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
From:
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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 PM
To: Martin,
Jonathan; VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup Manual
Backup - can't see restore -OFFTOPIC
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
From:
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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Martin, Jonathan
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 9:10
PM
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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 [mailto:jlightner AT water DOT com]
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 5:53
PM
To: Martin, Jonathan;
VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup 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.
From:
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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Martin, Jonathan
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 3:38
PM
To:
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Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup Manual
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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
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 2:58
PM
To: Curtis
Preston
Cc:
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Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup Manual
Backup - can't see restore
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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