Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 16:10:31 -0400 From: Neill Robins <freebsd@nc.rr.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: shipping a computer coast to coast Message-ID: <18215615213.20010419161031@nc.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010419100521.046ad5f0@localhost> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010419093136.0461d220@localhost> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0104190002040.17317-100000@pilchuck.reedmedia.net> <200104190647.f3J6l2m70554@ns1.unixathome.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20010419093136.0461d220@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010419100521.046ad5f0@localhost>
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Thursday, April 19, 2001, 12:07:46 PM, Brett Glass wrote: BG> 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! BG> You didn't happen to go to UT Austin, did you? Not long ago, I noticed BG> that UT's Business School had suddenly started teaching Web design BG> courses which caused the students to produce Web pages that ONLY worked BG> with Microsoft Internet Explorer. It turned out that one of their BG> instructors had been named a "Microsoft Scholar" -- and was being paid BG> to hawk products and create courses that would lock schools and students BG> into Microsoft software. BG> --Brett 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. They do have a full lab (over 200) Sun Ultra10s for the computer science/engineering folks, thank goodness, but I think they all run Solaris or something. A few have Linux running, but that is a fairly small amount. One of my favorite teachers has an OpenBSD server for students working on CGI stuff since he is really big into security. Oh well.... -Neill freebsd@nc.rr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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