STR is moving!
Dear Readers,
we are currently in the process of moving the website to more reliable, faster and more secure Windows Vista webhosting.
There might be temporary service interruptions withing the next 48 hours.
Kind regards,
The STR crew
Enjoy the new and faster hosting!
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This is big bullshit. Windows Vista Server is still under development.
And even if it was true, it wouldn’t be faster, more secure or more reliable than a Linux, FreeBSD or Solaris hosting. Don’t believe me, see for yourself:
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2007/03/06/globix_hostway_and_kattare_most_reliable_hosting_companies_in_february_2007.html
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2006/12/05/tiscali_most_reliable_hoster_in_november.html
Oh Lord. You are wrong! Very wrong! We are now hosted on Vista and it’s Heaven! Much faster!
Shelley
Jack Ripoff, your ignorance is astounding!
As you know I am a Microsoft MVP, and one of the benefits of membership is access to the latest Beta software. I’ve got to hand it to Microsoft - this Vista Server Edition is rock-solid and just the sort of thing that will keep those pesky hackers at bay forever!
Its a new server, its bound to have bugs Tristan.
In all respect, I would hope you would wait for it to be fully secure in a few months, because now “the linux hackers” are going to pounce.
Linux hackers! They aren’t smart enough to scare Bill Gates… and they certainly aren’t smart enough to scare Jesus. Did you know that He protects this website too? I prayed it, and it happened! All attacks rebuffed! All sin kept far from these pages.
Thank you Lord!
I agree! Linux hackers are mostly some poor perverts that sit at home and download porn.
Nobody can hack Windows Vista hosting! It can’t be done!
Shelley
Noone ever hacked any Windows product. NEVER EVER! This cannot be done as Windows is DRM protected.
There is a saying that when someone talks Microsoft and Security in the same sentence it becomes a laugable joke. And your claim of transformation to Vista is a lie. Vista does not support Apache and your site uses rewrite rules based on Mod SSL which is an Apache/Linux plugin. All you have done is use .aspx as an extension of PHP in Wordpress and bingo - foolwed your stupid friends.
Tristan, does Vista come with Bibles installed and Bible study tools already loaded? This does:
http://www.ichthux.com/
Linux for Christians
Features include:
The current features of Ichthux are:
* based on Kubuntu 6.06.1 LTS “Dapper Drake”
* bibletime with multi-language support, using Frank Ruehl rich Hebrew font
* kio-sword for Bible study integration into Konqueror
* several Bibles installed by default for English (KJV), Spanish (SPARV), French (LSG) and Hebrew (WLC)
* Christian console tools: verse, bible-kjv
* a Christian emoticons theme by default in Kopete
* kdict with the Easton and Hitchcock Bible dictionaries
* culmus Hebrew fonts
* improved default settings for a better Christian experience of the computer desktop
Bubba
Windows Vista Server? I think you should change to a real Microsoft hoster. Windows Vista is not ready yet, or still in beta status.
Besides, Microsft advices to use Windows 2003 as server for more secure and reliable hosting. Vista only, when it’s ready, for small situations.
Jesus is the future,
George
Microsoft and security??
looooooool.
I just can’t stop laughing.
You have no idea of computers ^^
Shelley > Aby is right. If you want to fulfill our Lord’s desires, install SharePoint Server 2007 on Windows Server 2003.
No, Linux is a secure solution…
If you can call it a solution. It is nothing more than an unfinished project from a few hobbyists.
George,
thanks. You speak the truth!
I just don’t want to rely on some “hobby project” of some drug using hacker type from russia.
We used linux hosting in the very beginning and we had massive downtimes. It was awful!
Linux will be never finished because the kernel is more likely to support new technologies; it keeps on changing to improve not like Winbugs.
I used to think XP was bad, now my vista is full of bugs
The Vista Server Software is still under development. WHere have you got it? And are you aware that it has not been bug-tested till now? Seems like STR could get technical difficulties soon…
@Tristan: NOTHING will keep a persistant hacker forever outside your system. To give you a relating qoute: In the race between thicker armor and bigger grenades, the grenades will always ultimately win.
@Swip: Hey, long time no see! To embarass you: Any serious hacker needs about 5 minutes to crack DRM. Including 4 minutes to laugh his ass off about that old stuff that everyones knows how to bypass.
And that hobby product has grown up quite a lot. That??ɂİ?Ǭ¨?Ǭ•s because programmers from the whole world are working to improve it every day. It??ɂİ?Ǭ¨?Ǭ•s the best quality one can get.
The German Guy
IMPEACH BUSH!
