Incoming from Silvan: > > > *my* rep for shooting it down. I wonder if she realizes that Portland > > Public Schools wouldn't have to have the teachers work for four weeks > > for free to keep the schools open if it weren't for her idiocy. > > Going further off the topic here, that sparked a thought of my own. > > My local school system has a pretty snazzy county-wide network. All the > schools are wired to some obscenely gigantic pipe, and all the networking > guts stuff (router/firewall/proxy/filter) is done with Linux (RH probably). > Yet all the end user machines (several per classroom) are running expensive > copies of Windows with expensive copies of all manner of expensive software.
Actually, being schools, they're probably getting a huge discount. Still a lot of money, I know. The important thing for MS is, the kids are getting hooked early and will grow up expecting it. "Goddamn, the pusher man." -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling - - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
