On 01/13/2012 09:57 AM, gene heskett wrote: >> > Good to hear. Actually, this is the sort of thing I've had happen 2 or 3 > times in old winderz NT-3.51 and 4.0 systems. Suddenly a very important > DLL with either be zero'ed out, or just plain nuked. Makes it very > difficult to trouble shoot, a dos boot from floppies doesn't know about > NTFS of course, and the missing file can only be obtained from M$ by buying > another copy (their attitude is that if _that_ file is missing, you have an > illegal copy of NT, even after I gave them the number from the license > papers that came with the machine) of the OS& doing a fresh install. > > The fact that there was 2 or 3 million in billing data, the whole Accounts > Receivables database, on that drive doesn't mean squat to them. Perhaps I > wasn't supposed to, but when we had bought a new copy, I was able to find > the file I needed and copy it in. System restored. > > Just one of the many reasons there will never be an M$ OS on any machine of > mine for much longer than it takes to burn a dvd of whatever linux I'm fond > of today& install it. And it pi$$e$ me off when they accuse me of being a > pirate. I've never pirated anything of microshafts, never thought it was > worth pirating, let alone buying. > > My dislike for M$ goes clear back to dos-3.1 days when because I needed a > terminal program that supported ftp in order to download and install > another vendors update kit, I called them for ideas& the bastards accused > me of only wanting it for illegal purposes, "there is no legal use for > ftp". At that point I was so frustrated I gave them about 50 cents worth > of my opinion on their business model. > > They haven't done anything in the past 20 years that has changed my mind a > bit. > > Cheers, Gene > Gene,
So, other than that, how do you really feel about Microsoft? Don't sugar-coat it or anything... ;-) Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RSA(R) Conference 2012 Mar 27 - Feb 2 Save $400 by Jan. 27 Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev2 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
