Author Topic: Pity the folks of Tompkins County, New York  (Read 3221 times)

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Re: Pity the folks of Tompkins County, New York
« Reply #15 on: 28 October 2005, 18:14 »
Holy Crap.
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Re: Pity the folks of Tompkins County, New York
« Reply #16 on: 28 October 2005, 18:34 »
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Re: Pity the folks of Tompkins County, New York
« Reply #17 on: 28 October 2005, 20:27 »
i think ip addresses are free ... no ?
then why are they makeing you pay them money for internet ??

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Re: Pity the folks of Tompkins County, New York
« Reply #18 on: 29 October 2005, 07:43 »
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i think ip addresses are free ... no ?
then why are they makeing you pay them money for internet ??

Money, simple as that. Greedy bastards. That and most people don't know what an IP address is.
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Re: Pity the folks of Tompkins County, New York
« Reply #19 on: 30 October 2005, 03:10 »
As one of those poor fools in Tompkins County, I can assure you that Microsoft heavily subsidises both of the higher ed institutions in town, as well as the city, so Microsoft has a willing legion here.

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Re: Pity the folks of Tompkins County, New York
« Reply #20 on: 30 October 2005, 03:55 »
Same deal here, microsoft "donates" its shit to our schools. Now we're forced to use windows, even though our comps can't handle anything over 98, so they're unreliable and generally shit. Plus, using 98/95 means we don't get any support.


Installing Linux, which the comps could run, and run well, is out of the question. So we're stuck with shit unsupported software. Yet somehow they have the time to make sure nobody installes something unapproved, like linux, firefox, openoffice.

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Re: Pity the folks of Tompkins County, New York
« Reply #21 on: 30 October 2005, 05:31 »

"I'll get it to run on OS X, I'm in."

   I know that BSD (which OS X is based on i've heard) is a
   flavor (right term?) of UNIX, but does Mac OS X really count?
   


  Do Windows users using Cygwin get to connect?

  What if someone is using an emulator such as QEMU, Bochs, or VPC?

  I'm probably taking this way too seriously :|.


Well geeze, I for one am glad they're standing up to all the false accusations that mozilla is more secure than IE. Everyone with a brain knows that every piece of software has bugs and you're not safe unless you buy expensive, bloated anti-virus software... Man, I can't believe the ignorance of some people... Those open source communists can suck it. Open source destroys lives and families, and is taking away jobs from Americans faster than Mexicans are. If it weren't for Microsoft, no one would have even used the Internet.

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Re: Pity the folks of Tompkins County, New York
« Reply #22 on: 30 October 2005, 05:47 »
OSX counts. It's based on Darwin, Apple's open source implementation of BSD.

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Re: Pity the folks of Tompkins County, New York
« Reply #23 on: 30 October 2005, 09:23 »
I don't see why cygwin wouldn't work. It's a UNIX layer on the NT kernel. What does cygwin report at uname?
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Re: Pity the folks of Tompkins County, New York
« Reply #24 on: 30 October 2005, 20:24 »
Count me -the fuck- in!
I would just looove the internet to be a UNIX only thing. I hope we would still have Wikipedia and Wiktionary??? They are GNU too!
Otherwise, I won't miss much of the old internet. Let's call it infer-net and our own super-net.

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Re: Pity the folks of Tompkins County, New York
« Reply #25 on: 15 November 2005, 03:15 »
Those who cant do work for the goverment :fu: Microsoft. Goverment/Efficiency a true oxymoron.
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Re: Pity the folks of Tompkins County, New York
« Reply #26 on: 19 November 2005, 00:02 »
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Goverment/Efficiency a true oxymoron.

"Government Organisation" is far more apt. :D

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Re: Pity the folks of Tompkins County, New York
« Reply #27 on: 19 November 2005, 03:22 »
Military intelligence :thumbup:

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Re: Pity the folks of Tompkins County, New York
« Reply #28 on: 19 November 2005, 06:35 »
Anyone want to set up a VPN for us?
I'm often asked why I hate Microsoft - "What did they ever do to you?". Well, I'll tell you. They made dodgy programs and standards which have wasted hundreds of hours of my time involving lost work in crashes and stupidity.