What's with all the anti-linux advertising on this site?

greeno76

Presumably, Microsoft's response to MyDoom and latest widely-reported critical update.

I can see that they're effectively targetting Linux users but are phpbuilder selling out?

Well, I guess it pays the bills! 😃

LordShryku

Dunno....I block all of the ads :p

goldbug

Originally posted by LordShryku
Dunno....I block all of the ads :p

Ahhh AdBlock + FireFox 😃

Speaking of MS ads.... anyone see this?:

http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=2026&alloc_id=2509&site_id=2&request_id=2948629&1076027963680

check out the markup on the last paragraph.

LordShryku

LMFAO!

Frontpage: Now cleaner. Still invalid, but dammit we look pretty!

pyro

Originally posted by goldbug
Speaking of MS ads.... anyone see this?

Lol... Yep, that's the ad that all the kiddies are laughing about. Good ol' MS proves themself again... 😉

LordShryku

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goldbug

You forgot:

<o:advertisement>
<style>

</style>

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😃

EDIT: MS-style namespaces/crap added for fun. 🙂

piersk

I think this t shirt sums it up nicely...

planetsim

Hahaha did you hear the worry that MS are giving users now they finally admitted to having BUGS

LordShryku

MS has bugs??? :eek:
Ya don't say....

greeno76

I loved the FrontPage ad and I’ll have to get one of those t-shirts!

Going back to the Linux/Windows ad http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/facts/analyses.asp , having looked at the summaries of the reports it seems to me to be largely staffing costs where MS has the advantage. Is this because the system is more complex to administer or are Linux engineers generally of a higher calibre than their Microsoft counterparts and therefore demand higher renumeration?

And the next part
“Microsoft Windows Server 2003 with Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 vs. Linux Competitive Web Server Performance Comparison…
…Testing included combinations of static and dynamic content requests targeting server configurations of 1–8 processors. In a 4-processor configuration, Windows:
- Has 276% better peak performance for static transactions.
- Has 63% better peak performance for dynamic content.”

So, Windows beats Linux in 1 out of 8 configuration tests…?

No word on stability or bugs/viruses either…

Ok, I’m getting boring now…

I’m not techie but I’m a market research analyst and an awful cynic…

Ok, I better go and install that critical update on XP….!
:rolleyes:

Merve

There are also many pro-Linux ads on this site, but mini-Eminem on them scares us...

jstarkey

MIcrosoft seems to be targeting us lately. They've even gone as far as posting news bytes here announcing upcoming webcasts on migrating from PHP to ASP. Just a bit tacky, don't you think?

piersk

Where have they been posting stuff about changing languages?

LordShryku

You know things are bad when papa bear says Microsoft is targetting us.

Maybe an ad should be made for this site? 😃

jstarkey

Originally posted by piersk
Where have they been posting stuff about changing languages?

In the news section.

greeno76

Crikey. I didn't know about those .dat files. Thanks for the link.
That's an interesting site albeit it a little biased. I'm trying to make a balanced judgement on these things.

Having said that http://www.greeno76.co.uk/ is running on a RH9 box in my room and it hasn't gone down once in nearly a year (that's not a challenge!). XP = ~weekly problems. Although, I find Linux a bit difficult to administer (sendmail - aaargh!).

I'm not quite sure where Red Hat is going with the Fedora/Enterprise split. While I understand their motives, where does it leave the middle-of-the-road-user who just wants a very stable and up-to-date-stystem without the expense of Enterprise?

So my questions are:

a) Should I install Fedora Project?
and more importantly...
b) How do I get an avatar on this site? I think I'm not important enough
🙁

piersk

Originally posted by goldbug
Ahhh AdBlock + FireFox 😃

Speaking of MS ads.... anyone see this?:

http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=2026&alloc_id=2509&site_id=2&request_id=2948629&1076027963680

check out the markup on the last paragraph.

FYI, they've cleaned it up

[edit]They've also removed the old one[/edit]

BuzzLY

Originally posted by Merve
There are also many pro-Linux ads on this site, but mini-Eminem on them scares us...

speaking of that kid... have you seen the car commercial where all the kids have soap in their mouths? They played it during the SB. That kid is one of the ones with soap in his mouth! Glad to see that his parents think he's a little freaky, too...:p