[ale] (fwd) Re: NT vs. UNIX firewall (fwd)

[Chris Farris]

Just incase Dan dons't have a Humor bit yet.....

Chris
Forwarded message:
> From: Todd Graham Lewis <tlewis at mindspring.net>
> Newsgroups: internal.engineering.best-of-usenet
> Subject: Re: NT vs. UNIX firewall (fwd)
> Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 21:59:59 -0400
> Organization: MindSpring Enterprises, Inc.
> 
> Ok, postings of one's own stuff to best-of are usually inappropriate,
> but I don't think it's vanity alone which prompts me to say that
> this one was pretty good.
> 
> -- 
> Todd Graham Lewis       Manager of Web Engineering    MindSpring Enterprises
> (800) 719-4664, x2804             Linux!               tlewis at mindspring.net
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 21:55:55 -0400
> From: Todd Graham Lewis <tlewis at mindspring.net>
> Newsgroups: comp.security.firewalls
> Subject: Re: NT vs. UNIX firewall
> 
> On Tue, 9 Sep 1997, Andrew Hart wrote:
> 
> > So someone tell me.  Whats the benefit of choosing a firewall that sits
> > under NT as opposed to UNIX.  Most firewalls are controlled by a GUI, so
> > who cares what the operating system is.  
> 
> Sigh.  Apparently you don't keep up with the trade literature on the topic,
> so let me clue you in.
> 
> Have you ever wondered why Microsoft is located in _Redmond, Washington_?
> What the heck else is in Redmond, at least that is not Microsoft-related
> or predates Microsoft's establishment there?  Nothing!  There aren't any
> other computer companies in Redmond, no big customers, there are other
> places to do business which are more corporate-friendly than Washington.
> Why did Microsoft not locate, say, in the Bay area, or Boston?
> 
> The answer is that Redmond, Washington is the one remaining source for
> pixie dust left on the planet.  Back in the Middle Ages, there were
> several veins of pixie dust in Europe, mostly in Spain (which is why
> they all wore those funny jock-strap-looking things on their groins),
> but they were all exhausted by the mid 16th century.
> 
> In the mid 70s, Paul Allen and Bill Gates were traipsing around a cow
> patch in Redmond looking for 'shrooms when Bill started tripping out.
> Allen just assumed that he had found some killer 'shrooms, but when he
> went over he immediately recognized the material seeping from the ground
> as pixie dust.  (Apparently Allen was an amateur medieval historian.)
> Gates borrowed $5k from his Mom and bought that cow field (known
> historically as "CPM", for "Cows Produce Manure", an abbreviation
> much used on signs around the Redmond area.)
> 
> Ever since, the field of computer science has been left in the dust
> by the new field of _computer alchemy_, one on which Gates and his
> minions have a complete and iron-clad grasp due to their monopolistic
> control of the only known pixie-dust mine on the planet.
> 
> This is why Microsoft's release schedule is so erratic.  Sure, they've
> got the magic dust, but a little labor unrest in Indonesia goes a long
> way when you've got a $40 billion company riding on some tail of newt.
> 
> > Surely it is about the features that the firewall offers.
> > 
> > Or am I missing something?
> 
> DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND?  THEY'VE GOT THE MAGIC PIXIE DUST!!!
> 
> The puny incantations from the Book of Knuth, the instruction of Abelson
> and Sussman, even the wizardry of McCarthy are NOTHING COMPARED TO THE
> MAGIC PIXIE DUST!  Mere algorithms and clean design, all are meaningless.
> This is why no user interface, no matter how carefully designed, can
> ever approach the ease of use of the Windows interface.  It's not the
> interface, IT'S THE PIXIE DUST!
> 
> Rumour has it that Allen found a second vein of dust in, of all places,
> Silicon Valley, where he has set up a second company, Transmeta, to mine
> it.  Let us pray that this is true, for only pixie dust can conquer
> pixie dust.  Until then, get on your knees every night and pray that
> Bill, in all his munificient glory, shall continue to rain the fruits
> of his all-powerful magic on the rest of us to the end of our puny,
> pixie-dust-less days.
> 
> All wierd coders, hand in hand,
> Coders of the sea and land,
> Thus do go about, about:
> Thrice to thine and thrice to mine,
> And thrice again, to make up THE MAGIC PIXIE DUST!!!
> 
> -- 
> Todd Graham Lewis       Manager of Web Engineering    MindSpring Enterprises
> (800) 719-4664, x2804             Linux!               tlewis at mindspring.net
> 
> 
> 
> -- end of forwarded message --
> 


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