[plug] Rant about Windows Networking (or what I did this weekend)

[Bret Busby]

On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, skribe wrote:

> Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 18:19:51 +0800
> From: skribe <skribe at amber.com.au>
> Reply-To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject: [plug] Rant about Windows Networking (or what I did this weekend)
> 
> Now, I'm the first to admit I don't know everything about Windows.  
> Particularly the NT side of things that have made their way into XP.  Until a 
> year ago I hadn't even used an XP machine.  But over the course of the last 
> year, using it nearly everyday at work, I have picked up a thing or two about 
> it.  One of these things is that it is an abstruse piece of shit.
> 
> Now, I'll also admit that I don't know everything about linux.  But I do know 
> that under linux that if I want to network seven computers it won't take a 
> trained professional two full days to achieve even basic connectivity.
> 
> This past weekend I assisted a 20 year Windows/DOS veteran, who's real job is 
> networking at a major ISP btw, connecting the computers at CTV (you might 
> remember my rant about this a few weeks ago) and it took two entire days to 
> network these seven computers so that we can transfer files and print. And 
> the main cause of the problem is that under Windows you have to change about 
> twenty different radio buttons, drop-down selectors and text inputs. Not that 
> much different from linux - in theory - but under Windows they're not all 
> clumped together in the same gui interface like they are under all the linux 
> guis I've used.  Oh, no, you have to find them.  And the online help is worse 
> than the documentation for the 1999 version of linuxconfig.
> 
> It's official. Windows is shit.
> 
> I feel better now.
> 
> skribe
> 

So now we are a Windows list?

Okay....

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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"So once you do know what the question actually is,
 you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
  Chapter 28 of 
  "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
  A Trilogy In Four Parts",
  written by Douglas Adams, 
  published by Pan Books, 1992 
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