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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.bc.net!torn!news1.bellglobal.com!bellglobal.com!c_chaos From: c_chaos@chaosnet.wahnapitae.on.ca (Andrew Costa) Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?) Date: 8 Apr 1997 02:30:19 GMT Organization: Haywire Engineering Lines: 19 Message-ID: <slrn5kjbdp.m6.c_chaos@chaosnet.wahnapitae.on.ca> References: <slrn5kaf5t.11r.c_chaos@chaosnet.wahnapitae.on.ca> <01bc4136$20f68ec0$78c5a9c6@win95> <5i47ee$iqk$1@mark.ucdavis.edu> <5i4odm$gnc$1@solaris.cc.vt.edu> <87k9mhsteq.fsf@plm.xs4all.nl> <slrn5kdrbe.78.c_chaos@chaosnet.wahnapitae.on.ca> <01bc4364$1314c490$8934e3cc@rx_jearl> Reply-To: seagull@osiris.isys.ca NNTP-Posting-Host: annex1-port18.isys.ca X-Newsreader: slrn (0.9.3.2 UNIX) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.os.linux:19962 comp.os.linux.misc:168631 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38706 In article <01bc4364$1314c490$8934e3cc@rx_jearl>, Jason Earl wrote: > >I don't suppose you would care to tell us where you went to school. That >is certainly the kind of thing that people should know before applying. Cambrian College of Applied Arts and Technology, Sudbury Ontario. http://www.cambrianc.on.ca/ Try not to get too ill ;) >Then again perhaps that wouldn't be a good idea. NT has its own security >problems, and I would hate to be responsible for them getting hacked :). The main network runs VMS, and most of it's now behind a firewall. I think the main reason for the firewall is they got hacked ;) I'll note that while I was there, the main operations guy in IT was pretty good, and open minded. The trouble was that he wasn't the one making policy decisions. They were left, as in many organisations, to political types who had no idea about the real world.