Re: [cobalt-users] anonymous ftp on raq 4I

[Paul Jacobs <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 11:54 AM 1/27/2002, you wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Paul Jacobs wrote:
>
> > I am not very linux or unix savoy, but I have worked with some....
>
> But you nonetheless feel compelled to argue technical merit ;P
>
> > The fact that you have to install a virtual NIC for every I.P. that does
> > not have a physical NIC slows the OS down, I have found past 50 I.P.'s on
> > any linux box slows it down badly.
>
> And you don't think windows has virtual network interface abstractions?

Yea, but windows does not crap out after 50 I.P.'s... I have a box running 
200 I.P.'s on a 3C908-TX from 3com just fine.


> >
> > Not wanting to start a holy war here just sharing my problems....
>
> Ahh...the 'i am not a toll' disclaimer
> >
> > As for the cobalt boxes.... everything is passed through a database loaded
> > on the box, and everything is referenced from it for all hosting 
> functions,
> > so adding anything to the box for hosting needs to pass through the
> > database??!.
>
> And? Yoy don't like databases? Hmm, You must have tried to out ms access,
> i don't blame you , i would probably hate databases if i was forced to use
> it also ;P

The database on the RAQ4 is more like SQL, if it were more like access ( a 
jet database format) I could figure it out :)


> > the cobalt boxes are so proprietary as far as the OS config goes you 
> should
> > call them a Packard bell (a hardware reference of a system that died out
> > because it was so hard to program drivers for there hardware)
>
> Some of us rather likes the little white Packard Bell's , and had no real
> problems uaing them, granted their modes is a sound card card was a
> disaster, but it was targeted at the low end , so who cares?
>
> As to linux being proprietary, FUD ;)

The cobalt boxes have so many scripts and such a specialized kernel, yes I 
would say proprietary.


> linux+postgress+apache is about as standard run of the mill as i have seen
> anywhere, cobalt's interface is cobalt's, so what? plesk's is theirs,
> windows IIS admin panel is open software? LOL

So I have to learn postgress?, the apache post to windows was and is a 
disaster.


> [trash deleted]
>
> gsh
>
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