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All Things Microsoft => Microsoft as a Company => Topic started by: trc3 on 9 October 2002, 17:45

Title: nt/2000 banned at ucsb
Post by: trc3 on 9 October 2002, 17:45

I dont know if any of you have seen this but I think its funny as hell.  Apparently ucsb banned nt & 2000 because they found out their a pile of shit.

 

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we have to consider the overall health of our network when dealing with vulnerable operating systems, virus protection, and network security threats.

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http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,603293,00.asp (http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,603293,00.asp)

http://www.ucsbdailynexus.com/news/2002/3415.html (http://www.ucsbdailynexus.com/news/2002/3415.html)

[ October 09, 2002: Message edited by: trc3 ]

Title: nt/2000 banned at ucsb
Post by: DC on 10 October 2002, 01:58

They allow Win9x though. Well, according to /.

Title: nt/2000 banned at ucsb
Post by: beltorak0 on 11 October 2002, 06:17

this is good and bad.  Notice that the focus was on upgrading to XP.  It almost sounded like they were doing the M$ force-users-to-upgrade-by-denying-a-service tactic for M$.  kinda makes me wonder....

at least they did mention linux and the like.

-t.

Title: nt/2000 banned at ucsb
Post by: lazygamer on 11 October 2002, 21:13

Notice how they said that XP had less vunerabilities by default because it's not a server OS? What if W9X is similar, less vunerabilities by default?

Title: nt/2000 banned at ucsb
Post by: Calum on 11 October 2002, 13:13

well i replied to the discussion topic at the extremetech one, and i gave them the url of the second one, since it has more info. Some moron told me that the url i posted was about a different incident, in fact one at Berkeley! what a mar00n! the fact that it is on the UCSBdailynexus site should have tipped him off...

Title: nt/2000 banned at ucsb
Post by: Kintaro on 11 October 2002, 21:21

If they want good network health they should get .GNU CONNECTED (http://www.dotgnu.info)