On Monday 28 of January 2013 09:24:37 Kurt H Maier wrote: > Let me start out by saying I love this message. I thought fakeposting > had died, but clearly there are still some practitioners out there. > Here are a few hints: > > - Nobody's ISP tells them what OS to run, even back in 1995. This > excessive detail deprives your message of the credibility it deserves.
8<8<8< boring rant 8<8<8< my isp -- a local venture in poland -- did around 2008. they request we use ms windows on the router/gateway machine, instead of `some strange os' -- linux. otherwise they won't take responsibility for the downtime we were having. turned out, they forgot to whitelist our MAC address. but hey -- it worked with their technician's ms windows notebook. 8<8<8< boring rant 8<8<8< -- dexen deVries [[[↓][→]]] ``One disadvantage of the Univac system is that it does not use Unix, a recently developed program which translates from one computer language to another and has a built-in editing system which identifies errors in the original program.'' - student newspaper
