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A lot of you probably don't. Microsoft has been the dominant platform since I was in high school, and a bunch of you were only toddlers then. Sucks to be you.
I bring this up because once again, I find that a nine year old unix box (SGI Origin 200 in this instance) can run rings around a 2x Core2 Xeon that's only a few months old.
Why the fuck do the backups that took an HOUR, sometimes two, under Veritas 4.5 MP6 (daily incrementals) on Irix take so long that they're STILL FUCKING RUNNING 12 hours later on Win2k3 server on said shiny new PC Server with Veritas 6.0 MP4? Same tape library, same machines being backed up, same tape drive (plugged in to a FASTER SCSI controller no less). Six to twelve times as long to run. I haven't had a single successful full backup run since we migrated. I always have to go back and rerun the fucking things by hand and babysit them till they're fucking done.
For all their faults, I miss the various flavors of Unix I've hated over the last two decades.
I bring this up because once again, I find that a nine year old unix box (SGI Origin 200 in this instance) can run rings around a 2x Core2 Xeon that's only a few months old.
Why the fuck do the backups that took an HOUR, sometimes two, under Veritas 4.5 MP6 (daily incrementals) on Irix take so long that they're STILL FUCKING RUNNING 12 hours later on Win2k3 server on said shiny new PC Server with Veritas 6.0 MP4? Same tape library, same machines being backed up, same tape drive (plugged in to a FASTER SCSI controller no less). Six to twelve times as long to run. I haven't had a single successful full backup run since we migrated. I always have to go back and rerun the fucking things by hand and babysit them till they're fucking done.
For all their faults, I miss the various flavors of Unix I've hated over the last two decades.
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(Which is to say, if I wanted a bastardized Unix emulation that invents its own barely-compatible conventions, doesn't support many of the native filesystem features, and so forth, I'd run Linux in a VM.
Note to developers: If you're going to port your application to Win32, port your goddamned application. An emulation layer than enables your application to technically run but pretty much means that it will not play nice with the native environment of the other OS is not fucking porting. Not everyone has fork(). Get over it.)