From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Apr 19 14:12: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from Mail6.nc.rr.com (fe6.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5ED4237B42C for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 14:11:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@nc.rr.com) Received: from tbird-850-win2k ([66.26.225.2]) by Mail6.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.537.53); Thu, 19 Apr 2001 17:11:48 -0400 Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 17:13:59 -0400 From: Neill Robins X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.48f) Personal Reply-To: Neill Robins X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <7219423419.20010419171359@nc.rr.com> To: Alan Clegg Cc: Brett Glass , chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: shipping a computer coast to coast In-reply-To: <20010419165406.E93123@diskfarm.firehouse.net> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010419100521.046ad5f0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010419093136.0461d220@localhost> <200104190647.f3J6l2m70554@ns1.unixathome.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20010419093136.0461d220@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010419100521.046ad5f0@localhost> <18215615213.20010419161031@nc.rr.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20010419143603.045e61e0@localhost> <20010419165406.E93123@diskfarm.firehouse.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Thursday, April 19, 2001, 4:54:06 PM, Alan Clegg wrote: AC> Unless the network is lying to me again, Brett Glass said: >> At 02:10 PM 4/19/2001, Neill Robins wrote: >> >> >Nope, I am attending (a few courses) at North Carolina State >> >University. Sometimes, though, I feel like Microsoft has a pretty big >> >hold on them. A few weeks ago they were happily dishing out Windows XP >> >to anyone that wanted one and they recruit a bunch down here. >> >> Wasn't NCSU the school that, at the behest of Microsoft, wanted to >> require every student to have a Windows laptop? AC> I know that UNC (that school up the street from NCSU) *does* require laptops AC> which all come with the default Microsoft operating system. I don't know AC> if they require you to keep it intact or not. AC> AlanC I never wanted to attend there, but the girl-to-guy ratio is like 10:1!!! Bunch of frickin' non-techies up there! -Neill freebsd@nc.rr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message