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Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: QwikSand who wrote (21003)	10/12/1999 12:18:00 AM
From: JC Jaros	Respond to of 64865

Why does anybody buy that Microsoft crap????? Well, first of all, you don't really buy it. After signing the EULA, you just kinda use it at their discretion. Second of all, you don't really buy it. It comes pre-loaded on the PC. You can't get a refund for it if you don't use it. So, hey! - Windows must be free too! :) the only part that would be tricky for a civilian was this cheesy "Disk Druid" disk partitioning program. How should they know how to partition a disk for Unix? It's pretty cheesy alright. In fact, if you want to multi-boot and you use Partition Magic (actually useful Windows program), PM doesn't recognize Disk Druid partitions. I don't understand why they don't just come out and say, "Hey, if you're just running a desktop box in 'PC' mode, just make a swap partition and a / partition". Every book I've ever read goes into amazing detail as to why they can't suggest a partitioning scheme to you. There must be 10,000 trees DEAD just from people devoting entire chapters in Linux books as to why they can't give you a freakin' partitioning scheme. <g> -JCJ

To: QwikSand who wrote (21003)	10/12/1999 9:35:00 AM
From: JC Jaros	Respond to of 64865

Q- I've looked into this Windows thing and as it turns out it's not free at all. They're actually charging vendors to install it. Here's the deal: Somewhere along the line they (MS) did a Word Perfect knock-off, and a Lotus 1-2-3 knock-off, but then ran the whole thing through this 'Perpetual Three Card Monty File Formatter(tm)' so people not paying attention would keep forking out for "improvements". It worked so well for them, they named it "productivity software". They have one 'productivity' component called "PowerPoint". What *it does is make it APPEAR that you have the POTENTIAL to do something (like be productive). In one series of recent demonstrations, Microsoft made it APPEAR as if they could produce their own COMMERCIAL operating system and actually compete with Unix. Pretty slick, huh? Anyway, the cost for this collection of arranged electrons (and accompanying paperwork) is like $500 (five hundred dollars). It costs as much as a new PC! - or 3 years of dial-up internet access! Anyway, Since I don't run Microsoft anything, I've just taken that $500 and invested it into my favorite stock, Sun Microsystems (which also doesn't run Microsoft anything). I'm betting that my $500 is going to be MUCH more "productive" this way. -JCJ