ah, the pleasures of aptget...YUM!
gotta get my debian machine installed...
students are leaving town this week,
look like it's ripe time to go skipp hunting in nottingham...
I've already managed to salvage a petium 2 from a skip....
so keep your eye's peeled..
Lee
We have a good home for your old hardware....
On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 19:40, Matthew Sackman wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 03:40:22PM +0100, Lee wrote:
> >
> > Why is it the microsoft are just so bad at doing anything these days,
> > first they steal the tcpip stack from bsd, then mung it up, I'm suprised
> > they have not released thier own 'microsoft' tcpip with thier own
> > specfial extensions, then they really would own the networking world,
> > and besides why break a habit of a life time.
>
> Um, this has been seriously suggested in the past. The general idea is
> that Microsoft would embed a propretry TCP/IP stack, which is kinda a
> new, non-compatible TCP/IP in all versions of windows, and then make
> sure that a few routers, switches, network cards etc can cope with it...
> they turn it on...
> Now you have to use a MicroSoft OS to be able to access the 'net etc.
>
> I've read a couple of suggestions along these lines. Can't actually see
> it happening thank god!
>
> > YMMV (??????) what?
>
> Your mileage may vary.
>
> $> apt-get install dict
> $> dict YMMV
> >From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (09 FEB 02) [foldoc]:
>
> YMMV
>
> {Your mileage may vary}
>
> Matthew
>
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> Matthew Sackman
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> England
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