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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!garlic.com!news.scruz.net!kithrup.com!news.Stanford.EDU!nntp-hub2.barrnet.net!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.sgi.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!csn!nntp-xfer-1.csn.net!csn!nntp-xfer-2.csn.net!yuma!purdue!mozo.cc.purdue.edu!aim.et.iupui.edu!indyvax.iupui.edu!mwood 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: <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:130636 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:27682 comp.infosystems.www.misc:43903 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.