All you Other computer geeks!

I'm just guessing so you might want to ignore my post, but I think you go into safe mode and change the resolution there.

8O I got the answer to a tech question right? WOOO HOOO!!! I'm slowly on my way to becoming a geek!

I've been posting here for years now and that's the first one I've gotten right.....I think I can safely say it's a slow process.

I was dating someone from here before and I got suckered in to the OTHERS

what? no. I was dating them for years and when we moved in together he told me about this site thinking that I'd learn something, but I got posting in the OTHERS section and lost brain cells instead. lol.

for fun. every other section is way too serious.

nice avi.....it's all dark and mysterious.

Snorky I know you're russian, but I thought you lived in Switzerland. How come you have Russia as your location?

Back home? That's cool.

You're a noob. Don't lie.

As you said slowly.

How to you become a Noob again?

Thus why my computer and air conditioning problems are brought down here

LMAO!!!!!

I aovid the hardware. I stick to the software and networking portion where people are asking questions over flaming each other.

Speaking of which.. I'm out with the boys last night. We hit a bar, spot a few hotties sitting at the bar.

Enter me.

Turns out, I know one. Instant conversation going on and what not. The one girl asks me what I do for a living. I simply say "computer networking."

Shit hits the fan. She worked for the 'largest ISP out west" and knows everything about the internet. She worked there for 3 years.

Then, she asked if we run Unix at work. I said no. Then the argument and flaming comes out. I told her I don't care to talk computers outside, especially when I'm drinking a beer with friends and actually having a good conversation.

It continues on, she says I should be running Unix at work because it's so much better. I had to interrupt and say "We run i5OS for what we do" unix doesn't really have a place for what we do.

She didn't understand, continues to flame, everyone in the bar starts yelling at her to shut up because of her annoyingly loud and projected voice. I think I went deaf in my right ear. I keep trying to avoid her, she won't drop it.

Finally, we all drank up and called it a night. She walked out the door yelling "FreeBSD is the best."

sigh.

3 years in the field and she only knew what other people said.
After her constant bashing on me because I do Windows server support, I asked what OS she runs at home.
Windows.
I said why don't you run FreeBSD?
You know, because it came with my computer.
But it's free. You say you know everything about it. You should back it up and run it at home.

Now, I'll be the first to admit that I haven't dabbled with any type of Unix. I did play once with Linux/Mandrake and Red Hat, older versions. Didn't care for them at the time.. 3-4 years ago maybe.

My understanding is that versions of Unix aren't 'secured' from the box state, whereas you need to go in and change some stuff to make it secure.

I know Win2k3 Server is fairly secure out of the box now a days though.

She also told me Unix was the most stable, which I can agree with. Then again, we have os/400s and i5OSs running for 5-10 years at my work stable, all the while we upgrade and stuff, rarely do we turn any of them off at all.

So, at what point does stability matter anymore? If I have to reboot my server once a year, I'd call it really stable. If it was once a month, I'd still consider that somewhat stable.

Unix can run for years, as400 can run for years.. I have my Windows servers here running for at least 1 1/2 years and only needing to reboot during security fixes. Other than that, no problems.

I don't think stating Unix to be stable is as strong a point as it was previously... but I still can be corrected by Unix peoples.