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From: Edmunds, Keith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Monday, June 08, 1998 5:11 AM
Subject: RE: Need PLIP info other than crappy HOWTO
>Linux is a US-produced product??? Funny, I thought contributions came
> From: Shawn McMahon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> If you're going to post to a list that's hosted in the US,
> and devoted to a
> US-produced product, then it's "evangelize".
Linux is a US-produced product??? Funny, I thought contributions came
from all over the world (including west of Califo
Is this about over?
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From: David Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Friday, June 05, 1998 4:02 PM
Subject: Re: Need PLIP info other than crappy HOWTO
>> You really ARE an a**hole.
>
>And you, sir, are
> > Which it very much is, since you've been twit-filtered left and right since
> > this started.
>
> Always a useful way of dealing with an issue one cannot answer
> head-on, filter it out.
Nope it's an intelligent soloution to a moronic thread.
Pete
@home @work @play
there just isn't enoug
On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, David Fisher wrote:
> Sorry, but we are still going spare here trying to do basic things in
> Linux that have not been problems elsewhere, such as getting a network
> card to be recognized.
Hi Dave,
Maybe we can cut the NT/Linux flames for a brief moment and try and help
y
> You really ARE an a**hole.
And you, sir, are the clear winner of the Intellectual Excellence in
Debating Trophy. The clarity, logic, and moral suasion of your
argument leave me speechless.
--
David Fisher
Chief Engineer
Fisher Research Corporation
Two Cairn S
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Fisher writes:
[snip]
>Good point, and one deserving of an honest answer.
>
>First, it's cheap, easy, and momentarily entertaining sport to goad
>the more rabid Linuxites (with well-deserved apologies to the rational
>and well-behaved ones who do not feel it
> Face it, David; you feel a need to defend NT that is so great, you're
> willing to be off-topic at length to comment about somebody else's sigfile.
> Either you're just trolling and you like starting arguments, or you're
> feeling guilty about NT's demonstrable lack of performance and trying to
> You were indeed hallucinating so can we all stop this and go on to more
> important things.
Smile when ya say that, stranger!
> Like how about someone (how about you, David?) offering some advice to
> Michael on his problem. Wish I could but I have never tackled his problem.
Sorry, but we are
> The message speaks for itself, Michael not only made no mention of NT in his
> (now forgoten) request for help he did not even have a signature berating
> ANY Microsoft products. Which is the most popular way to slid in comments
> that bash MS in general.
As I don't archive these things, I'm at
> -Original Message-
> From: David Fisher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, June 05, 1998 3:58 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Need PLIP info other than crappy HOWTO
>
>
> > Oh, please; NT wasn't even mentioned in the post to which
>
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From: David Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Friday, June 05, 1998 3:57 PM
Subject: Re: Need PLIP info other than crappy HOWTO
>slur in the signature. That was part of my point, that someone has
>such animus
> -Original Message-
> From: David Fisher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, June 05, 1998 3:12 PM
> To: Mike Edwards
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Need PLIP info other than crappy HOWTO
>
>
> > Then why, oh why, are you baiting us??!! I
On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, David Fisher wrote:
> > Then why, oh why, are you baiting us??!! It's because of postings like
> > yours that these pointless, off-topic religious arguments get started in
> > the first place. This is a Linux list--do expect us NOT to defend it?
> >
> > As I said before, le
> Oh, please; NT wasn't even mentioned in the post to which you responded.
I think that, if you look at the original post, you will see the NT
slur in the signature. That was part of my point, that someone has
such animus toward NT that he has to put it in his signature. Of
course, if his signatu
> But, if it'll help your self-esteem, I'll concede that Windows NT
> parallel-port networking is easier to set up than Linux parallel-port
> networking. In exactly the same sense that a Geo Metro is easier to drive
> than a Ferrari.
What parallel-port networking has to do with any of this is qu
-Original Message-
From: David Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Friday, June 05, 1998 3:13 PM
Subject: Re: Need PLIP info other than crappy HOWTO
>That was no dig against Linux. Please reread it if you do not believe
>me. It w
-Original Message-
From: David Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Mike Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Friday, June 05, 1998 3:10 PM
Subject: Re: Need PLIP info other than crappy HOWTO
>Third, what makes it off-topic?
