Cyrus_the_virus
Unmountable Boot Volume
This is a rant. If you are easily offended then don't read this. I repeat. Don't read this. I am going to be ranting about how fan boyz and girlz go on and on and on about how easy it is to install programs in windows and how hard it is to install programs in Linux.
Many times it is their biggest argument about the superiority of windows. Programs are easy to install. You don't have to CMMI (Configure,Make,Make Install), you don't have to use the command line. All you have to do is click next and the program is installed.
Bull! I just recently installed MSDE and its associated web data admin on a freshly installed, fully updated windows XP. It was a pain. Not because it was hard. Anyone with half of a brain could install it. It was a lot of wasted time and effort for such a simple task. To install these two programs I had to follow the following steps. Note: These are Microsoft programs written by Microsoft and supplied by MS's web site.
So all of you winedoz fanboyz that say it is simpler to install programs under windows I say to you Ffffftt!
Now if you have read this and are offended then all I can say is that I warned you. If you think I am blowing it out of my #$%&!@ then try it yourself before commenting. As I mentioned to someone earlier today. Things only seem complicated if you don't know what you are doing.
Thus ends my rant. Have a nice day
Source: Written by System Admin Locutus
Many times it is their biggest argument about the superiority of windows. Programs are easy to install. You don't have to CMMI (Configure,Make,Make Install), you don't have to use the command line. All you have to do is click next and the program is installed.
Bull! I just recently installed MSDE and its associated web data admin on a freshly installed, fully updated windows XP. It was a pain. Not because it was hard. Anyone with half of a brain could install it. It was a lot of wasted time and effort for such a simple task. To install these two programs I had to follow the following steps. Note: These are Microsoft programs written by Microsoft and supplied by MS's web site.
- Find the programs on the web site.
- Download them.
- Run MSDE to find that it just unpacked itself to a directory.
- Go to that directory and run setup.
- Find out that I had to supply a command line switch.
- Go to the command line and run the setup again with the command line switch.
- #$%&!@ click, #$%&!@ click, #$%&!@ click, #$%&!@ click
- Reboot the computer.
- Run the setup for web data admin.
- Get a message that it needs .net 1.1
- #$%&!@ and #$%&!@ about dependency hell
- Download .net 1 after finding it because the automatic link takes you to .net 2
- #$%&!@ click, #$%&!@ click, #$%&!@ click, #$%&!@ click
- Run the setup for web data admin.
- #$%&!@ click, #$%&!@ click, #$%&!@ click, #$%&!@ click
- Start up Adept Manager.
- Put the term "postgre" in the search box and wait a couple of seconds for all postgresql programs to list.
- Choose install for postgresql as the closest thing to MS's MSDE.
- Choose install for postgresql-client just because I felt like it.
- Choose install for phppgadmin as the closest thing to MS'S web data admin.
- Click on Apply Changes
- Start making a cup of coffee while everything is downloaded and installed.
- Close Adept Manager after everything was installed.
- Finish making my cup of coffee and drink it while playing with the database.
So all of you winedoz fanboyz that say it is simpler to install programs under windows I say to you Ffffftt!
Now if you have read this and are offended then all I can say is that I warned you. If you think I am blowing it out of my #$%&!@ then try it yourself before commenting. As I mentioned to someone earlier today. Things only seem complicated if you don't know what you are doing.
Thus ends my rant. Have a nice day
Source: Written by System Admin Locutus