Day: March 29, 2003

Steve Makofsky:

Just as an FYI, Furrygoat.com has been running on betas of Windows 2003 Server for months, and it’s been working flawlessly. Only downtime has been to install new drops, etc.

Very cool.  I must say that I was pleasantly suprised with the stability of the betas and RC’s of Windows 2003 Server.  The only reasons that I ever had to reboot were to swap out hardware or upgrade versions.

No BSOD’s, no crashes, no weirdness.  I wasn’t stressing the system much, but I’m glad to see that it holds up well to production use.

Marius Andreiana at freshmeat:

The plethora of Free Software applications available today, none working perfectly, is a problem which stands in the way of major adoption of Linux on the desktop. In order to conquer the desktop, we have to stand united.

It’s an interesting editorial that I can’t say that I agree with 100%, but it does raise some good points.  There are a hell of a lot of different free software programs/packages that do almost exactly the same thing in completely different ways.

From the article:

Choice is good, but it’s frustrating when none of the alternatives works properly.

The references from the article are also worth checking out:

• Mob Software: The Erotic Life of Code
• Things You Should Never Do
• The New Methodology
• Agile modeling
• Managing Projects the Open Source Way
• A Conversation with Martin Fowler