Joe Geiser <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
 
[>Alfredo wrote:]
 
>>What?  Microsoft hasn't copied MacDNS yet?  I have used MacDNS without a
>>hitch for almost a year now.  It runs like a charm.  It has (as you would
>>expect from the Apple folks) a wonderfully simple GUI that CHECKS for
>>correct entries.  And, of course, you can edit the resulting file (if you
>>wish, and if you must).  This reminds me of the way Adager allows you to
>>automatically create JobStream files by running Adager in session mode with
>>parm=8.  The resulting JobStream file is just a standard ASCII file, so you
>>can edit it to your heart's content (if you wish, and if you must).
>
>Alfredo, Alfredo, Alfredo...
>
>You must take me to be a Microsoft weenie or something... <g>
 
Of course not, Joe.  In fact, I was just answering "in general" (like Will
Rogers loved to do?)  Nothing personal :-)
 
 
>Actually - I do not use Microsoft's DNS and I do use a GUI-based DNS
>product.  It's newest release is GUI based, that is...
 
There...  You have just proven that you are NOT a "Microsoft weenie or
something"
 
Ahem...  You say, "Its NEWEST release is GUI based, that is..." (Do I take
it to mean that the OLDER releases were not GUI based?)  MacDNS, from day
one, was fully GUI based, and that goes back to 1995, a long time ago in
Java time :-)
 
 
>True, it does run on NT, but it ain't Microsoft...
 
Yet?  Bill Gates will buy it sooner or later :-)
 
BTW: Regardless of the jokes we may throw at good-old Bill Gates, all of us
must recognize that the guy has guts.  He stands behind his stuff and I
admire him for that.  I have said so, publicly, many times.  He puts out
VERY questionable junk at first and, somehow, he makes it work (more or
less?) eventually.  How?  By doing an impressive show of COMMITMENT.  I
have always wondered (in public, too) what could have happened to the
HP3000 (which, unlike the stuff from Bill Gates & Co., began with a solid
base), if HP management had chosen to copy even 10% of the commitment that
Bill Gates shows for his material.  Heck, NT was "Not There" just four
years ago, when I teased Rich Sevcik in New Orleans about "doing more
advertising for the HP3000 so I could win my bet with Graham Woolley".
Rich said, "if I do, would you invite me to dinner [since Graham would pay
for Alfredo's dinner, such being the bet]?".  I said, "surely".  Rich
produced the advertisements, and I had a very pleasant dinner with him and
his charming wife during the San Francisco Interex meeting of 1993.  But it
was like pulling teeth from HP.  And I am not a licensed dentist, as I said
during IPROF '95 :-)
 
So, being a "Microsoft weenie or something" may not be such a bad idea,
after all...  You certainly do NOT have to beg and plead Bill Gates to
promote his goodies (badies?)
 
 
>(It IS - DNS 2.0 from MetaInfo, an NT implementation and port of bind,
>with a much prettier face).
 
Good to hear that.  Because DNS can be a bear.
 
 
I just could not let this wonderful DNS opportunity go by idly.  As you can
easily see, being a musician of sorts, I love to do variations on a theme
(and I tend to use the HP3000 and the Mac as handy themes).  So, folks, no
hard feelings, please.  I just thought all of you might be interested in a
bit of folklore here and there, to lighten up your daily/nightly load.
 
 
Northwesterly yours (Redmond is not that far from Sun Valley),
 
 
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