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

["E.B. Dreger" <eddy+public+spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 08:24:08 -0800
> From: Paul Jacobs <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> 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.

*yawn*

The big question is what you did to break all your boxen.  Did
you log every packet or something?  Unless you were running a
buggy kernel, I'm trying to think how one could slow down a box
to what you describe.

> The database on the RAQ4 is more like SQL, if it were more like

SQL is heavily influenced by a standard.  Scary stuff. ;-)

> access ( a jet database format) I could figure it out :)

As for Access... nice for the desktop[*], but I dare you to run a
production website using it.  Talk about crapping out. :-P

[*] I use it as a front-end to enter info into my Unix DBs via
    the MyODBC driver.  I can crank out documents in Word faster
    than most secretaries.  I use MS desktop software, but I
    don't try driving a family sedan in a Formula 1 race.

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

Proprietary or not, one must know what one is doing.

> So I have to learn postgress?, the apache post to windows was

Something wrong with that?  MVCC is yummy.  Scales better than
locking.

> and is a disaster.

Yup.  I'm surprised that they even bothered porting, instead of
just saying "use CygWin!"  Note that they admit that it's a
disaster, and more of a proof-of-concept than production system.

Okay, that's enough troll-feeding for me for now.  Time to get
back to cutting code.


Eddy

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