Re: [Sheflug] I hate Windoze, Samba and RAID.

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <nospam [at] sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>]

>>>>> "Al" == Alex Hudson <eah106 [at] york.ac.uk> writes:

    Al> Don't blame Windows, it's not always a feature present on
    Al> Linux.

You're on.  Name me a Linux FTP client that doesn't default to binary.

    Al> it's just that you're fairly twisted if you do ;)))

I talk SMTP all the time, it's often the only why to convince f**khead
postmasters at Microsoft subsidiaries that it's their machine that is
doing evil things.

    Al> so you'd have to be running it on a private network
    Al> preferably behind a firewall.

You mean, "connected to Internet via floppy disk."

    Al> It's worse with Windows ME - UNIX satan particularly likes to
    Al> infest LILO, and the fact that making boot disks under WinME
    Al> is a PITA (and you're never going to get to a command line to
    Al> fdisk /mbr ;), corrupting LILO is probably too tempting ;)

Um, LILO is a BIOS application, that is, it is Unix making a pact with
the Wintel Satan.


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