$ curl -I http://www.shelleytherepublican.com
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 19:33:50 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.37 (Unix) mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635.SR1.2 mod_ssl/2.8.28 OpenSSL/0.9.7a PHP-CGI/0.1b
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
Pragma: no-cache
X-Pingback: http://www.shelleytherepublican.com/xmlrpc.php
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.4.4
Set-Cookie: bb2_screener_=1177356830+80.253.205.252; path=/
Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=e0330fc1c525d139350e143b88933853; path=/
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
No comments required I suppose?
I repeat: don’t believe me! See for yourself:
[Ed Note - It was decided that, given the topic, the twenty or so links posted in this response might very well contain links to viruses. While Microsoft Windows is "bullet resistent", other operating systems might become infected. Therefore, these links were removed.]
Even if you kill all the proof, the truth is still the truth. You are just ignoring the evidence and the facts. You are fooling no one but yourselves by removing the links, which, by the way, can all be found here:
http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html
Jack > I’m an engineer from France and I can tell you that Open Source Software sucks when deployed at a large scale. It’s by far buggier than Microsoft softwares and you can’t get support from any company because there’s no company behind. Of course, if you’re considering only http servers and routers, Linux/Apache can do the job perfectly, but software in general is far from being restricted to http servers.
Your comment shows clearly you have no idea what you’re talking about.
First of all, if you check the last link I’ve posted, you’ll see various examples of Linux being deployed at a large scale. Nevertheless, serving at least half of the Internet is a very large scale itself, and I wouldn’t undermine it if I were you.
Just http servers? Come on, if you think hosting companies provide “just http servers” then you’re no software engineer whatsoever. And if you follow the two links I had posted, you’ll see that the most reliable web hosting companies run Linux or FreeBSD. But I repeat once again: don’t believe me! See for yourself, most of the top 500 supercomputers run Linux:
http://top500.org/stats/28/osfam/ (this was among the links Shelley deleted)
If you can’t get support from Linux, then you must have some serious interaction problems. There are far more companies behind Linux than behind Windows. I’m starting to be repetitive, but I’m going to say it again: don’t believe me! See for yourself: check the big Linux distributors’ (like Novell or Red Hat) success cases! Here are some of my favorites:
http://www.novell.com/success/dfs.html
http://www.novell.com/success/casas_bahia.html
http://www.redhat.com/v/magazine/mov/partner_hp_004feb05.mov
And finally, I would like to show you how proprietary software is in fact less well supported and riskier than free software:
http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html#fears
http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/08/14/202229
Quod erat demonstrandum
Shelley make me sad … :(
Jack > Who do you think you’re talking to? I’m well aware that Linux/Unix is deployed at a large scale in some areas. But have you ever tried to work with that in a highly competitive and dynamic context such as financial services? We may have some Linux-based clusters for computing hundreds of thousands of Monte-Carlo simulations ; but do you have any idea how much that thing costs to us? We would like that thing to better integrate into our business processes and there’s no way we can achieve that with Linux. That’s why we’re experimenting something called Windows Compute Cluster and guess what? We managed to integrate this well into our processes and we can easily develop new simulators (which makes us more competitive). I just don’t care about your top 500 ; we don’t need static super-calcultors for computing one thing but dynamic ones for testing, validating and producing new algorithms because our business requires it. And I don’t want to give the mastering of our business to independant entities such as Novell or Red Hat. Microsoft has done well by giving its customers the possibility to master their own business. You’re a fool with your fucking links that show nothing but promote anti-capitalist ideas. Want to know why capitalism has succeeded so far? Why Windows is installed on 95% of computers? Why Windows Server is kicking the ass of Linux? Why .net is kicking the ass of Java? Why Expression will kick the ass of Creative Suite?
I think I’m talking to an idiot coward. And you’ve just confirmed that you really have no idea of what you’re talking about and that you’re no software engineer. You must probably be a Shelley sockpuppet.
I’ve been working with Unix and financial services for over a decade. You are pretty vague in your assertions and thus I cannot guess exactly what do you mean, but integration between OS and business processes for me has never been a problem in the open source Unix world. Proprietary software cannot be customized and for this reason will never integrate perfectly with any business solution, and cannot be modified to perform decently on a virtualized environment (e.g.: with Windows Compute Cluster, you have to rely on Microsoft’s good-will to integrate that with a Xen environment).
