> On Tue, Aug 29, 2000, at 03:16 PM, you wrote:
>
> After reading your dilemma, I have another of my "famous" questions,
> "How can you word such questions, to an ISP, when with whomever you might
> speak, you will be asked, only, 'What version of Windows are you usings?
> What version of Mac OS are you using?' without offending the person so
> you CAN get some workable answer?"
Usually, it goes like this: "I'm not running Windoze (drawn-out
emphasis on the 'z') or Mac either. What? AmigaOS. Yeah, it's still
around. Yes, they're still developing for it. Well, my system's a
25 Mhz '030, 16 megs of RAM, 5 or 6 years old and it'll still run
rings around 98 on a 133 Pentium with 64 megs. Doesn't crash daily
either. Yes, it is truly amazing. That's okay that you don't know
anything about the Amiga. I do."
Well, you get the idea. I don't think that arrogance or pompousness
just because 90% of the world's computers are running Microsoft's OSs'
should be tolerated.
>
> This question occurred to me when you stated that the ISP used NT's.
> To me, it said that the only type of system any of the staff knew, at
> all, was and is MS Windows, and, not even unary (UNIX, Lynux) languages
> of which the Internet is formed. Anyway, anyone have an idea.
Actually my ISP has several "boxes" running Linux and BSD. Don't know
what they are dedicated to though. Firewall or securtiy, perhaps?
Maybe, file serving of some sort. I understand that NT has failing
in both areas.
Anyway, I'll just keep bugging them until they've made their setup
"network standard" instead of "MS specific."
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