From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Apr 19 9: 8:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1311037B446 for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 09:08:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA27838; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 10:07:50 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010419100521.046ad5f0@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 10:07:46 -0600 To: Neill Robins From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: shipping a computer coast to coast Cc: dan@langille.org, "Jeremy C. Reed" , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <27658677.20010419120114@nc.rr.com> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010419093136.0461d220@localhost> <200104190647.f3J6l2m70554@ns1.unixathome.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20010419093136.0461d220@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 10:01 AM 4/19/2001, Neill Robins wrote: >As a side note: > >The school I was attending while working there ordered 160 Dell >XPS266s to redo one of the entire computer labs. The problem was, they >all came the same night. 160+ computer boxes, 160+ 19" monitor boxes, >and a bunch of miscellaneous boxes. It was hell to say the least. They >never stopped! > >Too bad they made the mistake of loading NT4 on all of them. But, I >guess the Business school had to use them too! You didn't happen to go to UT Austin, did you? Not long ago, I noticed that UT's Business School had suddenly started teaching Web design courses which caused the students to produce Web pages that ONLY worked with Microsoft Internet Explorer. It turned out that one of their instructors had been named a "Microsoft Scholar" -- and was being paid to hawk products and create courses that would lock schools and students into Microsoft software. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message