From: /m 


Strictly internal use only.

 /m


On Sat, 10 Jun 2006 15:20:43 -0400, "Geo"  wrote:

>"/m"  wrote in message
>news:kgrl82lelri451m6u2dlm59gfmt0hod26n{at}4ax.com...
>
>> forums (phpBB),
>
>If these are available to the outside world, run away run away. PHP based
>applications have become the new hacker playground.
>
>> Makes me wonder just how much money is wasted buying hardware to support
>> these new bloated Microsoft operating systems?
>
>Had you said that to me back in the NT 3.5 days I would have said it was
>worth the cost. In fact I moved the company to 3.5 and we paid the costs and
>I proved they were justified.
>
> But with Vista, I just don't see anything to justify it. Ok, a few features
>sound nice but they are things you use rarely (like shrinking a partition)
>and/or can easily live without. They are also easily counterbalanced with
>activation/copyprotection/drm features that do nothing but increase costs
>via more restrictive licensing terms and added maintenance costs.
>
>I don't see a problem with buying high end desktops today, in fact I just
>ordered some to run W2K. Remember the $1100 no OS quote I posted?
>
>Geo.
>

--- BBBS/NT v4.01 Flag-5