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(...) Oh, that usually is the case - but universities and corporate environments do tend to be more forgiving of late-night downtime than ISP, as far as I can tell. (...) You and everybody else in the business, apparently. (...) barney:~$ telnet (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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I am looking for some help with what seems to be a simple task. I am trying to re-install my master Front Page web file that contains my Minifig Museum of Art. I saved my "web" on a zip disk and then did a complete re-install of Windows and Explorer (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Very similar to my situation, actually. My friend wanted to start an ISP so he could have net access after college and not have to pay for it. There was a time a few years ago when it was possible. 56K modems really raise the bar, though; it (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I don't know why but this reminds me of a guy I know via IRC who started up his own ISP literally in his own home using a Linux box and a handful of lines, providing service mainly to local teachers, with the initial goal being to simply pay (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Ah, ok. Well, aside from the fact that I treat all my clients/customers with respect, I agree. But I tried especially hard when I was in charge of the network support center for the students on campus and all our dial-up stuff. But even then, (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Eep, yes. This is exactly what got me into Linux in the first place. My friend was trying to start an ISP running NT. They were having trouble, so since I'd done some work getting PPP to work on the ancient terminal server at the small college (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Well, there are generally _much_ more users per server, per admin, and per company. And they're all clients which have to be treated with respect. And there'more bandwidth involved. In general, though, the main difference is that as an ISP you (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Ok. So what do you mean by "completely different"? I'm curious as to what you see as the differences betweeen "ISP" adminning and "corporate" adminning. I've actually done ISP "helpdesk" stuff before (in fact my last job was managing an office (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Concurrent Versions System. <URL:(URL) It's primarily used on Unix, but there is support for clients on many operating systems, including MS Win95/NT, OS/2, MacOS, etc. You probably would still want a *nix box to use as the server (central (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Unix. C<ommand?> Versioning System. See the man pages. Jasper (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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