Re: IPCop for Small-Business Network: Web Proxy Usage

"Moe Trin" <ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld> wrote in message
news:slrndbhhdm.ssa.ibuprofin@compton.phx.az.us...
> In the Usenet newsgroup comp.security.firewalls, in article
> <w8WdnV2W8eIz4CrfRVn-1Q@comcast.com>, Charles Newman wrote:
> > Well, windows XP runs quite slowly on anything
> >less than 512MB of RAM, and the next Windows
> >will require a 1 gigabyte of RAM, and a 64-bit
> >processor to run, which is why I bought a 64-bit
> >machine to use as the gateway machine.
>
> "Grove giveth and Gates taketh away."
> - Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware
speedups
> not being able to keep up with software demands
>
> Actually, I'm quite happy to see windoze require more and more gigantic
> hardware. I can buy a year or two behind at a tenth the price and have
> performance several orders of magnitude greater. There are several
> computer stores in downtown (Phoenix) where I buy 'cast off' stuff from
> businesses here.
>
> I understand microsoft has eliminated the old Blue Screen Of Death from
> XP. I'm told that when XP crashes now, it goes directly into a silent
> re-boot - sorta acting as if it were a hardware fault or momentary power
> outage instead of microsoft quality software. You might loose data when
> that happens, but that's not microsoft's problem - read the EULA.
>
> >The business school adopted NT 4.0, becuase it is
> >more secure than Windows 95, and the machines
> >in the computer labs could be locked down, something
> >which could not be done under Windows 95.
>
> My understanding is that NT4 will also not crash as often - you may
> be able to make it through a whole day without rebooting. At least
> that's what microsoft was advertising. Still, with 95 you probably
> learned to save your work frequently which is a good habit to get into.
>
> >> Do you wonder why HR tosses resumes that list official microsoft
> >> training, never mind
> >
> > They are tossing away some great employees if
> >they are tossing any resumes that list Microsoft
> >training.
>
> Sorry, we need people who understand computers, not robots who wasted a
> great deal of their own money to memorize material from a book to pass a
> test that is irrelevant to the real world. We also used to toss people
> with Novell certification for the same reason. Novell was teaching their
> CNEs that thick net used RG-8 or RG-11 in spite of the fact that neither
> cable met the DIX specifications. Such errors would not only fail to work,
> but would get the company using them in trouble with the local fire
> marshal and invalidate their insurance. And I'll bet you don't know why,
> not that it matters.

    Well, beginning in 2011, you will need employees
who understand both WIndows and Unix, as
there is rumored to be a Unix-based Windows OS
coming out in 2011. It will give the rock-solid
stablility of Unix, with the flexibility to run all
existing Windows and DOS programs, so when you
hire employees during the next 6 years leading up to
the scheduled Windows release in 2011, you might
want to look for Windows and Unix skills both, in
all areas of your company. If Bill Gates and company
are coming out with a Unix-based Windows OS,
their Unix-based Windows OS will likely become
the number one Unix system, and in short order, that
is why you will need to hire employees, during the
next 6 years, who have skills in both Unix and
Windows.
Received on Thu Sep 29 20:01:35 2005