Morons in the News: Anti-Unix Propaganda Web Site Hosted on Unix
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Posted by Amused Gregster
on Apr. 01, 2002 16:00 UTC
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Microsoft and/or Unisys, realizing their dumbass move, presumably contacted Verio, their web hosting provider, and demanded that their site be hosted on Windows 2000.
A special thanks goes to morons.org reader "brother yam" (a.k.a. Chris) for pointing out the header on the anti-Unix site.
Posted by alphatronics from Missouri sucks on Apr. 02, 2002 11:43lmao
BAH: Message too short; not posted.
Posted by splorp from Milky Way on Apr. 02, 2002 12:05You'd think Microsoft would have thought about this after their Hotmail site was found running on the "wrong" server software.
splorp! Evil Bastard
Posted by Legion303 on Apr. 02, 2002 12:13From the Wall Street Journal:
--- Guy Esnouf, a spokesman for Unisys, said the campaign is intended to highlight a high-end Unisys machine called the ES7000 Enterprise Server, an expensive system running sophisticated corporate-computing applications, such as very large data bases.
"We are talking about using Windows for those kinds of problems; we are not talking about hosting a simple Web site," he said. ---
And naturally, in an effort to prove Windows is just as good at serving "sinple web sites" as anything else:
"The site www.wehavethewayout.com is running Microsoft-IIS/5.0 on Windows 2000."
Tomorrow: wehavethewayout.com (sounds like a cult, doesn't it?) breaks in half under the server load. More reports as events develop.
Posted by Yetipants from Norway on Apr. 02, 2002 12:34well, when i try to access wehavethewayout.com it just gives me a blank page.. don't know what it is..
afree87: Probably Microsoft's non-compliant website whining about your use of Opera. ...Yetipants: i was actually using ie when i checked it, so if it's some browser conflict...
Posted by spatula from moronsorg lair on Apr. 02, 2002 12:43
Particularly interesting is Netcraft's best uptimes list. Note that not a single one of them is Windows, and the vast majority are *BSD.
LordDaMan: That's a good ranking of sites there, the very site on teh top of the list as...spatula: Once again, your brain fails you and you miss several possibilites that...Pansy Bedwetter: LOl you're funny. A website who does absoulty nothing would be up along long...spatula: Way to ignore the other 48 sites in the list and focus solely on the two...Nadi: I think the moons are in conjunction or something. They do seem to be coming...Seraph: It's Fate, really. Not long ago, you lamented the site's decline in new...Pansy Bedwetter: > Way to ignore the other 48 sites in the list > and focus solely on the...balding_ape: Ah, crap! that last comment was from me, spatula. Maybe I should just pony up...
Posted by Squidface on Apr. 02, 2002 12:44The free host qsitesonline.net runs on Windows, and look at them now! Also, the hosted sites can't run cgi scripts right now.
Posted by manik on Apr. 02, 2002 14:55They moved to W2k + IIS. And had been hacked (with a lot of other after the same migration). That's why a blank page.
Posted by Boletus edulis from Republic of Humboldt on Apr. 02, 2002 15:36Ha ha hahahahahahah ha ha. It's a good thing we have Microsoft around to protect us from the "threat to innovation" represented by the open source movement. Now if ms could just get a single one of their products to function correctly with out utilizing elements borrowed from open source software, I'm sure they would have lot's of great new stuff to show us. Oh, that's right, the internet is an open source application; I guess they'll have to mail us the cd's when they finally get around to creating something that is both original and functional. I'm going to start holding my breathe and waiting now.....
Posted by Mr Kitty on Apr. 02, 2002 16:18Oh yes, I see how MS owns the Internet now with Windows. God, what the fuck is wrong with you people.
Posted by Heywood on Apr. 02, 2002 21:37This should surprise nobody. Nobody knows thier platform better than they do, of course they aren't going to use it to host thier site. They need stability and security. This is funny. I love watching MS flounder like this.
Posted by Mr Kitty on Apr. 03, 2002 04:30Read, comprehend, post. They were using an outside hosting company, and the site they were doing it for was not being run under microsoft.com.
AllAmericanQueer: Read, comprehend, comment. I noted that Microsoft and Unisys used Verio as...
Posted by Shade on Apr. 03, 2002 18:18According to a Register article the site also wouldn't display properly at first, after windows was installed. Not exactly the message they want :)
spatula: Maybe they have the way out, but the question is: out of what, exactly?HungryCoyote: Business?
