On 4/25/99 6:35 PM so and so (Eric Erickson) said. (And I quote:)
>Lmacy1211@aol.com wrote:
>>
>> I currently am running 2 servers - the bblmail.psycha mail server
>> and a secure (confidential patient report) server using RedHat 5.2.
>> And a work station running RedHat. It installs fairly easily and is
>> a pleasure
>
>I work for a major "corporate"-type ISP and internally,
>administration-wise we run all Macintosh. Yes, it means we haven't been
>touched by any recent virus scares. All our work is done via an
>Intranet running generated HTML... so who cares what platform we use.
>We also try not to run much in the way of MS products (i.e. Outlook) so
>we didn't get hit by Melissa either.
YIPPEEE
>I have fired up Virtual PC on my 400MHz G3 Mac (almost 200MB RAM) so now
>I can get the blue screen of death as well as any one... a full licensed
>copy of Windows98 comes with Virtual PC and runs as quickly and as well
>as any Intel based machine that I have used - now *I* have to watch for
>viri!
YEEE
>One of the systems guys was playing with a copy of FreeBSD that we are
>installing on some specialist servers and wanted to see if I could run
>it up under Virtual PC on the Mac... yep, sure can... here goes another
>OS for my poor little desktop machine.
TIIII
>Now... I can get back to my original plan of installing the latest
>Mac-flavour of LINUX!
OOOOO
>
>By the way... there is a good reason for this! I am the Customer
>Support Supervisor, which means it is my job to make every customer
>think that they are happy. This means having at least SOME knowledge of
>all the strange means they use to connect to us so I can get the wacko
>questions that the "troops" can't answer.
>
>Now, where are my Atari and Amiga (and Nintendo) emulators????
>
>
>
>Eric
>'68MGB MkII
Well we can do Sony PlayStations Until last week!
Think Different!!
Larry (Macs since '84) Macy
Larry Macy
78 Midget
Keep your top down and your chin up.
Larry B. Macy, Ph.D.
macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu
System Manager/Administrator
Neuropsychiatry Section
Department of Psychiatry
University of Pennsylvania
3400 Spruce St. - 10 Gates
Philadelphia, PA 19104
In a world without walls or fences, what use do we have for windows or
gates?
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