla: 1 Terraserver's coverage sucks: 1 If it were Linux-powered, no one would complain: 1 Ditto, but who ever switched from Linux to MSOSes?: 1 It worked OK on Sunday, and it was cool: 1 Not all Linuxers are obsessed with MS hate: 1 Microsoft blocks ICMP packets: 2 Chip Richards's post, which is too complex to summarize in one line: 1 Unix boxes are hard to set up, NT ones aren't: 1 That's not true: 1 MS put this up to show off their software, that's why we make fun of it: 2 About a third of them can be summarized as "It's because of Microsoft's lousy tech". Perhaps another fifth are clearly anti-Microsoft. The rest (about half) aren't any such thing. Kragen