Hmm,
> Did you have that thought BEFORE you started this with an uncalled-for dig
> against Linux, or afterwards?
Oh, dear; yet another reader who did not get the point.
That was no dig against Linux. Please reread it if you do not believe
me. It was a "dig" against those who slander NT with far more
> Then why, oh why, are you baiting us??!! It's because of postings like
> yours that these pointless, off-topic religious arguments get started in
> the first place. This is a Linux list--do expect us NOT to defend it?
>
> As I said before, let's keep it off this list!
>
> [Sorry for throwing
> I have never seen an NT server go for more then 3 weeks without
> crashing, mine or anyone elses. The logest I'd seen a Server up was 5
> months, then it turned out it had been left in a back office unconnected
> to the network, not running a program, on a UPS, playing a screen saver.
> From: James Michael Keller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
[lots of NT flaming]
Some NT servers stay up for months at a time (I know, I'm supporting a
7x24 NT network). Unix is better than NT for some (maybe most) things,
but not all.
If you want to evangelise at least learn how to spell.
Keith
David Fisher wrote:
>
> > > > Gee. With NT, this would have been child's play!
> > >
> > Yea, but with NT, it would'a screwed up after a day or two, and
> > cost you thousands in unnecessery support calls, crashes, downtime, etc,
> > etc...
>
> How, then, do you account for the existence
-Original Message-
From: David Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Friday, June 05, 1998 6:12 AM
Subject: Re: Need PLIP info other than crappy HOWTO
>Might it not be time for the Linux community to grow up and stop these
>incess
-Original Message-
From: Edmunds, Keith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Friday, June 05, 1998 8:42 AM
Subject: RE: Need PLIP info other than crappy HOWTO
>Some NT servers stay up for months at a time (I know, I'm suppor
On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, David Fisher wrote:
> > > > Gee. With NT, this would have been child's play!
> > >
> > Yea, but with NT, it would'a screwed up after a day or two, and
> > cost you thousands in unnecessery support calls, crashes, downtime, etc,
> > etc...
>
> How, then, do you account
> > > Gee. With NT, this would have been child's play!
> >
> Yea, but with NT, it would'a screwed up after a day or two, and
> cost you thousands in unnecessery support calls, crashes, downtime, etc,
> etc...
How, then, do you account for the existence of all those NT
installations in whi
> -Original Message-
> From: Mike Edwards [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, June 04, 1998 8:23 PM
> To: David Fisher
> Subject: Re: Need PLIP info other than crappy HOWTO
>
> On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, David Fisher wrote:
>
>
> > Gee. With NT,
Gee. With NT, this would have been child's play!
Michael H. Price II wrote:
>
> I have a RedHat 5.0 installation on a desktop machine and a laptop and
> have been going crazy trying to get a PLIP connection between the two.
> I have read every section containing the word PLIP in the NAG,
> NET-
-Original Message-
From: David Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, June 04, 1998 6:09 AM
Subject: Re: Need PLIP info other than crappy HOWTO
>Gee. With NT, this would have been child's play!
Yes; even after you got
I have a RedHat 5.0 installation on a desktop machine and a laptop and
have been going crazy trying to get a PLIP connection between the two.
I have read every section containing the word PLIP in the NAG,
NET-3-HOWTO, and the PLIP mini-HOWTO (which is far from informative.)
The laptop has no netw
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From: Michael H. Price II <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, June 03, 1998 10:38 PM
Subject: Need PLIP info other than crappy HOWTO
>The laptop has no network connections while the desktop machine has an
>e
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> -Original Message-
> From: Michael H. Price II [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, June 04, 1998 05:38
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Need PLIP info other than crappy HOWTO
>
>
> I have a Re
On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, David Fisher wrote:
> Gee. With NT, this would have been child's play!
You're just begging for a flame war, aren't you? Let's keep it off this
list!
==
Mike Edwards, MIS
Edwards Graphic Arts, Inc.
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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