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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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(...) Well, not yet. I don't know that much about your plans for the future ;) (...) See email. One I'll mention right now is comp.risks. (...) Ouch. I mean, yes, nice machine, but $5.6k? In US prices, even. That would be around $7k if I wanted to (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) ISP adminning? What do you mean? I don't work for an ISP. I don't know that you'd call the adminning I do corporate right now, though... (...) Contrary to popular opinion, I'm really a quiet guy. I read a lot of groups I never post in. But no, (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) CVS? (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) That helps. In small-scale, single-in-house-platform, beefy-server, in-house-24/7-admin-...luescreens environments, it's not too bad. Talk to a few of the people in ASR who deal on a daily basis with Ericsson's Sexchange servers, though. (...) (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Yep. Kinda funny, though. I talked to my local MCSE buddy, the one who got most of his experience in his current job doing OJT, and he had lots of really good things to say about Exchange. 'Course, his implementations are all small-scale, so (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Yeah, we need better distributed filesystems. AFS works okay, but it's really pricy. And Coda just ain't there yet. In the meantime, you could use CVS to replicate things. (-> .off-topic.geek) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) you (...) go (...) ultimate (...) Hmm...I would imagine you would have options on that, your recieve end would have a dialouge box as well as a microphone and speakers. (...) It would sorta be an ultimate Tomb Raider/The Sims/Midtown Madness (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Cool... Sounds a lot like 'The Sims'... (URL) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Wow. Creepy. Sounds great. Would you talk in writing too each other, or your own voice, or what? Could you just do anything? How? I don't mean to sound over-technical, I know you just imagined this, but wouldn't the Makers of the game have to (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Hmm.... it almost sounds like a holodeck or something. Sounds a little too realistic to me. I would rather have something interesting, like a movie or something (Matrix, Terminator, etc.). Scott S. ___...___ Scott E. Sanburn-> (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Ok. I had a dream last night about a computer game called CITY ZEN (It is not a real game) . You would choose what you wanted to look like, your job (You would have to pick a job that the game thought it didn't have enough of, e.g. you couldn't pick (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Not to be nitpicky here, and I haven't bothered to look it up, but is it it possible that this treaty doesn't apply for either of the following two charmingly definitional loopholes? 1. The treaty bans weapons usage in these spheres. A drive, (...) (25 years ago, 31-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) not (...) Detonating nuclear weapons in space was prohibited by the Limited Test Ban Treaty of 1963, which banned detonating nuclear devices in the air, in the ocean, or in space. -- jthompson@esker.com "Float on a river, forever and ever, (...) (25 years ago, 31-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) As far as I can tell, they are not banned...either the "lucifer" type, using multi nuke bombs to push you, or a constant nuke reactor type. However, the Lucifer type is -not- something I want to be on the _planet_ that they test it out on, (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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