Re: need info for confused ISP

2000-04-15 Thread Andrew George
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 the

Re: need info for confused ISP

2000-04-15 Thread Pollywog
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

Re: need info for confused ISP

2000-04-15 Thread Pollywog
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

Re: need info for confused ISP

2000-04-15 Thread Pollywog
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 how to

need info for confused ISP

2000-04-14 Thread Pollywog
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

Re: need info for confused ISP

2000-04-14 Thread Vitux
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

RE: need info for confused ISP

2000-04-14 Thread Chris Mason
://net.ai/ The Anguilla Guide Find out more about NetConcepts www.netconcepts.ai bwz*mq -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 dhs.org website

RE: need info for confused ISP

2000-04-14 Thread Pollywog
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. -- Andrew

Re: need info for confused ISP

2000-04-14 Thread Pollywog
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

Re: need info for confused ISP

2000-04-14 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
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 to NT.