[H-GEN] Re: Unix vs NT [long; both informative and then religious]

[Colin Riddel]

(Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs Colin Riddel <bofh at gil.com.au>)


On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Doug Young wrote:

> come again ?????  ....  I thought the mere existence of an eth0 was proof of
> a local area network ...... stuff has no problem getting from one LAN box to
> another one in Windows applications ..... is there something different that
> happens when a *nix box is lurking around ??
> 

Since you seem to be so in love with winblows can I suggest 
that you install wingate on winblows 95 and use that.. That way you 
can have your wonderfull microsloth documentation and the GUI interface
that you seem to love so much


> As for the rest ..... unlike a lot of people I have another life apart from
> messing with computers ..... or at least I did til I started trying to learn
> something about *nix ..... my immediate interest is in getting the basic
> stuff working, not spending the next ten years reading thousands of pages of
> stuff
> in the hope of finding the answer to something that a competent author could
> have explained in twenty words.



Colin


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