Do this some time when you get a chance. Go download the source for Mozilla and untar/gzip it on a Linux box. Make sure you time it. Then do the same thing on AIX. Takes so much longer on AIX that it doesn't even make sense. We've seen the same thing with Oracle imports/exports and even straight file writes. Sure, AIO helps some if you're running an Oracle box or something (which we do - to the tune of 80 database instances), but it's still much slower than it should be.

And yes, you can get more colors for AIX (xserverrc), but it wasn't AIX I was referring to. I was referring to the fact that the video card is an old piece of junk. Oddly enough, the card costs an ungodly amount of money. Maybe that has something to do with the way AIX is going server only. Maybe not enough people are up for paying $10k for a slow workstation anymore.

Sure, the POWER CPUs in general (and most notably POWER5 and POWER6) are very powerful. Even AIX is a pretty decent UNIX. As mentioned, smit[ty] is a very good tool to perform admin tasks. I just never thought AIX was particularly great on the desktop. I mean, I love CDE and I've always enjoyed using it for the simplicity and clean look (side note: what ever happened to being able to buy CDE for Linux?), but I/O (and namely filesystem I/O) on AIX is for the birds. JFS and JFS2 are very robust filesystems, but for anything approaching real speed, they just don't get it done.

I have several of the 285 workstations here, and I replaced mine with a Linux desktop months ago. The rest of the guys in my group followed suit shortly after I showed them they could accomplish pretty much the same tasks. If IBM used a half decent video card in the workstations, loading Linux on them would be the ideal solution. However, they are like 4MB PCI cards or something silly, and the amount of colors you can get is laughable.

I dunno. I can kind of see the point of lamenting that IBM has decided to nix AIX as a workstation, but honestly, it's been in decline for a long time.

Generally I think your point is valid. However, I don't think so in thise case.

To me, the old saying "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me" applies here. If you really want to break this down, she wasn't scammed once. She was scammed several times... in the same way... by the same person. Honestly, I don't see how you can look at it and say she was completely blameless in the matter.

To use your anology:
If you leave that stack of 20 dollar bills, yes, it's my decision to steal them. However, if you do so every day for the next month, and every day I take them in the same way, are you not a little more than stupid at that point? Would you not be somewhat to blame for your own misfortune? Surely you don't think you can claim it was 100% my doing after it had happened over and over and over again.