Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 23:36:39 -0500 From: Drew Baxter <netmonger@genesis.ispace.com> To: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: This just in: Microsoft/Sears Merger Message-ID: <4.1.19981222232943.00c1f800@genesis.ispace.com> In-Reply-To: <199812230021.SAA09492@n4hhe.ampr.org> References: <Message from Drew Baxter <netmonger@genesis.ispace.com> <4.1.19981222144311.00ad23d0@genesis.ispace.com>
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At 06:21 PM 12/22/98 -0600, David Kelly wrote: > >First you claim you are Microsoft-bound for work purposes, then you ask >about "Need For Speed 3" and "Turok 2", so one can understand why >protecting one's job is so important. All those games to play. All I >get at work is the flight simulator and cycles games that ship on SGI >systems. >:-) Well unfortunately I'm 17 years old and have a general habit of using this vast network structure here at home for something other than moving code around.. :-) There's 1800 people in the town I work in, and these are the same people that said "You have Apple II's, why can't you hook THOSE to the internet?".. I think I'm going to have to argue in order to get a SPARC in there. >Acrobat Reader is free. Linux version works well with FreeBSD. >Ghostscript does a pretty fair job generating PDF. Sure, Reader is free.. However Adobe Acrobat itself (Distiller, et al) is not.. My FreeBSD machine mostly runs web servers, and cgi's I've done for that. It doesn't serve a worthy purpose to the users of the network, with exception to running a hacked copy of Netscape Messenger Express for school-wide E-Mail. See, there's "Work" and then there's "Where I work".. - All Windows (With exception to the FreeBSD box) and how it's going to stay. Unfortunately the school sees the idea that machines come with productivity suites, and OSes, and best of all Smartstuff's Foolproof Security, as important. Windows unfortunately is what these kids will leave the 8th grade using, and also will continue using through their Senior year of High School. It is also very likely what they are going to be using in the work force, if they continue to reside in Maine. This territory is vastly underdeveloped. There's no such thing as a Classified ad for a Unix tech here, or any sort of Network job that does not require Microsoft and/or Novell certification. That's just how it is. --- Drew "Droobie" Baxter Network Admin/Professional Computer Nerd(TM) OneEX: The OneNetwork Exchange, Bangor Maine USA http://www.droo.orland.me.us PGP ID: 409A1F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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