Those supercomputers aren’t just “static super-calculators”. Most of them are used for research, semiconductor development and finances (in that order):
http://top500.org/stats/28/apparea/
Microsoft has never given its customers any freedom. It uses its customers to strengthen its monopolistic domination. This is bad for me, you, capitalism, everyone (except Microsoft itself). My links aren’t anti-capitalist. Au contrair, they promote good capitalism and show the facts. You, on the other side, isn’t backed up by nothing but your own misleading words. Windows isn’t installed on 95% of computers. That’s what Microsoft wants you to think. But accurate detection shows that Linux, BSD and Solaris together account for at least 60% of computers connected to the Internet.
http://www.leb.net/hzo/ioscount/data/r.9904.txt
And that’s a very outdated picture. Since then, Linux has been continuously gaining market share from proprietary Unixes and Windows. Today, free software must account for at least 70% of the Internet, and that’s a pretty modest estimative IMO. I can’t see how “Windows Server is kicking the ass of Linux” if Linux keeps gaining market share. .Net isn’t even on the same league of Java, Microsoft’s cheap development tools are appealing for beginners but a true professional can’t live without Java’s robustness and cross-platform capabilities. Creative Suite is a de facto standard in the design industry and if you think Microsoft can “kick its ass” with that piece of stolen crap software, then you really don’t know what you are saying…
Hewlett-Packard is an independent entity? That’s news…
Fsck Jesus.
I use Linux to download porn all time.
Ave Maria purissima!
http://whiskersonkittens.com/
You’re still using PHP:
http://www.shelleytherepublican.com/wp-comments-post.aspx
ASPX is not open-source and was created in the USA:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/aspx
And I bet your blog is hosted in a Windows server. Funny, isn’t it?!
You’re a humorist, aren’t you?? You must be, because no one with mental health would write such crap.
Hey, you edited my comment… Trying to hide something??
By the way, WORDPRESS IS WRITTEN IN PHP.
Oh you are so right! I’m so ashamed I live in a country that’s submerged in the Devil’s operating system (Latex, Litux, Linux?). We all need the blessing of such a good, revolutionary and of course, RIGHT-WING HYPER NEO-CONVERSATIVE WINDOWS VISTA!!!!
LET GEORGY BUSHY FREE US ALL! PLEASE INVADE SPAIN AND THE REST OF THE EUROPE SO WE CAN BE BLESSED WITH WINDOWS VISTA TOO!
F*** Linux and all those GPL trolls! Microsoft and Billy Gates to rule to World! For Good! Yeeahaww
Note - Written by someone who’s life dream was having being born in Texas and being a redneck wearing a ridiculous cowboy hat all the time and a shotgun!
Shelley, you rock! It’s just a shame you’re not a girl otherwise you’d be eligible to try my powerful right-wing shotgun.
Excuse me Antonio, you have forgotten a tag opened, let me close it for you.
WTF, you censored the tag? OMFG…
[/sarcasm]
Please “Shelley”.
I am posting in knowledge you will not approve this comment.
Could you please remove those parts of some articles in which you bash me? It is very terrible, when people google for my nick name they find this out and it is embarrassing, to make matters worse, lately I won stuff with this nick so my real me is easily linked to it, so it is not nice.
I just see no sense for bashing me, I am a fellow liberal like you, I don’t like the war on Iraq, I dislike the bush government and all that stuff. Maybe I don’t fully agree with your ways of making a satirical blog with a lot of obscurity about informing users that it is satirical.
I made one mistake, must accept it, but is it enough reason for that? The objective of your site was not to humiliate fellow readers, was it?
So how about just changing the nick ‘vexorian’ with something else in those articles? There is no need to actually keep it as ‘vexorian’ is it? You could try a more generic name like ‘avenger19′ or something like that. You may want a name that is related to linux to enforce the linux bashing part of Tristan’s personality…
well… the real “server” package for windows vista will come just with the sp1… microsoft itself said it…
and beside that: try to DELETE a large file with windows vista and with ANY other os (even microsoft ones). by “large file” i mean more than 10gb… vista is just painfully slow -.-
why? drm and tcpa!
http://www.no1984.org
Dear Shelley
Windows Vista is designed for use in desktops. Windows Server is for server use. Vista in a server is very insecure and unstable, as all made by Microsoft.
All needed to say is once again what STR are telling us is a pile of bullshit. Along with the bullshit crap Vista.
By the way, have friends who professionally produces music. One of them evaluated Vista together with his production of music and he found that Vista down sample and destroy his own recordings because of Vista’s insane paranoia DRM protection.
Conclusion: If you want to produce your own music, stay away from Vista.
LOL
LOL LOL LOL! you are so damn right! i almost thought that you hate windows!!
Please get your facts before posting stupid comments.
The site is clearly running Vista Ultimate.
Just because there is a Server edition of the OS doesn’t mean you can’t use Vista Ultimate. Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate is a very capable OS that is more secure, reliable, and better performance than any other hobbyist’s code out there.
“Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate is a very capable OS that is more secure, reliable, and better performance than any other hobbyist??Ǭ¢?¢‚Ǩ?°?ɂİ?Ǭ®?¢‚Ǩ?°?É‚Äò?Ǭ¢s code out there.”
Hey, Jesus! What have you been smoking lately?
