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.
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-Original Message-
From: Pollywog [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, April 14, 2000 1:56 PM
To: debian-user list
Subject: need info for confused ISP
An ISP saw a post of mine on the
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
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
servers is the security hol
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