You know what would be nice?

It would be nice to have an honest comparison of IIS and Apache without it being an open source fanaticist article by a guy on a crusade against anything bearing the name Microsoft. Apparently, according to them, IIS is one giant exploit waiting to happen because... Oh wait. They never say why. They just assume that sites running IIS are hacked because of IIS itself and not because the admin left something open on his own negligent self. But then you have Apache, which is clearly superior for the simple fact that it runs on Linux. And we all know Linux makes things better just because it's Linux, don't we? If it runs on Linux then it must be secure!

Anyway, I'm thinking about shifting my router and web services over to Windows Server 2008. (I would install R2, but apparently that's only for x64 processors now, which is awesome, but not for me, since my server system isn't going to have a 64-bit processor.) My primary reason for this is... Well, let's face it. I'm a Windows kind of pup. I'm running Windows 7 RC on my main machine, for crying out loud. Everything I have is built around Windows... Except for my router server, which is, sadly, running a copy of Ubuntu Server. It's alright, but definitely not plug and play on a Windows network. Every time the thing restarts, I have to manually restart the Internet connection (thanks to a poor Linux-wide implementation of ADSL PPPoE) and then manually start folder shares, which have suddenly blocked out the family computer for no apparent reason. On the bright side, it's rather stable. Although my copies of Vista and Windows 7 has less downtime than my server due to problems. (And then there's Ubuntu on my Dell Mini that acts like Windows ME.)

I don't know though... I might just decide to shift the work load to larger computer by installing a newer release of Ubuntu Server. It's hard telling. It really is. On the one hand, I'm growing increasingly sick of the arrogant open source community. Whenever you go look for help, you're innundated by it. On the other hand, I already know a lot about running one, so I don't need a whole lot of help. Plus, it just sits there and does its thing once it's all set up, but, see, Windows Server will do the same thing once it's set up, too. I guess it's a question of: Do I want to stick with what I know, or do I want to take the time to learn something new? And face it. Windows Server is going to be a lot closer to my intended field of work than Ubuntu Server will ever be.