System Configuration Quotes

I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated.

Buying the right computer and getting it to work properly is no more complicated than building a nuclear reactor from wristwatch parts in a darkened room using only your teeth.

Some programs - especially games - require that your system be set to a particular color depth and resolution. Often such special settings are different from your usual mode, though.

Putting Windows [3.11] on top of DOS is like putting whipped cream on a road apple [horse poop].

When you're dealing with a new platform, the real trick is just getting the game running.

Every system I have in my house or my car, they're all tuned exactly the same.

This Windows 95 hairball has become so big, so unmanageable, so hard to use, so hard to configure, so hard to keep up and running, so hard to keep secure. Windows 95 is a great gift to give your kid this Christmas because it will keep your kid fascinated for months trying to get it up and running and trying to figure out how to use it.

It's a big, big advantage because understanding what changes we might make takes time and it takes time to work out settings and to understand everything about the new machine.

I don't have any authority over Linux other than this notion that I know what I'm doing.

Red Carpet Enterprise has been really well received since one guy can install it in about an hour, and it makes it trivial to deal with software management issues like deploying updates and creating standard package sets for your various machines.

To master a new technology, you have to play with it.

Modern PCs are horrible. ACPI is a complete design disaster in every way. But we're kind of stuck with it. If any Intel people are listening to this and you had anything to do with ACPI, shoot yourself now, before you reproduce.

I'm a big non-believer in manual driver and kernel configuration, be it visual or not.

I've been very happy with the commercial Linux CD-ROM vendors linux Red Hat.