[extropy-chat] when will computers improve?

Samantha Atkins samantha at objectent.com
Tue Dec 30 19:49:58 UTC 2003


On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 10:17:55 -0500
"Brian Lee" <brian_a_lee at hotmail.com> wrote:

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> >From: Adrian Tymes <wingcat at pacbell.net>
> >Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] when will computers improve?
> >Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 10:21:00 -0800 (PST)
> >
> >As someone who uses a computer at all, it is foolish
> >to trust Windows.  (I don't need to trust the game
> >computer on my desktop, but I do need to trust the
> >Linux system running my Web server.)  But "trust" is
> >not the same as "ignore"...
> 
> Note that you can still "trust" windows systems, but they must be designed 
> differently than *nix systems. A farm of 6 windows servers can still still 
> provide 5 nines as a system the same as a Linux server can (although you'd 
> want a farm of linux boxen as well). Windows, while not optimal, is 
> acceptable for server applications.
> 
> Except MS makes it difficult, costly  and severely constrains the architecture to build such a farm to start with.  N windows machines are not that much more difficult to crack with known security exploits than 1.  

- samantha



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