Ooookay

[patgund.livejournal.com]

(crossposted to my LJ and techsupport

Network technician here at my (soon to be ex- in 14 days) employer, complaining that an application (Intermapper) that has run fine for over a year, is now corrupted due to hard drive failure:

"I don't understand why we run everything on such buggy, virus-prone, and unrelibable OS's like Unix, Linux, Solaris, and OS X. Anything Unix-based is a pile of crap and can't be trusted. Why the hell can't we run our servers, clients, and everything else on something proven and rock-solid, like WindowsXP and Windows Server??"

All he knows is Cisco and Windows, and is cranky because he's surrounded by Unix, Linux, and OS X people.

Comments

[patgund.livejournal.com]

Sadly, yes. He's very vocal about his dislike of anything that doesn't have a Microsoft logo on startup

[gilmoure.livejournal.com]

Did you tell him to get back under his bridge and wait for the billy goats to come by?

Every week, we have an Exchange server go down or one of the NT servers (not to mention the near daily rebooting of the ticketing server). Meanwhile, the Unix file stores have stayed up, except for last week when construction killed power to half the campus. Same goes for the Mac servers. We only have a few Macs (1000+) that run network logins and home directories but have never had any trouble with them.

[japester.livejournal.com]

hmmm looks back at old-work where the intermapper machine only ever rebooted when we remembered ... once or twice a year.

oh windows, the OS that had to be rebooted every 65 days before it ran out of 32 bit time?
rock solid? oh dear.
I'm still looking for a true virus for linux, and OS X. Solaris had one. but given that if patched the hole it exploited, it couldn't really be called a virus.

besides, if he thinks that Windows is uber solid, I have this nice bridge in San Fransisco I'd like to sell.

[jecook]

I've been known to post in my personal journal a post like this:


Subject: Can your OS do THIS???

-bash-2.05b$ uptime
6:48AM up 491 days, 10:21, 6 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

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I'll usually tag it with uptime, in case anyone wants to look. (and BTW, that it the current record for that ancient machine.)

[crazdgamer.livejournal.com]

Blame the software for a problem caused by hardware.

Alternate: Blame UNIX for a problem that would've also occured in Windows.

Okie doke.

[chaobell]

This looks more like blaming the software for a problem caused by a loose nut between the chair and keyboard.

[kizayaen.livejournal.com]

The most commonly malfunctioning part in any machine. *nods sagely*

PEBKAC: Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair

[xforge.livejournal.com]

"Virus-prone... like... OS X."

::blink blink::

Oooooooooooooooooo-KAY.

[ismarc.livejournal.com]

Buggy? Virus prone? Unreliable? Windows, rock solid?

WTF?

Yea, let's go with the OS that, de facto, produced over 200 page faults per second!

Sounds to me like he's just cranky because he works in a shop where he's notat the top of the food chain.

...oh yea, and he's an ID10T.

[cmdrproteus.livejournal.com]

"I don't understand why we run everything on such buggy, virus-prone, and unrelibable OS's like Unix, Linux, Solaris, and OS X. Anything Unix-based is a pile of crap and can't be trusted. Why the hell can't we run our servers, clients, and everything else on something proven and rock-solid, like WindowsXP and Windows Server??"

WTF? Did I just wander in Bizarro world??

[brotherflounder]

I was wondering that too. God, how do these people get certified (if he is)?