Shelley, I support you 200%. Windows Vista is the BEST server OS out there, despite linux fanboy trolling. And it has really low hardware requirements. Here is a link to an unbiased prove it: http://mywebpages.comcast.net/SupportCD/VistaRequirements.html
Andrew K aka Vincent
my e-mail:
OptimizeXP@comcast.net
Windows Is Easily Hackable, So Is Linux, So Is Any Other OS, The Best Way To Have An UNHACKABLE computer is do downnngrade to DOS.
“[Ed Note - It was decided that, given the topic, the twenty or so links posted in this response might very well contain links to viruses. While Microsoft Windows is ??Ǭ¢?¢‚Ǩ?°?ɂİ?Ǭ®??ɬ¨bullet resistent??Ǭ¢?¢‚Ǩ?°?ɂİ?Ǭ®?Ǭ¨?ɬ?, other operating systems might become infected. Therefore, these links were removed.]”
LOL
As if reading links and not clicking them would flood my pc with virus…BTW,SuSE/Debian user here.
Windows is a OS made for desktop computers, it can run like a server system, but it will be run bad…
One thing that any person of this stupid site know is that Microsoft copy the free OS, like FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and others like GNU/LINUX. Frequently they copy things of BSD’s OS, because they are patented with the BSD license…
You don’t have any idea of this things… Stupid people…
STR, if you want a truly secure website, do us all a favour and disconnect it from the internet.
This site is still on Linux hosting. Just type in:
curl -I shelleytherepublican.com
Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 10:08:50 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.37 (Unix) mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635.SR1.2 mod_ssl/2.8.28 OpenSSL/0.9.7a PHP-CGI/0.1b
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
Pragma: no-cache
X-Pingback: http://www.shelleytherepublican.com/xmlrpc.php
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.4.4
Notice the part where it says Apache and Unix? BTW, Unix can mean Linux. Wordpress is also the PHP program, so using ASP makes no sense. And no, curl is not a hacker program. This is proof that the site still uses Linux.
Great web site! Thanks!
I guess the 9th commandment (Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. Exodus 20:16 KJV) doesn’t apply to Tristan and Shelley. I’m a Linux user, and when it’s time for me to serve my major in the pine penalty box, I know exactly where I’m going, and it’s not hell.
The wow is now. How can anybody be so shortsighted and just have blind trust in a faith.
Get up and think for your self, question authorities and majorities.
You obviously have no idea what you are on about! You run your site of wordpress, lets see what their servers run off, Wait whats that??? They run linux. God damn it thats strange. And do I see them recomending to run apache (free oprn source) with PHP (again free open source) and MySQL (free linux designed).
If you are going to blog about something atleast know what your blogging, your just saying a ton of crap, and the sad thing is most readers of these ‘linux’ articles are probably linux fans who think you are a moron.
And in your article about Linux being a ‘european threat’, you completely insulted not only a whole country but a whole continent. The continent that you all originate from, the one that is your biggest ally.
Reading your articles just want me to use a well known windows server bug and forward all traffic to linux project sites!
im a full time linux user but to tell you the truth i love this shelly.
he knows the art in sparking a debate that will get people comming back to his site like bees to honey. DAM he is good.
they say that the best form of advertising is word of mouth
and shelly sure can twist the spin.
nice one shelly. i loved the linux articles too.
for all you other mac, windows and linux users you need to
open your eyes here.
adam
First visit to this site. The comments on the articles are sometimes funnier than the articles themselves. Are all these people real?
Heaps better than the Onion. Keep it up.
Still hosted on linux… even your ftp is pureftpd… lol
telnet http://ftp.shelleytherepublican.com 21
try hacking them… no… it’s rock solid… it’s linux hosted
Just imagine if the site was on Windows… All those Democrats would be hacking it. Best stay on Linux ;-)
Try this… so funny…
http://www.shelleytherepublican.com/phpinfo.php
Ever heard of OS faking techniques?
OS faking on a server platform is possible, but is counterproductive because it will *ALWAYS* break something. PHP relies on the OS to store certain files, and where these files are stored is revealed in different areas of the phpinfo() function.
The most telling is the value of session.save_path, “/tmp”. Windows doesn’t have a “/tmp” directory. In fact, if this was on Windows the path would be “C:/…” (”/”, not a “\”, because backslashes have special meaning in strings). Another is the “Path to sendmail”, “/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i”. I won’t even touch on all the things in the “Environment” section that would break if they were faked; same with $_SERVER variables. All the path variables would be useless. The configuration command also reveals the true nature of the host.
Sorry, still Linux.
Chill out, this is satire you dumbasses.
dont ruin it Oni.
-Jer Snider
@0ni we are well aware that it’s satire dipstick now stfu bitch and stop ruining it dingbat.
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