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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.sgi.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!portc01.blue.aol.com!newsstand.cit.cornell.edu!news.acsu.buffalo.edu!news.drenet.dnd.ca!crc-news.doc.ca!nott!bcarh189.bnr.ca!nrchh45.rich.nt.com!ferret.ocunix.on.ca!resurrect From: mwood@indyvax.iupui.edu (Mark H. Wood) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.misc Subject: Re: Unix too slow for a Web server? Message-ID: <R.1996Sep21.090951.26629@indyvax.iupui.edu> Date: 21 Sep 96 09:09:51 -0500 References: <323ED0BD.222CA97F@pobox.com> <51oph4$4vj@due.unit.no> <51qa91$89o@manuel.anu.edu.au> Followup-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.misc Lines: 28 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:131344 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:27864 comp.infosystems.www.misc:44030 Reposting article removed by rogue canceller. In article <51qa91$89o@manuel.anu.edu.au>, rxt651@leonard.anu.edu.au (Rohan Tronson) writes: > Ok, these comments are all very well. However in the field of Chemistry, > which is my background, if you disagree with a published result, and can > prove it, you publish your own, contraditory results. Which it seems is > what we need to do as a community (with more than just this issue)! Very well it works, too, as long as everybody agrees to play by these rules. > First contact with the publishers/authors of the original article is needed, > will they release details such as what hardware was used and what versions of > UNIX, and what benchmarks they carried out. Hahahahahahaha. > Next an article prepared, using our own system, comparing them as fairly and > as scientifically as possible, submit this article to something like Linux > Journal (the wider audience the better, and the more general the audience the > better, perhaps someone can suggest a more appropriate publication) and also > submit a letter, citing the new article to the magazine in which the orgininal > article was published. Computerworld or Information Week come to mind. The decision makers don't read Linux Journal. The real problem is that, regardless of what you or I think (or *know*), they will probably believe ZD's shoddy "research" and have us rip out satisfactory working systems to replace them with the current trendy "solution". -- Mark H. Wood, Opinionated Upstart [@disclaimer@] Trapped in a world he never made.