hubris [hew-briss]
Noun
Formal pride or
arrogance [Greek]
hubristic adj
Notice that the definition doesn’t
say anything about the pride being unwarranted.
Even better is the Thesaurus entry:
Noun1.hubris -
overbearing pride or presumption
arrogance, haughtiness, hauteur, high-handedness, lordliness - overbearing
pride evidenced by a superior
manner toward inferiors
Notice here again it specifically states
the targets of the hubris are “inferiors”.
Back when I was young and dumb I thought
MS-DOS was a great thing but then I got to work on REAL operating systems like
UNIX/Linux and learned the difference.
There was a Dilbert strip a few years
back:
Dilbert meets a guy and says “That
scruffy beard, those suspenders. You’re one of those condescending UNIX
guys aren’t you?”
Guy replies: “Here’s a
nickel. Buy yourself a real computer.”
J
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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Peacock Dennis - dpeaco
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 10:24
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LOL!!!! Ever seen a Windows box with
400 Terabytes of disk attached to it? Me no think so. J
Ever seen a Windows box that can run 1100 backup
per day for a total of 2.7 PB per month? We eat Windows boxes for a snack. J
Thank You,
Dennis Peacock
EBCA
Acxiom Corporation
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You Unix guys are just too easy!
“unscrupulous business practices”? Ah, the hubris of the
defeated. =P
-Jonathan
PS: Looking forward to the retort. ;)
From: Jeff Lightner
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Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 5:53
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Manual Backup - can't see restore - OFF TOPIC
Funny that.
UNIX has been going to
“succumb” any day now ever since 1970.
NT was introduced specifically to try to
take the UNIX niche but failed in that attempt (however it did succeed in taking
over Novell’s fileserver niche). NT and subsequent Windoze
flavors failed because they are simply not scalable enough.
Interestingly the UNIX Clone, Linux, is
taking market share away from Windoze both in the desktop and the server arenas
to the point that Dell is selling laptops with Ubuntu now and has been selling
servers with RedHat for quite a while.
Using what were judged to be monopolistic
practices by the EU courts and were on there way to being done so by US courts
before W killed the DOJ anti-trust action doesn’t mean you were adopted
due to superior technology but rather due to unscrupulous business
practices.
The great thing about UNIX/Linux is that
it does offer choice. SCO UNIX by the way was a good OS. What
killed it was a combination of free Linux and FreeBSD in the niche they were in
along with poor business practices. It had nothing to do with Windows as
most of its life was AFTER Windows was already available.
Now lets talk about Vista which seems to
be flying as high as your average lead balloon – so much so that
MicroSloth is actually starting to talk about “extending” the life
of XP.
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Good - so when all the paltry
"UNIX" distributions finally succumb to the mighty Windows there won't
be any debate over what name to put on the tombstone.
Windows has market share, which is far more important than any
standard. If you think a recognized standard or some other piece of paper
is going to keep you in business then you had better go talk to SCO. In
the mean time, I'd keep selling solutions to people's problems. =P
-Jonathan
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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts
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On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Curtis Preston <cpreston AT glasshouse DOT com> wrote:
After all these years, it still cracks me up that NetBackup calls Unix
"Standard," which makes Windows and all other platforms,
"non-standard."
So what's your point? :-)
Unix is a multi-vendor standard recognized by both ISO and IEEE. Windows
is not a standard from any standards body that I'm aware of. Even its
trademark is disputed in legal circles.
.../Ed
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