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  From: Adam W <woja@optushome.com.au>
  To  : Richard Sharpe <sharpe@ns.aus.com>
        <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 17:28:24 -0800

RE: School Text Book and Teacher.

> The mention of LANtastic suggests that the text is old ...
Book published last year :)
Information Processes and Technology - HSC Course - g.k Powers.
>
> What school was that, BTW? Perhaps we should send some paper mail to the
> school extoling the virtues of Linux and pointing out that the French
> education system is using it in a big way, as is the Mexican
> school system,
> etc ...

Its St. Patricks Marist, Dundas
151 kirby st, dundas, nsw 2117

This wouldnt work, as the Head of IT doesnt have a clue about Linux. He
complains about a Novell server he has running as a gateway to the WAN
(which has to be novell, for some odd reason)

Hmmm maybe it has to be novell because the Catholic education office doesnt
trust NT as a gateway :) I'm sure a linux gateway wouldnt have any problems!
But as vladimir says " if it aint broke, dont fix it"


>
> >This was only one thing i was quite offended by, there was another, that
> >same day. My teacher also offended me about linux too! simply
> because of his
> >naivity towards anything but Mac OS or Microshaft products. I was talking
> >about cable and how he has his puters all connected up to cable
> at home. He
> >was saying how he has a NT workstation running wingate, i then told him
> >about my setup, my Linux gateway/server. He was like "A *LINUX*
> server" like
> >who would ever use something like that. I then went on to explain to him
> >that when he has to reboot his windows NT machine several times
> a day, i can
> >leave my very low powered linux server on for months on end without even
> >getting close to wanting a reboot. He then uttered some bullshit
> to try and
> >convince me NT was better and then told me to sit down as he was about to
> >start the lesson.
>
> It may be that NT does not crash for hime that often, but he most likely
> cannot run it with any speed on the sort of low resource machines that
> Linux will run on.
>
> >what a joke!
> >
> >I must admit, for somethings, windows NT may be the better
> option, but when
> >it comes to running a server, nothing can beat the reliability and sheer
> >power of LINUX! *roar* :)
> >
> >Anyway, something to have a winge about :)
> >
> >	- Adam W.
> >
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>
> Regards
> -------
> Richard Sharpe, sharpe@ns.aus.com
> Samba (Team member, www.samba.org), Ethereal (Team member,
www.ethereal.com)
Contributing author, SAMS Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours
Author, Special Edition, Using Samba



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