On 15-Apr-2000 04:26:22 George Bonser wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Apr 2000, Pollywog wrote:
>
>> We e-mailed back and forth a few times and it came out that what
>> they
>> meant was that they don't know anything about Linux and that
>> trying
>> to run it would be a security risk because they don't know
On 15-Apr-2000 04:26:22 George Bonser wrote:
> Why would you go with an NT ISP in the first place? I sure hope
> they don't
> have your credit card number :-o
Using NT doesn't make them crooks (just stupid?), but if they have
credit card numbers on one of the machines that runs a program that
has
We e-mailed back and forth a few times and it came out that what they
meant was that they don't know anything about Linux and that trying
to run it would be a security risk because they don't know how to
configure it.
--
Andrew
On 15-Apr-2000 03:05:35 George Bonser wrote:
>
> Well, then, tell th
Wasn't there some statistics in the last few days about isp downtime in Germany?
I think it was a link on Linuxtoday
Andrew
On Sat, 15 Apr 2000, Pollywog wrote:
> On 14-Apr-2000 20:36:53 Vitux wrote:
> > Well over a year ago, I saw somewhere on the net that there
> > was an experiment comparing
On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Pollywog wrote:
> They must have swallowed Microsoft's propaganda hook, line, and
> sinker, finally telling me they are "NT professionals" and that they
> know little about Linux.
>
If they are NT professionals and know little about Linux than they are
better off sticking t
On 14-Apr-2000 20:36:53 Vitux wrote:
> Well over a year ago, I saw somewhere on the net that there
> was an experiment comparing the hacker-seurity of a
> linux-server to a windohs. That was when I started getting
> into Linux: everyone was invited to try to break the
> servers. NT was killed in 2
On 14-Apr-2000 18:32:28 Chris Mason wrote:
> If I was an ISP changing from NT I wouldn't use Linux, I'd use
> freeBSD. Much more secure, stable, more mature, and it's also free.
I suggested FreeBSD to them also, for the same reasons.
--
Andrew
If I was an ISP changing from NT I wouldn't use Linux, I'd use freeBSD. Much
more secure, stable, more mature, and it's also free.
Chris Mason
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Pollywog wrote:
>
> An ISP saw a post of mine on the dhs.org website and asked me what
> they could do to make their service better. I replied that one thing
> they could do is switch to Linux or FreeBSD or some other UNIX (they
> are using NT). Their reply to me was that the problem with Linux
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