I totally agree with this article.

http://www.osnews.com/story.php/16260/One-W
eek-Back-to-Windows/page1/

This is almost exactly my experience and opinion of Windows.
 The real
money quote is:

"I'm not exactly an anti-Microsoft guy (I admit I've
seen Windows 2003
running very well on some servers, and if I needed a domain
controller I
would use Windows). I'm not a Unix evangelist either -- my
only gospel
in this field is the Right Tool for the Job."

Good stuff.  Every Windows fan should have a read and see
what we see...

Carl Lundstedt
UNL


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That was a great article.  I agree with his statements on
the windows
registry. What a horrible train wreck that is.  There's a
cool free
app called Regmon that lets you view the registry keys as
they are
changing...

htt
p://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Regmon.html

http://www.sysinternals.
com/ has lots of free utilities that are
useful in windows to make it possible to do things that
Linux users
consider to be the norm.

On 10/24/06, Carl Lunstedt <clundstunlserve.unl.edu> wrote:
> http://www.osnews.com/story.php/16260/One-W
eek-Back-to-Windows/page1/
>
> This is almost exactly my experience and opinion of
Windows.  The real
> money quote is:
>
> "I'm not exactly an anti-Microsoft guy (I admit
I've seen Windows 2003
> running very well on some servers, and if I needed a
domain controller I
> would use Windows). I'm not a Unix evangelist either --
my only gospel
> in this field is the Right Tool for the Job."
>
> Good stuff.  Every Windows fan should have a read and
see what we see...
>
> Carl Lundstedt
> UNL
>
>
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On Tuesday 24 October 2006 10:40 am, Carl Lunstedt wrote:
> http://www.osnews.com/story.php/16260/One-W
eek-Back-to-Windows/page1/
>
> This is almost exactly my experience and opinion of
Windows.  The real
> money quote is:
>
> "I'm not exactly an anti-Microsoft guy (I admit
I've seen Windows 2003
> running very well on some servers, and if I needed a
domain controller I
> would use Windows). I'm not a Unix evangelist either --
my only gospel
> in this field is the Right Tool for the Job."
>
> Good stuff.  Every Windows fan should have a read and
see what we see...
>
> Carl Lundstedt
> UNL
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htt
p://www.linuxfactory.ie/llfadvoc/llfadvfm.html



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--- Charles Leslie <charles.lesliegmail.com> wrote:
Caution, Some Snippage!  0 0  

> What a horrible train wreck that is. 
I would rather not have to watch.  So, I try to avoid
any dealings with sausage making, pig slopping, and
the registry.

> There's a cool free
> app called Regmon that lets you view the registry
> keys as they are
> changing...
> 
> htt
p://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Regmon.html
> 
> http://www.sysinternals.
com/ has lots of free
> utilities that are
> useful in windows to make it possible to do things
> that Linux users
> consider to be the norm.
> 
Funny, isn't it, that things that Windows users
consider unique and worthy of notice are things that
Linux Users consider part of the nessessary tool kit!?

I encourage all my children (ages 3 through 14) to
think for themselves, to seek true freedom, and to
tolerate none of the controls inflicted by tyrants.

Microsoft is an economic tyrant. No one should try to
defend the "Emporer's New Clothes" when they are
simply rags, or non-existent. 

Convicted on several continents, indicted on many at
this time, and Microsoft's probation extended for
three more years in the USA, plus, under heavy penalty
in the EU, and subject of several ongoing
investigations in Asia, I simply don't walk down some
alleys, where the Microsoft gang of Partners,  muggers
all, like to gang up on innocent passers-by!

Vista is a huge resource hog, is actually slothful,
but, the worse flaw is a purposeful theft. 
Gadgeteers, and those on the constant update jpath,
will have only three chances to update a computer.

Everything I have seen of Microsoft since 1996 has
been absolutely the worst con ever hyped via any
media.
When I became aware of the fine alternatives, now
numbering over several hundred, I resolved to evolve,
and to never look back.

I have saved several hundred man-hours of my time,
plus, enough money to buy new computers each year.
But, that money is in savings, because Linux and BSD
run up to 50X faster in most processes, eliminating
the need to 'upgrade' to faster technology except on
occasion as I see fit.

I am also appalled that there are hardware vendors,
(ATI, nVidia, etc.) who build only at the beck and
call of the Evil Empire.  The 'drivers' for Open
Source OSes are marketed to be the same bait and
switch as M$.

Zero tolerance for tyranny, of any ilk.
  
Thank you all for the podium, and please try out my
favorite LiveCD, http://pclinuxos.com


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> Funny, isn't it, that things that Windows users
> consider unique and worthy of notice are things that
> Linux Users consider part of the nessessary tool kit!?

More like thank goodness someone wrote useful tools when
there weren't
any.  And were kind enough to give them away for free and
make them
open source.  Isn't that the linux philosophy?

> Zero tolerance for tyranny, of any ilk.

It's nice if you can live your life that way, but sometimes
I am
required to use hardware or software that won't run under a
non-tyrannical OS (like on my Motorola cell phone, for
example).

If you want to get technical, even Linux is tyrannical in
the ways
that the GPL oppress the freedom to use its code for
commercial or
derivative uses.  I would much prefer to use the BSD lisence
over the
GPL in that respect. (see
ht
tp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_and_GPL_licensing to
examine the
differences).

The fact of the matter, is that any time you use modern
computing, you
are likely contributing to the Microsoft monopoly.  As soon
as you
touch an ISP, web server or DNS server that's running MS
products.
How many of the commercial or public services that you use
do you
think depend on Microsoft products?  Linux zealots sometimes
remind me
of vegans who wear leather shoes and leather belts.

A zero tolerance policy sounds pretty, but not practical to
adhere to.
 I'd rather be useful and functional. Sometimes
functionality requires
bending the rules a bit.  But that's another subject
enitrely. 

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