Re: MSNBC

Sander Vesik (sander@HALDJAS.FOLKLORE.EE)
Thu, 6 Jun 1996 15:28:43 +0300

On Wed, 5 Jun 1996, Chris wrote:

> > But, the major media corporations--the networks, the companies who own them,
> > and the companies who generate their content--are much more insidious forces
> > for the domination of the world. They don't just dominate economically,
> > they dominate politically...
>
> Today, Intel was talking to me about a CGI program I wrote, that they
> really like and want to buy. They understand perfectly well that it is
> in PERL and uses many wonderful features of the apache webserver, but
> still think it would be a great idea if I could make it run on their NT
> server. NT!? I said to myself... So, the first 16 megs... your OS.
> Then, you get hundreds of bloated copies of perl running at the same
> time, etc. Ouch. But, I said "I'll look into it" instead of saying "NO!
> You should run it on a DEC Alpha running Linux!!!"
^^^^^^^^^^^
Now that woudn't be wise - tell Intel run DEC, but otherwise... They
might even agree (if someone realy said them with the proper arguments) :-)

Sander

>
> /me twacks self.
>
> > --John Stoner
> > --Internet Explorations
> > --jstoner@interaccess.com
> > --http://www.interaccess.com/explore/
> > --personal page:
http://www.interaccess.com/explore/stoner
>
>
> --
> /chris/
>