Article: 118249 of alt.peeves From: julian@bokassa.tele.com (Julian Macassey) Newsgroups: alt.peeves Subject: Re: New Low in TV Adverts Organization: Celebrity Liver Transplants Lines: 25 Message-ID: <8vffcc$ehu$1@bokassa.tele.com> References: <8FF3CCB4Cjeffjustinnewsfeedsc@204.0.108.142> NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 21:45:48 CST X-Trace: sv2-WjklomV7ZUfnSyfVgGVJXIJbR8Usc9StfSqBqxBIb9NJCOFJOrXKg6fWiivEiOi8SvWUccU42GNxdQV!uErI/x9inzPfl6nRC5GGjTsmJs0R+A== X-Complaints-To: abuse@GigaNews.Com X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 03:45:48 GMT Path: news.meer.net!nntp1.ba.best.com!news1.best.com!nntp.primenet.com!nntp.gblx.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!nntp2.aus1.giganews.com!nntp3.aus1.giganews.com!news1.giganews.com.POSTED!localhost!not-for-mail Xref: news.meer.net alt.peeves:118249 In article , Roger Lee wrote: > >Anyone have any commentary (good OR bad) about VA/Linux? I haven't dealt with them for a year or two. My experience has been good in the past. I'm looking for a new corporate RAID box right now and they are on the shortlist. ObPeeve: My only problems continue to be Microsoft based. One of the more amusing? A 1,000 hour burn in test for some prototypes. We had 32 units hooked up to a Windows 98 machine. Chugging along nicely, exercising the units and the we switched the clocks for "Winter Time". The PC, popped up a screen and waited for an ack. The machine froze waiting for said ack. One experiment in the crapper. Yeah, Windows is multitasking, yea right. I did point out that had we used a Commode-door-64, we would not have the problem. -- Excel seems to be a kind of trap for weak minds. - Speedbump