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but I will tell you my 2k machines are rock solid
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We have some 2k machines at NASA, and the one I am on STINKS!!! It crashes maybe once every 2.5 days, and above that I get programs not responding at maybe 1 per half hour!!! I can barely get work done w/o having something fail.
That beeing said, I didn't set up/install those machines, and I don't know who has done what with them. Maybe if I got a fresh win2k install, with no outside programs, then everything would work fine. But the problem I have with windows is that strange bugs seem to just show up. Now, I do have win98 here at home, but the next time we get a new computer, that will change to linux. (I have a 4gb hard drive now, so dual boot's not a good option for me.)
Recently, though, I've started using a friend's server (I connect w/ ssh), which runs debian on it. I do some simple hacking (perl/C) on it, and play around with some simple commands to get used to linux, mainly. After a week on it,
grep and
man are my new favorite friends now
Stephen, who will be windows free definitely by the time he goes to college